bloodsbane:

sure!

kris:

Extreme Affection, and curiosity about them as their own person… not much more to say on them that i haven’t said in other posts though! or that i’d like to say in future ones.

susie: 

love that tough and rowdy girl! i gotta wonder how she got her reputation in the first place; i know that the kids talk about her seeming aggressive or unapproachable, so maybe she’s just shy and scary-looking, which lead to rumors. i think that feeds into her ‘your choices don’t matter’ mindset: she feels powerless because it doesn’t matter what she does, if people are only going to see a scary bully, then that’s what they’ll see. so she plays into the stereotype, because she might as well, right? 

and that goes along with her aversion to being told she HAS to be a hero, and being reprimanded by ralsei for not being good enough. her short stint as an antagonist wasn’t a surprise at all honestly! lancer praised her for her insight and admired her for who she was without being scared of her. 

all in all, she’s a biiiit of a cliche, but most things in UT/DR are at first glance. even without a full game to flesh her out, i think there’s enough here to make her compelling. she definitely feels like her own person and not just a Bully With A Secret Heart of Gold trope. and i think she’s especially compelling as a protagonist in a game where her general worldview at first matches one of the largest themes of the game, especially given she seems ready to believe in herself as someone who can choose her own path.

ralsei:

cute and likeable, of course! to me, the most interesting thing about ralsei is how, hm… hand-holdy he is i suppose? he really stresses the idea of not hurting anyone, that what we do and how we treat others matters. he sort of embodies everything that undertale tried to teach us. which isn’t totally unexpected i guess, but like… in undertale, it never felt patronizing, y’know? and that might’ve just been because the concept was relatively unique, and we saw all the time how our actions had positive or negative consequences. but here, we come in being told it doesn’t matter, even though ralsei insists that it does. it feels almost preachy coming from him! and it’s even framed as being too heavy-handed or patronizing because he’s the one who pushes susie to rebel and go to the villains’ side. 

honestlyyy, ralsei feels a bit more like a caricature than his own person, to me - at least at the moment! he definitely has his own personality, but in the most benign sort of way. i don’t dislike him or anything, i think he’s very cute and has a lot of room to become more interesting. but at the moment he seems more like a foil than anything else, a sort of representation of the ideals of UT in the same way that susie embodies a lot of the ideals of DR initially.