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-Protagonist: Makuro
Beginning the story completely loyal to Junko, spending time with the other students she forms genuine, healthy connections. She slowly becomes disillusioned with Junko and turns on her at the end. Makuro learns to become her own person (being disguised as Junko for most of the game is actually brilliant symbolism for this)

-Assistant character/deuteragonist: Makoto
Initially working together during the first murder out of circumstance, over time they develop a bond over their struggles with different, yet similar, cases of imposter syndrome

-Antagonistic foil: Celeste
Celeste is a cold blooded, self centered, manipulative liar like Junko. She is smart, and her cold logic does help in trials. But her detachment from anyone else only caring about her own goals is a reflection of what Makuro is trying to move away from. Celeste shows the shortcomings of this way of treating people

-Chapter 1
Victim: Leon
Culprit: Sayaka
Essentially ‘what if Sayaka’s plan went right?’ Junko doesn’t want the game to end too soon, so Makuro helps the investigation. Inevitability she talks extensively with the accused, Makoto, and their bond begins here.

-Chapter 2
Victim: Aoi
Killer: Hifumi
Mostly a “filler chapter” to get you used to the game’s structure. Why these two? Process of elimination, mainly. If chapter 2 and 3s motives are swapped maybe Hifumi wants the money to buy anime figurines or something idk.
Chihiro and Mondo begin getting closer as Chihiro wanted a strong male role model to model himself after

-Chapter 3
Victim: Kyoko
Killer: Yasuhiro
Hiro’s crystal ball, precariously placed on a laundry room shelf, falls on Kyoko’s head and kills her. Pure bad luck. Hiro tries to cover up his accidental crime. But he’s not great at defending himself on trial.
However, there’s tons of other evidence that doesn’t line up. Putting the pieces together, you find a horrifying truth: there were two murders that night. Toko isn’t tardy to the trial, she was also killed, and no one found the body.
The secret motive is moved to this chapter instead. Toko, afraid of her Genocider secret being revealed, confides in Byakuya. Byakuya uses it against her. Cornered, Genocider comes out and, partly in self defense and partly premeditated, Byakuya kills Toko. But the body was never found. There is no trial for Toko, and the murder “doesn’t count”. Byakuya goes unpunished. How does the cast respond to living daily life with a known murderer?

-Chapter 4
Victim: Byakuya
Culprit: Mondo
Byakuya, a known killer now, is outcasted from the main group. Makuro seeing this fears what will happen if she gets discovered as by this point in the story she’s started to connect with the other students. Kiyotaka living this long, and constantly trusting in his friends to a fault, pains Makuro knowing that she’s a plant.
Mondo’s sense of justice leads to an altercation with the outcasted Byakuya. He doesn’t mean to kill him, but it happened. Mondo commits suicide and leaves a note confessing everything so there won’t be a trial. But Monokuma confiscates the note…

-Chapter 5
Victim: Chihiro
Killer: Junko (Celeste framed)
Chihiro, deeply impacted by Mondo’s sacrifice, finds the strength to come out as a boy to everyone. Makuro is impacted by the parallels to her own situation, to her own disguise.
Meanwhile, Junko/Monokuma learns about Alter Ego and soon murders Chihiro to keep him from going too far. But to keep up the charade of the game, evidence is planted and Celeste is framed. Celeste is screwed over by the same selfish deceit she lived with. In a way, she was beaten at her own game of deceit.
This is the last straw before Makuro reveals herself and fully turns on Junko. She saves Celeste from the fraudulent execution.

-Chapter 6
Executed: Junko
The conclusion and the reveal of everything. Makuro and Sakura, plants and moles, tell Makoto, Kiyotaka, and Celeste everything. Makoto accepts them and knew they were good people deep down. Kiyotaka says he was right to always trust in his friends (but that they should receive a light punishment for their wrong doing). Celeste doesn’t understand why Makuro would selflessly save her. Celeste goes through the last bit of her character arc this chapter.
Junko is found guilty of killing Chihiro and everyone gets to leave. Makuro embraces her own identity. Makoto gains confidence in himself. And Celeste… is a bit less cold.

Dark Fountains in the light world seem to emit a gas like substance: it rises until they hit the ceiling and then gradually fills the inside of the building.

When the door is opened it spews upward into the sky, but in such little quantity it doesn’t really do anything. This supports the idea that it acts like a gas.

Going by the end of Chapter 2, when Kris has some time to act after making a fountain, it seems like the dark world forms not at the moment of the fountain’s creation. But instead after the darkness completely envelopes the room.

Therefore I infer that if a fountain is opened outside, without the walls and ceiling to concentrate it, the dark world would fail to form as darkness dissipates up into the sky.

The Roaring, and the end of the world, is repeatedly referred to as “The world is covered in darkness”. Ralsei warns not against too many fountains being opened, but instead “too much darkness *being released*”.

[please search “darkness” in the Deltarune text dump, these two phrases are all over the place: https://hushbugger.github.io/deltarune/text/ ]

I think we have overcomplicated our idea of what the Roaring is. I think the Roaring is when there is an enormous amount of darkness that it is able to cover the whole world instead of just one building. The whole light world becomes one massive dark world.

But the amount of darkness released by one fountain, as I said before, seems too little. You’d need a massive amount of darkness to be stored up and released all at once to be concentrated enough to envelop the whole world.

But I mean, it’s not like there’s been a dark fountain that’s been open for several years or anything. And even if there was, I doubt it would be spewing darkness into a massive underground system and just building up a massive reservoir of darkness all this time. Don’t be silly!

Whatever point they were championing is now wrong just by being in proxy to the villain’s atrocities, rather than confronting the point itself. Like, it’s a legitimate point that Fire Nation settler colonies got to become their own country after the war, instead of being returned to the Earth Kingdom. Or trying to make the Earth Kingdom a coherent modern state instead of the fractured feudal mess it always had been. But because Kuvira does terrible things that complicated history now doesn’t have to be addressed. Amon and Red Lotus also fit this mold.

I started reading the Kiyoshi book (no spoilers please) and the yet still vague mentions of the Yellow Neck Rebellion seems like it would fit; whatever they where rebelling against (which the two shows depict the earth monarchy/their agents in the Dai Li to be a justifiable force to rebel against) doesn’t matter because it turns out they where just bandits that didn’t really believe in their cause.

I admit I could be missing something. It’s been a couple years since I watched Korra, and I haven’t finished the Kiyoshi book.

Happy pride month btw

There’s Deltarune A with a main cast of characters, character development, a central conflict, a coherent story with narrative themes, etc.

And then there’s Deltarune B which is full of weird shit (optimist) or theory-bait (pessimist).

It’s not good or bad without the context of the full game. It’s just an observation that there’s a very distinct line between the two with almost 0 overlap.

I remember the fanbase being caught off guard when Dragon Quest’s Hero got announced because it’s way bigger in Japan than in the west

For thousands of years humanity strove to depict reality through art. Generation after generation the tradition of art was taught. It takes years to learn how to master the brush. An intricate skill set of fine tuned strokes. It takes days, sometimes months, to paint a scene that encompasses just one moment of still life.

Now with the invention of the “camera” there’s no more use for art. It may look bad now, but give it time and it’ll be more detailed and more accurate than any painter could ever hope to be. A perfect still life captured in seconds, instead of days, with the mere push of a button.

Years at the academy, wasted! I’ll be out of a job soon.

Art is dead.