Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26680716-20160501054031/@comment-28974149-20180910163425

Qerach wrote: I have recently discovered a belief from a portion of the fanbase that Megalovania is not san's battle theme but Chara's. What are your opinions on this? Neither, it describes the BATTLE itself.

Much like how "Heartache" describes Toriel's heartache towards fighting you and potentially losing you. As well as the Heartache you would face with fighting goat mom.

"Megalovania" describes the fight of Sans,one who has much power over time and space(he teleports and knows the future) and knows how it works, and the anomaly that also knows and has great power, greater even, they both have a past involving gaining as much knowledge and power over time and space as they can. An ex-Megalomaniac who learned too much and a Megalomaniac who will stop at nothing to destroy. And they are locked in a struggle as one wants to save the world while another wants to destroy it.

Wether or not that description is accurate the point of a battle theme is to incapsulate the feeling of the fight.

A character theme is meant to incapsulate every aspect of a character and tends to play in the overworld, a battle theme, again, incapsulates the feeling of the fight, sometimes the character theme is used, as you are fighting that character, but not always as seen in Heartache and Megalovania.