I will develop no theory of it whatsoever, but Toby Fox is among other things a fan of the game Chrono Trigger. He uses the soundfont in a lot of his tracks, and made fan content of it before he even made the kickstarter for Undertale on the Fwugradiation channel. In Chrono Trigger, the titular Chrono Trigger is an egg that can be used to go back in time to a specific instant and change something, specifically to retroactively save the protagonist from death. This is an optional end-game side quest that you can forego entirely. It's not too important, and not too unimportant. Take from that what you will.
@DyxoXinoro8 ай бұрын
And if I remember right whether or not we use the egg doesn't give us a new ending, just whether or not we clear the Black Omen. So either way, our choices matter but we get the "same ending", so to speak.
@gq_skelly8 ай бұрын
@DyxoXinoro I think so yeah, iirc it's still one of the endings wherein the still alive cast go to the fair and say their goodbyes, just without the Crono and Marle on balloons credits thing, and like the saved-crono ending has two variants dependent on if you destroyed the Epoch or not.
@DyxoXinoro8 ай бұрын
@@gq_skelly Interestingly, though, the PS1 bonus menu still considers all four variants (with/without Crono/Epoch) the same, single ending if memory serves me right. Though I don't remember how it affects the fancy anime cutscene.
@gq_skelly8 ай бұрын
@DyxoXinoro I played the DS port, though my understanding is that in terms of extra content it is nigh identical to the PS1 port. At least on the ds, the anime cutscene things didn't account for those smaller details of the ending you got (though I may be wrong, as i almost always turned them off), and I also believe you are correct about how the ending is categorized. It mainly factors in at what point in the game you beat Lavos. One could branch out by comparing the Weird Route's sequence breaking to that, but personally I feel that would start being a little too bent on the Chrono Trigger similarities train. But I'm also biased since I'm presently on the fence as to whether or not the Weird Route will affect the ending.
@DyxoXinoro8 ай бұрын
@@gq_skelly I made a note about my thoughts regarding the weird route in a separate comment on the video, but in short I don't think it'll change too terribly much about the game's ending, per say, but I do think the ripple effecta from it will matter.
@nautil_us8 ай бұрын
There is also the most important purpose of the egg: if you get the egg in ch1, you can interact with one of the cars in the traffic jam at the beginning of ch2. Theres a man there, who will wave at you happily. I love him and I'd do everything to keep him happy
@eltiolavara97 ай бұрын
be sure to not make the white egg too happy, or it will leave from happiness
@joewilliams-un8vu8 ай бұрын
Rouxls is literally such a good character in terms of jokes and lore.
@ricardobernales54948 ай бұрын
There's this line at the end of the pacifist route from Asriel that says "Oh, and, please ... In the future, if you uh, see "me" ... , don't think of it as me, ok?", I can't help but think that that line has much more weight now with Ralsei.
@Mr.Snekofsnex8 ай бұрын
Personally I think that Gaster and Dess are just chilling in the void having tea.
@oxanis8 ай бұрын
Man i cant wait untill kris gets all of the eggs so we can have a kickass omlete
@Mr.Snekofsnex8 ай бұрын
@@oxanis Hell yeah
@DyxoXinoro8 ай бұрын
Well given we put the first egg next to the pickle, and the second near some bread, maybe they're for the egg salad sandwhiches at Gaster's tea party?
@autumnyuki37448 ай бұрын
No way, tea is a wonderful thing and wouldn't be forgotten (unless something happens to asgore) they'd probably have something like monster energy drink-
@eltiolavara97 ай бұрын
theyre watching family guy
@iji8 ай бұрын
1:33 i just noticed that this distinction between kris and the player is also made clear by the text which appeared there! "the light only you can see", and that you reach out "by second nature"
@ghostnorm8 ай бұрын
i love roulxs so much and I think I would literally die if he was actually gaster because itll be so goddamn funny, like funny science man is actually a drag queen good for him !!!
