DELTARUNE / Three MORE Fascinating Discoveries In The Code!

Jaru discusses three intriguing discoveries he found within the code of DELTARUNE!!
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Intro: 00:00
Discovery 1: 00:48
Discovery 2: 04:00
Discovery 3: 06:27
Outro: 10:44

[@bobuardodavinci93]

Even knowing how Jaru videos go, delving into the economics of the monster pharmaceutical industry threw me for a loop 😂

[@JaruJaruJ]

It's what I do! XD

[@animatepokemonadventures7889]

Who else but Jaru?

[@hellandruby]

A *time loop* ?

[@RocketShipSquid]

wouldnt it be cool if chapter 7's overworld was inspired by homestuck's "Land of Wrath and Angels" toby has pulled inspiration from homestuck overworlds before (just look at waterfall and hotland) and i think it could be pretty fitting

[@nickfarace9339]

@@RocketShipSquid Damn I never actually looked at it that way, but holy shit those are awful close aren't they. The most interesting thing I got out of this video was the fact that monsters might not be made of magic in Deltarune. Cause we have absolutely no confirmation as such, and nothing about turning to dust, souls etc. Which just got my mind going in directions that are wild as hell.

[@ValueNetwork]

The raw energy in that Thumbnail is insane! One of the craziest thumbnails I’ve ever seen. Noelle’s face with “Drugs!” Is so blursed

[@portuguisianbralizian3293]

Noelle, we need to cook

[@KittyKatty999]

​@@portuguisianbralizian3293 STAY AWAY FROM THE CARTEL FOR GOD'S SAKE, NOELLE!!

[@JaruJaruJ]

I'm very pleased people like it so much. xD

[@Mai.Calico]

Here before it's a meme!

[@pbandmayosandwich3208]

“Kris? I just snorted an entire case of coke and I am starting to feel the effects!”

[@jaarb7353]

I think pink and yellow is just the color motif of the secret bosses; a lot of people seem to forget this, but Jevil's eyes occasionally flashed yellow. Therefore, I think it's safe to say that FRIEND will be a secret boss in a later chapter.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

I dunno if I'd call it "safe to say." Yellow and purple eyes like that specifically would be a weird thing to see again. It'd be reusing a rather unique visual motif with no real twist on it. I always just thought "FRIEND" was a largely loreless easter egg based on the Cheshire cat. But everyone's out here saying it has to be Mike for whatever reason.

[@elio7610]

Well, in that case, it should also be noteworthy that San's eyes also flash yellow. I am not really sure it means anything though.

[@JaruJaruJ]

That feels like a bit of a stretch. Spamton is mostly black and white. Jevil is predominantly purple. I don't think coincidentally containing a couple overlapping colors proves anything for certain.

[@simplymax1337]

and even if they were to be the next secret boss, it wouldn't be Mike. Just as Jevil foreshadowed Queen, Spamton foreshadowed Mike.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

@Geo_Shark11 maybe the real FRIEND were the FRIENDS we made along the way

[@meteor9573]

Susie implied that magic doesn't exist in the Light World after GIGA Queen's Battle, so I think it's safe to assume that all monsters are organic beings in Deltarune, or at least not as magical as they were in Undertale.

[@T0B3573R]

I mean, yeah that makes sense. I hate how little we have of lore so we basically have to make assumptions and hope it’s true. Maybe the reason Toby does this is to make us get invested more, and also make us create stories using our own theories to make him be like “Ooh, that’s cool. Yeah, I’ll make it like that.” Because people drew Chara with red eyes and he was like “Kris needs to have red eyes now.”

[@TotalWhackjob]

I feel like there definitely has to be something weird going on with monsters for them to have fire elementals and skeletons and ghosts walking around, even though spellcasting seems to be unknown in the Light World.

[@T0B3573R]

@@TotalWhackjob I think that all the monsters in Undertale act sort of like ghosts in a weird way, they don’t have blood, when they die they turn to dust, it’s really weird. My theory is that Ghosts in the undertale universe are just monsters that have special properties, maybe in the deltarune universe they have all of their powers took away in exchange for being physically stronger. I think the fire elementals also are sort of like this as well, except that they are just more physical with their abilities and stuff. I can see skeletons being normal because of the sheer amount of variety within the monster communities. Or maybe they look like fire and ghosts but that’s just the way they look, but they aren’t actually those things. IDK

[@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS]

​@@T0B3573R ...Chara always had red eyes? Unless you're just assuming that it was a stylistic choice in their only colored sprite?

[@Spamkromite]

Let's say that the phlebotinum that made the monsters of Undertale got more refined as Toby improved in his narrative and cohesion department 👀 That or

[@42Fossy]

I've seen lots of people talk about the implications of the drugs but I've never seen anybody discuss why they were removed and how seriously they should be taken as part of the canon

[@childish4487]

I'm thinking their ambiguity was why they were removed, toby clearly put them there for a reason and then realised it would be hard to communicate his exact intent with like 6 pixels. That's if they're even lore relevant, could have just been some dumb drug based Christmas or deer pun that was cut.

[@julies.burtnichols8754]

She got the pills for her sick dad in the haspitel (hospital 😂)

[@AlphredGlenMean-Meat-nj5ki]

DUDE... How is nobody realizing that these pills were likely searching made fore Rudy. Anytime a family member is ill, of course she'd be looking them up.

[@DogDogGodFog]

Are they really drugs though? Those pill boxes have strange round protrusions at the top. Even I originally assumed them to be flower vases, or something.

[@xenostar6482]

@@DogDogGodFogthat is how pill bottle lids look, plus the pills on the table

[@K0uzan]

Life is good when this man is cooking

[@fredrikaKH]

Let him jook

[@zerozero02]

Let him cook guys

[@GimmeThePixels]

Gotta love when you get a theory video notification.

