Lynx's Art and Comics

If you're looking for some specific fanart or comics that I've done, this hub is the place to find it! All of these pages link to the relevant masterposts that I've created so far, so feel free to explore!

Undertale

Dogs of Future Past Masterpost - Completed post-pacifist comic series DOFP Shorts - Short comics or fanarts related to DOFP Undertale Fanarts - Various Undertale fanarts

Deltarune

Paper Trail Masterpost - Completed chapter one-based comic series. Paper Trail was completed before chapter two released, so it began as speculation and would now be considered an AU. Eldritchrune Masterpost - Deltarune AU set in a dark eldritch universe Short Comics - Short oneshot comics with no relation to Paper Trail Omori crossovers - Doodles of crossovers between the Omori and Deltarune characters Doodle Dump - Deltarune doodles from various asks Doodle Dump Part 2 - Even more Deltarune doodles from various asks Deltarune Fanarts - Various Deltarune fanarts

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Ehh, not quite? Both Paper Trail and actual canon were drawing from the seven human souls in Undertale as inspiration for the characters, just canon went in a very different direction with them than I did!

It's been a running question for awhile as to why humans can't use magic in the dark world, and the fact that this does specifically bother Kris. I hope we at least get some good answers on that soon!

Stroooongly dislike both, the primary reason being that they both run completely counter to the game's themes. The first would genuinely piss me off if that happened, but I don't worry about it since Toby has said in the past that playing through multiple files will not be required to get the real ending. I know the second one is technically possible, but I am not fond of it, again, for thematic reasons.

It's said that the seed packet is covered in warning labels, implying that yes, the seeds are dangerous. So it's pretty frightening that Kris took those!

I was uncertain on them at first, but they quickly became really fun! Even Flowery (haha) grew on me by the end. Favorites were Orange and Green, although Aqua's also way up there. I kind of suspected that the actual boss being talked about in the prophecy was the flower, not Asgore himself, so it was neat to get that confirmed!

And uhhh I honestly don't know what I'll do with the flowers in Eldritchrune, if anything! I'm kinda freaking out about just finishing the AU before chapter six first. ;o;

It's a pretty common take on what might be going on with Dess as the Knight! It's so difficult to nail anything down with that right now aside from "the Knight is clearly not a normal Lightner and needs some explanation as to how they operate like they do," so right now everyone's just kinda giving their own guesses with that. Again, my thoughts are that Kris's soul has been split in some manner and part of that is in Dess, but we'll see what the answer ends up being!

Well, red never was determination, that was just kind of made up by the fandom for lack of a better concept to ascribe to red. At least in Undertale, gold was associated with determination. I don't think that obsession is really a good substitute for that, either, since that's not a perfect match for everything the soul does, either.

Honestly if I was going to try and ascribe a concept to the red soul, it'd be either hope, or love. (Not LOVE as in Level of Violence, just love as we understand it.) The game does bring up those concepts more often in association with the soul.

I'm gonna disagree on that. I prefer the fact that we don't know what the Undertale humans look like, so that people can come up with their own designs for those humans and let their imaginations run wild. Asgore's flowers clearly have separate designs based on Deltarune's circumstances, even if they do use the same weapons/armor as the Undertale kids.

Also, humans can't use magic, in Undertale or Deltarune. That's a pretty important sticking point! So there's no way you could get Aqua or Orange's designs to work in Undertale.

...OR DID ONE OF THE MOST GOATED SUSELLE ARTISTS JUMP ABOARD THE KRUSIELLE SHIP!?!?!

LOL hey, I've always been fairly Krusielle-friendly! ;) Just this latest chapter was what made me go "Oh yeah, the throuple is ACTUAL endgame here."

Ehhh the jokes are fun and all, but I think if you're going to actually say that Ralsei is a plant, you might as well go for the thematically appropriate one and involve roots.

Moss growing all over the town would be pretty funny though

This has been the most popular take on what Ralsei is since the very first chapter, and it's one I'm still clinging on to a bit by my fingers. The main problem with it now is that we know from chapter five that Ralsei can show up in the dark world when Kris isn't around; he's there in Castle Town with Susie at the end of the chapter when Kris isn't there. So if he is an object, it's not anything that Kris is carrying around on their person. He can just be in the dark world whenever and however he likes. There's clearly a lot more going on there.

