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have i lost my grip utterly, or is the new side b "flashback" song the first three notes of A Gaster repeated in a gastery fashion on a kind of gastery instrument, and then midway through it overlays a dess coded electric guitar over it. and it's called "flashback," and plays while noelle has her monologue up until she drags kris into the lake. genuinely what was meant by all this

deltarune's umineko referencing goes so far as to make us, the actual irl players, into witch hunter forum discussion under itouikukuro's latest released forgery. i've heard that was kind of what umineko forums were like while it was still releasing, but i think the difference is there's able to be one less layer of abstraction, since the diegetic "itouikukuro" is canonically aware of us, makes posts directed to us on bluesky, and talks to us directly in the game.

the reason "normal NPC" doesn't show up on the "weird route," by the way, is because it's literally called "normal NPC." "normal" is an antonym of "weird." it ontologically cannot exist there. it makes complete sense idk

pink boss is deeply fucking weird but especially the "you wish you never met me, right?" line, which seems to come out of total left field. maddy has no preexisting relationship with playersoul, or anyone involved in the fight at all, and i know she has low self-esteem, but, like. "you wish you never met me" implies to me more than low self-esteem, it implies bad feelings about oneself in relation to some other person. like, "i'm not good for you, you should leave" or even "i've hurt you so much, why are you still sticking by me?" just something like that. but i don't know what reason pink/maddy or mew mew would have to... say that...? unless, and hear me out here, it's a knight parallel, an- [MEWMEWBOMBS FALL ONTO MY HEAD FROM THE TOP OF THE SKY]

while i'm at it being a hater, i do not like what IMAGE_FRIEND has done to the theorizing space and i hope that thing is never a god powers entity like the reddit powerscalers pretend it is. at most it should be a puppet used by gaster or the knight to do things for them. if it's any more than that, i will be demanding an apology from toby fox

i think among all the kids/teens azzy is maybe the only one who wouldn't do the WR if he were real