Is Skies Forever Blue Foreshadowing for Deltarune? 

Okay, so I'm just gonna post like.. half a FAQ now, and add to it when my head stops spinning-spinning. Q: Why didn't you discuss ______ A: The video, "Skies Forever Blue" dropped Monday night, and I didn't realize it until early Tuesday morning. My goal was to get this video out on Friday, which left me about 3 days to try to make this entire thing. I was trying, very very hard, to illustrate my point in as few words as possible, so alas, there are many many things I wish I could have gone over in more detail. Especially regarding the lyrics. Suffice to say, if I didn't discuss something here, it's not because it wasn't important, it's because my nose was against the grindstone. I promise I am not lacking in material or evidence. My lack is Time and Power. Q: Why did you have to rush it though, why not just take your time? A: The short answer is "Algorithm." The long answer... I... don't feel like articulating right now. Maybe later...Zzzz Q: But wasn't this a collab between Toby and a bunch of artists? Why are you acting like it's Toby's thing? A: Undertale is a collab too... yes Toby did most of it, but even so, many other artists had their hand in various parts of it, including Temmie, Everdread, and Magnolia Porter. It would be surprising if the artists who worked on this video didn't contribute things to it, but that doesn't invalidate it as "Potentially related to Deltarune." Especially given the timing. The credits say "Video Concept: Toby Fox" so I'm inclined to believe this is his vision, even if there are traits of Omori or what have you also present within this piece, the same way Omega Flowey is still Toby's even if it screams of Everude's style. Q: It dropped on Halloween though, not necessarily Deltarune's Anniversary. A: I mean, that's fair but, it's not... particularly spooky divorced from the Deltarune context is it? Like I'm not saying spooky things don't happen in it, just that if you showed someone who's never played Deltarune this video, they likely wouldn't imagine it's a Halloween video. I can't read Toby's mind of course, but these are the vibes I got from what he made. Maybe I'm completely off base, and it's actually an homage to Undertale, or to all of the artist's various visions coming together. There's no way to be sure unless we ask the man himself and, I mean we could, but if this does turn out to be part of the Deltarune puzzle, I'd rather see if we can solve it ourselves before asking the GM for a hint, right? Q: I still don't think they're related though, is that okay? A: Yep! My point here isn't, "You should believe This Thing," it's, "I'd like to see more people talking about This Thing, and looking into This Thing," because I am just one person." As a community, Deltarune fans are actually crazy good at digging, I'm just making sure we don't overlook the big X Toby seems to have painted on the map.

The save file wasn't (willingly) deleted in the credits screen, its a gameboy game, like old pokemon cartridges the cartridge itself has a save battery which only lasts for about 15 years. You can still start the game but your save will be corrupted/deleted once its empty and saving/loading won't work. She likely knew she didn't have much time left and acted outside of her code to enjoy her last journey before the save battery ran out.

A lot of Japanese retro RPGs used only Katakana for both technical (tile space) and readability at the lower resolutions. So switching to exclusively katakana may be showing the game devolving back from complexity to its retro state, or the character becoming more artificial.

i really enjoyed the entirety of this 11 minute video that released 1 minute ago

It feels like the girl saw past the dark and exerted a free will she wasn't supposed to have, made choices she wasn't supposed to make, and as the last straw that is confessing her love, the world vanishes.

Part of me wants to control myself and say that this is probably just a coincidence, or a few references at most... But it also just seems to fit a little too well for it to not be at least partially forshadowing?? Stuff like the white being compared to the ice palace might be a bit of a stretch on their own, but a lot of it just, adds up in combination with each other? The fact that Toby is both credited for Video Concept and wrote the lyrics does not help. If it is just a meaningless coincidence, its a coincidence that hits distressingly close to elements that either are in Deltarune, or were already theorized to be a part of it in the future.

I think I know what erased the save data in the Skies Forever Blue music video. Game Boy games that store save files store them using a battery built in to the cartridge. If you go years and years without playing the game, as implied by the stuff that piles up, the battery dies and the cartridge can no longer hold a save. You can replace the battery, but the old save is gone forever.

Holy crap, you're fast with this. This is really interesting. It would be crazy if Toby had actually hidden Dess's lore in a random collab song, but it's also just the right amount of crazy for Toby. Great video, I look forward to the next one!

