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I love you Gooseworx. Especially with what’s going on with the “Ragatha = evil woman” discourse, I needed you to clear the air. You can still feel bad and relate to Jax without villainizing the fuck out of Ragatha and overlooking his actions. You can also disagree with parts of Ragatha’s behavior without painting her out as a horrible person too.

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Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

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I can’t stop laughing at this

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As someone who also wants to make a fan comic some day, I feel inclined to ask what your writing process is for these comics? How much do you script out, and how far ahead? And do you just script out the entire plot, or do things like character arcs separately?

The way I scripted Twin Runes was a little spotty. Only by page 9 did I know what I wanted to do and where I wanted the characters to end up. The issue was how to get there.

I sporadically scripted the next pages in advance and focused more on telling jokes that tied into the characters and their issues.

It was around page 23, where I had the complete picture of how i wanted to go about the plot. I wrote the entire script in a way that it focused on how each page was supposed to look like and what everyone says in each panel.

Everything was scripted from then on out. You can actually tell what's not part of the script by the change in how the art is rendered. Those are the bonus episodes.

But the overall focus of each page was either to tell a joke, to develop the characters, or give you important info. Sometimes, all three at once.

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Ate moldy chocolate. What’s next for my career?

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I definitely must’ve missed a lot of Steven Universe bc how the heck did Lars went from “convenience store clerk to Captain Harlock”???

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im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

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castletown retirement home

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continuing my pursuit of being their biggest advocate

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I've been reading way too much into everything about the Knight and one thing that immediately caught my attention was the way it poses. I think everybody agrees that its weapon is either Dess' bat or Carol's katana but both of those are supposed to be used with both hands so the poses don't match the way either of them are used. People are joking about auramaxxing but genuinely, it seems almost like it's a dance. And then it hit me. We know that Dess plays like. every sport. She's particularly associated with baseball and hockey (thanks Kris for beating me up with a hockey stick) and we know for a fact she has at least two pairs of ice skates - one in her closet and one under her bed.

So what if the skates aren't just for hockey. What if she also does figure skating? Look at the Knight's poses next to figure skaters.

And obviously ice skating is a winter sport so it really matches the Holiday theme.

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This is good news - DELTARUNE Lythero Animatic

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(Ignores everything said during the start of chapter three) Check it out guys Ralsei hanging out with his friends in the light world pretty cute huh

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deltarune chapter 4 is the kinda game that makes me wanna write shit like this

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The interesting thing is…. from the glimpses of SOUL-less Kris we saw in Chapter 1 + 2, it was notable how…. strangely they seemed to move. We saw them walking with a sort of zombie-like gait that maybe implied they weren’t in full control of their body still, or maybe just that they were in immense pain.

It led to a lot of people speculating that Kris does need a SOUL to some level. Maybe the SOUL is Kris’ but we’re a foreign entity that has taken it over, or that Kris’ original actual SOUL has been removed and replaced with us. If Kris needed the SOUL to live, that would explain their slow, deliberate movements and also why they keep putting us back inside despite clearly hating being under our control.

So now, with Chapter 4 giving us a much better glimpse of SOUL-less Kris doing stuff… it’s notable that they seem… fully capable of moving ‘normally’. Angrily, but normally.

Even when they do the whole Creepy Zombie Walk thing they are notably faster than they seemed to be in Chapters 1 + 2

They can do things that require fine motor skills, focus and swiftness like playing the piano, handling glasses, and beating the shit out of us with a hockey stick and it's all animated as smoothly as most other Deltarune Animations. Not really implying effort or stiffness the way that original Creepy Zombie Walk animation did.

And while Susie only gets a brief moment to interact with SOUL-less Kris in the Normal Route

Noelle has prolonged interactions with them in the Weird Route (both on-screen in Chapter 4 and off-screen in-between Chapters 2 and 3) and... while she does note that they sounded 'weak and shaky' and obviously their behavior seems weird on account of the whole 'traumatized by the Unkillable Evil Time-Demon only they can see" thing

... There's nothing to really indicate that there's anything outright unnatural or 'zombie-like' about the way Kris moves and interacts with her while SOUL-less. Since this is the Weird Route, Noelle even note this is the most natural and Kris-like they've acted in the last few days.... until we take over again.

And now we know they can go without the SOUL for a fairly prolonged period of time. The Ominous Phone Voice of Probably Carol does tells them they need the SOUL, it seems unclear why.

So… what that means for SOUL-less Kris’ behavior before? It’s possible that even if Kris can operate without a SOUL, it still hurts like hell. So right after tearing out the SOUL they are in Maximum Pain and it's hard to ignore, causing them to move in a struggling and slow manner. But the more they go without it, they kinda get used to it and the pain fades into the background - allowing them to do stuff more-or-less normally.

(Basically Kris has Chronic Pain but the only Painkiller that works for them is Demonic Possession)

…Or, knowing Kris, maybe this… was all an act. They were only behaving like This because they knew we were watching. It is pretty notable that they walk around normally in the Holidays' Kitchen while we're eavesdropping on them and only swap to the Creepy Walk Animation once they notice us....

Maybe this is an act, either to make us underestimate the things Kris could do SOUL-less… or because they’re a little teen Edgelord so they just enjoy playing up the whole Soulless Zombie thing when they have a chance.

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do you think ralsei would get whiplash from the lightner colours

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is this anything