#the human body really is a fucked up thing

[navydoves]

Dragon!Sylus and his habits while in heat

❥ You always knew being a dragon’s mate was going to be a bit… difficult.

affectionate habits ver.

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❥ absolutely claws you. you think your scratches on his back are bad? yeah, no, try dragon claws. yes, they HURT, but they hurt SO GOOD. sylus knows how fragile humans are so he won’t ever scratch you enough to really hurt you, but he will leave marks. mating season is when you get the most scabs and bruises.

pounding into you never felt so good. he needs somewhere to release the extra excitement in him and so sylus will gets a little claw-happy. no part of your body is left untouched, he’ll mark every part to make a beautiful masterpiece of pink and red on your skin.

❥ he tries to impress you. much like a modern bird, sylus is always about impressing his mate before mating with them. sometimes for days even before he has you bent over, he’ll begin the first step of courting you, which could be done by a multitude of things.

sylus with walk around naked, flexing his muscles and shiny shimmering scales in hopes of impressing you and seeing how virile he is. not to mention he’ll obviously show off his DDDs—double dragon dicks! they’ll swing low or perk up high, thick and creamy for your enjoyment. he’s saying “hey, hey! look at me! i’m the perfect mate for you.” sometimes sylus will growl at you or make certain warning noises not to scare you, but to show you he can protect you by doing that. it’s an entire draconic ritual that will have you simultaneously confused, impressed, and most importantly, aroused.

❥ he’s so goddamn loud. sylus is not usually one for loud noises, he prefers more tame atmospheres in his home… until he’s in his heat. day and night you’ll hear him stomping and thudding into things to assert dominance. it’s to simultaneously scare people and let them know that he’s there and not to be messed with.

not only that, but he roars. his growls are pretty loud and booming too, but sylus rarely lets out a full snarl unless he’s pretty upset or pretty horny. he’ll do it to anyone, even you. except, he uses his loud noises to instill fear into others but instill submission into you. don’t like it? he’ll try to tone it down, but it’s a reflex at this point. try to close your ears while he’s coming, it’s a powerful sound of pleasure and accomplishment.

❥ he has toy eggs. sylus knows he can’t give you babies and it makes him super upset. all his heat makes him think about is giving you babies, so to cope he got toy eggs. he essentially makes you play house with him with the eggs. you have to play mama dragon and he’s daddy dragon, and daddy dragon’s job is to protect and provide for his family while mama dragon’s job is to nurture the kids.

and he genuinely does do that. he will stalk the nest he’s built for you and his toy eggs; he will bring you and the eggs food to eat in the nest; he will bathe you and the eggs with his tongue; he will legitimately get emotional if something happens to you or the eggs. he’s a little hormonally crazy but you indulge him every single time.

❥ DOUBLE TROUBLE! that’s right, you’re cock-trained to take sylus twice at a time. on a normal occasion, you’ll only take one dragon dick at a time so you’re not overwhelmed. sylus will alternate so as to not neglect either one of his cocks, but that all changes during his heat!

DDDs all shoved up your poor pussy, you’re gonna break! sylus has slowly size trained you over every occasion of sex until you could somewhat comfortably take him two at a time. it takes so much restraint but he goes slow at first and by the time you’ve calmed down and let out the tears, he’s ready to really fuck. always paying attention to you, always licking away your tears, always embracing you, sylus will still give you the ride of your life. it’s like two rollercoasters at once, so jarring but addicting. how can you even still be tight after that? it’s a mystery. 𖤐

tl: @mangobellini , @rin-dont-wear-clothes , @kentosbak3ry , @napa-the-yappa , @amaveon , @ivysorrele , @webshooterrr9, @calebandenergydrinkaddict , @ch4c0nnenh4 , @lilkactuz

[kiitzuna]

so..... kriselle. right guys?

⚠ DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3+4 SPOILERS ⚠

tw// csa mention

to preface, this is just my own reading. you are free to interpret the weird route and its contents how you wish. you are not required to take my reading as the end all be all.

horror has always had somewhat of an inherent sexual (and queer) undertone to it but it doesnt mean that you cant write it without it- i love horror that blends real life psychology and human experience with the otherworldly because there is SO MUCH you can do with it and it gets scary because most of the time it feels like something that could actually happen under the right circumstances… although when youre including a supernatural element (such as the player) the circumstances change and you need to recategorize and take more care to understand certain actions while still being conscious so that you are not just writing something torture porn-esque. this is an otherworldly entity (the player) taking the place of the human (kris) and acting within human bounds (kris cannot shapeshift or anything like that, we're limited to what their human body is capable of) to perpetuate the horror.

in context of the couch scene this is the moment that kris can no longer hide the existence of the other entity inside them from noelle. the secret is entirely out in the open and noelle knows that there is something unbelievably wrong with kris. i dont think noelle understands that it's us, the player, doing this to her because she doesn't know its a game but she absolutely knows that whoever it is is not kris. we are forcing noelle to confont that it was all real, it wasn't a dream, and it finally snaps her when we put the thorn (i.e. thornring) back on her finger. we've pushed noelle to her limit, 'used up' all of who noelle originally was and forcibly turned her into another vessel for our actions.

the loss of innocence is a common trope explored in horror, but i personally feel like this is moreso focused on the loss of autonomy than the loss of innocence. ch2 is noelle murdering monsters en masse and probably being berdly's cause of death. that innocence is already gone, but innocence can take on various forms and meanings which can alter the way we perceive certain situations as more one thing than the other. the thorn is representative of our control over noelle, we force kris to pierce it back through her hand during the couch scene which cements our authority over her. i understand why people could interpret the scene as being mainly the loss of innocence, with the rose wilting it could be read like an allegory for deflowering, but i believe that the scene is moreso focused on us removing her limitations. we've overflowed the pot on the stove and now she's stronger than ever. even not on the weird route, noelle exhibits behaviours of wanting to strangle berdly and take control of her life for once, whether joking or not. she was already really fascinated by her own power in ch2, finding out that yes actually she isnt powerless and she can take things for herself, as long as she listens to kris- hence her saying 'Thank you.' towards the end of the route.

