#deltarant

December has always been this kind of mysterious character to me. The way she's talked about (both in-game and irl) seem to be very positive, with very little question as to if she was more than just an older sister. And tbh I feel like this wouldn't align with toby's writing. We continually see several characters in undertale be functionally and sometimes entirely different from how others describe them. Dess is usually portrayed without this nuance and it kind of feels underwhelming. ofc there are going to be amazing interpretations of Dess and the like, but it feels like she's not being used to her full potential. This could just be me, but just having a nice, kind, fully good person go missing and turn into a horrible creature that we need to save, especially when that character is a woman, is just... overdone. Imo it would be more narratively satisfying if Dess was a flawed, lonely, and emotional teenage girl who made some bad decisions. So few people can imagine a spunky, unruly, and unique kid to just... disappear. And don't even get me started on how Carol and Dess's decisions make for her disappearance and eventual change into something else could make for a much better plot point than just. Carol was evil and mean and then decembwuh disappeared :( :( :( :( :( . I moreover feel that if the story of deltarune is about escapism, family, and freedom rather than a story about a innocent girl going missing to a scary monster than it will be one million times better than it's premise.