#i'm not really familiar with neo-soul but i did my best

[spaceelfsorcerer]

Day 1: Neo-Soul/Boho 🌿 Delphine, aka Phia ❤️ (she/her)

[ohh-deer]

Spamton Feeling Control Analysis

Posting this on here because I dont know where else to put it so... here :D

My friends are PERFECTLY OKAY with doing this for me, just a heads up. My gf and friend had no prior knowledge of Deltarune before this, so this is raw first time feelings.

~My gf's answer~

When I asked her to tell me how the song Dialtone made her feel, she told me it gave her a "familiar yet creepy vibe like one of those disturbing yet familiar pictures". If you're wondering what kind of images she meant, search up Dreamcore and you'll understand. Something like this:

I got curious and sent a full video of all of Spamton's shop dialogue, and asked her to watch it while listening to the music and how it made her feel. She said: "I feel disturbed and confused and concerned".

When I asked her about what lines freaked her out, she sent me the lines saying:

... BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE TALKING TO YOU.

... can anyone hear me? Help...

... ... Mike...

TAKE THIS DEAL AND YOU WILL [[Die]]!! IT'S THAT GOOD!

VACATIONING IN [Burning acid] WHILE YOU SOAK IN THE [Hyperlink Blocked].

(5 out of the 14 sent)

She also said that the glitching before/during speaking was kinda creepy too. She also said, "Don't answer my theories but it's almost like their's 2 people controlling him. And like, one's trying to help us and the other one isn't...?"

So then she watched the Spamton Neo boss (just the fight) and told me, "It made me feel slightly disturbed but also kinda sad". These are the disturbing things she gave me:

I WON'T HAVE TO BE JUST A PUPPET ANY MORE!!!

WHAT ARE THESE STRINGS!? WHY AM I NOT [BIG] ENOUGH!? It's still DARK... SO DARK!

H E A V E N

I JUST NEED THAT LITTLE, [[SOUL]]

WOW!! I'M SO [Proud] OF YOU, I COULD [Killed] YOU!

[Heaven], are you WATCHING?

IT'S CALLING, KRIS... MY [Heart]... MY [Hands]...

*Spamton begs to the audience. *Spamton prays to the audience

[Die Now] AND I'LL THROW IN [50] [Bullets] FOR FREE!

ARE YOU GETTING ALL THIS [Mike]!? I'M FINNALY

HERE I GO!!! WATCH ME FLY, [MAMA]!!!

For the Dealmaker's collection dialogue, the saddest parts in her mind were:

It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet.

With a power like that... maybe you three can break your own strings.

She said that she relates to Ralsei because she would also want to make her friends feel alright after how creepy and traumatizing that was.

So, all in all, Spamton made her feel... unsettled and sad.

~My best friend's answer~

I asked him to listen to Dialtone, and he told me, "It kept me on edge, and it felt like something bad was about to happen".

He said that nothing really 'scared or disturbed him' but some things did catch his eye. These were what he sent me:

BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE TALKING TO YOU.

MANSION... BASEMENT! FIND IT!

... ... Mike...

[[Amazed by thi5 amazing transformation? You too can]] HAVE A [[Communion]] WITH [[Unintelligible Laughter]

That was all he gave me because he was busy, so I didnt get much of anywhere with him unfortunately.

So, Spamton made my friend feel on edge, unsettled.

~My answer~

Dialtone made me feel some sort of bitter comfort, like I know too much and even though I'm at a horrible time, place, etc., everything will be okay in the end. But the phone ringing ruined it and made it feel more like some sort of suspense, like in a horror movie. If I could make it a picture, it would be this:

I watched the shop and continued on my way in this theory, and these are some lines that stuck with me:

I USED TO BE NOTHING BUT THE E_MAIL GUY, BUT NOW I'M THE [[It burns! Ow! Stop! Help me! It burns!]] GUY!

No! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to--

... can anyone hear me? Help...

... But it sounded like they were talking to you.

His boss fight is all in all disturbing, but lines like:

HERE I GO!!! WATCH ME FLY [MAMA]!!!

Smells like rotten glass.

There is no audience.

I WON'T HAVE TO BE JUST A PUPPET ANYMORE!

His ending dialogue seems the normal depressing sadness that you would expect from one of Toby's games. The end conversation feels off, like someone isn't saying something that needs to be said. It could be Ralsei, or Kris, but something feels like it needs to be noticed but isn't. I relate to Susie, like are they just not going to talk about that? It was extremely weird to not be noticed.

So Spamton made me feel uncomfortable, but also relaxed in some weird way.

How does he do this? I don't know. Maybe he radiates the energy of "I can help you and I understand you" while also being effectively horrifying at the same time.

I don't know completely though. Spamton might have been meant to add a little bit of horror and feeling to a mostly memeable chapter, which is okay, but he's SO DARN COMPLICATED.

My brother has informed me that the future chapters will most likely mild horror, which is weird but not weird considering Deltarune isn't really a "horror" game. Maybe Toby is easing us into it. But it won't come to my mind when I hear "horror game".

Maybe Spamton isn't meant to be horror, but he's meant to teach you something about taking control of your life? It's difficult to tell considering Chapter 2 is mostly memes lol.

Thanks for wasting your time reading this, I appreciate it.