It's Party Time

just thinking about kris, i think there's a lot of ways their struggles can be interpreted as relating to disability. one example that seems particularly intentional is kris not being able to play the piano while under the soul's control and toby commenting about not being able to play the piano (among other things) due to pain.

In 2024, I actually developed wrist issues, and chapter 4 hit me like a truck with this theme. Especially since two months later, I got a bad flare up

It's mostly stable now, but I'm never really going to be free from it, probably. And as someone that loves making stuff, it's crushing to be limited in what you can do. The first four months of the injury were extremely soul crushing, I couldn't do much without pain. The pain itself was maddening too, but not being able to do things affected me way worse. It's probably not the same thing that Toby has, but it's close enough that it resonates a lot with me.

So seeing that scene in chapter 4, where one of the first things they do without the soul is playing piano, and then later with piano that may not be played that well, it hits very close. Those little moments without the pain, without what is limiting you, they're really precious, even if you can very easily over exert yourself and cause the pain to come back worse. I mean, Rudy himself shows that too. He's trying to make the most out of the moments where he feels ok enough to help Noelle, but it probably is what caused him to fall down at the festival.

like spamton finding the crystal in the neo body being that abandoned dream for it's artist throwing away the project, breaking off the dream, because having the actual body isn't feasible (at least in this universe). It'd also make Sneo smelling like "Rotten Glass" make more sense as the dream has been dead for awhile.

gerson found the shadow crystal in his desk, where he's kept and where alvin works, who's been struggling to write his own sermon and live up to the reputation of his father, but with susie carrying gerson's message, learns to latch onto that dream again.

pink says the body had the crystal when she got there, and i believe it's tied to the mad ghost possessing the figurine after seeing it but couldn't move in it, or it even could be tied to alphys who (presumably) gave asgore the doll in the first place but I'm more tied with the former.

i just think this context on the shadow crystals this chapter is so neat and opens up a sea of questions in what the shadow crystal attained from the knight means and why it's just a chip off their entire blade. Like one whole lost dream.

Diphen, do not come over. I messed up an eye on the Loverboy doll

guys😭what😭😭happened to my Deltarune bro😭?

Sprites, you can use it but don't claim it as your own bruh (and plz credit if possible)

Finally Neo is there...oughhh I love these two, kissing during pride month

Anyway can't stand gay people

BIRDAYYY... but shes a villaun.....

The Cuarator even..... take you stories and make ur world stuck in time like thw lego movie