Hi, it's me, Grant. You’re looking attractive today. Welcome to my video. static We’ve
covered many things in DeltaRune since the release of Chapter 1, but throughout all our
videos I’ve been purposefully neglecting the most neglected character in the entire
game: The Jevil. And while his existence doesn’t change any of the opinions and thoughts from
our previous videos, he is nevertheless an important part of the story of DeltaRune and
the Darkners land. Yes this odd jester of disaster is much more than just a prisoner.
He’s...A HER!!! Just kidding, but you never know right? He’s a beacon of what's to come,
as Shaum, the shopkeep says, “Jevil was just a taste of what you’ll face from now
on. One day soon you too will begin to realize the futility of your actions. At that time
feel free to come back here...and we’ll toast to the end of the world.” Strong words
coming from a cotton stuffed teddy bear with a button for an eye. But perhaps this edgy
winnie the pooh is right, maybe Jevil is but a taste of the future of DeltaRune. If that’s
true, the question should be: Why? What is happening that will destroy the Darkners sense
of humanity and life to the point they believe this is all just a game? What really happened
to the Jevil? These are the questions I’m going to answer today so...PREPARE YOURSELF!!!
For a story of loneliness a thousand times over! For the tale of one follower who lost
their entire mind. This is the story of Jevil, the story, you never knew!
Ah, it’s always refreshing to do a story you never knew on a character! Reminds me
of the good old days! But this character, Jevil, he’s no Master Chief, no he’s something
else. Something different. When we meet Jevil through his prison bars there’s little doubt
he’s insane. I mean we can’t hear his voice but I believe his dialogue would sound
something like this: “Boo Hoo, Boo Hoo, Uee Hee Hee. So Lonely, lonely, I be...But
lo, three visitors standing inside?” Alright, so far he doesn't seem so bad right? A bit
kookie, I mean he likes to rhyme and says strange things, but so does Kanye West, that
doesn’t make you an inherently bad person, right? ...maybe Kanye wasn’t the best
example for that. Anyway, as he continues he gets a bit more...creepy: “I am innocent,
innocent, I just wanted to play a game, game. But the boring kings found such fun to be
a trouble. As punishment they craved to imprison my body. But I’m fast, fast, clever, clever.
They lost the chase, and locked up their entire race, Building a prison around the whole world,
now I’m the only free one.” Let’s pause here. Just from his dialogue we’ve already
learned a good amount from the Jevil before we ever even see him. First off, he believes
he’s done nothing wrong, yet the Kings obviously thought otherwise. So these “games” he
wants to play, they’re likely not scrabble or tetris, more like the, “how many murders
can I commit before getting caught” type of games. Also, he’s been locked away for
awhile. Jevil says quote “The boring kings found such fun to be a trouble.” Currently
there is only one reigning king: Lancer’s dad. So Jevil was locked away before the King
of Spades went nutso and threw the other three kings in the dungeon. Now from what we know
of the Dark world, the king of Spades went bananas and overthrew the other 3 kings thanks
to “The Knight”, another mysterious character that we don’t get much information on. But
based on various dialogues and the King calling the knight “My Knight” much like a servant
would call their master “My Lord” or “My King”, it’s pretty apparent that the Dark
World is currently run by this Knight. If we talk to Shaum about the Jevil, part of
the shopkeep’s dialogue is, “One day, he met a strange someone...and since then,
he began to change. He started saying bizarre things that didn’t completely make sense
- But didn’t completely not make sense, either.” Yeah I kinda got that from my conversation
with the guy. But the curious part of Shaum’s dialogue is that “he met with a strange
someone” could this someone be the very Knight we were just discussing??
Well my curious inquisitors, I actually think not. Let’s take a look at the Dark World
events as a timeline. Our earliest knowledge of this land is this: there were 4 kings in
joint rule. This was before we came here, before the Jevil got locked up, before everything
we know about, right? So we’ll put that as the earliest part of the timeline. Obviously
we don’t know exact dates or anything, but this will help us figure out what exactly
happened to the Jevil. We know the Jevil gets imprisoned while all the kings are ruling,
not one. Remember his dialogue specifically says, “The boring Kings found such fun to
be a trouble”. Kings, not King. So this means the Jevil was imprisoned before the
King of Spades took control of the kingdom. Aka, the Jevils imprisonment happened during
this earlier period, the plural, “Kings” period. Since we know the Knight’s entrance
happened around the time that the King of Spades got corrupted and took over, it doesn’t
make sense for the Jevil to have spoken to the Knight. He would already have been locked
up by the time the Knight appeared and corrupted the King of Spades. So that begs the question,
who is the strange someone the Jevil talked to? Like our friend Swankybox, I believe there’s
only one possible answer: W. D. Gaster. The Wingding himself, the master of timeline jumping
and annoying the schnitzel out of vidya game speculators everywhere.
