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Oh, yeah, absolutely. I was originally thinking that Flowery's whole deal was also maybe kinda Dreams-themed, y'know, with his whole Allure of Fantasy theme and fake-it-until-you-make-it attitude, but the thing that clinched 'Hope' for me is that every other Flower alludes to their corresponding SOUL-Virtue in their Check Description...

And Flowery's Check Description is...

So yeah, I think that pretty much confirms Flowery's theme is Hope.

And Pink, as the resident Shadow Crystal Boss, Shadow Crystals that we literally just established were made from Lost Dreams...

It would make sense to connect her to Dreams, especially since also Pink is a rare case amongst Secret Bosses in the sense that she did eventually managed to recapture that Lost Dream her Shadow Crystal seems to represent and fulfilled it after all.

So this is intriguing ("very very interesting" you might say), first and foremost with the whole thing of...

Is it basically the same thing (sort of) as...

Do pink and yellow/gold keep recurring as a Color Motif in Deltarune because they correspond to Hopes and Dreams?

...Huh.

Mew Mew's design in the Undertale Switch trailer had a heart shaped locket. In contrast, Mad Mew Mew's actual sprite and border depicted her with a circular brooch/bell instead.

At the time, it seemed like the most reasonable explanation was that either Toby made a few alterations to Pink's design after the trailer animation was created, or there was a miscommunication with the animators for the Switch trailer.

But now, we have Pink, and she definitely has a heart shaped locket just like the Switch trailer design.

So in Chapter 1 we had Top Chef, who is a spinning top and also cartoon Italian, who makes a 'Top Cake' for Clover's birthday, which you can either keep or turn in to be rewarded with 'SpinCake'. the cakes are just coherently tied to Topchef being a spinning top toy. ok

Chapter 5, as part of its "Chapter 1 nostalgia" aspect, has Hopschef, who is a hops flower (used to make beer) who hops and is also cartoon German, despite being in a Japan-themed dark world. Hopschef makes sourdough. when the party destroys the sourdough, Ralsei is able to heal it, which somehow turns into "TreeCake." why.

The TreeCake is a Baumkuchen, or tree-ring cake. Baumkuchen is a German variety of spit cake, but it has no special ceremonial significance in Germany itself, from what I understand. In Japan, however, Baumkuchen has become associated with weddings, as a gift for wedding guests.

Japanese fandom lingo for a seemingly endgame ship being broken up last minute by a different romantic pairing (バウムクーヘンエンド) references baumkuchen's role as cake served at weddings. the idea is that the person left single is stuck eating baumkuchen as a guest to the wedding between their former partner and somebody else. theres a vocaloid song about this

1. 'romance' and 'jealousy' are both themes of this chapter

("Chapter 5: The Field of Pink and Gold. The vast garden is charred in an inferno of jealousy." - Gerson Boom)