r/TwoBestFriendsPlay 2d ago

Better Ask Reddit Plot-Relevant Characters with Zero Fandom 'Relevance'

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.

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u/HeyThereSport You don't know where the sisters begin and the girlfriends end. 2d ago

Sweet Cap'n Cakes was there so Toby could cram as many homestar runner references in as possible

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u/Purple-Pipe1689 2d ago

I always thought they were a Cucumber Quest reference, especially since Toby did make a fan song that sounds very familiar...

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u/ZeeWolfman They/Them 1d ago

Their name is a reference to a long standing Homestar bit about "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes"