Stray Thoughts [now liveblogging Deltarune ch 2]

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Hi, Noelle!

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It looks like you're trying to understand the word "willing"! Would you like some help?

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Bold of you to assume we wouldn't rather kick your ass than find our friends.

 

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I warned you.

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Okay, I won't tell you you got abandoned.

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You are so lucky that my choices don't matter.

 

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a) I am the protagonist of a Toby Fox game. I have unlimited room for truces. In fact, the space in which I store them literally expands when I add more.

b) I didn't agree to jack shit with those other two. They're going in the hamster cage. (Ralsei probably won't actually let me imprison a lightner, but I'm gonna try.)

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Wow... that looks suspiciously like a playable character. With a better spell list than Ralsei's. Though, with only two people in the party, spells that cost 32% tp are going to be hard to get off.

 

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Isn't it just... a plum and some sugar?

 

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So... I'm stuck in the enemy-infested alleys, with a 33% Good Truce Rate, and you two are having romantic festival time? May I submit that, since absolutely none of us are straight, the social groupings here are somewhat suboptimal?

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Does this

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look like the face of someone who knows how to deal with crushing, existential dread?

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Wait, did you just... help me with a puzzle?

 

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I'm definitely feeling interfered with, that is true.

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Yes, in that I'm going to capture you and add you to my pokedex castle town.

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Yes I do, you just don't care about them. In fact, I explicitly told you I would prefer death to the bosom thing, and yet here we are.

 

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It's the crocs that really sell it, I think.

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More reaction images. Don't mind me.

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It does seem unlikely, what with the whole bird thing.

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Your ideal calf muscles seem to extend above your ideal knees.

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... you know, given that you're already a boombox, I kind of think this might be an achievable goal for you. Go for it, buddy.

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You built... a heroic golden statue... of the people you're rebelling against?

And you put nipples on it?

How do you even know what nipples look like?

 

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Found a weird secret room. There was moss in it.

 

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So, instead of a joke here, I have some actual literary analysis. Chapter 1 was about how people can flourish if you offer them positive relationships. Chapter 2 seems to be about consent, and what happens when you don't care about it.

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Also, things abusers say.

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It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAND!

(what nine thousand?!)

((I'm back to jokes now.))

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Get. Rekt.

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Does anyone else read this in the tone of "Captain Hammer... threw a car... at my head..."?

 

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Wow, we're just going full narcissist-mom here, aren't we?

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That is a word you use to describe objects that you buy. I know Queen's a villain and she brought this on herself and she deserves Birdly if anyone does, but in fact, no one deserves Birdly.

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You didn't bake shit. You made the music bots pour battery acid in a pie plate.

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We would normally stammer a transparent lie at a time like this, but you don't actually listen when people talk, so, meh.

 

By the way, I googled "sugar plum" and it turns out the word "plum" was just to describe their shape, sort of like "chocolate egg" or "gummy worm". They seem to just be seasoned sugar. So, I guess I was filled with the power of not knowing what a sugar plum was.

 

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Welp. This is absolutely definitely going to be a positive and productive encounter that I will not regret.

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Actually, all my friends sent me away so I could do something that convenienced them. It's slightly better than abandoning me like slime.

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Gee, I wonder why this guy didn't make it in sales.

There was a pillow in the dumpster, like the one in that secret spot I found with the moss. I'm guessing that's where I'm supposed to "come alone." Sounds... swell.

 

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Yeah, seriously, have you seen her spell list? AOE sleep!

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You might just be dizzy from the mouse puzzles.

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Really? Does that mean you know about the soul birdcage? Because I'd really like to hear about the soul birdcage. (Why is it on a wagon?)

 

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Hey! So, was it advantageous to split the party?

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Ah, I see. You've been teaching each other useful skills. Though, that sounds more like an advantage of you two not splitting up...

Now, I have this present on my head, due to shenanigans I didn't screenshot.

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The fluffy boy must smile!

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Hmmm... So, I really doubt that Asriel the golden boy never got any gifts back in happy harmony town. Everyone seemed to like him. On the other hand, I really can't see Ralsei lying. Maybe they aren't somehow the same person after all.

On the other hand, it seems just as unlikely that there's no connection, given the physical resemblance and the name. Hmm... could Ralsei be some sort of creation or reflection of Asriel instead of being him directly? I could totally see Asriel naming his shadow clone, or the shadow clone naming himself, just by shuffling the letters of Asriel's name around.

He must be Asriel's Nobody, Ralxsei!

 

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Man, Kris's name should have been Neon, because they sure don't react.

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I mean, all she did while under Queen's control was flirt awkwardly with you until Queen gave up and sent in Birdly. It's not like you have anything to hold a grudge over.

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Do you want to end up at the space-time point of least resistance? Because this is how you end up at the space-time point of least resistance.

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Note how Noelle doesn't show up in the menu anymore.

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Class changes! That must mean we're halfway through the game, right?

But seriously, though, the only "advantage" to splitting up was accommodating the three-character combat system. I'm sure Toby Fox found it convenient, but it didn't really advantage us at all. You two could have taught each other magic and sarcasm just fine on the other route, while helping me and Noelle with all those fights and puzzles.

 

It made a good opportunity to reminisce with Noelle (or mostly let her reminisce in Kris's direction), as she likely wouldn't have said many of those things in Susie's presence

 

kris uses they/them not he/his

 

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There’s a theory that Ralsei is also a Darkener, and a manifestation of Kris missing their brother. At one point Toriel mentions getting Kris a headband with goat horns on it, and remarking she wonders where it is. https://i.redd.it/58bvx07bm1x11.jpg/

 

Of course, thanks. Fixed.

Yes, but that doesn't explain how much Ralsei seems to know about the Light World, or how he can move on his own between discontiguous Dark Worlds. Maybe if Kris were secretly carrying that headband in their pocket... but we can see their inventory.