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#original myddle post - All of my posts that I originally made, and aren't reblogs (Honestly wish this was just an option to sort by on Tumblr, like, sometimes I wanna see what people have made, and not what they like that other people have made, y'know?)

#myddle reblog - Pretty self-explanatory, but I do often make silly quips and things, so perhaps still worth perusing if you are interested?

#myddle art - "Recovering Artist" is only half a joke; I'm getting back into drawing after falling on and off of it due to irl bullshit i don't wanna get into so any of my art I post will be here. I can't promise it's all that good, but it's got heart or something so that's good. It's probably gonna be mostly #noelle holiday art by volume

#deltarune - my current and greatest hyperfixation, and the thing I post about most often. My favourite character is #noelle holiday

Specialised Deltarune Tags:

#deltarune theory - Wouldn't you know it, I speculate about Deltarune a lot. Go here if you just want those theories and my additions to other people's theories #thinking about deltarune - A bunch of bigger analyses of particular aspects of Deltarune that I kept accidentaly titling the same way so I made a tag out of it #DEVILRUNE THEORY - All posts relating to my big, overarching Deltarune theory, in which the game will feature a third path distinct from the Normal and Weird Routes that will feature the True and Only Ending of the game. This one's my baby; if you look at anything Deltarune on here, please look at this (Read DEVILRUNE THEORY from the beginning!)

#murder drones - Not actively posting about it these days, but I have a lot of old posts about Murder Drones on here and I still like the show a lot. It's not perfect, but the worldbuilding has so much potential it's great

#adventure time & #fionna and cake - Sure, I think I have some old AT posts kicking around in the back somewhere. I was very much not a fan of the F&C Season 1 Finale (Here's my write-up on why), but I still think the show is pretty cool

#outer wilds - you should play outer wilds

Also of Note: My Ao3 Page!

Currently chipping away at a big Noelle-centric Deltarune fic, but I have some one-offs and unfinished Murder Drones stuff (I do plan to finish it at some point) there too. They're pretty good, I think; I get a lot of nice comments so they can't be that bad

Anyway, have fun

Every interpretation I've seen of this passage so far has assumed that the "banishment" described is part of the event being predicted, or to put it another way: "THE ANGEL will be BANISHED, and then WILL FINALLY MEET WITH ITS DESIRE."

However, with now unspecifically the passage is written, there's another way to read it, where the "banishment" is instead an existing quality of the Angel that is being described: "THE ANGEL that was BANISHED, WILL FINALLY MEET WITH ITS DESIRE."

I'm not trying to claim the "banishment" is irrelevant to the "desire", that would be silly; this aspect of the Angel being singled out does still imply that it relates to the "desire" in some way. Rather, instead of the banishment fulfilling the Angel's desire, the banishment would either stand in the way of the desire, or perhaps have lead to the Angel gaining said desire.

I'm not 100% sold on this being the "proper" way to read the passage, it was just something I realised was a possibility and wanted to share with you all.

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The two main candidates for the Angel in the fandom currently (to my understanding) are Noelle and the Player, due to the angel iconography that surrounds them both. In these interpretations, following the "will be" reading of the Angel passage:

For Noelle, her "banishment" is getting sent into the deeper code of the game, and her "desire" is finding her missing sister Dess there (This idea is based on Dess being the source of the "UNUSED" text in the code, and kind of implies that she's still down there, which, eeeaaaahhhh I don't know 'bout that one chief).

For the Player, our "banishment" is the game of DELTARUNE ending, terminating our connection to its world, and our "desire" is a satisfying ending to the story. Alternatively, our banishment can also be getting Backrooms'd, with the desire being meeting Gaster face to face.

Under the "that was" reading, these two get a little shaky. As far as we know Noelle hasn't been banished from anything, at least not in a literal sense, and the only thing we've been banished from is UNDERTALE, which, works, but that ties into Undertale in a way that's a bit too dependant on us having played it, and considering the presence of Susie's New Girl status as a metaphor for people who haven't played UNDERTALE (it's a whole thing), I'm skeptical.

But as the subtitle said, this reading makes Gaster a more viable candidate for Angelhood. His "banishment" would obviously be the famous fall-into-his-own-creation that scattered him across time and space - where the Prophecy famously comes from - and his "desire" would either be getting un-banished, or, like us, a satisfying conclusion to the tale of Deltarune... possibly one that isn't the foretold path? A "NEW FUTURE", so to speak? For angel iconography, Gaster's association with the number 666 could make him a fallen angel, again tying to his "banishment". And as one last bonus, the Prophecy image being invisible/obscured to us and unnerving to Susie ties in with both Gaster's ethereal nature and uncanny mystery_man appearance.

Mixed Messages

But this is where things get muddy. That second interpretation would imply that breaking the Prophecy is, itself, part of the Prophecy. And while that is possible, and would make an interesting tie-in to the fact that technically any path through this game is pre-ordained by Toby, it would certainly be... odd. And there's also the idea in the fandom that Gaster wrote, or otherwise provided, the Prophecy Would someone whose actions are predicted by the Prophecy be able to write it? I don't know, this is getting confusing. Like I said, I'm not sold on any of this stuff; the identity of the Angel doesn't currently tie in to my DEVILRUNE THEORY, so I'm pretty agnostic on the issue. This is just me sharing an angle on the lore I haven't seen anyone else point out. Food for thought, and such.

Unused Candidate

As an addendum, Dess kind of also fits the "that was" interpretation of the Angel in a similar way to Gaster, but I'm much less keen on it being her because

It also kind of requires her to both be the UNUSED character and also still be down there, which I don't think is the case because...

Dess is already the Knight*, and I don't like the idea of the Prophecy giving different titles to the same person**, that's just being annoyingly obtuse for the sake of a twist, and I have more faith in Toby than that

*This is a Dess Knight blog in case you haven't noticed