(Poor Onion...)

Uhhh I guess???? He is indeed dead??? I dunno man! There's a million memes about it now so I guess it must be true!

I haven't heard anyone doing that? I figured it was a Touhou reference of some sort; most of the time when I don't quite get it it's likely from Touhou.

I'm not quite sure if the flowers count as Lightner/Darkner hybrids...not in the same way Susie would be mixed race, at least. That said, they DO add to the growing list of characters and concepts that explore ways of existing in two states at once, or existing outside binary boxes. And that's certainly something that could be explored even further in chapter six if we finally get Susie confirmed as mixed race!

I'd uh, probably need to design Flowery first, for starters??

Also, all of the main bosses are bound gods, while their canon selves, are like...people made from ordinary objects. I don't think the ER versions of the characters would even notice them.

It could be quite bad! We'll have to wait and see how circumstances have played out, and under what conditions Susie tries to approach Noelle about the dark worlds!

I am 30 or 40 years old and I don't know how the kids develop memes anymore, so I don't know what this one's about!

Awww thank you so much, anon, that really means a lot to me! If nothing else, I do absolutely want to at least present ideas that are compelling narratives, since that's what excites me so much about Deltarune in the first place! So hearing that makes me real happy!

This is an idea that I'm much more on board with than just the straight "oh they're trapped in a time loop" idea that I usually see floating around. I know there's been ideas about how Dess and Azzy were part of an earlier iteration of the prophecy, and I'm kinda 50/50 on that, mostly because I'm still a just little iffy on the prophecy requiring "The Girl" specifically to die. Not that it's impossible or anything, just that it's my second choice.

At the very least, what I DO think is that the game we're experiencing now is Gaster's adaptation of an earlier story, rather than something completely built from scratch. Adapting stories into new versions of themselves seems pretty central to this story. It's an idea supported by the Forgotten Man's dialogue, strangely enough. If you want to view adaptations as cyclical, then yes, I think that would tie in quite well with the game's themes of adaptation as salvation.

Yup, like I said, there's a whole lot stacked towards Kris having originally had an aqua-colored soul from this chapter! Although based on the flowers, I don't know if it's all that important that Kris exemplifies patience as a virtue. Aqua certainly wasn't very patient! The virtues seem to only be loosely applied to the flowers, so it's possible that they're just not a factor here like they presumably are in Undertale.

I mean yeah, we all knew that in some capacity. :P I don't think there was any hope for people who had petty complaints like "boring" or "badly written", anyway. But hey, that's their loss! I absolutely loved the Suselle this chapter, and I'm so excited and nervous for how it's going to develop from here!

There's some clear parallels between what might have happened at the lake between Dess and WR Noelle, but I don't really think we're looking at a 1-to-1 comparison regarding the player's role in it. Our direct participation in this IS pretty unique, and in order for that to apply to Dess we'd then need to introduce some kind of Flowey analogue that mirrors the player's role, aaaand I just don't think there's time for that. I do agree that Dess (or part of her) appears to be out of bounds now, but that may very well have been her or Kris's own doing, even if it was accidental.

Man at this point it's almost impossible to tell until we learn one way or another! It feels like all silly dialogue and jokes have this 50/50 chance of being "just a joke" or "still a joke BUT WITH A DOUBLE MEANING!" Drives people crazy!

Honestly, my read on that whole scene was that the documents are illegible because that's a reflection of the dark worlds being akin to dreams. I know this doesn't necessarily happen with everyone, but at least for me, an easy signifier that I'm in a dream is the inability for me to read, write or type any text. Any words become illegible, and attempting to write or type becomes physically impossible for me in dreams.

It doesn't say that Kris can't understand the conspiracy board, it says that they don't like looking at these sorts of things. Kris probably understands the conspiracy better than Asgore does!

I think all those various interactions may be a bit too much for me to work out right now, that's like a whole other flower cafe worth of scenes! Some of them would get along, some of them wouldn't, just depends on their individual personalities! All of the princes in PT were already shown without their hats, though, so you can see what they look like.

