DELTARUNE / Three MORE Fascinating Discoveries In The Code! 

Even knowing how Jaru videos go, delving into the economics of the monster pharmaceutical industry threw me for a loop 😂

Susie implied that magic doesn't exist in the Light World after GIGA Queen's Battle, so I think it's safe to assume that all monsters are organic beings in Deltarune, or at least not as magical as they were in Undertale.

The raw energy in that Thumbnail is insane! One of the craziest thumbnails I’ve ever seen. Noelle’s face with “Drugs!” Is so blursed

I think pink and yellow is just the color motif of the secret bosses; a lot of people seem to forget this, but Jevil's eyes occasionally flashed yellow. Therefore, I think it's safe to say that FRIEND will be a secret boss in a later chapter.

I think it should be noted that even in the world of Undertale monsters do seem to have some traits that are similar to the biology of certain organic species. We can see this in the released alarm clock dialogue which talks about catty eating, presumably, non-magic oranges and getting sick since cats can’t eat oranges, and to a lesser extent when the mouth monster at Grillby’s talks about trying out human food on the surface, and then having to use the bathroom, implying that they have a digestive system. Also, I think it could be possible that the “friend” barriers may have been initially intended for the Spamton Neo fight since it takes place on a roller coaster too.

It's possible that IMAGE_FRIEND is the literal puppet-master of Spamton, hence the resemblance. I still think there's a higher boss at the top of it all though.

I've seen lots of people talk about the implications of the drugs but I've never seen anybody discuss why they were removed and how seriously they should be taken as part of the canon

I find it amusing that you call the intro entity that everyone thinks is Gaster "Mystery Man" because that's the in-game name of the sprite that everyone also thinks is Gaster

In regards to Discovery 3, it's worth noting that chapter 2 has exponentially more cut content then chapter 1, including several rooms with little difference (Tetra bit gaming did a great video on this), and chapter 2 also just so happens to be the first time Toby Fox worked with a _dedicated team_in a _leading role_ to make a project. He's had a few artists donate sprites to him in the past, and he's contributed some music to Homestuck, but this is the first time he had to manage a bunch of people each making a bunch of adsets for one game, and he probably had people help with the coding and animation too, so not every bit of content is necessarily something Toby intended to be in the game. This also goes for the bleeding Suesie Sprite. It's quite possible that someone made the sprite, put it in the game, but then Toby Fox ask to replace it because it didn't fit his vision of the game.

noelle potentially taking hrt coupled with susie wanting to hide her tail has given me the power of the gods: t4t suselle

Life is good when this man is cooking

If you remember, in the Spamton Sweepstakes if you go to the "reward" thing and go to the chair of "But what if it could ... get darker than dark" and click too many times, those eyes (or maybe Spamton's I don't remember bc FRIEND has the reversed colors of Spamton in the eyes) appears for a brief second while playing a short sound of maybe laughter and then quickly puts you back in the Sweepstakes web. Just wanted to say that. Edit: I just checked, it's the same eyes as FRIEND

The friend could be referring to the friend with creepy smile in the unused room in waterfall

keep in mind, when a part of a game is cut, that is because it was decided against (or, in a game like Undertale or Deltarune, it would be included specifically for data miners, and you can almost always tell what’s what (OR if there is cut content repurposed as something goner code reminiscent eg. Redacted, half-bread chaos made a really in depth video about that recently, I recommend checking them out if you love needlessly deep dives into DR/UT lore!)). In this case, I feel the scrapped pill bottles were meant to represent her looking up how to heal her father as she’s already expressed how she wants some miracle product to make her dad better. The reason I see it as scrapped is that A) we already know Noelle is wanting to cure her father and B) as this video shows, there are too many implications and connotations of including pills belonging to a character. People would assume it to be for a darker story, which wouldn’t be able to be refuted by flavour text in a way that was natural (the best I thought for flavour text of these bottles would be “It’s a collection of pills for reindeers. It says, ‘quick and easy cure alls!’”, though that’s still kind of vague and suggests it is similar to a pop-up Noelle would click by accident). Either way, I just thing that, tonally, including the pills (no matter what interpretation you give) is too tonally dissonant with the more vaguely whimsical yet somber feeling of the room as pills have too real a connotation and wouldn’t fit sitting right next to Noelle. Imagine seeing the Susie and Noelle cutscene before you could investigate the room and understand better what the pills are for and just be asking yourself in a frenzy “why does Noelle have drugs??”. You’d lose the focus in the scene itself, which would suck for a first playthrough.

