tldw Ralsei's in his mid-life crisis and will buy a Mercedes Benz in chapter 6 to fill the void in his heart that was created by him realizing that he's not satisfied with the life he was pressured into living and also he'll smoke weed
@angelnati8297
7 ай бұрын
Sombrasderoserade
@stratostella
7 ай бұрын
and he's a baa
@solairedude7119
7 ай бұрын
Bro gonna chuff a fat dart chapter 7
@Koldun
7 ай бұрын
Doobie
@Vivi.20.
7 ай бұрын
doobie
@littleeusbee
7 ай бұрын
i like your funny words video essayist
@Jessie_Warren11618
7 ай бұрын
"How many re-deconstructions you want?"
@gamemasterpzm
7 ай бұрын
@@Jessie_Warren11618 "Two please."
@ashiiu12
7 ай бұрын
i read this in the JFK voice
@liviwaslost
7 ай бұрын
@@ashiiu12same
@yosh-9999
6 ай бұрын
@@ashiiu12good
@cryptidmartyr4588
7 ай бұрын
THIS GOAT has NO EMOTIONAL KNOWLEDGE and wants YOU to JOIN HIM!!!
@matti.8465
7 ай бұрын
I think Ralsei was literally spawned into existence to fullfill one specific purpose (serve the heroes in their quest and make sure the prophecy plays out as intended) but his interactions with Kris and (especially) Susie are causing him to develop into his own person. He has no bad intentions, as far as the prophecy is concerned Ralsei is supposed to help them save the world. But Ralsei didn't write the prophecy and probably doesn't know the implications of it.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
To the contrary, I'm pretty sure Ralsei is attempting to usurp the "Prince of the Dark" role from the prophecy from Lancer. There's a few reasons for that, but the big one is that the Dark Fountain we closed in the first chapter was clearly not the "new" one that was destabilizing things, but rather the old one that already existed. Even aside from the dialog in the chapter that points that direction, there's no way that Ralsei's dark world had existed all that long (since anyone trying to use the supply closet would have found it) while the old dark world may well have been there for years for all we know. Plus the picture that we saw of the three heroes gives a pretty good likeness of Suzie and Kris but the Prince looks more like Lancer than Ralsei. That's of... dubious in-universe meaning, admittedly, but the difference is striking enough to mention. EDIT: swapped around the dark fountains in the first paragraph.
@psuedonym9999
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamer Wait, you said the Card Kingdom fountain was the new one, but then that the Castle Town world couldn't have existed that long, but the Card Kingdom could have existed for years?
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@psuedonym9999 No, I'm saying that Ralsei's fountain is the new one and the one in the abandoned classroom could have existed for years. Or in other words, I completely mistyped in the comment you responded to. EDIT: Fixed now
@psuedonym9999
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamer Yeah, that makes more sense. And I agree with you, I just don't see how that supply closet could go unopened for more than a day or two, especially if it's used by the janitor.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@psuedonym9999 Do we ever hear of a school janitor? Might just be the teachers. I think Sans might be the only monster described as a janitor in Deltarune. That does raise the interesting question of what is in the supply closet besides the chalk Kris and Susie were sent for. Not a lot to work from in Ralsei's dark world like there has been in the other dark worlds. ...Actually, that's remarkably strange, isn't it?
@CutWat
7 ай бұрын
i think ralsei blushing only when he touches our soul is because that's just our hitbox, might be accidental but it could still imply something
@kylefreeburg9353
4 ай бұрын
I genuinely think that toby wrote the code as a gameplay thing, but realized how well it worked after. It's probably a very happy coincidence
@basicmountaingriff
7 ай бұрын
I think there might be a hidden double meaning in the statement "your choices (don't) matter". It could easily be that sometimes it is referring to the player and sometimes to Kris. Imagine that there is a hidden conflict over whether Kris' choices matter or the player's choices matter, and only one of those can matter. If this were true, Ralsei could potentially be meaning that _Kris_ should believe their own will matters even though they're constantly being controlled, and not even talking to the player at that moment. That creates a really grim scenario because we know Kris is going to be stuck with us for at least a week still; the point of Ralsei may be to comfort _Kris_ in this difficult time. Of course, we have the added complication Kris and Ralsei are always being watched. If the two have some great plan to free Kris from the player, you would realistically expect they would do everything they can to hide it in plain sight and make it look ordinary. This might be why Ralsei gives the tutorial and such, while shortly telling Kris they do matter. But the scenes where Kris seems not to like Ralsei might be because they are afraid the plan backfired. If the player is all over Ralsei treating him like some kind of fluffy son, Kris and Ralsei are effectively being watched and controlled more than before and will find it harder to scheme against the player without being noticed. The one thing this definitely does not explain is.... why is the Ralsei tea empty? I have no idea.
@NRobbi42
7 ай бұрын
The tea being empty along with Ralsei disappearing completely when he runs out of HP does beg the question of if it's just because he's a darkner or if it's because of his unique existence separate from the other darkners. On one hand, the snowgrave bug does show that darkners do just straight up vanish in a red mist if you manage to get their HP to zero. However, you do buy the tea from the dark world, so that doesn't explain why his tea would be empty. Much to think about.
