#kerdsei

Krusie is like “I have barely known you for three days but I would happily die if it meant I could protect you. I regret every second we spent thinking we hated each other, because now that I see the real you, it’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. You are the one person I can truly rely on, even if I have to keep the most devastating of secrets from you that will bury me in the end. I see you, and I love you.”

Kriselle is like “I haven’t had a conversation with you last more than five minutes in years and I can still remember every word we’ve said to each other. We were the closest two people could possibly be without literally sharing a body and now I don’t even know how to talk to you. I pretend like you don’t mean anything to me because admitting how much I still love you terrifies me to the core, and I feel insane guilt every day over the fact I broke us apart. I hope one day you can forgive me for being a terrible friend.”

Suselle is like “You are everything that I am not that I so desperately want to be. You hide your true self away under these layers of facade but I can see the sparkling gem underneath and it is such a beautiful sight, I don’t think I am worthy to behold it. I want to steal every moment I can with you and I will fight to do so even if fate itself attempts to tears us apart. I don’t know if I will ever deserve you but I will still reach out to you, and I will find a way to keep you.”

Susei/Ralsusie is like “We are polar opposites in every way I can imagine and it only brings us closer together. You complete me in ways I did not know I needed to be completed. When everything and everyone told me that I did not matter, you told me I am important not in spite of but because of who I am. I will take every blow and every injury if it means protecting your smile and keeping you safe. I will even destroy my own heart if it means giving you the happiness that I know for a fact you deserve.”

Kralsei is like “What if you met the person that was literally made for you, and that all the world was pushing you together, but there was something wrong? What if the person you were born to fall in love with was an unflattering, bitter depiction of who you are and who you used to be? What if your honest to God Soulmate was keeping secrets and undermining everything you have dedicated your life to do, not out of cruelty or malicious intent, but because it was genuinely what they needed to do, what they were always going to do? And what if, in spite of all of that, you fell in love with each other anyways?”

Kerdly is like “I don’t know if I can call you my friend or say I care about you, but you still define so much of who I am, intentionally or otherwise. I don’t have many people who would give a shit if I live or die, and I don’t know if you’re one of them, but I still need you to be in my life. I will fight you, I will hurt you, I will defy everything you want if I absolutely have to, but when the chips are down I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe. I don’t know if I love you, I don’t even know if I like you, but I still need you, whatever that even means.”

Dessriel…I mean, do I even have to explain that one? Whatever happened, however things went, you already know.

ANY adult Holiday/Dreemurr ship is like “We were once something special, closer than anyone could possibly imagine. My home was your home, and yours was mine. Even outside of what the world might accept, we were one family. Then everything went wrong, and now we’ve fallen apart. My life is crumbling down around me in ways I didn’t even think were possible, and yet I still care about you. I still love you, even as we rapidly approach the end, and the world crumbles down around me. I don’t know if we’re still a family, but you will always be my home.”

SOME PLATONIC NERDY PARTNERS

Hehe I love ignoring all the impending doom

I like to imagine them all living in an apartment together in college (Kris and Susie are there too!)

I don’t know any other media that handles gender the way that Deltarune does, not only does it reverse the trope that the non-human character is also the nonbinary one by making a every human we’ve seen gender neutral compared to the monsters and darkeners who do have binary genders. It also allows for these characters with binary genders to be gender non-conforming. Susie who is more masculine, and Ralsei who is more feminine. Not only that, but there are numerous characters who also go by multiple pronouns. For example, Lanino (He/They) and Elnina (She/They).

I do like how, in the most recent chapter, when you’re voting for the festival king and the festival queen that Kris can be either (and is seemingly willing to be either) and the game doesn’t like change the title to like flower royalty. A lot of people forget being nonbinary isn’t one solid thing, the label is an umbrella. There’s hardly any nonbinary people who nonbinary the exact same way. In the same section of the game, Susie tells Noelle and Kris to vote for her as Festival King. She is hoping for her and Noelle to be crowned as Festival Queen and Festival King. I have no way of knowing if this festival is very rigid in what they’d call the winning couple (because Rudy does state “maybe this year there’ll be two Festival Queens instead”) but it does stand out to me that Susie takes the initiative to tell her friends to vote her for the Festival King spot. Not to mention that Susie is just doing it for fun, as she knows she likely won’t win due to being kind of ostracized in her town.

