Deltarune: What if Noelle Lost Her Way? (Fan Animation)
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Published 2022-07-25
(Disclaimer: I structured the plot of this “what-if” animation as a sorta, “learn more the longer you watch it”. So perhaps it’s better watched without context first before reading further. However, if you do need context, feel free to read. FYI tho, I’m not gonna to explain everything lol, if the vid’s of any quality the context clues should be good enough for anyone to form a decent timeline. But before that, let me do credits real quick.)
A Town Called Hometown (Slowed + Reverb): • A Town Called Hometown (Slowed + Reverb)
Most sprites were obtained from Spriters Resource, all other sprites made/edited by me.
Deltarune by Toby Fox.
So, with all the theories and speculations about Deltarune between its two chapters so far, there’s been a lot of predictions people have been making about future chapters. Stuff like, “Ralsei will turn evil”, “Gaster will be the knight”, etc. One speculation that many fans seem to think is likely is for Rudy to pass due to his illness at some point in a future chapter. For anyone unaware, the fact that his Undertale parallel is deceased seemed to mirror his fate along with the amalgamate-turned monsters, who are actually deceased in Deltarune. As I’m writing this we can’t know for sure, but I decided to run with the scenario and put my own take on the idea. So that’s the subject of the animation, the epilogue to a hypothetical future chapter in Deltarune, say chapter 5, 6 or whatever. Rudy passed in the previous chapter, and Noelle goes missing in the current one, in a similar fashion to how her sister did ages ago. This prompts the whole town to conduct an immediate search party the night of to prevent another tragedy, which is more or less where the animation begins…
(tl;dr: Rudy dead. Noelle missing. The gang goes at night to find her.)
Ok, with all that said. OH MY GOD DID THIS TAKE LONGER THAN I THOUGHT. I thought for sure I’d have this done in, like, two weeks (and arguably it could’ve been), but man this was a long one. In fact, it easily takes the spot of the longest animation I ever made, not even a competition. In case anyone was curious, the concept of this scenario came to me as I was relistening to some Chapter 2 tracks on YouTube, specifically “Lost Girl”. Reading the comments now, a lot of fans thought for sure that the song would be used in a sad scene. But that’s not what happened, it was actually pretty wholesome in its use in Chapter 2. So, that got me thinking, if the song was to be used in a sad scene, what kind of scene would it be used in. I quickly figured that the subject of Rudy’s illness would be most likely, since many fans assume he’s gonna kick the bucket somewhere down the line. So I got to thinking up the entire scenario and even coming up with a script for it. However, as I kept ironing out details I had to expand the script just to build up the moment more and give more of an authentic feel to the idea. So before I knew it, I had 20 pages of script to animate and a nearly half hour video to show for it. Not to mention other responsibilities in my life, plus, minor setbacks, that delayed this thing even more. For anyone who was waiting in anticipation for this, well, I hope you like it lol.
Speaking of which, damn. I didn’t think I’d be making something this “genuine”. I mean, it’s not the first time I’ve tried making a convincing Deltarune animation, but the last one was based on someone else’s idea, not to mention it was only two minutes long and only had to be creepy to accomplish its goal. This tho, was my own idea, with a proper script n’ stuff, I got no memes or jokes to fall back on. And the fact that it gets emotional near the end, felt like kinda a risk on my part. This might sound lame, but it feels odd putting a genuine idea of mine out there on the internet. I feel like I can be a confident writer/animator at points but sometimes I do wonder if what I put out there is as good as it could be. The ending especially, I rewrote that part, like, three times trying to improve and even then I’m not entirely sure about it. But it’s necessary. After all, you can’t improve as a creator without putting yourself out there. Quality or not, cringe or not. So it’s whatever. Man it sucks editing long videos together, every time I correct an error I have to export stuff again. I better not find a single mistake in this damn thing after I upload or I'm gonna be pissed lmao. In any case, it was pretty cool to come up with a concept that wasn’t based on Snowgrave stuff (tho Snowgrave stuff is still really cool), so I am proud of that. Lol maybe if this vid actually does well I could make a “Snowgrave” version of this vid, which is pretty unlikely since the YouTube algorithm hasn’t blessed me in years.
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All Comments (21)
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FYI, I structured the plot of this animation as a sorta, “learn more the longer you watch it”. So perhaps it’s better watched without context first before reading further. But for anyone who wants it, just check the description and it’ll give you what you need. Hope you all like it! Also subscribe and stuff lol.
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the way Noelle described everything and how she felt perfectly encapsulates the feeling of losing someone you love. I personally lost someone very close to me and its traumatizing. You wish you could have done more and you feel like its your fault and it never is. You did all you could do and its not your fault. When someone dies you feel alone and afraid everyone else will leave you too. You feel like there will come a time where everyone leaves you and your going to be alone with your pain. But the truth is there will always be someone there, someone with you in the dark, someone to hold your hand when the light is running low. It can be anyone and could even be an animal. It could be anything but it will always be there holding onto you and keeping you from losing hope. You may never recover from the loss of a loved one, but you can accept they are gone and look towards the future.
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Sorry, am thoroughly convinced you just came from the future to share leaked footage. Joking aside, this was a splendid and wonderful animation that all your effort seriously shows in. It definitely captures the original series' charm well, so massive kudos on that.