@bigbadgammagnome
7 ай бұрын
@@NRobbi42 Ralsei tea is only empty when Noelle drinks it, not when Susie or seemingly Kris drinks it (they have no reaction but there is still *something* for them to drink), so I don't think that connects to him disappearing when running out of HP. Rather, the reason Ralsei tea is only empty with Noelle implies to me that she's unsure about him and doesn't know what to make of him. For Susie, Ralsei tea tastes like marshmallows, probably because he's so sweet. And Kris either has no reaction because they have little opinion on Ralsei, or don't like him that much, or some other unknown reason. Something to keep in mind.
@KhanShotFirst
7 ай бұрын
Or because there's no actual point in ch.2 where Noelle is in our party after meeting Ralsei, and the only opportunity she has to understand him beyond "dream kid that looks like Asriel" is literally the roaring cutscene after fighting queen. She just doesn't know he exists in any concrete way, and even needs hacking to drink his (or susie's lol) tea.
@esoij
7 ай бұрын
"your choices don't matter" is the deltarune version of "it's kill or be killed"; there's no hidden meaning to it.
@heyaitsceleste
7 ай бұрын
@@esoij I dont see how that claim has any more legitimacy than a possible hidden meaning existing. We dont know yet, there "might" be no meaning, but I wouldn't say there "is" no meaning.
@mineash2945
7 ай бұрын
"Of course, Gaster is, hopefully, not real, and is a funny guy toby made up to make me insane" - Favorite quote, 23:16
@mrperson4542
7 ай бұрын
I pretty much agree with all of the points mentioned here. However, I would argue that Ralsei’s connection with the Secret Bosses is stronger than what is suggested here as note that, just like Jevil and Seam, Ralsei was aware of the Roaring before he revealed it in ch.2 and he also seems to be aware of generally how the plot should progress considering his whole “Wait we were supposed to-“ line on Side B/the Weird Route. What this honestly potentially suggests to me is that, in some way, Ralsei is the “end result” Gaster was trying to achieve with the SBs. Gaster may have been trying to trial-and-error (or…*experiment*) on how his approach and interactions with Darkners affect them. He may have been trying to seek a way to get a Darkner to go along with the Prophecy without having them go insane and potentially he achieved this via “whispers across time and space”.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
To pile on to that, I'm pretty sure Ralsei is attempting to usurp the "Prince of the Dark" role from the prophecy from Lancer. For a number of reasons, ranging from it being the original Dark Fountain that we closed in the first chapter to the fact that the picture that we saw of the three heroes gives a pretty good likeness of Suzie and Kris but the Prince looks more like Lancer than Ralsei. That probably means that the prophesy wasn't made up by Ralsei or anyone that Ralsei is acting on behalf of... unless that person made it up to fool Ralsei into doing what they want. Which we don't have any evidence either way of, thanks to how closely Ralsei has been holding his cards to his chest. At a minimum, we know that Ralsei's dark world probably hadn't been existing for very long at the start of the game (since otherwise someone would have found it when they went to use the closet), while the "original" dark world that Lancer was from could have been around for quite a while longer.
@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamerthat's just wrong!
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj Any particular part or...?
@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamer my bad, i should have specified. not only was the card kingdom's fountain not the original, but the prince from the dark mentioned in the legend more closely resembles ralsei's disguise than lancer. plus, the fire looking magic effects around the prince aren't something we've seen lancer do, while it IS something we've seen ralsei do (the glowy flame looking effect when he uses a spell). lancer doesn't even *do* spells. as for the fountain, ralsei's is refered to as the "grand fountain," and the part at the end of ralsei's monologue is him describing how another fountain appeared recently. on top of this, seam states that the knight appeared recently and placed the spade king in power. given that making fountains is the knight's m.o., it only makes sense that it created the card kingdom fountain.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj The bit with the image's resemblance is pretty clear-cut, I think - the hooded figure has a single large point on their head and isn't wearing a brimmed hat, so it really can't be Ralsei. I don't think you can call Ralsei's healing a "glowy flame looking effect"... it certainly glows, but I can't think of a time it actually looks flame-like. The sequencing of the fountains I've been having some interesting conversations in this comment section about, but I'm still pretty sure that if either of them has existed for more than a couple of days it has to be the one in the abandoned classroom. After all, if the school's apparently only supply closet was a dark world for more than a day or two there's no way someone wouldn't have run into it already. And even a single day is being generous - I bet whoever hid the chalk in Alphys's classroom also made the dark fountain in the closet either that morning or the previous night. Of course, the specifics of the timeline are incredibly hard to pin down. Which leads me to looking forward to chapters 3+ where we'll hopefully get more answers...
@fel7807
7 ай бұрын
The section in your synthesis (starting around 27:40) discussing the different "levels of existence" / nature of people or characters with regard to the world or fiction they exist in made me realize another interesting parallel you could possibly make between W.D. Gaster and Ralsei. Ralsei, unlike the other darkners (as far as we can tell) is aware of the sort-of-fictional nature of the Dark World. So while Ralsei may be to the lightners as the lightners are to us, he's also almost as to the lightners as Gaster is to us, someone who may be "fictional" but is still very aware of his own role in the story, and almost controlled by or completely inhabiting it out of habit. Fantastic video as always! I love your analyses of Deltarune a lot.
