i'm the way that they made me!

This was probably one of the most gut wrenching moments in the chapter for me it doesn’t even feel like flowery said this it just felt like toby turned to me through the screen and said it

There’s a lot of discussion now surrounding the recurring themes of escapism and moving on, and in particular I think I rly agree with moving on’ being a theme that is going to be a really big part of whatever the ending is. (I don’t think that escapism itself has a large part in the themes other than playing a part within ‘moving on’. Like you can choose to turn to escapism as a means of trying not to move on.)

I don’t have the amount of nostalgia for undertale like a lot of other fans do, I watched play throughs of it when younger and did consume the entire story so id call myself a fan but I don’t think I had the nostalgia hit me playing through chapter 5 like others did (I mean this in the sense of emotionally, not literally. Yes I picked up on the very literal parallels like the humans vs the flowers and flowey vs flowery lol)

But Im coming to undertstand that the chapter was like scientifically engineered to take the ending of undertale tp and warp it right in front of our eyes (beyond the obvious parallels). Flowery being fucking named FLOWERY at first made me think he was going to literally parallel flowey more but as I played it became obvious that wasnt the case, i think flowery like. Parallels undertale as a whole to an extent? I don’t think I know how to put it into words. It felt like we fought undertale/our memories of undertale itself in that final fight, in a way.

The flowers in general are such a strange cast of characters to think about. The dead humans in undertale were a mysterious and tragic group that we were never given the chance to learn much about, and that was probably on purpose. But they were given a chance to actually appear, to actually live in and through deltarune. One last adventure where we can even have fun with characters that were never meant to have actual characters.

The sheer amount of times the general theme of ‘remembering the past’ comes up in this chapter alone let alone previous chapters. Remembering the past but not letting it cloud your vision ahead of you, the major motif of the entire game being called ‘don’t forget’ because while you need to be able to move on what you can do is not forget. The way I went back to tobys post about the original piano rendition of sunset of seven suns, and the caption is him again talking about him having played this himself 10 years ago, reminiscing about it, then telling us that the version in the present is different and we shouldn’t be surprised. Man