I think they (Monsters) are a minority since there isn’t many monster tailored products. For example Toriel is using a Pet Shampoo bottle in the bathroom, while there is a regular shampoo bottle for Kris.

My theory still stands that the "IMAGE_FRIEND" is Mike that Spamton mentions when you pick a topic "Friend" when talking with him in his shop.

Re: the chapter titles and thumbnails, there's actually a good explanation for why the unused chapters are in all caps and 1-7 are lowercased. If the chapters were indeed pre-generated automatically, which is strongly evidenced by there being a Ch. 0 (since all code uses zero-based indexing unless manually changed beforehand), they could easily have _all_ been generated in all caps, and then only Ch1-7 were formatted with a toLower function bc they're the ones in use

Maybe the extra chapters are for different routes, where you may even go into different dark worlds 👀

Speaking of monster drugs. I present my ultimate UTDR theory. In UT, Alphys provided ghost gender affirmation surgery and long ago Gaster provided magic monster HRT. In DR he's now gathering up lackeys to help him provide care once more. This shall all be revealed in Chapter 10. How do I know this? Toby threw an estro-brick at my window. As I looked through the hole where my window once was, the dog blinked the entire story of DR in morse code at me.

DUDE, TOBY LITERALLY just tweeted minutes after you just posted your video!!

I love the hidden stuff in folders. Its just so fun debating about wether it's canon anymore EDIT : OH MY GOD I'VE NEVER GOTTEN MORE THAN LIKE 4 LIKES-

> the pharmaceutical industry in Deltarune This fandom has officially peaked Joke aside, there's no label on the drugs saying "normal drugs", they could very well be magical drugs, they also are based on her search history, meaning that they don't actually have to be real at all, should could have searched up " magical medicine " or " cure for cancer " or something because of her dad.

When I saw the pills I thought of sleeping pills more than medication, and since we know (to a certain extent) thay Noelle us scared of a potentially real ICE-E it may just be from a search she would have made late at night like "What to do when can't sleep"

We probably shouldn't forget that it's Queen who made Noelle's room. While it does mean Noelle was trying to look up medication at some point, we have no way to verify that it'd actually *work* on her. Queen is already prone to making very silly mistakes in all the rooms she creates, so it's plausible that she could have tossed in some random medication meant for humans, and/or an entirely different condition than what Noelle was looking for.

...Crack Theory™ 's brewin' in my head. Throughout Undertale, we meet the Goners and Followers. Completely greyscale NPCs who tell Gaster's tale of being shattered across space... ...But they themselves aren't... Well, themselves. All of them mimic the appearence of other NPCs throughout Undertale, and one even mimicing a Deltarune NPC, though they never get the details quite right. Futhermore, one even claims to be "holding" a piece of Gaster... But the item in the NPC's hand is the one doing the speaking. We also have never "seen" Gaster, or at least, not something we can say is definitely him. The MysteryMan could just be another Goner or Follower, for an NPC or character we just haven't met. So here's the shot in the dark: Perhaps Gaster cannot appear as "himself", only mimic the appearance of others, just like those who speak of him. Perhaps being shattered across space-time also shattered his own identity. And IMAGE_FRIEND was his way of getting a real glimpse of you, or of Kris. Or perhaps to prepare for a more direct meeting... A false visage of Spamton, but not quite right...

"Noelle takes antidepressants" has been added to my headcannons

Jaru talking about the physiology of monsters just because of a pill bottle sprite is definitely one of the jaru moments of all time.

