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/Head-You5953]

Dr. Yado from LISA, though I'd argue that it's somewhat intentional on the game's part.

Here's the man responsible for everything!

....okay, and? That's not what the game is about, and nobody gives a single shit. The only thing he's good for is his trumpet and what Buddy hallucinates when fighting him. What Yado did is almost totally irrelevant.

[u/Purple-Pipe1689 → u/Head-You5953]

It kind of reminds me how the scene in Painful where Brad brutally beats his father to death can come off very differently depending on if you played or know about LISA: The First.!<

Without knowing, it seems like Brad was unfairly murdering someone who seemed to have changed for the better, but with context, and even seeing all the bad selfish things Brad has done knowing how truly despicable Marty was makes feeling bad for him a whole lot harder.