what makes weird route kriselle so interesting is that kris doesnt want this. when noelle is close to kris and she begins to trigger the downfall of events, kris is trying to cover her mouth desperately to stop her. kris wants nothing more than to keep noelle from experiencing everything all over again. it's not just kris abusing noelle torture compilation. with not only closet scene where kris is trying to hit us with the hockey stick but also the bathroom scene we see just how fucking ANGRY kris is at us- literally beating the shit out of the soul…. both in a 'why would you ever make me do this?' way but also in a 'you broke her' way.

we've taken these childhood friends with such a strong connection and forced them to rip themselves to shreds. we've broken them to their core. i don't think noelle is capable of saving kris, i don't think she wants to anymore. in the few moments she had left between the start and the end of the couch scene, she's lost that will.

noelle's now broken, she's lost herself because we took her autonomy. just like kris. a cage. a vessel. we've given her the power to take whatever she wants, we've removed her limitations, we've made her stronger.

as long as she listens to us.

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with that being said, @enuratled made some good points and connections in their reblog of my post and i want to elaborate on/include them in the main post due to wanting to ensure that im not coming off as discrediting or attempting to disprove the loss of innocence reading while explaining more of my position.

"...it's not necessarily that i disagree but I think loss of autonomy is loss of consent, loss of ability to consent and I think that's very much what the rose deflowered imagery is pointing us towards."

the loss of autonomy is the loss of consent which in turn can also mean the loss of innocence. all of these tropes and concepts are intertwined and you can't really fully separate them, although the loss of autonomy/consent/innocence doesn't always indicate a sexual connotation. my reading chooses to focus more on the psychological rather than the sexual, so i guess its just my piece of the puzzle when it comes to dissecting this. there is clearly a reading here that involves a sexual undertone because of the defloration and understandably so- this is something that happens in real life and depending on your background or perceptions may be the first thing your mind jumps to when you see this scene play out.

"it uses the same dialogue, noelle begging herself to move but being unable to, it has the rose being deflowered, it has kris forcing the ring onto her hand, it happens in her fucking bedroom! her most private space! the place where she's supposed to be the safest! she asked them to come in! in this case, the imagery of sexual assault is being used to convey the inability to consent."

a good point on the reading of csa. this makes the reading more prominent and ties it back into autonomy and consent.

"...a lot of good readings of the weird route comes hand in hand with discussions about comphet, and how dangerous it is to force these very gendered roles onto kids (or teens) who explicitly don't conform, or want to conform to these things. snowgrave, as much as it is about autonomy, power and player control, can also be read about gender and sexuality, especially with how it utilises this imagery of marriage."

ive read the hellspawnmotel analysis many times over and its one of my favourites, i think the concept is really solid and you echo the same sentiments with that here. there is clearly a strong theme of identity/gender/sexuality beneath the surface of deltarune and especially with weird route kriselle.

I understand that [c]sa is a very taboo topic, and it's not necessarily in-line with the usual host of 'dark' themes we expect to see in games like this, but that doesn't mean the narrative can't utilise the commentary that comes with it, or the imagery used for it. again, I don't think it has to be read as sexual assault, but I don't think that's an unfair or unearned reading.

i agree, it being taboo doesnt mean that the reading isn't or can't be there. i am not attempting to say 'you cant see it like this!' or 'youre wrong and im right!' because everyone is entitled to their own perceptions of a scene, especially when it is not explicitly stated or shown in the text. personally (just me, you dont need to feel the same), i feel it's just too heavy to be thrust onto us if that is the intended context with no warning. maybe thats the intention, to drop it on us with no warning like it would happen in real life, but i honestly can't see that being how it was originally intended.

i think where this scene creates so much clashing of readings is again that you cannot really separate loss of autonomy from loss of consent and loss of innocence from either. these tropes can be interpreted in different ways- sexually, psychologically, physically, etc. its up to you to decide how you want to read it. the reading of csa has a lot of evidence for it and a strong argument. i dont think its wrong, but im personally not sure that should be our main takeaway.

my main reason for why i emphasize the focus on the loss of autonomy in the way i have is that a lot of people have decided to take the reading of csa as what happens explicitly, treating this scene as if you've genuinely done this to noelle.

if this is to be taken literally like how a good chunk of the fandom is treating it unfortunately, we're the ones who are doing this to noelle and kris. these actions are our own. they're our choices. this isn't kris, its us, the player. i do not want to be responsible for the sa of noelle, i wouldnt want to play a game where im forced to commit csa. it doesn't feel right. i don't think toby would put that into deltarune directly. you can read it as csa being what happens after the screen cuts to black if you want to, but honestly thinking about the implication that i as the player forced kris to rape or deflower noelle makes me want to curl up, puke blood, and die.

i dont think anyone wants to be burdened with that. thank you to @enuratled for allowing me to use parts of their reblog in my edit, and i hope this adds a bit more context to the entire post and where i come from! everyone can read it in their own way, and i do not wish to discredit anyone by suggesting a different reading of the scene. please consider reading their additions to my post in their reblog to see everything they said, as i believe it does hold a lot of merit.