@nataliaborys1554
7 ай бұрын
I'm more of a fanwork creator than a theorist really, but I always had that hunch that Ralsei actually confronting Jevil and Spamton in a conversation would be very very interesting. I mean, it seems that what drove the secret bosses insane was at least related to knowing their reality is nested within a higher one. And here Ralsei is, with that same knowledge, yet seemingly dealing better with it. Well, for now at least.
@matthewnorton-baker9079
7 ай бұрын
Great video! You articulated a lot of vague ideas I’ve had about Ralsei’s character better than I ever could. I’ve really grown on the idea that Ralsei is effectively aligned with The Player and how the game is “supposed” to go, and this’ll probably be a source of juicy drama in later chapters. This is totally baseless speculation, but I kinda feel like there will be conflict between what The Player and the plot demand vs what Kris and Susie want and Ralsei will be caught between the two, having to choose between his “purpose” and his new friends. I think his big moment will come when he chooses, perhaps against his better judgment, to stand by his friends. Or who knows, maybe my hiatus brain is just causing me to generate extensive fan fictions under the guise of “predictions”
@hecdudeh2o969
7 ай бұрын
Every once and a while I enounter a Deltarune video that I know will shape the way I look at the game moving forwards and I think this is one of them. Excellent video I love it
@ecowo57
7 ай бұрын
Ralsei is my skrunkly
@squishking
7 ай бұрын
i love that moment when you’re watching a theory and you’re like “hold on this guy might actually be onto something!”
@greenhydra10
7 ай бұрын
Ralsei is probably the most fascinating character in Deltarune to me, apart form maybe Kris. He just knows a lot of stuff a Darkner really shouldn't. I've never seen Ralsei as being some secret antagonist or anything like that, but he's really freaking suspicious. I've tended to avoid the options where you/Kris sort of cozy up to Ralsei, due to the fact that, as you mentioned, Kris doesn't seem to like him especially. Why would they? He's the epitome of like-Asriel-but-not. There's also the theory that Ralsei is everything that Kris wishes they were: a friendly (he's basically a walking ad for the kindness trait), helpful, and optimistic goat monster. That only further complicates things.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
At a minimum, I'm pretty sure he's trying to usurp the role of "Prince of the Dark" from the prophecy from Lancer. For a number of reasons, ranging from it being the *original* Dark Fountain that we closed in the first chapter to the fact that the picture that we saw of the three heroes gives a pretty good likeness of Suzie and Kris but the Prince looks more like Lancer than Ralsei.
@mr.personalspace7831
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamerBut his fountain IS either the original or the "real" one. He's the only Darkner that can freely exist in a Dark World that's not his own. Lancer and Rouxls turn to stone like any other would outside their respective Dark World... but the exception is the world of Ralsei's fountain. There, inhabitants of ANY Dark World can exist freely without turning to stone. If Lancer is the real "Prince", then the prophecy has already failed unless The Roaring happens in Castle Town or Kris's pocket, because those are the only two places he can exist now.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@mr.personalspace7831 "Today, the FOUNTAIN OF DARKNESS - the geyser that gives this land form - stands tall at the center of the kingdom. But recently, another fountain has appeared on the horizon...". Only Lancer's fountain is at the center of an actual kingdom - even Ralsei never refers to his town as one. But on top of that, Chapter 2 confirmed that the way the fountains work is they make an area into a Dark World, which any lightners who enter the area find themselves in. The abandoned classroom may well have been totally empty for years, while Ralsei's dark world could at the absolute maximum have only existed since the last time someone went into the supply closet.
@mr.personalspace7831
7 ай бұрын
@@PhysicsGamer When it's discussing the main fountain of darkness, it's focusing on the one in Castle Town- when it mentions "another on the horizon", it pans to King's- not Ralsei's. King and his people were born from someone opening a fountain in the empty classroom- the one in the supply closet is the main one.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
@@mr.personalspace7831 I don't think that's necessarily the case - it's hard to tell from the images we see, admittedly, but it could just as easily be from the perspective of the other castle. I'm curious if you have a solution to the timeline problem. The abandoned classroom's dark world could easily have existed for years and years before the game, while Ralsei's could _maybe_ have been made the previous day, at most. It's in what looks like the main supply closet for the whole school, after all. Oh, and to follow up on something from your previous comment - the titans depicted for the Roaring have the eye symbol that as far as I recall we only ever otherwise see in Ralsei's dark world. So that slightly implies the Roaring somehow originates from or is connected to that particular dark world. It's a pretty tenuous link, admittedly, but it's certainly interesting.
@Ongle_Spongle
7 ай бұрын
13:46 this gave me bonzi buddy vibes, and I wasn’t prepared for how terrifying that sounds 😭 I know this might not ultimately be a part of the story of Deltarune, but just thinking that Ralsei could be some sort of malware stuck inside Servey Program and the idea that he just wants to *help us* while ultimately hurting our computer is fascinating to mull over. (‘heaven’ could even be our desktop, like the old windows background)
@renownerd.276
7 ай бұрын
That's a good point! Ralsei probably feels like a video game character to the lighteners.
