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deltarune

thats why im holding hope that ch6 will emphasize how good of a character she is once she meets noelle again. given how toby fox does write female characters well, it doesnt sound unlikely for him to show the depths to her personality when noelle, the lightner shes bound to, ends up distraught over her father in ch6. for all her humor, shes probably going to have kindness on display.

i dont like waiting either and its fair to be upset since shes the only female boss character. i Also consider it an unfair decision still.

but, after knowing noelle would likely meet queen again in ch6, im now wondering if fangamer + toby fox both have a plot-related reason for queen merch to happen later.

ch6 is confirmed to have susie planning to tell noelle about darkworlds/take her to castletown. so, isnt it possible that queen will have added character depth after trying to help noelle cope about her dad?

if thats the case, it could be that fangamer is waiting until ch6 to drop queen merch to give more casual fans a chance to enjoy her character.

fjuuuck,

So, she tells the Fun Gang that she's considering putting ribbons on as a type of armor, citing that Kris & Ralsei have fun with ribbons and Noelle might find it cool.

But if you put the red ribbon on her...

... she realizes that she dislikes wearing it like that and begins to wear it as an armband.

And this applies to all ribbons! She uses the red & blue ribbons as armbands, she uses the white ribbon like a fist wrap, and she specifies adamantly that she won't use the twin ribbons for hair.

Susie closes the door on Kris at the end.

I think it's because she assumes they'd prefer to be at their own house and with their own family. It's been noted in text that she tends to assume their life is more pleasant than hers. This is likely, again, because they have a family that takes care of them (hence her pointing out Toriel in Ch1 and such). She did say in the darkworld that her assumption is incorrect after hearing Asgore, but some of her pre-existing notions of Kris' life could still be present subconsciously. On top of that, Susie might be worried of Toriel's reaction if Kris hadn't come back.

Kris not protesting.

Why wouldn't Kris and Susie discuss a sleepover of some kind?

Kris may be able to stay in the darkworld overnight with Susie if they fibbed to Toriel, "I'll stay over with Susie and I'll be back tomorrow morning." That sounds like something they both could do and WANT to do... so I think they're going against their wants. The reason why Susie closes the door and Kris lets her do that is simply because Kris would need to go elsewhere. They have their own plans of (presumably) opening more dark fountains.

Basically,

Susie: (Man, I don't wanna worry Toriel or pressure Kris to stay the night in Castletown... We're expected to save the world from some weird calamity, so they probably want to spend time with their mother.)

Kris: (I want to spend the night in Castletown but my plans to do [insert overarching mystery here] need me to be someplace else...)

Susie calling it a 'Kris & Susie' thing rather than 'Kris, Susie, & Ralsei'.

I'm thinking she's only discussing the Lightners perspective of entering darkworlds ("adventures" in the context of Lightners traversing worlds on a quest). It does unfortunately come off as her not thinking of Ralsei, but Susie eventually segues it to her wanting to let Noelle know of this looming calamity. Likely that she meant to discuss the Lightners' perspectives than just the Fun Gang.

There's something to be said about how Susie sacrificed her sleeptime in helping the Castletown darkners prepare for Noelle's arrival... she might be trying to ease Noelle as much as she can.

Noelle is strong (in multiple ways), and Susie acknowledged this at the lake, but she would reasonably still worry about Noelle's reaction to learning everything she's been kept in the dark about.

What did he mean? Do living beings who aren't Lightners or Darkners get additional knowledge?

If so, that includes:

non-Lightner animals

trees

cells(?)

fungi

(A list off the top of my head.)

He could also mean that, because plants specifically have roots (a keyword in the prophecy panels), they can feel what's stirring under the town through their connection to the earth.

Some speculation under the readmore.

This scene is, to my knowledge, the only pre-Chapter-5 Deltarune foreshadowing of Chapter 5's main theme. Then, later, you can find the "anime comics" (as it's called in the game) on top of Asgore's TV if you interact with it post-darkworld.

Very few people have predicted this theme, if at all. It could be because Alphys isn't as big of an anime fan in Deltarune - she's seemingly into superheros and referencing shows like the Simpsons.

However, she did flame one of the Mew Mew Kissy Cutie seasons, so in hindsight it stands that she consumes animanga enough to have given that to Asgore.

And of course, the Undertale True Pacifist ending had Alphys contemplate teaching Asgore about animanga! It's possible that it was meant as a joke in UT, but it's also not out of the question for Toby Fox to have had this in store for Asgore all along.

Since Chapter 5 is fresh outta the oven, I see very few talking about this room...

After you knock on the Mike door once, you can knock on it gloobily to have the Mike Trio mistake you for Tenna.

A cutscene plays and then the three Darkners line up in a row for you to interact with. You find this room by walking through the wall behind Pluey.

Here's what I've found so far.

There's a limit to how many dental toys you can add, but you can have an ENORMOUS amount of them before the limit is hit. If you hit the limit, nothing seemingly happens.

If your bomb is called a Kikkybomb, interacting with it will give you an extra cat. Another bomb (a Tiger Bomb) simply explodes your screen for a moment and seemingly does nothing - this one could be found randomly.

If you give a dental toy and then not follow up with another, the Happiness counter will go down.

When the Happiness counter goes below 0, the number turns negative. The cat(s) present will stop moving, start jittering in place, and a continuous meowing will play.

Around the -830 Happiness mark, the stock explosion sound plays and the cat(s) bellies grow bigger.

The more you keep the cat(s) unhappy, the more meowing soundeffects will be added (approx. each new -100 adds more meows). They can overlay atop each other and drown out the BGM.

I've not yet found a limit to how unhappy you can keep the cat(s).

I spent a scary amount of time in this room before actually trying to finish the chapter, but I've not yet seen anything that's significant. It could be a room designed to make theorycrafters go wild like how some minigames had IMAGE_FRIEND.

When Chapter 5 was announced, the Spamton Sweepstakes ARG updated the "How long did it take for her to smile?" into a different question:

"Where will it take place?"

As of today, we now know "The Lake" is the correct answer to this.

However, this is not the only answer to get unique replies from Toby Fox! Other answers have also hinted at the Weird Route and future chapters.

Here are the unique responses to INCORRECT answers.

Of course, some are a bit more vague/comedic/without any substance.

The answers were long since predicted to come out shortly before Ch5 dropped, due to the site having this:

Next correspondence: When less than 24 hours are left.

Happy Birthday, Haruka Sakurai. Let's peek at your symbolism.

[Link to the post.]

From top to bottom:

A Muu reference immediately. The chair's top piece is a king's head in chess (♔) - it's recognizable from the cross above. This calls back to Muu's 2021 birthday art which had a queen crown, though it could also reference Muu's "queen bee" theme in general.

I'm attempting to narrow down the exact butterfly species. The wings seem green, but it could also be yellow before it was overlayed on top of the blue cushion. Monarch butterflies have a similar pattern yet without the tails seen here.

The chair is getting drippy... it could be referencing the drowning/water motif in Haruka's videos. Could also be, as his T2 MV showed, resin/wax being melted. Kotoko called Haruka "parasite" (kiseichuu) and that resin interpretation could reference this if Haruka's meant to be the parasitic insect within melting resin.

Butterfly bows! Bows on his clothing + the chair seem to mimic the butterfly shapes, even down to his bow having long tails.

No clothing is strictly for one gender, but the bows on the chair look more like hair bows than any other type. It could be a reference to how Haruka's name is considered 'girly' in Japan and how he let Muu give hair clips that are stereotypically associated with femininity.