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This is done through literally every aspect of the chapter like Asgore’s arc of moving on with his life and accepting what has happened before it hurts more people or Susie considering castle town her home (which is how both the chapter starts and ends) while also introducing more for her to care about in the light world in contrast (her relationship with Noelle).

But most importantly it’s done through Ralsei, the focus point of the chapter, and his existence as “the impossibility” being directly brought into question by Flowery who both repeatedly challenges his ideals and also introduces the concept of beings who are somewhere between lightner and darkner. Which is seeming more and more likely to be what Ralsei is too.

This chapter feels like a distraction from the big plot revelations because that’s the point. “One last adventure before the sun goes down.” It reminds the player just how meaningful and fun the dark worlds have been just after their fate was brought into question through the prophecy.

NR Noelle is a deeply troubled and hurting girl who finally gets a chance to heal, to find people and moments that make her not want to “run away” anymore. That’s why Susie is so good for, she’s someone Noelle romanticised hurting her only to fall in love with the Susie who would never.

WR Noelle is a deeply troubled and hurting girl abused and taken advantage of by someone puppeting the body of her estranged best friend who she deeply longs to reconnect with. Someone she trusted would never hurt her only to be proven wrong in the opposite way to Susie.

She’s still Noelle. She’s who Noelle could have always been and who she’s been trying so hard NOT to be her whole life. But you forced her to become this. You pushed all of her worst traits she tried so hard to hide until they broke her beyond repair.

You did this.

She isn’t possessed, I don’t even think she knows she’s in a video game like I’ve seen so many people assume. All I see is a suicidal girl begging to break free from the cycle of quiet abuse her life has been for so long, now that it’s gotten too bad to cope.

She’s real. Under all the fantasy of the soul or the dark world, she’s a painfully real person having a painfully real breakdown.

“If YOU could do something crazy right now, what would you do?”

I know every suselle shipper under the sun (pun intended) has been drawing this scene but I HAD to okay

(we don’t talk about the weird route)

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