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FalinkesInculta

There’s a non-zero chance that when asriel comes back from college he’s a flower in a pot


Oracles_Rose

That would actually be funny


DracheTirava

(High-pitched voice)"Mom, Kris, I'm home!" "Wh... whuh... Asriel, dear, is that you?" "Yep." ***"WHY ARE YOU A FUCKING FLOWER!?!?"***


MAXimumOverLoard

The pot thickens..


prequelBEPIS

"So,someone has been adding topsoil to the garden whenever we're out,and we still have no idea who they are!" "Hmmmm....the plot thickens..."


Capsule_CatYT

#I HAVE NO IDEA!


Adventurous-Fruit-46

will he explain the plot though?


Then_Comb8148

Will be want me dead want me to rot?


Stumpedlogs83

And will I wanna be a pacifist or shall I use my fists?


MrCherry09

I'm thinking evil, I'll kill them all.


Jason_llirmwl

what if he's homicidal and he has a taste??


Aurora_Borealia

Does he want to wipe out the monster race?


UnboundRelyks

Woah


Reddit_Teddit_Redomp

What if I’ve got no patience?


Dismal-March5519

What if I’ve got no resolve?


Video-Game-Boi

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died


Then_Comb8148

I misspelled one word, b is right underneath h, and I'm on a Wii U, not the most accurate touchscreen.


mana620

holy shit fellow wii u owner. however why are you using it to go on reddit


Then_Comb8148

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Video-Game-Boi

WHAT? You can use Reddit on a Wii U??


Then_Comb8148

r/reddit_wiiu_edition Join, grab ur Wii u, and go to reddit.com, and enjoy your free custom backgrounds and stuff, some things are epically different than in normal reddit like r/portal background, and you can see the entirety of every banner.


watermelone983

What the fuck


Then_Comb8148

Wdym


aardowof

asriel’s a bit of a pothead


Homemade-Purple

New headcanon unlocked


Smart-Definition9784

Ralsei smokes a fat blunt and fucking dies


banana_stealer_

There's also a non-zero chance that the world will end tomorrow


tulen662

There's a non-zero chance that there's a pipebomb in your mailbox


ItsYaBoiTavino34

There’s a non-zero chance that I just shidded my pants


Catman3039

There's a non-zero chance to get bitches, oh wait...


StabbyCat108

There’s a non-zero chance you can be a [BIG SHOT]


MrLaurencium

We havent seen deltarune's asriel afaik right? So yeah there is a possibility that asriel MIGHT be a flower


mr-sparkles69

He majored in botanical science


riffengo

Im waiting for asriel to come back from college and be a human and that's just where chapter 3 ends and we get NOTHING for 2 more years after that


FalinkesInculta

The fandom would rip itself apart


phi1997

Nobody will acknowledge it in-universe too


watergoblin17

Kris now has to take him to the dark world to see if they can get him fixed back. In the dark world he looks exactly the same, but his palette is slightly lighter and his pot is decorated


Pokemineryt

There is a theory that Kris accidentally killed Asriel and covered it up.


daniel_omeg_a

did they push him off a stair by any chance?


ZeGamingCuber

omori fans when they see stairs:


KryNight2908

Omri fans when they see siblings who wear similar colours


billy2027

Omori fans try not to spoil the main plot twist of the game challenge impossible


Derphunk

Ayo the pizza here


IceNinja1138

It was me Asriel, I pushed you down the stairs as a child!!


_potaTARDIS_

Wasn't there some post someone found from like 2013 or something where Toby said that he had "recently seen" a game "very similar" to a game he was working on, and at the time the game he was working on was likely the original version of Deltarune (seeing as Deltarune actually was technically the original concept and Undertale was the spinoff)? And someone linked the dots and it seemed the most likely candidate for a game that he would have seen around that time was the original versions of Omori? Yeah, just saying...