@magickoopa24
7 ай бұрын
I really liked your essay! I'm glad you have a more balanced view of Ralsei than other videos ive seen, lol. Something I'm 99% certain will affect Ralsei's view of themselves will be the TRUE prince of the dark: because as far as we know, Ralsei is the one to give himself that title, and it would be so easy if he was that character in the prophecy, but there's another who'd fit the bill better: Lancer. He's a prince in the narrative rather than something we're told (or what Ralsei assumed his role would be), and if Ralsei wasn't here, Lancer would still be as important to how Kris and Susie progress (chapter 1 giving motivation to Susie, freeing Kris in chapter 2). Ralsei can just feel like...the tutorial? And the idea that he would lose his purpose as the prince of the dark in the prophecy, losing the need of him providing tutorials, and even losing the ability to heal if Noelle joins us more, all of this would absolutely reflect what you discussed in the video about where he's going from here, and I'm excited to see where things go.
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
There's also the way the picture we're given of the "three heroes" has a very good likeness of Susie and Kris, but the third one looks a lot more like a hooded Lancer than Ralsei. The single point under the hood could be the top of Lancer's head, yet it's only present on Ralsei when he's wearing that hat - which the character in the image obviously isn't wearing, judging by the lack of a brim.
@PhirePhlame
6 ай бұрын
Besides, the son of a regent is a prince. Who are Ralsei's parents?
@PhysicsGamer
6 ай бұрын
@@PhirePhlame Technically, there have been more than a few "principalities" throughout history where the reigning monarch is called "prince".
@uraynuke
7 ай бұрын
this really does remind me of The NeverEnding Story, with the layers of fiction n' all that
@madeline1714
7 ай бұрын
5:31 gasters just casually shattering around time and space nbd
@leightonpetty4817
13 күн бұрын
To put the idea of prophecy adherence simply: I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, to achieve the “Weird” route, the first thing you have to do is get away from Ralsei.
@ML_Vanilla
7 ай бұрын
The great ace attorney music??? In a Deltarune theory video??? Instant 10/10 :)
@Ongle_Spongle
7 ай бұрын
I have so many thoughts about this little guy that may or may not have reduced my brain to jello, so here are those thoughts! (I recognize that I’m probably just insane from the brainrot or maybe looking way too into things, so take this with a grain of salt 😅) So, in the prophecy, it talks about how “if this harmony were to shatter, a terrible calamity would occur” And then it talks about the roaring. *But*, immediately after that, it says this: “*Only then*, Shining with hope, Three HEROES appear at WORLDS edge.” “*Only they* can seal the fountains, and banish the ANGEL’S HEAVEN.” “*Only then* can balance be restored, and the world saved from destruction.” So, my observation is, it sounds like (to me) that the “*Only then*” part could imply that the roaring is *the ONLY time* that we (the three heroes) are supposed to show up and do everything (close the remaining fountains and banish the angel’s heaven) but also it sounds like the Roaring is *supposed* to happen, since the balance is already shifting from the other dark fountains (kinda like a domino effect that can’t be stopped once it starts) plus, the prophecy never really says that our job is to *prevent* the roaring, just to stop it from destroying the world *once it happens* (if we take the “only then” part literally) plus, I know that Toby said that the prophecy is supposed to sound like it’s poorly translated, but even then (in my opinion) that still doesn’t take away the *very specific* “Only” statements that show up *three times in a row*, that has to account for something, right? So, from that, my question is: *Why does Ralsei NOT want the roaring to happen?* If we’re the heroes like he says we are, and he says that this is “a journey foretold *exactly* by the prophecy” and we (but mainly us and Kris) are the only ones who can fix it once it starts, then what’s the problem? We’re the heroes, and we have the ability to stop it, and the prophecy dictates a hopeful outcome that the world will be saved and balance will be restored, so why be so afraid of it? Seam even says: “*One day soon… You too, will begin to realize the futility of your actions. At that time, feel free to come back here. I’ll make you tea… and we can toast… to the end of the world!*” Like, I get that he doesn’t want the world to end, I don’t think anyone really does (like when queen found out), but he’s acting like we won’t be able to save the world from it once it does happen, when that’s *basically our job?* It’s all three of us against the end of the world, and yet he never seems to include himself in any of it, like for example not showing up with Kris and Susie to close the fountains, and the *only* time we’ve seen him in front of a fountain with us, was in the background of the chapter one save slots, *and* he’s in his chapter one outfit. The prophecy states that the heroes are supposed close the fountains (and any lightner can open one, according to queen) which makes me think that *all* of the fountains would need to be closed in order for balance to be restored, which includes Ralsei’s fountain, the second dark fountain that we usually end up going to (card kingdom, cyber world, etc.) and the third fountain that we always stop from happening. So *why* is Ralsei wanting us to help make *his* dark world essentially a *heaven* (👀) for us, even down to naming the town after us, if we’re supposed to end up closing it at the end anyway? He wants us to be happy, he believes that is his purpose to assist us and make us happy. “Queen! Think of the Lightners! Aren’t we