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A quick explanation: Gaster/ the Program tracks the shadow crystals upon obtainment. Seam wants these crystals and incentives the player/Kris to collect them. The Mantle is stolen, and in the quest for finding the Mantle, we learn how to do the weird route. I tie it all back to the Soul and to Dess. There is a path here, constructed for the casual player.. A guiding light towards darkness that is subtle, but I notice it’s flicker.

This will be the only time I acknowledge this work on my art blog (as I prefer blog separation) but… In celebration of Chapter 5, I shall.

When writing “Odds & Ends”, my re-vamped Seam analysis/theory, I thought that Friend and Seam were in cahoots but had no evidence to prove it, so I refused to mention it. However, new information on Friend arose. It’s ability to manipulate the walls of our world- letting us access areas we otherwise wouldn’t have. Because of this information, I can now confirm that Friend is a part of Crystal Route (defined by obtainment of Crystals). In fact, I should’ve realized this after acknowledging Friend as a “DEVICE” issued within our Program. The program tracks the shadow crystals when obtaining them, and we see Friend’s helpful behavior in regards to that. It summons the teacups in Queens basement, allowing us to get rid of the electric gate. It provides a source of healing during ERAMs fight (the more deaths= higher candy chance). It also offers a waferguard just before fighting the Titan/facing the Knight. Whoever the voice is, whether it be Gaster or not: wants us to collect these trinkets. Friend becomes a means of assisting us in obtaining them. Seam is literally the only character to reference the direct “darker yet darker” quote, and collects crystals Gaster is interested in. The crystals that relate to the book in the ROOT’s room, as they likely formed from the fallen star’s river of tears.

It’s makes me feel very happy to see this tie together in a neat bow, without forcing it. I was already so sure of Seam and Gaster connections, so it’s great to see that The three common forces that’s plagued my mind, were actually, as I thought, working in tandem.