#but then wouldn't these instances of third-person which are describing actions clearly distinct to them be in first person?

[agentravensong]

Everyone talks about how the narration switches from referring to Kris calling for help from Susie and Ralsei versus "you" calling for Noelle in the Snowgrave Spamton Neo fight,

but nobody talks about the 1 other time the narration refers to Kris in third person:

Notice how there's no string asking the player whether or not they want to use the KeyGen? That's because, as soon as you interact with the lock with the KeyGen in your party, Kris just uses it, without giving the player that option.

Note that this isn't what happens with Jevil and the Door Key in Chapter 1. There, when you bring the fixed key to his cell, the player is prompted with the options "Use key" or "do not". If you say "do not", it's Jevil who denies you that choice, saying, "YOU CAME TOO FAR! YOUR CHOICE HAS RUN OUT!"

So, Kris goes ahead and uses the KeyGen the second you give them the opportunity. Either because they recognize that, like with Jevil, this is probably happening either way... or, because they're genuinely invested in helping Spamton.

I tend to believe the latter, despite how freaked out by Spamton Kris appears to be on multiple occasions, because of two factors: a) the option to ask him about "FRIENDS" in his shop, which Spamton at least takes to be Kris asking if the two of them are friends,

and b) what the narration says Kris does if you interact with the seemingly non-functional machine a second time:

Sounds like they're desperate for it for work.

But yeah, reasoning aside, if we're taking the narration's distinction between Kris and "you" in the Snowgrave Spamton fight to be significant and telling of Kris's character, which I absolutely think we should, then I think we should try not to forget the one other instance of this happening.

...unless it's an oversight like the hot chocolate line in chapter 1. But, again, the lack of a choice for the player in whether or not to use the KeyGen makes me more confident it's not.

Also, while I'm here discussing DR's narration, though there are many uses of "you" to refer to experiences specific to Kris, original thoughts they have inspired by what you inspect, or memories of theirs from before we were around... there's also this:

This line is a reference to the broken jukebox in Grillby's in UnderTale. There's no jukebox in Hometown or the other Dark Worlds that this line could be referring to, so it only makes sense if the "you" here is the soul/player, not Kris. So, yeah, that's weird and contradictory, huh? Guess we'll have to wait to find out what it means.

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #deltarune spoilers #snowgrave route #kris dreemurr #spamton #jevil #image descriptions in alt text #if you want my theory as to who the narrator is: i Do Not Know #it *could* be kris who's dissociated enough from their body due to the possession that they refer to themself in the second person #but then wouldn't these instances of third-person which are describing actions clearly distinct to them be in first person? #my crack theory is that it's dess #she would know about kris's family and history after all #...but then we don't have any proof she'd know about the ut stuff the narrator references #also the 'it's only you' line would be a bit rude to kris coming from her