#So. Yeah the undyne and asgore and omega flowey fights are really the only things I have to watch out for I think??
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thepandalion Ā· 4 months ago
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not to be annoying or anything but it's been 9 years since the release of indie game undertale
#It's. One of my special interests#Like I have identifying Mediterranean animals on sight and I have memorizing every line of dialog in undertale#Those are my things. And I did recognize a seagul once by the sound while jetlagged and not paying attention so#Tbh I should probably play the game sometime. But also it'd be very funny to not play it#And then one day just like. Idk. Live stream playing undertale for the first time. But doing it w a blindfold#Check how far my knowledge spans for a person who has never once played the game#Like. I know muffets attacks are a repeating pattern. I know some attacks have audio so I'd use that as a guide#I'd go easy route on toriel and papyrus bc I know you can skip those by being bad at game#And I'm pretty sure I could memorize mad dummy patterns bc I remember there being like. A trick in the code#For if you're bad at the fight#Also you get astro food right before so I'd have good healing#So. Yeah the undyne and asgore and omega flowey fights are really the only things I have to watch out for I think??#Esp since I'm gonna do a bunch of tricks to get out of certain fights#Like. The thing with doing armor switches rapidly on mettaton for fast ratings boosts#Or the lowering of hp on mad dummy after the first hit so the fight can't last beyond a set number of turns if you're shit at it#Tbh yeah undyne is the only one that's actually scary all the way until asgore. That said I also think you can like. Skip that bit entirely#Like by backtracking before new home to get the undyne letter and doing true lab first. I think#Because that's the bit that's the true pacifist thing to do. Which actually true lab also scary#Like ok snowys mom and endogeny are easy but lemon bread and the memory heads are actually hard esp if u cant see#Also reaper bird but only after the everyman gets ate by the whimsun attack flies so I'm not super duper scared#And. I plan on temmie armor after mettaton. And bandage until then for running away from encounters#Just straight up my first time playing the game will be with a blindfold on and livestreamed#(I'd flex especially in that one echo flower room where if you kill toriel flowey taunts you with it)#But until then! Happy 9 years of being extremely neurodivergent :D
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debrisyume Ā· 5 years ago
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Deltarune Theories
This is super late, I know. Iā€™m only posting this after most people stopped caring about the game but I really wanted those who are interested to know what theories I am going with. I actually like the fact that I did it like this because people have noticed and discussed interesting things months after the game was released.
Warning, I donā€™t think I bring much of anything new to the table with my theories, but I still want to put my thoughts into context so people know where I stand currently. Also imagine everything has a disclaimer that says ā€œThis is what I think but Iā€™m prepared to be wrong when the full game comes out.ā€ After all, we donā€™t know how much of the story weā€™ve been shown, it could be less than a third for all we know. And I think thereā€™s a lot of lore we arenā€™t aware of right now.
It might sound kinda fanfiction-y at some points (not that fanfic is bad, but fanfiction doesnā€™t rely on evidence, I probably discuss a lot of headcanons here with little no backup). Also, this is super long (perhaps excessively so). Iā€™ve broken it up into sections for more easy reading, and I have a short list of my most important or favorite theories at the end, but without explaining why I like them or the evidence for it. If youā€™re confused or donā€™t like a theory of mine, I recommend reading the part where I talk about it to at least understand my perspective.
Letā€™s talk about the ending scene first because I have some... thoughts about it.
That Ending
Ok, first of all, Iā€™m 100% completely certain that the red soul Kris took out doesnā€™t belong to them. They were definitely possessed by it. I used to think it was theirs but then we took control of it and Kris was willing to get rid of their soul to stop being possessed, but that ended up being too convoluted.
Also, a big piece of evidence that pretty much confirms itā€™s ā€œourā€ soul is how Gaster literally summons the red soul for the survey. (ā€œARE WE CONNECTED?ā€) Presumably it was going to be put into our created vessel, but then Chara dunked itĀ and Gaster had to make do with Kris. (Or maybe it was Chara who put it inside Kris but I strongly suspect it was Gaster, because Chara was cut off when they were saying ā€œYour name is...ā€ This link also provides evidence toward Chara working with Gaster. They consider Frisk/the player their partner, an equal, and see themselves as a servant for Gaster)
Probably the biggest indication towards Kris being possessed by the soul is the whole ball of junk sequence. They donā€™t want to throw it away, but we force them to do it and they are clearly upset by it. Not to mention how we can still control the red soul inside the cage by moving it around a little. I donā€™t see how the ending could be anything but Kris trying to take back control of their own body.
Now, I donā€™t think Kris is evil. I donā€™t think they want to kill anyone, I canā€™t think of a reason why they would want to kill anyone so Iā€™m not expecting it. Their LOVE is at 1 and we never heard about them being violent. There is a big gap between somewhat creepy and mean pranks + social awkwardness, and literal murder. Theyā€™ve also done things outside of the soulā€™s control that make them being evil unlikely in my eyes, they protect Susie and they call her their friend. They also clearly care about Asriel and miss him deeply.
Why would they throw away the first friend they made in years and ruin their relationship with Asriel by killing people in their hometown? I believe the knife thing was just a threat towards the soul, to scare it into leaving them alone. All Chara similarities are because theyā€™re like Chara, not being possessed by them.
I believe they used to have a red soul themselves, but it was taken from them or lost somehow (their similarities to Frisk and Chara are way too stark and prominent for me not to think they had a red soul). For probably a long time they were soulless. We see how being soulless affects Flowey, he canā€™t feel love, compassion, or hope. I think Kris being soulless like this worsened their already terrible depression, and while they were able to get those feelings back through the new red soul, they arenā€™t willing to be controlled like that, so they got rid of it. Maybe theyā€™re hoping to get their own soul back one day.
Also, I suspect that Kris has been possessed before, which is why I think they havenā€™t had their own soul for some time already. The rusty cage they used to trap the soul ā€˜has seen some use beforeā€™. Thereā€™s also a suspicious stain by that cage. I believe the first few times they had to rip a soul out, their body couldnā€™t handle it well and... yeah...
I donā€™t have a clue why Kris moves the way they do before ripping out the soul though. They walk very similar to how Frisk is described to walk in the Genocide Route, ā€œshambling about from place to place.ā€ But that was as a result of the LOVE they gained, right? It doesnā€™t look like Kris is controlling their own body well either, and the footsteps from the Dark World... maybe prolonged possession really hampers Krisā€™ own control of their body. They are described as looking sick in Hometown, which implies being possessed made them sick... someone help them already.
Krisā€™ Weapon
I would like to talk about the knife for a second too. So, their weapon is listed as ā€œpencilā€ and not knife. I donā€™t know about you, but a pencil sounds like a pretty shitty weapon, especially if I already have a knife with me. But, what if Kris didnā€™t always have that knife with them? I know this will sound kinda crazy, but I think they summoned it with magic (Chara/Frisk/Kris has a strong resemblance to one of humanityā€™s seven greatest magicians, the poncho human, so this doesnā€™t come across as that unlikely to me. I think Poncho Human is one of those magicians because theyā€™re always seen as toward the front/leading the humans, including when the barrier was being made, although I will admit this isnā€™t really confirmation).
We already seen this happen in Undertale. No matter what weapon you have equipped in the Omega Flowey fight, the knife animation will always play when you attack him, even if the knife isnļæ½ļæ½ļæ½t in your inventory. This happens in other instances too like when Chara kills Sans, Asgore, and Flowey for you. Kris does look like they reached into their pocket for the knife, but I still believe it wasnā€™t there initially, otherwise the knife would be their ā€œweapon.ā€
Is the Red Soul really supposed to be us?
Back to the soul, I donā€™t think the soul belongs to the player specifically. While I think itā€™s a valid theory, it kinda makes me uncomfortable, similar to the player theory in Undertale which I used to believe in. Itā€™s not just that though, I believe the red soul has a good chance of belonging to Frisk.
Think about it, the red soul knows things Kris shouldnā€™t know about, they recognize Sans (and Sans probably recognizes the soul but is pretending not to know anything about whatā€™s going on), they ask Undyne about Alphys, whoā€™s supposed to be her girlfriend in the universe they came from. They also explicitly canā€™t play piano, unlike Kris, which excludes many players. Krisā€™ Dark World outfit matches Friskā€™s usual clothes very well, and then thereā€™s the flirting thing.
The vessel we made at the beginning has two stripes on their shirt, and their soul is red... like... a certain someone... weā€™re familiar with... it canā€™t be Chara, because Chara is the one who got rid of our vessel. And what was Chara doing before they got cut off? Telling Frisk a phrase similar to ones they heard before (Despite everything, itā€™s still you. Try as you might, you continue to be yourself. No one can choose who they are in this world.) and trying to remind Frisk of what their true name is (ā€œYour name is...ā€ a direct parallel to the flashback when Asriel introduces himself to Chara, but the flashback ended before he could, so we only heard ā€œMy name is...ā€) because apparently Frisk forgot who they were.
Anyone else find the survey questions weird? Besides how the speaker clearly isnā€™t too familiar with humans, none of them particularly identify a personality, theyā€™re all about favorites or physical things. Gaster summoned Friskā€™s soul for a specific purpose, but apparently they donā€™t need to be completely ā€œthemselvesā€ to fulfill that purpose?
Also, if the red soul is supposed to be the player, not only is the bad piano playing oddly exclusive, but so is the color. We know from UT that each soul color had a virtue to go along with it, yet ours is always red, like Frisk and Charaā€™s. You could just wave it away as being red because it was our previous player characterā€™s, but I still think itā€™s weird because Toby could have let us choose our own soul color or made a small quiz that picked our virtue for us. I still think red has its own virtue, despite us not knowing it. It canā€™t be determination, because DT is some sort of magical substance that exists in all humans (itā€™s also too similar to perseverance to be a separate trait). I have my own ideas, but maybe weā€™ll find it out in this game? Either way, thereā€™s no reason it has to be red in particular, if itā€™s meant to represent the player, unless weā€™re actually playing as a character with a red soul.
Now that Iā€™ve established that I think the red soul is Frisk, I need to explain what kind of Frisk. I think this Frisk is older, closer to Krisā€™ age than how old they were in Undertale. It must be after a pacifist run, because thatā€™s the only run where Alphys and Undyne get together, although I havenā€™t decided yet if itā€™s regular pacifist or soulless pacifist. The way Chara talks reminds me more of their Genocide run self, not to mention the callback to the soulless pacifist ending in DR.
The thing about determination in Deltaruneā€™s universe is that I think it still exists, otherwise we wouldnā€™t be able to save and reload at all, but that it hasnā€™t been named or even have much research to it at all. After all, the one who discovered it was Alphys, after Chara and Asriel were long dead. And Alphys in this universe isnā€™t a scientist. Kris also seems to be aware they can save, but their save file is weirdly empty...
The Dark World isnā€™t Real, kinda (but neither is Hometown, kinda)
Now, pretty much everyone has considered the idea that the Dark World is not actually real. The food isnā€™t filling, after completing a playthrough you can skip going to school and just go back to sleep to come to the Dark World, the areas and characters each have a counterpart in the unused classroom (except for Ralsei, hmm). Krisā€™ pencil also turns into a sword, we can tell because if they get the spooky sword, they come back with a Halloween pencil.
