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Ralsei

#Ralsei #No id

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#Undyne #No id

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asgore saw a bee gently land on a flower petal and cried at the beauty of nature, like, the other day. toriel had a breakdown so bad she passed out on the floor the moment her children's deaths fully caught up with her and then she got back up and hasn't shed a tear since in 700 years

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Brains back on utdr wot is even happening

#kris #No id

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finally... hatsune miku ralsei... day 12 - idol

#ralsei #Described #id in alt text

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an old lady behind the door [repost]

#Sans #Toriel #No id

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it's not so weird when ppl haven't played undertale because for as normal as gaming is, from casual to intense as a hobby today, it's still just a hobby. not everyone engages with it. however if you DO game and you still haven't played undertale i'm always blown the hell away. what do you mean? it's like $10 and it's the most influential indie game of our generation! it takes less than 6 hours if you're fast about it. what?? hell, watch it, if you can't play it. this is the Age of Let's Plays

#You can also date a cute fish...

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undertale is so funny to me because imagine being a normal person and then suddenly an entire society of monsters appear because a literal child fell on a mountain and freed them by pure determination. and the child became their ambassador so now you have to watch the government have to deal with them telling everyone that the monsters are pretty nice. also the king and queen of monsters adopted them as their kid because why not. the royal scientist did a bunch of unethical experiments but the monsters are all like "im just glad my mom is okay even tho she has been fused with 17 other monsters. family gatherings are so much more fun now". the leader of the royal guard believes anime is actual human history. i would pay to see what human twitter and human tumblr looked like after THAT.

#I think one of my mutuals did fake undertale posts a few years ago

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What's your favorite Undertale character?

ASGORE 👍👍👍

#Asgore #No id

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Just a friendly reminder to boop

EVERYONE today

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waiter!waiter! more flowey please!!

#Flowey #Described #photoshop flowey

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if something bad happens, we'll fix it out!

#susie #lancer #No id

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its so weird to me that people saw deltarune be a portal fantasy and think that he's going to conclude the story in the typical portal fantasy way, when this is toby radiation fox we're talking about, his whole thing is genre subversion

to be fair, i think a lot of undertale's subversive elements have been somewhat lost on players as well — not in a derisive way, but rather because of the fact that undertale itself has grown into an odd niche in the cultural zeitgeist. the game's almost ten years old now — a lot of people who played it during their childhood are going to be in their twenties soon (if they aren't already)! for many players, undertale was one of their first rpgs ever — and so a lot of the subversive elements likely went over their heads, given they hadn't much to compare it to. nowadays, players compare games to undertale instead — the amount of people i've watched hesitate in an rpg game to wonder "is this going to be like undertale?" is not an insubstantial one. undertale has become the archetypical rpg to many, which causes somewhat of its subversive punch to be lost on its audience in the process.

i think this is a part of why deltarune has also had its subversive elements overlooked. deltarune goes to great pains to draw attention to many of the same older rpgs — both in the broad strokes (such as playing with the idea of a battle between light and dark) and in the small and specific references (seam is clearly inspired by the look and affect of zelda's happy mask salesman, for example.) but many may be relying on archetypical examples of portal fantasy to guide their way because they didn't pick up on the subversive elements of fox's writing style at all. in many portal fantasy stories, the conceit is that the protagonist must overcome the fantasy in some way and go home — the protagonist must grow to fit in with our society. the fantasy is often merely a means or an obstacle to that end. but deltarune takes great pains to invest us in these fantastical worlds and the people that live there beyond the archetypical — lancer, spades king, queen, spamton, ralsei, and everyone else are not merely written and framed as such. they struggle under the role of being objects. they have feelings about the way that they must live and react to that in ways that are realistic and not always easy to grapple with. when their worlds fade away, the game takes the time to linger on it and frames the dismissal of fantasy worlds as "lesser" as suitably disquieting. at every turn, deltarune draws attention to the things we would normally take for granted in a portal fantasy story and asks us to take a closer look.

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Forever and always.

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Just something small.

#Toriel #Flowey #No id

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Toriel Undertale has a type and that type is cringefail bisexuals

#SQUARE JUMPSCARE YAY

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Snow angel❄

#no id #noelle