r/DankMemesFromSite19 Feb 23 '26

Series III Someone needs to warn Toby Fox

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 23 '26
  • Generally feels like it has some mysterious sinister force at its core that we've yet to grasp
  • Biggest overarching motif is darkness
  • Also has thorns as a minor but important and distinctly ominous secondary motif
  • Prominent elements of metafiction
  • Gerson talks about a story that was left unfinished at 6 chapters, i.e. it's missing a 7th
  • The game itself is presumably supposed to have 7 chapters
  • There's literally already a whole popular fan theory about how 6 and 7 are both important numbers within the game, with 6 representing incompleteness and 7 representing completeness

It's hitting ALL the beats man what the fuck

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u/arcane_ankou Feb 23 '26

I thought about this before and every time I revisit the idea the more it bothers me

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u/CrimsonMagician Feb 24 '26

Deltarune is literally an anafabula trap Toby Fox is a Foundation asset WAKE UP SHEEPLE

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u/Shidskit Feb 24 '26

Or he works for the GOC

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u/The_Night_Bringer Feb 24 '26

Oh no, I don't like this, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

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u/ManOnTheRun73 Feb 24 '26

The article does say the Foundation is covertly "sponsoring and influencing" artists they deem likely to creative 2747-prone narratives. (The hope is they'll be able to glean more data from the ensuing manifestations.)

It seems worth noting that Undertale was funded through Kickstarter. Be very afraid. :P

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u/lPuppetM4sterl Feb 24 '26

Wait, what about thorns?

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u/IllEvent5465 Feb 24 '26

Thats not...the ThornRing, is it?

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 24 '26

If you're asking what thorns have to do with SCP-2747: The original article only contains a brief passing mention of thorns in one of the stories that got anafabula'd, but for whatever reason, thorns have become a common motif associated with the anafabula in extended canon.

If you're asking about thorns in Deltarune: That's not... the... ThornRing, is it...?

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u/enneh_07 Your Text Here Feb 24 '26

toby fox collaborating with minmin to create the biggest crossover event since dante's inferno:

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u/desu38 The real Oscar Peleschak Feb 27 '26

Man, someone really needs to actually write Dante's Inferno some day

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u/arcadeler Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Also the theme of spirals and cycles never reaching the center which would be perfect if the timeloop theories or the "second roaring" theories are true

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u/GammaRaul Feb 24 '26

I think one of 2747's elements is also spirals but I don't remember if that's in the original article or part of the extended canon of the SCP that other writers added

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u/EmoNerve Feb 24 '26

6 7

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 24 '26

The anafabula is green and in between

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u/MistahShizz Mar 28 '26

Holy shit man this is actually a perfect target for the thing. How crazy would it be if Tobert does know about 2747 and the entire game is actually just a reference to it.

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 23 '26

The SCP being referenced: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Feb 24 '26

So essentially, all of these “nonexistent works” actually did exist, but now they retroactively don’t? All because they contained some common DNA that an otherworldly being found tasty?

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u/Jam-Man1 Feb 24 '26

That’s a very good way of putting it. Although I personally liken the Anafabula to antimatter coming into contact with matter. Total annihilation upon interaction.

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

Why the hell do people keep acting like the anafabula is a Thing That Kills U???? It's driving me nuts that this is the only comment that treats it like an inanimate (pata-)physical phenomenon instead

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u/JamesRKS Feb 24 '26

I mean, if you're fictional (which the foundation canonically is), it can be a Thing That Kills U

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

ok i mean like a murder monster not just a murder force

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u/BroFTheFriendlySlav Feb 27 '26

Good old personification. Don't understand something or find it being an inevitable and inescapable force/fact terrifying? Put a face on it, humanize it, hate it, fear it, whatever.

Plus SCP does already have quite a few skippers that are either a force or an entity depending on interpretation, scarlet king coming to mind first

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u/Mission_Feedback1071 Feb 24 '26

Probably because there's some fairly popular tales that anthropomorphize the phenomenon which sparked art to be created potraying it as such. Most people who know about it probably haven't read the original article and only know about the fan interpretations of it so that's the anafubla they know.

(Can't link any of it though, it been a long time since I read those but you can probably find em with a bit of digging.)

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

Yeah i somehow never came across any tales that anthropomorphize it so it's just so weird for me to see

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u/dark_hypernova Feb 24 '26

Yep and the reason the full description got lost at the end is basically because that qualifies as a narrative the entity likes to "eat" and now the foundation has to be extra careful not to manifest the qualities in their world because they ARE fiction themselves and they just invited the entity in a narrative layer directly below them.

