hey! as this is essentially a glorified oc blog (inspired by an implied future character, in a similar vein to dess holiday or “mike”) i wanted to whip up a little post with some introductory stuff and links to questions that get asked a lot for both ease of access and for folks who are new to the blog to get the rundown quickly! i’m the mod behind @dessofficial and both of my blogs take place within the same “deltarune” continuity as officialralsei and are tangential to gasterofficial, and as a lot of our lore is planned out, those are the only two blogs i'll rp with. please respect my boundaries!
IMPORTANT INFO
posts in chronological order, from the “start” of the blog: >
a summary of the story so far: >
character reference drawing for tenna: >
fanart tag is #art.
check out my commissions here!
silly little character sheet with some extra info: >
suggestive post tag is #late night special.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can I join the RP?
We don’t own the monopoly on RP blogs - you’re more than welcome to make your own! But our “canon” is limited to me and the Ralsei I interact with, due to the fact that a lot of our lore is pre-planned and very in-depth. You’re more than welcome to create your own, but even a lot of the blogs we do interact with (like our Gaster and Kris) come from different “canons” due to the fact that our lore doesn’t line up with theirs. It means a lot that people are so invested, but please respect that we’ve got a story we’re telling here - one we really hope you’ll enjoy!
Who is the narrator?
The narrator of this blog is Chara from the @dessofficial universe. They’re an artificial Lightner the same way Ralsei is an artificial Darkner, repurposed to be the narrator of the game after their death. This isn’t a story about them, so they’ll only sporatically answer questions, but if you’re interested you can read about it there (or go ask Ralsei about it!)
What’s the deal with the ratings talk?
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How does Tenna know about Rouxls-Gaster?
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Does this world have a Dark Fountain yet?
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What’s with the unplugged TV situation?
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What sort of Gods are the Dreemurr family here?
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Where did the TORIEL painting come from?
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Spamton?
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Spamton DIVORCE?
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Other channels?
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i mentioned this on my sideblog but if the temporary spoiler ban for asks is now lifted! (if you want to ask me the author something about the new chapters, you should do it over at @tvlandofficiall!)
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As one of the Tenna CEOs on Tumblr.com I thought it'd be fitting to share here how funny I find his character subversion. I remember when his cute border design leaked and people on Twitter were like "noo guys don't fall for the facade!! remember what spamton said about not trusting anything you see on tv!!" and eveyone was fully convinced of him being a mafia boss or irredeemable scum (as if Toby has ever written a pure evil character)
Then it turned out he is the nicest antagonist so far who IS masking stuff to the public as a TV host, but what he's masking isn't some evil intentions, just self-worth issues 😭
Can't believe he embodiment of malicious spam email is not a reliable source of information about his ex partner! What a surprise!
oh i've been on team sympathetic tenna from way back – though that's never to diss anyone else's interpretations, of course. (i've a soft spot for a few cutthroat tennas myself!) but one of the big concepts that i was working with when writing tvlandofficial tenna was 1. as you said, that spamton is an unreliable narrator, and 2. that it was inevitable that tenna would be based on one of kris' family members, likely toriel (though i was slightly off on guessing toriel specifically). tvlandofficial tenna was a big, tough mafia boss, with a dog-eat-dog world view on life, but she also grew to become fiercely protective of ralsei, and her initial outlook on life stemmed not from being malicious for malice's sake but from the very same thing we see canon tenna's issues stem from – that all darkners will be abandoned one day, being objects and all. and while she did end up unplugged, she still had people she could lean on, becoming truly attached to her guy's and, of course, to ralsei.
when it comes to the darkners as a whole, they're all defined by that struggle against fate – against what it means to be an object. (this led to another part of the mixed feelings i had – i wish we saw more of this with the old man – but i digress, and again, i can see what the aim was.) even characters like spades king and spamton have sympathetic qualities in how the cycle of being used and tossed away defines them. and as we know now, canon tenna's defined by it too – someone who knows his kind aren't built to last and wants to last forever. (he's honestly a lot like queen, too, in the way he relates to kris like she does to noelle – wanting badly to make them smile but being out of touch with how to do so. there's some dreemurr and holiday food for thought.) it breaks your heart a little when you see well-meaning susie, who similarly measures her worth by her own fate as a hero of the prophecy, offer to let mettaton have him. he wants someone to look at him and say they want him around, and although he's still ultimately the sort of person who'll trap you in an endless round of miserable minigames to get that to happen, he's got this sense of naïveté about him that matches with his kids'-show-mascot personality. but both susie and tenna are worth more than what they can give to a prophecy or to a god, and i'm sure that someday, they'll figure that out.
as an aside, though, i'm really enjoying spamton's scummy side getting some more time in the spotlight after these chapters dropped. it's a huge factor in the way i write him both when it comes to my die-hard swatch/spamton enjoyment and in general. i feel as though a part of the reason it fell off the map is that fans began to fear swatch's acerbic side meant they one-sidedly treated spamton like garbage, but i don't think that's true at all. they're garbage4garbage. i could write a whole essay dissecting spamton's garbageness because it's so compelling to me. he's character.
it's funny to me in retrospect that i made tenna a cool and confident character considering that her canon counterpart feels like the sort of person who would be immediately made shy by someone saying they liked when he threatened everyone and got all pointy about it.
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all this to be said; when june starts, i'm probably going to go offline for a while to play the new chapters and give them lots of thought. i want my opinions on them to be as uninfluenced as they can and also the level of excitement around them when they first drop will definitely make me more stressed out than i need to be. given that, please don't send me asks about the new chapters or tell me "i think that based on such-and-such, your theory about such-and-such was confirmed/deconfirmed!" until i ask for them, and remember for everyone's sake to tag "#deltarune spoilers" when posting about the new chapters overall. thank you!
For some reason my first thought at seeing the points post was "canon tenna is tvlandofficial tenna's annoying TV star obsessed cousin who keeps ripping her off"
on my walk home from work i was actually considering the idea of canon tenna being the more "modern" (read: 2000s as-seen-on-tv tv) sort of darkner in comparison to tenna's more old-school approach. we don't name movies "snow white and the seven dwarves" anymore, we name them "frozen"! "mafia" points? why not regular ol' "points"? gotta keep it snappy!
