Imagine expecting the guy who wrote an mpreg Homestuck song to have writing that’s 100% serious all the time when his games have never been that.
I know it’s probably because I’m older than the average vocal Deltarune fan, but it’s so funny how opposite I feel about Deltarune when I see takes like this.
I actually prefer the lighthearted parts over the darker parts. I am so, so burnt out on the barrage of self-serious writing flooding the media landscape at the moment. Not everything has to be some deep humorless mysterybox about trauma 100% of the time. I mean, yeah, the game obviously has some pretty serious story elements but if it was only that it would be god awful. The humor balances it out.
If anything, the world needs this 2010s tumblr ass silliness at the moment and I find it to be a breath of fresh air against how performatively mature and dark a lot of writing for stuff is at the moment.
No? She just puts up a wall between them. There’s no “constantly pushing”. All that occurs is Ribbit trying to reach out to Jax and Jax responding with the emotional wall, rejecting the attempt to reach out. There’s no “constantly pushing”, just a big emotional defence barrier placed between them from that point onwards.
Have you ever distanced yourself from anyone in your life then? Have you ever lashed out at someone when emotional?
If you do those two things and then someone later commits suicide do you think that it would be right for the internet to blame you for that person’s death?
I don’t. I’m not close to a lot of people that I used to be close to, some of them extremely close. Moving on from them in my life doesn’t make me responsible for them dying after I do that. We do not have a moral responsibility to stop everyone we’ve ever met in our lives from being lonely after we decide that our connection with them is unhealthy. Especially in Jax’s case where the entire emotional freakout they have with being trans could have caused them to abstract. Going into their shell was a defence mechanism, not an act of evil. It has a horrible outcome because Ribbit eventually snaps from being alone and wanting that connection, but that outcome isn’t on Jax and I wouldn’t put it on you if it happened to anyone in your past that you’ve ever distanced yourself from either.
I’m not even sure if Jax was an asshole before this happens because we don’t really see much of anything before the Ribbit history. Jax becoming really mean and jaded seems to have occurred because of the trauma of this event with Ribbit and the self-blame and guilt that occurs. This makes me even more empathetic about it as a tragedy rather than something they should be blamed for.