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UPDATE: rose was patched out. i feel kind of vindicated but my feelings are honestly mixed....... you can still interpret the scene how you want but i think it's pretty clear toby didn't intend for the graphic to be taken that way. sucks we had to lose the rose because of that but it's for the best considering.... theres a lot of ways that the fandom was taking the csa allegory too far and blending it with other ones which snowballed into a whole new thing and i kinda dont want to go through a year of kris misgendering and "toby fox put child rape in his game". (even though he didnt. its an allegory. one that i dont personally wish to focus on but others can at their own will.) which i think is kinda reasonable

[monstersflashlight]

I know this is the monster fucking blog but can you do wholesome monster loving with the Tree Hole Debacle?

Like the reader bringing a picnic to the nature spirit?

A/N: You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 (patreon exclusive) here. This is just very fluffy and soft and the furthest for horny ever, but I really enjoyed writing it, hope y’all enjoy reading it!

Forest entity: Picnics and situationships

Forest entity x fem!reader || sfw

Every time you’ve come to the forest, it’s with a secret intention.

Well, maybe not so secret because he always finds you and ends up giving you so much pleasure that you spend days in a dazed fog of post orgasm bliss. Let’s say it’s a secret intention for plot’s sake. Isn’t that what the cool kids say nowadays? Making bad choices… for the plot? Maybe you’re too old for that.

Anyway, you feel really bad because he always brings you pleasure but you don’t even try to befriend him. It must be lonely to live all alone in the forest. Or maybe it wasn’t, but how can you know? It’s not like you ever tried to talk to him when he was fucking you senseless… Okay, you weren’t the only one to blame for that- but you wanted to remedy it.

So here you are, parking your car and grabbing a basket full of food and a big plaid blanket. You take the compass out and follow it until you find yourself in a clearing. You know he should be around here, but you try to act nonchalant as you set your blanket on the ground and prepare your little basket with food.

It takes him less than five minutes to show up, emerging from the forest as his vines move around his body, giving him a kind of godly aura that makes your pussy tingly. Down girl, you remind yourself, we aren’t here for that.

“What are you doing here, human?” He asks. You can’t answer before he’s continuing. “The forest doesn’t want any offerings. I thought you’d be done after last time.” If you didn’t know better you’d say he’s smug about it. Truth be told, he can be smug about it. The things he did to you? Yeah, you still think about them every time you touch yourself.

“I- I didn’t come for that. I’m here to… To have a picnic,” you let out, which is technically correct. You try not to blush too hard, your whole body shivering at the intensity of his stare.

“In my forest?” He says, tilting his head to the side. You nod. “Why?”

“I just wanted to,” you lie.

He catches you instantly, making you feel even more embarrassed. “Lie. Try again.”

“I like nature,” another lie.

“Lie. Try again,” he repeats, almost as if he’s amused.

“Ugh. Okay. I just… I felt bad for always coming here to get fucked and I thought… I thought maybe we could spend some time together.”

“Why?” He asks, again.

“Why not?” You fire back, sounding like a five year old and wanting to stick your tongue out at him.

Maybe this was a bad idea. Maybe you just need to go back to your house and stop thinking a literal forest entity has some kind of hurt feelings over fucking you dumb. You’re about to get up and gather everything to run away as fast as possible, but he stops you with one of his vines. He approaches you very carefully, as if he’s trying not to scare you away. His beauty feels forbidden in this light, and you almost have to look away as he sits in front of you, not on the blanket, but close enough.

He doesn’t say much, he doesn’t eat anything, but he seems to enjoy watching you talk and eat some of the snacks you brought. He looks curious as you tell him stuff about your life, so you go in deeper details, telling him about your day, your job, your friends… He never stops looking interested, and he even blooms some flowers when you say something particularly amusing to him.

It’s… really nice.

Like a gentleman, or more like a gentle-entity, he walks you to your car when the light starts to fade. He claims it’s because humans have poor vision (which is true), but you want to think it’s because he wants to spend a little more time with you.

Your suspicions are confirmed when he stops in front of your car. “I like to spend more time with you, human. I won’t be opposed to do it again. I’ll be waiting,” he says before disappearing into the forest again.

Well, shit.

Did you just get yourself into a situationship?

[applestorms]

There's something really fundamental to me about the fact that we never actually see Sebastian's True Form as any kind of full humanoid body. Instead, we're cut down to the basics: eyes, teeth, legs, maybe the occasional clawed hand, all floating around in some loose black mist. The animal heads that we see in the memory arc flashbacks are interesting too-- a dog and a raven (or crow?), naturally, but also an octopus, a snake, a fly. Clawing and watching and grinning at all times, predatory and hungry but also, crucially, amalgamate.

This really emphasizes two fundamental aspects of Sebastian and his role in the story to me, those being:

Sebastian is an unquestionably powerful being in the universe of KURO, a point further emphasized by the fact that we can never truly know him-- not his backstory, not his fully body, not the deeper extent of his motivations or feelings or desires.

Sebastian being so undeniably inhuman is core to his relationship with Ciel, and the ways in which he both does and does not reflect/parallel both Ciel's abusers and most beloved family members.

I think you can kind of read the more indistinct aspects of Sebastian's True Form as being a kind of side effect or representation of the ways in which Ciel views him, especially early on. Again, think about the details of Sebastian that we do see at this point: eyes, mouth, shoes, hands. During his time in the cult, Ciel is objectified and sexualized, used to being watched and surveyed at all times. He is, to Sebastian, a meal, something to be preyed upon and eaten-- but also spoken to, lured in, laughed at and ridiculed and complimented. He is a child locked in a cage, trapped near the ground and thus forced to see the world from below, only ever looking up at the people surrounding him, watching their shoes as they walk around him, over him. He is held and moved, puppetted, manipulated in a very literal, physical sense. The Little Red Riding Hood comparison is very apt here, actually-- eyes to see you, hands to hold you, mouth to eat you.

