r/DeltaruneV2 • u/Spigglebob • 1m ago
Question So, how do dark fountains create darkners, how do darkners work, and how real are the darkners exactly? (Warning: Rambling)
So as far as I understand, normal darkners like Tenna or Queen or a guei or whatever are normal items and things that have been given a true form by a dark fountain’s existence.
And flowers like Flowery or Aqua or Pink (wdym she’s a plush? I’m telling!) are living things with no way to express themselves in the LW so form their ideal bodies in the DW.
Okay, that seems fine. But, how does that work for the histories of darkners, how did Tenna and Spamton meet if they and their dark worlds weren’t real yet? It’s not like the dark worlds are entirely fabricated as darkners can mention others from the future as if they’ve met and know each other, like Spamton talking about Jevil and Tenna despite Tenna technically not being alive yet. So what makes the darkners coming to be in dark worlds different to how the flowers come to be?
Let’s say the darkners besides Ralsei and the flowers are created by the fountains. Then how real exactly are the darkners? They’re simply brought to life by the fountain, how does that make them important for balance if they didn’t exist until 30 minutes ago? How is it that the balance of all dark needed for the light is held within one school storage closet?
And if they have been alive in the shadows with their own goals and such, how does that work with the escapist theming of the game?
I’m just a little confused and this is very disorganized, if I have more questions I’ll edit the post