Hello World!

I dunno if anyone else has said this already but I'm going to anyway: Susie's theme and the "friendship theme" are the same.

In Susie, Friends, Festival, and Walking Home, the same eight notes show up at the beginning of each one. (In Vs Susie they show up later on.) In Chapter 1, the motif keeps climbing higher; but the rest of the times it shows up, it's able to "relax" and come back down sooner. It's reflective of Susie's journey so far as a character. She had a wall up to push everyone away preemptively because she thought she couldn't make friends, but once she realized that there were people who did care about her, she dropped her guard and showed her true self.

I feel like Dess has been showing up a lot more since Chapter 3. What I mean by that is, there's been a lot more guitar music. Guitar is her instrument, and her "theme" thus far has been more than a single leitmotif; she can make multiple songs refer to her by changing the instrument that plays them. (The example being Lost Girl becoming The Distance Between Two, and instead of thinking of Noelle all you can feel is the gaping emptiness where Dess used to be.)

Dess' presence was haunting the Festival, and the scene at the lake afterwards; I think she was happy that Noelle found someone who makes her happy.

It's super cool too because guitar is something that Dess and Susie now share. Guitar music links Noelle's past and present happiness together.

The other time guitar is prominent in Chapter 5 is when Asgore tells Kris about when everything fell apart. Presumably, the day Dess disappeared. I get the feeling that it was more than that, though. From the way Asgore talked about it, and the way that the guitar slowly distorted into something detuned and barely recognizable, it made me feel like what happened to her was violent, maybe even irreversible. And I think Asgore was there to witness at least part of it.

That's why he's so insistent to prove that it wasn't his fault. Because to the rest of the world, it must seem like she died.

Undertale and Deltarune's stories both revolve around a pair of doomed siblings where one is always fated to become the worst version of themself, but could possibly be saved by your decisions; and the other is a relatively neutral force unless they are directly influenced by your decisions to become something far darker.

Dess = Asriel/Flowey

Noelle = Chara

Not to mention all the parallels Noelle has with Chara; all the "getting stronger" stuff. And the fact that in the Weird Route, she is "the demon that comes when you call its name".

Something I noticed recently is that all of the secret bosses have elements of the Mysteryman/Gaster sprite in their designs.

Jevil's eyes have gashes over them.

Spamton has a white shirt with a dark jacket over it.

The Roaring Knight has holes in their hands.

And Gerson...

Well, Gerson didn't do what he was asked when given the shadow crystal. Instead of succumbing to its influence, he simply kept it safe and waited to pass it on to someone else; so he doesn't have any similarities to Gaster in his design. It also probably explains why the Freedom Motif is less glaring in his battle music. While the others were overwhelmed by freedom, or disregarded it entirely, Gerson has mastered freedom. He controls it instead of it controlling him.

So folks, ever since the new Undertale/Deltarune newsletter, I've been thinking about Chapter 5 and what it might be like; especially wondering why the Mike scene was significant to show this early. And I had a thought:

Asgore has a TV in his shop, right? Because of that TV being there, we might get a second chance to enter TV World, or at least, see it from a different angle. (Like how Susie recreates the church Dark World in Chapter 4. Maybe Chapter 5, assuming it's in the flower shop, will be the darker place that Shuttah said Tenna built over. I don't know how that would work but I feel like it kinda lines up.)

Chapter 4 established that the same Darkners can appear in different Dark Worlds... so what if the Chapter 5 Dark World will see Tenna come back? What if the reason we had an option to move him out of Castle Town is because we're going to meet Asgore's version of him in the next chapter??? Tenna did mention that Asgore watched cowboy shows and Jongler wears a cowboy hat. It feels significant to me that Asgore has a TV in his shop. Why is that there. What does it mean. Can individual Darkners reappear from any object that is the same object as theirs (i.e. any TV connected to the Dreemurrs turning into a version of Tenna) or is it more specific?? I don't know

Mike was teased heavily in Chapters 3 and 4 both. So wouldn't it make sense if the big reveal was in Chapter 5?

And. Oh my gosh.

ASGORE HAS THE PINK AND YELLOW COLORS. Pink shirt. Yellow hair. And yellow flowers, of course-- AND HIS SHOP IS PINK AND YELLOW TOO. How. How has this flown under my radar for so long. No way this is actually how it goes. I mean of course he was going to be involved somehow because of his connection to the Holidays and the Shelter but THIS!?!??!?!

...You don't think Asgore is the real Mike, do you??

I love this game so much. I admit, I played it for the first time later than most people probably did, but it had a huge impact on me.

(I don't know if this post is considered long but I'll put it under a "keep reading" thing just in case)