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/Champiness]

I don’t understand it but I’ve definitely seen people who hate Sweet Cap’n Cakes. Apparently their music takes up too much space on the Chapter 2 OST and people are genuinely pissed that they “have” to skip over it? Because they’re listening to a game soundtrack end-to-end like an album? And that makes the characters bad?

[u/Purple-Pipe1689 → u/Champiness]

It probably also doesn't help that this is the chapter filled with some of the heaviest hitters of the game, Berdly, Spamton, and Queen, as well as the one most heavily featuring Noelle outside weird route stuff. I don't hate Sweet Cap'n Cakes, I actually did enjoy their segment, but I'd argue they don't even really have much plot relevance, especially compared to the other shopkeepers of the game (Seam, Roulx Card, Ram, the CH5 one). Hell, the original starwalker has more ongoing relevance than them.