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a fascinating aspect about tenna that i think about quite often + that i feel doesn't get explored very much is tenna's own relationship to power, or specifically his lack of actual power. he is a character in various roles of power as the boss of his world, whose actual power over others gets subverted or flipped from what might be expected in a couple different ways.
full analysis under the cut! Any image text transcriptions will be in alt text as usual :)
tenna is a character that carries some rather incredible literal power to him, no doubt. likely one of the most physically powerful darkners we see outside of the shadow bosses. he has literal reality bending powers (including being able to split the screen in two), the ability to teleport himself + others, is implied to be able to see into the lightworld more directly, is physically VERY large, and seemingly has lightning powers. he's kind of overpowered if you think about it too hard! but this isn't necessarily where he lacks in power.
Tenna is the "boss" of TV world - he made it, he 'rules' it, but we have never actually see him use these powers against his workers specifically, and even against the lightners he only uses them during moments of extreme duress (doomboard where he is having an active psychological break, and his battle - his very last resort, in which he is still for the most part making you play minigames instead of actively fighting with bullets and whatnot). Rarely does he ever seem to actually use these powers much outside of just making things "fun" unless he is forced to, like we see in chapter 3 when contextualized by Sword Route.
Despite being the boss of this world + the literal manager-type boss in charge of his darkners, he lacks any sort of real bite beyond his passive aggression and his need to micromanage. His employees don't really cower in fear to him - they don't hold much respect for him.
Any authority he may have had gets undermined rather notably when we see his employees perfectly comfortable goofing off on the clock, stealing from his bonus zone Right in front of him, and or beating him up even under threat of being fired / not being paid. AND they're unionized (mostly putting here because this is incredibly funny to me. sorry. tv world being unionized is genuinely unbelievably funny to me). They're not actively scared of him because they know he's not really going to go through with any actual punishment.
i see him get compared to a CEO pretty regularly and sure: yes, technically, he is the one running his studio. But, at least in my opinion, he's much more comparable to a middle manager type, all things considered. he may be the director and the one running his show, but he still answers to the powers that be. He's at the whims of whoever is above him much like any other darkner, but being TV in the living room - the ones who can change the channel, the ones in charge of his ratings, are the ones who truly call all the shots: His lightners most notably. or the censors. or whathaveyou.
He's like a hardass theatre director, and he's a hardass for a reason - if his performers slip up, its lights out for HIM! He doesn't even force his workers to stay even with his possible ability to trap people in gacha balls. he Lets them leave. The only thing he does when his workers start actually leaving is get on his knees and beg for help.
and if you wanna talk about what literal television is emboldened to follow behind as well, things like ads and sponsorships also have a hand in controlling television. As im sure everybody is aware we all know quite well that spamton and tenna had, at the *very* least, a business partnership (if not more). Rather frequently i see depictions of their relationship with a power imbalance in Tenna's favor - he's the big boss, so of course, he must be the one to hold more persuasion in that relationship! but i would like to propose that the power pendulum might actually have been more in Spamton's favor, realistically.
While we don't have a completely solid timeline about their relationship (and likely never really will), based on the way tenna talks about spamton, it can be assumed that he met him during or after spamton's rise to fame. This is something that can be deduced due to much of their relationship seemed to involve Tenna's desire to know Spamton's secret to success - to becoming a Big Shot - more specifically. At the point of their meeting, it was very likely that Tenna was already beginning his downswing and desperation to become relevant to his family again.
He needed someone new, somebody who knew money: an ad guy. A sponsor. And Spamton was a business owner, a car dealer, in the big shiny Cyber City - a person with political power (lobbyist), with a room in the Queen's mansion. Someone with powerful allies. Somebody who could leave at any time if he wanted; he was part of that laptop after all. He was a guy with much to offer, while what Tenna could offer was to... put him on TV. he could only ever offer himself.
Tenna was seeking Spamton's own Wizard of Oz, and Spamton could never ever actually tell Tenna the truth - that everything was always built on a lie, that much of his success was borrowed from elsewhere. It's one of many close-kept secrets that Spamton kept; including his own very nature as a spam email, lest he reveal his hand. Pushing off actually telling Tenna about newer technologies like he'd promised.
