therealraewest:

Deltarune’s world is Wrong. Everyone is on the surface, Asriel is alive, as is Kris, but things are Wrong. Your choices don’t matter.

Sure, the monsters of undertale are (mostly) alive and on the surface, but they’re not at their fullest potentials. Undyne and Alphys don’t even know each other. Alphys is a school teacher instead of a scientist, and the monsters previously saved with Determination (the amalgams from the True Lab) are buried in the graveyard. Bratty and Catty are sworn rivals. Mettaton hides away inside, claiming he’s just a nobody. The royal guards are just friends, not more. Trying to talk to any of them has no effect on any of this. They’re all left in a strange parody of what you, the player, know they could be.

It’s heaven, but a heaven without choice.

Hence the Delta Rune.

In Undertale, Gerson claims that the true message of the royal symbol (aka the Delta Rune) has been lost to time. In either Deltarune or Undertale (I forget, sorry), the meaning is speculated: three heroes will come to banish the angel’s heaven.

They will reset the universe and introduce the ability to choose. They cause the events of Undertale, a world full of both joy and suffering, because at least in that world your actions make a difference. I believe that this will be integrated into the plot of the following chapters.

However, the Angel cannot survive in this new world. When Ralsei tells about the prophecy and the geysers of darkness, he also says that the geyser that stems from his castle is what gives him form. If the geysers are destroyed, as the prophecy fortells, I fear Ralsei will not survive the process.

And we all know there’s no ending in Undertale where Asriel gets out alive and himself.

We will have to sacrifice Asriel to win free will for the world. I’m personally not looking forward to that bit.