Ahhhh, nothing better than watching our favourite crazy man descend deeper into madness

This video could also be a reference to Omori, as the characters somewhat resemble some Omori characters, particularly the main hero, who resembles Hero. But considering the art is made by Omocat, it’s also possible the characters looking somewhat similar is a coincidence, since her artstyle is distinct. But the white area breaking into a dark, glitchy void, is somewhat similar to white and black space.

Knowing Toby Fox, the answer to the question of if Skies Forever Blue foreshadows Deltarune is “yes and no depending on how I feel today” There is also the fact that the world of darkness the girl falls into in the music video looks like Black Space from Omori. In Omori, Black Space is the land of repressed memories that exists under the normal world. I imagine you could make some theory saying that Toby Fox is using Omori imagery to foreshadow Deltarune because In Omori, Basil falls into Black Space and so seeing a character who might represent Dess falling into a place that looks like Black Space could exist to confirm the theory that Dess went to the Dark World, but that is a can of worms I don’t want to open.

Personally I think the concepts explored by Omori and Deltarune intersect in this video because Toby Fox and Omocat have similar interests in these topics of unreality, artificial intelligence, dark abysses, and twisting around the classic RPG. This shared interest led to the collaboration, and thus we can see both of their styles and influences in the video. Though I doubt it is 1-to-1 any kind of foreshadowing, since making it all about Toby and his projects is just one possible lens we can see the video through, imo. But if it IS foreshadowing, then it would be kind of a bummer for anyone who just plays the Deltarune game without any of the Lore Of Toby and knowledge of previous Toby things because they might get blindsided more than the theorycrafters lol

If this is foreshadowing, I figure the part where they jump into the Ocean is important.

God you're my favourite deltarune youtuber. You're so determined and you always look so deep into these theories😭.

It doesn't seem directly lore related, but I think there are parallels we should draw from it. Something I find interesting is that blue skies is literally what spamton had painted on the wall in his shop area and on the walls during the final scene of his bossfight, where he was excited about having his strings cut. Blue skies might be an in universe motif for any character longing for a world more significant than their own, i.e. longing for Heaven.

Did anyone else notice that the credits section in the /girl website actually shows Dess's guitar in the clouds? There's definitely something here (by Dess's guitar, I mean the one in the findher page from the sweepstakes)

Your theories are getting crazier every time and I love it.

The smile.ogg sound is ALSO IN 74, the song toby fox did with hana itoki 4 years ago. And in that song there is a line about a knight in shining armor whose courage pushed the dark a-(way). And get this - The song is called 74 and the numbers of the hp and mp of both characters added up on the first shot of the skies blue music video is 74.

Something I'd like to note is that you can draw connections between Skies Forever Blue and the "one ending" theme Deltarune has. If we assume that the game wasn't designed to have an ending where the girl confesses, but her love was strong enough to change that (which is both adorable and terrifing considering that LV exists); then the game breaking on that 'route' takes on new meaning. It's not just the battery inside the console dying that causes the glitches, it's the choices of a character rewriting the games code. This leads me to two conclusions: 1. The voice in the code (who I'm just gonna assume is Dess) is going to be freed by Noelle on the Snowgrave route once she learns to harness her code manipulating power. (she's already good at finding glitches considering the sweepstakes) 2. The Snowgrave route """""ends"""" by deleting your save file.

Whoa this is all very interesting. I don’t want to downplay the other original music video by saying “oh it’s all just for Deltarune! Nothing else matters!” Nah. That music video even in itself is a very emotional and great self contained story. However if it is related to deltarune. It has a lot going for it like you pointed out. Very great work Bread! And I agree a full Gastor blaster body would be sweet to see

I saw someone in the Skies Forever Blue comments theorize about why there's no save file at the end One of the lines in the song is "until the battery runs dry," and GameBoy cartridges actually did have a battery in them, and once the battery's dead you'd still be able to play the game, but you wouldn't be able to maintain saves anymore. So the player likely came back to their game because they wanted to relive old memories and play it again. But their old save got deleted because the cartridge was so old the battery was dead and even though they decided to play to the end again, that got deleted too. I actually have a cartridge of Pokemon Red with a dead battery, I found out a couple years ago when I tried to play it again but then when I found out it wouldn't let me save I gave up on replaying it.

