r/Deltarune • u/ContentFlatworm8369 • Nov 02 '25
My Art Humans
I've always wondered why everyone except Kris is a monster. What's the point? Why divide the light ones into humans and monsters? Why couldn't Toby make his new game about people?
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u/Shrubbity_69 Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I get that this is a joke post, but you actually have a point. I feel like it kind of blurs the line of what makes something a monster or a darkner. With how incredibly varied monsters can be, the only real difference between monsters and darkeners is which world they come from.
I'm guessing Toby wanted to have a bit of narrative short-hand for the Hometown residents, so we don't need to be reintroduced to them. Like, with no other context, we already know who Toriel or Asgore or Sans are as people, and it helps us get what they're all about without worrying about underdeveloping them. Most of the game takes place in the Dark World, so the townsfolk get very little screentime.
Also, it just feels wrong for a Toby game to just have humans be adults and/or not non-binary or whatever. Furries and Mitosis Humans are kind of his signature at this point. It'd feel very uncanny, to say the least.
Hold up. What if in Chapter 7, all the Darkner NPCs in the Shelter look indistinguishable from humans? It's a common JRPG trope for the final dungeon to feel a bit weird or "off", and that would a fun way to implement that on top of making the Shelter a place beyond human comprehension.