i'd love to hear your thoughts on the confirmation that there IS some level of heteronormativity in hometown!! they're fine with having two festival kings or queens, but it's still king and queen by default. (rudy saying maybe it'll be two queens this year also implies that's not the norm)
noelle also has a line while on the ferris wheel with kris where she mentions that as kids when she and kris were voting for themselves, they couldn't agree on who should be king and queen, which is the first mention of kris being unable to fit within traditional gender roles. while hometown obviously respects kris's identity as a nonbinary person, they still have traditions which enforce strict male and female gendered roles and heteronormativity.
(im working on a video about gender in chapter 5 as a whole since there is SO MUCH to talk about, so if you have any other thoughts on the subject i'd love to hear thwm since in my mind ur kinda the og Gender In Deltarune person)
(well thats a lot of pressure lol)
hometown strikes me as a very like, northeast liberal small town (which is exactly the kind of town i grew up in). you'll get things like unisex bathrooms, teachers have to use the correct pronouns for trans students, and you might even have two prom queens. it's just about as good as it could be... but that's still all built upon the foundation of heteronormativity and sexism, because everything in the world as we know it started that way and you cant get rid of it without first destroying the very structure of our society. and as inclusive as you try to be, things slip through the cracks (such as not having a gender-neutral term for king/queen) and any changes/additions are known to be out of the ordinary in some way. everyone's polite about it, everyone's accepting of it, but they all know that it's different.
the story about kris and noelle as kids is intriguing. they were trying to enter something that was by that point a family legacy, but it was impossible. it's true they were never going to win primarily because they were just little kids, but metaphorically they were never going to win because there was never a space made for kris in the first place. there's a way things were supposed to be- asgore and toriel, asriel and dess, kris and noelle. or not. nobody is mad at kris for not fitting into a space, but they havent changed or expanded that space to allow kris a spot either. that puts the burden on kris, or anyone else who doesnt feel comfortable being King or Queen, to ask for that change and bring attention to themselves and their own otherness. but it's easier to just suck it up and label yourself as one thing or another, right? it's only a stupid game. it's only for one night. you can make yourself fit for a few more minutes
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