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.
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.