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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure a good chunk, if not the entire translation, was done by Toby himself, and that's so important because it give you another point of view of the messages he wants to send to the player.

One of my favorite detail (and again I know very little about Japanese Deltarune) is the pipis/Spamtenna scene in chap 3. In English, whether Tenna recognized Spamton or not was left pretty ambiguous. But in the Japanese translation, Tenna's "what the..?!" was changed to something along the lines of "it can't be..?!", pretty much implying he didn't just recognized Spamton, he also seems to be in denial about what he sees. I rarely see this detail brought up in Spamtenna related videos/analysis, I think it's so important. Like there's still people insisting that Tenna didn't recognize Spamton in that scene. He did. Oh he absolutely did, Tenna is much more aware of what's going on than we think. One of the key aspect of this character is that he knows the reality of things but he looooves taking refuge in denial and pretending nothing's wrong, nothing changed, no little mailman was turned into a puppet abomination because of HIS doing.

I'm finally done. The only reason this exists is because I thumbnailed the whole thing back in 2024 :P

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Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.

At some point we will, as a society, have to unlearn this idea that if you're ever caught not thinking about something serious, you must not give a shit about others. Your mind is not designed to constantly be stressed.

Your body also isn't, btw - prolonged stress without breaks is linked to all kinds of cardiac problems.

Not only will it not kill you to let the Pokemon Unite server or Naruto/Sasuke server just be about Pokemon Unite or NaruSasu, it would actually benefit you to do so.

FUCK yeahh 🥵

especially a sickie that's sooo sleepy but isn't falling asleep. caretaker tries everything until they finally just hold them against their chest. sickie rests on caretakers shoulder as nausea overcomes them. their belly lurches, and sends up a slobbering belch with a warm wave of watery puke right down caretaker's back.

吐く

嘔吐

ゲロ

Like... You can't maintain all of this if you try to keep it logical. With this configuration, Dick is 8 when his parents die, and Jason is about 2 at the time. Which means Tim is born but 0 years old and probably not being taken to the circus.

Like????

Ok, if you bump up Dick to being 10 when the Flying Graysons fall and die (but keep the same age differences) then at 10 Jason is about 4, and Tim is 2.

Now that's really pushing it for active conscious recall, but at about 3 and a half is when people start to be able to form long term memories, so age 2 I can accept with some suspension of disbelief, it's not too bad, and I can see parents taking their 2 year old to the circus.

I dislike Dick being 12 upon adoption and/or becoming Robin though, as apart of his traditional appeal to me is that's it's crazy that this little guy is putting bad guys on their asses. The closer he is to teenhood the more expected it feels, and I like the sense of unexpectedness. Him being 8 when he's Robin, or 9 if you presume a year of training, is like imagining a little Bruce not long after his parents died already being a vigilante.

It's hilarious, but if he could do it it'd be kind of amazing, no? That's the ethos of Dick's presentation as Robin, at least his early years, to me.

Also I like Dick having about a decade in the role, becoming Robin at 8-9 until age 18-19. It gives him a sense of longevity and expertise, as well as emphasizing how it really was the embodiment of his childhood with Bruce, something he has to evolve out of in his late teens.

One: The series did very well depicting children of abuse, as much as Hussie is a suck writer at times, they did that very correctly and I can't fault them for it. Rose and Dave's reactions to their abuse are fairly real all things considered, especially for the types of abuse they suffered.

Two: The fandom fundamentally mischaracterized Dave and Rose both. Rose more specifically and intentionally misunderstood her behavior. Mom Lalonde is not the worst parent one could have, however she's an absentee mother. She's not there physically and barely there mentally. Even if her love of the vacuum she bronzed and wizards is legitimate, it's hard to fault Rose for thinking it's performative at best, mockery at worst. Rose doesn't actually know her mom outside the performance she does at home when she's not blackout drunk somewhere.

Rose threatening suicide during their strife comes off as dramatic, and maybe it is to an extent, but it's because she's seeking attention from her mother. She's so alone, so isolated both physically and emotionally, that she's seeking anything she can get. Her emotions are actually very poorly regulated because she's actually not secure. She's not certain her life is stable, despite being in a luxurious house. Her mom is a drunk who doesn't care for her and their only interactions are strifes and seemingly passive aggressive fridge interactions. Mom Lalonde didn't bother trying to help Rose become an emotionally functional person and actually left Rose worse off. Rose has no real idea how to talk to people or understand them so she defaults to psychological analysis and pseudo-intellectualism because it's what she's had access to to learn human interactions.

Mom Lalonde comes off, at least to me, as the type of woman who makes wine drinking her personality and jokes about it with other moms her age. The type to forget about her daughter's events because she wasn't capable of composing herself long enough. She comes off like the type to wave a hand and scoff, saying Rose's childhood wasn't bad because Rose had everything physically she could ever want. A woman who buys things for Rose after upsetting her, as if that fixes the damage.

Mom Lalonde seems to be the kind of mom that believes pandering to her daughter's perceived emotions and gift giving is what it takes to raise a child, which is why she seems so unresponsive to Rose's threats of self harm. She probably thinks Rose is just being dramatic. And maybe she is, but it's clearly something any good parent would, and should, be immediately concerned about.

I think for the fandom, Dave's abuse is taken for what it is, but twisted how it is, because his abuse type is more common and relatable to many. And, tragically, for many their own abuse was worse, yet similar enough to Dave's that they latch on and expand significantly on it to the point of losing the plot as it were.

Dave is less neglected emotionally, as much as people like to claim Bro did nothing but starve and beat him. Dave isn't the most mature, but he's actually a pretty average 13-16 year old boy emotionally. He's goofy and rambly and likes annoying his friends. That's not to say Bro's actions didn't impact him, because they certainly did, but Dave's emotional regulation is actually okay? Not great but, better than Rose.

Bro in some ways is Mom Lalonde's opposite. He's physically present way more and as emotionally available as someone like him can be (not nearly as much as he should be). He doesn't just care about Dave, he actually shows it by taking interest in Dave's hobbies and interests, helping him set up his makeshift dark room, helping him get his webcomic online and uploaded, and clearly giving him the only bedroom in the apartment. Bro bought Dave his sylladex, specifically getting him the modus type that suited Dave best but was still within Bro's standards of "best".

Dave's trauma largely comes from a combination of food scarcity, exposure to sexual content early in life (that is NOT to say that Bro did something to Dave or even posted content of Dave), physical abuse, and a lack of emotional stability.

Dave's comfortable enough in the house and with Bro to use Bro's Xbox, computer, and generally fuck with anything in the house with seemingly no fear of consequences. Because Bro didn't just haul off on him for everything. Bro was doing exactly what we see Dirk doing later on, trying to help reach an end goal by going as hard and as stupid as possible. Bro has always struck me as knowing what he's doing, but fundamentally lacking the understanding that what he was doing was a problem because it was, "to make Dave stronger". Bro's own shit emotional expression and his actions to make Dave a better fighter absolutely made Dave feel like Bro hated him.

Bro also seemingly either intentionally didn't buy food, or forgot. I'm gonna say forgot personally because Bro has never struck me as all there. However, I do also personally think it's likely both Dave and Rose struggle with food security because I also think Mom Lalonde drunkenly forgot to a, buy food and b, teach Rose how to make anything outside of a new tiny self explanatory basics.

Both Mom and Bro are abusive, but they aren't abusive in the same ways. Bro is physically abusive and seems to not care about what the exposure to certain content might do to Dave. Whereas Mom is emotionally abusive and neglectful all around, unresponsive to Rose's needs.