#his theme undertale

[n4rval]

BUT YES.

family history.

[conkreetmonkey]

The guitar riff at the end of the Homestuck version of Megalovania is actually Vriska’s leitmotif because it plays during the part where she’s onscreen, and since learning that I’ve noticed that a LOT of remixes that thematically have nothing to do with HS will add it back in, probably not knowing this, unintentionally referencing Vriska Housetrapped from Domicileimprisoned in their Deltarune or Smash Bros remixes.

[undertale-ost-tournament]

QUARTERFINAL 4

ASGORE vs His Theme

[smolmight97]

Erm acktually-

[whybirdinspace]

Integrity: jeez thank God I got away from that creepy vampire guy- wait what's that sound

Axis:

[atwas-gaming]

Shoutout to adorable, dorky, yellow nerds with spiked heads and glasses and an obsession with human media and a drive to make their favorite characters become real and a tendency to screw up badly and then sweep all their worst mistakes under the rug rather than come clean or make amends.

Gotta be one of my favorite Undertale tropes.

[tetraandtheapples]

Erm!! I did more art!!!!!! My art style is so inconsistent I want to draw more realistically but I'm goofy goober at my core....... Gehahahaha

Also???? Pony Error under cut??????? (and a few error sketches!) Hidden slightly because I'm still a bit unsure about the design RAHH

I think it'd be cool if he had strings all over his body like he was some mangled stupid hasbro official pony plushie...... but the strings were like insanely last minute LMAO so I want to redo it again with that in mind.... when the pony takes me over again.

Transcript for Pony Info (because my handwriting is a bit messy)

PONY INFO!

Strings run along entire body

Used to have a cutie mark, but the file is "lost"

Horn sparks & glitches dangerously when using magic

-> Not harmful to him, but strong emotions can cause it to flare up (basically when the horn starts fuzzing a lot you know he's close to a full-on reboot)

Whatever the hell this thing is core -> (pic of very stupid looking Hasbro official Princess Twilight Sparkle plushie with brushable hair!!!! Batteries not included)

↓ WARNING!!! STUPID IDIOT BELOW!!!!!!! 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 ↓

[dubious-solutions]

I find "gaster isnt evil" theories very silly as i feel like they often try to make him out to be genuinely ALWAYS trying to help, when that goes in the face of one of his only defining traits- being shattered. nobody is purely good of evil, of course, and if someone is shattered, different shards may have more pure intentions, other not so much! like the v-day letter, that seems like it could be a more goofy, slightly off-putting but well meaning grandpa shard of him, i mean it has many of the hallmarks of gaster, the suddenly appearing and disappearing strange inflection, all caps, very very very rare chance of appearing, just not all the personality (as if we KNOW what his personality even truly is in the first place in full lol)

Bottom line, we barely know anything about him concretely, that includes his intentions and motives and nature.

I could be wrong, but if theory crafting has showed me anything, its that toby seems to be setting up in DR for gaster to fill a similar role as flowey did in UT, and if theres anything i know about flowey, its that he is manipulative and not always to be trusted at face value.

This is just how i see it tho. gaster has ROTTEN vibes and im so excited to see what this could even play out as. i keep thinking about him as. also dont get me wrong i dont think he cant do "good" things in case you needed to hear it from me, i just think he's also capable of doing very very very "bad" things too. fuck, maybe he even thinks he's helping, but in reality is only hurting the situation, or whatever the fuck i dont know what he's doing all i know is that he might be gay but i didnt come up with that, i just think its neAT,, and i have evidence

[rustedleopard]

Usually I'm not too fond of how, when a character is revealed to like something, fandom takes that preference and turns it into a personality trait except (☝️) when it's Starlo liking cowboy stuff, because the man literally turned cowboys into a personality trait.

[prior-medium]

"Your choices do(n't) matter" -> Deltarune to Undertale

I have been wanting to make a post for a long time, but I have a free hour on my hand and a mind full of Deltarune soo allow me to draw my favorite parallels about how Undertale and Deltarune both tackle the concept of choice, and how they are distinct but both still tell a necessary story.

Also, if you are reading this post, I am assuming you have played through Undertale and Deltarune Chapters 1 and 2, because this post will have spoilers for both. Without further ado…

Undertale’s approach when it comes to choice is one that directly targets and addresses the player. Much of the characters’ dialogue with Frisk often address them as “the human”, which, depending on your stance, could be a comment meant to speak to Frisk as a character, or to you, the player, as a human being.

In fact, as much as I adore Frisk as a character all of their own, they aren’t necessarily given any defining personality traits. They are, in the purest of senses, meant to directly be an in-game representation for the whims and desires of the player. “They” act, “they” fight, “they” flee, but it’s always you, the player, making the decisions. This isn’t necessarily a unique concept, but it’s the way that this is applied that makes this particular idea special in Undertale. 