[@redactedthesaurus]

I think it should be noted that even in the world of Undertale monsters do seem to have some traits that are similar to the biology of certain organic species. We can see this in the released alarm clock dialogue which talks about catty eating, presumably, non-magic oranges and getting sick since cats can’t eat oranges, and to a lesser extent when the mouth monster at Grillby’s talks about trying out human food on the surface, and then having to use the bathroom, implying that they have a digestive system. Also, I think it could be possible that the “friend” barriers may have been initially intended for the Spamton Neo fight since it takes place on a roller coaster too.

[@AlphredGlenMean-Meat-nj5ki]

Yep! That is true! But it's also said that they have less physical mass and primarily function with the use of magic. Magic is why they can still stay alive, and it makes sense that eating "Monster Food" would increase total overall health like green healing magic if that food is saturated with magic. Why the food itself is saturated with magic is likely because of the core. Which also makes sense in story why the further into the game's map you get the more potent the effect is, excluding the pie that Toriel makes us. The closer to the core, the better the healing item.

[@DogDogGodFog]

Yes, the Spamton Neo explanation is more plausible, considering that it would put both instances of the face in the Basement.

[@9zxn]

also, another biological process is when alphys sweats, which is more likely a visual thing, but ill still point it out as it always struck me as weird

[@hardy6876]

And there is a joke in undertale about dogs being colorblind

[@DillonMaynard]

It's possible that IMAGE_FRIEND is the literal puppet-master of Spamton, hence the resemblance. I still think there's a higher boss at the top of it all though.

[@snakewithacomputer849]

Yeah, that'd make since (to me at least) as the friend has the same eye color scheme as Spamton Neo (Just for some context, Spamton Neo has his eye colors reversed compared to normal spamton)

[@Dolphin2048]

​@@snakewithacomputer849 no spamtons eyes are like that Because he is copying the shop in the mansion

[@AliDoesntWork]

@@snakewithacomputer849those are his glasses + spamtons eye colors also switch when he laughs

[@draw2death421]

Perhaps thats Mike? The pink and yellow eyes might be why Spamton has Pink and Yellow Glasses. He wanted to copy Mikes look. All tho perhaps the face is whoever was on Phone with Spamton. Since whoever was on the phone was spamtons 'friend' in a way in helping him get to the top. Tho Phone making garbage noise after spamtons call could debunk it being the 'friend' if it was Gaster who was on the Phone tho then again mayby 'friend' is Gaster tho capitalized Letters to me whould suggest 'friend' is atleast connected to Gaster in one way or other.

[@Crackers0106]

I find it amusing that you call the intro entity that everyone thinks is Gaster "Mystery Man" because that's the in-game name of the sprite that everyone also thinks is Gaster

[@MetaKaios]

I thought the same - except replace "amusing" with 'annoying', because it causes ambiguity. =/

[@JaruJaruJ]

Don't worry. I'll just refer to him as Geoff in all future videos. No more confusion. xP

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Well, Mystery Man DOES have the sped up theme of the Gaster followers that vanish away in UNDERTALE!

[@buckbuckbuck818]

​​@@TheManInBlueFlamesi mean that could just imply that mystery man is a gaster follower

[@michaelkindt3288]

In regards to Discovery 3, it's worth noting that chapter 2 has exponentially more cut content then chapter 1, including several rooms with little difference (Tetra bit gaming did a great video on this), and chapter 2 also just so happens to be the first time Toby Fox worked with a _dedicated team_in a _leading role_ to make a project. He's had a few artists donate sprites to him in the past, and he's contributed some music to Homestuck, but this is the first time he had to manage a bunch of people each making a bunch of adsets for one game, and he probably had people help with the coding and animation too, so not every bit of content is necessarily something Toby intended to be in the game. This also goes for the bleeding Suesie Sprite. It's quite possible that someone made the sprite, put it in the game, but then Toby Fox ask to replace it because it didn't fit his vision of the game.

[@Skywarslord]

I think they (Monsters) are a minority since there isn’t many monster tailored products. For example Toriel is using a Pet Shampoo bottle in the bathroom, while there is a regular shampoo bottle for Kris.

[@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS]

Human culture has ALWAYS been the predominant one even in Undertale, the trash dump is filled with human technology (Alphys, the Royal Scientist undoubtedly took inspiration from it), most of the architecture seems human, note the pillars in the ruins and Judgement Hall. Also the igloo in Snowdin, the celebration of Christmas, hell even their food, it's all originally from humans. Even when they're a majority, I doubt it'd be easy to make all-purpose shampoo for all monsters, no need to make shampoo for fluffy monsters when you've got pet shampoo, scaled monsters just need regular shampoo since they've got human-like hair(Susie and Alvin) or no hair(Dad dragon from the diner) Monsters are similar enough to humans to the point the only tailored products needed are medication. It's still likely for monsters to be a majority.

[@Skywarslord]

@@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS honestly it’s a good argument

[@milesmcallister8542]

​@@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS maybe they are a majority in some places and a minority in others. You are more likely to see a Korean in Korea than in Canada.

[@thedistantsomeone]

If you remember, in the Spamton Sweepstakes if you go to the "reward" thing and go to the chair of "But what if it could ... get darker than dark" and click too many times, those eyes (or maybe Spamton's I don't remember bc FRIEND has the reversed colors of Spamton in the eyes) appears for a brief second while playing a short sound of maybe laughter and then quickly puts you back in the Sweepstakes web. Just wanted to say that. Edit: I just checked, it's the same eyes as FRIEND

[@stuff31]

Nightmare fuel when I got it on my first click despite totally expecting it

[@GigachadHGDYDBHDB]

The friend could be referring to the friend with creepy smile in the unused room in waterfall

[@sparklehd7624]

that's true!

[@Spamkromite]

That's a nice call. Though one would argue that the friend with creepy smile could be related to REDACTED (specially after what Bread dug recently), it really fits. But also, Kris/Chara were also implied to have creepy smiles at several points, even to the point of other characters teasing them to make those smiles. Oh well, that Chapter 3 can't come fast enough!

