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Didn't the Donation Box in the Dark World of Deltarune fall into one of the console ports of Undertale? The Switch version, I think?

Those worlds are connected.

I think the implication was that Gaster created The Core, and then fell into The Core. The Gaster Follower wondered if Alphys might end up the same way. Which means that whatever danger Gaster faced is still present in the Core today.

Remember how FNAF 4 confounded everyone's expectations that they would see The Bite of '87, by *merging* both the Bite of '83, the Bite of '87, and Michael's memories of working at Fredbear's eariler, into the composite scene in FNAF 4 where the animatronics that attack Michael also represent all the victims of the MCI, with Michael playing the role of Golden Freddy?

The best way to confound people is by hitting them with something they're not looking for.

Detlarune isn't a sequel to Undertale. And it isn't a Prequel, either.

It's BOTH.

Time is messed up by the end of the game, with each clock showing a different time, including the impossible situation where both hands point to the "6" (which doesn't happen for 6:30, the hour hand is halfway to 7 by then.)

The game makes all sorts of comparisons to Undertale. Virtually every character we remember from the first game in also here, but flipped in some way. Bratty and Catty have so much in common, but somehow aren't friends. Mettaton doesn't have a body. Undyne has both eyes. Several of the ghostly gaster followers are now real, etc.

Plus, Sans (the only character who doesn't seem to have changed?) just hauled up Grillby's and his own house from the Underground, and warped them into the middle of the new town, scrawling over the "Grillby's" sign to attach "Sanses" to the end.

But the main gameplay is also flipped, because now we can't meaningfully change the story anymore. And it becomes increasing clear as the game progresses that the reason for that is that we're in KRIS'es story.. and they're being possessed by the alien soul that we actually control at the end of the game when Kris tears it out of he/her chest.

We can't change this story.. because it isn't our story. It's Kris'es story.

CHARA's story.

Gaster is forcing Frisk to relive the most painfull moments from Chara's life, leading up to when she (I call Chara a she) ran away and climbed Mount Ebott around Christmastime 2019.

The very sequence of events that broke her, and left her in the compassion-damaged state that it took all of Undertale to heal.

And Gaster's likely doing this, because he's doing everything possible to break Frisk. Out of revent for what his future self, Sans, did to him.

That's my read on it anyways.