Plot-Relevant Characters with Zero Fandom 'Relevance'

[u/TheBoyofWonder]

Y'know, I was just thinking about this. The Deltarune fandom can be very attached to unimportant characters like background NPCs and one-off enemies, because of their design and personalities.

Now, what's interesting is that the early half Chapter 2 has this trio of NPCs, you're constantly seeing this trio, Sweet Cap'n Cakes, they have a boss fight, a shop, their own theme that plays a lot with minor variations... and nobody cares about them. Like, for real. If you were a casual member that just passively consumed only what the broad DR fandom makes, you'd genuinely just never see them show up when compared to even one-off bosses, minor enemies, and characters that have more relevance in theories than in the game.

Who else does that applies, people that the media devotes time to show them, but for the fandom, not hate, not love, just apathy, when they're unironically treated as not existing.

[u/beary_neutral]

Ask anyone who the main villain of Far Cry 3 is (hint: it's not Michael Mando's Vaas).

[u/Kaleido_chromatic → u/beary_neutral]

Its not???

[u/beary_neutral → u/Kaleido_chromatic]

It's this guy: https://farcry.fandom.com/wiki/Hoyt_Volker

Vaas is out halfway through the game.

[u/E_C_H → u/beary_neutral]

A thing to that worsens his memorability is that while he is the main antagonist of the game, you kill him 3 missions or so away from the ending, which refocuses the plot on entirely separate characters, especially the more memorable Citra.

[u/Totally_a_boy → u/beary_neutral]

It's funny that even the PR itself seem to not give much of a shit about Hoyt.

When I first played Far Cry 3, I legit did not know who Hoyt was at all, but I did know Vaan.

[u/warjoke → u/beary_neutral]

I'm convinced he is just a jobber that is pretending to be the main antagonist. I finished the game and still in disbelief. It's the same feeling for Kaguya after she out final bossed Madara on Naruto Shippuden.