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sugary-sheep · 3 years

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An Analysis of How Deltarune Chapter 2′s Soundtrack Made Me Feel, Copied From My Discord Thread

Girl Next Door - a very good track for the beginning of the game. It serves to strongly establish noelle as a familiar, friendly character, since you might not have bothered learning too much about her in chapter which makes sense considering the later revealed fact that kris and noelle are chidlhood friendsIt doesn't have any strong hints of bittersweet, it's just a plain happy melody. You're just starting the game after all.

My Castle Town - this is where the first twinges of bittersweet/nostalgia come in.It's meant to bring back memories of your adventure three years ago, chapter 1. You're back "home," at least from the player's point of view, and the player is the one that all the music panders to. (which wouldn't be a thing to note if the game wasn't so meta). It isn't very strongly bittersweet though. It's a calming melody, meant to ease you into the world, and doesn't draw too much attention to itself. If Girl Next Door is a warm breeze, then My Castle Town is the pleasant chill of fall.

Queen - this song is a wacky and fun melody, borrowing both carnival rhythm and instrumentation. It has twinges of deeper emotion and all that but it's mainly just a funny clown theme for everyone's favorite clown: Queen.

A CYBER’S WORLD? - it starts off with the main melody outlined on a chiptune low-res synth, which drops into a rich collage of higher-res synths. It evokes emotions of adventure and energy and anticipation, while also being neutral enough to act as a backdrop for all the silly things you do in the cyber fields. it's a really damn good song. it doesn't tug on the heartstrings necessarily but it just. it's so nice to listen to.

A Simple Diversion - it’s. a simple diversion. chip tune rendition of the queen motif. it's good. nothing much to analyze.

Almost To The Guys , Cyber Battle , When I Get Happy I Dance Like This - (combined since basically the same instrumentation and the same motifs) god I fucking love these songs so much. they are so happy and sensitive and soft and warm. They are like the auditory version of a hug. idk what drugs toby fox put into these songs but it fucking. they fit these funny guys so perfectly. it's just a silly fun theme about these fun little dudes. it's energetic and happy and makes you wanna dance. It doesn't take itself too seriously and it's just. It solidifies that this is a Silly game with Silly things that happen and fun people that you can be friends with.

Cool Beat - too short to analyze.

When I Get Mad I Dance Like This - same as Cool Beat

Berdly’s Theme - bringing back the CLOWNS, this time without a harpsicord though. it's a synthesizer melody and emphasizes the silly gamer antagonism that berdly provides, while not painting him as a bad person. just an antagonist.

Smart Race - this is a particularly tense battle theme, playing off of the semi-betrayal and kind if indignation you feel towards berdly since like. He's a lightner like you! and he's working for queen! what the FRICK.

Faint Courage - an uplifting melody that (tries) to soothe the pain of getting a game over. The crunched nature of the synths is notable though, compared to other soothing songs on the soundtrack.

Welcome To The City - This is the first song that really starts to dip into the nostalgia. It's still an upbeat and adventurous melody, but like. Your friends just left you, and you're exploring the city alone. It has a lot of flourishes and flair that reminds you that you're in a cool exciting city, and slowly becomes more uplifting as it goes on, but still keeps the distinctly minor sound. (if it's in a major key shut up I don't care). It's also the theme for the time you spend with noelle, and like. in that context, it feels more like a friendly nostalgic melody than a bittersweet feeling. the familiarity of Girl Next Door is back, and honestly it borrows a lot of emotional cues from Girl Next Door. They are double edged and the feelings they evoke are very context sensitive. it can be a friendly warmth, or a wishing for better, older days.

Mini Studio - a return of the resistance motif. noticably lower res synthesizers but like. your funny little dudes are here :]

cool mixtape - Clown to the MAXIMUM. not in that it's the most carnival inspired but like. it's really bombastic and fun while also being built around queen's clowny and wacky motifs. The instrumentation also adds to the non-serious quality, making it sound like. well, a shittily recorded mixtape. Lol. It’s great.