I donā€™t think itā€™s as simple as the Dark World being fake though. The idea of Kris and Susie having some sort of shared dream experience is weird, and all the roleplaying theories make no sense to me (why would Susie participate when she only starts caring about Kris toward the end of their journey?). All the characters not being real just makes me sad, and the adventure feels hollow of if it was just imagination.
I believe the Dark World is a pocket dimension of some sorts, influenced by what goes on in Hometown (Seam being old is because ā€˜stuffed animal Seamā€™ is worn out after some years). It might be pretty dependent on Hometown to exist, but all the characters are perfectly sentient and have their own agency. Think... idk what goes on in Toy Story or Spirited Away?
However, I also believe Hometown is fake in some way, or at the very least, thereā€™s some shady magic stuff going on. While on the surface it seems like a perfectly normal town where monsters are happily living above ground, seemingly never been trapped by humans in the first place, most of the characters we know are unhappy in some way. Bratty and Catty hate each other, Alphys and Undyne donā€™t know each other, Mettaton isnā€™t confident and seems pretty depressed, being a teacher is literally the worst job Alphys could have, etc.
Thereā€™s also things that feel super off. The way Toriel acts as a parent to Kris feels like a downgrade from Undertale, Asgore is living in poverty and no one is really helping him (almost makes me wonder if he was never a king in this universe?). Why donā€™t Alphys and Undyne donā€™t know each other, anyway? The town is pretty damn small and they both hold job positions that would make them well known, especially given how it seems like only Toriel and apparently Blooky is the other teacher/officer respectively.
Why is there a stain in Krisā€™ room that Toriel doesnā€™t seem to care about, even just to clean? Why is she overprotective to the point of punishing Asriel for being kissed by a girl? Why is Asriel the only character living his best life? Heā€™s alive, heā€™s popular, his family is proud of him, while is Kris is seen as a creepy loner.
The lights in the school not reflecting the correct way, assuming that was deliberateĀ (considering its similarities to the judgement hall, which is weird on its own, Iā€™m betting it is). The way Torielā€™s doorknobs on multiple doors work should be impossible. That fucking bunker?? Why is it there?? Why is Gasterā€™s music playing there?? IM SO UNSETTLED
Anyway, my point is I have to wonder if Hometown is fabricated in some way. I like to think of it as a world someone created that isnā€™t completely finished, or something went wrong in the process. This postĀ talks about a great idea about how the Deltarune universe is meant to be an ā€œideal AUā€ for Asriel and Chara (Asriel creating the Dark World while Hometown was done by Chara) and Iā€™ve been really into it since I first read it. It just makes a lot of sense to me. I believe it was done with the help of Gaster, who has his own agenda going on, which is why things arenā€™t perfect.
Whatā€™s up with Kris?
Now, about Krisā€™ identity. Itā€™s hard for me to believe theyā€™re completely separate from either Frisk or Chara because of the similarities they all share. Krisā€™s skin and hair colors match Friskā€™s perfectly, but their personality seems to match Chara more. Theyā€™re quiet (we never hear Charaā€™s voice in the videotapes), the demon horns headband are very much Charaā€™s style, they like being creepy, while Charaā€™s hair doesnā€™t cover their eyes when see them at the end of the Genocide run, we never actually see their eyes in the flashbacks, theyā€™re also both very close to Asriel.
I also think itā€™s important to mention that Deltarune takes place in 202X, while Chara fell in 201X, and Frisk fell much, much later. Iā€™ve seen people liken Kris to a ā€œChara self-insertā€ and it makes a lot of sense to me in the context of Deltarune being a created AU. Iā€™m more in the ā€œKris is an AU Charaā€ boat than ā€œfusion whoā€™s taking the place of bothā€ or ā€œAU Friskā€, because personality sticks out more to me than physical stuff. But the ā€œself-insertā€ idea could explain away the name and appearance differences. Chara could see Frisk as a better version of themselves, taken stuff like Asriel saying Frisk ā€œis the friend he wished he always hadā€ to heart, and unconsciously mold this AU version of them to resemble Frisk more.
Essentially Kris is Charaā€™s OC in the same way Ralsei and the Absolute God of Hyperdeath are to Asriel. Not to mention since I think Frisk is the red soul, the idea of them possessing an AU version of themselves is a bit... odd, but if itā€™s an AU Chara than itā€™s almost a reverse of the situation they two had in the Undertale (although I donā€™t think Chara took control outside of certain instances). Which is a fun idea to me! Like Underswap but angsty teen edition, haha.
Tbh, the idea of Kris being an ā€œAU Charaā€ is more just my personal preference, as it goes well with a lot of headcanons for Chara (I had one that they played the piano before Deltarune came out, for instance), however, I can admit that some sort of fusion between Frisk and Chara (heck, their name is even a combination of the two, ā€˜Chrisā€™! Itā€™s probably spelled as Kris because thatā€™s more gender-neutral, I bet) seems more likely at this point, no matter how weird I personally find it.
By the way, I strongly feel that Kris would have a different outfit in the Dark World if they had their own soul instead of Friskā€™s soul inside of them. I can see theirs following a similar knight theme, but it wouldnā€™t have a blue and pink color palette.
Also, I have to wonder if maybe Kris was Charaā€™s old name back in Undertale? Itā€™s not a stretch to imagine that they chose their name before meeting Asriel the same way we chose Charaā€™s name in the beginning of Undertale. But, if itā€™s a case of Kris being Charaā€™s old name, I think itā€™s just that they havenā€™t figured out their ā€˜true nameā€™ yet because they never heard of ā€˜Charaā€™ before, rather than everyone disrespecting their wishes. Frankly, the idea of everyone misgendering/deadnaming Kris intentionally makes me uncomfortable and also comes across as pretty OOC for the monsters.
To pacify or not pacify?
I said before that Iā€™m uncertain as to whether Deltarune is a sequel to post-pacifist Undertale or post-soullless pacifist, but I think if it was the soulless version, it would give us a good explanation for how Gaster acquired Friskā€™s soul (Toby could easily explain it away as void fuckery powers but whatever). Chara could have been to the one to give it to him, because they are technically in possession of Friskā€™s soul.
I still consider the soul to be Friskā€™s even if they gave it to Chara. We already know from the Omega Flowey and Asriel fights that even when someone else is using the soul, the person will still exist in some way. Even if Chara owns the soul now, itā€™s still made from Friskā€™s essence. Also, Chara and Gaster seem to be working together, I think Chara gave the soul to him and thatā€™s how the survey got started. And since itā€™s not in Charaā€™s body anymore/Chara could have just given up ownership of it, Frisk is the only one in control of it now.
Frisk isnā€™t evil they just lack empathy and occasionally go into a dissociative state where they commit atrocities
(The title is supposed to be a meme reference donā€™t take it too seriously, although I always liked the headcanon that Frisk struggles with empathy more than people think). You guys might be thinking Iā€™m being too harsh on Frisk. Theyā€™re possessing Kris, they probably did a Genocide run, etc. Well, I donā€™t think any worse of Frisk than I do for Flowey. They (along with Chara) are just traumatized kids in messed up circumstances with way too much power in their hands. Frisk also never consented to being put into Kris. I donā€™t think they have any idea what the fuck is going on.
You can answer ā€˜noā€™ to multiple questions in the survey and it continues on as if you answered yes, they probably thought the whole thing was weird and kinda shady, but they literally had no choice but to go through with it. They were also under the impression that their vessel would be the new artificial human theyā€™re creating, not someone who already has a life. Iā€™m also not sure if they have a good way to communicate with Kris and hear their thoughts on everything. Frisk might be able to talk to Kris through narration, but not hear what they want to say in return, only some of their feelings. Or theyā€™re not able to talk to each other at all, which just makes the situation harder on both of them.
Frisk can do many things that unintentionally hurt Kris, like hugging Ralsei when Kris doesnā€™t like hugs, but that seems to be a case of ignorance. As far as I know, thereā€™s only one thing Frisk can do thatā€™s deliberately bullying them, which is breaking the ball of junk (itā€™s also crappy if they named it that way when Kris clearly likes it). That is pretty shitty of them, but itā€™s not too far off from the jerk things you can do in Undertale, liking eating the snowman piece in front of the Snowman or letting Monster Kid fall to their possible death, as far as Frisk knew (all on a pacifist run too!).
Frisk still needs to apologize to them, but I think the two will be able to mend things together eventually. Iā€™m hoping they will because Iā€™ve already thought a lot about their possible friendship after they reconcile lol (This is going to be one of those theories Iā€™m sad about if itā€™s not true)
I would also like to say that if Frisk has ever met the Gaster followers/Gaster himself (which you can do without hacking in updated versions of Undertale) during a couple of timeline resets then they might feel an obligation to help him, even if they have a bad feeling about it.
Chara and Gaster are playing tug-of-war (and I want the old man to lose because Iā€™m biased)
Back to Chara and Gaster working together, I believe this is almost certainly whatā€™s happening, but they definitely seem to have different goals, or at least different ways of going about it. The way Chara takes over gives me the impression theyā€™re arguing with Frisk caught in the middle. Iā€™m uncertain as to why Chara discarded the vessel, but I doubt they killed the little guy. Maybe possessing a Goner Human would have unpleasant consequences we arenā€™t aware of.
From what we know of goners, they essentially donā€™t exist in the same way Gaster doesnā€™t. Maybe, people would be able to acknowledge us at first, but overtime, similar to Gaster, our existence is forgotten while our accomplishments still exist. Iā€™m expecting them to come back eventually. I like the idea of them being The Knight, although that would require some weird timeline stuff going on, like the period between our vessel being discarded and the red soul being put inside Kris to have taken a much longer time than we thought.
As I mentioned before, I think Gaster was the one to put the soul in Kris, not Chara. My reasoning for this is how Chara gets cut off when telling the soul their name. Gaster could have went with Kris because theyā€™re the best fit (being a human, presumably used to being possessedā€” notice also how despite clearly not liking being controlled, they still do everything we say) and how theyā€™re already a part of the Legend, apparently, so they were supposed to go the Dark World the whole time.
If Chara was the one who did it, then I think itā€™s because since Frisk is ā€œtheir partnerā€, Chara wants them to work with this AU version of themselves. If Kris is supposed to be Chara, then I can also see Chara just not caring about their comfort or what they want, since Chara always seemed to have a low opinion of themselves, I doubt theyā€™d care much about an AU version.
Otherwise, well, the Chara that gets corrupted by LOVE by the end of the Genocide Route seems to treat everything with apathy unless it has to do with power and irresponsible people getting what they deserve, so they still probably wouldnā€™t really care much about what Kris wants. Chara could have also thought they were helping by giving them a soul, even if itā€™s a soul that will control them.
Btw, I doubt Chara has completely bad intentions even if this is the Genocide run version of them, nothing to do with a massacre at least. Theyā€™re not even directly interfering with the world besides the vessel thing, Gaster is the oneā€™s in charge of our game over screen (something I think is important and will get back to later!) and weā€™re the one who chooses to fight people. Itā€™s just that the Darkners run away before we can kill them. Chara has also never been above doing questionable things for the greater good, just look at the buttercup plan.