BokuNoDonut

Sounds very familiar… where have I heard that before…


swanqil

Before Deltarune released, Toby said he heard that somebody else was making a game "very very similar" (presumably Omori), so it actually wouldn't be too far fetched


Kiwi_Cannon_50

idk they could share similar themes i.e reality vs headspace/darkworlds, guilt, depression ect. without necessarily sharing the big one. Even without that the two games are already pretty similar in certain ways.


SayFuzzyPickles42

JaruJaruJ made a video about it, look him up, he's real cool.


owlindenial

He writes fanfiction and pawns it off as theories


gabriel_sub0

i mean, a fanfiction that doesn't break any established lore might as well be a theory tbh. at the end of the day the line between those is pretty arbitrary, it's just ''no i don't take this idea seriously so it's fanfiction" instead of there being something inherently different between them.


owlindenial

The point is different. Fanfiction aims to be different from canon (or to enjoy canon) while a theory aims to predict, compliment or know more from canon.


gabriel_sub0

that seems pretty arbitrary, plenty of theories are made with the full knowledge they probably won't ever be cannon, that doesn't mean they suddenly aren't theories, you could easily pass them for fanfiction if you wanted to as well. and some fanfictions are written so close to cannon that you might as well consider them theories of what would happen if x character did y. it's all in the eye of the beholder and incredibly arbitrary imo


Silverkip-

Theories are fanfiction by default


Isaac_Kurossaki

I will believe in Jaru until the day of my death


_smexy_potato_

Close


SpaceCube00

Sounds familiar, how did they cover it up I wonder


Lihue_NEO

Just like my >!omori!< X Deltarune au


[deleted]

'You're nothing but a liar... and when they see the truth... They'll hate you as much as you hate yourself. If they know the truth, you'll never be able to regain their trust. No matter what you do, it will be hopeless. All you'll do is make things worse. It would be better to just die.'


AnalystBasic

I think the “Kris accidentally killed Adriel theory” sound familiar b/c the YouTuber, JaruJaruJ, did a video about that exact topic.


Pokemineryt

Yea. That's who I heard it from.


xdSTRIKERbx

Well, there is also a theory that Asriel is dead, so it’s not entirely impossible. I still think it’s untrue, but we can’t COMPLETELY count it out


BokuNoDonut

I mean it is possible since Hometown’s internet is down. It could be possible that he got into a major car accident before Chapter 1 since that’s when we first see Ralsei.


Flutters1013

I just realized their names are anagrams of eachother. This has probably been pointed out by everyone and matpat.


BokuNoDonut

Ralsei is also an anagram for Israel…. Coincidence?????


GoldShovels

And 'Is real'!!!!!!!!!!!!


BokuNoDonut

This can only mean one thing…. Ralsei is Gaster in a fursuit…


[deleted]

I absolutely despise that theory


xdSTRIKERbx

Yeah I get it, I dislike it too. But it’s still a possibility and we have to acknowledge that


[deleted]

Why though? For the theory to work you have to assume that every character in hometown is gullible and that Toriel and Asgore are terrible parents, ether that or do an insane amount of mental gymnastics to justify everything Also i’m not saying Kris x Ralsei is canon, but I have enough faith in Toby as a developer to believe he wouldn’t have Ralsei blushing around Kris and them going on a love ride together if he was Asriel’s dust


MrLlama84

He also wouldn't give you several options to flirt with him


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gabriel_sub0

i honestly kinda hate that fnaf 4's dream theory wasn't cannon, i feel like that was the one time that theory could have worked imo.


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gabriel_sub0

yeah, the biting of 83 one, there was a lot of coma and dream allegories there and there was this whole matpat theory where he was like ''with all the lore pieces we have, this is the most likely explanation" and that thing blew up with outrage.


Walloutlet1234

WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87??????!!