Yet it is also this fundamental inhumanity that kind of makes their dynamic work at all. As this post so wonderfully puts it, Sebastian's human form is an interface, an emulation, one more body to mix up in the amalgamation of Things He Can Be so that he may better serve his new master. He doesn't really have human desires, or at least not straightforwardly. We know that he likes LARPing as a butler full time, that he is prideful and gets off on being praised (see: the circus), but he clearly isn't really attached to the specifics of that in any human way. He isn't prideful of status, or his looks, or anything that could be connected to a typical human life, because this form is just another one of many, something that can and will change in the future, and has in the past.

We know that Sebastian wants one thing: Ciel. But it is the nuances within how exactly this desire manifests itself that forms the axis that a significant chunk of their dynamic revolves around.

A really interesting aspect of KURO to me that I struggle a bit to put into words is the ways in which both Ciel and Sebastian parallel the antagonists of the series and their friends/loved ones simultaneously. I don't think I've ever read or watched a series where the line between who is a "hero" and who is a "villain" is any less clear. This is not to say that the series has no ethical values, or that there aren't Some People clearly doing worse shit than others (Baron Kelvin when I get you), but most of the main characters that we see all have some kind of fucked up or complex dynamic happening between their personal values, their relationships with others, and larger social norms.

Take Grelle in the very first true arc of the series, for example. There's a fascinating parallel that I don't think I've ever really seen anyone talk about between Grelle's immediate murder of Anne the second she fails to live up to her expectations, and the eventual consumption of Ciel at the hands of Sebastian that has been teased since the very beginning. Not only is this moment a fantastic tone-establishing moment for the rest of the series, showing firsthand the brutality that it is willing to commit against even its central characters, it's also one of the first times we get this blurring-of-the-lines moment between protagonist and antagonist. It's an ongoing theme of the series, honestly, particularly with some of the more intense enemies that they go up against-- everybody's a hypocrite, but only one side is going to win. The Circus kids were powerless and pitiful and latched onto the first kind hand that was offered to them, regardless of how they were forced to corrupt their morals in response. Maurice Cole uses and manipulates others, using his prettiness to get what he wants, after being scammed out of a future by being the second to be born. We can only solve this murder if we let these people die.

This is one of the reasons why I view Sebastian and Ciel's relationship as being so fundamentally codependent. There's been a couple posts going around talking about this, but to say it again: Sebastian is everything to Ciel, in a very literal sense. He is the predator and monster lurking in the shadows, he is the doting butler lovingly brewing his tea and picking his clothes and tucking him into bed, he is the dog biting anyone who gets near him, the demon laughing at his pain, the wife picking the best furniture for the lounge. He saved him to kill him. He's got his father's face. They're no different from anybody else, but they can't be without each other either.

Maybe it's enough that they picked each other, and continue to pick one another, doubling down as they grow nearer and nearer to the decimation. Sebastian is grooming Ciel, growing and cultivating him, but in a dynamic under which he has little to no control. Ciel is a victim, a traumatized and abused child, using every scrap of power and knowledge he can get his hands on to order his pet monster who to kill. He never changes his goals, quite literally never grows up, but he gains strength and confidence and loyalty.

They are nothing, and everything. It makes sense, doesn't it?

[officialweezerelections]

EXPLANATIONS:

- Pollrunner note: Nobody submitted this bird, but I decided to enter it!! Because these guys are WEIRD! They swim around with only their heads out of the water (kind of normal all things considered), and spend most of their daylight hours just drying off their wings because for some fucking reason (it makes them better divers) their feathers aren’t waterproof. When wet, they can’t fly. They use their long beaks like spears while fishing and they don’t have nostrils. This is the reasoning I’d given for their entry last time I ran this bracket, and I think I’m sticking with it. I’ve got a soft spot for these weirdos now, and I’m hoping that this can be their redemption!

- Pollrunner note: Nobody submitted this bird, but I decided to enter it!! Because these guys are WEIRD! They swim around with only their heads out of the water (kind of normal all things considered), and spend most of their daylight hours just drying off their wings because for some fucking reason (it makes them better divers) their feathers aren’t waterproof. When wet, they can’t fly. They use their long beaks like spears while fishing and they don’t have nostrils. This is the reasoning I’d given for their entry last time I ran this bracket, and I think I’m sticking with it. I’ve got a soft spot for these weirdos now, and I’m hoping that this can be their redemption!

Secretarybird

- Okay yes yes this bird looks thrice divorced and is exceedingly violent but SPECIFICALLY. If you want a real life dinosaur this is the closest you'll get. Secretary birds roam the savanna alone or in pairs, and they're one of the only primarily grounded birds who are still capable of flight. They're a family of raptors unto themselves. It's like if an eagle had crane legs. They hunt on the ground, but nest atop thorny trees, which is just really cool and smart of them. It's the tallest and longest raptor species. Also, they CROAK instead of chirping or calling! When they kick prey to kill it, they can apply five times their body weight in force, with a contact period of only fifteen milliseconds- that's faster than a human blink. Its hunting technique is thought to be similar to EXTINCT TERRORBIRDS. This thing is a friggin dinosaur.

[tuulikki]

We really fucked up when, rather than all coming together to realise that there’s no such thing as “normal” (or, if there is, it’s statistically abnormal), we instead decided to reinforce the idea of the “normal” by making any deviation from it not only “abnormal” but psychiatrically abnormal.

I think people genuinely feel they have no language to express negative emotions and experiences that isn’t pathological. Somehow we seem to believe negative or alienating experiences are such complete deviations from the human norm that the only way we can make sense of them is by turning to the DSM.