Suzy/Susie, also that other lizard teen
As far Iā€™m concerned right now, Suzy from Undertale is the same Susie from Deltarune, similar to Chara and Krisā€™ connection, sheā€™s just younger. However, I wouldnā€™t be surprised if Suzy is a different character and sheā€™ll appear later in the game. Iā€™m thinking sheā€™s another monster rather than a human, if she isnā€™t Susie herself. The reason Iā€™m being cautious about whether theyā€™re alternate counterparts is that Catty and Catti are separate characters, despite having very similar names. I wouldnā€™t be surprised if Suzy and Susie are actually related in Deltarune.
Also, if the soul is a post-pacifist Frisk like I think it is, and Suzy is Susie, then I definitely think Frisk became friends with Suzy after the barrier was broken. I imagine a younger Susie would be more mellow and less of a bully, and Frisk could be a good source of support when sheā€™s dealing with her problems. I think even if they arenā€™t the same person, itā€™s likely that Frisk knows Suzy if sheā€™s a monster.
Goner Clamgirl specifically told Frisk theyā€™ll be meeting Suzy soon, so if she isnā€™t Susie, weā€™ll definitely see her eventually. And if this is post-soulless pacifist... well, I never thought Chara killed everyone, I thought it was a threat to scare Frisk into behaving or remind them/the player of what theyā€™ve done. Kinda hard to be completely happy with your family and friends while being haunted by the fact that you killed them before.
Monster Kid is kinda screwing with me. Their horns are pointing the opposite side of where they did in Undertale, this is significant because Goner Kidā€™s horns point the same way as DR Kid. We already know of one goner living a normal life in Deltarune, could DR MK be Goner Kid while UT MK is... uh... MIA, in the Deltarune universe, for the lack of a better term? They act exactly the same though, which is pretty weird. I am still very concerned.
The Narrator is more confusing than Gaster at this point
Now, one of the mysteries that is fucking with me the most is who the narrator is. I donā€™t think itā€™s Kris, the use of ā€˜youā€™ and other things (Kris got the hot chocolate, you felt a feeling of relief @ the ball of junk not being thrown away is clearly about Kris) doesnā€™t really fit it being Kris in my head. Thereā€™s a lot of similarities with Chara but too many odd things as well... it uses the exact phrasing but with notable differences. The cactus isnā€™t tsundere, ā€œitā€™s only youā€ feels VERY off and kinda mean since Kris isnā€™t exactly alone anymore... Itā€™s sometimes stiff and brief, similar to the Genocide run narration at times, but it also has its playful moments ā€œItā€™s good to conserve waterā€ when choosing not to flush the toilet, and the whole ā€œperpetrating the cycleā€ when talking about the moss.
I like to think itā€™s a Frisk trying to mimic Chara at times, actually. ā€œHe cannot be reasoned with, but donā€™t give up...!ā€ when checking the Spade King gives me strong Frisk vibes. Also ā€œIt's quite small, but some people REALLY like it,ā€ for the choco diamond implies the narrator isnā€™t a huge fan of chocolate (which Kris and Chara are, the choco diamond heals Kris the most). Itā€™d also make the most sense, if the red soul is Frisk, for Frisk to be the narrator.
However, something that feels off for both Frisk and Chara as narrator candidates is that the narrator seems familiar with Kris. They know Kris can save (ā€œthe light only you knowā€), they know which locker belongs to them and Asriel, they know Krisā€™ and Asrielā€™s old Halloween costumes are from 8 years ago specifically... which is... extremely weird? How can Chara or Frisk know these things if theyā€™ve never been to this world before?
Which leads me to my crackpot theory, the narrator is college!Asriel whoā€™s actually dead. THINK ABOUT IT. Itā€™s definitely wrong but whatever. For now my favorite candidate is Frisk but who fucking knows. Iā€™d even accept Gaster at this point, and I hate that theory for Undertale. Itā€™d be too easy if theyā€™re not meant to be character in this game, I think it is supposed to be someone.
ALSO ALSO important fact is that they are definitely narrating to Kris. They refer to Toriel and Asriel as ā€œyour mother and brotherā€ and thereā€™s stuff like ā€œYou really didnā€™t want to throw it away.ā€ So the narrator is talking to Kris and not to the soul. I think this is significant.
But yet ANOTHER weird thing about this is ā€œthe power of reoccurring bake sales shines within youā€ line (or whatever, canā€™t remember the exact phrasing). Thereā€™s only one bake sale in Deltarune, but this makes sense in the context of a post-Undertale playthrough, because we experienced more bake sales there. But that means the narrator (Chara I guess, if weā€™re just going off of this line) is talking to Frisk... which canā€™t be possible because I already established how theyā€™re clearly talking to Kris, not the soul... (the narrator talking to more to one person or there being two narrators would get way too confusing too fast, like, how are we supposed to figure out whoā€™s who or who exactly theyā€™re talking to if thereā€™s more than one for either?)... and yet if itā€™s Frisk talking to Kris this line is still strange... because Kris has only been to one bake sale before... you guys understand yet why the narrator mystery is frustrating to me???
Gaster isnā€™t evil but heā€™s probably worst void grandpa ever
I do not trust Gaster. I do not trust him at all (I also donā€™t trust Ralsei). I donā€™t think heā€™ll be a traditional villain though. Itā€™d be kinda hypocritical of me to assume the worst of him when Iā€™m such a big Chara fan. The problem is we barely know anything about him. With Chara, we have just enough info to figure out likely motivations, backstory, and personality (from the narration). I have an idea about what Gaster wants but not much about why heā€™s going about it in this... pretty convoluted way.
I think Gaster wants to be whole again, I think he wants to go back to his friends and family. However, heā€™s going too far and is fine with people getting hurt as long as he can achieve his goal. Being shattered across time and space probably fucked with his mind at least a little bit. And after a while of nonexistence heā€™s probably gotten desperate. Iā€™m thinking heā€™ll be a helpful, if confusing, ally at first, then as we learn more about what he wants heā€™ll turn into an antagonist. And it will end in an redemption.
Also since thereā€™s apparently an actual debate about this, Gaster is definitely involved with Deltarune, along with Chara. Iā€™m uncertain as to how big Charaā€™s role is, but Gaster will certainly be a big part of the game. The post I linked about Chara discarding the vessel has undeniable proof it was them, and thereā€™s wayyyy too many hints about Gaster around for him not to be in the game. The speaking style of the one who gave us the survey matches exactly with how Gaster speaks in Entry 17, his music motifs are everywhere (when we call the phone number, the area around the bunker, etc) at least one of his ā€˜followersā€™ is up and alive, Seam directly quotes his iconic ā€œdarker, yet darkerā€ line... like, thereā€™s no way heā€™s not involved.
Now, the game over screen is very interesting. Gaster asks us if we want to continue on after we die, and if we say no, the world was ā€œcovered in darknessā€ and we get to listen to some very pretty, but melancholy and slightly ominous music, while we wait in the blank void for Gaster to let us restart. It reminds me of when Chara destroys the world and thereā€™s only howling winds to listen to until they decide to talk to us. Actually, the more I compare the two, the more similar these scenes are.
Frisk is at the mercy of a being more powerful than them, whoā€™s the one that gets to decide if they can continue interacting with the world (with Chara you have to convince them to remake the world). Gaster doesnā€™t let Frisk reload the timeline themselves, almost as if Gaster is the one with control over the timeline. Gaster bluntly tells Frisk that they failed to save the world, puts them in a time-out as some, frankly, kinda messed up punishment for saying no to restarting, and after a while of presumably contemplating their failure, itā€™s only then that Gaster lets Frisk try again.
I read a very cool theory that at the start with the survey, when you accept the agreement, you give up your determination to Gaster. This lets the Game Over screen make a lot more sense in context. Gaster is the one who gets to decide when we get to reload the timeline and even where (I saw someone point out that Kris & company typically donā€™t respawn right by a save point like in Undertale, rather closer to where you last died, that only happens a few times in UT I believe). If this is true thatā€™s... more than a little concerning, but itā€™s cool too!
Ralsei isnā€™t evil but heā€™s certainly suspicious
NOW, letā€™s talk about everyoneā€™s favorite fluffy boy! Evil Ralsei sounds like the most boring and predictable twist ever. But Iā€™m willing to bet money that there will be a couple of twists with Ralseiā€™s motives and who he actually is. Itā€™s kinda interesting how Ralsei knows Kris and Susieā€™s names already, and that heā€™s the one who tells Kris to direct the soul to Susie, obviously to help out Susie, but maybe also to have a private conversation with Kris?
Gaster never intended for the vessel to be discarded, so it was most likely going to take the place of the human from the prophecy, yet Kris is also one of those ā€œwonderful peopleā€ weā€™re going to meet (Gaster says something to this affect when we name ourselves Kris, note that he only does this with major characters like Susie, Ralsei, and Noelle, who looks like sheā€™s joining us later, and says something different when we call ourselves Toriel, Sans, etc). What Iā€™m getting at is that Iā€™m pretty sure Ralsei either knows the name of the ā€œcreatorā€, the vessel, or both even, and that Kris was also going to join our adventure despite being an extra human. Similar to how Noelle is apparently an extra monster for the Legend.
Back to Ralsei, he definitely seems to know more than he lets on, and could also be lying about some things. Itā€™s pretty interesting that the Spade kingdomā€™s fountain is the one that was made recently and that weā€™re supposed to destroy, in contrast to Ralseiā€™s fountain, which, despite apparently being around for longer, doesnā€™t have his own subjects? Yet another interesting thing is how Ralsei is usually referred to as a Lightner when heā€™s with Kris, or with both Kris and Susie.
If Ralsei is hiding something or lying about stuff, I donā€™t think heā€™s doing it maliciously. It could be directions from Gaster or something like that. Ralseiā€™s similarities to Asriel are also very suspicious, and I find the idea of those two not being related at all extremely unconvincing. He acts like a goody two shoes version of Asriel, with his flaws relating to how much of a doormat he is. Heā€™s basically the inverse of the Absolute God of Hyperdeath. Despite how much he advises against fighting anyone, he lets us fight people as much as we please.
Personally, I think heā€™s a post-pacifist Flowey. It just makes sense to me. Ralsei looks like heā€™s trying to imitate his idea of Frisk (you can play Frisk as a huge jerk in pacifist yet Asriel still thinks Frisk is super cool), and thinks nonviolence is the way to get the happy ending. He also uses some of the same lines as Flowey in the first battle of the game. I think heā€™s being manipulated somewhat by Gaster, probably regarding his memories, so heā€™s actually being genuine as opposed to putting on an act. Although the idea of Ralsei trying to guilt trip us when we drop the manual too many times is hilarious. I also like to think his Light World form is a flower.
The Skeleton Brothers
Last but not least, Sans and Papyrus. Sans, like always, seems to know more about whatā€™s going on. You could interpret Sans as not knowing who we are, but I think heā€™s actually trolling us. He acts like he knows Kris at first, probably because heā€™s aware that we donā€™t know this is their first meeting. ā€œLook who it is! Howā€™s it going kid?ā€ is what you say to someone you met before, I donā€™t care what anyone says.
