#inkyspeaks

So. For people who are not Ethoslab watchers, in his most recent episode he showed off these beautiful statues Joel supposedly made of Etho in front of his house.

I figured Joel built them, and it seems Etho did too, because he sent Joel a message via mail about them.

This note... honestly surprised me a bit? I didn't think much of it at first, but the tone of it felt out of place. Obviously these two have this ongoing bit of being obsessed with each other, and they've done nothing recently but yes-and to the sun about it. This note seems to almost shut this bit down, saying "this bit hasn't gone too far yet, because I'm showing this on camera, but it's getting there." Which is a possible explanation for this note! But considering all they've done recently it feels very sudden.

And then. Joel claimed to not have built the statues. "Oh," I thought. "Joel is claiming not to have built the statues because he doesn't want to seem obsessed." Makes sense. Or maybe he *didn't* build the statues and someone is pranking them. That also makes sense.

But it was only when watching Joel talk about it on Impulse's stream, when I heard Joel say "honestly, I think Etho might have done it," that it clicked.

Oh.

This motherfucker.

He 100% did. That's why the message is so weird. Ethoslab built statues of himself outside Joel's base, messaged him via mail saying "that's kinda weird bro" and then DIDN'T EVER REVEAL THAT HE BUILT THEM. Oh my god THIS MAN...

:0 really big fan of all nightjars, but I'll go with the common poorwill!

I mean just look at them they look like they're killing you with their mind. Also they are perhaps just a pinecone someone found below a tree? How can a single bird be so pinecone? It's quite impressive really.

Also just look at how weird their mouths are! And look at their "whiskers" they have by their beak! Just absolutely :}

Like the mascot reacting to the glitch during Charlie's vivisection with a "What was that?" or how, after we learn that the fourth wall does not, in fact, exist; it called into question so many scenes where the cameras linger on what's going wrong. There was no effort to cover up the glitches, because they were supposed to happen in the first place. Hetch never stopped the cameras from seeing Ranboo watching the tapes. The cameraman never panned away from Sneeg having his slight panic attack when the veil lifted for him. It was all part of the entertainment, after all. We were *supposed* to know that something was wrong.

We were supposed to be scared. That was all part of the entertainment.

Not only is Generation Loss a horror series, so is whatever show Showfall is creating.

There's 7 chapters of Deltarune. We know this bc of the chapter select screen and bc Gaster just said we passed the halfway point. Great. Cool. But I think that's not when the story "ends"... per se.

I think the "ending" of the game, or at least the prophecy, is in chapter 5. There's a crazy amount of shit that points to this, and it's SO WEIRD, so I wanna hear your guys's thoughts on this.

Meta stuff:

Ok from a meta pov, as far as I know, Toby has RARELY, if EVER, mentioned chapters 6 and 7 outside of the game itself. We know that chapters 3, 4 and 5 were originally meant to be released together, and we've heard lots about the development of chapter 5. We now even know that it's gonna be released in 2026 (and I think on Halloween like chp 1 bc I think the festival's a Halloween festival... anyways). Even when Toby talked about selling the game, he never said how many more chapters there would be and has generally been very vague about it. There's a good pre-chp-3/4 video by HalfBreadChaos on this chapter ambiguity which I recommend watching linked here.

Pacing:

Before the release of chapters 3 and 4, the general consensus of the fandom was that we wouldn't encounter the knight until at least chapter 4, and wouldn't fight it until chapter 5 or 6- much less a Titan, which would be saved for chapter 7 or at LEAST chapter 6. But here we are, having fought the Knight in chapter 3 and a whole-ass Titan in chapter 4- ie, the pace is going MUCH faster than the fandom thought it would. What's more is the festival is tomorrow, or chapter 5, largely thought to be the event which would coincide with the Roaring and maybe even the Angel's Heaven. If we assume this is true, all these events would occur way before the fandom thought they would.

Canon future-telling:

However, the biggest piece of evidence that the game will "end" in chapter 5 is all the Easter Eggs which show no sign of continuing beyond that point. The page on the Spamton Sweepstakes which hints at the Weird Route only has references to chapters 1-5, and even though chapters 1 and 3 have no Weird Route, there's still there while 6 and 7 are not. The egg man only lists days up to Sunday (during chp 5) for hints for where we can find him during the chapter 3 egg room. Seam only needs 5 Shadow Crystals. And most interestingly of all, when talking about Lord of the Hammer, Gerson only describes the chapters up to chapter 5 to Susie. He never got to finish that book and dies soon after.