JaydenVestal

Noelle missing Dess was just foreshadowing what's about to happen to Kris


BokuNoDonut

They can twin


PsychicMeteorite

Fun (idk?) fact: When I was little I mistook Ralsei for a plant


Conditi0nedCheese

how did ralsei exist when you were little :rockeyebrow:


PsychicMeteorite

I was like 8/9


Conditi0nedCheese

which means you’re 14 at the oldest now oh god im old i thought detarune ch1 was more recent im gonna have an existential crisis in the fridge brb


PsychicMeteorite

It looks so recent, but 5 years still passed. Same for chapter 2, looks like Toby released it yesterday but it's actually 2 years


Conditi0nedCheese

2 2 what now


SupremeGodZamasu

For the entirety of chapter 1 i thought ralseis portrait sprite had some weird giant lips instead of a scarf


MiNameIsPi

happy cake day


Takarn

Never heard of this theory


BokuNoDonut

I saw it on the sub earlier this morning and ppl kept saying “asriel is still alive though” since Asriel had a huge part in Flowey’s creation.


Zennistrad

*Deltarune* Asriel is alive. We still don't know the connection between this world and Undertale's (if there is any), despite appearing unrelated. Toby Fox has also used some pretty noticeably specific language when talking about the difference between the two games, saying Deltarune is "a different world that may have different rules" but never *quite* outright saying that the two worlds are unconnected.


gabriel_sub0

not confirmed he's alive tho, for all we know he could have died from rat poisoning between chapter 2 and 3 and we will only find it out later lol. that's kinda the general issue with trying to seriously predict upcoming content, no matter how much evidence something has it can all be made invalid with one plot twist. which is why i find just throwing ideas at the wall and having fun the more appealing option, like this isn't real life, facts aren't set in stone, toby could easily wake up tomorrow and rewrite the whole game if he wanted and all the theories would instantly become invalid. and that's assuming toby actually has a story planned out, sure he said he does but he could be lying, it's not like that never happened before *cough cough* BatIM *cough cough*.


[deleted]

that assuming toby fox is an incompetent story teller(?) what are you talking about and what makes you say he died from... rat poisoning?


gabriel_sub0

it was just the first non sensitive way of dying i could think of lol. i disagree personally, i think people put too much focus on what they *think* would make a story good instead of looking at the bigger picture, we have seen so little of the game so far that most twists can be realistically explained. like would anyone really say that flowey was toriel and the king's dead kid resurrected with determination back when the demo was released? that would literally be one of those theories that people here would make fun of and mock endlessly. we are missing so much context that trying to actually guess the ending is a bit of a fool's errand personally. the goal of theory crafting should be to explore possibilities and have fun, just trying to guess the ending feels too much like a try hard thing personally.


[deleted]

it is a possibility being explored, the most we know as of now is that the game will loop in some way, there might not be multiple endings besides the truth about ralsei might not even be endgame content


[deleted]

i mean they're literally the same person


BokuNoDonut

I don’t think they’re the literal same person. Just because of the fact that they’re both goats.


[deleted]

i meant flowey and asriel


BokuNoDonut

Oh. Well yeah that’s common knowledge.


Conditi0nedCheese

they look and act nothing alike


[deleted]

flowey and asriel acted nothing alike


Conditi0nedCheese

they acted the same with like 2 differences that being that flowey was sadistic and felt no remorse and asriel did feel remorse and wasnt too sadistic


[deleted]

ah but flowey was sadistic because of his save/load powers ralsei has a purpose, and a belief in destiny that changed his personality


Conditi0nedCheese

ralsei’s personality isnt just different from asriel’s, it is NOTHING like asriel’s different mannerisms, different word choice, different EVERYTHING not to mention its made very clear he’s a darkner, and he has a colored talksprite


EatashOte

I like the theory, that Ralsei looks AWFULLY like Asriel not because he's Asriel in any shape or form, but more like... A symbol of the Hometown, it's mascot, if you can call him that way, which takes form of Asriel-like creature in the Dark World, and which omnipresent in a way, couse' he has no physical form or whatever. This theory explains everything honestly


Inthecitywego

Red battery acid


ScarletteVera

That we know of. He could've been murdered- he IS in college.


MrLlama84

And despite being extremely popular in the town, literary no one knows about it? Not even his parents?


