Ok uh TADC question as a non-queer dude because I see people unanimous about a thing in the last episode, which I also see but am then confused why they handled it that way (spoilers under cut)
So, trans Jax. In episode 1-8 I didn't see it until I saw the theory online, then it was one of those things where I think "I can see where it's from, I don't necessarily think it's 100% where it's going but cool". Then, with that already in mind as a possibility now, episode 9 seemed way more in that direction, to the point where I generally agree with people that that is the intended takeway (even if still not sure I'd have noticed without outside influence from before lol)
But the question is, and I had that question in mind even during the show: why do they still use the masculine after? For IRL Jax I can understand as different-ish person with probably different life trajectory, but the in-circus one at this point should be clear-cut somewhat for them too, right? Or did I misunderstand what Pomni saw? Or did she misunderstand what she saw? IDK
Especially since this doesn't seem like a "writers didn't want to commit" issue since the author is AFAIK trans too right
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Watched TADC finale. Won't say shit, but I liked it!
Am also not info fandom theories or whatever for this series, so don't care about that part
I know many people will hate it but hey, it was going to happen regardless of the ending so
And now watch people that do get pissed do so because of some dumbass reason instead of some actual writing issues are probably there but I don't care enough to think of
TL; DR: I realized Toriel in Deltarune might not actually hate Asgore, and is more uncomfortable like you'd be with a closed one that lost themselves to obsessions.
(wall of text under the cut)
To elaborate: when playing Deltarune, many people including me had a question regarding Toriel and Asgore's relationship, in that it seems much worse than in Undertale where he had killed children (or still, humans, I'm still not convinced they were all kids), most or all of which Toriel had taken care of at some point. So, if it is worse, the question would be "what did he even do in Deltarune for her to hate him even more than in Undertale?"
My initial standing idea was either
It's a more grounded setting than Undertale, so it's probably a more mundane issue that gives a more emotional response, like some closer to life bad events in fiction feel much worse than apocalyptic things like ends of the world in the same fiction
They are immortal in Undertale so they had 100+ years of separation to mull it over, and generally have a perspective further from IRL people (which, by the way, can often lead to issues personally in fiction, what do you mean Ganyu GenshinImpact acts like stock shy waifu when she's millennia old and participated in the God Wars TM)
Then, Ch3+4 came out, and while he certainly does something worse (the am-bush), her reactions still felt off, to me: not in a "I blame her" like some folk do, actually almost in the opposite sense, I had expected her to react more strongly, at the very least least when not in front of him, but here they gave me now a different feeling.
Then after replaying recently I realized... she doesn't actually hate him, in her behavior? Her being mentioned as praying for him by Alvin initially confused me, but I realized her behavior is more uncomfortable (very much so) than angry.
So, what my current idea of their relationship is: something happened and Asgore has been likely obsessed with finding the truth about The Incident (assuming Dess, but irrelevant here exactly what). Likely supernatural shit is involved, which from Toriel and everyone else's POV is impossible, so she just saw her husband spiraling into a bad place, and likely dragging people around him down with him.
And, when similar things happen IRL, someone going into bad circles, having a bad substance abuse issues, or a cult, or other things, people close to them will likely initially try to help them, but if it's no use it's not rare to get away from the person to avoid needlessly suffering, even if you do not hate them, you just realize here is no use in making yourself suffer more.
This reading more or less makes everything about that particular relationship fit, in my opinion. Toriel prays for Asgore because even if she does not want to be involved personally with him at the very least until he gets over this (and likely, at this point it would never go back to more than vaguely amicable like in what's implied by Undertale's alarm clock stuff), she still wishes for him to get better.
Even explains the apparent beef Toriel has with Carol in Ch4: she might be helping, or pretending to help, Asgore with his investigation obsession, and from Toriel's POV in that case she'd be enabling him.
There are still assumptions being made (mostly about the nature of The Incident being supernatural => Toriel not believing it over her now-ex-husband just having broken down after a bad event), of course
Man, I'm bad at not writing walls of text
(Pardon me for possible strange wording, for how terminally online I am English is still not my first language)
The fact the new genshin quest has at least one plot point in common with SCP's There is no Antimemetics Division is fascinating
Was a while since I enjoyed a quest from that game, and this one is quite good (vague spoilers below)
I mean specifically the "the enemy can know everything an thus you must work in the one space it cannot see into", even if of course in SCP it's a far more oppressive situation. And infohazards in general, I guess? Probably more if I think on it
Still got to finish the quest at time of writing tho
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Correction as I forgor: bases for the amiibos are *not* by me but I sadly forgot where I got the files, they were free amiibo base models though; I made the Deltarune cover (that is barely visible in that photo) for those + the other bases
Maa people are fighting about UTY clover's gender again
And, though I have no direct horse in the race being a cis guy myself, I can't help but notice in the case of the properly* nb chars from the base game, how all the "it's just a genderswap, it's a common thing in fanart" folk seem to not notice how much more often it seem to happen for them in particular.
