#taelks

As a summary, these are the achievements for completing each chapter in console, BUT! You only get these achievements if you DO NOT get the egg.

If you get the eggs in all chapters (and thus do not get any of the “COMPLETE WITHOUT ISSUE” achievements), you get additional gaster(?) dialogue:

INTERESTING.

YOU FAILED

TO ACHIEVE

ANY MARKS.

WHAT

ARE

YOU?

"(playername)"

I VERY MUCH

LOOK FORWARD

TO THE NEXT.

Many take this dialogue to confirm gaster and the forgotten man/egg man are different, since Gaster seems to regard the eggs as issues, problems. BUT this is exactly what i want to look at, because the voice does not seem to imply they are unwanted— to the contrary the voice is happy these issues were encountered. And they look forward to the next! Just as the forgotten man urges Kris to go back for the unobtained eggs, both him and gaster seem to WANT the player to get all eggs.

And this, in conjunction with the fact that it’s suspected gaster was the royal scientist AND the idea that Deltarune is his experiment— I think these “issues” were never problems: instead they could be variables!!

Picture this: this voice, gaster, speaks of Deltarune as an experiment, has referred to it as a test or similar multiple times, so it is his experiment. He observes the events play out, as a researcher should, to report how things work and pan out. But in every good experiment you need to have a point of comparison, no? A control group.

So I am of the opinion that a “normal” run of Deltarune, no eggs involved, is the “control group”; normal readings, expected outcomes, etc. no issues.

While a run collecting the eggs is unexpected, a new development, an “issue”, yes, but in the sense of being a divergence from the norm, exactly what a researcher is looking for. That’s why he comments on it, not because he hates the “egg man”, but because there’s finally been a variable group in which the eggs he placed, the variables he is testing, have been obtained. Maybe “no marks” is the outcome he wanted to find. The “interesting” outcome (he does show MORE interest when you have obtained more eggs, regardless of how he refers to it).

So that takes us to think, what is he testing for? My personal guess is that he’s researching the ability of the Deltarune characters to break out of bounds, or the ability of individuals to surpass barriers (lol) or obstacles in general, to get to places “in between”.

That does leave the question of Chapter 5 Wierd Route ending as the MOST out of bounds it can get, and you can’t really get all the eggs in the weird route, so it’s not perfect… but it was something I had rattling around in my brain for a bit.