Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190714215043

WhatsYourExcuse wrote: 201X doesn't reference the entire decade of the 2010s, it references one specific unspecified year in that decade. So monsters wouldve fled Home in January to New Home, and Chara would've fallen down in December that same year. Not really. Toriel's calendar in Home lists "The Beginning of 201X" for some reason that doesn't seem to have a followup. While the date Chara arrives at New Home is "The End of 201X". And the MTT Memorial Fountain was made sometime during "201X".

Deltarune references "202X" for the first time, and Kris has had time to grow into a teenager. A few years have passed. Meanwhile, the Mother games definitely use the standard A.D. Calendar, but just strike the last digit with an X just to be mysterious and make people work harder to figure out the timeline.

Saying that all references to "20!X" are a specific year, like 2017 or something, is an assumption. And not one I think we can make safely.

Toriel would have returned to the Ruins (which had time to become Ruins, was it really only a decade?) after Asriel and Chara died. Which was definitely after the turning of a new year.

Also, Napstablook's family snail farm has been there for quite some time.

Nap recalls when Training Dummy and Mettaton were ghosts who worked on the farm with them, before they went to become corporeal. ( https://hushbugger.github.io/dialogue/# Search "Napstablook" )

"welcome to the blook family snail farm..." "...yeah. i'm the only employee." (Napstablook always types in lower case?) "this place used to get a lot of business..." "but our main customer disappeared one day..." (Toriel) "now it's just some hairy guy that shows up once a month..." (Asgore)

This does mean that Toriel is getting snails from somewhere other than Napstablook's farm now.

(wait, do the Boss Monsters still eat snails in Deltarune? They're the only monsters that do.)