VC!Deltarune, or Deltarune Alternate Chapters, is a fangame that is being developed by Vision Crew, attempting to make a set of alternate chapters for the game based on predictions from Chapters 1 and 2. Originally started as a relatively small-scale Soundcloud page taking after the Spamton Sweepstakes' Chapter 3 teases, its creator, R.V. Pine, eventually developed it into a fully-fledged alternate take of what a full Deltarune might look like.
VC!Deltarune contains examples of:
- Adaptational Gender Identity:
- Dess is a trans woman, with her considering her full name (December) her deadname.
- Tenna is genderfluid and switches between whatever he wants, as a reference to TVs being able to display anything.
- Adaptation Name Change: In lieu of their canon names being unrevealed as of the project's creation, the Weather Duo go by Partley and Cloudi here.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Downplayed. Dirk is The Unfought due to his pacifist nature, but he's inconceivably powerful due to being the Darkner equivalent of the knife used to open the Church Fountain.
- Alternate Reality Game: The Wintryslayer2998 blog, which started as a personal blog for Dess in the vein of the Spamton Sweepstakes pages and quickly turned into puzzle-based teasers for plot elements and characters yet to be seen.
- All the Worlds Are a Stage: Played with - Chapter 7 has a portion consisting of multiple Dark Worlds that WEREN'T encountered anywhere else in the game.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Chapter 6's story does not focus on any of the members of the main cast, with the party instead being comprised of The Vessel and Dess.
- Art Shift: Camellia invokes this with some of her attacks, which are Photoshop-mashed images that each represent different core memories Kris recorded with her while growing up.
- Ascended Extra: Zig-zagged. Mettaton is a major character in Undertale, but is Demoted to Extra in Deltarune proper, but is the secret boss of VC!Deltarune's fourth chapter.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Downplayed with W.D. Gaster. He genuinely means well in his experiments and interactions with the world, but as a foreigner to Deltarune's world both existentially and locally, his means to said ends often take unorthodox or genuinely harmful forms.
- Breather Episode: Chapter 4 has no Dark World be created, and is instead focused almost entirely on the Light World.
- Canon Character All Along:
- Camellia is the Darkner of Toriel's handheld camcorder that, in Undertale's world, was used to create the family VHS tapes in the True Lab.
- Likewise, Hex is a full expansion of the unused "Redacted" NPC from the same game, with the original sprite's long white body being interpreted as a mass of hair-like tendrils.
- FRIEND is one to Deltarune itself, with it being an expansion on the disembodied Spamton-esque face that shows up in both Chapter 2's basement area and the Chair page on the Spamton Sweepstakes.
- Chess Motifs: Expanded on from Deltarune itself, much like the Playing Card Motifs.
- Tenna and Ann are the two Rooks.
- Minister and Dirk are the two Bishops.
- The Chasers are the eight Pawns.
- The Roaring Knight is still the Knight, but they're not the only one - the Holy Knight makes himself known in Chapter 5, accounting for there being two Knights in a set of chess pieces.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The process by which Vi is turned into a vessel is very similar to that of a lobotomy, with the actions of the Vessel itself when not controlled by The Player being similar to those of a lobotomy patient.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The Holy Knight, as the final boss of Chapter 5.
- Eldritch Abomination:
- Downplayed with the Minister - he's capable of exaggerating his appearance and altering the environment around him, but he isn't as powerful as he was in his prime.
- Played fully straight with his pet Hycrisik, a distant blood relatives of the Titans themselves. It getting its hands on a Lightner's SOUL is powerful enough to bring about a "stony prison" akin to the Roaring, and its boss form's appearance is often depicted as a monstrous, multi-armed version of Asriel's God of Hyperdeath form from Undertale.
- The Chasers, abstract Darkners that embody vaguer concepts such as trauma and nightmares as opposed to singular objects.
- The FRIEND, a shape-shifting creature foreign to Deltarune's world that somehow corrupts anything it gets near.
- The Titans as a whole count as this, but special mention goes to Rosage, the Darkner embodiment of the Grand Fountain that fuels Castle Town's existence.
- Evil All Along: Tenna acts hospitable to Kris and co. when they first enter the Homeworld, but eventually he reveals his true colors as a manipulator who's cheated his way to the top and screwed everyone else over for his own gain.
- Evil Counterpart: Gonner is one to Lancer.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: Chapter 6, which breaks up the pre-existing party and chapter progression entirely in favor of a Survival Horror-based journey through the Bunker with Dess Holiday and a previously-created Vessel for the SOUL.
- The Ghost: Downplayed with Mike. In the main story to Chapter 3, most mentions of him are in the context of his former role as the leader of the Homeworld, and what happened after Tenna showed up and ran him out - if you do Camellia's superboss quest, however, he comes out of hiding to help with pacifying her and joins Castle Town after the fact.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Crucibel and Rithix, a Chapter 5 Dual Boss modelled after this concept.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Mantlekeeper's alias of "Phantasia" is considered this in-universe, with narration groaning that it's just her making a reference to the movie Fantasia.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Gonner. Compared even to other evil characters like Tenna and King, he's a heartless monster who only really lives to cause misery for other people and eat them up when he gets bored of them.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Ralsei and Rosage, with the implication being that Ralsei himself is a Titan like his father.
- The Mafia: Alley Tom and his Shadowmen, who Tenna bribed into forcing his competition out.
- Plague Doctor: Eska is a Darkner of the stereotypical beaked mask often worn by plague doctors, though her role in the story itself is more akin to that of a warrior opposing the Minister.
- Playing Card Motifs: Since King and Lancer have Spades for eyes, and Queen's visor is somewhat Heart-shaped, the rulers of Chapters 3 and 5 continue the trend. Ann and Tenna both have angular shadows over their eyes to represent the Diamond suit, and Minister, Londe, and Dirk are all three-eyed to represent the Club suit (albeit Dirk's hasn't grown in just yet).
- Retcon: Usually OST-wise more than anything, but characters and plot progression aren't out of the question, either - Chapter 3 in particular has been tweaked the most extensively since its inception, with entire areas and characters being either phased out or reworked.
- Superboss: As per Deltarune tradition.
- Chapter 3's superboss is Camellia.
- Chapter 4's superboss is Nobody, AKA Mettaton's ghost form.
- Chapter 5 is unique in that it has TWO superbosses in a singular quest - Mantlekeeper and Hycrisik.
- Chapter 6's superboss is Hex.
- And, finally, Chapter 7's superboss is W.D. Gaster himself.
- Starving Artist: Arty, one of Tenna's stars who's been losing his funding as his material's fallen out of style. His theme's name also references the concept directly.
- Sinister Minister: The Minister, natch.
- Snake Whip: Catti wields Jockington as a whip in the Dark World, as part of a Whole Costume Reference to Castlevania.
- Unexpected Shmup Level: The "Channel Hopping" segment, where the Fun Gang flies on a miniature ship representing a TV remote.
