Deltarune Chapter 5 spoilers!!!
So, we all got that Ralsei fucking partially succeeded, right? We, in chapter 5, 100% did NOT follow the prophecy, and mostly it comes down to Ralsei's (and Flowery's too, he did a lot of the work actually) actions. We already had that with the fact that by getting all recruits in chapter 3 Tenna doesn't die, but now we completely changed 2 things:
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So, remembered when we saw this and were all sure this was talking about Asgore's jealousy? Well..
It feel to me like the jealousy that would burn up the whole garden... would be Ralsei's. We know that the prophecy is a violent one (both by the "original" game hidden by Tenna being the one with a attack button, Tenna dying like in the prophecy if you FIGHT you way trough chapter 3, and by Ralsei's own admission that he wanted us to be kind as a way to avoid the prophecy's ending.) Ralsei was worried, scared even, of what HE would do, or be made to do, to the point he hides his fire magic, the one that is actually hinted at in all the prophecy imagery (as is him wearing the hat or cloak)
It goes to the point that he (and also Susie) will refuse to fight Flowery, a thing both Ralsei and Flowery make very clear knew that would happen by fate, but didn't really want (even if Flowery was ok with it to protect the fountain, and Ralsei did trie it multiple times because of his emotions.) The fact that we cannot actually win by FIGHTing Flowery is, to my understanding, the biggest point in Ralsei's arc. He refuses to listen to us, by, in his own words:
This is HIS way of doing this, of following the rules. He doesn't have it in himself to defy the prophecy, but he is willing to challenge it, to try to interpret it in other ways.
2- We see how this affects thing too, because of the wording here:
The whole point here is that Asgore would be trapped, and while you can argue that it is exactly what Flowery was trying to do, in the end, Asgore WAS going to leave, and Flowery would accept that. He was not trapping Asgore. Yes, he was trying to trick the man in staying there forever, but Asgore was always able to leave, Flowery very clearly did not want to force Asgore there. If it wasn't for the Knight, Asgore would have gotten out, he was always there out of his own volition.
This chapter for me is the staging of whats to come: the battle aginst fate. We had Susie in chapter 4, and now we have Ralsei ready for it in chapter 5; The big question, the one that I think will define if our heroes will win against the prophecy: is Kris ready for it?