@ghostnorm8 ай бұрын
this summer I kinda went silly and posted far too much about roulxs being gaster on tumblr and I still am the number one believer please toby
@Lysvsyl8 ай бұрын
I really enjoy this more grounded approach. Even when it comes to speculation it is well grounded. After all the time since the last chapter, I feel like a few theories elsewhere have spun out of control.
@annakwashere8 ай бұрын
Agreed! We might now much about him as of now, but he's definitely in my top 3 faves.
@heehoo36858 ай бұрын
im currently making a playlist of a bunch of deltarune fanworks, whether that be theories, animations, memes, fan songs, fangames and playthroughs, just so i could look back on this period of the fandom with a lot of stuff from this time of the post chapter 2/sweepstakes, pre chapter 3/4 kind of era. you kind of mentioning that same kind of feeling at the start was pretty funny, as i was already about to add this video to the playlist, haha :D nice video as always!
@yo-nyxie8838 ай бұрын
This series is honestly so helpful, I need to explain all of this to a friend who just got into Deltarune right after finishing Undertale this year. Super well done and informative more than I could do. Thank you
@CalamitasCalliope8 ай бұрын
Another fun knight candidate that is talked about a lot of Father Alvin. Suspicious religious figure, and he's my current bet on who the knight is gonna be. Though who even knows so early in the story
@laviis59758 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'm also expecting he'll be very important to the story, specially considering his father Gerson.
@liment81778 ай бұрын
I'm glad to have helped!! It's relieving to see that my attribution wasn't underappreciated It was a pretty good video and actually pretty informative series, specially with the most recent fans of both the games of Undertale and Deltarune Next time I'll make sure to do double of effort, keep it going!! ❤
@GodChaos3338 ай бұрын
Animations for the silly and normal parts. Are so charming. And the endcard is so relaxing. Great work. Nice video too. Even as a brainrot deltarune fan knowing all if this already. It was still a treat to watch. And nostalgic.
@DyxoXinoro8 ай бұрын
Thank you for another lesson, professor. Including both the TL;DR version of the "who is the knight" debate and giving us your egg video as supplimentary material will be very helpful to myself and the other students, as it allows them to further their studies without artificially bloating the lesson structure (we have Professor Jaru's Knight lecture for that). If I may, I do believe there is an elegant way to explain how there fan be one ending, but our choices still matter. Deltarune started as a Survey program. As such, perhaps the experiment is a survey to see what we, the players, do when given absolute control over someone's life, with the dark worlds being an extension of the survey/experiment. Testing chambers, if you would. As such, the ending of the experiment has already been predetermined: after one week, we lose control, and _something_ happens to clear out the experiment. For the sake of this hypothetical, lets say the Roaring is inevitable, and it will eliminate everyone in both Hometown and the Dark World in one go. However, the survey results will be what happens during, shortly before, or immediately after the Roaring, with Gaster congratulating us either way. I believe Silent Hill likes to do things to that extent: the ending doesn't change, bit your actions detetmine the context to that ending. Chapter 2 can be seen as a microcosm of this, intentionally or not. No matter what we do (Fight, Spare, Weird), Kris makes the dark fountain. And less things change than do: Susie still spends the night, Noelle still visits her dad to play Dragon Blazers, Toriel still calls Undyne, who still doesn't believe us. However, the Weird route could be seen as us "breaking out" of the testing chamber, akin to how we can mess with the chambers in Portal. And like in Portal, messing with the chambers does not change the ending, but we can still get an achievement for breaking all the cameras. As for the egg? I think its too early to say, but its probably not important. Though, with my Portal comparison, the egg mans probably our version of Doug Rattmann, so maybe its not _un_important either. Hmm...
