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As we know, the songs from Undertale's sound test, such as Gaster's song, Trouble Dingle, and Happy Town, returned to Deltarune, but remade. Gaster's song is now "Another Him," which plays when you create your vessel; Trouble Dingle is the song that plays when you put the Thorn Ring on Noelle; and Happy Town sounds like the Hometown song in the Weird Route. The most widely accepted theory is that Meat Factory will also return, but let's talk about Redactedess here.

So here's my improved reinterpretation of Redactedess:

No, redacted is NOT Dess, but at the same time, it is. I don't mean that Dess and redacted are the same thing, but rather that [redacted] IS the PROTOTYPE of Dess's design. That is, redacted is a conceptual sprite or Toby's attempt to get an idea of what Dess's sprite would look like for Deltarune. Remember that Deltarune was created before Undertale, so Toby wasn't going to add everything to Undertale all at once. He left some things out that were going to appear in Deltarune. This is noticeable in some rooms. Room 274 is a room to test whether you could find enemies physically and not randomly like in Deltarune, but Toby never finished it. So here's my statement:

Redacted is the prototype of Dess's design and Toby put it in Undertale just to test the Mystery Man room and the dialogues of Gaster and his Wingdings for entry number 17 and he left the room there without deleting it to keep it as a secret or because he was too lazy to delete it and that's why he left a dogcheck.

"You are alone, Kris...

There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. Your friends are only the beginning. I will lead a great and terrible army of friends, and we will sail to a billion dark worlds. We will sail until all light has been extinguished and the earth is ravaged in the roaring...

You are strong, Kris, but I am stronger than the Force...

I am the end, and I have come for you, Kris Dreemurr..."

Yesterday I was thinking; what would Deltarune be like if it had zombies?

Then I remembered the Titan spawn points;

Here's my idea: During the Roaring, when the Titans emerge from the fountains and the Titan Spawns begin to appear, they'll start attacking anything that moves. But what if they're not attacking for no reason, but are actually looking for a host? My idea is that the Titan Spawns would be something similar to the Cordyceps or the Headcrabs from Half-Life. They're parasitic beings that infect, but they have a limit. Titan Spawns can only infect Lightners, who are monsters. The only Lightners who would be immune are Kris (with his soul) and phantom monsters like Napstablook, Maddie, or Mettaton. And for a Lightner to be infected, it must be in a comatose, dying, or near-death state. That's when the Titan Spawn stops attacking and begins to merge with the Lightner, eventually turning it into a Spawner, which would be zombies of what was once a Titan. Lightner, let's take Berdly as an example, as shown in the image. Berdly is in a coma on the Snowgrave route, so he's the easiest to infect. The first stage would be that his skin suddenly starts to darken, meaning he loses color. In the second stage, eyes begin to appear and his anatomy becomes deformed, gradually losing his sanity. In the third stage, he would be almost fully transformed; he would still be conscious, but he would become a savage creature. In the final stage, he completely becomes a Spawner and starts attacking other Lightners to weaken them and transform them into Spawners as well.

Dess apparently wants to be like Kris...

ULTRAKILL REFERENCE 🔥👀

The barbarians in this AU are human-like beings, a species primarily driven by war. They are categorized by rank, much like a military force, with the Barbarian Boss as their leader and Odysseus (the Big Barbarian) as the general and creator of the War Machine. They served the king until the Barbarian Boss was manipulated by the Wizard with a deal: if they betrayed the king, they would receive riches like gold and jewels, along with plenty of food (since they are voracious and violent creatures). This led to the massive barbarian attack.

Odysseus (or as he's known in the original game, Big Barbarian) is the creator of the War Machine in this AU (yes, I wanted to give Big Barbarian his own identity and backstory so it wouldn't just be a smokescreen). His name comes from the fact that he created the War Machine. Barbarians don't have names, but Odysseus isn't his name; it's the nickname all the barbarians gave him. He's a high-ranking barbarian, almost the right-hand man of the Barbarian boss, but he ends up dying because of the Barbarian boss when he's crushed by a giant metal door (just like in the game).

(Note: No, Big Barbarian, despite being called Odysseus, is not his real name. He is not Odysseus; it is just the nickname given to him by the barbarians, in case anyone didn't understand.)

"It's been a long time since you left, hasn't it?... We were never able to find you. The last I heard was that you and Kris went into the woods to explore, but only Kris came back... They came back crying, but I never found out what they saw. But honestly... I just don't care anymore..."

"From the moment we met, I always thought you were just a troublemaker, but since I got to know you better... I realized you weren't just my friend, you were my best friend... You and I were always there for each other through thick and thin, even though I didn't want to. I agreed to do all your crazy things and get into trouble along the way... but I didn't care, because you were still happy... It's weird for me to say this, isn't it? Hehe... I miss you... honestly... despite the years, I never stopped loving you... I still remember the promise you made me when we were younger... You told me, "Azzy, in the future, if it's possible, could you and I get married? We'd be so happy! Come on, loser, don't play dumb, I know you want it too!"... I never forgot that promise... even when I tried to move on and find someone else... I'll just never find another girl like you. You're unique, you were special... I even wrote you a letter confessing my feelings... but now You had disappeared back then, that's why I kept that letter for any moment... Dess... if you're still here... please... Honey... come back...."

(Art made by me!)