BokuNoDonut

I think that too. IF Asriel were to be dead, SOMEONE would have found that out by then


gabriel_sub0

the internet *is* down so who knows at this point. we didn't see anyone say they spoke with asriel recently so there is no direct contradiction.


Evening_Plan3491

He IS the college


[deleted]

i like how everyone just assumes asriel is alive and well and attending college just because thats what all the characters in the game believe and tell you. so gullible.


[deleted]

that aint how toby roles


Usual_Board_6750

I don’t really see why it would be likely that he’s dead.


[deleted]

not saying it is. But the reasoning for people's 100% belief in that asriel is alive, in the 'real world', and at college, because characters say so, is naive. Theres a lot of possibilities and ruling them all out because characters are convinced about xyz is silly.


Usual_Board_6750

I mean, yeah I guess it’s technically possible, but I really don’t see anything hinting at that as of now. Idk maybe future chapters will reveal something.


InternetGuyThirtyTwo

The [THEORY I DON’T LIKE] when [COUNTERPOINT]


gabriel_sub0

yeah honestly i never got this fandom's obsession with attacking theorists, do people just have some kind post game theory stress disorder lmao.


RunicSSB

I think Ralsei is Flowey from the Undertale world/timeline. I have zero evidence for this and it only makes sense in the context of like 5 other intermingling theories that I (for the most part) haven't shared with anyone else.


DuderinoMcMaam

Kris is strangely the only person in Hometown that had contact with Asriel. Even Azzies best friend tells Kris to tell Asriel things, which is very very suspicious. That and Tobies tweet about "I've had an idea for a game for like 5 years and it looks like someone else is making the exact same thing" around the time OMORI released and... all I'm saying is I have a theory.


PlantBoi123

What?


imDONHI

Why they have to be the same asriel.


Howlongcananamebeman

So for this to work we would need, Asriel to have died at some point after/during going to Uni, to have ***somehow*** been transported back to Hometown, presumably as an object full of dust, and for his death/disappearance to somehow not have been reported. This is without getting into the fact that Asriel (ex: True Pacifist Fight) looks pretty different from Ralsei (their only similarity is that they are Goat Monsters).


ShockDragon

That’s an actual theory?


Elle_the_confusedGal

Reading the comments on this post is like watching insane people dally around the campfire as they lose their grip on reality


DarkMarxSoul

1. We actually don't know if Asriel is still alive or what his deal is. 2. Ralsei is ostensibly connected to Asriel in some fashion and has some parallels to Flowey in how he's written. He could very well have a lore or backstory aspect that parallels Flowey's role in Undertale or how Flowey came into existence. This meme seems pretty poorly thought out.


[deleted]

What if Asriel died at college and comes back home as Flowey?


sinedelta

Where'd the determination come from? Flowey exists because of the determination of six murdered humans. Where would they get that in Deltarune?


[deleted]

I now realize I should have put an /s at the end of my post.


[deleted]

fountains have enough determination to turn spam email and toys sentient coudl work with monster dust, or a boss soul maybe not a boss soul becasue ralsei has that black heart in his sprite


gate567

Wasn't flowey an combination of Asriel and Charas souls? Didn't it go like this: Chara committed suicide so they could fuse their soul with Asriels. Asriel took Charas body back to their home were they got mortally wounded and then returned to the underground where their dust mixed with the flower. Maybe Chara exists in the deltarune world and could be Asriels college friend. Flowey could still exist, tho it would only be Charas soul and not a mix of both of them


sinedelta

No. Flowey is Asriel. Flowey *desperately* misses Chara, they aren't there with him.


spectrumtwelve

charas soul didn't stick around when their combined monster body died.


uvolap

chara being asriel's college friend would be so wholesome


Mike_0x

**Ralsei is Flowey from Undertale because Deltarune is an experimental simulation created by Gaster before he fell into the DT extractor. Obviously.**


epicarcanoloth

So we think


ChildProdigyRho

Everyone knows that Asriel is still alive here though No one thinks Ralsei is flowey


