#art!!!!!!!

NO they are NOT feeding me crack cocaine for breakfast. It's actually morphine

Anyways. VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION

This fic was definitely one that was a bright spot to look forward to in all the stress of graduating and job hunting! It's very interesting to be able to read about something that traumatic and the ways that a family would very realistically and naturally respond to it...I find huge emotions like that are one of the hardest things to knock out of the park and I would say that you absolutely have!!

Anyways, thank you so much for the joy you've given me being able to read your amazing writing and I thought it was only fair if I tried to kick you a little something back!

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@usbarkservice Hello! I told you this already, but when I saw this in my inbox, I cried for a bit!

Thank you SO MUCH for this amazing surprise and for the kind words. It really means the world. Things have been difficult, and I've been so tired, but this really gave me an incredible boost. It is one of the first times anyone has ever drawn art based on one of my fics and the feeling is incomparable.

And it looks so good!! The emotions! The pathos! The teeth, the exhaustion, the anger! Usagi reaching with both hands! The spilled mug! Aaah! Aahhhhh!!

Suffice to say, I loved it. Thank you so much, again. And for everyone else, there's two new chapters if you haven't seen them.

Chapter 24: (Monday) In Between

This is basically because of the same logic that I had for Undertale’s version of the Weird Route (and in Deltarune it applies to both Weird Route and “normal route” since Kris always doesn’t want to deal with the soul lol). I think if you try to analyze the story in the sense of “these things are actually happening to these characters, therefore there are stakes related to their goals & wellbeing and we can analyze them as people reacting to upsetting/dangerous situations” and the sense of “it is obviously not a moral action to play a video game” at the same time- everything just kind of falls apart in my eyes. Literal me the player is not a moral actor in the story of the game. I try to switch angles and think about it differently but my heart simply circles back to my first reaction: That’s stupid.

Possibly I’m the stupid one though, because the thing is, the red soul as abstract entity is a perfectly cromulent interpretation of the player character but it’s also just like. nothing. It’s just a plot device. Everything interesting is in how Kris (+other characters) react to it. Barring some reveals later, the true origins and nature of the soul don’t really matter to the characters or the narrative or the themes.