supposed to make them happy?” “Our purpose- Darkners’ purpose- is to assist them. It’s the only way we can feel truly fulfilled.” So how far is he willing to go to be able to do that? Like, what if us stopping the roaring *for good* means that we would have to sacrifice ourselves in order to do it? And, if gaster *did* end up talking to him at some point, I think he gave him the information or the power to help prevent us from dying, while also making sure the player has as much fun as possible by skirting the line of making sure the roaring never happens. Like, what with Kris having us in their body and how were the only ones who can close it, if he can get us to keep closing fountains perpetually while making sure we’re satisfied, why *would* you want the roaring to happen when you’ve got everything you need right *here* in your *very own* castle town? Idk, I’m getting vibes of in the end of the Undertale pacifist route, where Toriel lays in to Asgore by saying that he could’ve free’d everyone from the underground from the jump by using the one soul to leave the underground, getting the other six, then open the barrier from there, instead of making everyone suffer underground needlessly. One last soup brain point: When Ralsei says- “But Kris, I believe YOUR choices are important, too.” No??? Literally, at *BEST*, Kris only gets about a 50% chance of having their *preferred* dialogue option *chosen by us*, and EVEN *THEN!!* THATS TECHNICALLY A 0% CHANCE, BECAUSE THEY CAN’T ACTUALLY CHOOSE *SHIT* WHEN WE’RE THE ONES CHOOSING *FOR* THEM. Anywho, batshit insane ramblings aside, i love your video.😭
@sozintallus5619
21 күн бұрын
My idea is that Ralsei is the original character we were meant to control. Kris happened to make an attempt at occult magic offering his toy horns and some art he made to gain power. Sacrificing things that meant something to him along with some of his blood. So we were summoned into him and Ralsei took on a form from the offerings.
@Determ1nat1on
7 ай бұрын
This was another great video. You always seem to have some way with articulating things the way I would like to, but cannot. Don't feel pressured to creating content. Like Ralsei, you're not just a Content Creator whose soul purpose is to keep making content. Take your time & upload as you wish to Also, I'd love a Deltarune (even Undertale) playthrough by you :D
@Splitboltxful
7 ай бұрын
You really outdid yourself with this one!!! I had multiple moments in this video where I had to pause and basically reconsider my preconceptions about Ralsei Despite my intense deltarune brainrot I still hadn’t thought about him hard enough it seems. Thank you for opening up my mind about it! Bravo 🎉
@sagacious03
3 ай бұрын
Overall, very interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading! 4:53 This brings to mind an interesting avenue. He says he doesn't have any subjects. But royalty's family are not their subjects. If he is The Prince From The Dark, could there be a King, Queen or Princess from The Dark? A Duke or Duchess, perhaps? Also, I do wonder about his actions, abilities, & motives. Making things for guests you may never get suggests loneliness. Other than the doorway that remains inaccessible to Kris & company, though.... Scenes like the 1 near the end of Queen's Mansion makes me wonder if Ralsei knows when the SOUL is watching. & if he blushes when in contact with the SOUL, does that mean he can sense it? Awareness of what it's doing? Being alone, to rule a kingdom that was either abandoned or wiped out & memorize a legend you may not even be certain will occur in your lifetime.... It's a heavy burden. Does he not carry bitterness or resentment for these burdens? Why does Ralsei know these things, & why did he choose to do these things? Did someone else teach them to him?
@asdffdas254
3 ай бұрын
17:08 I had to replay this like 5 times it really sounded like you were saying "is kind of intersex"
@ruby71406
7 ай бұрын
This video was really helpful for me as someone who has had no idea what to make of Ralsei or where to even start analyzing him. Really great job!! Also I love ur editing lol.
@Violet_Crumbs
7 ай бұрын
So excited for a video on the best boy!
@XxguaxinimxX.
7 ай бұрын
This was a great video! 35 minutes passed like it was 10!
@elijahkeay3906
6 ай бұрын
My best bet for gaster as a puppet master is that he is supposed to be our direct opponent in his “experiment” called deltarune. Not “our” as in the characters, but rather us the players. If deltarune really is a game of chess, then we’re on one side of the board with our pawn Kris (given to us by gaster) and he’s on the other end playing the game with us
@elijahkeay3906
6 ай бұрын
As such this kind of explains the ethereal position of gaster. We’re on one “side” of the game controlling it from the outside world. We’re connected to it, but not in it. Gaster is also connected to the world of deltarune, but he isn’t “in” it. He’s in the program, in the computer, but he’s not actually in deltarune. Which may explain why his presence (specifically verbal presence) doesn’t really exist within the game itself
@-FutureTaken-
5 ай бұрын
I never thought id see an Evo SMP reference here of all places but here we are Im really enjoying the videos, btw!
@TheSkyGuy77
7 ай бұрын
Ralsei wants to be our (the player) friend. Kinda like a certain other game where a self-aware character wanted to have a relationship with the player. (Ahem 😅 Doki Doki Lit Club)
@Chowder_T
7 ай бұрын
19:00 My God, it was so obvious. RALSEI'S TRYING TO ACHIEVE HEAVEN
@cosmictheorist6091
6 ай бұрын
Ralsei reminds me of a young Sans in a sense. Hes Aware of the truth of thier world's reality but since he's young he can't really grasp it or understand how to react to all the outcomes. He tries extremely hard to make sure he gets the best ending but doesn't try to fight for it against the player.