Obviously, the most noticeable instance of this is when Sans calls the player out towards the end of the game, explaining that those little levels and numbers that we, as the player, loved seeing go up, were affecting the world that we had just spent the last few hours immersing ourselves in. There is a direct effect of our choices on this universe. It is a pre-established place, and it will continue without us, the player, making an impact. In fact, in the neutral and genocide routes, you are actively making this universe a worse place! It puts the player in the position to act as themselves and make a decision about how they want to impact this virtual world. In essence, the decisions made by Frisk and you, the player, are presented as one in the same. Frisk isn’t necessarily seen as a vessel for your intentions, but rather, as your intentions themselves. 

This created a unique meta-narrative when it came to the idea of how we, as players, consume media in universes. It presented the idea that universes made by creators aren’t just things to pick up and put down, but that each game world has their own story that continues onwards, with or without input. You aren’t seen as some great hero, but rather a nuisance at best, a mass murderer at worst. This was the way that Undertale addressed the idea of stories in their universe: you, the player, were seen as synonymous with Frisk, the character.

Deltarune took a different approach to this. Of course, it becomes instantly recognizable to players that “our choices don’t matter”, which is told to us almost immediately in the game. There are some sections of the game where the decisions you make don't directly influence the storyline, which differs from the narrative set by Undertale. It takes this idea of “choice” that we had pre-established going into the Deltarune experience by Toby Fox’s other works and toys with it.

Kris is their own individual. Kris has had a hard time making friends. Kris has a brother at college, and is a known town citizen. Kris is greeted by neighbors, classmates, and teachers. Kris loves chocolate and pies, shows anger at Spamton’s demise, and has a tendency to make some scary jokes (as referenced by Noelle). They are their own person. This is when Undertale and Deltarune start to split on the concept of choice.

Frisk was seen as the culmination of the player themselves, but Kris isn’t the player. This is what makes the ending of Chapter 1 particularly shocking– the idea that Kris could directly address us, the players, and our influence on them, by removing their soul. They don’t want to be the culmination of our actions. They want to be Kris. 

This is where the idea of choices is twisted from our prior conceptions. Just like in Undertale, our choices in Deltarune are either praised or criticized depending on how we interact with the world we are given. However, in Undertale, we are judged as players by the characters aware of our influence. In Deltarune, we are judged in a far more intimate setting: directly by the person we are instructing to do our bidding. Because, at the end of the day, our choices do matter in Deltarune. They just matter on a smaller scale. They matter to Kris.

In this way, both games address the way our choices are impactful; they just happen to do so in two, unique settings. I think this is what makes both Undertale and Deltarune so interesting– they have a similar concept, but they completely flip the script on what that concept means, and how it applies to universes. 

[starrivdraws]

I didn't post this before just because I'm forgetful but this game marked me as a person and it's impossible for me not to recognize it 😭😭

[undertale-ost-tournament]

ROUND 2: MATCH 15

His Theme vs Another Medium

[abaroo]

Starlo (aka North Star), because he’s AMAZING!!!

Undertale yellow has taken my heart and pummeled it into the ground. I can’t escape.

[juniemunie]

Don't you have anything better to do?

Just let them go.

(Yes its based off that pic from Veil)

[nidoarisato]

Been busy a while but i thought i should drop these drawings, was still figuring out how i want nightmare looking like, same with dream.

This for @ancha-aus ghost & medium au

[s0ckh3adstudios]

i said id do it. here is. a thing.

https://youtu.be/2dMz27UkaQ0?si=iRuCY4YC2pY6oKq6

^^ proof of concept for a fathers execution..... rougher than dirt mind you i just slapped chords on with 0 thought,, im missing like 2 sections before phase 1 is over,,,, some of the transitions btwn motifs are. off. but fuck it we ball i like it so far i hope u do too <333

OHHHHHHHHHHH. MYYYYYYYYY. GODDDDDDDDDD.

I AM SQUEALING AND GIGGLING OUT LOUD. OH I'M LOSING MY MIND. I KNOW THIS IS JUST A TEST BUT

OH MY GOD.

DUUUUDE. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. OH MY NGIHJGERKSHKDOWOYRHEOAHJOTOAEYHLTJN

THE WAY YOU MADE SHOWDOWN SOUND IN THE BEGINNING OH IT'S SO SAD. OH IT'S SO PERFECT. ALL THE DIFFERENT MOTIFS DUDE. HAHAHGJTGKHJWELSRHLLSRH The inclusion of Forlorn is so sad... AND THE USE OF TENTH LEVEL LOCKDOWN IS SO GOOD WHAT THE HELL. /POS

DUDE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW INSANE I'M GOING OVER THIS (and my friends I showed this to them and none of us are okay) THIS IS. .AWESOME. SUCH A GOOD CONCEPT. I LOVE THIS. I DON'T USUALLY SWEAR BUT FUCK IT WE BALL!!

YEAH I'M. GONNA BE ABNORMAL ABOUT THIS FOR AWHILE. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME. THAT IS SO COOL. AHAHFGJKERH IT'S A FATHERS EXECUTION IT'S REAL!!!