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.
I actually agree. My point was that Toriel and him always got along well, that he makes her laugh, that he treats her ok, that she deserves a break from being a financially struggling single mother of two troubled kids.
TBC, i also do sympathize with Susie in that situation. By the end of ch5, it's confirmed that she was at least homeless, maybe outright unhoused and struggling with massive food insecurity before she moved into Castle Town and that was hinted at before. It's entirely possible that walking in on her surrogate mother figure and seeing her wasted brought back some extremely painful memories. But as somebody who was raised by a single mother, i also see the pressure Toriel is under and i get why she needs to blow off some steam.
Small correction: Shes not explicitly unhoused since you can take her to the apartments and she tells you thats not what she meant by taking her home. I think its important to note since it wouldn't drag down carol for having homeless kids in her town (Carol is a neglectful classist workaholic but she isn't at that level).
Shes most likely a foster kid since we get zero indication of any parents and I doubt they would be written into the game by now. Theres also theories that shes also part human (due to the bleeding) and that plays into her marginalization. The room in chapter 3s ralsei explainer is highly implied to be her room since its shabby and has a Godzilla poster that ties into "Susiezella" later in TV world.
No one in hometown is explicitly unhoused, though I think theres no community mediation and people are left to fend for themselves emotionally and financially if theres ever an issue in their family.
Toriel feeling safe to be drunk around Sans who just moved in is also evident that sans is not in competition with asgore he just is a better person.
Possible. I mean, it is also mentioned that she's moved around a lot. Maybe she is unsafe at home, or ran away to escape a violent environment, it is also implied she may not have a room of her own or a bed at the appartments. What we can say with fairly high certainty is that she is suffering from severe food insecurity. She literally laps up milk that Alphys leaves out for the cats, her idea of food includes toaster crumbs and pinecones, there's a reason she absolutely wolfs down anything that is put in front of her. Which may also contribute to her crashouts, she's literally hangry all the time.
Either way, she's as impoverished as a person in hometown can be.