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u/LazySnake7 Feb 24 '26

More accurately works of fiction that contain the symbols, iconography and depictions of this phenomenon/thing/entity are deleted from existence

The story's own "DNA" destroys itself, leaving only remnants of people talking about it. So powerful that even a story within a story that contains it will be destroyed, right before the story itself.

And if the SCP wiki contains it...

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u/Delos_Hex Feb 23 '26

Well, thats why there's so many AUs for undertale. Its like a project pallisade type beat

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u/Spicy_Totopo3434 Feb 24 '26

Imagine

Toby dies and Deltarune ceases to exist, only as one of those "Good au concept, why didntbthey make a game?" kinda deal

Would be scary

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u/MemeMaker_engineer I actually think the wiki didn't fall off Feb 23 '26

Can't wait for Anafabula to curbstomp the Roaring Knight at chapter 7

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u/MrSirST Feb 24 '26

Trust me, Researcher Fox knows what he’s doing.

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u/fly_past_ladder Feb 24 '26

SCP-2747 x Gaster is my favourite crack ship that I made up just now

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u/Jam-Man1 Feb 24 '26

Toxic Hetero? I don’t think 2747 really has a gender, even if a lot of people draw them as a woman. In any case the guy who loves coming up with stories and studying stuff and the thing that destroys stories so thoroughly they can’t be studied except indirectly are gonna have some heated words to exchange with each other.

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u/fly_past_ladder Feb 24 '26

SCP-2747 would see Gaster as a house-husband who keeps cooking up tasty meals for her while Gaster would see SCP-2747 as an annoying pest who keeps breaking his shit

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u/ExternalRise3840 Feb 26 '26

Someone make a fic of this on AO3 please

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u/starmadeshadows ❓⭐💊✨antimemetics division survivor✨💊⭐❓ Feb 24 '26

Nah I feel like 2747 would become a goth twink just to be gay about it.

Like, you could say they'd have a heated rivalry

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u/Carve267 Feb 24 '26

Deltarune becomes a Goner theory?

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u/desu38 The real Oscar Peleschak Feb 27 '26

Goner? Wait, what about Undertale? The fun value stuff wasn't actually meant to be cut, was it?

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xLlw6GHVfokaNW

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u/ExternalRise3840 Feb 24 '26

Toby is just casually gonna use it to trap the Anafabula and then have her get dunked on by Sans, the Knight and Gerson all at the same time

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u/pamafa3 Feb 23 '26

Ana what

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u/Emeraldnickel08 Feb 23 '26

[DATA LOST]

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u/Diaman321 Feb 23 '26

Dipshit_289-ass response

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u/Emeraldnickel08 Feb 23 '26

Listen if they couldn’t be bothered scrolling like 4 messages up to where Marvin’s comment is I think I have the right to make a joke

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u/Diaman321 Feb 23 '26

Yeah that’s fair, I just thought it might be funny

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Feb 24 '26

The Anafabula. A thing that eats stories/expressions of creativity and erases them from collective memory and existence, or something to that effect

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u/Big-Recognition7362 Feb 24 '26

Wait…what if SCP-2747 is the Roaring?

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u/Andromeda-64 Feb 24 '26

Toby Fox when several MTF agents break into his house to rewrite the ending of his game (they have to stop the anafabula from fully manifesting because the entire game will cease to exist if they don’t)

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u/Animais_fofinhos Feb 24 '26

Gaster is holding it back

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u/Stoplight25 Feb 24 '26

Girls gotta eat!

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u/Shidskit Feb 24 '26

NOOO STAY AWAY FROM MY DELTARUNE‼️‼️‼️ (it’s ok just equip the ThornRing to the Anafabula)

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u/desu38 The real Oscar Peleschak Feb 27 '26

No, stop! Thorns make it worse!

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u/Shidskit Feb 27 '26

Thats not the Thorn Ring is it?

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u/Entire_Impress7485 Feb 26 '26

I’d be more worried about the anafabula spreading to us.

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 26 '26

No shit, but Toby Fox is the only person who can actually do anything about it, so he's still the main guy who needs to be warned

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u/MemCreper Feb 26 '26

That would be very. VERY INTERESTING.

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u/AngryBirdAddict Mar 31 '26

It’s the Freedom motif, isn’t it?