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Does REDACTED smile? What is the importance of smiling?

[@deadly.active]

woah big expanded brain i would never thought of that

[@mintw4241]

Huh? Isnt the “friend with a creepy smile” from waterfall Chara? Theyre the character always referred to as putting on a creepy smile and we know that they’re the narrator and such their ghost is with us

[@nilaier1430]

My theory still stands that the "IMAGE_FRIEND" is Mike that Spamton mentions when you pick a topic "Friend" when talking with him in his shop.

[@JaruJaruJ]

Good theory!

[@lilyawoodburn]

Re: the chapter titles and thumbnails, there's actually a good explanation for why the unused chapters are in all caps and 1-7 are lowercased. If the chapters were indeed pre-generated automatically, which is strongly evidenced by there being a Ch. 0 (since all code uses zero-based indexing unless manually changed beforehand), they could easily have _all_ been generated in all caps, and then only Ch1-7 were formatted with a toLower function bc they're the ones in use

[@nickfarace9339]

Its just odd because Toby is very, very aware of us finding unused content. Especially when he doesn't really do anything to hide it (or apparently, just remove it). Like he left actual notes to people in files in Undertale in the demo, release, and even updated them later. I'm sure he could just not care and feel like cleaning up after himself with unused content, but I feel its way more likely he knew exactly what he was doing when leaving these files in.

[@s-rado1161]

Speaking of monster drugs. I present my ultimate UTDR theory. In UT, Alphys provided ghost gender affirmation surgery and long ago Gaster provided magic monster HRT. In DR he's now gathering up lackeys to help him provide care once more. This shall all be revealed in Chapter 10. How do I know this? Toby threw an estro-brick at my window. As I looked through the hole where my window once was, the dog blinked the entire story of DR in morse code at me.

[@JaruJaruJ]

I believe you completely!

[@woof4410]

I believe you. There is an "O" in your username. You know who else has an "o" in their name? Toby Fox.

[@b_delta9725]

this is true i was in your room when it happened I watched it all

[@animatepokemonadventures7889]

You can’t fool us, Toby! We know it’s you

[@morgan4574]

My dumbass thought Jaru was alluding to Noelle struggling with Acne, a normal teen problem, because that's why I take Spironolactone! My skin is naturally very oily and I'm already on anti-androgen BC pills. A nurse told me that Spiro is often used by trans people so I always thought that was neat

[@p0m_p0m61]

Maybe the extra chapters are for different routes, where you may even go into different dark worlds 👀

[@golembuilder3453]

Could be for dlc, if he ever does that.

[@Danblak08]

@@golembuilder3453didn’t he say ch 6 and 7 were gonna be dlc

[@ma.2089]

@@Danblak08 all future chapters probably. I doubt he’ll revamp the game again from ch 2 to ch3 like he did for ch 1 to ch 2

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

OR DLC

[@kakao-katze]

keep in mind, when a part of a game is cut, that is because it was decided against (or, in a game like Undertale or Deltarune, it would be included specifically for data miners, and you can almost always tell what’s what (OR if there is cut content repurposed as something goner code reminiscent eg. Redacted, half-bread chaos made a really in depth video about that recently, I recommend checking them out if you love needlessly deep dives into DR/UT lore!)). In this case, I feel the scrapped pill bottles were meant to represent her looking up how to heal her father as she’s already expressed how she wants some miracle product to make her dad better. The reason I see it as scrapped is that A) we already know Noelle is wanting to cure her father and B) as this video shows, there are too many implications and connotations of including pills belonging to a character. People would assume it to be for a darker story, which wouldn’t be able to be refuted by flavour text in a way that was natural (the best I thought for flavour text of these bottles would be “It’s a collection of pills for reindeers. It says, ‘quick and easy cure alls!’”, though that’s still kind of vague and suggests it is similar to a pop-up Noelle would click by accident). Either way, I just thing that, tonally, including the pills (no matter what interpretation you give) is too tonally dissonant with the more vaguely whimsical yet somber feeling of the room as pills have too real a connotation and wouldn’t fit sitting right next to Noelle. Imagine seeing the Susie and Noelle cutscene before you could investigate the room and understand better what the pills are for and just be asking yourself in a frenzy “why does Noelle have drugs??”. You’d lose the focus in the scene itself, which would suck for a first playthrough.

[@JaruJaruJ]

The issue is that it wasn't "cut." It was left in the code. This isn't like other franchises. We're expected to look in there. As such, if Toby really wanted to "cut" something, he'd take it out entirely.

[@riflezen6049]

JaruJaruJ Regardless of whether Toby intended for us to theory-craft with the fact that an unused version of Noelle's room has pills in it, the rest of their message still applies. If there was canonically a bottle of pills in Noelle's room in Chapter 2's events, it would definitely damage the tone and impact of the room as the player will immediately notice them and say "Wait, are those pills? What are they for? Why are they in Noelle's room? Did she search for medicine? What kind?" When we're just about to have a much more important bonding scene between her and Susie. I like to think Toby does indeed leave these unused assets behind in the code, but merely to give a glimpse into his sketchbook; a look at what things could have been, little things that he cut or changed. I like the idea of Noelle being transgender, but maybe Toby Fox is waiting for a better opportunity to reveal that nugget of information and make it relevant. After all, as pointed out, a bottle of pills being present in a room that was crafted from someone's search history could mean *anything.*

[@fruitybasil]

noelle potentially taking hrt coupled with susie wanting to hide her tail has given me the power of the gods: t4t suselle

[@llumi_nate]

Jaru talking about the physiology of monsters just because of a pill bottle sprite is definitely one of the jaru moments of all time.