Yup, I've been aware of that scrapped text for awhile. We don't know the circumstances for it aside from Undyne being trapped/captured. And as you said, it doesn't prove that the Knight is Noelle, nor does it undo the simple fact that the Knight does not use any ice magic when you fight it.

Yeah, I'm not sure why people would jump to that conclusion either, since if anything, her vanishing at the same event the Knight showed up would tie the two together even stronger, and there's nothing there about the Knight kidnapping Dess. It raises questions about how exactly the Knight works just as a being, but those were questions we already had prior to this chapter. Right now I'm still very much in the camp of "Who" the Knight is being Dess, but the "how" and "why" have gotten more questions added to it. I'm sure it'll all work out once we have all the information, but right now it's a lot of people scrambling in the dark (haha) for threats to tie things together.

It's clearly symbolic. I mean, if Carol went through something like the weird route in her youth, then I don't think she'd even be here right now.

The evidence is that, in chapter 3, the Knight moves Undyne from the Dreemurr house to the shelter in the light world, a place that Darkners can't go to. Susie sees them going there and follows them to the shelter. It's possible that there is weirdness going on there, but at the very least, the Knight needs to have some important aspect of being a Lightner in order for them to move the real world at all.

I would recommend you play the game for yourself, because it's very fun on its own!

Hell yeah gonna make Ralsei sing Flower Man over and over and see if it bugs him!

The cute Suselle confession at the lake

The Krusie angst at the water ledge

The Kralsei scene in the bath

And Kriselle and the, well… *gestures at the horrors*

This was indeed the Relationships Chapter!

I was thinking on it this morning a bit, and I suspect that perhaps a lot of people were frustrated with this chapter because they were expecting all this lore and answers and such, and instead we mostly just got stuff about the relationships, and people consider that...frivolous, I suppose?

It does seem like it'd have to be connected to Kris, especially since Kris was the one who made (at least one of) the Flower King fountains. There's clear connections there between Kris's own complicated feelings about their humanity, and the flowers' wildly varying approaches to what it means to "be human." It's probably the kind of thing I'd have to sit and think on more to fully wrap my head around!

But yeah, as I mentioned before, Kris's particular relationship with Aqua does seem to hint towards the idea that Kris's soul was originally of a different nature!

Aqua was so funny even if she kicked my ass the most. Based on what I mentioned above, it could be that she's Like That partially because of Kris's weird feelings about being a human. But if all of the flowers have been around long enough for that and do retain their memories of all that time...then yeah she just straight up chose not to absorb any information about being a person, lol

Okay, people kept pestering me about this so I finally went and watched it.

As an idea for an AU, there's potential for some fun and interesting designs and ideas! As a theory for what will actually happen in-game? Sorry, but it just straight up does not work, and frankly I'm a little shocked that apparently so many people have latched onto this idea as viable.

The whole crux of the idea is that the player HAS to do the complete weird route in order for it to happen, and that very obviously is not true. I have never played the weird route, and I don't intend to. I straight up do not believe that we'll need to do the weird route to get the "true" ending of the game. I especially do not believe that something like the "true" ending of the game would be locked behind a skill wall like the secret bosses. All of that just absolutely runs counter to how I think Toby is designing this game. Listening to these ideas I feel like...it was a lot of stuff that I ostensibly agreed with, but all applied in the wrong directions.

It also just, like, makes up a bunch of stuff (why would the chapter 5 weird route ending cause Noelle and Kris to amalgamate when their goal was to go someplace else?) But you know, I fanfiction up a lot of my ideas and theories too, so I probably have no right to complain about that.

BUT at the very least, it's giving me motivations to try and wrench this comic idea I've gotten regarding the weird route out of my brain! (We'll see if I manage it!...)

Now, this is something I'm much more on board with. I already had the idea prior to this chapter that Dess's disappearance might have had something to do with her drowning in the lake, and the weird route scene serving as a parallel to that works well. I don't know specifically about the heaven/hell imagery associated, since the concepts of heaven and hell are really vague in Deltarune, and don't map that much onto the Christian ideas of it.