@dxnoth
7 ай бұрын
I lovw how u used the tool from petscop as an example
@Vivat_Veritas
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! One day I'll make a Petscop video... hopefully...
@anonymoususer9197
7 ай бұрын
I think perhaps the simplest answer is the way we have to examine ralsei. He too just seems like one facet of the general theme of how characters deal with the knowledge they have of their worlds metaphysics. How or why he came into contact with gaster perhaps doesnt really matter at all why he has the knowledge. All we know is that he does and his character becomes a lot clearer (to me at least) of course if you knew about the nature of the world plus the prophecy goud try to get the core actor to do things that prevent destruction while Jevil finds freedom and Psamtom desperately trues to claim it perhaps ralsei has come to a point of being content with having none and isntead tries to influence the core acting person (not Kris, the player) through acting out his "role" perfectly and being lovable
@GodChaos333
7 ай бұрын
Watching a playthrough from you would be so nice. Please do it. And nice video. Like the editing. And analysis of ralsie. As someone who is a little bored of his happy to serve attitude. I been really interested in the things he been hiding. And how the narrative with test his outlook on things.
@dontmindmeimjustchilling
7 ай бұрын
using this research study onto the natural of Ralsei, can you deduce which chapter he'll say "doobie"?
@zeldagameryt4018
2 ай бұрын
After the ending of Chapter 2, the question of who or what Ralsei is kind of became a little bit clearer to me. Go with me on this, what if Kris made Ralsei in the absence of Asriel? Think about it, most of the time Ralsei mainly interacts with Kris in the dark world plus there is no physical item that could represent him in the Light World (ie Lancer and Roulx being playing cards in your inventory). That could be how Ralsei followed Kris and Susie to the other Dark World and how he knows that Kris and Susie are the heroes of the story.
@toonymoony16
26 күн бұрын
I think ralsei is just Atatürk in the light world
@Teegii4
7 ай бұрын
17:08 i had to do a double take because i heard "... kinda into sex" instead of intersects
@ilovewarw2
7 ай бұрын
Same😭
@StoryTeller796
7 ай бұрын
I prefer to like to think that Ralsei doesn't know who Gaster is because Gaster is kind of like a Shrodinger's Cat situation. He randomly, every single time your screen transitions, every single time the fun value is changed, he randomly either doesn't exist or does exist. But if this is the case, how does that explain the phone and Gaster's relationship with the secret bosses? I think that Gaster is forced to play the longest game of Telephone in order to contact Jevil, who is the last person in the line, with Spamton being the next one, and Mike being the next one. He can randomly talk to Spamton himself, but it is never for certain that the same Gaster can call Spamton. Sometimes, it is the good Gaster that calls him. Sometimes, it's the evil Gaster that calls him. Other times, it's a bit in between, or a different Gaster, a more feminine or gender-neutral Gaster calls Spamton. Random Gasters call every one of them, telling them all sorts of things but usually boiling down to begging for help to get out of the existence that they've put themselves into. So, where does this Ralsei? Maybe Ralsei does sometimes know Gaster in some gameplays. Maybe he doesn't. I think that Asriel and/or Kris affected Ralsei the most out of everyone else, though I don't know which or if both did. Anyway, I just think that Ralsei is like Del Torro's Pinocchio or like... whatever that Girl's name was from Amphibia, that isn't Anne or the blond one. I just think Ralsei genuinely doesn't understand the world around him.
@CarlosAlola
3 ай бұрын
Is that the great ace attorney music im hearing? (Peak)
@hades_head_empty
7 ай бұрын
5:40 okay okay wait idk if this is a fan theory but seeing how he looks in a cloak reminds me of riverperson..... what if he's the riverperson? or at least related to them in some way idk
@jerichode
5 ай бұрын
Holy shit, it was about time someone re-examined Ralsei with fresh eyes instead of cementing a load of fanon.
@rosashell4
6 ай бұрын
Maybe the reason why grand fountain is made of pure darkness, and also why ralsei is made from it, is because unlike other fountains it wasn't made by a lightener but something more powerful, or maybe by an extraordinary powerful darkener, or is even what happens if a darkener absorbs a lightener's soul they become a fountain of pure darkness, and possibly it was ralsei who did, it could have turn him into the best version of himself, and possibly the same for other darkener's, so maybe some asriel and chara stuff happened since he looks kinda like asriel.
@rayzuke1232
23 күн бұрын
Given how much Ralsei clearly cares about the Player more than nearly anything else, and us the player being canonically the equivalent of a outer god/eldritch abomination, it makes Ralsei officially a cultist.
@toyloliSpare
7 ай бұрын
I still think connection wise, Suzie it the Undyne and Ralsie the Sans in the overall plan for this story. To break free of the 'paradise' of the game they are the big bosses
@Gamingpandacat
7 ай бұрын
obvioulsy ralsei is my husband, he just doesn't know it yet, case solved
@connorschultz380
7 ай бұрын
The video was amazing! Thank you for it!
