Deltarune Chapter 3 PREDICTIONS | Secret Boss, Lore, Snowgrave, Dess, and MORE! | Deltarune Theory

If you check Toriel's chair in the first two chapters the text box refers to it as 'Chariel the beloved living room chair' I think it's very likely Chariel will be a character in the dark world.

1:12 actually, the cup full of swords is likely meant to be asriel’s pencil cup, because pencils seem to turn into swords in the dark world.

I used to be disappointed that we had to wait for this chapter by chapter. Now I really enjoy the fact that each chapter gets to be enjoyed slowly. If all seven dropped at once, we wouldn't get such in depth content like this, or at least as much.

My personal belief is that Tenna is this Dark World’s ruler. Because there is no way Toby Fox isn’t gonna pass up the pun of her being Lancer’s Aunt Tenna

Agreed, the secret bosses are meant to be dark. I still remember when I first entered spamtons shop, the creepy music, the wallpaper, the phone, just everything about it disturbed me to the core.

I’m a big fan of the idea that ch.3’s SB will be VHS related, but i don’t necessarily think they will just be focused on Kris’ issues, but rather reflect them. The SB could symbolize old memories from a time where the family were all happy together and now those previously joyous memories are painful to recollect. Would be an easy way to tie into UT with those tapes and such. And i especially agree that the flowers are unlikely to be the SB. We literally just had a SB who was [living in a goddamn garbage can] after all.

Okay, this is my big, out there theory for the structure of chapter three. In Chapter One, the main character development is Susie opening up to Kris and becoming their best friend. This is obviously something the Soul wants, given the repeated attempts to influence her, but there is a lot of evidence to support the idea that Kris has wanted to be friends with Susie for a long time now. The first chapter fulfilled that wish, and the two characters are in a better situation The second chapter was focused on Noelle learning to stand up for herself and for Berdley to be less of a jerk. In the pacifist route, that is obviously accomplished, but it is interesting to note that even in the Weird Route, that still happens. Noelle gains a "Stronger" resolve, and Berdley isn't a problem anymore. The means to achieve that are much worse, but the same general goal was still reached. So i think the answer to how this story ends and what happens in the weird route depends entirely on what the characters need. And since Kris opened this dark world, I think Kris has something in mind that the Soul doesn't agree with. In my mind it works like this. I think Kris made this dark fountain for two reasons. One is obviously just to be around Susie more because she is their best friend. But the more interesting reason is that they are trying to get their mother to notice that they are possessed. We know that Noelle has picked up on Kris being off because she's one of the few people who was friends with Kris in the past. The only other person who knows them more than Noelle is Toriel, and we know that Toriel is concerned about Kris from the conversation she has with Alphys where she asks if Kris is doing okay because they've been worrying her. In the pacifist route, along the way Kris could try to highlight their strange behavior to their mother in an attempt to get her to help them. Like the tape theory you mentioned, maybe there will be key items spread around that contain pieces of Kris' memories. Family photos, artwork they made as kids, maybe even old home movies(which would be a call back to the tapes found in the True Lab of Undertale) Of course, since we are controlling Kris as the Soul, we could shut down all of these attempts if we want to, but I have the feeling that since Chapter 2 Kris has learned a lot of new ways to circumvent the Soul's power and will likely succeed in their plan in some way unless we take more drastic measures. That's where I believe the Weird Route would come in. I'm not sure if this route would focus on murder since that was so heavily focused on in Chapter Two, and we would instead be using Toriel's fire magic to destroy the memories/evidence in order to keep Kris quiet. The culmination of this route would be us using Toriel's fire to defeat whatever final boss blocks the fountain(maybe a manifestation of the Kris we're suppressing?), then we seal the fountain immediately afterwards just like Chapter 2's Weird route. Then as soon as we wake up, we realize that the house is on fire due to the damage we inflicted in the Dark World. We would all rush to get out, but Undyne doesn't get out fast enough and she is either critically injured and rushed to the hospital or outright dies in the fire. This would explain away how the story could continue after Toriel discovers a dead body in her house, and for some added sadness maybe it ends with her assuming she must have left the oven on start after hastily leaving the pie unfinished, and blaming herself for Undyne's death. Of course you could argue that an ending like that would too drastically shake up the status quo, and that's fair, but I just find the symbolism of burning down memories to be too cool to leave alone. I guess we'll just see

Of course Jevil is silly. He's a jester. He's not serious, he's really dangerous. Spamton is also silly, but he has a deep serious side to him (fleshed out much more, due to longer screen time, which is a big improvement from Jevil). But you can't expect fanbase to not make every character memeable/funny/likeable. While I agree a more down to earth secret boss would be really cool, most fan creators follow the current trend with secret bosses' personalities and I mean, I don't blame them. We have 2 samples of secret boss, both having similiar character traits.