Typing this as I'm watching the video, figured I'd mention my thoughts on these discoveries. - For the new barrier with the smile, I interpret as Spamton-based as opposed to Queen-based. Because you encounter the same coaster mechanic in both Cyber World and the Spamton fight, so if the Queen barriers were in an old coaster design, it would be reasonable to have the same in the Spamton fight for the coaster setting. The face itself is debatable due to when it shows up (and may even be a hallucination), but it seems far simpler to consider it a remnant of an old coaster mechanic. - With the chapter numbers, I understand the need for more spaces in case he grows the amount of them, since it already jumped form 5 to 7 assuming Toby wasn't hiding the extra 2 from the beginning. Either way, I agree with the idea of Toby setting up breathing room in case he decides to have 10 chapters. - As for the pills, I'm cautious to buy into it, but assuming that is true, the implications, as boring or interesting as they can be, do make sense within a set of reasoning.

jaru im sorry the image of a slightly sad noelle with five arrows pointing at her and text that says DRUGS?!? is the funniest thing ive seen all day

Noelle taking HRT could make sense, too, if we compare her antlers to Rudy's. They're similar in shape and size, but a female reindeer's horns are usually half the size of a male reindeer's! Ofc, we could interpret that as either her or Rudy being trans. We'd have to see the Mayor's or Dess's design before we could be sure though, and I get the feeling we wont be seeing them so soon 😅

Assuming those really are medication bottles and that they're specifically for Noelle, maybe Toby decided to cut them out because he didn't find it appropriate to reveal such information about Noelle in her room in queen's mansion? I can see us in the future being able to explore Noelle's house and finding them in the bathroom or her room

These videos keep me in good mood while waiting for the next chapters of deltarune, thank you!!

IMAGE_FRIEND could be some kind of abstract entity that exists in the layer of reality below Dark Worlds, which we've briefly seen hints of in the Spamton Sweepstakes. An entity that is, according to the Mystery Man's description, friendly or intended to be a companion of some kind for the player and/or the Delta Warriors. Perhaps its strange appearance inspired Spamton's appearance in some way; even if there's no plausible way for Spamton and IMAGE_FRIEND to be the same character (by the time you can encounter the face, Spamton is stuck in the Disk, so him making any sort of appearance seems kind of strange?), maybe at some point they met, intentionally or by accident? Whatever the case may be, I feel that the answers to the nature of IMAGE_FRIEND will be found in Chapters 3-5. Speaking of Chapters, the fact that the Chapter text found in the files is in all caps, while the in-game Chapter markers are properly cased seems odd to me. Could this be for something later on? Does the story get hijacked, maybe, and we briefly get a glimpse of a different Chapter selection screen? Someone else's, maybe...? ... Ralsei's? That's a complete shot in the dark, but it'd definitely be something, wouldn't it? Finally, the pills in an unused variant of Noelle's room marks (I believe?) the second time that we've gotten unused Chapter 2 stuff that heavily implies that monsters have physical bodies. The other one being the unused sprite of Susie bleeding from her hand, as many people here probably know. It's very interesting; was this chapter meant to have more hints as to the properties of monster bodies that were cut for pacing reasons? Maybe Toby felt like Rudy's condition and the presence of the hospital in general did enough to clarify this aspect of monsterkind, or maybe he felt that hints like this were going to be dropped too early? Maybe we'll see stuff like this pop up in later chapters. I'd definitely expect this sort of thing to get focus in, say, a chapter that happens within a Dark World created in the hospital. Very, very interesting stuff, all around. X) P.S. Sorry to hear that your Gravity Falls video didn't do so well-- I personally really enjoyed it, if that's any consolation!

honestly i just love a bunch of arrows pointing towards noelle with text that says "DRUGS?!?"

I actually think that the little barrier sprite with freind on it confirms that it’s supposed to represent Spamton. Also in the files along with the Q barrier is a sprite of Queen in a coaster car, implying at some point in development there was supposed to be a Queen coaster fight (perhaps it was replaced with the Berdly one?). Meaning those barriers where a scrapped mechanic for that fight. And so it would make senesce that this mechanic if it had gotten in would also be used for the OTHER major coaster based fight in the game. The friend barriers are a scrapped part of the Spamton neo fight, it’s supposed to be Spamton’s face.