I’d also like to state that; being homosexual/asexual in a heteronormative society is, in its own way, gender non-conforming. This does not mean every queer person identifies as being gender non-conforming. It’s just important to recognize that — to heterosexual and cisgender people — queer people are not conforming to the roles that society has placed upon their bodies. There is a wide array of queer characters in Deltarune, and because Hometown appears to be heteronormative, I figured this to be important to state.

On the topic of sexuality, I wanted to bring up how we discuss ships with nonbinary characters. Kris is included in a lot of popular ships. In specific I’m talking about with Berdly, Susie, Noelle, and Ralsei. There is a push to call any ship that includes a nonbinary character and a woman a lesbian relationship. On the other side, there is a push to call any ship that includes a nonbinary character and a man a gay relationship. Which is totally fine, there’s no issue with that. The issue comes when someone doesn’t see the relationship that way. Let’s take Berdly and Kris for example, because I’ve seen it more with them.

Let’s say somebody posts about Deltarune and they’re talking about their favorite ship, Kerdly (is that anyone’s favorite, like #1? 🤔) they decide to share their Headcanons. They headcanon Kris as whatever and they headcanon Berdly as a straight ally. Obviously, this might make some people uncomfortable. They might think this person is saying Kris is a girl, because they think that if someone dates a nonbinary person; that they have to identify as being queer in someway. This is because people have begun to see nonbinary as more of a binary third gender than what it is; nonbinary. A relationship with a nonbinary person is almost always queer, unless that enby states they don’t see their relationship as queer. What doesn’t connect for some people is this; Straight/Heterosexual people can be in queer relationships.

That might sound strange, but it’s true. Think of a straight asexual man. If he is in a relationship with someone; that relationship is queer. If a straight person is in a relationship with an enby; that relationship does not necessarily mean that they see their partner as “the opposite gender”. Just like how a gay person doesn’t see their nonbinary partner as “the same gender”.

This goes for all ships that include nonbinary characters as well. As long as you understand the nuances of gender identity; put them in whatever relationship you want (excluding the obvious). So if you see Kerdly as gay and Kralsei as straight, sure why not 👍

Although, I will say Kriselle would be lesbian because of Noelle. With what we’ve seen, she is not attracted to men.

The birth of venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

Leave your own in the replies :3

Krusie- CryptidTrouble

Krisei- FluffyFeelings

Berdsei-ThoughtfulGlasses

Kralusie- FunTruple

Ralsusie-ToothDecay

Berdsie- KindledGamers

Kerdsei- RPGNest

Suselle- WinterFeature

Berdelle (Mercy)- ClassPets

Berdelle (Fight)- BrainFreeze

Ralselle-DreamySweets

Kralselle-SugarFreeze

Krusellsei-ColdSweetooth

Kriselle (mercy)- HolidaySurprise

Kriselle (Fight)- IceyEpitaph

Kruselle- SnowyMisfits

Kerdelle-SmartTopians

Kerdly(mercy)- BirdHouse

Kerdly(fight)-FlewSouth

Keraluselle-StoryCast

Spamtenna- Commercial[Ad]

Spamvil- [Free]Minded

Seamvil-CircusDolls

Queenton- Famous[Folly]

Kington- Lord[Washouts]

Queentenna- MediaMonarchy

Queing- BlackjackCrown

Queenkaard- ServerRouxles

Kingkaard- RoyalWorms

Kingtenna- Ol'fashionedWays

TennaKaard- SupremeMedia

That's all I got for now. Admittedly I have yet to play Chapters 3 & 4 so this will definitely get updated later. No spoilers please until then :')