[@pinagalaxia]

"Noelle takes antidepressants" has been added to my headcannons

[@MatheoZ14]

I love the hidden stuff in folders. Its just so fun debating about wether it's canon anymore EDIT : OH MY GOD I'VE NEVER GOTTEN MORE THAN LIKE 4 LIKES-

[@evelelro]

Yeah I think it’s a lot of fun! I personally don’t find unused assets and files to be canon, however, I do think that they can be useful to get an idea of the creator’s intentions and help people craft theories based on that. In the case of a game that is still in progress (like Deltarune) I think it can be great for making predictions about the future of the game because something that was once unused could be repurposed later on. Regardless, it’s all just pretty nifty.

[@necrodeus6811]

Even when it's not canon, it's fun to see what could have been

[@mrblakeboy1420]

@@evelelro what about the goner code

[@zabbee2323]

I've heard people say that video game secrets/mysteries have lost their allure with the advent of datamining, but to me, it's opened the door for new kinds of discussions. Such as the meaning behind the voice in Deltarune's code, or how certain text or sprites would've been used, and other things people have mentioned in this thread. Not to mention how it can be fodder for theory crafting too

[@evelelro]

@@mrblakeboy1420 you make a fair point! I think, in this instance, that was an intentional thing for dataminers to see, however, Im not sure how it’s going to end up tying into the story. And while I do think certain things in the code are intentional (like the goner code), I’d be wary of thinking that every single thing left within the code is completely intentional. He’s human too, he might have just left some stuff in by accident or any other number of circumstances.

[@kaxcommentssomethingREAL]

DUDE, TOBY LITERALLY just tweeted minutes after you just posted your video!!

[@wululu4019]

When I saw the pills I thought of sleeping pills more than medication, and since we know (to a certain extent) thay Noelle us scared of a potentially real ICE-E it may just be from a search she would have made late at night like "What to do when can't sleep"

[@matthewr6148]

We probably shouldn't forget that it's Queen who made Noelle's room. While it does mean Noelle was trying to look up medication at some point, we have no way to verify that it'd actually *work* on her. Queen is already prone to making very silly mistakes in all the rooms she creates, so it's plausible that she could have tossed in some random medication meant for humans, and/or an entirely different condition than what Noelle was looking for.

[@tinypileofpolydimethylsiloxane]

> the pharmaceutical industry in Deltarune This fandom has officially peaked Joke aside, there's no label on the drugs saying "normal drugs", they could very well be magical drugs, they also are based on her search history, meaning that they don't actually have to be real at all, should could have searched up " magical medicine " or " cure for cancer " or something because of her dad.

[@ramdises]

"normal drugs" NORMAL PILLS?!?!

[@maxiguess9922]

​@@ramdiseslmao

[@AshtonPyr]

Typing this as I'm watching the video, figured I'd mention my thoughts on these discoveries. - For the new barrier with the smile, I interpret as Spamton-based as opposed to Queen-based. Because you encounter the same coaster mechanic in both Cyber World and the Spamton fight, so if the Queen barriers were in an old coaster design, it would be reasonable to have the same in the Spamton fight for the coaster setting. The face itself is debatable due to when it shows up (and may even be a hallucination), but it seems far simpler to consider it a remnant of an old coaster mechanic. - With the chapter numbers, I understand the need for more spaces in case he grows the amount of them, since it already jumped form 5 to 7 assuming Toby wasn't hiding the extra 2 from the beginning. Either way, I agree with the idea of Toby setting up breathing room in case he decides to have 10 chapters. - As for the pills, I'm cautious to buy into it, but assuming that is true, the implications, as boring or interesting as they can be, do make sense within a set of reasoning.

[@elio7610]

That's my thought too, it somewhat suggests the face is just meant to represent spamton. There are alternative possibilities though.

[@umyum3858]

To be clear, we *never* knew how many chapters there were going to be, and we still don't truly know now. The assumption that there were going to be 5 was from my understanding purely based on the conventions of episodic videogames. Right now we are assuming there will be seven because that's how many show up on main menu. Unless I missed something, Toby Fox has never explicitly stated how many chapters there are going to be.

[@elio7610]

@@umyum3858 There is also the narrative of Asriel visiting town in a few days and how each chapter so far as been one whole day.

[@gamingcookiereal]

since when were there gonna be 5 chapters??

[@hearteyedracoon8605]

Assuming those really are medication bottles and that they're specifically for Noelle, maybe Toby decided to cut them out because he didn't find it appropriate to reveal such information about Noelle in her room in queen's mansion? I can see us in the future being able to explore Noelle's house and finding them in the bathroom or her room

[@stuff31]

Came for the explanation of why the thumbnail is accusing Noelle of being drugs, stayed for the depressing explanation of how the pharmaceutical industry is motivated primarily by profit and will not cater for niche illnesses if it does not have a large enough market Also, I think the idea of The Friend / The Cheshire Cat being some kind of associate, spy, contractor or otherwise satelite of The Mystery Man is quite an interesting idea, I guess I always just thought of it as being the man himself Also also, when you mentioned certain drugs that may be invoked due to Deltarune being a Toby Fox game, funnily enough Spironolactone is also used as treatment for high blood pressure, so who knows maybe Noelle is using her blood meds for multiple purposes

[@JaruJaruJ]

That's brilliant! I didn't realize that. Thanks for sharing!

[@phantasielle]

jaru im sorry the image of a slightly sad noelle with five arrows pointing at her and text that says DRUGS?!? is the funniest thing ive seen all day

[@JaruJaruJ]

Beautiful. XD

[@Sillyguymandude]

Maybe Noelle was looking for medicine that could cure her father

[@verbatimc3]

honestly i just love a bunch of arrows pointing towards noelle with text that says "DRUGS?!?"

[@t.k.5088]

Noelle taking HRT could make sense, too, if we compare her antlers to Rudy's. They're similar in shape and size, but a female reindeer's horns are usually half the size of a male reindeer's! Ofc, we could interpret that as either her or Rudy being trans. We'd have to see the Mayor's or Dess's design before we could be sure though, and I get the feeling we wont be seeing them so soon 😅

[@JaruJaruJ]

There's also the matter that Noelle looks nothing like a reindeer and moreso resembles a white-tailed deer, whose female members never have horns!

