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this is my majora thread now btw

Whatever is inside is feasting on lost souls and planting a forest in the vast empty space.

Two children are lured by a tail into the dark, one of them makes it back out, but the other doesn't. I do think that "the single tree" has some significance, but I'm not sure how to really think of it just yet.

I think that ever since, or perhaps before, people have gone in, and never returned.

My personal thoughts are that I think Dess probably led Kris into the shelter herself, then the two of them were lost in a sparse wilderness, ending up following a pointed tail towards a house of some sort. I do think that all of this played out like BOF2's prologue.

Over time I've started to become partial to the idea of Dess not exactly being the best person, at least to Kris. I don't think the idea of her being abusive is one I'd really agree with, but I also see her somewhat like a bad influence.

If the forest represents a sacrificial graveyard of lost souls, that'd certainly explain things. Which ends up kind of leading me to the stuff about Dess.

I don't really know if Dess was the first. I'd assume not, as there was always a tree there at the very least.

"Where the forest WOULD grow" implies that the space was once sparse, maybe an empty wilderness, something barren. But then, there was a single tree. And later, a forest grew from that. People seem to gloss over the "police sacrifice" a lot but...

I started to think about how you could tie a lot of similarities together and it made me think about the idea of Dess being (literally) lost, in a similar way to the Forgotten Man- and that she is not the only one who disappeared within the Shelter, and most certainly not the last, either

The trees are formed when the Beast captures the souls of those who are lured away. The oil of the Edelwood is used to keep the dark lantern alight, which contains the soul of the Beast itself.

The Beast also shares a passing resemblance to the Knight, so honestly that also is part of it LOL

This brings me to some stuff about Over the Garden Wall. These aren't super accurate comparisons, obviously. I doubt any of this is based on it, but when I re-watched it I started thinking about stuff involving the Edelwood trees and how those trees represent lost souls.

The important thing to me is that based on the way the Egg Room frames things in Chapter 4, Kris mostly recalls only ONE TREE. Which is the same one that manifests in the Egg Rooms. Hence- the forest WOULD grow.

If the tree that Kris recalls being part of that traumatic event is the one from the Field of Hopes and Dreams, then that would make it a dark world manifestation, right? The idea that the children got "lost where the forest would grow" to me would imply they were lost in the dark of the Shelter.

Mostly I want to think about how the ROOTS stuff doesn't imply a forest already existed, but that one "would grow."

This has been sort of something that made me rethink the idea that the ROOTS stuff refers to the outside of the Shelter / Hometown's forests

Still, I would like to try and elaborate a bit since there's a lot on my mind. Mostly about my personal thoughts on the Forgotten Man's trees + CH1 FOHAD's connections to "ROOTS" and some comparisons I've made recently to Over the Garden Wall

#deltarune I've been thinking about making a post about my current thoughts on Dess Knight + ROOTS and why I think people have somewhat misconstrued the game's messaging, but... every time I consider making a post that's a little more out there, it seems as if I'm going to make a lot of people mad.

Please read this devlog! Its Important

Alright, here’s your devlog:
gamejolt.com/p/feb-2026-a...

...do you think tenna doing the little twirl animation is a reference to oh shit here comes pacman

can we just make it okay to enjoy characters who arent good people again please. you can seperate them from real life bad people and appreciate how comically evil or unstable they are

spamton is fun because he's a cartoonishly amplified crook, he's vaguely realistic but he's also a caricature

i love spamton but infantilizing him and claiming he's just "mentally ill" is a fundamental misunderstanding of why he's even a good character at all.
he's not cute or misunderstood, he's a blatant douchebag who lies and cheats for money

he's a bad person through and through and that's why he's fun

seeing spamton morality debates and just remembering that he's someone who would willingly murder anybody who has wronged him before even thinking of fixing things

the only exception seems to be tenna but even then he vocally states he wants him dead so... lol

We'll receive the first draft of the Japanese translation of Chapter 5 next week!

Meanwhile, we've been polishing the game and doing some preliminary internal bugtesting on PC. Heavy bugtesting across every console will happen when the Japanese translation is done.

Having also heard through @paledoptera.bsky.social about how the people who made it were just overall extremely scummy leads me to believe it's not coincidental and that these ideas were taken intentionally

I went into it day-one with cautious optimism after being told it took several ideas from VCDR, but when I played it I was met with an unbalanced mess that, while impressive for the short time span, was a mess of poor writing, stolen ideas and strange game design decisions.

Seeing people do a 180 on that one Deltarune fangame with a FRIEND boss battle and stuff when I hated it day one for terrible bullet patterns and unapologetic stealing of several ideas directly from VCDR (including doing several cutscenes beat-for-beat)

Got high af and came to a possible revelation
#Deltarune

#deltarune cool

もうすぐ発売! ソフトラインナップ [Nintendo Direct ソフトメーカーラインナップ 2026.2.5] YouTube video by Nintendo 公式チャンネル

Oh, we might have been featured somewhere...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dk...

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funky guy