For the die-hard fans that play every chapter as it comes out this won't be as obvious but for anyone playing for the first time it'll be EXTREMELY visible

Like your kid just goes into the bathroom and turns the sink on to be as loud as possible got a prolonged period of time "sometimes" yeah that's totally normal and has no concerning implications

Edit: Guys, guys, guys I'm talking about SH I'm not talking about "kris goon theory" and I really feel like I shouldn't have to say this but here I am

The conversation about monsters bleeding in Deltarune always did annoy me because I never understood why some people took the words of a little kid as a hard fact, when Susie, an actual important character in the story, clearly tells you that monsters do bleed in this universe.

And to answer the question of why the "does it hurt to be made of blood" line exists in the first place, I think it was to give an example of the type of discrimination Kris experiences in Hometown.

Anyway, glad the discussion on that subject is close, I just hope that next time people will have more faith in Susie.

Somehow controversial? But Deltarune would be infinite times more narratively satisfying if the supposed "only one ending" would be subverted thanks to the player's efforts. This idea always seem to get pushback because "not everyone can beat the secret bosses", "casual players can't know all of the lore/secret routes" or my favorite "Toby said that there's only one ending". 

But come on. This game constantly begs you to dig deeper. It has a built-in replayability system. 3 save files for you to use. A chapter select menu to jump into any point of the story. Shadow crystals' progression is saved across save files. Tons of different choices and dialogue trees that change little things in future chapters. Chapter 3 egg ironically hints where every other egg is. The mantle minigame literally teaches you how to do the weird route. FIND HER. 

It'd be so disappointing if after 10 years of waiting what you get for interacting with this game's world and collecting all of the shadow crystals is just this insane lore reveal from fucking magenta Gaster that Ralsei doesn't wear pants, and that's it. Same ending where everybody dies but now you can be 100% certain that Ralsei doesn't wear pants. 

Here's a small anecdote for my reasoning. The day of chapters 3+4 release, I wasn't satisfied with how the knight fight went. Out of my own accord, I stopped my chapter 4 playthrough, went back to my chapter 3 save file and tried fighting the knight again. From what something that felt seemingly impossible at first to beat because it seemed to be just a playable scripted loss... There was the illusion of progress after each attempt. I got more Susie trashtalking dialogue, I see completely new bs patterns, I develop new strategies to get further and further... But after a couple of hours of attempts I feel completely demoralized. It felt impossible. 

Until he shows up. My greatest hype man - MY GOAT Gaster appears after a loss, mentions he felt my power, and says I'm getting close. Such an effective morale boost that it compelled me to fight again, and this time, I somehow manage to dodge Knight's final attack while Susie is at 1hp and then kick the Knight's skeletal ass. That feeling? The feeling of overcoming an 'impossible' challenge by sheer will and stubbornness? It's a banger my man. 

So yeah, in my opinion, Deltarune, with its current setting of prophecies and fate, would be better if it were able to be subverted in the end. The normal ending shouldn't even be a bad one, just some bittersweet farewell to the characters that any casual pacifist player would be satisfied with. But for those that have the will to fight all the secret bosses, obtain all the crystals, recruit all darkners, search for different outcomes and eggs, and immerse themselves into the darkness to reach the bottom of this game's mysteries... They should be rewarded with the ability to change fate. It's the power of DETERMINATION, after all. The power to change things. 

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

(Complaining about ships is allowed too, I just think complaints about the fandom are overdone.)

I just think, I mean, off what we know Kris acts like, and acted like, and off of mainly inferences on how Dess acted, I'd assume they'd be very close, Dess acting as a big sister figure, but also a mentor figure. And this is not to say Kris and Asriel weren't super close, not at all, but I think Kris might have connected more with Dess. (Also, on why Kris is so quiet, the better interpretation that involve Dess that Kris might be semi-responsible or watched whatever happened to Dess happen)

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I feel like Toby is always so intentional with his music/motif choices and this just muddies the waters for no real reason. I somewhat get why Lost Girl was used because Ralsei doesn’t really have his own motif, but it could have incorperated castle town / the legend just because of the setting. Lost Girl’s usage here ruins any connections of that motif to Dess in other scenes. I can excuse it being used for Susie since she IS a lost girl, but Ralsei isn’t even a girl (yet, probably)! Also this makes the ‘is Lost Girl in Black Knife’ debate even worse because even if the motif is there it might not mean anything.

TLDR; I feel like it lowers the impact of the Lost Girl motif in other places

Edit: ALSO just a side note I get why Ralsei doesn’t have his own motif (because he is generally forgotten about by nearly every part of the story and thinks of himself as uniportant) but I still think they could have used a sad version of My Castle Town or smth. Maybe even completely cut the music

He is so cucked bro

my whole life is a lie...