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Do not worry... i have Vessel agenda in the thousands....

i think this specific egg is meant to represent susie. we first need to establish that eggs in deltarune are a metaphor for love. i hope this is commonly accepted enough to where i dont have to detail every single instance of that connection in this post (though i would love to and have plans to make a specific doc for something involving this, i just dont want to open that can of worms in this simple of a post...

but, just to get the ball rolling, here are some key examples:

we first see this from asgore's fridge in ch1 if you did not get the egg from the forgotten man. the word "egg" here can be replaced with "love" in regards to his divorce, how toriel no longer loves him the way she used to, but he still clings on as we can blatantly see through "coincidentally" running into her at the supermarket, repeatedly trying to give her flowers (that she throws away), and hiding in the bushes to ambush her after church to spark a conversation. his love is now solitary and unreciprocated. he is romantically alone.

there is also this whole interaction. toriel and sans are flirting with each other here, exchanging egg puns that coincide perfectly with the love symbolism, they share their love with one another. and, of course, as to be expected, asgore busts in with his own, trying to insert his love into toriel's life even when she is having fun with someone else.

the last example i will provide for this post is the pipis, explicitly stated by tenna to be an egg as he shoots it in his feature presentation, and is directly connected to spamton. this accentuates their past partnership, whether you want to look at it from a romantic lense or not. if you dont have the dealmaker, aka spamton, in ch3 for the special cutscene, a pipis falls out of the closet, and tenna gets humiliated by an audience.

he "saved one", he still holds some love for spamton, even if he has it buried away in the definitely inconspicuous closet that is definitely not supposed to evoke tenna being a closeted gay man. and if you do have the dealmaker, spamton comes out of your inventory, notices the pipis and states that tenna "really does care" because he still has it. he still has a small remnant of their love.

okay! i hope those examples were loaded enough to be at least on board with me. now we can actually get into the egg i mentioned...

the "black-and-white", monochrome, a beginning state where you have not yet been "colored in with care", is very much what susie's character is at prior to her first dark world. in ch3, she states that she never really had any friends, how she felt like "a broken toy nobody wanted", and thus did not have the capacity to accept or feel love externally. the egg being "hardboiled" sends this home: susie was a hard, unopened barrier, a guarded wall that she refused to let down because it was impossible for someone else to truly love her, and what was the point in trying when she would move houses soon anyways?

the "feeling of pity" is pretty textual as well. if you try to leave the school or head towards the baby classroom, she talks all tough and insults kris before realizing that she actually doesnt want to do what she says she would. this doesnt at all negate her prior bullying, but we can at least notice that she feels bad for kris in some capacity.

this also ties into how she feels like their mother is almost "too good" for them, with a hint of jealousy for how "coddled" kris must be at home, a contrast to her own clearly unstable and neglectful home life.

note: i am aware that toby said the arg wasnt canon content, but that doesnt mean the characterization is completely irrelevant. he chose to write it like this for a reason, and it already goes perfectly along with the high standard and infallible perspective that susie has for toriel.

this little tidbit is essentially susie saying (through clear projection) that temmie wont be able to "come out of her shell", she wont be able to "love" or "hatch" into someone that is not a surface level asshole.

and guess what... the hardboiled egg comes back in susie's room at queen's mansion! the once monochrome egg is now painted, it has been "colored in with care" by kris, ralsei, lancer, and the other darkners she has met along the way. the egg is "warm" because so is susie. though notes of her cold attitude still cut through, she has still had some solid character growth as she accepts herself with other people, finally able to make friends, to love and be loved for who she is.