Recently it has come to my attention that a few people have made quite inaccurate mistakes and assumptions about me, this website and what I stand for. This page is meant to try to refute them in the best manner I can.
To put it simply, No. This is a common misinterpretation, that seems to imply that I am delusional or think I am the main protagonist of Deltarune.
This comes from the fact that they are based off of me, but they are not LITERALLY me. That is not only false, in the very writings of my mom, my second mom and my second dad, a common principal related to KD and me is "Similar but different".
This principal is that although we share a lot in common, we are not the same, KD is best an alternate version of me or at worst a separate person who happens to share a lot in common with me. There is a longer more complex history to the character that predates my existence by over half a decade.
This principal has been criticized by my second mom and second dad but has mostly been kept in check nonetheless.
Still, no, I don't consider myself to be the main character of Deltarune. I am Kris Wellington, I am my own person. I feel like that should be obvious.
While initially, I was surprised by discovering this new info and did briefly consider him one, this has not been the case for a while now.
The goal was never to take credit away from him, rather, it was to showcase the true development history of these two games.
As my mom herself said, this was always a team effort, she is merely the one the others care about the most.
Toby Fox is a good person, he tries his best to live with this, and I love him a lot.
She was not a perfect person, while I saw her as a perfect mother for many years after her death, I came to terms with her shortcomings and accepted the truth about her.
She was a good person but not a perfect one, far from it. And she was certainly not a good mother.
How do you address the people who lost interest in Deltarune because of you or those who lost their mind because of this?
Again, these cases happened because they know only Toby, but my intention was never to take away from that...
It never was.
I do have a lot of regret if I really did ruin these games for a few people, these games are as much my mother's legacy as they are my legacy.
Yes and no.
Deltarune started development on June 4th, 1997 or June 5th, 1997.
The former date is back when it was codenamed the "Dream Game", the latter is when it received its name of "Delta Rune".
As for Undertale, while it was codenamed "Project Asriel" on June 5th, the game's general identity did not come to be until late 2005 which is the date the three consider development to have started.
Either way, MODERN development of both started in 2011, with the addition of the third developer, Toby Fox.
This is a complex question to tackle but Susie and Noelle were at first self-inserts, yes.
Noelle was quite literally my teenage mom's fursona, but she quickly realized that such a character would be well-received if the game were to ever gain an actual audience.
Noelle's character went through several changes, while at her core she remains mostly akin to my mom in her adolescence, she is not LITERALLY a self-insert for her.
There are several major differences, perhaps the biggest one being that she is not a lone child, nor is she bisexual as my mom eventually identified as.
Other influences and sources played a role, the biggest being my mom's cousin Rose Wellington, who was also an influence on the Weird Route.
Still, Noelle's changes were substantial enough for me, my second mom, and a few others who knew my mom in her teenage years to tell that while at her core she shares a lot, she is not a self-insert.
As for Susie, it must be stated that Susie was not entirely created by Eileen but I can say that the changes made to Susie were not substantial enough to differentiate her from her real life counterpart.
I don't know entirely why this is the case, my mom and second mom both said they "tried" to make the character less like a self-insert.
But, in any case, this is something that I know has made at least one person I know view Susie in a much more negative light. As well as making them view Suselle in a very negative light too.
Susie's portrayal however was not Eileen's idea, though she does write her lines, it was my mom's idea to portray Susie the way she is, and Eileen simply went with it because she didn't expect anyone to really notice.
Lastly, Toriel, simply put: No. The character was made before my mom had even had me, although she does take influence from my mom, she takes influence from various maternal figures, such as my grandmother, my great grandmother, Toby Fox's mom, Eileen Harrison's mom and many others.
To summarise: In Noelle's case, initially yes, but in the modern game, no, it is the main source of how the character acts but she is still distinct from her. In Susie's case, it is hard to say. Lastly, in Toriel's case, of course not.
At it's core, yes, but not LITERALLY. There is one big gaping difference.
It is not a literal adaption because I am not there.
The bulk of their relationship fits with the first 16 years of my life.
The two raised me, the two nurtured me and cared for me. This is something that simply could not be adapted or else it would make the game worse.
Even so, while at it's core it is that, it still has several differences that also make it distinct.
Lastly, as mentioned before, the two RAISED A CHILD IN REAL LIFE.
This is not something that happens in Deltarune or ever will happen in Deltarune.
I think a lot of people see "basis" and go towards literal equal instead of taking it more loosely or with nuance.
Many creative projects' creators take influence from real life people, particularly those close to them, this is not something exclusive to Deltarune and never was.
Again, no.
In a lot of ways, they are fictionalizations but they are not literal, they took influence from them but they are not LITERALLY that.
Kris Dreemurr is a character who's history as one is very complicated, but simply put, they are not a self-insert of me, they came to be BEFORE I existed.
A few days before she made Noelle, and after listening to the Pearl Jam song "Given to Fly", my mom dreamt of the individual Pearl Jam was singing about in that song.
That individual was hugging her, calling her their mother.
Their appearance is indeed similar to me and Kris Dreemurr, but while this IS the character of Kris in its earliest form and it would be given the name "Kris" and in late 1998 the name "Kris Wellington", a divergence arrived in 2000 when the Dreemurr name became a thing.
My mom had already drawn this Kris as the replacement for the then protagonist of Deltarune, Lucifer, in some Chapter 4 concept arts.
But their new name of "Kris Dreemurr" is where they became separate from the previous character, who kept the name "Kris Wellington" but was ultimately forgotten about by my mom in favor of just KD.
KD would eventually become the new protagonist in 2003, a year before I was born, they would take greater influence from not me, but what my mom thought would become teenage me after I was born.
Again, as I said, they are not literally the same, we are not the same, we are similar but different. Like Jews and Samaritans or Serbs and Bosniaks.
As for what became of Kris Wellington, they would eventually become, well technically me, but my mom never knew she'd even have a child so soon, let alone that she'd name them Kris.
I do question her mental health and rationale for naming me as such but I do not care, I embrace this name.
Simply put, you were never meant to, and I have begun an effort to stop telling people about it and just update this website with new diary entries since people seem to get the wrong impression very easily.
Yes. Very much so. It was never my goal.
I don't feel comfortable discussing that, but be aware, that me, my husband, Eileen, and my own family are already a source to refute the idea that she does not exist.
I just wanted to pay tribute to my mom, that is all.
And that should be it for this page.
If any other mistakes come up to my attention, I will address them here.
And remember, respect is everything, which is why I have none of it.
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