u/SurviMaster

The game was amazing, between the original idea and the breathtaking art its just perfectly beautiful. As a Spanish speaker in an English speaking country, the message of the game resonates a lot deeper. Heavy Heavy Heavy spoilers of all the game.

There was this specific moment that I really really liked about the game. Most of the cultures in the game have different names for the same culture. To give an example, the Warriors call the people 2 floors above them "Scientists", while they call themselves "Alchemists".

After I first got to the Alchemists level, I went back to finish the Bards dictionary, and the last word that I needed to fill was the one from the theater story, "The (x) Bard." (being (x) the word that I was missing). As we know, the Devotees's goal is to go up to find go, and the Bard from the story's goal is to go up, so my mind thought "Oh, the word that I'm missing is Devotee". Also, every Bard was telling me "You want to go up? You are a (x)" so I thought that they were calling me Devotee. After a while I found the last page and found out that the word was not "Devotee", it was "Idiot".

The reason that I really like this is because, it was so unexpected, and it is something that only could happen in a game like this. It really shows the difference in each culture's goals and way of living, through language. They don't hate (I believe that they don't even know of the existence of) the Devotees, but in their part of the Tower, where everything is so nice and artistic, and they don't have the struggles that other people does below, something that gives other people their reason of living, is so dumb that the word for that is just "Idiot".

It goes together with the "Seeking, you are. Found, we have" that they say to the Alchemists. Also, the relation between these two is unique, as they were the same culture in the past, its not that the Alchemists don't want to be with the civilization below (unlike literally all the other people in the tower) rather than the fact that the Monster is between the two of them so they need a barrier (also that the caves might be dangerous).

On the same note that the "Idiot" thing, it was clear all the time in the Gardens that the Bards didn't wanted to go up, and up is God (by what I knew at that point, what the Devotees said) so I thought that the Monster in the Theater was a way of portraying what the Devotees called "God", so I wrote down "God" where they had the word "Monster". I was wrong, as it was just an actual Monster, BUT, at the end we know that the Tower's maximum authority (their God) IS ACTUALLY A MONSTER.

Is very interesting as the Bards don't have a word for Devotee or God, and I think that in the words that they have or lack it tells a story, a very subtle foreshadowing that I really liked, because it is told in the language itself.

I just finished Season 3 Episode 2, and, Katharina's character is awfully inconsistent for me (sadly). During most of Season 1 she looks like this calm housewife, and part of this calm "follow the rules" character is even bigger knowing that she's the principal of the school, which (at least for me) makes me think of her as a very straight person. She doesn't even yell or anything when he discovers that Ulrich is cheating on her, she just leave the room (Not to say that she suspected for a long time and never confronted him about it)

But then her adolescent self is very rebellious (she's dating Ulrich, of all people), and we even see in S3 E2 that her mother is very harsh on her, which makes more sense when we see that she's a bully (They tied Regina to a tree).

And okay, I would think "Alright she was just like that as a teenager and grew up to be a calmer more straight person, after all people change. Egon said "Ulrich doesn't work for the police, and he never will" and he ended up being a police officer, why wouldn't it be similar with his wife?" but hell nah, every time she sees Hannah she freaks out, even to the extend of saying to a 14 year old Hannah "Keep your hands off Mikkel"???? The same with Jonas (his grandkid btw), but then we go back to Ulrich and she says "I'm gonna take you out of here", like, bro, this guy cheated on you how come YOU (a character with a very strong attitude) are not mad at him but you are at everyone else.

Also, as a side question, Katharina knows at this point in the show that Mikkel is Michael, he even had a conversation with adult Jonas about how if he takes Mikkel back Jonas would not be born, why is she at school asking "Hey do you know this kid?" to everyone instead of just going to Ines's house, that's what all the people in the show do when they want to go see Mikkel in the past. (Even Ulrich when he escaped from the mental hospital knew to go to Ines's house).

So the kids appear to have crossed the barrier at the end of the weird route, probably due to Noelle or Kris dying and the other one getting their soul, or something like that. Now the question, why is there a barrier in Hometown in the first place?

It makes me think on if it has to do with the fact that we have not seen Asriel nor December in 5 chapters. Yeah, with December it seems like people think that she's dead, but it is so curious for me that out of all people Asriel is out of hometown for so long, and it makes me wonder if the barrier is town-wide, and if so, then how the hell did Asriel leave.

From the very start or Deltarune it has bugged me that such an important (and smart) character seems to just miss or not realize anything related to the Dark World, it just seems odd that he's not on the loop with the Prophecy, even Asgore knows about them.

Weird route just made the Deltarune world way more interesting, but now I'm intrigued on why is there a barrier.