Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36624593-20181205013841/@comment-32182236-20181212205255

@Rafip:Did you actually check out that Q&A? That's a real thing, you know. I didn't make that up. Besides, look at his twitter feed. He hasn't replied to anyone's tweets in over a month!

And of course I backed it up with evidence! If I said it HAS to be an AU, words aren't enough. Any theory needs evidence, Rafip!

Now, let me turn this into formal logic, and you point out the holes and fallacies, okay?

Premise 1:Deltarune world is not Undertale's world (Toby's words!) Premise 2:The characters of Deltarune are NOT the characters of Undertale (ALSO Toby's words:"different characters, who have lived different lives") Premise 3:The world of Deltarune follows different rules from the world of Undertale (Saving is not based on DT in Deltarune) Conclusion 1/Premise 4:The world of Deltarune is fundamentally different from Undertale's world. Premise 5:The world of Deltarune CANNOT be a completely original work of fiction (The same Delta Rune, nearly identical characters, etc..) Conclusion 2:By 4 and 5, since it is not original fiction, not the world of Undertale, and not an alternate timelines, by process of elimination, it must be an AU.

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There's exactly two places where a hole could theoretically exist, but I doubt they exist. If they do, look and find them, alright?

The first POSSIBLE hole would be in Premise 5. But can you explain how a work with all of this can still somehow be original, not related to Undertale at all? If the story was posted as a story by someone other than Toby in 2017, it definitely would be considered an Undertale fanfic, and the "Original Fiction" tag would be rejected.

The second possible hole would be if there was some possible way that it could be none of those four things.. But how? What relation can it have that ISN'T an AU, yet DOESN'T contradict anything Toby said or what was revealed in the game? I already gave the definition of an AU, and given the boundaries, I'm certain everything outside of the definiton has been eliminated.