Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190625152008

So, I’d like to apply this same thought process to Deltarune.

People are going to want to know what happens next, when Frisk and the monsters finally reach the surface. Fans are heavily invested in these characters, and want the story to continue.

But at the same time, there are tons of questions about the past. One of the largest being, What Happened to Chara back at her village that caused her to run away, and left her in such a damaged state?

Chara running away from home is part of the intro sequence to Undertale. And as I’ve pointed out in my script this thread is based on, Chara is a reflection of the Player themselves, and what we do ultimate determines her fate.

But how did she get the way that she did? People want to know that too.

Now, in terms of real world time, Deltarune MUST be a sequel to Undertale.

The Barrier is gone, and the monsters are living on the surface now. And Sans has hauled up two buildings from the Underground and set them down in the middle of town. Our protagonist seems to have grown from a little kid to a gangly teen. And Ralsei (the Prince of a seemingly empty Kingdom, and basically turns into Asriel when he takes his hat off) wrote a notebook that claims it’s now 202X.

However, at the same time, there are elements of the game that don’t make sense unless we’re seeing the past.

All anime super-technology, which the monsters had before they emerged from the Underground, seems to be gone. Alphys is now a perfectly normal gradeschool teacher, instead of a mad scientist.

We don’t have much in the way of choice during the game, because this isn’t our story.. It’s Kris’ story. A story that has ALREADY HAPPENED. As such, it’s impossible to change the basic events that happen during the story, like Kris is stuck in some kind of Rail Shooter. With only a little wiggle room available along the way when we can do so without disturbing the important events in the timeline.

So now the big question becomes: If this isn’t our story, if we’re trapped in someone else’s life, the life of someone who knows how to play the piano and makes creepy faces all the time, two things WE can’t do… then whose life is it we’re trapped in?

The life of someone who was within walking distance to The Underground. The life of someone who loves using knives. The life of someone who, in the Opposite World of Undertale, possessed the protagonist, instead of being possessed BY THEM. The life of someone who loves wearing a striped shirt. And the life of someone who once lived as an adopted human in the Dreemur household.

…. All these points of data add up to one person: CHARA.

Deltarune is a sequel to Undertale, that happens in a world where something has gone wrong or been flipped, and everything is the opposite of what it was.

But Deltarune also tells us the story of what happened to Chara. And the terrible pressures she was placed under that ended up breaking her in the end.

A fate that Gaster seems hellbent on reserving for us.