Hey Every ! - This song evokes all the emotions of as corrupted seen on tv advertisements with a dash of clown. Very distinctly wacky upbeat song.

Spamton - This is where the creepy factor of spamton starts to kick in. It brings on the menacing atmosphere of being in this alleyway with an unstable puppet salesman who jumped out of the dumpster, however the silly vocals do take a LOT of the edge off the creepiness. Which is fitting for spamton. because he would more intimidating if his dialogue wasn't so ridiculous and silly, and if he wasn’t such a silly little guy.

Now's Your Chance to Be A - a very groovy and slightly menacing battle theme that makes you wanna get out of this situation, but it's not like. scary. it's just a little bit creepy. Like a haunted house. it's a really fun song though. the edge mostly serves to accentuate the wacky and fun qualities of the song, like salt enhancing the sweetness of a dessert.

Elegant Entrance - This has the same menacing/eerie quality as spamton’s battle theme, but much more genuine. it takes the formerly clowny harpsicord used with Queen’s themes, and makes it sound much more regal. It's not bittersweet though. just intimidating.

Bluebird of Misfortune - a VERY strongly minor sounding song, and while it's not a super deeply resonant sadness, it does minimize the wacky/funny factor.

Pandora Palace - the first majorly bombastic song. It's the buildup to the climax, and has a very unique blend of regal, groovy, and energetic sounds with a small sprinkle of bittersweet, mostly to build tension.

KEYGEN - really cool and gives an appropriate feeling for unlocking the door into the SECRET BOSS.

Acid Tunnel of Love - very relaxing, very happy melody. it almost dips into bittersweet at times, but is a solidly uplifting and soothing melody. It's a rest for the soul.

It's Pronounced "Rules" - Rgal in a way very different from Elegant Entrance and Pandora Palace. It's a kind of pretentious regalness, and is a big return to clowniness. Because Roulxs is a pretentious clown man.

Lost Girl - It’s. very bittersweet and nostalgic. It has solid uplifting moments to balance it out, but it's. not a super happy song. it's not a super sad one either. it's just. contemplative. emotional. it'd be a good song to cry to.

Ferris Wheel - A combination of Lost Girl and Girl Next Door, both in mood and actual motifs. It's got a lot more warmth than lost girl, and the chiptune main melody gives it the silliness it needs to take the edge off it’s bitersweetness. The upbeat and kinda whimsical harmonization helps with this too. It's a theme for two girls having an awkward but really nice and fun gay moment.

Attack of the Killer Queen - oh man.oh MAN.Such a good song. It's absolutely bombastic, fulfilling all the promises of epic finality and regal power that have been set up throughout the mansion section. It makes queen feel like a POWERFUL and intimidating villain for honestly like. the first time in the game. It also has the emotional quality, the feeling of un-rightness, once again driven by berdly being an antagonist, but the context is stronger, since you had just had the emotional connection with him and bringing him to your side.

Giga Size - this song does not let down any of the pressure from killer queen. it has all the menacing strength that you would expect from it, and takes the regal intimidation up to another level. it's supposed to make you feel like you've lost, and as far as the player knows, they have. Also it's a lot longer than you would expect??? the soundtrack is honestly filled with really short songs. but Giga Size is one of the longer ones, despite the short amount of time it actually plays. I don't remember ever being in that portion of the cutscene long enough to hear the full thing. it's worth a listen to if you haven't already.

Powers Combined - the uplifting counterbalance to Giga Size. It gets you pumped, and it has an air of finality stronger than attack of the killer queen. This is the final push. you're on the precipice of victory.

Knock You Down - This theme continues everything from Powers combined. It's less bombastic than Attack of the Killer queen, though bviously it's still very energetic and cool. It's serious in a more uplifting sense, but also quite tense. there is a lot on the line. This is the do or die moment. It both hypes you up and calms you down, and evokes a very particular emotion, especially given the context. Really good for getting in the zone.