Whether he intentionally did it or not, Spamton held this information above Tenna's head long enough that he grew desperate to ensure he would stick around, and drafted up that contract in an attempt to finally catch hold of that secret. This isn't to say the two never cared for one another: i do personally absolutely think they did. And I don't think Spamton would have ever agreed to sign the contract if he didn't genuinely care. He broke his deal, ran out after that phone call somewhere Tenna could never follow (big box tethered to a wall and all), and left his business partner completely in the dark and even seemingly taking Mike along with him.
... and mike. We still don't really know any conclusion on the real Mike, not yet anyways. We know Mike was maybe spamtons friend, maybe tenna's friend. Was he ever even real? Is he made up? Who's mike? Who knows! But what we do know is that a fake (later joined by two more) stepped into his place in the wake of Spamton's absence. and who took up the mantle of whatever role they thought mike took, and even some roles seemingly... outside of old mike's wheelhouse.
i've spoken more in depth about this here before but, regardless of whether Mike did so before, the fake Mikes end up in a position where they are, in effect, taking care of Tenna (see above quote). Regardless of whatever relationship Mike had before, he has become something of a caretaker for him and by his own admission, Mike is acting as a therapist to him. And as such has been subjected to some of Tenna's darkest and most vulnerable thoughts, with Tenna not truly knowing who Mike is under that suit. And is enabling the shock therapy. Can't forget the shock therapy.
At best, this is 3 strangers posing as somebody who is meant to be his friend, and at worst - he's facing caregiver mistreatment / abuse by 3 strangers posing as someone meant to be his therapist. I do think the Mikes genuinely do care for Tenna but the neglect + carelessness still has a massive effect on him regardless.
The reason why I personally don't think Tenna knows the Mike truth is that I don't think he would have any reason to say anything about the spamton contract + deal during the chapter 5 mike room cutscene if he DID know. if he DID know they were posers, I don't think he'd be referring so directly to the event considering the mikes (or at least small mike) don't know who spamton is. tenna is also a character struggling to see reality as is (something he actively says during the mike cutscene as seen above! but is also evident within his behavior during ch3 where he loses grip on reality around him during his breakdown) and as such i personally do not believe he actually knows the mikes are faking.
The fake Mikes, as much as they act as employees for Tenna in their normal role / under their assumption that Mike was also an employee, still hold power over him as characters literally in charge of his therapy - "Mike" is his caregiver. And regardless of whether Tenna knows they are fake or not, the Mikes are continuing to keep up this lie to Tenna; again, holding information over his head to "appease" him or keep him easy to work with.
The chapter 5 mike room scene isn't the first time we see 'mike' threaten to leave either, considering he does it in chapter 3 when everyone else leaves (and well. real mike has already been gone!) - something i am sure the mikes are aware of being a vulnerability for tenna, but is still used as a threat against him. even if its not on purpose, it is a way in which they hold power over him. This is again, a theme I've talked about before here but: he's treated like an obstacle, like a danger to people around him (regardless of whether he is or not!) instead of like a person.
It's also not the last time we see Tenna taken advantage of or otherwise lied to. It's actually a rather consistent pattern for him! We see it with Spamton, we see it with the Mikes, and we also see this with his deal with Kris (and the Knight by extension), even if Kris also did not want to be in this position either. And we see this later in castle town, where he gets put into a situation where spades is taking advantage of his desperation.
One last thing as part of this equation that i find gets missed a lot in some takes regarding Tenna is the reveal during sword route that he is essentially being held at gunpoint (or well… sword point). It re-contextualizes Tenna's choices and behavior within the chapter. most people pick up that theres something amiss with how tenna is acting but may not end up seeing the pay off if they don't end up playing or watching sword route play out when we find out that he has some sort of deal with kris and later we find out more of the exact terms of this deal during the cutscene leading up to his fight.
