#dogamy

Papyrus was the most overtly heroic boss character in Undertale, being able to control his powers to the point of merely incapacitating Frisk instead of killing them and appealing to their better nature in the Genocide Route, a move that actually got a bunch of players to give up on their Genocide runs. Flowery takes this aspect and cranks it up a notch, being modeled after your typical anime hero to the point of using the power of friendship and Deltarune's Mercy mechanics and merely placing the heroes right before his boss encounter instead of killing them outright.

Papyrus was originally intended to be a purposefully abrasive character, being your stereotypical fedora-wearing toolbag. Flowery fulfills this role in a more subtle way, looking like a cliche anime hero with an uninspired design on the surface.

Pink is the secret boss of the chapter and is a clear counterpart to Undertale Switch's Mad Mew Mew, who was located in Snowdin.

The Tough Glove and Manly Bandana, items associated with the Orange Soul, are found in Snowdin. Deltarune Chapter 5 finally introduces an Orange Soul mode.

The flowers' relationship with Asgore can be compared to a more worshipful version of UT!Sans and UT!Toriel's relationship.

The flowers also serve the general role of a colorful bunch of mini-boss characters, not unlike a more complicated version of the Snowdin Canine Unit.

Sans is notably one of the only constants on the Normal Route and the Weird Route for this chapter.

While Flowery's awareness of Deltarune's meta elements is more obviously a reference to Flowey's, Sans is also infamous for exploiting Undertale's UI.

By shaping their tears, Tear can do surfing, skiing, biking, driving and similar things. Because it's just them manipulating their own magic. Give them the real deal and Tear will fail miserably.

Shapes aren't the only thing Tear can mimic with their tears. More on that later, as I have something in the works ;>

Even though Tear is snow surfing, on actual water their magic dissipates. This is as close they get to it

I draw Deltarune stuff everyday till ch3 & ch4 come out!