The song under the lake. It’s not a “new” song. But, I can’t remember…

I didn’t notice it at all the first time I did it because I was so awestruck by the scene. I did it again to look for extra details, and I fixated on the noises. Hard to hear it under the constant distorted DODLDODOO ominous stings as we go deeper into the lake, but the noise that plays there. Go look at the game’s audio files. “ch5_inversion_lake_chant”, something like that. the song that plays when we drown. It’s the song under the lake. And like the onion tells us, “it’s not a ‘new’ song”. It’s a song we all know, at least, in part. And it’s driving me crazy to think what it could possibly mean!!!

It’s fucking Your Best Friend. There’s no clear melody, it’s all drum beats, but it is the EXACT beat of that track. I’ve listened over and over and I can only hear that. I’m not sure if there are any other DR/UT tracks that use that rhythm precisely - the thing that makes me feel really insane is that Flowey’s motifs show up normally in CH5 for Flowery. This being what it is can’t have any relation to Flowery and the normal chapter 5, right? like no way is any of that related lol. so what is the meaning??? Asriel??? Living roots??? that like a flower, I guess… WHAT DO IT MEEEAAAN

my realistic idea of what it is so far is just that it’s meant to reflect the soullessness of how you’re treating the world and these characters to push the game to its limits to change fate, ala flowey and the no mercy route of UT, the two things that motif is tied to. But onion-san’s specificity… I dunno man …

lastly, one of my earliest thoughts on a possible literal interpretation of this that I wanna write here just for fun. it was so stupid I couldn’t seriously humor it after the thought formed but…

Surtr has a weird dream about meeting a cool future version of herself that makes her feel all sorts of things

a soft redesign of the Lamplady Swansong (Aranea's Ancestor) design notes under the cut!