#seam and shawm are pronounced the same

[sisyphus-prime]

I've got a party going now HEHE

[electroman-adventures]

Level: “scarlet field” by cerufiffy (Medium Demon 10 ★)

(flashing warning)

This is one of the best levels I’ve had the privilege of showcasing in recent days. Every part of this demon is amazing! It’s themed around the game “Deltarune”, but instead of being based on the whole game it seems to focus solely on Chapter 1. The level just got rated “epic” last Friday.

Many places and characters are referenced here! These include Castle Town, the Field, Seam’s Shop, Susie, the Great Board with K. Round, the Thrash Machine (aka Rubber Duck), the Scarlet Forest with Clover, the Bake Sale shops, and the Card Castle—in that order.

At 14% in the level, you might notice 3 card suits, with the text “don’t forget”. This is a nod to the same message from the original game, but also it serves as a tip: you need to memorize these suits, otherwise you’ll die at the 3 split paths at 66%. And yes, they are randomly generated.

So why is this level special? People already made levels about Deltarune Ch. 1 back in 2018. The answer to that is simple: they’re way worse than this level. This has amazing theming, designs, and creativity. In fact, cerufiffy built this level by taking inspiration from many of those 2018 levels!

Now that would be the end of this post. But in fact, this level is way deeper than it seems, and that’s where I talk about the easter eggs in the level editor! (under the cut)

This level took a lot to make. You can see a bunch of triggers under the level, and cerufiffy even lists the levels he took inspiration from.

ahhh!!! it’s ralsei jumpscare.

if you die at the top spike at the robot, you get this death message. and… what?

oh wow it’s the seam seap! (pronounced “shawm shop”) and he even linked the tweet where he got some of the art, that’s thoughtful. i spot temmie on the shelf!

sans.

oh no!!!! well at least the art turned out amazing

GOD SAMEEEE 😳😳😳

hm. yeah idk either

(i will consider thanks)

(translated from minecraft enchanting table language: “YOU DONT LOVE YOURSELF ENOUGH)

aw, thanks! :’)

OMG IT’S THE DEVIL VORTEX SAUCE

and that’s it. there’s also way more i haven’t shown, i haven’t shown his randomizer or how to get the egg. but that’s it for this showcase

[neitherlightnordark]

Hey I just wanted to let you know that I love the way you write Seam! Especially their interactions with Jevil, you do it very well. I was wondering if you had tips on writing Seam, I’m having a bit of trouble ^-^

wow thank you dude!! i'd love to tell you some tips!!! :D (this was a very auspicious ask, i was just thinking about this!)

okay here we go! lemme know if this was. completely off the dot of what you actually needed i'll be glad to edit this!

for seam's voice and how seam acts in general:

seam speaks in very formal, classic RPG storytelling mode- ("long ago, the darkners lived in harmony with the lightners." "reflecting on these old memories, i think, perhaps... i miss playing games with him." "call it a premonition, but i get the feeling you may find more of these...")

- or in a very casual and kind of rudeass manner ("y'think i WANT that?" "ha, good luck. it makes no difference to me." "what kind of junk you got?"). seam swings through these whenever it feels comfortable!

seam pauses quite often, as though it's laborious to talk, or as though everything said is a little wistful and trailing off and deliberately emphasized... ("ha ha ha ha..." "trouble opening the door...?" "that crystal...") as all we read of seam is in the shop, where no one talks but the shopkeeper, it might just be that seam likes having ample space to talk very, very much

seam laughs a lot- "ha ha ha"s and "hee hee"s- in a way that's kind of smug and kind of sad. seam's base expression is also a relaxed sort of smile, perhaps because of the warped thing that's going on with the mouth and the stitching?

seam is in general much more chill and amused by crazy things happening than the cat is given credit for! probably the most emotional response seam's had to something unexpected is the lancer fun squad clobbering/sleepifying jevil ("you defeated him?! you REALLY defeated him?!"), with receiving shadow crystals as a close second ("...incredible! to think he had a shadow crystal..." "now, you have collected 2 of them! huzzah!") other than that, seam is very calm and collected, generally predicting how things will go. where they get this arcane knowledge is up to you until chapter 6 or something i bet

relatedly, laughing about jevil hard enough to grow teeth (???) and trailing off mid-sentence is the closest seam comes to really, really being sad or angry about something in-game. seam copes with laughing i think

seam likes puns!!! seam likes riddles!!! seam likes setting up punchlines ("the name's seam. pronounced shawm. and this is my little seap." kaboom right into my heart)!!!! seam likes being a clever laughing bastard- and jevil is the same way ("OH, IT'S JUST A SIMPLE NUMBERS GAME", he says, like a liar; "ENOUGH!! YOU KIDS TIRED ME UP!" he says, like a liar). seam believes seam is very funny

despite being awfully fatalistic and almost never leaving the seap, seam isn't all that passive; it's seam who chooses, after a bit of musing, to help the kids open jevil's door despite the risks. and later on, seam up and decides to whip up a shadow mantle for the kids without any prompting (the shadow mantle immediately disappears) (that's still so funny to me). giving seam agency and motivations is cool and epic and fun! there's lots of potential there

