Beware of Mouse

I go by Speedy like my username, very simple.

You can find me as @tophatoftrauma on bluesky (Though I don't post there often) + @speedylawmen on here is my Ace Attorney sideblog and I have a few other sideblogs too.

Tags I use to organize things are:

#speedyscribbles for all my art

#speedyscribes for my writing, (mainly fics) or writing WIPs

#speedyspeculates for all my analysis-adjacent posts

#speedyspeaks for asks. Just asks. It started out as anything casual so the tag is not organized but nowadays I just use it for asks.

#speedyrambles for me blabbing about my aus / fics / things I wanna speak on that aren't analysis related. (I rarely use this one anymore)

#speedysporadics is for basically anything not super related to my posting, either just my daily mood or stuff I think would flood a tag

#speedyposts is the default. Posts I make that are related to the thing they are of but don't contain anything I made myself, apart from my opinion on whatever the post is about

These are not enforced perfectly (BOY are they not enforced perfectly) mostly because what I use a tag for is subject to changing over time

I'm a firm believer in checkov's gun, so if something is set up, there's a reason for it. If you're shown a gun on the wall, it's going to go off.

Even if a character is a red herring you do still need an explanation for why they were acting that way– or the audience will just feel kind of cheated.

What I think is weird about rudy that doesn't make sense is that he has so many moments that feel like setup that would not be logical to put there if all he was going to do was die??

Then there's also the fact that. If he isn't the knight and like Carol or Dess would be, he almost CERTAINLY would have to know something. Considering the vague mention that "holidays are full of surprises", the fact that the black katana and the conspiracy board are in his and Carol's SHARED bedroom, and the fact that noelle mentions kris keeps coming to the hospital even if you've only been there once before. If he's not the knight he's still definitely in on the conspiracy in some way, especially because. Him and Asgore Clearly talk, and that guy is adamant about proving the dark worlds to be real, and if you were going to confide in anyone would it not be your best friend?

There's no way that Rudy wouldn't at least have heard of their existence, and if he didn't believe Asgore I feel like their relationship should be more strained than it is (because rudy doesn't seem to play games about his daughters) and he should have more objections to his wife funding Asgore's research??

But he doesn't.

Then there's just something I personally find convincing that's a more meta aspect. There's two named characters from Deltarune that we knew of before the game first came out. The first one being Susie, or "Suzy" mentioned by Clam girl in undertale.

The second being Rudy in the undertale alarm clock dialogue. It alludes to both his daughters with an emphasis on his youngest but even with Noelle's massive importance to the story she never gets name dropped but her dad (and his gay ass relationship with asgore) does???

Speaking of Rudy's gay ass relationship with asgore, there's so much emphasis on it from the start that I'm starting to consider that it will become plot relevant or something. I didn't think that before chapter 5, but why the fuck are all the Rudy parallels there if not to Say something we're going to come back to. Why is there new shit going on with him and asgore every chapter. Why set this relationship up BEFORE THE GAME EVEN RELEASED.

It would make sense if that relationship was central to the plot in some way, which would only make sense if either Rudy or asgore was going to end up being very plot important moving forward, and seeing as Asgore just got Goat-napped to fuck off to the shelter, there's only really one candidate for following up on that thread.

Speaking of "Rudy is going to be important", remember the goner maker? And the fact that it reacts to the names of certain people? I saw someone else talk about this so I checked it out.

It reacts solely to either. The main characters, main characters and shopkeepers from undertale, a couple of your classmates, Gaster, and RUDY.

I went back myself to enter Carol or Dess/December, NOTHING.

And they're still definitely going to be important!! So why the fuck is RUDY the outlier here???

This is my point, sure there are hints that he's the knight but what is much more convincing to me is just. The attention he gets narratively. You can talk to him the most out of probably any background lightner??? He has so much more dialogue (if optional) than basically everyone else.

