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[[WMG: Chapter 2 will be the only chapter with a Weird Route, but by doing it, you will start [[ForWantOfANail a series of events that will wildly throw the story off-course]].]]

While it has been confirmed that only 7 chapters will exist, surely there must be something gain from defeating ''every'' {{Superboss}} in the game, right? Maybe it's possible that Chapter 7 will only be the final chapter if you just complete each chapter each normally, and that if you only complete the chapters, the Knight (or rather the Grandmaster)'s [[TheBadGuyWin plan will succeed]] and [[ApocalypseHow everyone dies.]] However if you complete each chapter ''and'' defeat each superboss, you unlock [[SecretFinalCampaign Chapter 8.]] During this secret chapter, The Angel -upon witnessing The Roaring that begun in Chapter 7- descends upon the planet with full intent of [[OmnicidalManiac cleansing the planet of all sin.]] Grandmaster Gaster's plan to lure The Angel to the planet by causing The Roaring is designed to convince the angel that sentient life on the planet is evil, and therefore deserves to die.

* Alternatively, instead of (or in addition to) Magicant, perhaps it was inspired by Moonside. In ''{{VideoGame/Earthbound}}'', after you complete your goals in Moonside (i.e. destroying the Mani Mani statue), you "wake up" in the back room of Jackie's Cafe, in which you apparently had been aimlessly wandering the entire time, similar to how you return to the storeroom at the end of ''Deltarune''.

* Well, Toby made the joke about the first chapter's ending an AscendedMeme (that being the joke that the reason Kris tore the SOUL out of his body and brandished a knife was to go stuff his face with pie and keep the SOUL from having any), so it stands to reason he'd do the same here.

Considering we saw Kris open a new Dark Fountain in his living room in the ending of Chapter 2, it's safe to assume that Kris and Susie will awaken in the Dark World at the start of the next chapter and there won't be any wandering around in the Light World at the start, unlike Chapters 1 and 2.

* Orange: A Wall, for Monster Kid, who hasn't joined the party yet. The shape is depicting the top of a wall at a diagonal angle; Monster Kid has no arms, he's afraid of falling (which is itself a reference to his falling in Hotland during Undertale)

One of Malleus's items requires the Thorn Ring to create. The item isn't craftable anyway for now (it also requires a Pure Crystal, which as of yet cannot be obtained), but if it was, the only way to have a Thorn Ring in your inventory at that point is to do most of the Weird Route but ''not'' kill Berdly? (You must have the Thorn Ring equipped to Noelle to kill Berdly, and Noelle then immediately departs with the Ring.)

One of Malleus's items requires the Thorn Ring to create. The item isn't craftable anyway for now (it also requires a Pure Crystal, which as of yet cannot be obtained), but if it was, the only way to have a Thorn Ring in your inventory at that point is to do most of the Weird Route but ''not'' kill Berdly (you must have the Thorn Ring equipped to kill Berdly, and Noelle then immediately departs with the Ring.)

One of Malleus's items requires the Thorn Ring to create. The item isn't craftable anyway for now (it also requires a Pure Crystal, which as of yet cannot be obtained), but if it was, the only way to have a Thorn Ring in your inventory at that point is to do most of the Weird Route but ''not'' kill Berdly.

You can go through the entirety of Chapter 1 without knowing about Jevil. Spamton, on the other hand, has one mandatory encounter on Chapter 2's normal route; he only shows up again if you follow his instructions and go looking for him, so it's easy for an unknowing player to brush him off as a random miniboss. If this is part of a pattern, the future Shadow Crystal Holders could go from being a side-villain that has multiple main-story appearances, to TheDragon of the chapter's ArcVillain, to maybe even being the ArcVillain themselves. The last one could even be the BigBad or GreaterScopeVillain of all of ''Deltarune'' and possibly even ''Undertale''. They could still all be {{Bonus Boss}}es by means of fighting stronger versions of them (or, like Sans, they just don't fight you unless certain conditions are met), it's just that you'll be seeing each of them more and more as the game progresses, going from hidden characters to a central part of the story as it goes on.

If this pattern continues on in other chapters, my theory is that the goal is breaking Kris' will by traumatizing them to the point they no longer would even need the SOUL's input (kinda like when Noelle didn't recognize Berdly and thought him as just another enemy). Breaking their will for what goal? Most likely manipulating Ralsei. Ralsei, as a Darkner, seems to be overly eager to please the Lightners and Kris most of all, so if Kris is insistent enough Ralsei might be pushed into whatever they tell him to do. What would he be pushed to do? Hurt Susie.

After all, Toby Fox said that this game is supposed to be about befriending everyone, so why would he put the option of another genocide route(s) if his plan was to have only one ending? Simple, "your choice doesn't matter" is a case of reverse psychology. There's no better way to get a gamer into trying to break free of the script than telling them they can't? Just look at all the people going through the Snowgrave route already, despite everyone saying it's an even bigger MoralEventHorizon than ''Undertale's'' genocide route. Because it's like Sans said: we're not doing it out of malice, or boredom, we're doing it because we can, and therefore we gotta.

Chapter 2 introduces the opportunity of GuestPartyMember duos of a mage and a fighter (Noelle and Berdly), and with Toriel and (most likely) Undyne being the next ones, and the theories that Cattie and Jockington will be next, it strock me the specific pattern, but then I remember: our main party also has a mage and a fighter, Ralsei and Susie, and it seems that, by virtue of Kris' previous history with them, the mages are the ones more in risk of being manipulated by the SOUL. Into what? Harming the fighter, even killing them, if Berdly is an example.

If this pattern continues on in other chapters, my theory is that the goal is breaking Kris' will by traumatizing them to the point they no longer would even need the SOUL's input (kinda like when Noelle didn't recognize Berdly and thought him as just another enemy). Breaking their will for what goal? Most likely manipulating Ralsei. Ralsei, as a Darkner, seems to be overly eager to please the Lightners and Kris most of all, so if Kris is insistent enough Ralsei might be pushed into whatever they tell him to do. What would he be pushed to do? Hurt Susie.