I cannot help but wonder why I never saw Dude Muffet without specifically searching it**, but "genderswapped version" of Frisk/Chara are quite common to see without going out of your way to. Truly a mistery as to why.
*as in, more-or-less canon as opposed to explicitly stated to be up for interpretation
**I haven't, I quite like miss Muffet to a Merg degree, was just an example of something I'm confident would never make numbers in a generalist space lol
Deltarune shower thought: if Susie is associated to hopes, and for now she seems to be a mirror of sorts of Dess in various ways, what if Dess is associated to dreams
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Finished the Ralsei 3d print! Model by Dotflare, based on the design of user<a bunch of numbers> on Twitter (the guy who made those Gorillaz deltarune fanart + a bunch of cool specifically design stuff)
Was harder than expected, because even if the model was already there it was not made for printing but animation, so adapting assorted non physically possible parts took a while. I could go into mor detail on how to adapt that kind of thing later maybe but I'm no blender pro
Base is custom, printed two different colours for the base and deltarune then joined them
(also I loathe painting and even if this was 90% green spray the few parts I had to paint were annoying, though I ended up doing the hidden bits like the assorted accessories on hands/bracelets hidden by the cloak here)
Very satisfied by result! Even painting as limited by my non skill
I feel too old* to go into this but: for how much people are talking about super layered romantic plot twists that will certainly come in the next Deltarune chapters, you'd expect the focus of the game to shift past-midpoint into a full blown romance story, RPG stuff and prophecy falling by the side, GasterBullshitTM dead in a ditch like the pool skeleton meme
BTW this refers to actual game theorycrafting, if it's just fanart/fiction/stuff go off and go wild, I'm eating all of y'all stuff ravenously (not being that much into shipping per se doesn't make most related fanart any worse than other fanart, and seems to give more fuel to fanartists so that's good)
\* Am not actually particularly old, but certainly feel like it sometimes in these regards lol
Was streaming* the other day and the subject of the Evil Ass Fountain Openers :tm: as a general plot addition in Ch4 came up. And there I realized the (at least, one) reason I like that plot element so much:
Often, in games (probably other kinds of stories too, but let's keep to games) with a meta element, the meta element is the end point of the mystery. Even in UT, finding out SAVING is this whole in-world thing related to Determination, canonizing the 4th wall break** in a way, is the end of the story, kind of.
In Deltarune, probably also relying on the fact you played UT and so take the metaness** as granted, it is not the answer to the mistery, just one ingredient of it. And so, having this whole conspiracy that, in common opinion, likely did something with this whole soul extradimensional/4th-wall-breaky**/world-foundations-fucky thing, to advance their own complex goals, is way more interesting to me.
Example in another context: take a D&D-like setting where resurrection magic exists, say Dungeon Food. In there it's just a ingredient like another to create a mistery. Maybe (made up example) a murder mistery where the victim actually died twice, and id something between resurrection and 2nd murder. That's what I mean by using something as an ingredient.
Nothing bad in the simpler way, of course. Just this addition plays with the Soul stuff in a way that becomes more interesting. Probably not the only reason I like this plot element having been introduced, but still
Hopefully this post makes sense, didn't want to ramble too much so I may have skipped over or oversimplified things
*Don't get the wrong idea, I mean to like 2 people
**Talking in general, regardless of the meta stuff being literal 4th wall breaks or wholly diegetic and representative, etc. etc.
Post in another language vale a dire italiano e fuori tema vale a dire Inntale: ma sto finale di stagione?
Figo, interessante, anche se non posso fare a meno di pensare all'universo parallelo in cui non c'era una seconda stagione per mancanza di successo (ok, improbabile, pokemon, still) e finiva così lmao
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For some reason remembered about Undertale Yellow and looked again at its fan-stuff and assorted ending reactions (including my own) yesterday, and man it was so good
The ending music still makes me emotional
Clover the GOAT
Still unsure why its community and fancontent gives me a different vibe than base UT (not better or worse, just different in a way I cannot put my finger onto), I know why the games do and that's simply because I played UTY blind and UT not
Ok, recent Delterune fandom dumbassery made me incidentally find out about That One Review.
The most frustrating part was it actually having somewhat good points on gameplay mechanics specifically, but man, way to bury them.
No, "annoying fans were going to be angry regardless so might as well pump it full of vitriol" (paraphrasing, a bit late to go back and check) is not the smart sentence you think it is, *especially* in the context of a purportedly objective review
I should just stick to reading things I enjoy in the free time from work lol
