“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I really like how Crowley's belt is turning out jsksj

THE AWNING OF A NEW AGE - PT 2 of 3

I mean, the funny thing is that as soon as the Deltarune Fandom saw Gerson in Chapter 4 acting as a kinda Trickstery sort of Mentor to Susie and how he pushed her character arc forwards, folks started to speculate about Chapter 5 having a similar sort of situation with Ralsei. And at the time I was just like, yeah , I would love for Ralsei to have a ‘Focus Chapter’ the way Chapter 4 was clearly for Susie, buuut I think people are taking the idea of Gerson-but-for-Ralsei a bit too literally?

Like, Gerson was such an effective teacher for Susie because his unusual teaching methods managed to home in on the ways that she can best learn, and that was very important for her specifically as a person clearly failed by the education system and in general the ways he played the Trickster Mentor trope was tailor-made for Susie’s character (and there’s also the aspect of Gerson literally being a teacher by trade, and not unlikely the literal teacher of the person who made that Fountain as well). Ralsei is a different person going through a different arc, so just reiterating on Gerson with a different Darkner who probably wouldn't have Gerson's specific background and just switching around some lines just won’t be as effective for that arc.

And from all the ways I was considering for how they’ll pull it off, I was absolutely not considering the possibility that Ralsei’s Gerson-Equivalent is going to try for a lot of the same Trickster Mentor shtick but it’s just going to…. Fucking suck for Ralsei. Flowery is trying and it’s hard to say that he wasn’t effective at all, Ralsei character did seriously evolve this Chapter, but Flowery is just not as good at this Trickstery Methods of Teaching lessons as Gerson was and then also Ralsei is also just a lot less receptive than Susie was.

like here he is, being INTENSE PERFECTIONIST AND CONTROL FREAK (in a way that he isn’t, in the rest of his life) and the second one of his plants shows a flaw, even a single leaf spot, he puts it down the garbage disposal, discarding it the way he felt he was discarded????

crowley, go to therapy

go to therapy, crowley

(or possibly he did go to therapy and the therapist was the one who suggested he get a hobby like gardening and he twitched a bit and went “mmm yeah Gardening, right. i can go make a Garden for myself sure. right. it’ll be very therapeutic.” it is not very therapeutic, it is just picking at an old scab)