This idea is backed up by many things, the most prominent being Shaum explaining that
his view of the world after talking to Jevil became darker, yet darker, a phrase which
also appeared in Undertale’s 17th lab entry, the one written in Wing Dings. In addition
to that, Gaster’s followers from Undertale, those grey dudes who were all existential
and whatnot, well two of them appear in DeltaRune as characters. We got the flaccid guy in the
library, and the dude sticking out of his car. Since we’re seeing Gaster followers
from Undertale as characters in this world and we get Gaster sound effects by using our
phone and when going south of town, it’s becomes more and more likely that this is
another timeline that Gaster has found. So there’s definitely some connection between
the DeltaRune and Gaster. And this connection likely explains Jevil’s actions and insanity.
If Jevil has a connection to Gaster it’s likely he realizes this world is not what
it seems. Hence his dialogue of being “free” despite his imprisonment behind bars. When
we finally leave the Dark World we appear in an unused classroom with cards and games
strewn about the floor. As I talked about in previous videos, this gives a lot of evidence
that the Dark World isn’t real, it's merely made of games. Jevil’s dialogue shows he
may very well know that the entire existence of his world isn’t actually reality. In
addition to his constant talk of games, he also acknowledges HP, a game mechanic, right
before we fight him. This is similar to Sans acknowledging game mechanics in Undertale.
It proves that he has knowledge that there’s a game going on, that he is part of the game,
and that knowledge likely comes from W.D Gaster’s involvement just as Sans’s knowledge of
such things likely came from Gaster. It’s no wonder his attitude began to change knowing
his life and everything he does, is likely quite meaningless. There’s timelines beyond
count and he’s part of a world that’s nothing more than a game. But you already
knew that, cuz you totally watched our other video right? Right?? So why would it matter
if his “games” as he called them, involved killing others? At least that’s what his
“game” with us was, so I’m only assuming that’s why he was locked up. Sans on the
other hand, while still working with Gaster, lived in a timeline where choice does matter.
When your actions have purpose, it makes it much easier to continue living. Jevil doesn’t
have that mental safety net. Sans is certainly depressed but he isn’t insane. Jevil, upon
realizing that nothing he could do would have any impact on the world, began to see the
world as nothing more than a game (which it is), the other characters as nothing more
than game pieces (which they are), so why not destroy some for fun? He’s “free”
because he knows what reality truly is. Yet that doesn’t stop him from being lonely.
And the loneliness is another part of Jevil’s insanity, the part that continues to corrupt
him.
Did you notice that the Jevil is jailed completely isolated from everyone else? It’s strange
isn't it? There’s an entire dungeon, a place where the other three kings are kept, where
we were placed in prison, a place with guards and shackles and yet the Jevil has an entire
floor completely sealed off for his imprisonment. Why? Why is he completely alone? In my opinion
he was likely jailed away from everyone else so he couldn’t speak to them about what
he knows of the Dark World, how it’s all fake. The kings didn’t want heretics running
rampant spouting beliefs that nothing matters. Shaum has felt the effects of Jevils words,
he doesn’t care about the world ending in the slightest. He also seems to believe nothing
matters. Yet he isn’t insane. Why is that? What is the difference between these Shaum
and the Jevil? If they both possess the same knowledge, it should have the same effect
over them. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t because Shaum hasn’t been kept in isolation
for who knows how long.The Jevil may be insane, but his insanity doesn’t stem from what
he knows about the reality of the Dark World. It comes from his solitary confinement. There’s
been many studies done on solitary confinement. One study on sensory deprivation from 1951
had a group of male students stay in small chambers only furnished with a bed. The subjects
were only allowed to leave to go to the bathroom. And even then they had to wear goggles, earplugs,
and gloves to limit all their senses. The original plan was to keep them isolated and
sensory deprived for six weeks. In reality not a single student lasted more than seven
days. They all lost their ability to think clearly about anything for any length of time.
Many of the students even suffered hallucinations. Solitary confinement is also likely to create
psychotic and/or dangerously depressed inmates. Between 1999 and 2004 another study found
that of all the people that took their own lives in prison, half were in solitary confinement.
Considering there’s very few people who are even in solitary confinement in contrast
to regular prison, that data shows that isolating an individual can do extremely strenuous
mental damage. Wait...mental damage. Solitary confinement causes MENTAL damage.
So when we’re contemplating the Jevil, everything he says we have to take with a grain of salt.
He’s almost certainly certifiably insane, but not because of his likely connection to
W.D Gaster, it’s because of his imprisonment method. And that’s what makes him such a
unique and interesting character. Jevil isn’t special. He could have been anyone. Look at
Gaster’s followers from Undertale. They have colored representations of themselves
in the games. Monster kid, or flaccid dude, all his followers are represented by ordinary
people of this world. And Jevil is no different. He learned hidden truths from Gaster, which
changed his perception on society and the world, causing him to question existence,
but that’s not really what made him insane. Solitary confinement is the true cause of
Jevils insanity, had he not endured it we likely would have learned more from him about
the world and the various timelines. But for now we’ll have to wait for future chapters
to give us a glimpse into the rest of the Dark World’s history. That’s the truth
behind the Jevil! He was corrupted by Gaster certainly, but if we look at his predicament,
he was mentally tortured until we uncaged him. That’s the story of how loneliness
can destroy your mind, of the Jevil’s true nature and how he became what he is. That’s
the story of the Jevil, the story you never knew!
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Love, Grant