I open tumblr

I look at your #carol holiday posts

I see your "irredeemable heartless villain" and your "grieving misguided antagonist" takes

And I raise you: both

"Grieving misguided antagonist who has nevertheless acted heartlessly and gone too far and caused too much damage to be redeemable"

"Someone who has lost and suffered, but must be held responsible for inflicting that grief on others"

"A loved one who has done too much to be forgiven, but is too dear to simply discard"

What I'm trying to say is that Carol Holiday is kinda like Jax

DEVILRUNE THEORY ADDENDUM: HIS DELTARUNE

This little speech from Dubyadee Gunster at the end of Chapter 4 is gonna be weird once the rest of the game is out. Deltarune will very much not be waiting at that point, and yet I don't see Toby altering this dialog. That'd be weird, and these lines go too hard to be temporary.

Right now, it works as an expression of how Gaster is as excited for what will unfold as we are, but beyond that? I think it has a second meaning.

Why would "it" be waiting when it's already underway?

No, I think the "it" here isn't the Deltarune we're playing. It's a different path. A path HE has designed.

Yes, the halfway mark of this Deltarune has been attained.

AND YET, it is still waiting.

HIS DELTARUNE.

noelle isn't smiling in her dark world sprite because she feels like she always has to smile in hometown, whereas she has no such compulsion in a new place like the dark world, send post

Thinking About Rudy's Death in Undertale

So, as we know from the Cancelled Christmas Watch Dialogue (Which is a real thing that happened, I have to remind myself), Rudy Holiday's Undertale counterpart is fallen down and likely deceased by the time the game takes place, as Asgore "never got to show [him] the sun".

However, we also know that his death must have been fairly recent, because we now know from the 10th Anniversary stream that Noelle's Undertale counterpart was a small child at the same time.

So if Rudy died that recently...

Why isn't he part of an Amalgamate now?

Just about every other monster NPC with a deceased relative got that relative back in the Post-Pacifist section of the game, but if Rudy was among them, then Asgore definitely would have mentioned that; he's fully aware of Alphys's experiments now, according to Politics Bear.

This, as far as I can tell, can only mean that Rudy's fallen down body wasn't donated to Dr. Alphys. Asgore only asked, after all; it wasn't a government mandate or anything.

So the person with say over Rudy's remains - most likely Carol's Undertale counterpart - refused to donate his body to the Royal Scientist's experiments, and Rudy passed away naturally.

The Amalgamates are obviously public knowledge. How long do you think it took for Carol to put two and two together?

How long do you think it took her daughters?

Carol's probably kicking herself for that one, but if she had known, would she have even done something different?

Misplaced Strings - Chapter 12: Stellarway

In which our heroes get back on track for five whole minutes