Pretending to know someone is a weird joke for a first meeting, imo, unless he means it as a inside joke for Frisk, and isnā€™t really talking to Kris at that moment. Then, when we say ā€œgreat to see you againā€ Sans pretends weā€™re a weirdo to make fun like he usually does, not giving away that he recognizes Friskā€™s soul and putting them on edge as a result (probably failing on the latter at least lbr), so Frisk gets to feel sheepish while Kris is confused as fuck.
Iā€™m not... completely certain from what timeline Sans is, and Iā€™m pretty certain itā€™s a Sans from one of the Undertale timelines, with the joke about knowing us and how heā€™s the only returning character with an unchanged sprite. The easiest would be a Genocide run, maybe he didnā€™t really get killed and if thatā€™s the case, he really has nothing left to live for so might as well go to a different universe, especially if the anomaly is running around and possibly mucking things up again. But why does he have Grillbyā€™s bar with him? I guess he did leave it behind in the Genocide timeline and he said heā€™s ā€œgoing to Grillbyā€™sā€ so that would make sense.
But what about Papyrus? Papyrus throws the biggest wrench in these theories about this being the same Sans because we donā€™t know anything about this Papyrus. If itā€™s the DR version of Papyrus then that means thereā€™s a DR version of Sans around with no little brother, and I canā€™t see UT Sans being that selfish. Post-pacifist would work better, I think. Papyrus is alive in that timeline and maybe if it was important enough theyā€™d leave their friends behind to the DR universe but I kinda canā€™t see them doing that?
Any other timeline besides Pacifist and Genocide doesnā€™t work because Grillby never leaves his bar alone for Sans to take (I canā€™t see him doing that if Grillby is still tending to it). Although I will say if this is a Papyrus who knows who Frisk is, I can see Papyrus being able to play dumb about the similarities he sees between Kris and Frisk, including the soul. Heā€™s always been good at hiding how powerful he is (and seems to be aware of Sansā€™ teleportation and study of different timelines), so he could just leave more hints about the apparent dimensional travel going on between these games but never being too obvious about it.
Also, I have to say I donā€™t think either of them are aware of Gaster being involved, although I could be wrong, thereā€™s not much to indicate for either or. Oh, and since Gaster seems to be such a big deal in this game, I think we have a good chance of finally knowing more of the skelebrosā€™ backstory.
Predictions for the full game
Thereā€™s no way ā€œyour choices donā€™t matterā€ is going to be 100% endorsed by the game, even with only one ending. I feel like the ending will be like the ā€œdespite everything, itā€™s still youā€ line, ie itā€™ll have a different feel depending on what you do. That particular mirror line still appears whether you do pacifist or when youā€™re at LV 18. It sounds bittersweet and affectionate when youā€™ve shown mercy, but when youā€™ve been pretty dusty, it sounds almost... judgmental. Like wow, you didnā€™t improve yourself at all, huh?
We already kinda see this with when you fight the Darkners or spare them all (which I definitely think will have a butterfly effect, along with freeing Jevil maybe). The fight ending is more somber while the spare ending is a lot more funny. I highly doubt Deltarune will go full grimdark, even if there will be challenges and horrifying things to discover. Iā€™m sure the ending will be satisfying and have some sort of hopeful tone.
Anyway, now for less big picture things. Iā€™d LOVE for Monster Kid to have a bigger role in the later parts of the game, since they were basically Friskā€™s only peer in the underground that they could count on not to kill them (yes Flowey Iā€™m shading you), and I have a big soft spot for their friendship, despite it being rather minor. If the soul belongs to Frisk like I think it does, there could be some interesting interactions. Especially since Frisk is closer to their version of MK than Kris is to the one they know.
However, I highly doubt it. MK doesnā€™t have a portrait or their own soundbites. I do think part of the game will be Kris improving their relationships with the monsters though, and MK will be one of them. They seem to count on each other to be group partners when they need to, but theyā€™re not close at all. MK looks like they have a tendency to put their foot in their mouth around Kris and doesnā€™t really get them. Iā€™m thinking thatā€™ll change depending on our choices whenever we get a chance to interact with them. Either that, or there will be a running cycle of MK accidentally annoying Kris, them realizing it and getting uncomfortable, awkward silence ensues, rinse and repeat. RIP school friends.
Noelle will definitely be a big character, since like many predicted, sheā€™s coming to the Dark World. Rudy is almost certainly going to die and that will affect her character arc, along with her seemingly strained relationship with her mother (her being too scared to ask her mom for the house keys raises a red flag).
I think her and Susie will get off on the wrong foot, Noelle will come on too strong and Susie thinks sheā€™s making fun of her and doesnā€™t actually want to be her friend, because why would she? As they have to interact more in the Dark World though, Iā€™m sure eventually Susie will realize she was being sincere, theyā€™ll become good friends, and even start dating toward the end. Unlike with Alphys and Undyne, I donā€™t think weā€™ll get to be a wingman. We might attempt it, but nothing comes from it and itā€™s just those two becoming a couple on their own to follow the ā€œyour choices donā€™t matterā€ theme.
Berdly kinda seems like heā€™s just going to be a jerk character with funny lines, but he does have a portrait and unique soundbites, so I wouldnā€™t be surprised if he gets an arc to himself. Maaaaybe heā€™ll join the party but who really knows. Iā€™m applying this same ā€œmaybeā€ to all new school characters that have the portrait, because why bother giving those to characters with minor roles? Maybe so we can see what they look like better but eh.
Also this is more of a personal preference of mine but I donā€™t want more villains like the king... a big appeal to me with Undertale is how no one is completely evil and every major character gets their happy ending (except Asriel, Chara, post-Genocide run Frisk, and Gaster, more on that in a little) and is generally written to be flawed but likable and understandable in their own way. I can deal with the king because the fairytale/Alice in Wonderland vibes of the Dark World gives me the impression that itā€™s meant to have a black-and-white story to tell, where the heroes defeat the bad guy with very little depth, especially if it was created by Asriel, but I think as we explore the Dark World more, it will be more gray.
Timeline shenanigans
(Please also read the last paragraph in the last section for added context)
As I stated before, the universe of Deltarune comes across to me as an imperfectly created AU in a post-Undertale ending setting. This is a big, albeit maybe unlikely wish of mine, but Iā€™m hoping that those who didnā€™t get an actual happy ending in Undertale will by the end of Deltarune. I think itā€™s significant how youā€™re told to play Deltarune only after finishing Undertale. Outside of it generally bring more enjoyable when you recognize the characters and get the references, I think itā€™s also important to understand the story.
Toby has stated that Deltarune ā€œis a different world with different rules, but that doesnā€™t mean there wonā€™t be no connections between [it and Undertale.]ā€ If you got a happy ending in Undertale, Deltarune isnā€™t a sequel to that. Itā€™s a sequel to the soulless-pacifist/genocide ending, or a sequel to a pacifist ending unrelated to our own. Undertale has already made a point to say thereā€™s other AUs and timelines going on separate from ours, which what I think Toby means by our specific playthrough being ā€œuntouchedā€ if we got the pacifist ending.
Also, about the 3 save files. They are, frankly, extremely confusing to me, but I still have some things to say. Itā€™s interesting how Asrielā€™s drawers (and I think other places in the room) each contain different things between the different save files. I have to wonder if theyā€™ll be implemented in the story somehow, and if the differences will increase as the story goes on, but I canā€™t see how Toby will do that without making multiple endings in the process? I wonder if weā€™ll have to use them in the same way Omega Flowey did (who had multiple save files according to the souls).
Chapter 2
As for chapter 2, like I said earlier, I highly, highly doubt Kris is going to kill any monsters, that just wouldnā€™t fit with what we know of them so far. I wouldnā€™t be surprised if they do attempt to attack the soul though. Iā€™m leaning more towards them threatening it, doing a fakeout stab or something (ā€œwhoā€™s in control NOW?ā€), and dumping the soul somewhere. Maybe theyā€™d succeed in killing it but the soul would just reload, to the last save point even, back within Kris, which theyā€™re probably aware of. Thereā€™d be no point in killing it when itā€™d just come back to life, so I think Kris is going to get rid of it in a nonviolent way.
Iā€™m not sure if weā€™d go straight to what happens there though? I heard in Mother 3, a game Toby clearly likes, each chapter starts off with a different characterā€™s perspective or something, which would be good for suspense in Deltarune ch 2. Weā€™d probably play as Susie or Noelle at first, Iā€™m thinking Susie in particular. Weā€™d see what her home life is like and where she lives (big mysteries in the game and a point of concern considering her eating habits). Sheā€™d go to school, but Kris isnā€™t there because theyā€™re sleeping in and didnā€™t feel like going. Theyā€™d probably get away with it by telling Toriel theyā€™re sick because literally everyone talked about how being possessed was making them look ill.
Susie wanders around town for a bit after school, mustering up the courage to ask Kris if they still want to go back to the Dark World because what if skipping school was their subtle way of rejecting her friendship? She comes across the red soul, goes what the fuck thatā€™s KRISā€™ soul?? Is immediately concerned and brings it back to them. Kris looks like they donā€™t give a shit but is internally freaking out, makes up some excuse, looking entirely too shady so the Kris-is-evil theorists can have some fuel before being shot down later.
And then weā€™d switch to their perspective (or, I guess we get to play as the red soul) where they talk to the red soul, initially Kris is very aggressive but somehow we figure out a way to communicate with Kris and tell our side of the story. Apologies are made and Kris is somewhat mollified. Maybe this time Kris consents to being possessed but makes up some ground rules or the two work together to find a different vessel, maybe the golden flower in Asgoreā€™s shop?
Also in the middle of all this thereā€™s a flashback to how the soul ended up where Susie found it. I think this could all work with Noelle instead too. We donā€™t know what she does after school and she has known Kris for a long time, she might know what their real soul looks like (Like I said earlier, I do think Krisā€™ actual soul is red) or at least how human souls arenā€™t white and are right side up.
Summarization of the most important theories I guess
ā€”Kris is being possessed by the red soul, which belongs to an teenage Frisk after a pacifist or soulless pacifist route.
ā€”Considering the options for when you talk to Sans (ā€œGreat to see you again!ā€ vs ā€œWho the hell are you?ā€) I think one half of most options (probably the left side) is something Frisk would like to say while the other half is what Kris wants to say.
ā€”The Deltarune Universe was created by both UT Asriel (more specifically post-pacifist Flowey) and Chara, with help from Gaster. However, heā€™s manipulating them for his own agenda which is why the world is more than a little weird. Asriel and Chara probably donā€™t know the other is working with Gaster as well.
ā€”Chara is aware that Gaster is shady and doesnā€™t fully trust him, to the point theyā€™re interfering and outright arguing with him, unlike UT Asriel, who might have his memories scrambled up.
ā€”Kris is Charaā€™s self-insert for the Deltarune world, while Ralsei is Flowey. Iā€™m not exactly sure if DR Asriel exists.
ā€”Even if Gaster will be an antagonist heā€™s getting an redemption arc. He just wants to exist again, but heā€™s getting too desperate.