But even when you have a whole stack of diagnoses, who you are and why you deserve to be heard as a human being has no correlation to what any neurologist or psychiatrist has to say.

The idea that “you” are your diagnosis and your brain chemicals, rather than being a complicated holistic historical amalgamation of body systems, environments, and relationships, is a whole lot of individualistic weirdness actually. And it’s not true.

We’re not managing to normalise anything by doing this.

controversial thought of the day is i think a good amount of people would benefit from being told they don't have "a touch of the tism" they're just socially awkward and or emotionally stunted

[polyhexian]

Episode 5 of murderbot: inchresting. We are going off plot I see. That shot of mb at the end jerking sideways makes me think next episode it will have done the thing from the end of the book where it uses its own body to shield her. I hope we get the "this unit has been damaged" line from its buffer then. It's a good one. New girl is both suspicious and also we are very clearly supposed to dislike her. Christ the penis joke from the trailer got so fucking much worse in the show. I could have forgiven it if at Least someone from the presaux team had called her on how inappropriate and fucked up it was. Ugh. Tho that kiss and the performance drop was funny. That one can stay because again it's clearly meant to be a fucked up thing she does. Also heyyyy gunports! Finally. Also I'm utterly fascinated by their location in its upper forearms. I've never seen that before. It looks good, at least in live action. Pretty creative. "Seccy" tjeyehbtjwijdf. Episode 4 was such a fucking blast that episode 5 is a bit of a letdown, especially because the wakeup reveal is one of the best scenes, and the episode I feel largely... Neutral about. Other than the sex jokes I don't really have any problem with it but also nothing was super exciting. Mensah should have gathered by now it doesn't like being looked at and Stopped Looking At It by now tho. I don't see how she could become it's favourite human like this when she hasn't told ppl to stop looking at it, she's rambling about her family despite the fact it's clearly not interested- she should be intuiting what it's comfortable with much better by now. But it's... Fine. I am not mad like I was after episode 3. And thank u bharadwaj

[francisjohnpatrickmulcahy]

Instead of just making a lot of useless noise, how about I submit my propaganda in support of Hawkeye in the @need-him-pregnant-poll

I don't talk about it much in this space, but I'm a huge fan of body horror and I never get off my body horror soapbox for anything. However there are just some things you know are right and you stand up for it.

Examples:

Human rights

Holding corporations accountable for their environmental impacts

Taking care of the health of your body and mind

Getting Hawkeye pregnant because he really wants it

Plain and simple

Don't deprive babygirl of what he needs, he's a surgeon in a war zone who deserves a fucking break. Let him have this, he's asking nicely

[masterchef901]

Theory Time

We got 2 new chapters of info, and that means it's time for some rampant fucking speculation on the future of Deltarune and its mysteries. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

I have a LOT to think about, but the thing I'm most certain of is this:

THERE ARE MULTIPLE CULPRITS

Kris is obviously collaborating with one, but most likely several, other people around town; I doubt that any single one of them is able to comprehensively explain everything that's suspicious. The biggest point that stands out to me is the keypad on the shelter: there's space for 3 codes, indicating that it's only meant to be accessed via collaboration between 3 different individuals.

The Badge: Obvious indicator of the Police. We know Undyne is clueless, given her initial interaction with the knight, and I'll swallow a horse before I believe Napstablook is a criminal mastermind. This leaves Asgore, an ex-cop, as the likely holder of this code. Given the suspiciously large door that Kris refuses to open in the church at the end of chapter 4, as well as assorted other suspicious activity from earlier chapters, his involvement with some part of this seems obvious to me, especially since he'd be the most likely person to actually spot Kris acting weird, and begin collaborating with them against us/the Soul (Toriel had a similar chance to spot that something was 'off', but is obviously in the dark). However, given his body type (and the fact that we HAVE an impression of what armed-for-combat Asgore would look like from Undertale) I doubt he's The Roaring Knight, so there would have to be at least one additional Lightner involved.

The Delta Rune: With its symbolic and religious implications, I would take this rune to indicate the involvement of a member of the clergy, and I think signs point to Father Alvin. The biggest thing being that he kept Gerson's hammer; a book you can read in the librarby notes that monster funeral rites typically consist of putting a monster's dust on an item they loved, and burying that. I highly doubt that Alvin keeping Gerson's remains is anything as innocent as keeping a loved one's ashes in an urn instead of burying them, both because of Susie's reaction and because Gerson has a gravestone outside the church. He's supposed to be buried. Finding his remains in Alvin's office strikes me as the equivalent of finding a human skull hidden in that desk - no way that's there unless that desk's owner was knowingly trying to get up to some shit with it - possibly using Dark Worlds as a form of Necromancy.

(And in this light also consider: Asgore is noted to attend Church too, but typically at night. Ostensibly this might just be to avoid awkward encounters with Toriel, but it may be that he's using this time to discuss these Dark matters with Alvin)

The Tree: The characters deduce (and I agree) that this most likely represents a member of the Holiday family, which seems sensible enough as they're clearly wealthy and politically influential in Hometown. One or more of them is involved, and I think the answer to that is connected to the next big question:

WHO IS THE KNIGHT?

Knowing that only Lightners can open fountains, it stands to reason that The Knight must be a lightner. From there, my attention is drawn to the Knight's horns - which really look more like antlers. On that basis alone, I'm willing to believe that they're a member of the Holiday family - and besides, they're too intricately woven into the story for none of them to be implicated. Which one is it?

Points regarding each:

December: Missing for an indeterminate amount of time, referenced and known amongst Dark Worlds (a door code in chapter 3 was "1225", the same code we get cut off from reading in the guitar in chapter 4, because of course it's fucking Christmas). We know she has some strange presence hidden in the game files, and it seems reasonable that extended dark-world exposure can cause someone to look and/or act like that.