and some miscellaneous seam things that i like and/or think are weird: seam's darkburgers (mcdonalds), seam wearing dresses and robes and such (cats can't walk in pants! and also it looks banger, and seam knows this), seam having bad vision (three cameras no depth perception), seam's cd bagels ("those young men" < about sweet cap'n cakes), seam's weird aesthetic with the seap, seam never leaving the seap ("as long as i stay in my shop, these walls won't change")

and of course seam's knowledge about the sun, and who the next bosses are... seam what do you know. seam how do you know that. what HAPPENED to seam. i guess we'll never know until chapter 7

and a few things for seam's feelings towards jevil specifically:

seam reminisces about jevil without kris or red bringing him up ("this world hasn't seen this much chaos since... ha ha, well, you don't need to know about THAT." seam is very subtle, as you can see). then, when he's brought up, seam's first thought is the "trouble" went through to lock him up, interestingly enough...

but afterwards, seam slowly tells the lancer fun squad so much about jevil, going on and on about who he was once and the keep's conflicting feelings on him, concluding with perhaps... seam misses him. it's like... it's the first time seam's been able to tell anyone about this in a hundred years

my point is that seam cares about jevil and the purpose he could have brought, and is perfectly okay with saying this and knowing this and being affectionate in that somewhat disconnected but warm seam way. seam and jevil

(whether or not jevil feels the same is... irrelevant to this actually, but very interesting for me to think about!!)

it's also notable that seam only says the "incredible!" thing if the lancer fun squad defeats jevil

like i said up there, giving both seam and jevil agency and motivations and backstory is super fun and will help!

100% just have fun with these two. they're an immensely powerful morbid stuffed cat magician happily preoccupied with the inevitability of fate and an immensely dangerous monologuing bat jester intensely preoccupied with breaking fate and picking it apart. and they fought each other almost to the death on tuesdays and learned each other's bullet patterns like the back of their eyelids and made each other laugh and picked each other's flaws apart and trapped each other in prisons of their own making for about a hundred years before being brought to their senses by the presence of three small children. i mean honestly

[unquiched]

seam for the ask game

(seam my beloved)

SEAM MY BELOVED SEAM MY BELOVED

thing i love most: their sense of humor. cannot even describe the emotion "seam pronounced shawm and this is my seap" elicited in me the first time i saw it. also on a slightly deeper level i'm super interested in why theyre so blasé about the end of the world & the possible deaths of the fun gang via jevil shenanigans/lack of shadow mantle like YES they're just nihilistic but WHY. do they know about resets? are they aware of shopkeeper immunity like gerson apparently is? WHAT is it.

least favorite thing about them: cannot visualize their bottom half. ive seen so much fanart by so many clearly talented artists and it all just looks Wrong. their seap counter is part of their body and it's upsetting.

fav line: "As long as I stay in my shop, these walls won't change. But... in a way, I suppose it's just a little bit amusing to see you three again. I'm sure you three will have an interesting journey. Me? I'll just be here offering the same old junk. As you find stronger treasure, I'm sure you'll have little reason to return here. But if you have some time, I'll offer you a biscuit and a hint!"

brOTP: I am beyond excited to see them interact with literally any other character outside of the fun gang but I think if I had to pick i'd say Sans? they're very similar in a lot of ways and I'd be really interested to see how that plays out

OTP: seavil my best friend seavil <3 I think that Nobody Ever Knows What The Fuck Theyre Talking About

nOTP: honestly I don't think I've ever seen them shipped with anyone outside of the gaster fan club (and their respective shopkeepers) and I feel ambivalent-to-positive about all of those so. I can't say I have one? if I see anything fucked up I'll come back to this post though lmao

random headcanon: Seam knows about a dozen ways to cheat at any given card game. they play susie sometimes, and she demands a rematch every time she loses. And then seam just cheats again. Kris, watching, also cheats at cards and knows exactly what Seam is up to. They keep their mouth shut though because they think it's fucking hilarious.

unpopular opinion: can't think of one tbh? maybe I should just get creative. seam is gaster they're the same person /j

song I associate with them: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5H0WEf5JWuf9sDjTCb3IMm promoting my 40something utdr playlists at any chance I get

favorite picture of them: my wifi is being fucky rn but their light world classroom sprite. you all know the one. they r little <3

[serfuzzypushover]

Seam for the list thing?

favorite thing about them

old magic plushie cat :] what’s there not to love

least favorite thing about them

That we didnt get to see more of Seam :(

favorite line

“The name's Seam. Pronounced "Shawm." And this is my little Seap.“ 

brOTP

Lancer. Seam is his weird grandparent :]] 

OTP

Seavil!!!

nOTP

eeeh idk i havent seen any other ships with Seam

random headcanon

Seam’s paws look like card symbols uwu

unpopular opinion

I think the whole fandom has the same idea for Seam- Old and friendly :]

song i associate with them

Huh- I’m not sure. I havent listened to anything that reminds me of Seam :v

favorite picture of them

There arent many pictures of Seam, but I like Seam’s pin!!