That it was very likely, with how Tenna within the game speaks, that he was threatened with being unplugged or turned off again (something he is characterized to be afraid of). He's not really extending his boards and games for attention (he actively gets annoyed / more strained at having to keep adding them on). He's stalling for time and waiting for the knight to show up. And waiting. and waiting. If he doesnt distract the gang, if he doesn't keep toriel locked away, he will be Turned off. Unplugged. Thrown away.
He's an immensely physically powerful darkner, possibly one of the most powerful beyond the shadow bosses, and is the head of his darkworld. But he is completely at the whims of what the people around him do; his lightners, his workers, his partners, his friends, his caretakers. his kid, kris. The power dynamics one may expect out of him as this powerful boss are flipped. His lightners don't know he's there, his workers don't respect him and treat him like an obstacle, his friends still leave him despite seeing his vulnerability, he still gets lied to, manipulated, and kept in the dark.
And of course:
He's perhaps most powerless against the fate that lays before him.
…Speaking as someone who knows a lot about glitches in games? From a meta perspective this is extremely weird, and I really hope I can explain this well enough.
What seems to be happening here is like an "in-universe" version of a game glitch. The damage done by FRIEND is pulling data from elsewhere in the game's memory - specifically, the table used to determine an item's D$ value. This is obviously programmed intentionally, because this is something Toby has included in the game on purpose, but it's referencing something that tends to happen when something in the game isn't working correctly.
Namely, this is what generally happens during a memory buffer overflow. There's a lot of technical stuff to this, but to make this as simple as possible; most 16-bit games (think SNES era, which matches Deltarunes style) can only "count" to 256. If something exceeds 256, then it either underflows - setting the counter back to 0 and starting again - or the excess 'overflows' into the next available counter. An overflow causes weird things to happen, as the game will sometimes continue to read (or write) code past the point it's supposed to stop doing that. This can have various unintended effects on the game, as the game starts pulling garbage data from other parts of its memory, like the co-ordinates of sprites on the screen... or tables of item data.
So what seems to be happening here is that either the damage number from FRIEND's attack is so astronomically high, or the attack itself is so incompatible with the game's reality, that it blows right past the data used to calculate damage. Instead, it causes the game to glitch, and calculate damage from a completely different section of memory, containing completely different data. Deltarune itself - the game program or app that exists on our console or PC - is working just fine, but whatever the hell is up with FRIEND is causing a memory buffer overflow in the game's reality.
And this is during a Chapter where a certain Yellow Flower starts fucking with fundamental "rules of the game" - like having 99 in all stats. Walking out of bounds. Creating an "infinite money glitch" that really bothers Ralsei for some reason. The same Ralsei who likewise starts breaking the game's fundamental rules - like walking over spikes - and snaps at Flowery later because "do you know what will happen if I don't follow the rules??"
I don't know what FRIEND is - but whatever it is, I don't think it's supposed to be here. I think it's like MISSINGNO from Pokemon Red and Blue; it's garbage data given form, a Thing That Should Not Be, that causes all kinds of abnormal things to happen when it's sought out and interacted with. There are even metatextual parallels with MISSINGNO within Deltarune, because anyone who's played the original Red and Blue knows you have to do a very specific set of actions - you know, like the Weird Route - and then go up and down where the water meets the land in order to encounter it. Like the edge of the lake.
Either way, there's something about FRIEND that fundamentally messes with the reality of a video game world - and for the people who live in it, that could be very, very dangerous.
…Speaking as someone who knows a lot about glitches in games? From a meta perspective this is extremely weird, and I really hope I can explain this well enough.
What seems to be happening here is like an "in-universe" version of a game glitch. The damage done by FRIEND is pulling data from elsewhere in the game's memory - specifically, the table used to determine an item's D$ value. This is obviously programmed intentionally, because this is something Toby has included in the game on purpose, but it's referencing something that tends to happen when something in the game isn't working correctly.
Namely, this is what generally happens during a memory buffer overflow. There's a lot of technical stuff to this, but to make this as simple as possible; most 16-bit games (think SNES era, which matches Deltarunes style) can only "count" to 256. If something exceeds 256, then it either underflows - setting the counter back to 0 and starting again - or the excess 'overflows' into the next available counter. An overflow causes weird things to happen, as the game will sometimes continue to read (or write) code past the point it's supposed to stop doing that. This can have various unintended effects on the game, as the game starts pulling garbage data from other parts of its memory, like the co-ordinates of sprites on the screen... or tables of item data.
