Let’s get to it. Deltarune is an Alternate Universe from the one in Undertale. There’s still lots of things potentially to uncover about what’s different but it seems like the Deltaverse reverses the biggest aspect of the characters.
SPOILERS
It’s opposite world.
Undertale didn’t happen. Monsters live on the surface.
Asriel is alive and grew up normally. Chara, with their own name, also is here and seems to have had a normal live with a loving family.
Undyne and Alphys don’t know each other, and Undyne has both eyes. Alphys is clearly pretty lonely, spending her time in an alley, feeding a cat she’s never even met.
Alphys DID however changed her opinion of Mew Mew 2, and now thinks it was good, despite her frequently stated aversion to it in the original.
Onionsan used to proclaim “The name’s Onion-san! Onion-san y’hear!” and when you find him in town in Deltarune he’s forgotten what his name even is.
Gerson, best known for being the oldest monster, and survivor of the big war, has died.
Bratty and Catty’s families live next door to each other, but aren’t friends.
Sans is the guy that ‘everyone knows’, has a whole barful of people who wait on him to show up. In the Deltaverse he’s new and knows no-one. (Except you I guess)
Papyrus – outgoing, boisterous Papyrus, who I think has the most lines in Undertale – does not even appear, and doesn’t leave his house.
Mettaton, who we only knew as the sassy robot, appears to be living in Napstablook’s house and probably doesn’t want to come out because he’s not a robot. He’s a ghost without the form he desired, because Alphys isn’t a scientist and hasn’t built it.
That’s the ones I’ve noticed so far, and the only thing that’s not reversed that could’ve been is that Toriel and Asgore are divorced. So they’re doomed in any universe I guess (but what did Asgore do here that wasn’t killing human children??)
The most obvious reason for this is that SOMETHING earlier in the timeline, before the events in Undertale, was changed. Something apparently brought down the Barrier way, way before Frisk ever showed up. The monsters are free, but none of the bonds built by Frisk during their adventure happened.
So the most obvious question that needs answering in the Deltaverse is: what broke the barrier early? Gaster is implied to have a hand in Deltarune and I remember thinking about how the DT Extraction machine was probably his design. If Gaster hadn’t been erased, had been able to continue his work instead of Alphys taking over, perhaps he might’ve been successful?
how… what is… did you just have this art lying around?? was it in a box labeled In Case Of Goblin Seduction 6-Pack Joke Break Glass? apparently this is a Magic card and I have a lot of questions for Magic: The Gathering right now
I can never remember this card’s real name because everyone just calls it “Abs of Treason”
The card name is “Enthralling Victor”. It has a ‘spiritual sequel’ card in terms of artwork called “Captivating Crew”, drawn by the same artist:
Abs of treason
From what I heard the story with Enthralling Victor is that the developers intended it to be a guy who achieved a victory such enthralling it makes one of the enemy monsters switch sides. The artist misunderstood it and drew an enthralling guy named Victor. Everyone decided it’s better that way.
“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
newborn temeraire: oh my, I don’t really understand all of these laws I have to follow, but laurence is good and kind and smart and wonderful, and I suppose he understands, so I’ll do what he says.
like one year later: yo fuck your rules, parliament. get on, laurence, we’ve got ‘shrooms to distribute.
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