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agentravensong · 7 months

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thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey)#but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

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ninyard · 6 months

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exy fans + twitter

#this is stupid I’ll make more memes in a sec okay #aftg #all for the game #Neil josten #Andrew minyard #tfc #the foxhole court #I’m sorry I keep rereading these and giggling at Average Fox Player #idk why that cracks me up #like he killed people? yeah checks out #mine

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hauntingsunshine14 · 1 month

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so, another thing about collegiate teams is that they usually have an alumni game.

now the foxes don't have any alumni by the end of the books, but they will eventually.

now this might be different for a sport like exy (I played lax which really dosent have a large professional league, but the big d1 schools i think still do this too) but yk what it usually happens during pre-season anyways and its always a ton of fun.

Because what happens is that it's usually a game of alumni vs current players. and that is hilarious.

(Dan gets back on the court and gets to win against her current players)

(the current players are just like 'this is so unfair' and 'what the fuck do you mean I have to guard kevin motherfucking day' or ' how the fuck am I supposed to score? minyard is in goal???')

Neil has the time of his life btw - because an alumni game is also a chance for everyone to play on the foxes' court again, a chance to come home!

#I saw a lot of headcanons about the foxes getting together after everyone graduates and then i was like 'wait the alumni game'#aftg #andriel #neil josten #andrew minyard #palmetto state foxes #kevin day #exy is sexy #kevin is so sassy every time he plays because its nonstop 'you all suck why is this team so bad Dan why are all your players horrible'#kevin is eventually banned from playing because he destroys fox morale so he ends up 'coaching' the alumni side and its not much better

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ionlydrinkhotwater · 6 months

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My hc is that not only do Neil and Kevin host their own Exy Podcast as a side hobby but at one point Kevin is explaining a very funny Exy anecdote and the two of them Crack up so hard that the fans realise that Kevin's real non-public persona laugh is filled with cute hiccups and snorts. And that Neil Jostens laugh is adorably wheezy

The public would be OBSESSED (like me)

#aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #kevin day #neil josten #exy #tsc #the sunshine court #it started as a way to gush about exy but it becomes the number one exy sports podcast in the world #they someimes get the Foxes or other exy players to guest #the one with Jeremy results in the whole world knwoing about Kevins celeb crush #like lol he was more chill when Thea was a guest 🤣#neils instigating online wars over his comments #he dont care

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kristaldang · 1 month

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I would have done the same

#deltarune #toby fox #kris #art #deltarune fanart #kris deltarune #player deltarune #pixel art #deltarune player #deltarune kris #kris dreamurr #papyrus #where papyrus?

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emotionalsupportsoccerball · 2 months

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Village girlies ✨

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scipunk · 28 days

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Back to the Future (1985)

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fortheloveofexy · 3 months

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I've seen a lot of posts in the wake of tsc calling out how the Foxes mistreated Kevin and never really gave him the same degree of compassion and patience that they gave Neil (and like, fair enough, there's definitely a disparity in how the two are treated by the broader team) but I think it's important to remember that it's very likely most of the Foxes didn't know just how bad things in the Nest were, especially when Kevin first came to Palmetto.

Like, they knew he'd been hurt badly, but were they ever told the full extent of the abuse in thr Nest? Probably not, because unlike Jean, Kevin was media trained. It was ingrained habit for him to conceal the true conditions inside the Nest to all outsiders, and that's not a habit he'd have been able to break easily. The only people who knew the full extent of what he'd been through were probably Wymack, Bee and Andrew.

Add to that Kevin's abrasive personality and his tendency towards nitpicking and perfectionism, and it's no wonder that the Foxes' patience with him ran thin after a while.

#i get where people are coming from with these posts bc kevin absolutely deserved the same level of support neil got #but we've gotta remember that the Foxes probably didnt have the full picture of what he'd endured #and that lack of context makes kevin's more irritating behaviors seem like inherent personality flaws #rather than the trauma responses that they actually are #also like #consider being the worst team in the league #then the best player in the league shows up one day and wont stop telling you how much you suck #and like #you KNOW you suck #so it just feels like hes piling on instead of being helpful #neil got a warmer reception by the foxes bc he didnt swoop in and heap a mountain of criticism on the team #sure he caused trouble later but he had a good stretch of just being the quiet new kid before he revealed himself to be a problem child #anyway this got rambly i just have a lot of thoughts about this

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bathroomgirl0024 · 1 year

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