Came for the explanation of why the thumbnail is accusing Noelle of being drugs, stayed for the depressing explanation of how the pharmaceutical industry is motivated primarily by profit and will not cater for niche illnesses if it does not have a large enough market Also, I think the idea of The Friend / The Cheshire Cat being some kind of associate, spy, contractor or otherwise satelite of The Mystery Man is quite an interesting idea, I guess I always just thought of it as being the man himself Also also, when you mentioned certain drugs that may be invoked due to Deltarune being a Toby Fox game, funnily enough Spironolactone is also used as treatment for high blood pressure, so who knows maybe Noelle is using her blood meds for multiple purposes

Maybe Noelle was looking for medicine that could cure her father

You can see chapter_0 is referring to “Chapter 1” based on the icon. Its indexing starting at 0

5:00 i would like to give an counterargument to this because sometimes removing unused content from the game files can mess up the code, causing more problems as you arent sure what it might be connected to. So Toby might have left it in just so it doesnt break the game due to unknown connections to other files, rather then for the community to discuss. Thats all, great video as usual Jaru 😊

10:30 I love that in 6 seconds jaru managed to fuel my transfem Noelle headcannon

Seeing a Jaru video on my notifications always brightens my day! Keep up the good work man

the face that DEVICE_FRIEND is most likely an invention of gaster is very interesting to me. what happens if a robot enters the dark world? both object and being, lightner and darkner?

Spamton can actually levitate, in the scene where we meet him his sprite starts sliding left and right, implying that he isnt moving his feet

"I'd happily take 20 chapters if he's up to it." Every homestuck fan ever: *nervous sweating*

The image of Noel with "DRUGS!?" pointing towards her would be a great emote lol

I think it's already been pretty heavily implied that monsters have physical, organic bodies in Deltarune already, because it's apparent they can have Determination in this universe.

I’m glad you’re back man I actually didn’t know some of these. Keep doing a good job

Not entirely sure on the whole pills thing. While it could imply that monsters have a larger population, at the same time it is heavily implied that Toriel uses pet shampoo, given the bottle that can be found in the shower. I'd find it weird if in the world of Deltarune, pharmacies were creating monster pills, but there isn't a monster shampoo.

I find it really funny that you brought up Noell's anxiety as a possible explanation for the pill bottles but then concluded it might be medication for blood pressure and not like ya known... an anxiety disorder lmao. That observation aside I assume the medication does probably relate to Rudy but probably was deemed an unnecessary detail because like no shit Noell is worried about her dad, that's not a thing we needed spelled out to us!

I didnt know about the pills details. Man this game has so much to it. I can see why toby got rid of them tho. For games specifically. Drugs in any form are a hassel for esrb ratings. He could have risked a higher rating on those pills alone. Its so weird. You can kill and hurt things, but the moment drugs or sex is involved. People lose their minds

I know we can't rush perfection, but I'm dying for some new deltarune stuff, to the point I would genocide the underground for new deltarune content.

I feel like the fact that theres a Q for Queen's barricade and one for the mystery Friend because those are where the roller coasters show up in game. The Berdly fight which is on Queen's roller coaster, and Spamton Neo's fight. I guess it could be in relation to the Mystery Entity/ Gaster but also the fact that Spamton had the exact same colors (wrong order) of glasses that these special sprites have seems pretty dubious.

I had a great "wait what" moment when you said Spiro and E, with a great big smile for the words "teenage girl." It's such a good theory.

Thanks Jaru, needed this video today

Very good video. I love how these videos are put together.

Love how deep the lore in Toby's games are. NEW VIDEO!

When i saw the thumbnail: NOELLE DOES DRUGS??!!???!???!?!

Once again another interesting theory from our friend Jaru! Great job, keep up the good work. There's a lot of interesting things in Deltarune that I never knew about, it's exciting to hear new discoveries found within the seemingly endless code within files of the game!