Honestly it would be cool to have the SB be three characters instead of one: ・the mirror, reflecting a mirror image of kris ・the how to draw dragons book, standing in for susie ・the overly designed boss from asriel's computer as a stand-in for a ralsei, creating a mirror of the main party as the SB of the third chapter

I have a theory that chapter 4 will take place entirely in the light world. It will be a more laid-back shorter chapter. It would make sense because you already spent the past 3 chapters almost entirely in the dark worlds. I can imagine meeting Noelle's mother, getting to know more about Dess, getting more clues about the "Song coming from the sea", the bunker, talking more to the characters in Hometown, etc. We already know Kris will be hanging out with Susie in chapter 4 for a bit.

"its coming this fall"

I personally do think Napstablook will be the one coming to the house. Think about it this way. With the flowers eventually referencing Flowey, Ralsei referencing Asriel, Kris referencing Frisk/Chara, Toriel being there, the spider webs in the green room indicating the presence of spiders, and the place turned into a Dark World being Home and looking very similar to Undertale's Home in terms of vibe, we may have at least a part of the Dark World referencing the Ruins in Undertale. The only thing lacking is Napstablook since we meet him in the Ruins in Undertale. But since he's part of the police, he may be the one coming, completing the Ruins reference. Literally all the characters we meet in the Ruins would either be there or be referenced in some way. So to me, a Ruins reference is likely. And once again, the house has the same vibe as Home, so it would be a little bit of a missed opportunity to not reference it in some way.

I had a dream last night that chapter 3-5 got a release date for this spring. That wasn’t even the first time I’ve had a dream about that happening.

I think trying to figure out secret boss is pointless. Could you guess Spamton from Computer Room or Jevil from Old Classroom? It will probably be the same here.

Mike and Tenna could both be Rooks. There are two to a side in chess. Also two Bishops each traveling on only one color of squares. And two knights... I bet Susie has a history with the police so she and Undyne may have a lot to "discuss" together. As for the Weird Route, perhaps Undyne found Berdly in his Snowgrave coma earlier that evening so she's already on the warpath. If we make Toriel kill her in defense of Kris and Susie, imagine her waking up in front of a pile of dust, and then going to get cleaning supplies from Sans, who can possibly sense other people's Execution points. That would be awkward!

I think that Jevil and Spamton are serious, but they aren't supposed to be scary; instead, they are just sad, broken individuals. The "incorrect grammar" is a constant between our two super bosses and is used to show just how far gone they are. Spamton is much more involved with the story and has deeper ties with Kris, so I can see how Jevil is overshadowed by the fandom and what makes the fandom think the third super boss will follow the formula.

I think Mike and Tenna will be a duo that you’ll just have a regular boss fight against because people think Mike is a TV or a game show host, game show host’s would use a microphone or a mic which could be why his name is Mike and for Tenna I think her name will just be for the pun of a TV antenna so they could say Mike and Tenna which sounds like antenna

Remember that a "Rook" not only refers to the chess piece, but also a swindler, crook or robber. There's a lot of potential, especially given the numerous nods to outlaws, Undyne appearing as a law enforcer, and the potentially "manipulative executive" angle that you've brought up, that we could actually get a Rook-themed character. So an unholy mix of fanon Mike content, as well as Chess Theory, is the most likely option, IMO, especially considering Toby's love of double-meanings and hidden secrets.

I’d just like to say on the topic of spamton, people definitely forget how terrifying spamton NEO actually is and that Kris is traumatized after the fight.

If Asgore really had trouble with the law then there might be a scene imitating Ace Attorney or Judge Judy.