Neon Minded!

When Chapter 4 released, I was sure the "inferno of jealousy" in chapter 5 was referring to Asgore's jealousy over Toriel moving on from him - and that idea only got stronger after seeing her with Sans near the end. But no, Gerson deduced, through both the profecy and observing their behavior, that *Kris* was the jealous one.

"Jealousy" is perhaps the strongest theme in Chapter 5. Ralsei is jealous of Flowery's ability to be seek freedom without fear, while Flowery is jealous of Ralsei and the gang for being the only ones allowed to have a dark world, and being able to decide who gets to continue existing - "Why is your fantasy more important than ours?". Most importantly though, throughout the whole chapter there was a growing, simmering resentment from Kris. They are jealous, so jealous, of Susie and Noelle's relationship. Over the chapters, it has been an ever more important background development that Kris is head over heels for Susie, but either can't or won't spit it out. Kris is a terribly lonely kid, with Asriel gone off to college, Dess gone in a more permanent way, and Noelle estranged and awkward with them. Susie was sort of a lifeline, and "their thing" was very important to them, regardless of any nefarious plans that may be revealed in the future. Susie and Noelle are, respectively, the girl they like, and the first girl they ever liked. And now both of them are sidelining Kris, and not only that, forcing Kris to watch. There's no malice in that, they're simply lovestruck teenagers excited for their first relationship, and this is a normal consequence of it. But Kris is heartbroken, and refuses to say anything positive about the girls' relationship. The inferno of jealousy is the core of chapter 5, but I think Kris' simmering is gonna reach boiling point in chapter 6, now that Susie straight up said this is not their special thing anymore, and Noelle is gonna become an official part of the team. Susie of course is right, this is definitely the best course of action, but Kris is also 16 and filled with uncontrollable emotions.

I think the post credits scene perfectly illustrates the vibe. After an adorable montage of Susie hanging out with the darkners and preparing Castle Town to welcome Noelle, it cuts to Kris standing dejected in the dark, staring at the closet door. Then, they slowly turn around and leave.

In a sense, Gerson was warning Susie that *she* was going to be the target of that jealousy.

She loves her dad, but he's very sick and possibly going to die soon, so she feels anxiety and pre-emptive grief while also still hoping he'll get better

She loves her sister, but Dess has been missing for years. And Noelle has never stopped missing her or looking for her online, and she says it herself that ever since Dess disappeared her life got so much worse

She cares for Catti and Berdly, but they both do that thing that pretty much everyone else in her life does: treat her like a delicate maiden that is in constant need of protection and can't make her own choices. They both make assumptions about her and can be pretty annoying sometimes, even if they mean well

She cares for Kris deeply, they're one of the few people she feels comfortable saying no to, and understands them on a deeper lever than pretty much anyone else, even Susie who's only known them for a few days and thus can't tell that they've been acting out of character lately. But Noelle and Kris are nowhere near as close as they used to be, and its hinted at the fact that their relationship was always complicated even as kids, possibly due to outside forces. But with how often Noelle brings up and reminiscences on stuff that happened in their past, its pretty clear that she's haunted by how distant they've become but can't bring herself to make the first move because what if it was all in her head? What if they were never as close as she thought? If Kris wanted to reconnect, they would have already tried to do so, right? So she keeps her distance, because she has no idea how to approach them anymore

Even with Carol, I dont think Noelle HATES her, but she's definitely scared of and frustrated with her

Hell, she's so good at hiding it but this girl is already barely hanging on by a thread by the time the game starts and the weird route is just us pushing her over and over towards the edge until its too late

But with Susie? Sure she's worried about how her mom will take it, but for the first time in such a long time, things feel easy and freeing when she's with her. She doesn’t have to stress about how Susie feels about her or mold herself to meet her expectations.

And I get why that uncomplicated nature of it may make them as a couple boring to some (again i don't go here) but you'll never catch me saying that it doesn't work narratively.

With that being said I do think its possible that the next chapter will introduce some suselle angst. Rudy may actually be dead or very close to dying and Noelle said that part of the dark world's appeal for her is that every injury/wound in there can simply be healed with magic, obviously thinking about her dad while she said it. So its not off the table that when she finds out that Susie lied to her about the dark worlds not being real, she may not take it well.

POST roaring au🍎🍠

I made DR au of krusie being young adult together

after the event of ch 7

(no storyline just fluff stuff be they deserve all the

happiness)

Someone told me I should bring some of my ideas on over here too I wanted to analyze the parallels between Spamton and the rest of the main cast, and so, I started with him and Susie.

A lot of Susie and Spamton's parallels are tied to being unwanted and lashing out as a result of that isolation. There is also a line to follow through about the pair of them both being determined despite the overwhelming force of fate working against them.

Asriel and the Knight (24 pages)

Part 3 of the splitting path comic! Don't read if you don't like divorce Dessriel, Read if you like divorce Dessriel Morre under cut