Carol: Openly antagonistic towards nearly everyone, and most likely to be aware of the true nature of things behind the scenes due to her position as Mayor. Also, "You are welcome here any time," spoken seemingly to Kris specifically. We know Kris contacted someone to come to the Holiday residence, but given their timing that could have been either Asgore or Carol. Honestly, I actually think she's too overtly antagonistic. Her being The Bad Guy feels like a red herring, like it's too obvious. As an obvervation-which-could-mean-nothing, we hear a reference to her using a katana in Town Hall, and we can see said katana in her room during the Heart sequence; it's obviously her favored weapon. The Knight's weapon of choice might be interpreted as a katana, but it strikes me as more of a scimitar, and their projectile swords seem more western in design.

Noelle: We can dismiss this pretty much out of hand, but to review for good measure: Openly in denial about dark worlds across all timelines we see her in. Likely not faking it, because the Snowgrave route shows her personality changing as she "becomes strong". If she were the mega-powerful knight from the beginning, there'd be no need for this. Also, if she were the knight, I'd expect her to be aware of Kris as a separate entity from their soul - an aspect which the Weird Route repeatedly shows her NOT to be aware of.

Rudy: This is where it gets interesting, because the more I think about it the more sense it would make for him to be a culprit. We know via Gerson that a Dark World can manifest a monster according to some vestige of their spirit, regardless of whether they're alive in the flesh - a fact that would make Dark Fountains an appealing option to a man who's clearly struggling against a terminal illness. This fact also means he'd be physically capable of being the knight as we see it, regardless of his actual health. He's close with Asgore, which might make it possible for him to access Asgore's code without his even knowing, though Asgore's other suspicious behavior makes it seem more likely to me that their closeness simply made it easier for them to start acting as accomplices. As Dess's father, he'd naturally have desperately searched for her, plausibly learning about Dark Worlds in the process, and/or coming to think that he might be able to use them to save his daughter (Carol technically shares this position, but strikes me as too narrow-minded to entertain Dark Magics as a concept).

Also we see him at Church, which doesn't really say much but does show he can be up and about at least enough to make it to where we've seen Dark Fountains formed, and stab a knife into the ground. Furthermore, he is the only person we know of who's in regular contact with Alvin, Asgore, and Kris - nobody else is as "central" as a contact among the other likely conspirators. He strikes me as a good option for a plot twist given how amicable he is toward us, and in this light, his insistence that he'll be there at the festival tomorrow takes on a more ominous tone. As another thought-that-could-mean-nothing, if his lungs are messed up so bad that he can't stop coughing in the real world, perhaps that would manifest as roaring when put through a dark world lens. Probably not, but maybe.

IN SUMMATION

I believe that the mysterious events in Hometown are the work of a conspiracy involving Kris, Asgore, Father Alvin, and one (or both!) of Rudy and Dess. Each one, I think, is acting for their own reason - for example it may be that Asgore is trying to save Kris, Rudy to save Dess, Alvin to 'save' Gerson.

This all also is only focusing on Lightners around Hometown - it of course ignores the obvious involvement of Gaster, who may well be pulling strings and manipulating them toward darker goals, and Ralsei, who is still trying to send the soul away to catch private words with Kris. Their goals remain mysterious as ever to me.

[spicyraeman]

Getting lab results back that say ur blood is acidic is wild ripp anyways this is ur reminder to drink water

[hoofpeet]

Fucked up dog ❗❗

[taraxippos]

Would kill to read animal POV fiction that has the animal POV’s interaction with humans be like, semi realistic to the level of caution most predators take with large prey and/or competitors (including humans).

Like instead of the usual - “the human is such a weak, pathetic creature... so slow, no claws, blunt teeth… completely helpless without its 'Fire Sticks'. how is it the master of the earth?” type crap it’s like, the bear protagonist or whatever approaches some dude who spreads their arms and yells and the bear is like “FUUUUUUUUCK THAT THING JUST GOT HUGE. IT'S LARGE AND MAKING NOISES. HOLY FUCK.”

[orbitalpython]

────────ღ��ღ And now I know my heart is a ghost town.ღೋღ─────────

It was a surprise to be sure but it shocked the 3 nonetheless.

"RAAGh! How! How could the GIW get away with this." Sam shouted as Danny continued to suture her wounds. "It's not FAIR!"

"Calm down, your only going to make this harder Sam." Danny said his own wounds slowly closing on their own. "it's not like we would've gotten help either way, plus the distress beacon wasn't very smart."

"How can you say that Danny? That kryptonian should've heard it at least!" Sam protested loudly. " We've been waiting for months Danny! HECK, the whole 'Justice league' should have come! But NOooo they apparently have so much better things to be doing."

"Well can you blame them? They are pretty preoccupied with fostering the newer generation of heros. Even their own rogues are getting more dangerous." Tucker said wincing he puts a little to much pressure on his arm. " And the GIW are pretty effective at blocking information."

The 3 sat in silence with only the nearby neon sign of a abandoned speakeasy and scurrying rats giving any life to the alley way. They had been captured and tortured by the GIW for information regarding Danny's ghost half.

"Aaannd... there... that... that should hold up. I-I think." Danny said looking over Sams stitching one last time. "W- w- what do we do now?"

Tucker looked Danny over. "What do you mean?" Danny slid down to his knees curling in on himself a sob in his throat. "I mean... We can't go back to my place GIW is crawling all over there by now. We can't leave the GIW has blocked all exits. We can't go to the press with the information backout. And..."

"We can't go to the police because there hasn't been a serious crime in Amity in over 50 years... I- I want Jazz." Danny said now crying into his blood soaked pants.

