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Toby Fox has CONFIRMED Chapter 3&4 is coming out next year!!
(On another note, I am aware there's been a lot of Toby Fox posting lately that I haven't covered! Transparently, it's been a difficult month mental health wise and I haven't been very focused on the blog. I apologize. I hope I can get back to posting soon!)
the thing you have to understand about Gaster Knight is that it's so unbelievably stupid at face value that it successfully obfuscates how fucking genius and cool it actually could be. like Shattered Gaster as the Knight manages to be both nonsensical and weirdly anticlimactic but Shattered Gaster as the (from his perspective) “former” Knight, the would-be protagonist of deltarune's “base game,” who was led astray on a quest that was always doomed to fail and end the world, who then somehow persisted beyond what fate or “canon” intended for him, and is now trying to complete that quest by any means necessary, breaking his strings as a character in a story and using his own lived experience of failure to create a fix-it “fic” or “ROM hack” of that story in defiance of “canon” and his own creator's intention for it, goes hard as hell. and deltarune is telling both stories simultaneously by having the Knight and his future self exist contemporaneously and act both in opposition and in parallel, and obfuscating the connection by shifting the audience POV from the Knight to the Fun Gang, the new protagonists set up by Shattered Gaster to stop him. the Knight becomes a direct bridge between the Surface Narrative and the Deep Narrative, in parallel with Dess. the puppet becomes the puppeteer. this shit is fucking cool dude it's literally an epic that spans spacetime and universes and dimensions. i have yet to see another Knight candidate that offers such a compelling degree of metanarrative what-the-fuckery while still being grounded in the reality of the world
and. sorry. but if we say that the Knight's “Prophecy” or “Quest” was/is to find a missing “princess,” à la Zelda or any number of other classic JRPG premises, then this only gets crazier and goes a long way to explain why gaster is fuck deep in christmassy reindeer horseshit. im just saying. think of it like a classic JRPG premise with a twist: some random youth is “chosen” by Fate and, through some fantasy contrivance, tasked with finding and freeing a missing princess. but the twist is that, in this story, the protagonist is supposed to fail. deltarune's “base game” has no happy ending, only darkness. but the twist on that is that the "hero"/"fool" somehow escaped his Bad End, became a refugee in an entirely different narrative universe, and kept searching there. he made a promise to help someone who needed it, and as far as he knows, she's still out there waiting for him to fulfill that promise. can you imagine the years spent in undertale's world after inadvertently destroying his home, knowing that the girl he said he would help was still alone in the dark somewhere, probably thinking he'd fucking forgotten about her. is it any wonder that he built his most ominous machine in the image of a deer. is it any wonder why he ripped himself to pieces, why he's haunted by motifs of grief and pain, why his "death" is compared to alphys's thoughts of suicide. is it any wonder why he dutifully collects and organizes UNUSED strings, presenting them to dataminers on a silver platter, or why he's so desperate to break through to Noelle, specifically. do you get what i mean. this shit is nuts
device theory part 3 good
worlds tallest purse chihuahua of a man
happy pride month yay!!! :3
this is just a quick drawing in between stuff cuz i needed to draw noelle happy ^^
DGSGSH HELLO KERDLY NATION
Still can't get over the fact that Toby Fox dreamed up a game ending, but he decided he wanted to make something a little less ambitious first, so instead he made the most influential indie game of all time
what ARE your addison thoughts? i know you said spamton isn't one, but do you have any other opinions on them?
what does it mean when noelle kills the pink addison?
after all, they're not a huge character. sure, the music cuts out after you kill them, and it is framed as a horrific thing, but you can still back out of the snowgrave route at any time afterwards. their and the other darkners' deaths are able to be smoothed over quite easily -- too easily. the game merely treats it as though you didn't recruit them. berdly is the only one that snaps noelle out of her trance -- and as well, he is marked as the point of no return, the divergence point of snowgrave. but why?
all in all, i do think that this philosophy will apply just as much to deltarune as it did to undertale:
in that there will be empathy and personhood extended towards the characters seen in other jrpgs as simply "enemies".
I believe I have collected every single Valentine card showcased in the newsletter shuffle! Thank you so much to everyone who sent theirs in for this post <3 (1/2)
Tumblr limits 30 images to a post, so these get their own. (Credit to @captn3 for finding more)
WEED RALSEI IS REAL
🎨Noelle in diff color palettes🎨
