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one thing that makes me sad is the fact that most of the time after removing the soul, kris immediately goes to eat or drink. because we've been making them sprint for 9 hours around town on moss and hot chocolate and dark world food isn't real

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It just occurred to me, I think this is the first time we ever saw her get to eat any real food (dark world food don't count, and chocolates don't have any real nutritional value).

It also just occurred to me that Susie and Niko from OneShot should be friends. They can bond over pancakes and defying prophecies and loving inanimate objects into existence.

this is genuinely the cutest fucking susie sprite for me. she looks so niceysss so happy look at her sitting holding a fork up. fake idgafer. i saw the light of hope you have within you

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Toby Fox being worried about fans having a negative reception to characters he likes or finds funny (Spamton, Tenna, etc) feels a bit silly given how excellent he is at writing until you remember that a) even the best of writers still feel insecure about things and get anxiety and b) literally everything about the fandom reception to Alphys at launch

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He asked for 5000. We gave over 10x that. And it's reached millions of players.

This is more than just the achievements of mortal men. God brought this to life.

Undertale Kickstarter goal completed. Arigatou.

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Wouldn't that be something? The sheath betraying the knight to the dragon.

The single scene I believe nailed down Kris's entire trajectory, that explained the most about them as a character, has to be their chapter four piano concert:

We, as the player, have no input in this scene at all. If you try to play the long sequence right, they'll just mess it up, prompting the dialogue anyway. There's no command from us that they twist in order to be "allowed" to play, no nudge from us in the right direction- they just snatch control, because Susie wants to hear them.

This is such a complete stab through the gut, not just because of their passion and the fluid animation and sheer expressiveness, but because Kris can just do that! It isn't that they physically can't play piano with the soul in the driver's seat, they just won't, until Susie empowers them to. No matter how badly they want the freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they restrain themselves. They let us take the reins and try to just submit, and they can't keep it up.

The interpretation this strikes me with, coupled with their "knighting" and their "promise" to the mysterious caller and their unspecified egg trauma... We know they know how we work, and that their plans with us are premeditated and calculated, at the behest of (maybe multiple) adults who have significant power over them. At least the Mayor is directing them to let themselves be turned into a vessel. We know this would have to have started before they went to the first Dark World, when Susie was still a bully, Noelle estranged and Ralsei not even in the picture.

We know that by the opening of the third fountain, by the time they're spinning prompts to get into banter with Susie and blocking us from being mean to Ralsei and drawing messages on windows and sneaking in as much of themselves into their relationships as possible, they've been turning themselves into our tool to be ultimately pitted against the group since day one. That no matter how much they can be coaxed out, at the end of the day, they have to be shoved back in their place, if not by us, by the Knight/mayor/etc who've facilitated this entire thing. That their choices don't matter.

Evil-Kris officially out, Deeply-Conflicted-Kris officially in. Of course earlier Kris tries to keep themselves closed off from the Extended Fun Gang- no matter how much they adventure together, how much they grow to like their company, Kris will inevitably, in their eyes, have to betray them. Because they made their choice before the story could even begin. Because they promised.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

This one still seems to fit. Good on you, bread.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Thinking about Noelle being afraid of Santa Claus, and came up with a few ideas:

Everyone knows Santa's sleigh is driven by reindeer, so maybe she's afraid of ending up in slave labor.

I can't remember if anyone's said whether Asgore played Santa for the kids, but I think he probably did, for both families. And then things fell apart. Is it possible Noelle has seen or heard things she didn't understand (and has likely blocked out) and it bugged her and instilled an odd fear?

Kris' name is spelled the same as in Kris Kringle, another name for Santa, and Kris once hid under Noelle's bed to scare her.

Her mom collects these things:

Yeah, having so many of those might freak me out a little, too.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Is this a reference to something? Gotta be a reference to something. Anybody know if it's a reference to something?

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She's like the biggest dork XP

[the-unrelated-theorist]

So THAT'S what Tenna meant about the fountain coming in a pulsating rainbow color.

The less health the Roaring Knight has, the brighter and faster their battle background becomes.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

I will legitimately be extremely surprised if Toby doesn't make some kind of reference.

saw these tags and agreed so hard I tried to find a way to make it work

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Well, with Susie's weapon being a hairbrush, if she is a princess, she's probably Rapunzel.

If Kris is the princess, they're probably Ariel (water references, no voice).

And if Noelle's the princess... nah, you know what, just... let it go.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

I know Noelle likes freaky stuff, but I wonder if the crime one is related to Dess' disappearance. Like, maybe Noelle's trying to solve it on her own.

And if that's the case, maybe the paranormal and paranatural are, too?

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Remembering that Rudy also calls Kris "Krismas." Gotta wonder if he's saying the human kid has the personality of a cactus asdfghjk

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Yeah, Kris, where ARE our shurakins???