ā€”Sans (who is his UT self as far as Iā€™m concerned) is here to keep an eye on the anomaly (Frisk) and make sure they donā€™t abuse their time-travel powers again. UT Papyrus is also here, knows more than one might expect, possibly to befriend the anomaly to discourage them from doing anything questionable (although I doubt he thinks badly of the anomaly, whether itā€™s us or Frisk).
ā€”We should have read the fine print before ā€œaccepting everything that will happen from now onā€ because doing that allowed Gaster to steal our determination and now itā€™s his turn on the timeline.
ā€”Determination still exists, otherwise we couldnā€™t save and reload the timeline, it just hasnā€™t been named by Alphys like in UT.
ā€”Gaster is the one who put Friskā€™s soul in Kris, while Chara was trying to tell Frisk what their real name is, before getting cut off.
ā€”I think every character is getting a happy ending itā€™ll just take a while to get there.
ā€”Not exactly a theory, but I find it very interesting how the Angel in the Legend is seen as some sort of enemy to peace between the Lightners and Darkners, while also being revered as a god in Hometownā€™s religion. Not to mention how the Angel in the prophecy of the Delta Rune is either Frisk, Chara, or Asriel in Undertale.
Annnnnddd thatā€™s it I guess? Congrats if you got to the end, and I appreciate people reading this even if you didnā€™t read the whole thing. Iā€™m not tagging this because I donā€™t want people coming onto this post to say how Chara or Kris are definitely evil, but I donā€™t mind discussion and people telling me they disagree with any of my theories.
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keepmiral Ā· 2 years ago
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Undertale soulless endings
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I was also right about the name I choose belonging to the kid at the end of genocide, whose default name I found out is Chara.ÄŖnd after all that, befriending everyone, saving the monsters, saving the flower, you think everything's gonna be peachy, but nah. Pacifist also explained some stuff, like why Undyne melted after I killed her. At least she's not my least favorite character anymore. One the flip side, I see why people like Undyne, at least outside of genocide and neutral. How anyone can legitimately like him is beyond me. So before you were Omega Flowey and tried to kill me the first time, then you became God of Hyperdeath or some stupid name and tried to kill me & my friends and Asgore, and you expect me to comfort you and forgive you? Get outta here with that mess. Speaking of Asrieal, they tried way too hard to try and make feel sorry for him. Hell, he didn't even do much the second transformation except become edgier. The only parts I died on were Lemon Bread and Asrial. After the bone and spear hell that was the genocide, I thought this one would be difficult as well. All the ending is, is Sans calling you saying the game has changed or something, then he calls you a dirty hacker, then hangs up. There's also a secret 4th ending, but to get it, you have to hack the game a certain way, and open the game. And while yes, Sans is a very cheap boss, the feeling of finally beating him is ooooh so satisfying. The constant grinding, the bosses that got one-shot, the 2 bosses who were unbelievably difficult, and the ending which was honestly unnerving, the whole route was a route that was reminding you that you are a bad person, trying to kill everyone. The whole point of the route was to make you not have fun. I also do think you missed the point of Genocide. Plus, the constant 4th wall breaking was genius. I always like bosses that are a constant power struggle. Plus I thought the fight with Photoshop Flowey was fantastic. In my Neutral run, I also killed Toriel, Undyne, Asgore (who was killed by Flowey) and Flowey, so my ending was also Mettaton becoming king. I honestly still think Neutral is the best route, due to being a route that has much less restrictions, and also the multiple different endings it can get. And that final boss theme legit gave me goosebumps, just because of how awesome it was. The story and writing in Pacifist was sooo good. I can see why Pacifist was your favorite. Rather then be a challenge like Undyne, it's just a long drawn out cheating boss. Well, Undyne was far in hindsight, so it's not as bad, but Sans fight is legitimately unfair. If you venture off too much, monsters might not spawn anymore and ruin it. The monster grinding sucks because you pretty much have to stay in one area. I thought it would be exciting because I like playing the villain in games if given the option, but that wasn't the case. Like the first time, I killed Torial, Undyne, Asgore, and Flowey, so Mettaton ending up being the king, but if I ending up killing him too, then Papyrus would be king. I also found out the ending is different depending on which bosses you kill. I like having the option to kill monsters if I want. My other gripe with it is that the game tries too hard to make you feel sympathetic to Asriel. Yeah it was still the easiest final boss, but it was also the best one. I really liked the music and colorful attacks, which was better than Flowey's ugly-ass photo cutouts. The final boss fight with Asriel was cooler than Omega Flowey. The no fighting thing is still lame, but the dialogue made up for it at least. Much to my surprise, I liked the pacifist route the best. If you break a rule, you get a warning, Break a rule again, and you're gonna have a bad time. Don't post too many advertisements too quickly.ÄØ. If you're going to talk about a spoiler, please use the "SPOILER" button.Ħ. Have at least some knowledge of the game, since I'm sure people will talk about alot of spoilers from the game.Ä„. In this hub, you can talk about the characters, the bosses, post theories, post strategies, share artwork, advertise your Undertale-related posts, and overall, just talk about the game.Ä¢. This game is best experienced as blind as possible, so if you haven't played the game, play it, it's very cheap, and it's on Steam. It tells the story of a nameless child wondering through the Underground, meeting monsters and trying to escape to the surface. If you have lived under a rock, and have no idea what Undertale is, Undertale is an indie game released in 2015, by developer Toby Fox. So I thought I would create a hub, where people can chat about the game. So, yeah, I just wanted to make an Undertale Hub, simply because of it's huge popularity, and the fact a large amount of people on PMC love this game.
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neko-shadow-archived Ā· 7 years ago
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So, a while back I posted a list, saying what main Undertale character would go in which Hogwarts House. And I figure I should explain my choices. Especially a few of them.
First off, letā€™s just get a small overview of what each house is like from the hat, shall we?
ā€œYou might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin You'll make your real friends, Those cunning folks use any means To achieve their ends.ā€
I may deviate from this a little because of opinions, but still.
I will also point out that I headcanon Frisk as male and Chara as female. I will try to keep it to gender neutral pronouns with them, but if I end up calling FriskĀ ā€˜heā€™ and CharaĀ ā€˜sheā€™, well... thatā€™s the reason why. Iā€™ll also put this under a read more because itā€™s pretty long.
Frisk - Hufflepuff
It would be easy enough to put Frisk into Gryffindor. They is a brave kid after all, going through an entire Kingdom of Monsters. But, I decided on Hufflepuff... although I should probably state this is purely for the Pacifist!Frisk. Neutral!Frisk I would say probably is Gryffindor, and Genocide!Frisk... well, Genocide!Frisk is more or less Chara, in my opinion, so weā€™ll get to them when we get to them.
Basically, I put Frisk in Hufflepuff because one of the things I think is most telling about them, as opposed to the Gryffindor Neutral!Frisk, is that they is patient and willing to work hard. Neutral!Frisk does have shades of this too, but they will also kill, which is the easy way to take out some monsters. Pacifist!Frisk is willing to be patient and do what needs to be done to pacify the monster rather than kill it, and refuses to shift from this strategy unless they HAVE to, as in when they fight Asgore, who refuses to shift from his duty to his people, and Omega Flowey who... yeah. No talking them down. Flowey canā€™t feel guilt or anything at the point, after all.
Frisk will work hard and do what they feel needs to be done, pacifying monsters rather than fighting them, working hard to make friends with everyone, including Undyne, who showed absolutely no feelings towards them other than WANTING THEM DEAD. It takes a lot of bravery, to be sure, but I think it speaks more to hardwork and patience, both of which are Hufflepuff traits.
Toriel - Ravenclaw
It could be easy to put Toriel in Hufflepuff as well. As a motherly type, she is patient and works hard to be a good surrogate mother for Frisk, and before then, a good mother for Asriel and Chara. However... there is a reason I had put her in Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw is all about being smart and clever, and quick-witted, basically. This might be a little different from what is intended... but Toriel is indeed smart. She is clever enough to have figured out how to disarm the traps in the ruins, and likely how to arm them as well. Even if she was around before the war, and thus knows how they work from those times, she still remembered how to do it. Also, most notably, she says that she wants to be a teacher, and, in the epilogue, she indeed does open a school and become a teacher. She is clever, and wants to pass on that knowledge, valuing it highly. She even prepares a curriculum for Frisk, although it never gets used. You can say she belongs in other houses, but while she shows some points of Hufflepuff, I donā€™t think she shows much in the way of qualities for Gryffindor or Slytherin, and I think she shows more signs of Ravenclaw than Hufflepuff.
Sans - Ravenclaw
Before I start, this has nothing to do with the Soriel ship. I donā€™t actually like the ship. A mutual taste in bad jokes is a poor foundation for a relationship, in my opinion, and thatā€™s pretty much what Sans and Toriel really have. A mutual taste in bad jokes.
Getting that out of the way... in my opinion, Sans is definitely a Ravenclaw. Heā€™s lazy, which goes against him being a Hufflepuff, heā€™s not really shown to be too ambitious, which goes against him being a Slytherin... There arenā€™t really any signs of him being a Gryffindor, unless you count him being the last person to fight in a Genocide route... but considering that at that point, heā€™s figured out that if you finish your route, youā€™ll destroy the timeline... fighting you is more of a smart move rather than a brave one, considering itā€™s the only way to stop the destruction of everyone and everything in that timeline.
One thing that cannot be denied is that Sans is very intelligent. Even ignoring all the fanon stuff, he has a book on Quantum Physics (well, several of them... inside books of jokes. some of which are inside books on Quantum Physics), and is intelligent enough to watch you without you noticing throughout your journey, and judge you based on your actions. He is also clever enough to realize when youā€™ve already seen something or done something. Some of the other characters have shades of this, like Toriel saying you look like youā€™ve seen a ghost if you reset after killing her, and Flowey DEFINITELY knowing when youā€™ve been resetting... but Sans is a character who SHOULDNā€™T know for certain, but he does, based on Friskā€™s reactions.
Heā€™s definitely not a Hufflepuff, he has the cunning of a Slytherin but thatā€™s about it, and while he COULD be a Gryffindor, he definitely has more pointing towards Ravenclaw.
Papyrus - Slytherin
Ooooh boy, I can already see this one ruffling some feathers. Donā€™t get me wrong, Papyrus is definitely a brave one, including opting to try to convince you to abort a genocide route, and heā€™s definitely fairly clever. Despite you being the first human heā€™s ever come up against, he knows when to stop attacking so that he doesnā€™t kill you. And he definitely works hard. Despite the only other skeleton we have to compare him to, Sans, heā€™s tough. Even Undyne admits that heā€™s tough, although she also says she canā€™t make him a member of the Royal Guard.
However, thatā€™s why Iā€™ve made him a Slytherin. Practically EVERYTHING he does in the game is to be a Royal Guard. He mentions it all the time, itā€™s clearly the ambition that drives him, even if friendship does sometimes cause it to take a bad seat. He even says the pacifist ending is the worst possible ending because the Royal Guard is disbanded before he can join it. And he will even, at first, attempt to capture you rather than being friends with you, just so he can join the Royal Guard. Also, donā€™t forget he is pretty cunning. If need be, when you try to make friends with Undyne, when she tells you to leave her house, Papyrus, having jumped out of the window previously, comes back and says that Undyne simply isnā€™t capable of being friends with Frisk. Which results in Undyne actually making friends with Frisk. Which, considering most of the time Papyrus is, letā€™s be honest, less than intelligent, is a VERY clever and cunning move by Papyrus. So due to the ambition that guides almost all of his actions, and his surprising cunning, Papyrus is fairly clearly a Slytherin, in my opinion.
