#Toby fox is going to make fuckinggn sloppiest

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I'm still 100% certain that "But what if it could get...darker than dark?" is not referring to the creation of a Neo fountain in any way, but just the idea of the dark fountains in general. What we know as "darkness" in our world is just the absence of light. 0. Equilibrium. Just as it is not light, it is not dark. It is just neutral. You see nothing. But what if you could go further than just what we perceive as "dark"? Below 0. That is to say, "PHOTON READINGS NEGATIVE".

[Image ID: The scene in Deltarune Chapter 1 when Kris and Susie first enter the closet. The darkness inside the closet is seeping out, making the previously bright school halls dark. End ID]

In our world, light will always pierce through the "dark". "Dark" is not a force or an energy of its own, it has no power. But real Darkness can overwhelm the light, like temperature diffusing into an equilibrium. The true dark seeps out of the closet and makes its surroundings dark, just as a light makes its surroundings light. It is a true counterpart to everything that light is.

In a "dark" room, the mind often sees things that are not there. Shadows flit about in your peripherals, stacks of objects form the shape of a man in your closet. Light illuminates. Allows you to see, to see the truth of your surroundings. But dark obscures your view, blurs the line...

[Image ID: A tweet from Toby Fox dating back to July 8th of the year 2011, that reads "The edge of the shadow, where reality snd dream meet." End ID]

It transforms your surroundings, conceals their truth, warps your perception.

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Bonus:

I can think of one other thing that is like this.

A type of energy, that elicits a different sensation when it is absent compared to when it is present, with separate concepts and names attributed to those.

A great deal of importance has been placed on ice and the cold so far.

But what if it could get...colder than cold?

What we know as "cold" in our world is just the absence of heat. 0. Equilibrium.

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We might yet learn just how "cold" it can truly get if things keep going the way they are.