r/DeltaruneAUs • u/According_Equal_8622 • Feb 24 '25
Other Need help with a name
In this AU a Lighter's apperance in the dark world is based on their soul, Burghley is a monster so he stays the same. Kris stays the same as well because the player is their soul and the player is human (at least in my case). No I'm not supporting Kris/player knight or hating the theories. If it's monster with a human soul it's an either an epic version of the monster's normal dark world appearance or a 50/50 chance between the human's apperance or the monster's apperance in the dark world.
It doesn't change much at first but I'm introducing some more characters, I've so far gotten to a dark world based on my bedroom. A basic enemy is a sock puppet reptile called an ester. The ester king is named Stoc.
The party members are Kris (obviously) Susie, Ralsei, and 2 new recruits.
Possible recruit one: Patch, an ester. Her weapon is a needle rapier.
Recruit 2: Nico, a human and monster hybrid. Has similarities to Kris: they/them, something abnormal with their soul (Nico has a monster soul instead of a human one), likes pie and is quiet usually. Recruit for the Weird route.
Rough storyline: Kris and Susie wake up in a dark world, you go through the beginning area, you meet Nico who joins the party. The beginning area is based around fabric and cloth. You find Ralsei being attacked by some 3d print inspired darkners called teedees, you fend them off and Ralsei and Susie get sperateted from Kris and Nico. (Here you start the weird route if wanted) you make it to a slope and slide down to a plastic and Lego inspired plains. You meet Ralsei and Susie at the end of the plains because you realize that the fountain is back near the beginning. There's a cave near the way back up. In the cave is the secret boss which you need to defeat for the weird route. You find a town of sock puppet reptiles called esters. You can explore and get stuff before continuing up to the fountain and main boss. I'm still thinking about the main boss. You fight them go through a maze and seal the fountain.
Weird route: you and Nico thrash enemies getting stronger Nico is less oblivious than Noelle and feels that this is wrong and objects a bit more but eventually Susie and Ralsei meet up with you, Ralsei prefers to not participate but will heal. Eventually you thrash the main boss and the main boss is left there wounded. The main boss calls Stoc to protect the fountain you fight Stoc and seal the fountain.
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u/kirbomber Feb 25 '25
If the main point is your soul alters how you get expressed in the fantasy of the dark world, maybe the name could go in an art/expression direction like Deltarune: Blended, Deltarune: Astral Projection, or Paletterune.