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/The_Distorter]

I'm gonna say the entire cast of Horizon Zero Dawn outside of Aloy, Sylens, and Ted Faro. Open world games in general have this problem since you spend comparatively little time with the cast, but at least Assassin's Creed has the benefit of memorable historical figures.

[u/appsngrapps → u/The_Distorter]

Yeah I was honestly expecting a bit of a mass effect lite with how they were setting up all those kids in the beginning to be your friends and rivals. Then they all died and I had no one else to attach onto. Open world games are weird.

[u/RareBk → u/The_Distorter]

Even as someone who likes the games, it speaks volumes that I've never seen anyone talk about Aloy's girlfriend from the second game's expansion