[@Burghleythegreat]

Oh yeah she does!

[@Nicknotmaps]

​@@JaruJaruJBut... For example Skeletons definitely don't have that head shape like Papyrus has. Goats have antlers and not paws, there's no ghosts and dragons and other stuff. I'm pretty sure no one cared about real biology when Monsters we're designed.

[@Burghleythegreat]

@@JaruJaruJ and let’s not forget that they all stand on two legs soooo

[@t.k.5088]

​@@JaruJaruJ ohhh I never thought about white-tailed deers! Good point!

[@chippotato5647]

IMAGE_FRIEND could be some kind of abstract entity that exists in the layer of reality below Dark Worlds, which we've briefly seen hints of in the Spamton Sweepstakes. An entity that is, according to the Mystery Man's description, friendly or intended to be a companion of some kind for the player and/or the Delta Warriors. Perhaps its strange appearance inspired Spamton's appearance in some way; even if there's no plausible way for Spamton and IMAGE_FRIEND to be the same character (by the time you can encounter the face, Spamton is stuck in the Disk, so him making any sort of appearance seems kind of strange?), maybe at some point they met, intentionally or by accident? Whatever the case may be, I feel that the answers to the nature of IMAGE_FRIEND will be found in Chapters 3-5. Speaking of Chapters, the fact that the Chapter text found in the files is in all caps, while the in-game Chapter markers are properly cased seems odd to me. Could this be for something later on? Does the story get hijacked, maybe, and we briefly get a glimpse of a different Chapter selection screen? Someone else's, maybe...? ... Ralsei's? That's a complete shot in the dark, but it'd definitely be something, wouldn't it? Finally, the pills in an unused variant of Noelle's room marks (I believe?) the second time that we've gotten unused Chapter 2 stuff that heavily implies that monsters have physical bodies. The other one being the unused sprite of Susie bleeding from her hand, as many people here probably know. It's very interesting; was this chapter meant to have more hints as to the properties of monster bodies that were cut for pacing reasons? Maybe Toby felt like Rudy's condition and the presence of the hospital in general did enough to clarify this aspect of monsterkind, or maybe he felt that hints like this were going to be dropped too early? Maybe we'll see stuff like this pop up in later chapters. I'd definitely expect this sort of thing to get focus in, say, a chapter that happens within a Dark World created in the hospital. Very, very interesting stuff, all around. X) P.S. Sorry to hear that your Gravity Falls video didn't do so well-- I personally really enjoyed it, if that's any consolation!

[@JaruJaruJ]

Thank you very much! I appreciate the kind words and comments greatly. x)

[@D_YellowMadness]

Maybe having a pink eye and a yellow eye (or lense) is somehow useful for seeing in that outer layer. Maybe pink eyes are what see outside but if you only have pink eyes, you can't see anything in the normal layer & that's why Ralsei needs his glasses & why his eyes don't look pink when they're on. Maybe that's why Ralsei is able to casually cross over into that layer in that one scene after the Spamton Neo fight. Maybe having *two* pink eyes has something to do with his ability to travel across dark worlds & to know enough about what's happening in another dark world to even know he needs to be there in the first place.

[@dochatter3638]

...Crack Theory™ 's brewin' in my head. Throughout Undertale, we meet the Goners and Followers. Completely greyscale NPCs who tell Gaster's tale of being shattered across space... ...But they themselves aren't... Well, themselves. All of them mimic the appearence of other NPCs throughout Undertale, and one even mimicing a Deltarune NPC, though they never get the details quite right. Futhermore, one even claims to be "holding" a piece of Gaster... But the item in the NPC's hand is the one doing the speaking. We also have never "seen" Gaster, or at least, not something we can say is definitely him. The MysteryMan could just be another Goner or Follower, for an NPC or character we just haven't met. So here's the shot in the dark: Perhaps Gaster cannot appear as "himself", only mimic the appearance of others, just like those who speak of him. Perhaps being shattered across space-time also shattered his own identity. And IMAGE_FRIEND was his way of getting a real glimpse of you, or of Kris. Or perhaps to prepare for a more direct meeting... A false visage of Spamton, but not quite right...

[@luisalbertosolisvillagomez6986]

These videos keep me in good mood while waiting for the next chapters of deltarune, thank you!!

[@mr.toothytheshadowman5652]

I actually think that the little barrier sprite with freind on it confirms that it’s supposed to represent Spamton. Also in the files along with the Q barrier is a sprite of Queen in a coaster car, implying at some point in development there was supposed to be a Queen coaster fight (perhaps it was replaced with the Berdly one?). Meaning those barriers where a scrapped mechanic for that fight. And so it would make senesce that this mechanic if it had gotten in would also be used for the OTHER major coaster based fight in the game. The friend barriers are a scrapped part of the Spamton neo fight, it’s supposed to be Spamton’s face.

[@mr.toothytheshadowman5652]

I’m a firm believe in “Friend” just being Spamton. Spamton is shown to be very glitchy especially around his facial area, so I don’t think its too much of a stretch to think that his disembodied face would be following us around while we take the loaded disc to the robot body. I mean he still has some control while in that form, the Disc does smile and squirm in our hand. More importantly I just can’t see Toby making a separate character with the EXACT same iconic feature that Spamton has, especially since we know why he has said feature ( His weird glasses are supposed to be bootleg versions of the one Swatch wears). I thinks it’s just a creepy little Easter egg, not some big lore point. But I guess I’m in the minority for thinking this, Considering how much Mike/ Tenna Art their is that uses friend as a base line.

[@philltheotherguy1868]

@@mr.toothytheshadowman5652you see the face before spamton is in the disc

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

Except that doesn't add up with things like it appearing in use where Spamton couldn't go. Even if the original intent was Spamton the used version does not.

