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you were one inch from the edge of this bed,

i drag you back, a sleepyhead

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POV This is your 46th time dying to Jevil and Kris is starting to Snap

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person

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so follow me into the dark

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Sister

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partners

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the distance between two

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It's really cool how, after Chapter 2 established the idea of Darkners (who aren't Ralsei) eventually petrifying when in a Dark World they 'don't belong' in, both Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 found a way to use that idea in really weird and creative ways to enhance their themes.

Chapter 3 blurs the seemingly obvious lines of "every Darkner belongs in the Dark World that created them", asks what does it really mean to 'belong'. A Plugboy (Ramb) and plenty of Pippins were brought to life via the Dark Fountain that created everything in TV World… and yet there are characters expressing the idea they don't belong due to their Dark World Backstories that means that they come from other Worlds - even if these obwere still totally in Kris' living room when those those Dark Fountains were opened.

And then it messes with it even further by having all the Pippins be totally fine, while Ramb the Plugboy and even one of the Zappers got petrified. It seems like the idea of belonging or not belonging in a Dark World is a lot more abstract and emotion-based then we previously thought. The Pippin's dialogue about Ramb implies he got petrified simply because he never really made friends, because he never fit in.

And that just… really helps the atmosphere of the endgame of TV World. The way that Tenna's obsession and breakdown is causing his world to crumble all around him, causing his own people to feel alienated. And this idea of feeling like you never really belong in your own home obviously fits in with the undercurrents of Dreemurr Family Drama that run through the entire chapter.

Meanwhile in Chapter 4, the Petrification is used to emphasize the narrative element of Predestination and, well, Prophecy. Because it's not just that the Darkners from the original "Dark Sanctuary" manifest as Petrified when Susie creates her "Second Sanctuary"

The Darkners of the Second Sanctuary already appeared Petrified in the First Sanctuary.

Meaning that basically, as far as the Dark Worlds were concerned, Susie's creation of the Second Sanctuary was preordained. So preordained that the objects that would become the Darkners that populate that Dark World came to life as soon as the First Sanctuary did, but then turned to stone because they actually belonged in that not-yet-created other Sanctuary.

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FLASHING WARNING

i know im the billionth person to do something like this but whatever!!! whatever !!!!

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you guys know that genre of family pictures

(might not be chronologically accurate sorry!)

since noelle looks like her father I feel like dess would look like her mother, which she wouldn't be too happy about (assuming she acted like she acts now when dess was still around), so i think she would do stuff like dying her hair or horns to look less like her

anyway more holidays...

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seen a handful of people equate deltarune to massachusetts and I feel the need to spread the new hampshire agenda as someone who was born in the same city as toby fox because nothing so whimsical could ever take place in mass

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mancountry

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speaking of things no one talks about,

susie's eye glows red when she makes a dark fountain.

i never really paid any mind to kris' red eyes - i thought it was just a cool feature of their character. but if susie's eyes glow red here too... it seems it's more important than we thought.

it's not JUST something that happens when you make a fountain - kris' eyes glow red when they rip out the soul in chapter 1, when they jump into a dark world, and when they fight the holder of the shadow mantle. the mantle holder even says their goal in fighting kris was to see their eyes glow red. what could it mean...?

it would be really funny if it turned out determination actually WAS red after all this time.

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//vague deltarune spoilers

Their friendship is so cute everyone shut up NOW

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DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3 SPOILERS//

Tenna venting to Kris about their parents divorce

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We all knew Ralsei's whole deal was gonna be juicy, but I don't think anyone predicted that all his desperate kowtowing to and placating of the Lightners, concealment of information, and encouragement of them treating the Dark Worlds like a game is in fact, a distraction from the world and prophecy's dark underbelly- but that he does this not because he has sinister motives, but because the two are just legendarily doomed. That the missing piece of his "guy who's life purpose is to be a helpful NPC" thing was the part where his "protagonists" are the actual second comings of Monster Jesus from the Monster Bible who haven't yet learned of the Monster Crucifixion part, and he does not want to be the one to break it to 'em. If Sans is burdened with an in-universe version of the existential dread of knowing you're a video game NPC, Ralsei is that, if he was also like a friendly side character in season 1 of a 2010s children's cartoon, currently overhearing his storyboard artists brainstorm increasingly convenient, G-rated death substitutes that are actually way worse than death. Poor guy's trying to induce a case of Cerebus Syndrome so intense that Monster God himself decides it'd be too goofy to keep the overarching plot around, with the backup purpose of a temporary comfort to a couple unstable fifteen-year-olds before they [unspecified] for the world's sins. Who knew Ralsei was the one most concerned about the possibility of Kris and Susie getting Jevil-and-Spamton-ed by knowledge? Insane.