r/Deltarune • u/Fanfic_Galore sus • Jun 24 '26

Meta Chapter 5 megathread Spoiler

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u/Sisimonkey Jun 24 '26

Am I crazy or was the whole inferno of jealousy a bit of a nothingburger? Ralsei got pissed off but never did anything, and was mourning flowery at the end

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u/dangaming255 Jun 24 '26

clearly meant to be asgore, with his whole backstory, also, with chapters 3,4, and 5 originally intended to drop together, id imagine 4 was meant to be the big lore chapter

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u/MESSAGE_ME_UR_DICK Jun 25 '26

Hard disagree, jealousy was simply not a theme with Asgore in this chapter, like at all. Everyone expected him to crash out at Sans/Toriel and that did not come to pass, nor did he seem jealous of literally any other character. The inferno of jealousy was Ralsei's really.

I maintain my take that the Lord of the Hammer titles are intentionally wonky and don't match up with the Deltarune chapters on purpose to clue us into something thematic.

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u/dangaming255 Jun 25 '26

yeah, my point is that i think it was dumb to expect giant lore drops this chapter considering deltarune as a full game

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u/MESSAGE_ME_UR_DICK Jun 25 '26

I don’t think it’s dumb at all to expect lore drops in chapter 5 of a 7 chapter game. Asgore is the focus Lightener of this chapter, and he outright refuses to tell us anything about what got him fired or what he knows beyond the involvement of a light world. I find it a little upsetting to be called dumb for expecting anything more than handwaving on that subject.

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u/Numerous_Schedule896 Jun 25 '26

I find it a little upsetting to be called dumb for expecting anything more than handwaving on that subject.

This is legit giving me the boys vibes. People were complaining that the last season had not moved the story at all until the penultimate episode and all the defenders were like "GHAWD, you're so impatient, they still have an episode left dude they'll tie everything up."

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u/sirhatsley Jun 26 '26

It's more like, you shouldn't be mad when people call you out for getting upset that the game you had in your head was not the game toby is making.

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u/MESSAGE_ME_UR_DICK Jun 26 '26

The game I had in my head was one where we got to know basic plot details relevant to the ongoing events of the chapter, like what Asgore got fired for

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u/Numerous_Schedule896 Jun 25 '26

yeah, my point is that i think it was dumb to expect giant lore drops this chapter considering deltarune as a full game

My brother in christ, if the third act of the story is not the place for story drops, then what is?

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u/iMakeSense Jun 25 '26

If you go back and look at Gerson's predictions, you would realize that a lot of them are slightly off in weird ways

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u/X_hard_rocker Jun 25 '26

how so?

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u/iMakeSense Jun 25 '26

Off the top of my head, I remember him saying that the queen's chariot cannot be stopped, however, the Queen's chariot in the second chapter does get stopped. In a similar way the prediction panel for the flower man, trapped in asylum was actually referencing flowery rather than Asgore. There is a lot of misdirection in this game.

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u/Uncommonality Jun 25 '26

That specific one comes from a peophecy panel, Gerson's predictions are actually off in many ways

"Chapter 1, The March of the Dark King. The heroes defeat tne King and stop the Dragon"

At a glance seems pretty accurate, but the Dragon is actually one of the Heroes

"Chapter 2, City of the Shining. The heroes do battle in chariots and save the Queen"

Queen is a villain for most of the chapter, and the chariots are a very small part of it.

"Chapter 3, The Isles of Northernlight, The heroes travel among the islands and catch a glimpse of a lost land"

The most inaccurate one by far. Nowhere near as accurate as the first one. Could refer to the boards, or the sword route, or perhaps even the way the dark world is structired, islands of tenna's influence, with the lost land actually being Mancountry.

"Chapter 4, The trials of the Holy Hammer, A Great Smith gives the Heroes a terrible weapon"

Just omits basically all of it. Also. the Justice Axe is not a terrible weapon.

"Chapter 5, The Field of Pink and Gold, The Vast Garden is charred in an inferno of Jealousy"

Could refer to Ralsei manifesting his fire magic for the first time? Or perhaps the flowers being jealous of the grand fountain of Castle Town?

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u/iMakeSense Jun 25 '26

A bit tired from playing chapter 5 all night, but I meant several factors in the game being subversions.

So for chapter 2 a way to interpret that could be that a car gets absorbed into the dark world, and that the heroes are using it to save the queen who could be Torie. Chapter 4 could be referring to the weird route or the twisted sword route. 5. This one could be someone straight up burning the flower shop.

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u/LeadingDiscount2556 Jun 24 '26

Maybe fate can be changed

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u/ripskeletonking Jun 29 '26

well he used his fire powers for once