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Dude.

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* ...you left it here.

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us daydreaming about what chapter 5 should be when we all know it's just gonna be levels of divorce that will make chapter 3 feel downright cozy

please. please at least let Kris eat some weird fair food at the festival

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this is so stupid

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partners

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🤓☝hug of joy and happiness

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Something happened yesterday.

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You have so much potential. ❄

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return of ralsei in lightener school, this time with linear canon context

previous installment

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the gang as humans cus i can't draw anything animal-related to save my life!!

some headcanons for the kids: - they're all 15 except susie, 16, who had to repeat a grade due to so many absences - susie has ARFID & PICA which is why she likes eating crazy stuff like chalk, pinecones and ice cubes. she also has PCOS! - noelle has a condition similar to vitiligo that gives her skin the deer-like light spots :) her legs are also a little bowed. - kris has selective mutism but is the loudest person in the room when they're with people they deem safe - kris's eyes always look like the way people's do when the camera flash is caught in photographs. nobody knows why, but their eyesight is great in the dark! - berdly has never thought about his sexuality and wouldn't really label it, either. he falls for the person (which... in this case is literally everyone) - berdly has a speech impediment caused by his overbite, particularly affecting his pronounciation of S and R, as well as braces (currently with blue bands). his eyesight is also abysmal. he refers to this set of issues as "having been nerfed when first spawned into the world" :p

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Dont encourage her shes hanging on by a thread

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Delted runas

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deltarune and layers of abstraction

i feel like a big theme deltarune is going for is "how many layers of abstraction do you need before you're able to convince yourself to do something morally wrong"

there's the real world, there's the light world, there's the dark world, and now there's a game world in the dark world. even people who are doing a "good" run are incentivized to kill the enemies in mantle, because even kris doesn't see it as real - they're having fun after the first game! but... there's still a stat tracking your kills.

i feel like the line that made this all click for me is nightmare's line on the alt route. it says that kris was enjoying yesterday, too - because there's a part of them that enjoys not having responsibility. and i think that's supposed to apply to you, too. you can say it isn't really you, because none of this is even real! sure, you're DOING these evil things, but it's just a video game, right?

and ralsei says that it's ok to treat darkners however you want! because THEY'RE not real, either! they're just your imagination, you're just playing make-believe. it's all just a game. obviously we're conditioned to disagree with this - ralsei is real! we love ralsei, kris loves ralsei, susie loves ralsei! but we're still treating them like our toys. writing fanfics, making art, writing these theories, we're not treating them like real people anyways.

and what about the devs? what layer are they on, when they're writing and designing all the horrible things you can do in this game? they're the ones who allow it to happen in the first place! are they to blame for it?

i don't really know where i'm going with all this, i just wanted to try and organize my thoughts. i dont think toby is implying that it's morally bad to be evil in video games, considering like i said he's the one writing this whole story in the first place, i just think that he wants the players to think about it in a different context.

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There's some pretty obscure dialogue you can find in Chapter 4 where Ralsei roasts the fuck out of Susie and its awesome

You specifically have to tell Ralsei not to park his butt in the room with the couch, and then backtrack here before the final boss!

(Source: https://x.com/pynchosa/status/1935780728119128350?s=46)

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noelle in that one ch 3 minigame