if at this point you truly believe the weird route to be about some presupposed perverse fascination the player is meant to have about noelle then that says more about you than it does the game. like if you refuse to recognize that it is, in fact, about kris and noelle's messy past and current relationship then you are not meeting the game where it is at all
(most recent prompt in the “thankyou” survey, a chain of teaser email queries stretching from a year before chapter 5, relating to the weird route)
(a collection of submitted answers, from the deltarune wiki)
(the response to each of the above answers)
i think it's pretty clear at this point what the throughline is, and it's not what anyone likes to fantasize about it being

















