trying to figure out a new blog title

じゃますんなですよ💢

@friendlyfrankenstein and @facefullabugz

Not only is this 100% safe to watch if you haven't played/seen chapter 5 yet (this came out over a year ago), but right from the beginning these two are willing to talk in depth about the characters, and that, while there is a meta story being told about how we interact with fiction, the role it plays in our lives, what it can do versus what it cannot, there is also a very deep and compelling story about these characters and their hardships, their pasts and their futures, and how they matter.

When you play a video game you play a character. Listen—Listen. This is not an isekai! This game is not ending like Omikron, nobody's gonna load in and go "OKAY PLAYER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAVING OUR BEAUTIFUL DELTARUNE! IT'S TIME FOR YOU, THE LITERAL HUMAN PLAYING THIS GAME TO GO BACK T—" No! And that's, that's in there, but if you take a look at this as more literal: Who is this? Who is this person who recognizes this house, who is this person who wants to look at everything? Who can talk to Sans and say "It's good to see you again?" Can talk to Undyne and ask her about Alphys? Who is this person who is a part of Kris, who right now IS Kris, who kinda does their best to act normal, but also to help people? That's interesting to me, because whoever this is, both of us are gonna wind up really loving our friends, and wanting to do right for them. And being absolutely ready to go back on our word to both of them and throw ourselves into the Sacrifice Machine if it gets Susie out of this goddamn narrative

It's just so refreshing to see this being talked about outside some limited circles on Tumblr. These guys are not on the "isn't it sad that we're puppeting this poor teenager and making them do Dark Deeds (hugging Ralsei)" train, and instead are approaching it as what I feel it has always been intended, as a partnership, as a roleplay exercise in "How do I play this part of someone I barely know, a part that is unfathomably powerful in some ways but utterly helpless in others? A part that is made to empathize with what is happening in their lives, to feel joys and sadness alongside them, but also made to feel isolated and hopeless when thrown in a cage with nothing to do about it"

>looks inside

here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you

They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,

DONT BE A FUCKING SCAB

NOT EVEN DIGITALLY 🫵