History Webcomic / DeltaExperiment

* TokenHuman: Frisk is the only human child living in Hometown. Later on subverted with the appearance of Chris.

* AlmightyMom: Toriel can get ''very'' nasty if she thinks someone is mistreating a child. The second she thinks Chris is being mistreated, she intimidates the police officers into letting them go and stay with her.

* CompositeCharacter: "Chris" seems to be one of Chara from the original ''Undertale'' and Kris from ''Deltarune'' (the latter of which is kind of a composite character by themselves). Appearance-wise, they seem to be modelled after Kris, with their BlindingBangs and occasional flash of red eyes, but their personality and manner of speech is closer to Chara (or at least what little of both ''Undertale'' provides from Chara). Even their name is a mixture of Chara and Kris.

* TheMaidenNameDebate: Toriel is in the process of divorcing Asgore and makes it clear to Mrs. Holiday that she is not fine with being called "Toriel Dreemurr" anymore. Mrs. Holiday coldly responds that, since the paperwork hasn't gone through yet, she'll keep calling Toriel that, until it does.

* FantasticRacism: It's heavily implied that monsters face discrimination from humans. One of the reasons the mayor wants Chris out of town is the fear that their actual parents might jump to conclusions, which would undoubtedly bring Hometown under fire from the humans.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Carol Holiday is stern, cold and implied to be such a workaholic that she doesn't have time to spend with her daughter Noelle. However, she's not completely unreasonable and allows Toriel to keep Chris in her home for the time being because they can't find the human child's parents.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The surveys Gaster sets up. In-story they're answered by Frisk, but the ones who actually answer are the readers via voting which option they like best.

* CentralTheme: Both the concept of "free will" and "choice" play a large role in the story. Frisk, the protagonist influences the story through their actions and choices, but said choices are given to them by somebody else without their knowledge. Someone who, when he isn't satisfied with the set-up, even ''removes'' possible choices they could make, bringing into question how "free" Frisk really is in their decision-making. On the other side, the new character "Chris" is free-spirited to an unnerving degree and cannot be controlled by any outside forces. The choices they make are ''always'' their own and at times even override Frisk's, who for all intends and purposes isn't really as free as they believe. That's not to mention the additional meta-level of the readers' influence on the story, adding yet another layer of outside control.
* CompositeCharacter: "Chris" seems to be one of Chara from the original ''Undertale'' and Kris from ''Deltarune'' (the latter of which is kind of a composite character by themselves). Appearance-wise they seem to be modelled after Kris, with their BlindingBangs and occasional flash of red eyes, but their personality and manner of speech is closer to Chara (or at least what little of both ''Undertale'' provides from Chara). Even their name is a mixture of Chara and Kris.

* HappilyAdopted: Frisk is completely content with the Dreemurrs and sees them as their actual family. In the [=QnA=] they even state they have no desire to meet their biological parents, since the Dreemurrs are more than enough.

* ShoutOut: The entire Pezza-arc is a huge one to the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' - series, down to Monster Kid telling the others a fake backstory about kids being stuffed into mechanic suits by a mysterious purple guy.

* ButThouMust: In a pretty unsettling instance of this trope, Chris manages to ''override the reader's choice'' two times in the story. Once in chapter two, when they reject every name proposed by the survey and name themselves Chris, the second time in chapter three when they interrupt Frisk's and Asriel's play-time with Noelle (who had won the previous survey of who Frisk and Asriel should play with) to force them to play with them instead. Gaster is incredibly disturbed by this, since Frisk's will ''should' be absolute due to their strong determination and the possibility that Chris could wrestle control away from them is deeply upsetting.

* ShoutOut: The entire Pezza-arc is a huge one to the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' - series, down to Monster Kid telling the others a fake backstory about kids being stuffed into mechanic suits by a mysterious purple guy.

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** Chris is a at time violent bully and an all-around shady, manipulative person, but so far hasn't done anything truly "evil". Though Gaster seems convinced that their influence could negatively impact both the future of monsterkind and Frisk's development.

* ShoutOut: The entire Pezza-arc is a huge on to the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' - series, down to Monster Kid re-telling the backstory about kids being stuffed into mechanic suits.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Downplayed. Chris isn't really the greatest person normally, but they tend to be at their meanest when you can see the red flash of their eyes.

* NightmareFetishist: Chris has an uncanny fable for all things horror.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Downplayed. Chris isn't really the greatest person, but they tend to be at their meanest when you can see the red flash of their eyes.