@Marsh-mo9ml
5 ай бұрын
I fully and wholeheartedly agree that at the end of the day Ralsei is not evil! And on the topic of him being a character "within a game within a game" its funny because i never saw him like that until a few days ago when i was pondering deltarune stuff as one does, and i realized how "video gamey" he is, and now whenever i think about what he does it feels VERY video gamey and i dont know how i missed it 😭😭 Also 11:58 Evo/trafficlifesmp reference?????
@thesupremeoverlordofice121
7 ай бұрын
I hope you do that birdly analysis at some point
@proudlarry8225
7 ай бұрын
What do you think about the theory that Ralsei is aware of "YOU" (the player Heart) and is approaching YOU in a roundabout way playing dumb because they're trying to protect Kris from YOU?
@nandinee5726
7 ай бұрын
thoroughly enjoyable essay and i really like the conclusion you came to. it's very interesting to think about what ralsei being a character who is a character who sort of knows that he's a character (to either one or two degrees) could mean for the larger themes of the game. i personally have this belief that toby fox attempts to speak to the player through his game and the fact that the player is engaging with his game, i'd love to see what he'd do with a character in such a unique narrative position. hope you enjoy your break!
@pinkajou656
7 ай бұрын
11:56 no. NO WAY. NO WAY DID YOU JUST REFERENCE MY LATEST FANDOM WHAT HOW. AND HOMESTUCK??? have you been SYPING ON ME???/pos
@jesseburgener442
3 ай бұрын
Susie: Your choices don't matter. Kris: aww, you're sweet. Ralsei: your choices matter, Kris. Kris: Hello, human resources??
@User-dyn
5 ай бұрын
22:36 If anyone is curious the wingdings here says "HAHA FUNNY PUPPET GO BRRRR"
@NRobbi42
7 ай бұрын
32:55 Ralsei secret boss confirmed
@hyperdreamer9483
7 ай бұрын
A personal headcanon of mine is that Ralsei is kinda like Kris’ OC, Ralsei is what Kris always wanted to be just a sweet, adorable, and fluffy little buddy for everyone to love and care for. If the theory of Ralsei being Kris’ old headband is true then it could be that Kris influenced Ralsei as a person to be who he wanted to be. I also see this being the reason Ralsei doesn’t really know how to be ‘himself’ because he never really had a ‘himself’ to begin with since Kris never really elaborated on this persona he had and just crafted them in his mind
@chongwillson972
7 ай бұрын
@hyperdreamer9483 that makes people shipping ralsei with kris really weird, though not as bad making ralsei x kris both incest and necrophilia.
@errorcode9542
7 ай бұрын
I haven't been here a while but that just means I can binge now
@Ponsy_J
7 ай бұрын
16:46 Ralsie is basically becoming Monika from Ddlc, dude...
@Dirakiaa
7 ай бұрын
Im a simple man I hear PMD2, i like and comment for engagement
@jaredtherock5692
Ай бұрын
To get... *Incredibly off track* of the subject of this awesome video... When you mentioned that the Dark World is a game within a game... Definitely not against the idea that the player and Gaster are on another level of existence compared to Kris and Suzy, but in the Light World, it very much feels like we're not meant to be there. It feels like its supposed to be a world in its own right, and its been dragged into a game. From everything with Kris, no save files in the Light World, and having minimum UI for any for of interactivity. Nobody tells you to "press z" in the Light World. Not even Ralsei in Chapter 2, when we're ask to bring the others into "Player" Town. All of these details seem too intentional for the Light World to be written off as a game, and that the Dark World is "the game within the game." I think I would speculate that the Light World kind of got dragged into being a game. And if it weren't for the player being connected, it would just be a world just as normal as ours. Because like the Light World, we can't defeat evil, there's no Legend, and there's no Save Files.
@velvet_echo
4 ай бұрын
DO THEY feel like it's a video game? Like it isn't serious? I guess maybe the dark worlds are so fantastical that they don't feel real. Susie treats Ralsei like a real person.
@sephnitomsol2294
7 ай бұрын
Oh man today's a good day when I saw the notification for your video+
@BigBoyFargo
7 ай бұрын
Ive been wanting to go through Deltarune chapters 1 and 2 before the next chapters come out, so if you do a playthrough of those, Id try to tag along!
@velvet_echo
4 ай бұрын
"gaster is a funny guy toby made up to make me insane" yeah
@gemmithedragon
7 ай бұрын
th the watcher logo 👁
@tearsofthekingdom9062
2 ай бұрын
Honestly it would be funny if Susie says something about the soul possessing Kris and Ralsei pull her aside and is like Ralsei: we all know Kris is possessed by a soul thing b- Susie: I’m sorry what the hell you just say???? A soul thing Ralsei: yes! But we aren’t supposed to say anything Susie: Nuh uh what the fuck is that thing doing with my bud Kris????
@aurawry
7 ай бұрын
lol i literally JUST subscribed, and a video comes out a day after!
@SPRAE_Official
5 ай бұрын
What if Ralsei it’s a darkner that absorbed an lightner soul
@domi-no1826
6 ай бұрын
16:50 of all times for my mom to be listening...
@kaderen8461
7 ай бұрын
this is what the refrance
@SuperAngel2384
7 ай бұрын
Am I the only one who's convinced this person's editing in PowerPoint?