The Dark Truth - another song that, while more emotional, doesn't hit super deep. Imo it feels like it’s going for an "exaggerated" sense of danger and sadness. Which makes sense if it's meant to instill some doubt in ralsei's credibility. it's still a very serious song, but it feels like it's trying a little too hard. (not necessarily in a bad way)

Digital Roots - a very menacing song, and probably the most truly menacing song in the soundtrack. Sets the atmosphere for the basement perfectly.

Deal Gone Wrong - This is the climax of Digital Roots and the whole process of getting the secret boss. You're in real danger now. The puppet man wants to make a deal, and he wants your soul.

BIG SHOT - woooh boy. This song carries a lot of this menace, but brings in a ton of bombastic energy and a little bit of clown as well. it's like Now's Your Chance To Be A, but more intense. The vocal editing really adds so much to this track. The motifs are very well used, and it's just an incredibly fun and dramatic song. it's groovy! it's wacky! it's intimidating! It gets you pumped! it's a very good song

A Real Boy - This one is a really nice song. it's got a very nice uplifting quality and there's a very subtle and like. almost angelic sharp pad in the background of it that you wouldn't immediately notice adds a lot to the texture of it, combined with the crunched and low res main synth. the background of that scene fits it perfectly. Childishly painted sun and sky and all that. He’s a real boy now. You freed him :). He can escape his strings now :)

dialtone - It’s like if you took one of the more emotional songs in the soundtrack and made it a little silly. Which makes sense. You're supposed to feel kinda bad for him, but he's still a weird wacky guy who just tried to kill you.

sans. - what do I need to say. it's sans's theme. it's wacky in an extremely chill way. it contrasts with basically all of deltarune's wacky characters, and that's perfectly cool. sans is a chill guy, especially in this game.

Chill Jailbreak Alarm To Study And Relax To - this one is just toby having fun. It's napstablook's theme with an alarm in the background. it's funny, it serves it's purpose as a gag. it's great.

You Can Always Come Home - this one has the nostalgic quality that I've been talking about very strongly, but the melody is just. It's so soothing and uplifting that you can't help but feel warm inside. it might be cold and snowing outside, but for now, you're home. you're with your family, you're sipping hot cocoa. Everything is right with the world, if only for a moment. You can always come home.

Until Next Time - another soothing melody, being a corrupted version of Don't Forget, and it evokes a lot of the same emotions, if a bit less strongly. It plays into the mystery of the ending, and would probably suit the snowgrave route pretty well. It's a good ending song in general though. It doesn't drown you in emotion. It lets you feel how you felt about what you just experienced.

Before the Story - really strong song. It's hard to fully analyze it given like. there isn't a lot of gameplay context. but it is a very dark and rich song. it's really good.

Berdly (Rejected Concept) - This song sucks ASS. it's like. pretentious. but also so cringe fail at the same.

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 2

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simpz-art-stash · 3 years

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Freakazoid Headcanons!

I recently rp’d a bunch with a pal o’ mine and managed to conjure up a cute lil list of headcanon’s I thought would be neat to toss up on here. Some are even from some of the Freakafic’s I’ve read too. But hey, if you got any headcanon’s you think are cool, don’t be afraid to reblog or addon! <3