@loziclec.12958 ай бұрын
Credit goes to Tumblr user Overfedvenison for this theory, but I really like it and want to share it. Alphys is the Knight. There's precedent for her to be villainous. While characters aren't exactly like how they were in Undertale, they're similar enough. In Undertale, Alphys was friendly, awkward, and loved anime. She also lied to you and hid secrets about the terrible things she's done. So far, the Alphys in Deltarune only has the first half covered. She'd be able to know where to make dark fountains. She assigned the groups for the class project. She even told Susie and Kris to go to the closet that had a dark fountain. And, as a member of school staff, she would have the keys to lock the closet door behind you. Lastly, she has every reason to want to make dark fountains. No one, not even her students, seem to really respect her, and she's obsessed with fantasy. The use of Determination to make dark fountains seems to be a metaphor for creating fiction, so it makes sense that Alphys would be interested in that. And that's not even mentioning that her experiments in Undertale dealt with Determination.
@DatLazyBoi7 ай бұрын
I love it when Brownie turns into a smol crying cinnamon roll X3
@charajaznao28296 ай бұрын
That papyrus mini-rant ♥
@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.7 ай бұрын
Underrated channel tbh.
@Taypokemon4 ай бұрын
1:36 BLG mentioned, instantly subscribed.
@MeloniestNeon8 ай бұрын
Who needs sleep when Browniefox is uploading? Can't wait for this one, a real ratatouille moment Post-watch edit: 13:25 YOOO THAT'S ME!!! So glad this series is turning out great, can't wait for more and I'm always happy to impart more of my hyperfixation onto others, especially if it's educational!
@sciencey28588 ай бұрын
HAPPY NOSIES!!!
@CenturyGuard8 ай бұрын
*Imagine you walk into class, and the teacher says, "GASTER IS THE MAN BEHIND THE TREE"*
@Soup-Boot8 ай бұрын
Another amazing summarization of the Deltarune lore! Keep it up! 😁
@_Nekonaut8 ай бұрын
I love all the cute art in this! and that you drew Kris with a kris as their weapon that was clever lol
@melissatroubls99678 ай бұрын
huh. Rouxls... didn't hear that name for a while
@marsgreekgod8 ай бұрын
well in undertale toby fox counts all neutral endings as the same ending so we have a lot of room
@justbobdude47428 ай бұрын
Love the theory community can't wait to see if people are actually right about these theories :D ALSO I LOVE THE ART YOU USE HEREEEEE SUPER GOOD :D
@LemonDrop198 ай бұрын
YAYYYYY !!! ! i love these videossss!!! i love how concise and straightforward you are when explaining things, and how when you are talking about a theory, you don't assert that it is the truth, even when you personally believe it. at 5:33, i think a better way to phrase it would be "are you playing as a separate character within the game who is controlling kris, or is the game acknowledging that you, the player, are controlling them?" another word you could use is "diegetic", which means something that exists in the canon of the story, but it's not a widely known word and would require explanation. overall, a great video! it's really awesome you're making theories for these games a little more accessible for newcomers. can't wait to see what's next!!! ❤
@jaimereo6 ай бұрын
we need da next lesson!
@Chowder_T8 ай бұрын
Ahhhh, I have enough studying to do with finals next week! >_
@rainparis83358 ай бұрын
New Browniefox video LETS GOOOOOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@charajaznao28296 ай бұрын
i think that rouxls may be like kriss, being controlled by someone to do what he do, simply because he doesn't have that much of a clear motivation, it had in act 1, but in act 2 its just ??
@29Naybla5 ай бұрын
Hold on a second, could the knight be toby fox himself??? Remember that he absorbed the legendary artifact in Undertale and technically "ascended" leaving the game?
@llllllllemon2 ай бұрын
holy shit and toby fox is also the main creator of the game or something. and. deltarune is about meta stuff and choices and the players choices are defined by what the creator of game decides *can* be choices. or maybe I'm looking too hard at a crack theory. would be cool
@TheSkyGuy77Ай бұрын
It could be that Asriel is Toby and is also the Knight.
@lucarioyt18488 ай бұрын
Doesn't gsster's head look like a egg so what if you're holding a piece of him hmmm thats something to think about
@lasagna3289Ай бұрын
11:08 - This is not true. That only happens if you've put an egg in the fridge before. Like, ever, in any save file. If you've never put an egg in the fridge, there will be a pickle inside the fridge. The pickle gets replaced with an Egg.