While I don’t see it as inconceivable that Toby Fox would hide Deltarune foreshadowing in a random music video, I personally think it’s a bit of a stretch. Keep in mind that Onocat also worked on the video, and she created the game Omori. The player character in Skies Forever Blue is a dead ringer for the character Hero form Omori, and the princess character looks like Mari (Hero’s canonical girlfriend) from the same game. And both the art styles of the game itself and the out of game sequence are reminiscent of art styles used with in the game Omori. Not to mention the fact that (out getting into spoilers) The relationship depicted in the video is loosely to the relationship between Hero and Mari, The princess even said (going off of memory) “you named me after your beloved”. Given all this, the whole thing kind of feels like a video game that Hero happens to play. Like I said above, it’s not inconceivable that Toby Fox and Omocat worked together to both pay tribute to A relationship in Omori while also foreshadowing Deltarune, but the Deltarune side feels a bit like a stretch to me.

Man, kind of off-topic, but this whole meta aspect of Deltarune(the Spamton Sweepstakes, the unused code with character dialogue, potentially this) is gonna be really wild and difficult to explain to people weren`t participating. Edit: finsihed watching the video. Along with Dragon Blazers being a kind of representation of Deltarune, the Mew Mew franchise seems to be a kind of refrence to both Undertale and Deltarune. With deltarune being Mew Mew 2, i.e. the more darker and serious story then it`s predecessor (from the library anime review). Wonder if the connection goes any deeper than that and we have a Mew Mew analog in Deltarune Anyway, congratulations on another amazing theory video!

Deltarune theorists when Toby fox does anything :

I usually think the community goes overboard with theorizing, but in this case I think it's justified. I'm in a class being taught by one of the people that was commissioned to work on this video. The only thing they said about this project was they were really busy because their client (toby) was very picky and particular about the details. It was only until halloween I learned that the client was toby lol. To me this means it isn't just a fun little music video he put together with some friends, but also something that had some real thought and planning put into it.

Of course the cute song about creating enough courage to say "I love you" would have deep lore in the hands of Toby lol. But really, I'm impressed how well and fast you put the theory together, it's impressive. I do wonders the "Person in Pink" is also neighbors with the "Hero in Blue", and that theory that Dess was dating Asriel would fit with them going in adventure's through the Dark World (so maybe this isn't directly correlated to Deltarune, but a reflection of ideas?). Good video Bread!

YESS MY CONSTANT FIENDING FOR NEW DELTARUNE VIDEOS PAYS OFF ONCE AGAIN

BTW, the shining part during the girl's falling looks very similar to Deltarune's save points

2:26 Btw the two characters are simply called boy (boy.png) and girl (girl.png) in the website's code. I also find it interesting that the subdomain was literately created this November 1st. Why now? I also wonder if some secrets will eventually be added to the site? The description is "The music and works of Toby Fox."

They don’t look like deltarune characters. Those are Omori characters. The white is a reference to the game being closed that’s why she’s falling down. The void would mean that the save file was deleted. Twin ribbons are nostalgic because it’s a common trope in anime. Although; deltarune makes a point that dark worlds are physical things being represented in a new way, that’s why they “turn to stone” but we don’t know what a dark world looks like from an outsiders perspective- technically things have happened and the items have formed relationships so, what if they are fully aware as items as well? Otherwise how could Spamton have spoken with Noelle- given he’s a program of sorts it makes sense he can interact with the lightener world. So if you made a tv a dark world or a video game into a dark world would the characters in the tv or game be able to communicate with you?

as a no-native speaker, i apreciate the english captions. i can understand the video without them, but they make all a lot easier

The concept of drawing parallels in something created for a most likely entirely different reasons is nothing new... But boy do you made this one work beautifully! Actually... The more runs lead to the corruption and possible obliteration of everything... The roaring... Also something more consider In the MV the girl is the NPC... A piece of the world In the MV the boys is the vessel for the person playing the game... An outside force ... The determination comes from the girl, not the boy... Something to think about maybe...

You’re 100% correct. I’m obsessed with your videos more please

if you think skies forever blue is connected to deltarune, there's also another collab song that toby did with itoki hana called 74, and it has one of chapter 2's main leitmotifs in the chorus!

0:26 anyone else see the wake up and smell the pain?

You really were right about Toby playing 4D storytelling-chess with us. What kind of schemes is he up to?! I swear this man exists in the space between timelines and is using his games as an extremely complicated ARG that eventually leads to reality itself being torn apart. This man is either a genius, really good at improvising, an omniscient deity, or a combination of the three and it's impossible to tell.