@Vivat_Veritas
7 ай бұрын
I've tried to be pretty upfront about how I use PowerPoint, it's a banger since I don't need to learn how to edit properly!
@NovaAeternus
7 ай бұрын
ralsei is the riverperson calling it
@OmniversalInsect
25 күн бұрын
Nahhh you can't diss Wheatley like that
@lasagna3289
7 ай бұрын
I mostly liked this video, but you started saying that Ralsei is fictional to the lightners - but they clearly don't think of him that way. Maybe Noelle and Berdly do, but Susie clearly rejects the twisted dichotomy between lightners and darkners where darkners are supposedly made to serve, and I find it hard to believe Kris doesn't feel the same. On a structural level, the dark worlds are fiction, but from the perspective of our main characters (except noelle) they're not. That'd be messed up.
@godslaughter
7 ай бұрын
This is going to be such an outlandish claim but I don't like Ralsei. I never have. I don't dislike him, but I don't like him either. He makes me uncomfortable. Love watching these videos, they can be so insightful! Interesting analysis, thank you
@tikimillie
7 ай бұрын
So what you’re telling me is that gaster is a fanfic writer???
@Cheese-Slime-Sheriff
7 ай бұрын
I like your funny words, video essayist
@tevildo7718
7 ай бұрын
Omg, I cannot believe it, I get to say I'm first! Also cool video.
@ew2dr
7 ай бұрын
kinda unrelated but i rewatched the owl hu=ouse recently and now im also getting back to watching deltarune videos so my mind just decided to splash them together. anyways ralsei has something in common with hunter
@Twitch380
6 ай бұрын
19:17 oh I cant wait
@bazo.4539
7 ай бұрын
Here's a constructive tip: please make the volume of the video a bit higher, this video sounds very low compared to any other one.
@domi-no1826
6 ай бұрын
Unus annus type of thing maybe
@jorgechi4627
7 ай бұрын
I like to believe that, as he probably is a stand in of flowey, he keeps pushing the player towards pacifism just like flowey did with genocide, and instead of saying the absolute "its kill or be killed" he says "your choices matter" while, as you explained, asking you to play as a pacifist, eliminating your freedom of choice.
@iantaakalla8180
7 ай бұрын
Ralsei is like the narrator of The Stanley Parable, but without overt nudgings should you fail to keep his words in mind
@NovaAeternus
7 ай бұрын
Has Flowey really ever pushed the player towards Genocide? If anything he helps to guide you towards true pacifist, telling you to not reset when you finish true pacifist
@misshooman
7 ай бұрын
damn this just like that album that describes me
@radio_0021
7 ай бұрын
oh cool
@Erimgard13
7 ай бұрын
fluffy boi
@_cfmca
6 ай бұрын
11:56 Stray Pixel lol
@flamedarkflare
6 ай бұрын
Ralsei is evil and working with Kris in antagonism against the player. Mark my words.
@pros_0143
7 ай бұрын
He's slightly silly.
@molo1848
7 ай бұрын
great video!
@NotASnaccImAMel
7 ай бұрын
Oh god another Deltarune video essay... Welp... Time to waste 35 more minutes of my life!
@PhysicsGamer
7 ай бұрын
This is a pretty great video, but there's one major thing I'd question - I'm pretty sure Ralsei isn't himself the "Prince of the Dark" role from the prophecy but instead trying to usurp the role from Lancer. The most significant reason I had from my first playthrough of Chapter 1 was that the Dark Fountain we closed in the first chapter was the original dark fountain - not the new one that was destabilizing the world like Ralsei went out of his way to imply. That... rather recontextualizes the entire first chapter, given it makes it something of a hostile takeover by Ralsei of the other dark world. Not necessarily in an evil sense - we all saw that the old dark world was doing pretty terribly at the time. It could genuinely be that Ralsei's dark world will be better for them. But if so, then why did Ralsei so carefully avoid such a framing? I don't really have a satisfying answer for that question. But in retrospect, the more directly significant observation is possibly that the picture that we saw of the three heroes gives a pretty good likeness of Suzie and Kris but the Prince looks more like Lancer than Ralsei. Ralsei only has a point in the middle of his head thanks to the hat, which the prince in the picture clearly isn't wearing (no brim). Maybe he's trying to make himself look more like the picture using the hat? Admittedly, it's not super clear how "in-universe" that picture is. But the way Lancer mentions that his pointy-headedness marks him as being from the prophecy somewhat implies that it is in-universe to at least some degree. Speaking of which, I'd actually totally forgotten that Lancer even claims to be the Prince until you showed that text box in the video. I don't think that can just be ignored, given how little other characters even acknowledge the prophecy.
@sourmilkcereal
7 ай бұрын
good video!
@georgewebb9074
7 ай бұрын
Glad I was here early
@d0ntwearit0ut
7 ай бұрын
JUSTICEEE!!! JUSTICE FOR RALSEIIIII!!!
@ffraky001
7 ай бұрын
I cant wait in 50 years when the next chapter releases, and Asriel is revealed to be like Ed's Brother in "Ed,Edd,n Eddy": an ass towards Kris and overall douche, absolutely shocking everyone
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