Artist my ass

So I figured out how to change my phone ringtone and notification sounds and immediately wanted to theme my phone around Deltarune because I was so hyped for Chapter 5. I legit used a ruler to make sure that my ratio for this was big enough and it worked pretty well so I'm happy about that. Flowery's boss fight annoyed me so much mainly because of how clunky the mechanics are to get used to. I feel like it would have been more interesting if throughout each fight with one of the six flowers, they used their soul effects on you (i.e. Blue makes you blue, yellow makes the soul yellow, etc), where each fight introduces each mechanic, and then the Flowery fight makes you switch in between each soul mode during each attack somehow idk it'd probably be even more clunky but ooooh my god I wish we could have gotten more chances to acclimate to the orange soul's playstyle becaue I struggled SO HARD- but yeah other than that I liked the mechanics of this chapter a lot. Also I love Mew Mew, I love her fight so much, Petal Dance is my favourite track of the chapter because of those BEAUTIFUL ZUN-PETS YEAAAAAAAAAAAH- (I was literally thinking during Aqua's fight, "wow! these bullet patterns feel very Touhou-" AND THEN THE ZUN-PETS KICKED IN AND I WENT FERAL. Speaking of feral, the moment Flowery showed up I hissed like a feral cat the moment he said his name, he pisses me off so much I LOVE HIM, he's such a professional ragebaiter. I really enjoyed Chapter 5 overall, and while a lot of people aren't that big a fan of the tone of the chapter, I think it works with it being the last "fun" adventure and is also pretty good juxtaposition to... something that happens in this chapter that has genuinely made me physically ill thinking about but tickles my morbid love for existential and psychological horror so much that it makes this game feel like a large scale psychological experiment, no joke.

Anyways, onto the art. So I wanted to try doing actual lineart for once after using the chalk brush again. Despite a few stray lines here and there, I'm actually pretty happy with how this turned out. It's a different sort of style and feel compared to what I usually go for, but I enjoyed changing up my style for this one. Choosing an actual colour palette was really difficult, but once I changed up my process and added the actual foreground and background I ended up really liking it. I was inspired by the Kingdom Heart's Stained Glass art, so that influenced the composition of the piece a lot. I'll also put my sketchbook doodle for this piece in as well, because there were a few changes in terms of Kris' design along the way. I made Kris' cape cover up the entirety of their chest because I genuinely did not feel like drawing their torso and also because I liked how it looked a lot. I really like making Kris' cape big and flowy because there's just more oppurtunities for posing and compositions that way. I also just really like drawing fabric, it's so fun. I may not be 100% satisfied with the way the pose reads, though I blame that on the fact that I've been looking at this god damn piece for way too long LOL-

I REALLY REALLY wanted to incorperate the blue roses Kris is associated with into the piece, and this ended up making me think about Kris' backstory again. So, blue roses are genetically modified versions of white roses (which thinking about it now, calls to mind the whole "copies are monochrome but you coloured us in with care" thing) and this got me thinking about theories like "Kris is the vessel we made in the beginning of the game." I'm not 100% a follower of this theory, but a part of me also believes that Kris is tied to Gaster in some way. Another idea I've had is that Kris was experimented on by Gaster in the shelter, or that Gaster is PLOT TWIST! A HUMAN! And is Kris' biological father that heard about the prophecy, had a religious psychosis about it, can did scientific experiments on his own child to try and create a vessel for them in the shelter, to which Kris escaped and was taken in by the Dreemurrs. Their dynamic would probably be something like, "no matter how much you hate me, your are still my child," and a lot of Kris' childhood was Gaster focusing on making Kris a strong enough vessel for us, the player (I wanna make another post and/or art piece talking about this so I'll leave it at that). On that note, I believe that down in the shelter, something similar to the determination experiments is going on down there, and if Dess Knight is true, then those experiments are what caused her to turn into the Roaring Knight. This is also why Friend is similar to Endogeny, they're also an amalgamate, alongside the knight (who noticeably drips darkness goop when we first see it in Chapter 3). I don't have any solid evidence as I don't know all of the lore, but I just wanted to talk about some of my ideas here.