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#also hi lol this is acerikus... got hit by whatever hit all the other utdr meta ppl who lost their blogs ๐Ÿ˜”
acerikuz ยท 2 years
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There's something about the chapter 1 that's been bothering me for quite a long time, and I don't think I've ever really seen the implications of it discussed...
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... Someone locked Kris and Susie in the closet.
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The above dialogue happens if you try to go back to the closet once you return to the light world. You could potentially argue that the door just slammed bc of the nature of dark worlds or whatever and that the door was only locked to give a narrative excuse to not let us back in, but...
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...This is the flavour text when you try to go back into the closet after being 'banished' by Ralsei at the start of chapter 2.
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...And this is the flavour text if you try to go back into the computer lab after you leave cyber world.
This makes it... Really clear that the end of chapter 1 is an exception. It does call to question who could've locked them in and why - did someone really want them to go to castle town (the Knight perhaps)?
It could even be something as innocent as a classmate (or alphys) going along with the classic trope of locking two people in a room until they sort out their issues with each other, but since it also seems like Noelle and Berdly were set up by someone creating a dark fountain in the library while they were sleeping in there (they had time to get their books out before ending up in the dark world after all), it's... Interesting. Maybe something to keep in mind for future chapters ๐Ÿค”
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