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*kicks down door*

HEY WHO'S WORKING ON THE MOD TO FIX THE NAMES I NEED IT NOW PLEASE

It's so over

EDDIE FENDER?

VERITY GAVELLE????

EUSTACE WINNER??????

Look how they massacred the boy

knight ☠☠☠

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hey um this is double-plus ungood

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So Undertale Yellow is a new obsession of mine, I've been a fan of MasterswordRemix for a couple years now, and even played the game's demo a while back. But just, wow. Go play it if you haven't.

Spoilers under the cut.

I just finished the pacifist run, and many people have talked about heartbreaking it is, how much they cried and such. I, foolishly enough, spoiled the game for myself while being stuck on a certain part of it (cough cough, El-fucking-Bailador, cough cough) so I knew what the ending was going to be like.

Most games that end bittersweet or in tragedy break my heart and leave me with an empty feeling, desolation over the fact that the experience ended and someone suffered in unfair misfortune.

But Undertale Yellow just felt unfair. Clover didn't have to die like that. Their friends knew that too, but Ceroba and Clover knew that there were too many uncertainties. The game never confirms how soon Undertale is after Yellow. Could have been a year or so, could be decades. Clover might not have even lived long enough to meet Frisk, with the Royal Guard chasing after them.

Even in the Neutral ending where Martlet offers you to stay with her, Flowey steps in and stops it. No matter what route (except genocide but that's not really canon) Clover can never escape their fate. An unjust fate set in stone by Asgore, strung along by Flowey, and tainted but inevitably reached by their friend's hopes and dreams.

The soul of justice reaches an unjust end, with their friend's grievences eventually moving onto better places to continue their lives. Frisk knows none of this. No one in Undertale knows this (ignoring the obvious Doylist reasoning) and they likely never will. Clover is integral to saving the entire Underground from its fate, whether by choice or not, and barely anyone but their friends know their name.

They never got a real choice. To save monsters or kill them, the truth of the future just lies plainly there in the source material for all to see. And there is the tragedy. They never got a choice to be anything but a cog in the machine, it was the only choice they could even make by their own hand. And they're a kid. It's fucked up, not just at all, no justice to be found for someone encompassing it. It left me mourning a death that makes

Frisk's time in the Underground look like a fucking miracle because of how many people didn't fear them. Frisk was lucky, lucky to be strong enough with determination, to befriend the right people who could change the Underground for the better, and to get to end the monsters' suffering. Clover never gets any of that. Just used as part of a tool to break the barrier, dragged along and struggling against foes that takes ages of pain to beat. Those six kids got done dirty by the game, we barely got to know anything about them, except for the objects that were left behind. Undertale Yellow fills this gap, telling a forgotten story in hopes to keep the memory of those sacrificed alive. That's why it's so special.

Funnily enough, that vibe fits with the narrative point of Hadestown, my favourite musical ever, how fun.

Anyway thank you for coming to my rambles for whatever fucking reason.

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day 23 of eating gravel

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day 23 of eating gravel

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[audible eye roll] yeah they’re soooooo bad

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Watching and Dreaming is just around the corner, and I think we've all seen enough stories to know that somone is going to tragically die in the grand finale. The question is though, who, how and whyyyyy :((((?

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I

AM

GOING

TO

FUCKING

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Or wait, should I? Because I might actually use this account to make serious posts or funny stuff. I don't really know.

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You know what, fuck it. I'm reblogging every single nice piece of art I see and no one's gonna stop me. (I find reblogging wierd though, it feels like you're reposting someone elses work, but it's somehow positive? Tumblr is a weird place.)

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I think I'm gonna try to be a person on tumblr now. Wish me luck, all 0 people reading this. Now wtf is a reblog-

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Hello I am a human being. God I don't know how to use social media.