So what seems to be happening here is that either the damage number from FRIEND's attack is so astronomically high, or the attack itself is so incompatible with the game's reality, that it blows right past the data used to calculate damage. Instead, it causes the game to glitch, and calculate damage from a completely different section of memory, containing completely different data. Deltarune itself - the game program or app that exists on our console or PC - is working just fine, but whatever the hell is up with FRIEND is causing a memory buffer overflow in the game's reality.
And this is during a Chapter where a certain Yellow Flower starts fucking with fundamental "rules of the game" - like having 99 in all stats. Walking out of bounds. Creating an "infinite money glitch" that really bothers Ralsei for some reason. The same Ralsei who likewise starts breaking the game's fundamental rules - like walking over spikes - and snaps at Flowery later because "do you know what will happen if I don't follow the rules??"
I don't know what FRIEND is - but whatever it is, I don't think it's supposed to be here. I think it's like MISSINGNO from Pokemon Red and Blue; it's garbage data given form, a Thing That Should Not Be, that causes all kinds of abnormal things to happen when it's sought out and interacted with. There are even metatextual parallels with MISSINGNO within Deltarune, because anyone who's played the original Red and Blue knows you have to do a very specific set of actions - you know, like the Weird Route - and then go up and down where the water meets the land in order to encounter it. Like the edge of the lake.
Either way, there's something about FRIEND that fundamentally messes with the reality of a video game world - and for the people who live in it, that could be very, very dangerous.
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Hello!!! My bf recommended me your fic "Fame Rub Technique" and I am OBSESSED with it!!!!!!! There's so much I love about it and me and my bf have been raving back and forth to each other about this fic for days - he's the one who suggested I share these doodles with ya since Ramb is my favorite character and I keep doodling his appearances in the fic
Thank you for all the amazing work you do!!
RAHHHHHH THANK YOU FOR DOODLES I LOVE THEMM <3<3<3 Your Ramb's energy is perfect lol most dgaf'er of all time, not causing problems on purpose, but certainly not solving them on purpose either asdfhjbaj
I loved writing Ramb's scenes, a lot of his stuff was improv lol Tenna and Ramb have the energy of a couple dudes who Do Not Like Each Other But Have No Choice In This Living-Together-Situation, the snark potential with them is bountiful lmaoo
I'm sooo happy to hear you and your bf like FRT that much T_T thank youu, I know it's been a minute since the last chapter, but it's still in the works :3 (about a quarter done) I've just been wanting to dish out some specific things this month before I finish that up :D
Back with more Fame Rub Technique(18+) by @pubbee fanart because i am. ill. Go read it!!!!!!!
Under the cut is the version of Battat I drew in his normal clothes before I remembered he was halfway in his Mike costume at the time lol
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ouuuhhhhgh rambling thoughts incoming. Mike (probably the TRUE Mike) warned Tenna about the contract. That something bad would happen if he made him sign. But Tenna made him sign anyways because his fear of becoming obsolete was too great. And of course he would, he could get thrown away if he serves no purpose anymore lose his family lose everything. That part doesn’t get me, what gets me is his response after. “I could have helped him! I WOULD have! We could’ve been big TOGETHER!”
Tenna may have made Spamton sign knowing something bad would happen but not for a second did he think about leaving him behind because of it. He’s basically out right says if something bad came they would have gone through it TOGETHER. Tenna didn’t want to just use Spamton for fame and dump him after getting it. He wanted to be big WITH him. He’d get big and then he’d bring Spamton up with him. But all that hope went away when he assumes Spamton was just tricking him all this time.
“You cared about him too, Mike” finally he out right admits it. He cared about him. Tenna and Spamton may have been using each other in some ways but to say they were ONLY using each other and there was no care is just not true. But he doesn’t understand what he cost Spamton by doing this. But at the end of the day, Spamton still signed that contract too knowing it would cost him.
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