#undertale deltarune parallels

[ariadnesweb]

Kris is a funny person closer to how frisk is a funny person, usually with them acting out ridiculous performances to please people.

It's an important motif throughout the games, and whenever the protags stop being funny, it's extremely noticeable and a sign of bad news, tied to being unpersonned.

(Neutral vs No Mercy Save Points. Frisk shows a bit of unambiguous personality here.)

(Noelle and Kris don't goof off with weird route exclusive items - normally they love to.)

[ariadnesweb]

Op's tags

basically mettaton deltarune's whole thing with the neo body is both really clever and really funny in the context of how deltarune uses undertale intertextuality to supplant its symbolism. like

this is good. this is really good.

(it's also a part of why i'm such a sucker for swatch and spamton's whole affair but you already know that 😭)

[akanemnon]

Maybe they shouldn't have brought up Asriel... The aftermath

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[skymantle]

what does it all mean.

[toweringclam]

Chara and Carmen

red-eyed brunettes

Haunting the video game narrative

deeply sensitive and empathetic

wanted to liberate people

committed suicide in pursuit of their goals

posthumously twisted by the trauma of their deaths and what people did in their names

often interpreted by fans as irredeemable, manipulative monsters despite that very concept being against the themes

[makerofmadness]

I swear I have something I've found something

From "the making of" (with the earthbound Halloween hack)

you know how sometimes people will take their old bad fanworks and remake it into something like actually good and also probably an original work? I've done that a few times. Anyway:

Can you see what I'm getting at here?

"Varik is almost dead, and yet he can't stop moving because you keep pushing those buttons."

[libraryfag]

observations of my favourite stories. Note: I haven't read homestuck yet.

Note 2: yes. ik Toby worked on homestuck. but

(a im pretty sure he was originally a fan and

(b being part of it doesn't prevent him from being a fan in anyway. if he wasn't a fan he wouldn't have referenced hs in his games.

[kooki914]

What are asgore and spades favorite colors

[myimaginationplain]

this is may be a strange comparison, but in terms of their position(s) in the narrative, Noelle is a lot like Sans and/or Papyrus in that she's an initially extremely unassuming & affable character who is actually intimately connected to some of the strangest, most disconcerting mysteries in the entire game. (more specifically, their being closely connected with Gaster without going crazy like the secret bosses have).

[buttercupart]

Toriel and Gaster both did not get a chance to watch their respective two children (presumably in the latter case) grow up for one reason or another (childrens’ deaths, falling into the Core).

Both are known for their remarkable intelligence and how it served the Underground - Toriel as the brain and planner behind her and Asgore’s rulership, Gaster as the royal scientist and creator of the Core.

They both speak with excessive formality, and have an overarching sense of knowing what’s best for you; only ever doing the right thing in their mind - which actually just suits and serves their interests first and foremost, whether they’re cognizant of that or not.

Both spend a majority of their stories seemingly lost to time for a significant while; reduced to fables and whispers of younger monsters who have long since assumed them both to be gone, both hidden (or merely associated with? … or trapped?) away by a large, mysterious door that prevents them and others from entering or leaving; that serves as a physical and emotional divide away from their kind as well as a legend of which townspeople speculate on.

[bogos-bint3d]

🤨

[viewingstuffonly]

I seriously wonder what caused sans’s unease with humans?

When we first meet sans in deltarune, attempting to befriend him results in this dialogue. 

It’s bullshit excuse to keep us at bay, but he’s not wrong.

Keep reading

[random-autie-fangirl]

In this world...

[eggrolls-and-fandoms]

Frisk came to the mountain to die.

(They just couldn’t take it anymore, the same way Flowey couldn’t.)

Last second, they didn’t fall into the afterlife - they fell into the Underground. An entirely different world. Do you think they felt fear before they hit the ground? Regret?

(On the verge of oblivion, Flowey was hit with the strongest emotion he’d felt in ages, that deep seated terror. He didn’t want to die, he didn’t want to die! And he discovered he didn’t have to. He could live forever. Whether he liked it or not.)

(Chara hadn’t come up to the mountain for a very happy reason, either. Their soul laying dormant in a bed of flowers for ages, before a child fell on them that woke them up. Why was it Frisk that woke them up? I think that it was because Frisk was the most similar to them. They’d felt that flash-regret, deep seated terror as they fell - that sudden determination to keep going. That’s what made them latch onto life again. And they helped Frisk get back up.)

Frisk going back to the surface is them returning to their old life. Frisk’s determination to get to the surface again is, I think, them still chasing after suicide. To end their life. But for some reason, they can’t let themself die down here. Even they don’t know quite why. They dodge the attacks, they avoid the danger, and when they can’t… they feel the terror of falling to their death, the determination of I-don’t-want-to-die-not-yet-not-yet-not-like-this-I-don’t-want-to-die, and they come back. Reset, reload. But what else do they have to live for? All the love back home had done was hurt them. Love had been violence and abuse. They are on a journey to die, on their own terms.

(Love. You can accept that it’s nothing but violence and abuse, that there’s nothing worth it in the world, and kill everything. Including all the pieces of your soul that make you alive. Or you can learn, Frisk and Chara can learn, that love can be butterscotch pie and forgiveness and so much more. You can even settle for the middle, Frisk returning to the surface and fighting through it all.)

Frisk’s fight with Asriel is so impactful, because it truly feels like a culmination of a fight they’ve been having with themself, too. He’s everything they thought they knew - it’s kill or be killed, love is violence, it’s not worth it, why not lay down and die and die and die and die? And he’s everything that they’ve learned - it’s kindness, it’s determination to go on, it’s worth it, get up and live and live and live no matter the pain, no matter the death. Love.

Frisk’s journey through the underground, to me, is a beautiful story about them dealing with suicidal thoughts and wanting to live again. Finding a new family, purpose and power, choosing to live time and time again, until they return to a world they’ll never see the same again - from sepia to color, from rain to a sunrise, with all their loved ones at their side. Their true family. Each implication and aspect of it haunts me - LV, Chara, Flowey, you already know it. The fucking player.

This has been floating in my mind for years and I’ve never really known how to properly express it and analyze it. So here. Is this thing on can y’all hear me Frisk’s journey through the underground is them healing and starting to want to live again and Chara cheers them on the whole time with memories of what their father said to them when they were dying. By their own hand, at that. Like do you understand the agony

[undertaleparallel]

Undertale Parallel 613

is the first time for the prince to see a dark fountain

[cutter-kirby]

there is something about malevolent that can be so undertale