#dr!theory

(Love the fic BTW, take as long as you need to keep cooking 🔥)

absolutely! :D it would be my pleasure *rubs my hands together giggling* now don't touch that dial because i've been saving these for a rainy day (ignoring how the sun is bright as all hell outside)

starting off easy with the japanese localization of spamton's shop dialogue, which toby fox worked on as well. It translates to something more akin to his eyes burning rather than anything else. The best translation I could find was on reddit where it's translated to:

"In the past, I was just in charge of sending emails. Now I'm in charge of [[Wait! It's too bright! My eyes hurt, stop!]]"

But I mean even in the english ver of the game there was always "MY EYES ARE [[Burning]]..." to support that even before us english-speakers even heard of the japanese localization differences.

Looks like he saw what was on the other side of the shadow crystal you nabbed from him at the end of his fight:

Also in-game it was evidenced that his puppet transformation had something to do with his [[Communion]] and not anything to do with acid. I think the theorists forgot that part.

Point 2: in the spamton sweepstakes' fangamer Q&A on twitter: spamton himself confirms he's always been on the shorter side of the addisons

knowing that the only basis behind acid theory was that darkners could shrink from the acid (which just so happened to just be a funny joke from Queen) and then confirming that Spamton was always a lil guy?? it shows that that's not what happened to him either. So let's keep going.

Point 3:

Backtracking to the swan boat ride gives this lil swatchling interaction. Cyber darkners seem to be unaffected by the acid in general, like Queen even drinks it and claims it's a free pool. There's evidence in sweepstakes that Spamton got thrown in, sure, but if it can't even burn a photo or pottery, i don't think it would burn an addison.

However, it looks like they threw him in there after too-many-an-attempt on the Neo robot, maybe to try and get him to not come back. Unfortunately for them, this puppet is determined and desperate. It looks like he got bullied pretty harshly, but nothing to warrant being permanently puppetified by any of the mansion staff.

Swatch took it upon themself to keep Spamton from the Neo robot, as they helped designed it, hoping something would come from it when nothing ever did. It's said to be incredibly powerful, so of course Swatch wants to keep him the heck away from it. All of the traps in the basement (the chests with traces of money in them (bait?), the keygen lock, etc) look to have been designed specifically to keep Spamton out.

It's not the reason behind his transformation, but we know that he went swimming at some point lol

The mansion staff (Queen, Swatch, Tasque Manager, etc.) aren't malicious, they just want to keep something sacred away from someone who wants to use it for selfish and nefarious purposes. Which it's warranted! Spamton is at the end of his rope at that point, but he has no business trespassing and stealing a too-tall abandoned art project.

Besides, seeing [Heaven] and having your fate decided by outside forces aligns more with the themes of deltarune already, and if acid theory had been proven canon back in Ch2 or heck even in Ch3, i still wouldn't care for it. I think it's a really lazy way to make Spamton's downfall more impactful, and is just unnecessary angst, compared to everything else his character has to offer. Trust me, i love a good angst sesh, but without merit or thematic background it falls flat to me. But that's just my bias! Thats not evidence at all lol.

You know how every other secret boss seems to have a unique SOUL mode? And how it seems like every SOUL mode thus far has an Undertale SOUL it correlates to? If we go by this pattern, we COULD assume that there will only be three unique SOULs appearing— HOWEVER!! I think that all four SOUL modes will be appearing in Deltarune!

We know that there is going to be a secret boss corresponding to every member of the Fun Gang, yes— Kris and Spamton in Chapter 2, Susie and Gerson/Old Man in Chapter 4, and the upcoming Ralsei and [????] in the upcoming Chapter 6 (that will likely release in either 2027 or 2028..)

BUT! What if there was a secret boss that corresponded with every PLAYABLE/PARTY-ABLE character? What if, since we already know from Chapter 2 that Chapters CAN, in fact, play out far differently via weird route, there is a weird route-specific boss that utilizes a special SOUL mode that corresponds with Noelle (and perhaps how her story's gone throughout the events of the weird route)

I believe this secret boss would have the blue SOUL mode, and that Chapter Six's secret boss will have the purple SOUL mode.

we know a lot of it is spamton massively projecting, but it's also a warning with what we can guess is going to happen in later chapters, especially with future weird routes.

i believe as the chapters progress, and weird routes (and their consequences) contribute more to the outcome of the story, we'll see a darker narrative play out. Especially when it comes to your interactions with Susie.

In the newsletter we got this, from deltarune.com/chapter3, and then a look into the achievements, with a theory being "without issue" is actually "without susie" (susie being an anagram of issue)

(also unique commentary there with how susie is as well as her trait she can't be controlled by the player in any capacity)

now tie that into when you look through the "glass" (the shadowcrystal) in chapter 2:

Spamton, I think, isn't only projecting about his own downfall (losing his friends, falling from grace, becoming desperate), but I think he's also warning the player about going down this route and what could happen to you. You'll be at a point where you need the help of your friends, maybe even to progress the game itself, but then you'll be all alone.

After all, he lost it when he tried to see too far. You might too. Maybe you even get a little desperate to save it.

But instead, you're locked in, maybe there's a chance to save it in later chapters, but who knows (even if I'd be genuinely surprised if you could come back from that)

im so excited to see this!! also her seeing queen again will be rlly cool but she'll be like "oh so that's where my laptop went"

that and tenna's undoubtedly gonna mention being adopted again. what's funny is i initially gave tenna away but immediately regretted my decision and had to replay ch4 from the start to keep him. i did this with a friend and she was like "you know. berdly told noelle she should get a CRT. why not give tenna to her?"

and so im sticking with the theory she will be who he eventually ends up with. also she owns the laptop :) where the email guy is :) so it'd work out maybe

the new details on the spamton sweepstakes website show these windows