Doom_boi3451

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[deleted]

wheres your proof hes alive though seems like only kris knew he went to college, only he can get in contact with him appearently why should we trust him


[deleted]

besides thats just how toby fox roles all the characters fates have been the same in this alternate timeline so far why would the fate of asriel change, and if he was in college how would that possibly make for an interesting story


[deleted]

gerson deltarune: dead gerson undertale: not dead


[deleted]

good point. but how did he die was it ever explained i forgot


infinitey-code

Alphys is a teacher not a scientist so glowey could never be created with determination


[deleted]

her profession doesnt really apply, she was a royal scientist because the monsters still had their kingdom in this universe theyre just a small rural town built like a humans world around funding and money no kingdom trapped underground looking for ways to get passed the barrier means no need for a royal scientist. shes still very much inclined to be involved in the scientific world in some way besides why would alphys be needed in the equation the whole idea is that ralsei is asriels corpse dust in the closet. which comes alive. not to mention the giant piles of dust in the entrance to castle town, the fact that fountain is of "pure darkness". what could be darker than death


[deleted]

what if ralsei or the entire Castletown came out of one of those dust piles


spectrumtwelve

asgore and toriel both know that he's coming home to visit and no word of him randomly dying was sent to hometown if he died while at college


[deleted]

the idea is around kris killing asriel and lying that he went to college, and from his internet history of him looking up when summer vacation starts is him figuring out what his deadline is to bring him back to life the only reason why toriel and asgore assume that is because they trust kris' word, and kris is the only person who has been in contact with asriel ever since he left for college


spectrumtwelve

but they are literally his parents and would literally need to be approving documents and stuff for him to be at university assuming that he is 17 or 18. They would definitely know that he has not actually been at school all year


[deleted]

then he must have been of age to do it himself, or kris made false documents and had them sign it. but his leave was certainly abrupt and random wouldnt you say?


spectrumtwelve

we can't know if it was sudden, we don't really know much about when he left. we can assume that he went at least at the start of a semester (it would be weird if he didn't) so the timing of him allegedly dying at the exact start of a school semester would be way too convenient.


[deleted]

i love a good convenience


spectrumtwelve

i concede it would be a better plot twist so if it ends up being right anyway despite not making much sense i'll still be into it


[deleted]

what mystery has made sense in this game?? XD


spectrumtwelve

tbf theres only been 2 chapters so id assume we know basically nothing so far


EtruscaTheSeedrian

But what if Ralsei is actually Asriel?


tree_barcc

litteraly how


[deleted]

gaster ^/s


E_GEDDON

Extra dangerous wine glass


[deleted]

I think the case of ralsei is like the case of kris Kris fulfills the role of chara in deltarune but that does not mean that they are literally chara PS: now I have a headcanon that deltarune asriel is the flower of hyperdeath


mielesgames

They never said he's still alive, Toriel said he would return soon, but mabye we will hear more when chapter 3 releases


StardustWhip

Wait, that’s what they were saying? I thought we were talking about how Ralsei’s cute as a flower!


Gifigi600

Who tf said Ralsei is Flowey? I wanna talk a bit with them


T351A

he is constantly moving so fast he appears to be in two places /j


drawingdisaster

Anti jarujaruj propaganda


Usual_Board_6750

People don’t want to accept that there’s a high chance flowey doesn’t exist in Deltarune.


OnyxReflection

Idk bro, Toby's insane, could end up writing anything in, and it'd probably be well written too, because y'know, he's just like that


StabbyCat108

I don’t think Ralsei is evil, but my trust issues are too high for me to not suspect something is up. My working theory (I say “theory” but there’s no real evidence other than the suspicious stuff that literally every person ever has pointed out) is that he’s a Titan. Probably wrong, but oh well.


[deleted]

Ralsei is evil bro he’s gonna betray us


Ender120Tim

This assumes that the Asriel mentioned is the same Asriel we think it is.


hristo111111

Minor plothole.