@maple...8 ай бұрын
Pog
@_Exalted_8 ай бұрын
True
@perryisthehat8 ай бұрын
oh, to be outside of the time capsule
@Joe989128 ай бұрын
There is a third entity in Kris but just a heads up, there's a ton of stuff to read here! The knight or something completely else is controlling them at the end of chapter 1 and 2. I have proof of this, the birdcage has been through several crashes and it hints at that this isn't the first time Kris takes out their soul out before, if the player wasn't in control over Kris at the time why take their soul out and throw it into the birdcage? It doesn't make sense... And something I need to say that the SOUL is Kris's but the player's soul is combined into Kris's and don't worry, it connects to the theory, when skipping to the next chapter, the game picks out the vessel choices that is align with Kris and the game automatic makes Kris grab the ribbon and equip to Ralsei and they beelined to the end of the game without talking to any NPCs in the Lightworld, that fits into Kris's behavior. If Kris was doing everything by themself in chapter 1 but why doesn't anyone talks about Kris moving slow or shamble from place to place like they do at the end of chapters. That means Kris can move themself around normally, not the whole slow walk or anything, they take out their shield and save Susie by the Card King's attack. Remember the thing I said about Kris "shamble from place to place', it sounds familiar because this happens in Undertale. That's what happens in the genocide route at the Snowdin area when Papyrus tells Frisk about how they "shamble from place to place", that's because of Chara slowly gains influence over Frisk and their influence starts weak and more KILLS and LV the player has, will increase Chara's control/influence over Frisk to the point that they no longer move slowly or need to attack in battle and starting a FIGHT with a monster on their own. Kris does the same thing, they move awkwardly and it's not because they take their SOUL out, they still move that way even though they have the soul in them. It seems like there's something in Kris making them do this and taking CHARActer's role and maybe its also the narrator, the narrator knows things that Kris or the player (maybe both) don't know about, like it knows about what's gonna happen in the end of chapter 2 and about the birdcage. It perfectly fits into that role of Chara because they can stop the player from doing things, like giving away money to Gyftrot and many other things. The knight is taking Chara's role of a "partner" and narrator. Kris is taking Frisk's role and maybe even be the same person but a different counterpart of them like how Susie is called Suzy in Undertale. The player takes the same role as in Undertale. Check out these theories, I can't sadly post a link of it but I can just say the names of the theories and they are good ones and I recommend checking them out: "soul power & frisk's strength - nochocolate" "cooperation not corruption: the effects of kill count - nochocolate" "frisk can resist the player - nochocolate" They have more theories, just click the button called 'masterlist'.
@connerwills68028 ай бұрын
Wait what happened I fell asleep
@browniefox72188 ай бұрын
10 page final due Friday on the queer themes of deltarune
@connerwills68028 ай бұрын
@@browniefox7218 But it's Thursday….. fine am I allowed to include anything with Kris since we don't know their gender?
@browniefox72188 ай бұрын
@@connerwills6802 of course you can talk about Kris! Their non-binary identity plays a large role, and is reflected in their struggle with their human appearance.
@connerwills68028 ай бұрын
@@browniefox7218 Ok that just quadrupled my opinions
@Polychi19987 ай бұрын
Hey, you have a discord account? I really like your voice (and fursona) and I was wondering if you can voice a character for my small game project?
@browniefox72187 ай бұрын
I would need to hear more to decide! I’m dropping a link to my server in a minute
@Polychi19987 ай бұрын
@@browniefox7218 awesome! Sure, I will do my best to give you some good details!
@Polychi19987 ай бұрын
@@browniefox7218just don’t forget to drop a link down, k?
@browniefox72187 ай бұрын
@@Polychi1998 I actually had someone else asking about discord, so I made a community post w the link to hit two birds with one stone!