Why the fuck is this guy everywhere??? Why is he always saying mysterious weird vague shit?? Why are him and Asgore so GAY??? Why does the game keep track of how much you've talked to him?????????

And why does the fox man feel the need to draw our attention to it by setting all of that up in the first place???

Like this is not even just. I'm going to die and come back wrong when my daughter tries to resurrect me behavior. This is some whole other shit.

Anyway I still think he's the knight but I do also think Carol would 100% have to be helping him (and I think she's probably?? The one carrying the people to the shelter? She seems like she could do that) and she would probably be covering for him whenever he ditches the hospital.

As a matter of fact, I do!

Do you see my vision.

Like cool I guess you skipped over the part where he explicitly says that he still thought their gestures were thoughtful and that all of them seemed like lovely people, and his eyes noticably shine when thinking about it

I guess you skipped over the part where he says he literally can't stay with them because he has to keep them alive!!! Which he wants to do!!!!

I guess you didn't see the part where he then mentions that he wants to keep taking care of them not because of misguided nostalgia but because they're important to him for different reasons now! Like????

Yeah, he's a dick for ignoring them, like he's a dick for ignoring his own kids, the latter of which he realizes and apologizes for– and he might? be apologizing for the former as well here depending on who he's referring to by "everyone"

True, Asgore IS wrong for that. He's wrong for that and it's meant to parallel how he was wrong for what he did in Undertale. This is not exclusive to Deltarune in any way and he's not somehow only worse here. Asgore declared war on all humankind like an idiot because his two kids died to them and he was wracked with guilt over it . And the thing is I don't think the situation is all that different in spirit?

The holidays and the dreemurrs were CLOSE. Close close. He's known Carol and Rudy for AGES. Rudy was the best man at his wedding, presumably his college roommate and his best friend, their kids grew up alongside eachother and were just as close, and he was the head of the police (AKA in charge of making sure everyone is safe). And then, whatever happened to Dess happened to Dess. Under his watch! Obviously he's obsessed with it because he can't even look his sick best friend Rudy or a clearly silently grieving Carol in the eyes without somewhere in the back of his head being reminded of it.

And obviously he's MAD at the person he thinks committed that injustice. He's willing to wage a war against all humans for his own kids, I'm not surprised he's willing to kill one person who in his eyes did something horrible to Dess and has been a danger to all of hometown.

Undertale Asgore had decades to cool down from his rage and realize he fucked up by letting his guilt drive him the first time (not that that helped him become less self hating or guilty) so it's logical to me that Deltarune Asgore is still on about bloody vengeance. We're just witnessing it directly for the first time.

I don't know what my point here is. I guess my point is that Asgore was never going to be in the right mental headspace for the flowers' attempts at connecting with him to work, not because he doesn't give a shit about them, but because he has the Asgore tunnelvision switched on that makes him blind to whatever he needs to sacrifice in the name of the greater good.

I also ☝️ think that flowery making him realize how he's acting to Toriel is about more than just "oh that was harassment"

The fact that he mentions playing along and thinking it was thoughtful but the affection still not being asked for, feels like it (in drawing that comparison in the first place) implies to me

that that's what toriel is doing, playing along and not being as firm as she is in undertale because she doesn't hate him (she prays for him in church, she waters the flowers even though she throws them in the trash, she expresses her gratitude to Rudy for Carol helping him out even if she doesn't like her funding his conspiracies)

And she might appreciate the gesture, she might not want to hurt his feelings and just want to go on with her day so she keeps letting him down easy instead of putting her foot down (which he misinterprets). He doesn't just realize what he's been doing because he couldn't figure out harassment was bad?? he realizes the true context of toriels actions towards him which he had been tunnelvision rationalizing as something else. She was just playing along, like he is.

Anyway this post is far too fucking long already. Conclusion: you can hate Asgore all you want for his actions because they're definitely Bad, but one thing you can't do is claim he's being purposefully malicious because that's simply Not The Case.