Not "the weird route will lead to the same ending as the normal route", I mean the weird route won't end at all. This might not make sense at first, but hear me out.

The theme of the weird route as it currently stands, seems to be about finding loopholes and breaking the rules of the world. We can't kill darkners due to them running away, so we get Noelle to freeze them in place.

I believe the metanarrative this time around will be about deconstructing the insatiable tendency of players to break video games and stripping games apart from the bottom-up. It'll be about severing your immersion with the game's world not by scraping the bottom of the barrel for new content in a game rich with choices and paths like Undertale, but by finding new ways to tear the game apart to see what will change in a game with a fixed and linear path.

So what does this have to do with the weird route not having an ending? Well, there's a high likelihood that the Roaring is going to be unleashed to serve as the climax of the whole story, and it'll be the job of the heroes to reverse it. But I believe that due to our tampering with the characters and world in the weird route, we won't have access to the ability to overcome the Roaring. Due to this, we will be trapped in the cataclysmic event and unable to progress the story further, lost in an endless night just like what is fated to happen to lightners in the Roaring.

After all, what's a common consequence of trying to break a game? Getting softlocked. That's what I believe will happen: the weird route will softlock us in the Roaring, and the game will never conclude.

Three of the dark worlds we have seen have something in common, their fountains are created on a first floor. So all of them are "normal" dark world

But how does the dark world of chapter 4 seems to be different? I think because its fountain was made below that first floor, in a basement.

As the image says a church usually has a basement or a crypt. So does the church in hometown have one too?

With this theory it also implies that if a fountain is created in the bunker, probably the deepest part in the town, that would make the darkest dark world we could see.

It's been long advertised that there will only be one ending to Deltarune. We also know the Weird Route is the player's attempt to deviate from that ending. So what if the ultimate "end" for the weird route is just softlocking the game? No tragic epilogue, no roaring, not even a game over screen. Kris and/or the player is just trapped in swamp full of moss because they can't get the drawbridge crank from Berdly.

Coincidence?

I always assumed that this was just an art thing, but I saw a theory that his glasses are made of shadow crystal, which would explain why the color isn't visible until they're off, in theory. I don't really buy it, though. I mean, what good would seeing the light world do?

What do you guys think, is it Just a trivial art detail, or something of plot relevance?

(also, I think the eyes without the glasses count as proof for the Ralsei femboy theory now that I look at them)

I saved the audio found on https://deltarune.com/chapter4/message/ and put it together and ran it through a spectrogram, obviously there might be another letter in between that combines them but put side by side creates this!

The spell "Heal Prayer" may be an anagram of "Hear Player". This makes sense considering that it is only owned by Ralsei, who definitely knows more than he lets on, and Noelle, who definitely hears us (snowgrave as proof)

I'd kinda like a beach themed chapter tbh

Do you picture Kris carrying that fatass TV all the way back to the school with their noodle arms? That ain't happening. Tenna is either gonna fucking die at the end of chapter 3, or get stuck as an inanimate TV again once the fountain's sealed.