[@AliDoesntWork]

@@mr.toothytheshadowman5652friend can’t be spamton because spamton can’t go into the basement and his teeth don’t look like that

[@SollidnitrogeN]

"I'd happily take 20 chapters if he's up to it." Every homestuck fan ever: *nervous sweating*

[@bitterman213]

You can see chapter_0 is referring to “Chapter 1” based on the icon. Its indexing starting at 0

[@BmuXD]

Spamton can actually levitate, in the scene where we meet him his sprite starts sliding left and right, implying that he isnt moving his feet

[@childish4487]

I think it's to give the idea that he's being puppeted by something, like he's dangling from strings

[@GodChaos333]

I didnt know about the pills details. Man this game has so much to it. I can see why toby got rid of them tho. For games specifically. Drugs in any form are a hassel for esrb ratings. He could have risked a higher rating on those pills alone. Its so weird. You can kill and hurt things, but the moment drugs or sex is involved. People lose their minds

[@JaruJaruJ]

Good point!

[@aVaporeon]

those drug sprites are so low quality it's possible they could've been intended to be something entirely unrelated but Toby changed it because a playtester made this same interpretation.

[@KyleGK01]

I know we can't rush perfection, but I'm dying for some new deltarune stuff, to the point I would genocide the underground for new deltarune content.

[@t.k.5088]

I'm sure someone would find your Determination VERY, VERY INTERESTING

[@KyleGK01]

@@t.k.5088 thanks for making me smile :)

[@saurie7861]

the face that DEVICE_FRIEND is most likely an invention of gaster is very interesting to me. what happens if a robot enters the dark world? both object and being, lightner and darkner?

[@alixindria9905]

Not entirely sure on the whole pills thing. While it could imply that monsters have a larger population, at the same time it is heavily implied that Toriel uses pet shampoo, given the bottle that can be found in the shower. I'd find it weird if in the world of Deltarune, pharmacies were creating monster pills, but there isn't a monster shampoo.

[@JaruJaruJ]

Counterpoint: Not all monsters have fur, whereas all monsters need medical care. As such, the market for shampoo will always be smaller than the market for drugs. If the monsters are a DECENTLY large minority, but not HUGE, then they could be straddling the line between the two industries thanks to less than 100% of monsters needing large quantities of shampoo. Alternatively, it could be that there ARE shampoos for monsters, but Toriel in particular just uses pet shampoo because it's easier to buy in bulk. There's a lot of subtleties here that could result in a number of different world-building connotations depending on how Toby Fox develops the narrative moving forward.

[@rafsandomierz5313]

@@JaruJaruJ Isn't she buying stuff in Sans'es shop? If so the name branding could be a joke like Sans selling off brands.

[@tychoplaysiogames7141]

5:00 i would like to give an counterargument to this because sometimes removing unused content from the game files can mess up the code, causing more problems as you arent sure what it might be connected to. So Toby might have left it in just so it doesnt break the game due to unknown connections to other files, rather then for the community to discuss. Thats all, great video as usual Jaru 😊

[@3s7acad0]

The image of Noel with "DRUGS!?" pointing towards her would be a great emote lol

[@midnamidnightwhisper7529]

10:30 I love that in 6 seconds jaru managed to fuel my transfem Noelle headcannon

[@JaruJaruJ]

I try. xD

[@boogaloobender3462]

welp, noelle and susie are officially a straight couple and i take back what i said about toby being obsessed with lesbians

[@Khadharphak]

I think it's already been pretty heavily implied that monsters have physical, organic bodies in Deltarune already, because it's apparent they can have Determination in this universe.

[@FlamingLily]

It could always just be that the Determination used to make dark fountains is the real world personality trait, willpower to achieve a goal, and isn't the same as Undertale DT determination, which is an explicitly magical substance

[@Khadharphak]

@@FlamingLily I feel like the "reveal" by Queen is an explicit statement that Determination is the same as Undertale's. Before that, it's referred to as a "certain power." I don't think the nature of Determination would change between universes, only the vessels it inhabits. Because I am pretty sure both universes are interconnected via Gaster's experimentation into harnessing Determination, I think it's a universal constant.

[@FlamingLily]

@@Khadharphak Saving isn't the same as Undertale, and no save points have mentioned determination. It's already pretty clear, at least in my mind, that determination, regardless of its nature, is different from Undertale because it doesn't control saving

[@Khadharphak]

​@@FlamingLily How exactly is saving different from Undertale, i I might ask? And sure, it doesn't directly mention Determination, but it does talk about the power of certain things shining within you. Then when you reach Queen, the save point before her fight says "You are filled with a certain power." That HAS to be Determination. They're obfuscated for that reveal by Queen that it is in fact Determination they are referencing. I'll admit it's odd that only Kris can see save points if monsters are capable of having Determination, so there is a possibility that Determination is different in this universe, or it could be that we are learning new things about it, considering Kris is also the only one that can close fountains for some reason.

[@FlamingLily]

@@Khadharphak 3 Save slots White save points No light world save points Nothing in game to imply timelines changing (e.g. in Undertale, Toriel would vaguely remember your bscotch/cinnamon preference) Gaster (goner maker entity) helps you (the player) manipulate save files, not Kris. Player name is listed on the save file, not the 1st Fallen Child's name (i.e., Chara in Undertale and imho Kris in deltarune)

[@ChezburgerGuy]

Noelle is scared easily, so I assume they are maybe sleeping pills, due to her nightmares

[@SomnusVivarum]

I had a great "wait what" moment when you said Spiro and E, with a great big smile for the words "teenage girl." It's such a good theory.

[@JaruJaruJ]

I'm very happy to hear you liked it. x)

[@infinitesimalphilip1470]

yeah, that was my first thought when i saw the pills even though the pills being for rudy is the most obvious conclusion, toby’s been more willing to put queer characters in his games recently, and they are still on her nightstand. plus, her antlers look the same as rudy’s, which doesn’t happen with reindeer in real life unless they’re the same gender.