Undyne - Gryffindor
Iā€™m betting everyone saw this one coming, though. Undyne is brave. Maybe not too chivalrous in her first two encounters, when she fights you for real, she gives you a shield to block her attacks. And even tells you how to block her attacks, telling you that if unless you face her head on, you wonā€™t be able to beat her.
Sheā€™s also daring. Although most bosses share this trait, she wonā€™t give up, not even if you bring her down to critical health, which is enough to make most monsters give in, allowing you to spare them. But not Undyne. In fact, she is so determined that she will keep on fighting even after her HP is depleted, tapping into her determination to continue fighting... albiet it being a futile last hurrah, her attacks gradually slowing and becoming more and more pathetic the more her body starts breaking down and melting. And in the Genocide Run, realizing that youā€™re not going to stop with just killing all monsters, she taps into her determination in another way, becoming the sturdiest boss in the game. Thatā€™s part of the point. Even after having been killed by you in one shot, she will STILL refuse to die, putting everything on the line, using determination, that, even if she wins, will most likely seal her painful death.
She prides herself on being a hero. And if you consider the side of Monsterkind, she probably is. The reason she doesnā€™t seem like a chivalrous hero with nerves of steel is because sheā€™s your enemy. She does show signs of Hufflepuff, being a hard worker, but not so much signs of Slytherin or Ravenclaw. Thus, I doubt anyone is surprised that Undyne is a Gryffindor.
Alphys - Ravenclaw
Another fairly obvious one. While Mettaton isnā€™t exactly a real robot, being a monsterā€™s soul in a metal body, Alphys is still incredibly intelligent, even if her experiments didnā€™t necessarily go as she planned. She was stepping into new territory with her experiments with Determination, after all. Not to mention creating Mettatonā€™s body, which can transform at the flick of a switch into either Mettatonā€™s dream body, or a body designed to kill humans... even if it is terrible at doing so, due to how powerful youā€™ve gotten by the time you encounter Mettaton Neo. She still created both of those bodies though, and is clever enough to lead a lot of monsters away from you, evacuating them.
Apart from that, she doesnā€™t show that many traits from other houses. Considering how long it took her to own up to her mistakes, eventually doing so because she couldnā€™t stand lying anymore rather than any sort of actual courage, sheā€™s definitely not a fit for Gryffindor. Considering how little she does after her experiments were a failure, simply holing herself up in her lab and not doing that much work, sheā€™s not a Hufflepuff. And while she does have SOME cunning, trying to manipulate events through Hotland and the Core to make herself seem better than she is, and like a hero who saved Frisk, she lacks any other Slytherin qualities.
Alphys is, very clearly, a Ravenclaw.
Mettaton - Slytherin
Maybe I should have put him after Muffet. Ah well.
Mettaton is clearly a Slytherin. Sharing the same sort of arrogance seen in a fair few Slytherins, while not explicitly a trait, does help a little. But letā€™s look at his other things.
He is a big star in the Underground, having even left Blooky, after saying that he wouldnā€™t, in order to follow his own dream... or his ambition. Even once achieving this, he didnā€™t stop there. He fights Frisk for three reasons:
He doesnā€™t believe that Frisk is strong enough to fight Asgore
He wants to be humanityā€™s hero, killing you, taking your soul and then stopping Asgoreā€™s plan. While this is technically a heroic move... itā€™s also another showing of Mettatonā€™s ambitions, wanting to save humanity... which leads to
He wants to become a star in the human world, where he thinks millions of humans will watch him. Two of those three reasons tie into ambition. As for cunning... he did play along with Alphysā€™ plans, but at the end he turned it against her, making her seem like an unreliable guide through the Core, which definitely rattled Alphys and made her doubt herself, losing her newfound confidence. Iā€™m not sure it really achieved anything of note for Mettaton spefically, but still.
Mettaton is also fairly hardworking and smart, as well as being brave, standing in front of Chara as the last obstacle before the final fight, but I think his ambition stands out much more than those. Hence why heā€™s in Slytherin.
Muffet - Slytherin
Muffet, again, Iā€™ve classed as a Slytherin. A lot of this is simply guessing, since you see Muffet once, having a bake sale, and then have a fight against her... and thatā€™s basically it. You can talk to her after your battle but you donā€™t get too much characterization for her, which is understandable. She wasnā€™t designed by Toby if Iā€™m remembering right, she was the character of someone who backed enough money. In any case, this is mostly guesswork.
Muffet isnā€™t stupid, but sheā€™s not very smart. She sells her goods for 9999g, and, while we do see someone actually did buy something from her, they bought it more out of being intimidated into it than anything else. And yet, during the fight, she literally THROWS a lot of doughnuts at you. So she prices them high, and then tosses them willy-nilly at you, wasting a fair amount of money, and a LOT of potential profits. So definitely not a Ravenclaw.
She stands in your way. But not out of bravery or any sense of justice or anything like that... even if you go through a Genocide run, the only reason she fights you is because someone told her you donā€™t like spiders. And that you kill them. And then, once the telegraph from the spiders in the Ruins arrives, telling her that you never hurt a single spider, she spares you, even if you killed everyone else you came across. Her fighting you was purely for vengeance for spiders she thought you had killed, and to get your soul to sell it to someone. I dunno if they ever specify WHO, but I think it is at least hinted at it being Mettaton? I doubt itā€™d be Flowey, at that point. But yeah, she only fights to get revenge for spiders she thought you had killed. So, not a Gryffindor.
She does work hard for her spiders, but sheā€™s not really patient. charging WAY over the price that the spiders in the ruins charge for no reason other than... greed, I guess. Even if it is for a good cause. But if she were to have some patience and sold her things at a more reasonable price, sheā€™d be able to raise the money easily. It would take longer, since that one guy buying one doughnut from her probably gave her more than enough money to get the spiders out of the ruins with the heated limo, but sheā€™d get a lot more customers. I mean, lot at the bunch of monsters buying hot dogs from Sans, not necessarily because theyā€™re any good, but theyā€™re cheaper at least. And as mentioned, Hufflepuffs areĀ ā€˜justā€™. Muffet fighting you isnā€™tĀ ā€˜justā€™ at all, itā€™s only for revenge for dead spiders, and she stops immediately once she finds out you didnā€™t even hurt any spiders. So not a Hufflepuff.
Slytherin qualites, on the other hand... she has huge ambitions, charging a lot of money for baked goods in other to make lots of money. For a good cause, yes, but a good cause is still an ambition. And she is cunning, changing your soulā€™s type before fighting you towards her advantage. After all, the fight against her would be a LOT easier if you could move freely. Not to mention she uses some of that cunning to convince someone to buy a doughnut by staring at them and licking her lips, if I remember rightly. Intimidating them into doing so without saying a word. Thatā€™s pretty darn cunning in my book. And thatā€™s why sheā€™s a Slytherin.
Asgore - Hufflepuff
Asgore is another easy one to judge, based on his actions in the game. While some portray him as a remorseless child killer, he genuinely feels bad about doing it. Heā€™s probably more scared of fighting you than you are of him, and unless you are at 1 HP, his attacks canā€™t kill you. So why does he fight you anyway?
Because of loyalty to his people. His loyalty to his people forces him to do one of the things he probably wants to do the least, as shown by him not simply taking the first human soul and going through the barrier to gather more quickly. His loyalty has forced him to kill (I think it was specified that Asgore killed all the children himself?) 6 children when it was the last thing he wanted to do. And it forces him to fight you, and while he cannot bring himself to fight you with all his might, he will still kill you and take your soul for his people.
He might have some traits of other houses, other than Slytherin, but I think the strength of his loyalty alone places him squarely in Hufflepuff.
Asriel - Hufflepuff
I should probably state that Iā€™m counting Asriel as a different entity from Flowey. Flowey would straight-up be a Slytherin. Wanting to gain all the human souls for himself? Befriending and manipulating Papyrus for his own goals? Yeah, his main traits are ambition and cunning.
But Asriel is a different story. He is kind and gentle, despite being the final boss and very capable of killing you. But as soon as he feels the emotions he had been lacking as a soulless flower, he cannot fight you anymore, reverting back to a child and crying.
Most of me thinking heā€™s in Hufflepuff is based on his relationship with Chara, and Charaā€™s plan of killing themselves, having Asriel absorb their soul and go to the surface to collect enough souls to free everyone.
Asriel agreed to the plan, despite thinking it was a bad idea, and everytime he brought up a complaint, he was convinced back into it fairly easily. He was very loyal to Chara, but even when he got to the surface, he couldnā€™t kill anyone. This might be him being just. These humans were not the ones who fought them and sealed them underground. They had done nothing would. It would not be fair, it would not be just to kill them. I donā€™t know if that was his reasoning, but he still did not attack them.
Asriel is loyal and just. So he is a Hufflepuff.
Chara - Slytherin
This is basically based off the Chara at the end of the Genocide Run, and a little off before they died.
Letā€™s start with Chara before they died.
It certainly was an ambition plan they had, wasnā€™t it? Killing themselves by eating buttercups so Asriel could take their soul, and gain enough souls to free humanity. Being the saviour of an entire race, and likely a key hero in the ensuing war (remember that Chara had a very low opinion of humanity) is an very ambitious plan. And convincing their soft, gentle brother to go along with it may have taken a fair bit of cunning, since he would have had to convince Asriel not to mention the plan to Toriel or Asgore.
And they get even more ambitious after their death, wanting to destroy the entire timeline if you gain enough LV. And even if you donā€™t want to do that, they take control and do it anyway.
Chara also isnā€™t exactly a very pleasant person. Even Asriel admits to as such. There isnā€™t too much evidence of Chara being particularly brave, clever or loyal. Especially considering they will force you to kill Flowey while they are using Asrielā€™s face and voice. So all I have to go on is their ambition and cunning and since those are the properties of the Slytherin house....
So, there we are. Feel free to give me your thoughts on this.