Man, you're the best theorist i have seen so far! I'm obsessed with your videos and, especially, voice

I always click on these videos thinking "ok, now they've gone off the deep end". And yet, inevitably, by the end I am completely enthralled and convinced of something I thought was insane. Really great work!

Considering some of the weird stuff JaruJaru has theorized about Kris having guilt over killing Asriel or whatever I'm more curious about how this relates to Omocat's game Omori.

I def think this is connected, there is just too many little things that makes it feel connected. The cute bow in the chest and Noelle saying its familiar. a dragon appearing as the final boss and the game is called DRAGON blazers, and the dragon looks skeletal, like the gaster blasters, the girl being called the lost girl and dess disappeared, there even is ice, which the holidays are linked too Christmas/winter and ice is linked to Christmas and winter usually, and then the ending music sounds like that one gaster entry. So many connections!

Ok, I don't think the song is literally related to Deltarune so much as there is a lot of overlap of the themes and ideas: characters that are trapped/lost outside of "reality," nostalgia for old video games you played as a kid, "glitches" as a diegetic element that can affect the characters, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, and of course Toby's favorite question of all: What if video game characters were real? A lot of these are things that are also present in Toby's other work like Undertale and Halloween Hack, so I think they are just things that he thinks about a lot, and not necessarily actual connections to Deltarune. That said, you make a lot of compelling points, and FINDHER bracelet is probably one of my new favorite theories. Also, this song is something new we can count as a part of Toby's somewhat limited library of works, and examining that library CAN tell us about his current and future projects.

1:01 I think it's supposed to resemble OMORI charters more. Plus the fact the video was made by OMOCAT.

...I think I'll add some fuel to the fire with this. Another unused character found in Undertale is the "[REDACTED]," which, weirdly enough, uses Wing Dings just like our good doctor. But more importantly, when the bow flies off the girl's head, they look suspiciously similar to Redacted, hair draped down their face, as they fall into a black place... If Fox's gonna foreshadow Deltarune in an unrelated music video, and this is truly foreshadowing Dess, then it would make sense that Toby would use some more parallels to Undertale, appearance-wise. At least, that's how I see it. Also Jules Conroy's cloud on the website credits looks suspiciously like the Findher Guitar, so there's that too.

Also a note about the song is that you can hear don't forget leitmotif

Fun fact that ruins any theory about skies forever blue being related to deltarune: toby fox only made the song, not the music video.

More connections I found was when the girl mentioned a melody, stringed instruments with notes were floating in the air. The song mentions childhood friends, and in the video they go on an adventure. After the girl falls into the glitching darkness and the game starts up, her ribbons are gone and she seems more confident. Also, we know items from the dark world that go to the light world become objects, and we see a bunch of stuff in a big mess along with the game which the girl is in. They fall into the water, which is almost like the sky of another world, and dark world's are connected to water. Is this all really just a coincidence? Edit: Also, this "When you made my name the same just as the one you love than I knew" sound like the player names the girl or something. And if this IS Dragon Blazers, Susie mentions a sister being cursed. Edit 2: Remember in Chapter 1 were told eyes blinded by darkness will see the way through? Perhaps, the way to the truth? In the video the music goes "Pray this time my heart will [shine on through]", before saying it's a lie and than the girl runs after the boy before darkness surrounds her, and the game is put with all that junk. "There's a light inside your soul, that's still shining in the cold, with the truth." Cold could mean darkness, because when we think of darkness we think cold and water. Also, ice is another form of water, and water in connected to the dark worlds. What's the truth, and what's the promise in our hearts? Edit 3: After the song mentions that her heart will shine in through, before saying it isn't true. Than, the world is surrounded by darkness as the person puts the game down. Also, it says that everything is breaking as the ice breaks apart, and darkness seems to come from underneath. We know that if there is enough dark fountains, the world will break. And ice IS a form of water, so maybye the ice and darkness represent the dark fountains?

Damn.... just the other day, I completed Deltarune Chapter 2 for the third time, and I thought I'd just wait until the next chapter comes out before doing anything.... but now I actually want to try giving Noelle the Dice Brace now to see this. So now I gotta replay it. Not that I mind, but I thought I'd filled out everything there was to do... thanks Bread for opening my eyes to fall ever deeper into the rabbit hole, much appreciated! :D

BABE WAKE UP HALFBREADCHAOS JUST DROPPED

I doubt the game seen in Skies Forever Blue is Dragon Blazers, since in that game, from what I undetand, there are at least 2 more party members accounted for: the mage, who "left the party", and "your" sister, who gets cursed at some point. We never see either of them in the video.