Neither Sam nor Tucker spoke the two knowing that everything Danny has said is true (and then some). But a shared thought came between the two. "How about... Ah! How about we make the GIW regret ever stepping foot inside Amity." " An- an- and how do we do that?"

"By becoming reapers." Sam stated. "Remember the tales about Death? y'know Grim Reaper, Joe Black, La Muerte, Lord Death, The Grim Reaper." "Yeah wh- wh- what about it?" Danny responded through tears. "We can get back at the GIW this way!" Tucker joined in. "What we first need is base of operations."

Soon the trio had a plan. "Ok so here's the agreed upon plan so...

Fake our deaths

Target GIW randomly

???

Profit

Ok everything ready?"

"Clothing wear and tear proof?" "Check." "Weapons?" "Check." "newfound immortality?" "Check." "Amazing abilities?" "Check." "Eternal youth?" "Check." "Eldritch shapeshifting abilities?" "Uuuhhhh... Check."

"Wow we are ahead of schedule Danny." Tucker said swiveling in his chair "What I didn't expect is that the GIW were targeting the common folk. Huh? Suns up now spent the whole day planning huh?

Soon tomorrow came and with it the plan. Sam, Danny and Tucker knew what tomorrow was. The GIW's reveal of who Phantom really is. The 3 knew the GIW figured it out but faking their deaths would put the GIW in for a loop. "Is the anonymous call ready?" "Yep." Tucker replied popping the p.

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"Danny oh fuck. Oh motherfucker." "I- I- I- I did- I didn't mean to." "Danny what the hell." "I FORGOT HUMANS WERE WEAK OK?!?!" The body of Dashes father lay motionless a long thick blade protruding from his skull. "AAAAHHH!" "AHHH! DANNY QUICK KILL HIM AGAIN!"

After a day or two the 3 had the GIW out of town plus a couple hundred dead Amity Parkers on their criminal record.

"Uuugghhh... Danny can you do something about the sun pleaseeee?" Sam drawled out. "The heat is killing me." Tucker chuckled at the thought. "Yeah and do what exactly about it? He's not Vortex."

"Actually. I think I might be able to do something about that." Danny stated. "Wha- How?" "Watch." Danny replied with a smirk.

Soon the entirety of Amity Park was covered in thick unending clouds.

"Hmm. Man you guys we really made a ghost town huh?"

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Ghost Town- DCxDP

𐋅ቹ𐌋የ ፱𐌔 𐌔ቹ𐌍ጋ 𐋅ቹ𐌋የ

It was a distorted message that was sent through the Watchtower's transmitter.

It took a while but they were able to sort out that it was an emergency signal. It took longer to locate it. A solid month.

A small town I'm the middle of nowhere. Amityville. The place was desolate.

The entrance to the town was barricaded with old rotten wood. The streets were empty like one of those zombie movies. Cars were just left in the middle of the road. No one was there.

The place felt off. The sky was constantly overcast and the sun didn't want to shine. The nights, however, were worse.

It was left to Batman, Robin, Red Robin, Flash, and Wonder Woman to handle the situation with the the rest of the main team having to deal with a bigger threat in Star City with Green Arrow. A shame because they needed Superman right now.

They needed to locate survives and quickly. They had lost so much time.

Luck was on their side because they located a signal in a small underground bunker.

The people who were there looked worst for wear but they were alive.

"Thank God you are here! Tell us you can get us out of here." One blond teen boy said frantically.

"We'll do everything we can. Tell us what happened. What happened to this town." Diam said putting a steadying hand on the boy's shoulder.

"It started when a few students went missing. They showed up as bodies the next day. We thought they were these guys in white suits but they up and left so fast. Then the blocked off the exits. Ever since these people in cloaks would just come out at night and hunt us. They took almost everyone." A blonde girl said.

"We don't know who's left." A middle age man said. "We do know that they don't come out during the day at least."

Awful. It sounded like they where being tormented by some kind of gang of serial killers.

They decided to scout out the area and set up to search when night came.

When the sun went down or when they were sure it would be down the hunt began.

There was a rustle in the woods and the sound of feet rushing towards their location. Then they stopped. Then laughter. Then running in several different directions.

Flash went first as he followed the sound. But he realized too late that he was in a race. He couldn't see with who but he heard footsteps that matched his.

"Your pretty fast." The voice said before Flash felt a slash go through his side and a silver flash of a sickle cross his vision.

Back at the bunker, another hooded figure circled back. In their hand they swung a chain scythe by its chain in a circle. They seemed to be waiting as they stood on a tree branch above them.

"What is your goal?! Why are you hunting the people here?!" Diana yelled that the figure.

The figures laughed. Her voice was unmistakable as a young. Then she threw her chained blade at Diana. It missed and hit the ground next to her. As Diana grabbed to the chain to pull the girl down it burned her hand like acid and she let go in a moment of surprise. Then just as quickly the chain was retracted and the tip of the blade nicked Wonder Woman's shoulder and it burned with searing pain.

Poison.

The girl laughed and she fled backwards through the trees and fled. Diana had not real choice but to chase her for the antidote. She knew that Barry would be back any moment and Batman and the Robins still outnumbered the enemy. It was a gamble but Batman nodded and she felt secure enough to go.

Then there was nothing. Not a sound or sign of friend or foe. They guarded the bunker trying to contact the others. They could go after them and leave the bunker unsecured but that seemed to be the goal of the killers.

And there was another. They heard it. Three sets of footsteps.

Damian seemed especially on edge. Tim was struggling to get a signal as every piece of tech he used was only getting static. He had been able to dig up a little info. This whole town seemed to be stuck in the 90s though. He had to use what records could be scavenged from the town hall. Which gave him very little. But he found the start of the killings. Three teens were found dead, presumed murdered on the eve of an important unveiling.