[@elerdy3237]

SAME

[@kefkaexdeath]

i know i'm not the only one who saw the pill bottles and got immediately reminded of Madeline's bedside table in Celeste. I think there are plenty of more likely possibilities than that, but if trans noelle becomes canon i sure won't be complaining :p

[@syrap6330]

I feel like the fact that theres a Q for Queen's barricade and one for the mystery Friend because those are where the roller coasters show up in game. The Berdly fight which is on Queen's roller coaster, and Spamton Neo's fight. I guess it could be in relation to the Mystery Entity/ Gaster but also the fact that Spamton had the exact same colors (wrong order) of glasses that these special sprites have seems pretty dubious.

[@childish4487]

could have been a case of really rare chance of the mystery friend replaces the queen one before he decided to put the Easter egg/potential foreshadowing in the basement. Wondering if there's any left over code to support this.

[@syrap6330]

@@childish4487 I mean the fact that the sprites are kind of basic and not used at all makes me think that there wasnt too much to find with them but that’s certainly a possibility

[@spacealien3073]

I find it really funny that you brought up Noell's anxiety as a possible explanation for the pill bottles but then concluded it might be medication for blood pressure and not like ya known... an anxiety disorder lmao. That observation aside I assume the medication does probably relate to Rudy but probably was deemed an unnecessary detail because like no shit Noell is worried about her dad, that's not a thing we needed spelled out to us!

[@JaruJaruJ]

Ah, yeah, I realized that after finishing the video. Can you tell this one was a little rushed? xD

[@suicune3776]

Our amazing gerudo is back!

[@TheRoaringKnight]

The King of Theorists!

[@Axodus]

Love how deep the lore in Toby's games are. NEW VIDEO!

[@blakestation2632]

Seeing a Jaru video on my notifications always brightens my day! Keep up the good work man

[@JaruJaruJ]

Thank you! I'm glad! x)

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

2:37 - Even then this is a quite significant accusation to make since many people still seem to think this is Spamton or some random person. No, I think we've ALREADY seen Gaster...

[@birdrun4246]

It seems that the monsters in the Deltarune light world seem a lot more 'normal' than in Undertale. Fits with magic not being 'real' in the light world too.

[@nataliedoesstuff3418]

When i saw the thumbnail: NOELLE DOES DRUGS??!!???!???!?!

[@JaruJaruJ]

TRUE! XD

[@GimmeThePixels]

Crazy how JARU can just pop up like this with a Deltarune upload and I must stop everything and turn my entire night into yet another UT/DR Deepdive.

[@JaruJaruJ]

Eyy, thanks for the support!

[@GimmeThePixels]

@@JaruJaruJ of course man, you’re essentially the cause of my ceaseless addiction to these games and theorizing on them. Anytime you or halfbreadchaos upload it feels like Christmas 😂 wish you all the success and growth in the world brother.

[@cy-bernet-ix]

i choose to believe that toby knows there'll be 7 chapters *at minimum,* but is prepared for more if needed

[@unrellated]

Those things may look like pill bottles, but the art is so pixelated that they could be almost anything in the same ballpark of shape and size.

[@shadowstrike07]

It is shown that monsters do have doctors and scientists so its possible that monsters no matter their population size would make medicine for monsters. Also in undertale monster food was magical in nature to coincide with their magic based bodies, their medicine could work the exact same way. Just some possible explanations to those points I thought up, loved the video!

[@naturalnova69]

Just adding a few things of note 1. The barricade can be readded in game using a mode for the berdly battle (specifically the berdly battle as far as i know the spamton boss dosent have this) and the freind barricade can be encountered on a 1 in 200 chance. 2. Not related to anything in the video, but a cool tid bit nonetheless, in the genocide route more then half of the mansion is cut out, and if you were to return to those rooms via hacking they are exactly the same besides one, theres a door in the room with the wheeled pipis, in the normal route its a room with dish ufos, if you activate them all you get an item. But of you were to hack into that room while on genocide, its a wire puzzle instead (like the one at the begining and end of the chapter) with no item at all

[@smallbox4591]

IMAGE/DEVICE_FRIEND is realllly a unique character to me and yet we almost know nothing about the guy lol. him having similar traits like the Cheshire Cat just adds more interest and mystery to him (and could add insight on how he will act/behave.) - disappearing at will - following the protagonist around - bending the rules of their world - the smile it's also worth to know that Cheshire was sort of a guiding spirit for Alice ( in his own silly way) so I hope friend has that dynamic with Kris. it will be also interesting to know the connection he has with spamton and if the smile is actually mike (which is another whole can of worms to discuss about if it is him...such a silly man)

[@dipshitlarry7755]

the thumbnail Nole and the drugs pointing at her got my interest also the pills are molly

[@elio7610]

How can you determine what the pills contain?

[@infinitesimalphilip1470]

@@elio7610 telepathy

[@wolfkitty42]

I want Noelle DRUGS?!? as my pfp

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

The DRUGS??? with Noelle in the thumbnail made me laugh so hard

[@SoupArchive]

I always thought that secret bosses could have a tie with yellow--specifically with eyes. Jevil & Spamton both have yellow eyes (and people forget but, so does Sans). I wonder if it's something to tie with the soul color. Maybe they have a twisted sense of justice? Or maybe being hard to get to/fight is signified by yellow eyes? I'd love to here y'all's opinions. I might make a video out of this.

[@aresrivera9744]

I’m glad you’re back man I actually didn’t know some of these. Keep doing a good job

[@bobinard9759]

for the pill thing, an idea you didnt talk about one possibility: a queen missunderstanding (like the piano tutorial being 2 toriels playing piano), being used as a joke. I am not exactly sure of the pun that this could be, i dont think i speak english well enough for that, but there is a chance for noelle to have typed anything like "something pills" and it ended up being medication pills. That would explain why it was removed from the game, toby considered this room to be slightly too serious to have this one pun be here for no more reason. Another possibility that you didnt explore is that noelle was researching an arg of some sort including pills (like a horror movie with a psycopath taking pills or something like that, after all we know from the sweepstakes that noelle loves watching horror stuff)

[@TheXell]

Twelve minutes? Guess this is TripleJay's version of a YT-Short.