To be honest I feel like there’s more OMORI connections than DELTARUNE connections with this new music video. Since OMOCAT helped work on this too, Sunny’s headspace is made up of things he’s saw throughout his childhood. Now reimagined into his own world to cope with his depression and anxiety. (EX: the Princess in this video looks similar to SWEETHEART, a character and boss from OMORI.) Plus the gameboy looks similar to the one Sunny had whenever he was younger.

Love this channel with all my heart dude keep up the great work on these videos 😊

Also, if the I in the word FRIENDSHIP on the dice bracelet has no vertical bars on the top and bottom, thus making it look like a lowercase L, then FRlENDSHIP can become PlS FIND HER.

I think that the first frames of the clip (two similar (human) figures standing (in complete darkness!!, mind you) to the sides and a bigger creature with huge wings and discernable head and torso in between) are an allusion to the delta rune symbol. Maybe I missed something (quite possibly), so correct me if I am wrong, but, iirc, we know very little about the meaning of the rune (which is the icon of the game, no less), and I don't see much discussion about this (video idea??). Great video, as usual! Edit: On a second thought, I may be overcomplicating stuff, but that's just my thoughts

It seems like a reference to noelle to. Building up condfidence, getting stronger, ice… I could see the main chacter here actually being susie too, since she’s seen as the true main character to a lot of people.

One thing I want to comment about how the lemotiff when the pink character sang "...to finally...say finally...I love you." at the end of the song sounds so similar to the "don't forget, i'm with you in the dark." lemotiff. Am probably reaching but it was the first thing I noticed when watching the video.

The more I listen to Deltarune theories the more I’m losing my goddamn mind

This is awesome! Love your vids, keep it up!

At first glance, my main problem with the idea of this game being Dragon Blazers is that in "Skies Forever Blue" we see multiple shots from throughout the game, and there are only ever these two protagonists in the player's party, while we know that Dragon Blazers is a game where other characters can join and leave your party, as indicated by the line "Dad, the mage left the party" that Noelle says in the post-Snowgrave hospital scene after her dad asks her to use the Fireshock. (Forgive me the wording of the line is not exactly accurate, I'm too lazy to search it up.)

I mean, everything is possible, but this is getting to the point similar to sakurai, where he couldn't do anything without everyone trying to link it to a smash reveal lmao

I dunno why but the expression: scooping up a world and leaving it empty sounds really ominous. Probably because when i thought of scooping something up i thought of scooping a person’s insides out while they are still alive.

INB4 The Greatest Living Show Theory *intensely stares at ribbons*

Alright, everything up to the ribbon bit was tenuous at best, but the ribbon has to at least be a reference, if not something more.

I would really like a video covering all the know secrets of the Deltarune website, there is so much! You have blown my mind again with this video

Skeptical at first, Now I’m a little less skeptical, and now scared

"just because some of the sprites seem a little similar to the deltarune characters" isnt this 100% meant to replicate the omori style? it even has the same color palate

I thought it was just a cute little video. My eyes have been opened.

Actually, now that you mention this, this does make me think of something!! You know how Toby said that Deltarune will most likely only have one ending?? Well, his music video sort of functions in a very similar way!! Regardless of the outcome, regardless of their choices, the game ends the same!! The only difference is the choices that you make along your journey!! Normally, the game would end with her saving her confession for another day, only for the game to end.. But knowing this, she was able to go back and redo choices that she wasn't as confident carrying out before!! It didn't make a big impact on the story, but she was at least able to say "I love you"... She got to do all the things she wanted to do, and was able to end the story happily regardless.. That's just a thought, though!! Regardless of whether it has ties to Deltarune or not, it's a good music video and this is a good theory!! Keep up the good work ^w^

Wow I just discovered your channel and damn?? the amount of editing and animations you’ve put into this theory video is wild!! It was a neat surprise honestly, I just wasn’t expecting it at all. Very cool video

Maybe Dess is in Asriel's computer? Asriel could represent the boy in the video

6:17 An additional detail I can think of is that it’d say “find her ips” as in IP address, because they’re in a computer world and that’d show her location!