A WORLD FIRST: JaruJaru video that's UNDER an hour!

those drug sprites are so low quality it's possible they could've been intended to be something entirely unrelated but Toby changed it because a playtester made this same interpretation.

the thumbnail Nole and the drugs pointing at her got my interest also the pills are molly

Noelle is scared easily, so I assume they are maybe sleeping pills, due to her nightmares

Our amazing gerudo is back!

Jaru my man! Everything in this video is backed up by either facts or by reasonable assumptions. A lot of people look at you as the jester of the theory community and I know youve leaned into it but this video shows me that youre growing as a content creator. Big kudos!

2:37 - Even then this is a quite significant accusation to make since many people still seem to think this is Spamton or some random person. No, I think we've ALREADY seen Gaster...

Crazy how JARU can just pop up like this with a Deltarune upload and I must stop everything and turn my entire night into yet another UT/DR Deepdive.

Thanks for sharing! With the exception of Noelle's alternate room I think all of these are just game development quirks, but honestly it's always fun to find stuff like that anyways.

i know i'm not the only one who saw the pill bottles and got immediately reminded of Madeline's bedside table in Celeste. I think there are plenty of more likely possibilities than that, but if trans noelle becomes canon i sure won't be complaining :p

Just adding a few things of note 1. The barricade can be readded in game using a mode for the berdly battle (specifically the berdly battle as far as i know the spamton boss dosent have this) and the freind barricade can be encountered on a 1 in 200 chance. 2. Not related to anything in the video, but a cool tid bit nonetheless, in the genocide route more then half of the mansion is cut out, and if you were to return to those rooms via hacking they are exactly the same besides one, theres a door in the room with the wheeled pipis, in the normal route its a room with dish ufos, if you activate them all you get an item. But of you were to hack into that room while on genocide, its a wire puzzle instead (like the one at the begining and end of the chapter) with no item at all

Oh hey, I made it to a Jaru video early. Nice! I was just browsing RU-vid for more Deltarune theories and analyses of the game, ect. Perfect timing. 😁👍

It is shown that monsters do have doctors and scientists so its possible that monsters no matter their population size would make medicine for monsters. Also in undertale monster food was magical in nature to coincide with their magic based bodies, their medicine could work the exact same way. Just some possible explanations to those points I thought up, loved the video!

IMAGE/DEVICE_FRIEND is realllly a unique character to me and yet we almost know nothing about the guy lol. him having similar traits like the Cheshire Cat just adds more interest and mystery to him (and could add insight on how he will act/behave.) - disappearing at will - following the protagonist around - bending the rules of their world - the smile it's also worth to know that Cheshire was sort of a guiding spirit for Alice ( in his own silly way) so I hope friend has that dynamic with Kris. it will be also interesting to know the connection he has with spamton and if the smile is actually mike (which is another whole can of worms to discuss about if it is him...such a silly man)

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading! It is pretty interesting, the notions of those bottles....

It seems that the monsters in the Deltarune light world seem a lot more 'normal' than in Undertale. Fits with magic not being 'real' in the light world too.

I always thought that secret bosses could have a tie with yellow--specifically with eyes. Jevil & Spamton both have yellow eyes (and people forget but, so does Sans). I wonder if it's something to tie with the soul color. Maybe they have a twisted sense of justice? Or maybe being hard to get to/fight is signified by yellow eyes? I'd love to here y'all's opinions. I might make a video out of this.