[@JaruJaruJ]

Indeed! xD

[@vanderkarl3927]

Hey look a Jaru video that is a reasonable length, nice

[@GameJam230]

An important issue to consider with the possibility that the pill bottles suggest there is a large market for monster medication (which in turn could suggest they're the dominant species), is that we know for a fact that the web searches don't always reflect on EXACTLY what the Lightner who searched them intended, evidenced by the room full of misinterpreted web search jokes where Queen locks you up near the end of Chapter 2. This could also lead to the secondary conclusion that Noelle was just generally looking up treatments for various conditions and was finding mostly human-applicable results, and so the pill bottles are actually human medication that Noelle discovered while trying to find treatments for monsters.

[@ConvoBreaker]

A WORLD FIRST: JaruJaru video that's UNDER an hour!

[@ABDERAMBL]

Thanks for sharing! With the exception of Noelle's alternate room I think all of these are just game development quirks, but honestly it's always fun to find stuff like that anyways.

[@moocow3818]

The way you were showing IMAGE_FRIEND with the heart in the background made it look like it had a little nose

[@pedroivog.s.6870]

Commenting about the last episode of the code discoveries, the "can_dodge" variable in lancer's code may refer to the need of showing the "missed" message in vs Susie, and I'm impressed if they never find this variable anywhere else

[@ralsei3157]

Thanks Jaru, needed this video today

[@JaruJaruJ]

Glad I could help! Hope things get better!

[@Gnidel]

I found the release schedule interesting. Paid release will have chapters 1 to 5. What about 6 and 7? We don't know, but releasing them as separate game along with chapters 0, 8, 9 and 10 would give equal number of chapters in Deltarune 1&2.

[@TempoMonstrocity]

Very good video. I love how these videos are put together.

[@lilMugshotShawty]

One thing i instantly thought when i saw the pills was anti anxiety medication because i think Noelle might feel pressure to act normal so other ppl don't have to care for her. Also, a thing i wanted to say is that the meds don't rrly imply much in regard to monster population compared to humans because there is no argument against monster producing their own pharmaceuticals. Like why, is the only option that humans produce them.

[@literallyalois2966]

NOELLE?! WHY WOULD YOU SMOKE THE WHOLE THING?! LEAVE SOME FOR US 😭😭😭💀

[@SpamtonSlapper1997]

IDK man, I feel like magic drugs makes sense. It makes as much sense as monsters eating Energy Food in the Underground at least. If it doesn't, that's probably part of the reason it got cut lol. Beyond that, very good vibeo my guy. Oh also, I seem to remember there being more letters on the coaster walls? Like Z and X and C, for button inputs.

[@Emperor_Creeper]

Once again another interesting theory from our friend Jaru! Great job, keep up the good work. There's a lot of interesting things in Deltarune that I never knew about, it's exciting to hear new discoveries found within the seemingly endless code within files of the game!

[@rawquikh0ney710]

Since Susie says everyone bleeds and all monsters having biology but not quite like humans might add up with the whole everyone bleeds. A cool thing too is in her act it's a medic outfit with a big needle and knows about bleeding and stuff maybe her family or someone could have been a doctor or is interested

[@strangejune]

1:41 Oh my god! I KNEW I saw something like a face over here on my playthrough, but it was gone by the time I realized what I thought I saw and I assumed I was just seeing things!

[@emiliavalentino7226]

It's 00:25am,i have stuff to do tomorrow,i will watch this another time. I am sure it will be another amazing video.

[@askerror1987]

Sleep well!

[@emiliavalentino7226]

​@@askerror1987 i am now awake,and back from school. Thank you

[@cheffkitty123]

Oh hey, I made it to a Jaru video early. Nice! I was just browsing KZbin for more Deltarune theories and analyses of the game, ect. Perfect timing. 😁👍

[@MultiMetronom]

Jaru my man! Everything in this video is backed up by either facts or by reasonable assumptions. A lot of people look at you as the jester of the theory community and I know youve leaned into it but this video shows me that youre growing as a content creator. Big kudos!

[@JaruJaruJ]

Thanks! You're very kind. x)

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading! It is pretty interesting, the notions of those bottles....

[@JaruJaruJ]

Indeed! Thank you for watching! :D

[@Benzinilinguine]

Whenever the community finds evidence of unheard character traits in cut content, that is probably a good indicator that the content is not canon, for whatever reason. Perhaps Toby wanted to put medicine there, but realized it would conflict with information in either future chapters or the world in general.

[@AxiomWraith]

This probably doesn’t mean anything, but the yellow and the pink from IMAGE_FRIEND and Spamton remind me of the two possible colours of the spareable monsters in Undertale

[@birdflox1337]

Bro found Noelle's secret estrogen stash

[@user-eo6lk1cg7x]

hey Jaru here is a discovery I made The King's ass is has big has most of the characters in the game, meaning he could easily kill 90 percent of the cast by sitting on their backs, do whatever you want with this information

[@Guythatsucksatgames]

The thumbnail out of context is hilarious

[@daudalvi]

when the JaruJaruJ video isnt 5 hours long: confused screaming

[@minecraftwithgadget1848]

the interesting thing about the "friend" to me is how it resembles photoshop flowey, who refers to himself as a friend and also pops up around the player similar to the friend sprite. how flowey would be involved in deltarune is a mystery to me but who knows

[@justice8718]

It’s not Flowey. It’s Asgore’s flowers. He takes care of them and talks to them.

[@epicdudes64]

Just seeing arrows pointing to Noelle saying ‘DRUGS?!?’ made me have to click on the video XD

[@JaruJaruJ]

It's REALLY good at that! XD

[@epicdudes64]

@@JaruJaruJ It is XD