D: Oh my god. The further you got into the video the more it blew my mind. The first thing to make me crack was what happens when you scroll down on the website, and it was downhill from there. You're... you're right. You have to be. Oh my god...

Your videos r genuinely so great Enjoy every single part of them :D

deltarune fans when they dont pay the TV license (THE STATIC ON THE TV MUST HAVE A CONNECTION TO SPAMTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

So I clicked on this video thinking "Oh my god. Of course someone would make connections between Deltarune and Blue Skies. Let's see what they have to say" Now I'm just as insane as you because everything just makes sense in some way. Never underestimate Deltarune theorists

I mostly attributed the video to the old aging of a gameboy, since cartridges after a while their saves get unusable, so in a way, she was forgotten, picked up again, only to realize that the save battery is low, thus the glitching and the end credits

honestly i didn't even see that as ice, just a blank space that then cracks

i love omocat's artstyle

I highly doubt it. I think is a reference to mother/earthbound series. In the beginning of the song you see both of them defeating a monster. The hp thing and graphics look like mother 1. Also, "skies forever blue" is a part of "pollyanna" song. "I believe in skies forever blue. Why shouldn't I believe the same in you". And the part that says: "Seems our journey is now through. All is saved here thanks to you. There was something I should say but surely it can wait another day" is very similar of what Paula says at the end of earthbound. She says: "Thank you for escorting me home. There was something I wanted to tell you, but I've forgotten it. I'm sure I'll remember by the time I see you again". We as players can't see that day, same that happens in skies forever blue. Also, both Toby Fox and Omocat are earthbound fans. I'm sure the intention was to make something that reminisces earthbound.

1:31 That little light in the top center of the screen, it looks like a save point!

ur channel is the coolest vibes r so immaculate (i hate saying vibes but idk how else to describe it) while some of ur theories seem totally crazy at first i feel like they're the kind to hold the most truth

8:20 On a more positive(not really) note, I think the reason the file was deleted, was not because of the player, but because the clock batteries in the cartridge were "running dry". Gameboy cartridges kinda have expiration dates, because after some time, you are unable to save or load old save files anymore, because the save system is dependant on an internal clock battery Which is why I think the girl got courage to share her feelings to the player, she realized she was about to be deleted by forces neither of them could stop. This also explains why everything was glitchy, the game was broken, and couldn't be saved anymore. Now how does this relates to deltarune? Uh... I dunno. Just wanted to prove the player didn't just murder their virtual waifu after she declared herself to them I guess.

This ties in to my theory that in order to get Deltarune’s “true ending” it requires that you do special things between all 3 Save Files. Imagine something like opening up a Special 4th Save File once all keys are in place between a “Normal Run” First Save File, a “Weird Route” Second Save File, and then a Special Third Run Save File.

it reminded me of Asriel and Frisk talking at the end of the pacifist route, and asriel remembering chara "Seems our journey is now through. All is saved thanks to you" would be referencing how you've finished the game and freed the monsters, especially since [SAVE] was a big part of the final fight. the following part is Asriel remembering chara "when you made my name the same just as the one you love then I knew" could be in reference to how the name you choose is chara's name but asriel still calls frisk by that name "maybe to your view I'm just a faintly coloured hue that's alright" could be referring to how asriel realises that you aren't chara the singer talking about "our final time" and hoping that her "heart will shine on through" could be because of asriel turning back into flowey, which also explains the game breaking down before returning to how it was in the beginning with all the saves gone. Stuff about the battery running dry could be about asriel losing the power of the souls

bread again and again you amaze me with the little details you connect and find you're crazy i love seeing it

This is something I noticed in the last video with the "Toby released a skirt" bit, but... it feels particularly pertinent here. Please consider before referring to things that are a team effort as "Toby did/released X" or "Toby's video", etc. I know it's not intentional, but bear in mind the other creatives involved. In this particular case, this is very much a collaborative video/song with multiple people putting in a lot of effort, and assigning outsize importance to Toby feels a little dismissive of their contributions.