Commenting about the last episode of the code discoveries, the "can_dodge" variable in lancer's code may refer to the need of showing the "missed" message in vs Susie, and I'm impressed if they never find this variable anywhere else

i choose to believe that toby knows there'll be 7 chapters *at minimum,* but is prepared for more if needed

Hey look a Jaru video that is a reasonable length, nice

for the pill thing, an idea you didnt talk about one possibility: a queen missunderstanding (like the piano tutorial being 2 toriels playing piano), being used as a joke. I am not exactly sure of the pun that this could be, i dont think i speak english well enough for that, but there is a chance for noelle to have typed anything like "something pills" and it ended up being medication pills. That would explain why it was removed from the game, toby considered this room to be slightly too serious to have this one pun be here for no more reason. Another possibility that you didnt explore is that noelle was researching an arg of some sort including pills (like a horror movie with a psycopath taking pills or something like that, after all we know from the sweepstakes that noelle loves watching horror stuff)

Regarding IMAGE_FRIEND: as seen in Skawo's video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LUoC35FslSE.html), spr_coaster_barricade_alt was originally meant to randomly replace the standard barricade with a 1/200 chance.

I want Noelle DRUGS?!? as my pfp

An important issue to consider with the possibility that the pill bottles suggest there is a large market for monster medication (which in turn could suggest they're the dominant species), is that we know for a fact that the web searches don't always reflect on EXACTLY what the Lightner who searched them intended, evidenced by the room full of misinterpreted web search jokes where Queen locks you up near the end of Chapter 2. This could also lead to the secondary conclusion that Noelle was just generally looking up treatments for various conditions and was finding mostly human-applicable results, and so the pill bottles are actually human medication that Noelle discovered while trying to find treatments for monsters.

Twelve minutes? Guess this is TripleJay's version of a YT-Short.

Hey Jaru! Did you know that in Yume Nikki there is a character named "Isee" which is a pair of eyes who kind of follow you in the bg? Now Ice-E sounds a lot like Isee to me, maybe there's some inspiration involved there. Maybe that's too farfetched though 😅 But it would be crazy if IMAGE_FRIEND is actually Ice-E forshadowing xD

The way you were showing IMAGE_FRIEND with the heart in the background made it look like it had a little nose

The DRUGS??? with Noelle in the thumbnail made me laugh so hard

One thing i instantly thought when i saw the pills was anti anxiety medication because i think Noelle might feel pressure to act normal so other ppl don't have to care for her. Also, a thing i wanted to say is that the meds don't rrly imply much in regard to monster population compared to humans because there is no argument against monster producing their own pharmaceuticals. Like why, is the only option that humans produce them.

Those things may look like pill bottles, but the art is so pixelated that they could be almost anything in the same ballpark of shape and size.

It's 00:25am,i have stuff to do tomorrow,i will watch this another time. I am sure it will be another amazing video.

I get so excited for Jaru's Theories ❤❤

I think it would make more sense for FRIEND to be related to spamton the eye colors, the fact that you get called a friend by spamton at a very important moment, and the sprite for a coaster battle when spamton has one

I do think it’s somewhat likely that monsters have organic bodies in Deltarune, but I’m also disappointed that we never even considered magic drugs

This probably doesn’t mean anything, but the yellow and the pink from IMAGE_FRIEND and Spamton remind me of the two possible colours of the spareable monsters in Undertale

lmao i clicked at this video thinking that it will be some like 3h analysis (watched all your deltarune videos from the start to the end)

When the world needed him most, he returned!

Since Susie says everyone bleeds and all monsters having biology but not quite like humans might add up with the whole everyone bleeds. A cool thing too is in her act it's a medic outfit with a big needle and knows about bleeding and stuff maybe her family or someone could have been a doctor or is interested

Well, this was very interesting discoveries, i wonder what these will mean, I will look forward to see what you cover next. Also, have you watched mollystar’s Deltarune Video?

1:41 Oh my god! I KNEW I saw something like a face over here on my playthrough, but it was gone by the time I realized what I thought I saw and I assumed I was just seeing things!

I found the release schedule interesting. Paid release will have chapters 1 to 5. What about 6 and 7? We don't know, but releasing them as separate game along with chapters 0, 8, 9 and 10 would give equal number of chapters in Deltarune 1&2.

Whenever the community finds evidence of unheard character traits in cut content, that is probably a good indicator that the content is not canon, for whatever reason. Perhaps Toby wanted to put medicine there, but realized it would conflict with information in either future chapters or the world in general.