hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out
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hour 1 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: idk it would’ve been nice if she had more screentime
hour 100 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: ok but despite having only eight lines of dialogue she is literally THE most interesting nuanced and tragic character in the entire series and these writers had no idea what they even had. how is no one else seeing this it’s literally so objectively obvious
[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset
Ever since reading my first time loop-based book as a preteen, I’ve had a Secret Time Loop Code Word. It’s been the same word all these years. I’ve never written it down anywhere or told anyone what it is, just kept it tucked away in my brain. That way, if someone I know ever confided in me that they were stuck in a time loop, I would have a way to confirm it: I would tell them the time loop code word and instruct them to find and talk to me again on the next loop. Of course, if it’s a time loop, I wouldn’t remember telling them the code word. But they’d remember it. So if someone ever came to me and said “I’m stuck in a time loop, and the time loop code word is [X],” and it was indeed the word I’ve secretly held onto for most of my life, I would know that we had had this conversation in a previous loop and that they were telling the truth.
Will this ever be useful? Almost certainly not. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with having a completely absurd contingency plan. In case of time loops.
Dess is kinda like Susie’s Togore but nobody is ready for this conversation
Let me try to explain,,
Dess barely exists as a character, she was basically nothing but a name until chapter 2. Obviously, that only made people want to create their own Dess…
The problem is that; the Dess the fandom created is just stuff taken from Susie. Which only gets worse when you consider how many people ignore Susie’s character. They want Susie but they don’t want Susie.
So now Dess is a tomboy problem child badass punk whose motif is the electric guitar. and she is totally dating Asriel the shy nerdy kid.
And Susie is the boring shonen hero apparently. Even though she was far from a hero just a day ago. And her relationship with Noelle is boring and cliche.
Toby clearly knows that the class difference here matters. It bothers me a lot when Dess is portrayed as more ‘punk’ than Susie exactly because of this, at the end of the day, Dess was still part of the bourgeoisie.
Their values are different, their desires are different. Dess wanted to be free, Susie is too free. Dess wanted to run away, Susie wants to find a home. Dess was never happy with what she had, Susie has nothing.
I don’t wanna take over this thread entirely with stuff that isn’t Susie, but I swear the whole main trio are designed to be in the shadows of some “greater” entity.
What we know about Dess appears like Susie on the barest surface level, and though they’re way different, the former’s lore relevance kinda takes priority. But she’s not really a character beyond the hushed whispers and offhand mention, so Susie’s traits get backfilled into her due to the broad similarities, plucked away one by one until there’s more Dess than Susie.
Ralsei is a blatant victim of this, too, and a much more clear one. People keep mistaking him for Asriel in-world or ignoring him, while every mention of Asriel is rife with significance. Ralsei’s name is a simple anagram of his! But we really don’t know much about Asriel, aside from him being brother-of-the-year to Kris. So Ralsei gets backfilled into Asriel, his traits stripped away to leave him as an empty mascot character while Asriel’s “the real one.”
And then there’s Kris. Kris doesn’t really have a person for whom their traits are robbed, except for one: us. The fact that Kris is our almost entirely strictly PoV character means the inherent projection that brings commonly makes people hollow them out, to which the game responds by constantly reminding us that no, Kris isn’t us, we are us and Kris is Kris. I think this one is a little more complicated than the other two simply by merit of us being the one to “steal” or discard their traits, what with how we still have to reckon with our PoV often coinciding with that of Kris and what that means for engagement’s place in Deltarune as a whole. But the point is that they’re hollowed out by us into something we deem palatable, deem real, deem important.
Our three heroes are all subject to it, in my eyes mainly because of shallow readings and theory brainrot placing role in the story above character. But Kris is Kris, Susie is Susie, and Ralsei is Ralsei. None of them are us, Dess, or Asriel.
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: I don’t know if non-baby stories can work in film
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: How can you do horror in movies? It just wouldn’t work with the babies?
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, but has also heard of Hotel Transylvania: Sure, horror can work in movies. Hotel Transylvania has vampires in it.
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, and refuses to watch another movie: Why do you need other movies when you can write Boss Baby fanfiction?
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, and has been forced to watch Rear Window: I wrote Rear Window fanfiction where Jimmy Stewart is a baby, and it wasn’t very good. I just don’t think this movie works.
Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, and has also watched Storks (2016): The Boss Baby sucks, watch Storks.
it seems that a lot of times people telling someone to “get therapy” envision the ideal outcome of this to be essentially like lobotomizing the person in question
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