It's always such a delight to hear Halfbread share in the madness that is finding meaning in Toby's funny little game and subsequently implanting that madness in my own mind.

i love every single video you post thankyou for doing all this

holy shit this music video is just like the deltarune-inspired dream i had where it was a pokemon game that glitched out because one of the characters picked wailmer as her starter

I have something that's a reach, but an interesting reach: If you make "find her" from "friendship" you are left with three letters that can spell "psi". Psi is a Greek letter, much like the Delta in Deltarune. Psi is shaped like a pitchfork, pitchforks are associated with the devil, the devil and other vaguely biblical things are frequently referenced in Deltarune (especially Gastery things). Psi is also used as a symbol when discussing wave functions in quantum physics. Quantum physics is often used as a sciencey-sounding plot device in fiction for alternate realties and other mind bending things. Kind of like how beings such as Gaster (and Dess????) both do and do not physically exist, and how Deltarune's universe is kinda but not really the same as Undertale's universe. As well as whatever weird stuff is going on in Dark worlds, I guess. Finally, PSI refers to psychic powers in the Mother/Earthbound universe. And we all know how those games relate to Undertale and Deltarune by now.

i think the problem with this theory is that i dont think it gives good enough reason to believe the song is meant to be connected to deltarune at all. tobys already collabed with itoki hana before, and even though 74 is referenced in welcome to the city, no ones arguing that that song is about deltarune. it makes me think of how toby was disappointed that people would only think of deltarune as "undertale 2" instead of its own thing. i think toby just wants to make other art with his peers. his work often covers similar themes and ideas in regards to video games and stories, but i dont think that means theyre all connected. with that in mind, if toby came out tomorrow and said skys forever blue is connected to deltarune, or some future deltarune chapter confirmed dragon blazers was like the world in the song, then i think the rest of the connections hold up pretty well. and i dont think the stuff about the gear even relies on the song to be worth considering. (although, i think noelles kid sprite wore her hair in two ponytails or braids. maybe both sisters did?)

6:18 Kris really needs Noelle to know “find her piss”

If im being honest the dark work in Deltarune reminded my of headspace in Omori, the game of the creator of the visuals of the music video, Omocat

Huh, I was wondering if it has ant relevance to deltarune but it has much stronger references to Omori- a game that was created by Omocat ( who created washua's design ). The characters in the video strongly resemble 2 of the characters from the game and I thought it was some sort of expansion to that world It would be crazy if Toby had collaborated with Omocat to connect their stories. What if Omori has hints to what happens in deltarune? It's obviously hard to know, I mean I have no idea how much they interact and if Toby would put relevant info outside the game but it might be possible It's also not much known about skies blue forever so who knows if it also has these connection Really intriguing video!

I’ve seen people say that the girl could be a secret boss, and as weird as that sounds I could *kinda* see it. Kris likely has a game console, and I believe it’s stated somewhere that they have Dragon Blazers, so that works out. Seam saying that the next secret boss is nearly impossible to defeat would make sense since the girl is level 99, so obviously we wouldn’t be expected to beat her. And honestly, fighting a lovesick level 99 videogame character is a really fun idea for a boss. Edit: Okay, I’ve thought of more proof for this. She has the themes of abandonment freedom, and self awareness, And the big one, her relationship with her “player” could serve to parallel Kris’ relationship with their player. Similar to Spamton paralleling Kris. Hell, if you believe in the secret bosses representing the Seven Deadly Sins, then you can even fit her into that with Lust. Seriously, there’s some real potential here.

Plot twist: Kris jumbled it to say "fin hips red"

Haven't seen the OG vid, but it was a collaboration with OMOCAT, so it's possible this also has something to do with omori or a future project of that studio (also one of the characters is basically just hero lol)

I’m amazed in all of this you didn’t draw any connection between the guitar-shaped cloud on the website and the red guitar from the Spamton Sweepstakes that plays the find her song. Like for me that’s really the ultimate clincher in all of this. The guitar is like a scream of “HEY PAY ATTENTION THIS IS RELEVANT”

Unironically think this is just a cute music video. You could make just as strong of an argument saying that this video is OMORI lore. I think Toby just likes to make cool, experimental songs. Like 74. Let things be nice and stop trying to make everything creepy :P

i love the character that you give your videos with the recoloured kris and goner vessel sprites, i feel like it more than makes up for the tts limiting your verbal expression. i love your videos and i look forward to seeing what rabbit holes you take us down next

Considering how much this looks like its playing with Head Space and Data Corruption, I wonder if this is less a Deltarune or Omori thing and more a preview of a future Toby + Omocat project. Maybe Dragon Blazers will be made as a collab between them and have references to both of their prior works?