"Hey there." A voice said behind him.

Damian had already drawn his sword as his blade crashed against a heavy reaping scythe.

"Your quick. Not quick enough." The hooded figure said pushing back with enough force to make Damian crash into Tim.

Immediately Batman threw a few batterangs at the figure who waved his scythe and caused them to clatter against the silver blade.

"It's over. We are finished with our work." The figure said with a hint of amusement as he took off his hood at last.

Before them stood a teenage boy with powder white hair and blood stains on his face. The bunker door was open and it was clear that he had already got in and found his targets. They were dead.

He whistled and the other two figures appeared dragging the missing heroes along with them.

"We haven't had a chase like that in forever." Another boy's voice said dragging Flash behind him.

"I thought you said you hated running after them." The girl said dropping the chained up Diana on the ground.

"I started to miss it." The boy shrugged.

"Who are you?" Batman said clenching his fist.

"Eh? Reapers, I guess." The white haired boy said.

"Wait...you guys are those murdered teens. You guys were alive all this time and just murdered everyone in time. It is some kind of vengeance?" Tim accused.

"So nosy." The hooded boy said. "Who cares about that."

"Tuck, be nice. They are just curious." The white-haired boy said nudging his shoulder. "We are just cleaning up. These people are dead already. Long dead. Haven't you realized?"

Suddenly things clicked into place. The town was abandoned. Despite everything the bunker was still fully stocked but untouched. The technology didn't work and was too old to be usable. The city hall didn’t have anything remotely recent. Why had no one been able to escape the town if they couldn't even leave?

But that doesn't make any sense. Who can they talk to dead people? No, this had to be a lie.

But then the figures disappeared and the bunker was empty.

[muppetimpeccablylostonline]

Instead of becoming a firefighter Eddie trains as a physical therapist. He’d seen the human body be ripped apart in ways that keep him up at night and he’s haunted by the fact that he couldn’t put most of them back together. He chooses physical therapy because he likes being able to help people in a tangible way, unlike a shrink, likes being able to give people agency and freedom. Being a student and a single dad was fucking hell, as was staying with his parents to save money and have free childcare, but it was worth it. As soon as he passes his exams he starts looking for positions all over the country, convinced a fresh start is needed for him and Chris.

California seems just as good a place as any.

The clinic is small and relatively new but it’s close to a great school and Eddie’s found a decent place to rent nearby as well. Chris is settling in nicely, Eddie starts to build rapport with his clients and he finds a gym that offers kick boxing and Muay Thai. Sure, he’s a little lonely but he has his son and Tía Pepa and his Abuela. A life all of his own.

One day he forgets his headphones at home but, begrudgingly, goes through his routine anyway. The lack of reggaeton blasting in his ears is the only reason he hears the frankly annoying grunts of pain coming from the lat pulldown machine. Eddies mouth goes a little dry as he watches muscles ripple under navy blue nylon, blond curls darkened with sweat at the nape of the man’s neck. He’s going to look away, has to actually, when he sees it.

Definitely a trap sprain, he thinks. God, if he keeps going like that he’s going to tear the damn thing.

Before he realizes what he’s doing Eddie is walking over to the guy and tapping him on the shoulder. He’s greeted with wide blue eyes, kind but confused.

“What’s up?” Blondie brings his white headphones to rest against his collarbones. Eddie realizes he hasn’t prepared anything to say which is very unlike him.

“Uh.” He says, eloquently.

Blondie smiles, “If you want next on the machine I can come find you when I’m done.”

“Oh no I uh- I just wanted to- it’s leg day for me actually-”

“Oh nice, man. So what can I do for you?” The smile is still there, kind and patient.

Eddie ignores the warmth that pools in his stomach at the question, keeps his eyes from wandering to the pectoral muscles that linger in the bottom of his field of vision.

“Oh I don’t need anything,” blond eyebrows furrow and he shifts in the seat to face Eddie more clearly, revealing a blush coloured birthmark over his left eyebrow. “I just- well I’m a PT and you’re obviously in pain, dude. You’ve got a definite strain in your trapezius muscle and if you keep going like this without treatment it’s going to tear.”

“Tear?” Blondie pales.

Eddie nods, “Hurts like a bitch, several months recovery and going off the state of those back muscles I assume you being out of commission that long isn’t something you’d be into.”

“Oh God no. I’m a firefighter and I love it. I’d go crazy if I had to go that long without a shift. Wait, you said you were a PT, right? What do I need to do to fix this?”

What Eddie should do is tell the guy the usual, rest, ice, pain meds as needed. He could grab the guys email and send over some exercises and diagrams of KT tape placement. But what he says instead is, “Why don’t you swing by the clinic where I work and let me take a look?”

Blondie’s smile widens and Eddie has the insane impulse to follow the smoothing of his furrowed brow with the pad of his thumb.

“Really? Thanks man that would be amazing. I’ve been trying to take better care of myself lately. Bobby -that’s my captain at the firehouse- is always telling me I’m not going to be 25 forever.”

Eddie gives him the name of the clinic and tries to make a swift exit because his heart is racing for some fucking reason.

“I’m Buck by the way!” Blondie- Buck calls after him.

Eddie looks back at the sound, Buck is sitting with his back to the machine with his legs spread, hand raised in a wave. He’s still smiling, Eddie wishes he would stop.

“Diaz,” he calls over his shoulder as he turns away, he needs a shower and maybe a smack upside the head. “Eddie Diaz.”

[muchmossymess]

So with the homunculi being essentially human, having all the same organs and whatever whatever— does that mean that lust had to deal with period cramps?

[mars-ipan]

some postgame doodles for pride month