But at least, that WR scene serving as a parallel to something that happened previously with Dess, and perhaps that leading to her becoming the Knight, works much better based on what we know about it. It works in the imagery of drowning with the "HoldBreath" ability in the Knight fight, while also still keeping with the symbols associated with Dess, such as the baseball bat, the ice-skating motifs, the guitar noises, etc.

Hmmm I don't know if I could really do, like...an objective ranking or anything? Just more like this:

Chapter 1: Extremely good in terms of potential (I mean I wrote PT after playing it lol), but aesthetically probably at the bottom. It's a strong, solid foundation, but as with most foundations, it's not much to look at.

Chapter 2: Very funny; there's a reason the Darkner characters there have carried over so well across other chapters. Not difficult to play compared to others. WR might overshadow the parts that make this chapter good.

Chapter 3: Fun in that it tries out some new things, but a bit of a slog to replay. I'm actually glad that Toby removed the third board from this. Also has all the boss battles that kick my ass.

Chapter 4: Probably still my favorite overall. Great music, great aesthetic, really supercharges the plot, and made me love Susie so much.

Chapter 5: After the lore highs of the previous chapter I think some people were let down, but I also think they're too harsh on it and it'll feel better in the full context. This chapter was also just the most fun one to play, even for someone like me who is not good at platformers.

Bawwwwww I did hear about that, and just ugh, that scene was already so heartbreaking! Kris going out of their way to make sure that they'll walk her home no matter what just adds to it!

Uhhh no, I think it would be about him in the Flower Kingdom. All the flowers definitely set it up as a place for him to seek refuge and be safe. The shelter does not seem like an actual safe place for him or anyone else right now.

Don't know, since Undertale operates under different rules from Deltarune! We'll likely never know for sure.

A very ominous message, for sure! It at least seems to be related to a repressed trauma for Kris, but how...dunno!

It's clear that Susie is doing a lot better in the real world than she was previously, considering how much more social and interested she is in light world things like the festival. But yeah, whatever is going on with her home in the apartment is still so awful enough that she still feels safest and at home in the dark world. D: Toriel really is going to need to adopt her by the time we're done...

That is strange, thinking on it now, yeah. It seems like Ralsei knows everything that the Knight will do within the context of the prophecy, but is less clear on what it might have done outside of it, too.

I'm still in on Dess, even if the 'Hows' of it are still unclear, at least timeline-wise. I don't think what we've gotten deconfirms it. We know that you need will to create fountains, and only Lightners have that will, so it can't just be something like a titan. However way it works, the will of a certain person (or people) has to be involved.

Until I learn something that definitely debunks it, I am still on with my previous theory: that Kris's soul has been split in some manner, and the parts are existing across multiple people, one of which includes Dess/the Knight. That split might be between Kris and Dess, it might be between Dess and Ralsei, or it might be a three-way split between Kris, Dess and Ralsei. But either way, I think the reason why their dark worlds look the same is because Kris's will exists in some form within Dess/the Knight, at least enough that it has some influence on the dark worlds that are made.

(There's also a somewhat surprising number of mentions in-game towards the idea of Kris being split or cut in half. If I had infinite time I would try and compile them all, but alas...)

While perhaps not in exactly those terms, I will have to go with the former, since I'm not terribly fond of the latter. It raises way too many questions if they're in some snowglobe universe where the town is the only thing that exists, considering how often the characters talk about having done things that DO exist outside the town. The only way that would possibly work is if you apply some Last Thursdayism to it, which I think would really muddy the message. Even the Darkners don't work like that. It makes more sense for the town being cut off from the outside world to have happened recently.

Also, considering the 10th Anniversary stream, it seems pretty counter to how Toby's done things previously. The whole anniversary stream was about "Hey, just because you didn't see this in-game doesn't mean it wasn't there, the world is as big as you imagine it to be!" It'd be quite the whiplash to then turn around to Deltarune and go "Oh no not THIS one, though. This world is exactly as small as it looks. I know Gerson literally said to think outside of what you know, but don't actually do that here."

We already know there's multiple ways in which the characters are "trapped" within the game...they're trapped by the normal social conventions of a small town, trapped by their roles in the narrative, and trapped by what the game's code permits us to interact with. We don't actually need the part where they're just physically trapped by being in The Only Location That Exists.

I of COURSE had to draw the whole flower gang because they were all so fun!