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Toxā€™s (and part of Arumā€™s) Life Story, and music
This gonā€™ be long so Iā€™ll put it under a readmore
(a bit of comparison to Red and Boss too so I think Iā€™ll reblob this to them)
This is me rambling to my dear @r0astet0aste but I took out everything thatā€™s not actual rambling to shorten it if only a little
I've got to get up an info page for Tox
-slams hands down-
LISTEN I'M GONNA DUMP ALL HIS SONGS ON YOU
OK SO
ARUM NEVER PAID ATTENTION TO HIM. EVER. EVER EVER. NOT UNTIL THE WAR
HE WAS FAR TOO FOCUSED ON BEING GASTER'S ASSISTANT, AND THEN TRYING TO GET HIM BACK
THE SCIENCE DAD AND SON IGNORED THEIR 'UNINTELLIGENT' SON/BRO
TOX GREW UP FEELING INFERIOR AND NEGLECTED AND STUPID
SO HE THREW EVERYTHING HE HAD INTO PHYSICAL ABILITY IN THE HOPES IT WOULD GARNER HIS BROTHER'S ATTENTION
AND EVENTUALLY STARTED TAKING OUT HIS FRUSTRATION BY ABUSING ARUM
BUT ARUM DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK
HE TOOK THE PUNCHES AND KICKS LIKE "are you done throwing a tantrum, bitch? yes? good bye i'm going back downstairs"
Basically he was enamored with his dear old daddy and considered Tox a waste of space
So getting beaten up had the same effect as Tox wailing annoyingly as a small child. That "ugh stop" effect
Meanwhile poor Tox just
Wanted attention
Yes he beat up his big bro but all he wanted was attention
So there's this song for his feelings on Arum pre-war
Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
Keep in mind he doesn't remember G
So all he knows is Arum ignored him for science for no reason
And so he was desperate for attention
He got it in the royal guard
He was good. He was powerful. He was Undyne's favorite
He fell for her of course
So they got together
(Arum has been with his Grillz, his Alphys, and the shopkeep bun in terms of real relationships I just need to figure out the order. Alphys first I'm p sure)
Then
The human fell
Arum fell for her gradually, put his trust in her, believed she'd break them free, etc
That didn't happen
King died. Six souls were destroyed
Toriel returned to the throne
Undyne didn't like that
Because Toriel instilled a mercy policy to fallen humans
But Frisk had told Arum that the human population had grown immensely in the last several centuries
Breaking free and initiating war - Undyne's plan, just like Asgore's - would result in monsters being eradicated
Arum was always on Toriel's side
When Undyne challenged her, the civil war broke out
Tox felt loyalty to his lover, ofc, but he also realized Arum and Toriel were right. War was a bad idea
Besides, the last thing they needed was their ruler to be another Asgore
Who was ruthless and made the underground hell
So he was torn
He eventually settled on a side - Toriel's
There's this song for when he had to fight Undyne
Headstrong - Trapt
Then
then
well, keep in mind
none of this was actually Frisk's fault
Everyone thinks it was but
In reality, she was trapped in the void by Flowey during his omega battle
Flowey felt horribly guilty for fucking it all up
He started rewinding time, again and again
Arum was the only one aware of this
He experienced the resets and reloads
So the Civil War, which stretched for idk a few decades probably
was actually much longer
Tox died
When he was killed the first time
Arum had a meltdown
He realized then that
despite everything
Tox was the only family he'd had left
And none of their fighting mattered, did it?
He'd wasted his brotherhood. He'd ignored the only person he had that was family
First mental break
This song
Not Gonna Die - Skillet
ISN'T IT GREAT?
the last thing i heard was you whispering goodbye... and then i heard you flatline
Arum was an absolute mess
Then time rewound again
He tried to warn Tox not to fight in that battle
Tox didn't listen to him ofc
so he died several times in the war
So I've got a few songs about that
Soldier Side - System of a Down
Battle Cry - Skillet
Not Afraid to Die - Written By Wolves
And my favorite for the Civil War time (aside from Not Gonna Die)
IS THIS ONE
Rise - Skillet
(by the way, yes, in every Skillet song on his playlist, Arum is the girl singing)
I mean
technically Undyne is the one revolting from Toriel's rule but
Toriel's rule is basically a revolution from Asgore's reign of terror
They're fighting on Toriel's side for a semi-peaceful life
They can't wage war on the humans
They obviously won't be breaking the barrier any time soon, back at 0 souls
All Toriel and her followers want is for the death to stop
So the last 40 seconds of this song?
With the phone call and the news reports and all that
They're all things that would've happened in Asgore's reign
Monsters breaking into each others's houses and dusting them for EXP
People being left on the streets to die
etc
AND THAT LAST MALE VOICE?
"You're such a failure!"
"What is wrong with you?"
"You're worthless!"
"You can't do anything right!"
"I wish you had never been born!"
All things Arum has snapped at him throughout his life
So he's got shit like that playing in his head
But he's still fighting to protect
and by this point
Arum has lost him so many times
He just
He wants to take it all back
He synthesizes a carefully measured solution of determination
Aware of his and Alphys's failures with the amalgamates, he realizes pure determination would only make Tox melt
(Alphys has committed suicide by now btw)
So he works desperately to find a working determination amount, mixed with other chemicals, so he can stop Tox from dying without making him melt
Not much time to test it but he does his best
Keep in mind Tox can't remember any of his deaths
All he knows is his brother has flipped his fucking lid ever since the human left
And keeps talking about time shit that he doesn't understand
Arum forces the determination mixture into him
It works
Tox survives the battle he kept dying in
Drawback: Tox's body distorted
It didn't melt but
It had to shift and change to account for the DT
this is why he's nine feet tall
The civil war continues
Inevitably, Toriel loses and steps down
She returns to the ruins
Undyne takes the throne
Tox is one of the only survivors on Toriel's side
The brothers return to Snowdin and Arum attempts to explain the whole time shit
(He pointedly does not attempt to explain Gaster or what he was always working on)
But he apologizes for everything
So ok Tox doesn't really get it all
He's still just... not very bright
But he realizes that Arum has lost everything and is trying to change
So things for sure aren't perfect, but they at least stop hitting each other and attempt to communicate more
Arum's first mental break and the endless resets within the war has left him not enitrely stable
Arum was a mess
He put his faith and trust in Frisk and look where it got him
Look where it got the whole underground
He returned to working desperately to try and get his dad back
He somehow convinced himself if Gaster was back, everything would be okay again
Honestly he put G on such a high pedestal, it's crazy
He consistently believes he could never measure up to him in terms of scientific ability, though he's been monitoring and repairing the core personally ever since G was cast into the void
He's probably surpassed G by this point but he can't believe it
he's got Red's failure complex honestly
He just shows it far less
Oh I should mention his HP was never 1
He always had over 200
Physically, he was always stronger than Red
He just didn't use it
Bigger, stronger, he didn't have the defects that Red was created with basically
anyway after that, whenever a human fell, they'd kill the human and purposefully crush their soul into little bits
so Undyne couldn't take the soul for herself
a few slipped through the cracks, tho
current time, Undyne has 3
Flowey kept occasionally fucking with time
The magic in the underground soured
Crops began to fail
Soon, food became very scarce
the monster population had basically halved due to the war but still
Hunger began to take control over everything
Tox came up with the clever idea (for once) of slowly conditioning himself and Arum to be resistant to most poisons
They started to poison their own food stores to deter people from stealing their food
But the fact is they started to starve slowly
Another human fell
In a fit of hunger, having lost himself, Arum killed and ate the human
well he set half aside for Tox but
yeah he tasted meat for the first time that day
Cue another mental break afterwards, when he realized the brutal, horrifying act he'd just committed
He'd killed only a few times in his life, and only in self-defense
Tox had dusted many in the war, but that was war
This was him murdering and eating someone in cold blood
and he really loved the taste, too
He was sickened by himself
Tox, too
But they didn't really have a choice anymore
Tox had long since accepted that the world was fucked up
Arum was new to the idea, having locked himself away in labs for most of his life, he was far more sensitive to this shit
This was around the time that Arum first became suicidal
So here's another Tox song as he started to realize Arum was in even worse mental shape than he thought
Never Too Late - Three Days Grace
Arum is growing ever more desperate about getting his father back
On a very bad day, he attempted to use the machine he was building, before he had finished it and properly tested it
Oh boy did that backfire
He reached into the void with a flawed machine and the void yanked payment
You've seen Fullmetal Alchemist, right?
Them boys reached into the void asking for the impossible
Arum reached into the void asking for something very possible, but he did it in a flawed way
He didn't have enough power or control in the machine
So first of all it exploded and took a chunk out of his skull manually
Now that could be healed with green magic provided you have all of the bone material with you
But what the void took wasn't all physical
It took chunks of his mind
Not only that, it soured and rotted his soul
His soul reached 0/0 HP but he did not die
His soul was permanently rotted and changed. He's already at 0, but still there, so he can't die
His magic soured too
You recall his dark, dark red magic color? Almost brownish black?
Wasn't originally that color
The hole in his skull destroyed one eye but the other began to glow permanently
He can't teleport, he can't die, he can't conceive a child, he can't even soulbond
He's essentially a zombie
And he looked the part for a while, too
Tox heard the explosion and rushed down there to find Arum unconscious with a chunk missing, tendrils of voidy shit being battered back by vines
Flowey probably saved them all from more damage
Tox attempted to heal the wound in Arum's skull but it didn't work
His body no longer accepted green magic
The basis of green magic is healing HP and at 0/0, there is nothing to be healed
Green magic hurts Arum about as much as being attacked does
Both make his soul glitch the fuck out like an amalgamate's
Anyway, Arum was unconscious for a damn long time
Days
But finally, he woke up... And he couldn't remember anything. He couldn't focus his gaze on anything. He couldn't speak and could hardly move
He was completely catatonic and only vaguely conscious
Tox had to take care of him the same way you might take care of a baby or doll, minus the crying
He fed Arum by hand, carried him around the house, manually moved his joints so Arum's body didn't entropy
Attempted to communicate in any way
Eventually Arum started to be able to recognize sign language again, and at least nod or shake his head in response to simple questions
He slowly regained control of his body, then speech, and at last, his memories began to come back hazily
He's still missing chunks of his life but he made a pretty miraculous recovery over a period of several years
He remembers, vaguely, the feeling of time resetting
But he can no longer experience resets properly
He doesn't remember them and they give him intense migraines
He never remembered the events of the day the machine exploded, and seeing as Tox has no clue what happened, he still doesn't know
He's just sort of... Assumed the machine is fine
And hes always like "oh yeah i should get back to building it some day" but hasn't gone to the basement since and he doesn't know why
Flowey ain't around
I mean they were never friends
Arum and Flowey fought over resets before, though Arum's mostly forgotten it
And they've talked about Alphys or about science briefly but
Theyre acquaintances at best
But Flowey, guilt ridden yet again, hasn't been around and won't tell him what happened
Anyway
The period of several years where Arum was 100% dependent on Tox stuck with them
Their shaky bond has evolved into a full on dependency on each other
Arum needs Tox desperately because he's a fucking mess mentally, and often he'll have bad days where he can't remember anything and goes semi-catatonic again
During which days Tox babies him and ensures his safety and comfort
Tox needs Arum because now he has a purpose
He's not only wanted but needed
It's like they never fought
They're as close as brothers can get
(Without being incestuous lmao)
They rely on each other 100%
Arum is there for Tox when he has war-induced PTSD flashbacks and needs comfort. Arum feeds them both with humans and other food he can steal.
