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Something very interesting I’ve noticed about ralsei is that she seems to get more pink the more she opens up. Whether this is galsei evidence or not I leave up to you, but it does connect to that in some way.

When we first meet her, she’s in a blue cloak. As we see by the prophecy, this is pretty much as restrictive and closed off ralsei can get. And would you look at that? No pink to be seen.

Then of course we get the hatted version of her. We first see her scarf here (the game likes to say it’s red sometimes but for the sake of this let’s just say it’s pink). Although it’s interesting that this specific pink part of ralsei is used as a weapon. Maybe it shows that Ralsei sees this more open version of herself as dangerous? I’m probably reading too far into that one.

After that, we see her without her hat, with her very noticeable pink horns and cheeks. And the lighting on her body also becomes pink. This is mostly the ralsei we see across the game, and whilst it’s still not her most prominent color, it still shows she’s willing to be more open.

On the opposite end, the butler outfit, which forces Ralsei into a helper position, turns the large scarf into a small bowtie. Therefore, removing more pink from her design.

In both chapter 2 and 5, we can see Ralsei without her glasses. Where not only are her eyes pink, but she very clearly has makeup on, which is, you guessed it, pink. And in chapter 5, we can see that this make up is still something she’s embarrassed about wearing, but obviously still WANTS to put on (otherwise she just wouldn’t have done it lmao).

And finally, we have the princess dress, which is mostly pink. Ralsei very clearly likes wearing it, it’s probably the happiest she is in the whole game. However, we can still see a bit of green with her glasses, and in the cutscene, we see she still hasn’t accepted that this is what she actually wants. Soooo, quick theory, maybe the final form we see ralsei in will be the dress without the glasses. That would be cool.

We all know gendering colours is stupid, but fact is that pink is seen as a more feminine colour, so it’s very very interesting that it seems to represent a more open version of ralsei

Sorry if things are a bit unclear by just text. It’d take me forever to make each dialogue box (plus some just wouldn’t have suitable portraits) so you’re just gonna have to live with things I’ve written in the notes app lol.

Also I suppose this isn’t really a coming out scene and more like the aftermath, but you get the point.

I’m hoping by “aspect” he just means, like, lore and stuff. I mean, you can’t just ignore the character development of a main character.

But still, ugggghhhh I don’t wanna have another year of discourse pleeeeaaaase just do it alreadyyyyy

Hey Swatch, if there was only one lady here, why did you feel the need to specify Susie?

Why does everyone in castle town just know that ralsei is trans lol

When the pippins is more literate than most deltarune fans

I was rewatching the undertale 10th anniversary stream and this quote kinda made me think of characters like flowery (and in turn, galsei).

We’ve all heard the same excuses time and time again. “Oh flowery is just teasing him” “he calls everyone princess” which, first of all, completely misunderstands the character. Second, even IF it was in character, being told directly how Toby Fox writes characters, it still doesn’t make sense. Chapter 5 pushes lore (and to some extent) comedy to the side to focus on characters. And while the flowers are great characters on their own, similar to Gerson, their MAIN point is to bring further development towards the main cast.

Flowery is a funny, complex and likable character who can exist without ralsei. However, his purpose within the story IS to be ralsei’s foil, the plot of deltarune would not work if flowery wasn’t tied to the protagonists in that way. The reason why the game focuses a lot on introducing “mentor” type characters is BECAUSE the plot of the game is finally being put into motion. Lines like “got it princess” don’t just exist to make flowery seem more of an asshole. We know he is already, it would serve no point.

Ralsei is a protagonist, every scene with them and flowery is, thus, mainly about Ralsei. Even if flowery was “just teasing” or whatever, the point still stands that it would still paint the idea of Ralsei being a princess in the reader’s head. That scene is optional with an asterisk, because the game REALLY wants you to see it. And other scenes like the one on the staircase, are just straight up mandatory. Therefore, each sentence there HAS to serve a narrative purpose. Therefore, Ralsei being called “princess” HAS to mean something important.

That was a lot of yapping but you get my point. Deltarune is one big story, and I’m sick of people treating it like a collection of scrimblo funny moments with a few dark scenes.

I hate drawing feet, and arms, and hands, and ears, and eyes, and a lot of things. However, I LOVE ralsei, and specifically that one sprite. So I will do it for her!

I’ve seen a ton of people say the “blue and pink drink” are meant to represent Kris’ colors, which…maybe they are. However, we already HAVE a drink representing Kris, the green and yellow one. Just like how the purple drink represents Susie.

Furthermore, “green and yellow” and “purple” both resemble their light world palettes specifically, aka, their “real selves”. Therefore, wouldn’t the blue and pink drink showcase ralsei’s real self? And don’t those colors sound familiar…..

If this gets flagged for spam…um, I’m sorry…

So we all remember that fangamer ad right, which was kinda a galsei fan’s dream come true. Now an interesting fact about that part is that tenna looks at regular ralsei when he says “girls” and at dress ralsei when he says “boys”.

Now, these dresses aren’t exactly the same, but it definitely seems like a reference to me. So isn’t it curious that this scene happens before Ralsei began questioning things, thus for now making her out to be a boy? So if dress ralsei is indeed “the boy”, surely that means that regular ralsei would have to be “the girl” from the ad.

This shits already confirmed, checkmate losers

Hey Toby, you wanna explain that after ralsei got “””””misgendered”””””, the check description doesn’t use he/him?

I wanted to share what I believe ralsei’s design might look like when (yes, WHEN) she starts transitioning later on into deltarune.

Sorry if the drawing sucks, I’m more of a galsei nerd than an artist

Also I have a short little google doc explaining some decisions (idk how reddit works so I’ll just put it in the comments I guess)

Here after the chapter 5 trailer in the Nintendo direct, and now I’m thinking about how likely trans ralsei is for chapter 5 (I’ll refer to ralsei with she/her during this(won’t heavily cover in-game evidence as that’s already been done to death))

There’s 2 key facts about this chapter that I want to talk about

1. This will likely be a very ralsei focused chapter
2. Based on the newsletter, this chapter seems to be a lot more chill, akin to chapter 2

Now, based on what we’ve seen so far, ralsei is very heavily defined by her place in the prophecy, connection to other characters, all that fun lore stuff. And since chapter 5 won’t likely be focused around all that, it kinda forces them to explore more into what makes ralsei unique as a person/individual.

I know merch/advertisements aren’t necessarily canon, but it’s very interesting to note that art of ralsei covered in flowers, years before chapter 5 (which is just obsessed with them). So, if that clearly had relevancy, then I don’t think we should rule out the advertisement that literally showed ralsei as a girl. Some things may just be jokes, but some things may also be little nods.

This one is probably a stretch, but one of the few spoken dialogue in the trailer was BY ralsei. Specifically in a scene referencing her time with susie in chapter 2. Most likely this is just a funny joke to pad out the trailer, but maybe it’s something to note.

Now, obviously, none of this is direct evidence towards trans ralsei, but the point is that based off the structure chapter 5 seems to be going for, this appears to be the best opportunity to explore that aspect of the character.

(This is all probably just massive copium lmao. Also I don’t know whether this should go in the trans ralsei flair or discussion flair)