So what would it mean for chapter 5 to be the "end" of the game, but for chapters 6 and 7 to still exist? I think that chapter 5 is where the game is "supposed" to end- where the prophecy says it will, with the Roaring and the Angel's Heaven. I think chapter 5 is the "one ending" Toby Fox talks about in the steam page. But I don't think that it will be how the game itself resolves, and I don't think chapters 6 and 7 will be treated exactly like epilogue either.

Chapter 4 is ripe with the theme of breaking inevitability/predetermination, especially that of the prophecy. Gerson explicitly talks about writing his own version of events, and tries again and again to encourage Susie to do the same. In fact, he even says that the pen was free for the youth to pick up and write, but they never did. I think he's trying to get Susie to realize that she can try again even after the "end" of the story.

So anyways, there's my thoughts, what do you all think? :)

(Oh actually...

Alternatively I think it's also possible that chapter 5 will end with the Roaring starting, and that chapter 6 will be the "end" I talked about here, with chapter 7 being on trying again/breaking the prophecy- it seems actually that Gerson wrote a sixth chapter: "There was only one more chapter, after that, it all stopped." Regardless, I think chapter 5 will definitely be the last "normal" chapter, and it's still really weird how chapters 6 and 7 have been omitted up to this point.)

From the discord I bring this insane doc, which you absolutely do not have to read through, but it contains a LOT which could be very relevant: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pMcjA1FQqsyaQDJsdH0b9QmGPOC_EUVh4giFsZ1CJTQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

Included, we have:

- ARG answers, including links to unlisted videos!

- Transcripts of videos and other resources!

- Potential evidence that WP is connected to other Ivorycello videos!

- Mildly deranged timeline rants!

- Remarkably little about the actual murder mystery!

- Thoughts about Mysti, Pyroscythe, and Ivory!

- T R E E S

And more to come! If you're a WP/Ivorycello theorist who has just been vibing here on Tumblr, *please* tell me about your ideas, we need hot takes :D

(Also I have an OC named Glimmer too!)

Ah yes! All the OCs I've mentioned in that post and most of mine in general are from DND campaigns I've played with some people I know irl like @blue-rhapsody and @winterotter11 (my gf) amongst others. Sully is my main gal, I played her in a campaign that lasted for more than a year. I've talked about her a bit on my #fate of tirazia tag. She is a dwarf monk who was raised in kinda a cult and has some interesting worldviews as a result. She has a weird maybe romantic subtext thing going on with Mal, my gf's main PC, but neither of them can express their feelings ever.

All the other ones I've mentioned are my PCs from oneshots I've played in! Llorva is an assassin drow who is very chill/laid back. She has a magic cloak that lets her walk on ceilings and one time almost killed Katrina, another one of my gf's PCs! They also have a romantic thing going on before canon, and then they go on an expedition and Llorva gets turned into a mindflayer.

Glimmer (aka Glimmergob) is a really silly goblin PC from a goblin campaign that was very unserious and ran on cartoon logic. I had so much fun with that campaign and I love them dearly. Glimmergob was one of three goblins who dressed up in a trenchcoat with mage hand hands who infiltrated a group of elves. They want nothing more than to start a band and was able to achieve that by the end of the oneshot!

Rhes was a PC from a batshit insane oneshot where we were all members of a murder cult. She was in a extremely toxic lesbian situationship with Seraphine, one of Blue's PCs. They are little freaks and I love them but I want both of them as far away from me as possible bc they are both walking garbage fires of characters.

The King of Nothing is a very interesting character from a oneshot I came in late to (... when we say "oneshot" we usually mean two or three shot...) who is this celestial infiltrator (homebrew race for the campaign, think kinda a small deity/demigod which has a humanoid form) who was stripped of her power almost entirely by another infiltrator. They're just a weird little guy who's trying to understand mortals and what's going on after being tortured for a long time. The King of Nothing is not his real name, but she does not remember it any more and that's what she goes by now.

Oh and all of these oneshots that I've mentioned actually take place in the same universe! Though most take place in completely different places and time periods. We love the Fate of Tirazia universe :)

Other PCs of mine not mentioned in the notes of that post: Poppy, Areth, Hualing, Elia, Annae, and Marijke. (Of these, only Elia and Annae belong to FOT, the others are from other universes, but all run with generally the same group).