Tox mans puzzles, patrols, keeps them safe from Undyne and is there for when Arum's mental health deteriorates
They split food evenly down the middle
Arum would give Tox more of his share since he can't starve to death, but Tox refuses
Arum is still often suicidal
He's honestly tried every method in the book to die
Overdose on poison he's trained himself to survive. Bullet to the head (ow). Trying to crush his own soul. Starving on purpose. Drowning. Freezing. Setting himself on fire. Hell. There's a Reapertale Sans rp blog ( @jokingdeath ) that Arum went up to and was like "touch my hand and kill me"
He literally shook hands with death and it didn't kill him
And nights when he's attempted or wants to attempt, and knows it's all useless, and is just a sobbing mess
Tox is there for himĀ 
Here's the last two songs lol
Also both Skillet
Fire and Fury - Skillet (I realize this is a love song but platonicallyĀ okay)
The Last Night - SkilletĀ (not all of the lyrics fit but you get the gist of it)
Oh i fORGOT MY OTHER FAVE!
why isn't it on the youtube playlist how dare
wait there it is lol
Ok so this one, The Last Night, Rise, and Not Gonna Die are my top 4 for Tox
honestly I can't rank them they're just my top four
Fix You - The Offspring
She sees a million stars like holes in the sky
Arum has a far more bitter take on the surface world than Red does
all God's tears for her they cry, and I am in her rain
Arum is just
you think Red is in bad shape depression wise?
hAH
The difference is Arum puts up a far better "i don't give a fuck" front than Red
Arum laughs at his own pain far more. He makes death jokes and dead baby jokes
(His laugh is not sane anyway)
He kills mercilessly, without hesitation
With a smile on his face
(His smile is not sane either)
Gore makes Red vomit
it makes Arum grin
Red has at least a modicum of faith that they'll get out some day
Arum knows damn well he's never going to be free
Honestly they're both Underfell!Sans but they are vastly different
They were vastly different long before Frisk fell
And they had vastly different lives from the beginning
Arum's Gaster was a good man
Yes, he neglected Tox terribly, they both did
But Dros created them to be his children
As the last skeleton alive, and not interested in a romantic relationship, he created Arum and Tox in a similar fashion as how Erebus created Red and Boss, bot for the opposite reason
He also didn't fuck up with Arum
Red's physical body came out wrong
He formed too small, too frail
He always had 1 HP
Yes, it was in part due to his pessimism, but physically, his body can't hold much HP in the first place
If Red's HP were to rise (and it will) I think I'd cap him at 50
My 5 foot smol was born with the short end of the stick
slaps knee
short end
Boss was born with the long end slaps knee again
Boss's body was always too big
He couldn't control his magic properly and his body was pushed too far
which made him a very sickly child
but as an adult he evened it out with endless training
They're both on one end of an extreme
Whereas Arum and Tox were both quite average. They were evenly leveled, physically
Arum is 5'6", he's completely normal
He just happened to have inherited Dros's extreme intelligence
a fairly common thing in humans, genius can be hereditary
Meanwhile Tox... didn't
Boss was born with strength that he had to hone. Tox was born average and created his own extreme strength through willpower and desperation
Red was born with a too-strong mind that was further distended with experimentation, and had to hone and focus his intelligence once they escaped. It left him with so many emotional issues
Arum's inherited intelligence was carefully guided by his father and he was an average genius, also made extreme through willpower
All of his emotional issues are because of his fucked-up timeline 8,D
Ahhh I love designing characters
Red and Arum as as different from each other as they're both different from Chaos
who is also an Underfell!Sans
Who just happens to be female
and just happened to go insane and kill her entire timeline due to a certain brat :3c
BUT THAT'S RAMBLING FOR ANOTHER DAY
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Every single Undertale ask you haven't answered yet. Heck even the ones you have.
Iā€™m putting a hecking read more line because thatā€™s a lot of shit
1. Whoā€™s your favourite character from UT? Excluding the skeleton bros its Undyne. I love her I love her I love her she reminds me or Erza from Fairy Tail and did I mention I love her?
2. Whoā€™s your least favourite character from UT? Honestly? Alphys. Its not that I think sheā€™s poorly written (sheā€™s very fleshed out) but I donā€™t really like characters that I have to feel sorry for. Pityā€™s not really an emotion I like. Plus she never really apologized to me or Mettaton. She only seemed to be concerned with how she felt. Which I think its important for people with anxiety and guilt to learn how to forgive themselves, but it would have been nice to hear her say sorry.:
4. Whatā€™s your favourite quote? Anything out of Floweyā€™s mouth
5. Whatā€™s your favourite soundtrack? Spear of Justice. So pumped up
10. Your first letter to Mettaton was:Leg so hot. Hot hot leg. Leg so hot you fry an egg
11. Your reaction when you saw Omega Flowey for the first time: CONFUSED AND HORRIFIED SCREAMING
12. Your headcanon about Friskā€™s gender: Female, but I really donā€™t give a shit. Mae or gender neutral Frisk is cool too.
13. Which UT character reminds you of yourself? Sans, minus the badass stuff, but with the laziness, fashion sensibilities, and shitty sense of humor
14. Which UT character reminds you of your best friend? My best friendā€¦.honestly some bizarre fusion of the River Person and Asriel
15. Would you smooch a ghost? If the right one came along
16. Which UT character would be your best friend? Why? Like I said, Sans and I have a lot in common. I think Iā€™d have an odd friendship with Mettaton if the right circumstances came along. And of course Papyrus.
18. Did you do sth in game you regret? I KILLED UNDYNE
20. Your favourite land in UT and why: (Snowdin, Waterfall or Hotland) Waterfall. The atmosphere and the music were stunning, and I loved the color scheme
21. Your favourite place in UT and why: (Undyneā€™s house for example) The Judgement Hall. Gorgeous colors, beautiful atmosphere, and I am a sucker for pillars and stained glass.
22. Your headcanon about River personā€™s gender:ā€¦..honestly, not a clue. Iā€™m going genderless.
23. Your headcanon about one of the UT characters:ā€¦ā€¦too many to count. But Undyne is afraid of thunderstorms and copes by going out to fight them.
24. Butterscouch or cinnamon pie? B-scotch, my dude
25. Your opinion/headcanon about six human souls: Not all of them are kids. And they are all salty lil fucks.
26. With who would you go on a date? The dates with Sans were always pretty chill.Ā 
28. Do you wanna have a bad time?ā€¦.I mean not really
31. Would you want to fall into underground? I think only if I knew I could help them get out. While still being, you know, alive.
32. Describe or draw your undersona: I donā€™t really have one? When I think about self-insert stuff I tend to just view myself as a human who ended up friends with them on the surface.Ā 
33. One reason why you love UT: Story, characters, writing, unique take on old mechanics
34. One reasom why you hate UT: For a game thatā€™s meant to be replayed a lot the puzzles are repetitive as shit. The steam vent puzzles in Hotland can go fuck themselves. Iā€™m with Papyrus its a shitty place.
36. Your favourite amalgamate: Lemon Bread. I love them for no reason.
37. Your headcanon about Gaster: who do you think Gaster is to Sans and Papyrus? (Father, brother, uncle etc) Iā€™m that basic bitch who lives for Dadster
38. Your opinion about bad puns: This game actually completely changed me. I was a well-known Pun Hater. Now Iā€™m a piece of shit who lives for the groans that follow a particularly bad oneĀ 
39. Do you draw fanarts from UT? If yes, then what do you like the most to draw? Canā€™t draw for shit
40. Which of human souls fits you the most? Patience. I kind of let stuff roll of my shoulders, and prefer to wait for the right moment. Iā€™m also lazy as fuck
41. What would be the first thing you would to show to Sans, Papyrus or the rest of characters in human world? Why? Roombas. Just want to see Undyne and Papyrus gush about it and watch it for hours, Alphys try and reprogram it, Toriel use it to clean the house, Mettaton feeling oddly jealous of the attention its getting, and Sans laying his socks on top of it.
42. Which song reminds you of UT or one of the UT characters? Why? Iā€™ve posted about this before butĀ ā€œSalvonicā€ reminds me of Frisk after a Genocide run andĀ ā€œJust Goldā€ by Mandopony makes me think of Chara and Flowey
43. Your opinion on underloid: Havenā€™t listened to much, but Iā€™m down. I like vocaloid.
44. Do you forgive Asgore for what heā€™s done? Yeah, I love my Goat Dad, even if he makes poor decisions.
45. Did you pay for Temā€™s college? Once, because Iā€™m a filthy cheater and wanted Tem armor.
46. Have you seen any youtube letsplay of UT? Jacksepticeyeā€™s play-throughs are what got me into the game in the first place. I also watched dan and Philā€™s.
47. Do you listen to any fanmade songs? If so, then which are your favourite? Yeah dude. I really love the ā€œstronger than Youā€ parodies, and fishy love is my jam.
48. What are your favourite theories? Chara is the narrator
49. Who is your favourite enemy? (Not including boss monsters) Doggo. His yapping face fills me with glee
50. Do you have any headcanons about Charaā€™s past? (Why they hate humanity, why did they fell to the underground etc) I had a lengthy as fuck backstory written up at one point, but I think they had a neglectful as fuck dad. Not abusive, but he just left them alone and only paid attention when they did something wrong orĀ ā€œearnedā€ his attention. Nobody in their lives did anything, leaving Chara to believe that you canā€™t trust other people to help you out or care about you. They ended up in the Underground by accident. They were walking late Ā night, fed up with everything, frustrated, crying and ended up tripping into the hold. What sucked was that they werenā€™t sure their dad would even notice.
51. Who is your favourite dog? Greater Dog. That little bark noise made the world right for a brief and shining moment
52. What was your reaction to true lab? Fuck this shit Iā€™m outā€¦.
53. Your fabourite voice acting: tehrogue does good stuff. And FUCK supershadicx250 and crashboombangerā€™s Fell Sansā€™ voice FUCK ME UP RN
54. At the end of pacifist run did you stay with your friends or did you come back to your family? Did anybody actually go back to Friskā€™s family? Other than for intellectual curiosity?
55. Who is older - Sans or Papyrus? For some reason regardless of universe I always see Papyrus as the older one.59. Your favourite puzzle: That one with Mettaton in the Dungeon
60. Which battle was the hardest for you? FUCKING WOSHUA I HATE THAT BATTLE I DONā€™T KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT I CANā€™T FIGHT WOSHUA
61. Did you still hate Flowey after you discovered his true indentity? I never hated Flowey.
62. The saddest moment: The God of Hyperdeath begging me to stop trying to abandon him
63. Which ending is your favourite? True Pacifist, obvs.
65. Any post pacifist run headcanons? I love PTA!Sans as much as the next girl but PTA!Papyrus is where its at. Also Alphys is introduced to a whole new world of anime because the only anime that ends up Underground is the crap kind that people throw away.
66. Your favourite NPC: Iā€™m guessing you mean side character? Gerson. Love me some cantankerous old people
67. Humans or monsters? I REFUSE THIS CHOICE
68. The funniest situation: Temmie Village released horrified and manic giggles out of me, but also the date with Papyrus.
69. Skeletonfucker, robotfucker, goatfucker or kinkshaming? *looks at Red*ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦..kinkshaming (JK total skelefucker)
70. When playing for the first time how many candies did you take? All of them. Fuck da police.
71. Did you kill or spare Flowey at the end of the game? Spared, but hot damn I wanted to kill him.
72. If you had to be one of the main characters, which would you choose? Undyne. I want that hair and muscle tone74. Which character(s) would you like to cosplay? Iā€™m not much of a cosplayer but I wouldnā€™t mind doing Chara. Iā€™ve kind of got the hair anyways.
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