- He doesn't NEED food in order to sustain himself. He prefers absorbing electricity, sometimes even nibbling on the ends of chargers to recharge if he's bedridden. (Although a part of me does adhere to the ‘shared biology’ of Freakazoid’s body simply being a more supercharged version of Dexter’s. But I just thought him nibbling off chargers was cute. lol) - His body is RIDDLED with scars, its just his face managed to stave off most attacks back then. (I say this as in they are ‘mental’ scars depending on what sort of ‘AU’ you put him in. Freakazoid has the mind of a teen after all, and while his wacky antic’s keep his mind off these things, every now and again when a moment of peace settles in place his mind can reflect. And lead to a bit of overthinking.) - He can travel through electrical outlets, which he refers to as 'the grid' (power grid), he can also travel through computers, and go into video games as well. (Stuff from the show clearly but I like him being able to charge while he’s traveling through.) - In the Freakazone, he uses the TV to look through to the outside world of his host. Turning the TV off shuts out the current person in control from them, but they can still exchange emotions and pain. (However I feel Freakazoid would easily be able to manually hack through the barrier just to talk with them.) - Speaking of bodily functions, too much emotion from one person can effect the other. - Freakazoid doesn't naturally feel pain as severely as most people. However that doesn't mean he doesn't feel it, his host can feel it too if Freakazoid is in charge. As well as the fact that any injuries retained from a fight will transfer over to his host body as well. Thank goodness for quick regeneration. (Although a part of me wonders if Freakazoid is capable of manually shutting off his own pain receptors given his ability to altar the biological form of their host in the first place.) - Freakazoid's general temperature is very chilled, this is to keep him from overheating. Hence the blue skin. - Freakazoid also tends to hold a static cling surrounding his body, and people who touch him or get close are bound to have their hair stand on end from him. - Weaknesses, Rubber, too much water could make it hard for him to conduct to other things, as well as Negatively Charged Graphite. (inspired by this fic) I also think basically a very thick wall of glass could isolate him as well. Or just get something to absorb his general outward current of energy. - Despite how zany he is, I do feel like after a few years Freakazoid would’ve gotten a hold of his mind and data sorting altogether. Allowing him to basically ‘tweak’ the data coming through into his head. Basically lowering the flow to a trickle and allowing him to sort through it automatically as opposed to letting it gush into his data-banks constantly. - I like the idea of Freakazoid’s ‘immunity’ to most weaponry come from the fact of his own mentality. Red's whole ideology is that if he thinks he's weak, he'll be weak. His immunity from the show came from him having a bold and mindless attitude. Bullets never really worked on him before because he didn't care and always had the attitude of a hero. "Hero's are always supposed to win! We're unbeatable!" That attitude is what saved him. Updated AU o’ mine. - Should his outdated system ever get updated, and more ram is added, it would help his system immensely. He'd be able to recreate the entire Freakazone into whatever sort of simulation he desired. As well as change his avatar to appear in anyway he pleases. However that does come with a bit of backlash, too much strain to his emotional mentality can leave him to change his body in unexpected ways without him even knowing. (Hint hint, scars) - He IS capable of changing clothes, only it's more like, he generates different clothes onto his current avatar. Taking them off and separating them from his avatar will cause them to disappear. He can wear real clothes but they won't be saved when he Freak's In. Instead his host will be wearing them then. - I do have one AU where Freakazoid gets split from Dexter via an accident. Only Freakazoid’s avatar is uploaded onto the internet and eventually gets caught by the cyber police or something. And he ends up getting locked away in a computer file for a long time until some unsuspecting person hacks him out of it. Prompting him to mistake this new host as Dexter, when really they’re not. And it’s also modern-day so a LOT has changed. Point being, Freakazoid I feel is capable of existing outside of their host body and instead live inside the internet. (Although that does beg the question of whether or not a realistic hologram could be used for Freakazoid’s avatar?) That isn’t the say Freakazoid can just upload himself into anyone’s brain. There of course is a process by which I deem ‘weak willed’ beings only capable of handling him. Freakazoid has an overly eccentric and extrovert personality, so to stick him with someone with the same sort of personality wouldn’t help him balance out his ‘zany’ self more so than it would just overload him. I figure Dexter is the voice of reason and his shy and introverted demeanor is what keeps Freakazoid not only sane but also on point with his moral compass as well. (I’ve seen a fic that basically made Freakazoid out to be a mindless child with a vast storage of knowledge without no real compass to wield it properly. And I loved it.) Anyways that’s all I got for now!

#Freakazoid #headcanon

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