#this isn't exactly favourable towards SpamTang

[gnomey22]

Any opinions/ headcanons on Spamtang? I get he was basically a re-skin of an existing character, but I just love the idea of a living advertisement for an orange juice company swindling Chat with impossible charm-

I feel like I keep giving unideal responses to your asks specifically, but I promise it's nothing personal.

I really don't like SpamTang. His very existence breaks the Failtopia timeline, no character has any reason to be friends with him besides his scams, his apparent motive to take revenge on Failboat is never explored, and he falls into the very same pitfall Joker did back in S1, being a Cool Thief who's literally just a character from a different series with a coat of paint. Not to mention how Dan called Lanc "uninspired" while SpamTang was on-screen, a much clearer example of just taking a Deltarune character and slightly modifying them.

However.

There is potential for an antagonist in SpamTang. He doesn't make any sense to be an ally to the team, he has zero positive relationships that aren't built on lies, but if we take his compelling relationships into account, you could theoretically do something more interesting than the random hodgepodge of ideas SpamTang currently is.

Here's my pitch: SpamTang rocks up to the team, not intending to fight with them, but to do business with them. Specifically, he wants to do business with Shrimp, who's a pretty famous streamer/idol at this point, and her branding would be great for his weird orange juice business. He doesn't have Spamton mannerisms, he's actually the smooth-talking charmer you described in your post, except he isn't targeting Chat, their energies are too similar for them to be his main foil. Shrimp is a much better character to pit him against, because of her usually strong sense of justice, and high capacity to call out the bullshit in the party. SpamTang's offer would challenge her, in these regards. On the orange man's side, this keeps both the "he's scamming a child" angle from Chat, and the "he hates dealing with this child" from Petunyawn, refined into one conflict. His motivation to kill Failboat is scrapped, but he is prone to going off on murderous tangents when he's not in smooth-talking mode.