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This is easily the best Deltarune fanimation I've seen. It looks exactly like something that would play out in the actual game, down to the tiniest details like the slight gap in the tileset where the path through the forest was. The dialogue was spot-on too, especially with Susie. Lots of fan works have her be too one-note, such as Deltatraveler or Kris Performs Surgery, but she struck the perfect balance of mischief, comedy, and serious introspection. Wonderful work!
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I don’t think enough people realize this, but I love how the end has an miniature reference to Asriel. Choosing “Comfort” in either example will result in a hug, and at first I thought this was a coincidence, until Noelle said the line, “I don’t want to let go” MMMMM. It might be 7 YEARS OLD but I still love Undertale so much, just as much as Deltarune (Though I do prefer Undertale over Chapter 1) Both are still great games which is why I loves callbacks to it so much.😃
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I will absolutely dunk on Toriel next genocide run after treating dad like that. Just wanted to play video games man..
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Honestly this feels like something that could genuinely happen in later chapters based on what we know now. The reveal near the end really hit hard given my experience with something similar as well. Overall, good going with this one.
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this is canon to me. i literally don't care. everything about this is so perfect. the characters are written so well and the plot moves so smoothly. it was such a gut punch to see a fifth grave and come to the horrifying realization about rudy and what asgore meant. and the scene with kris comforting noelle...it just feels like something toby would make. this is so underrated.
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13:28 it was this minor exchange between sans and susie that made me realize just how much the little details matter in these fan creations. sans won’t tell anyone that susie and kris are out searching, but he won’t promise to tell anyone because he hates making promises! anyone who has observed undertale long enough would know this bit of information. such an outstanding job! and as soon as i saw noelle, i started to tear up. i’m tearing up right now as it is. you have a way with your work.
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I know everyone gushes at how awesome and believably canon this is, especially in regards to the heart wrenching ending, but I need to say that I feel so bad for Asgore. He’s just still at home, worried about his kid and has no idea he’s been abandoned.
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That scene where they all embrace one another brought a tear to my eye. Wonderful animation. I can’t help to feel bad for Asgore though, he just wants to reconcile and everyone is leaving him out to dry. Hope they all went back for him and had that cup of tea after all this.
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Honestly the best Deltarune animation I’ve seen to date. The writing was excellent and imitated Toby’s writing style very nicely, the animation and sprites were on point, most dialogue options were great and you remembered that this is supposed to be a game, and took extra care to make it look like something playable. The „your choices don’t matter“ moment when you should choose wether or not Berdly joins the team is a nice example of that. Overall, great job!
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Oh my gosh, I love this so much! I adore basically everything about it, but I think my favorite part of it is probably Berdly trying to be a good friend. I think about his and Noelle's awkward friendship all the time, and the part where he was worried about meeting her because he figured he'd be the last person she'd want to see... man. That hit different. I was kind of worried that he wouldn't really get to be a part of this story, as I'm used to seeing him treated in fanworks as not really an important part of the friend group, at least not in the same way that Noelle is. Believe it or not, Berdly means a lot to me, and seeing him here being a friend made me so happy. I especially love the moment where he kind of missed the cue to join the group hug, but then he does when Susie called him over. It's a detail that both fits with him just being bad at 'reading' people, and perhaps him not really being sure that Noelle would want a hug from him. It's so good aaaaaaaaaaaa
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literally during the entire scene with berdly and the graveyard gate I was just saying "or, just, you know, go around the gate. Like, yeah, that's cool, or just go around it. Yes, berdly, there is another way in, just go around the gate."
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I don't have anything to say except that I think this is really well-made. The writing is wonderful and every character feels alive, like Kris really does live in a small town where people care about each other. I loved the inversion of the typical "go and talk to everyone to see the story" by making this a stealth mission, too. All in all, great job.
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spoilers for ending// I gotta say that I love how you wrote the ending. Specifically with the whole strength and grief in trying to comfort Noelle. It was very heartwarming, and I genuinely started crying when it was revealed that Rudy passed. Susie relating her struggles in being perceived as tough was a good comparison and you just really got the characters so on point. Good Work!!!
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Man, when i saw the preview on Reddit i thought it was gonna be just Kris and Susie messing around town at night,with maybe some dark world shenanigans,but damn,that was deep.I really liked how you structured all of it,also the sprites were on point, very toby-ish,dialog was very catching,ending was ready sad. Amazing animation, feels like something like this could happen. Hope this dosent happen on the game though.
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If I didn’t know any better, I would think that this was footage pulled straight from the game! It was really touching! Well done! (Please remember us when you inevitably become famous!)
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so... sweet... I know I'm repeating myself but, once again, to think that I, a kid with ADHD and Autism, felt NOTHING, NOTHING at Rudy's illness and Dess's vanishing, and all the pains Noelle and Berdly went through... THIS SOMEHOW WAS SO GOOD THAT I FELT IT! I can you not, when they all hugged Noelle I shed a tear of happiness. I already subscribed so the best I can do is like the vid and RING THAT BELL!
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This is amazing. It feels so true to the characters, and that ending got me misty-eyed. Great work!
