In my next episode of \"DELTARUNE IS A HOMESTUCK\", let's look at Homestuck' The Carnival compared with Delta Rune's \"The Circus\". These are the respective prelude musics for Homestuck's Gamzee Makara and Deltarune's Jevil...both agents associated with clowns, jokers, jesters, and insanity through the comparative concepts of \"rage\" and \"chaos\".
Apart from the surface similarities (clowns, insane, etc.,) I think it's interesting how both of these characters' insanity clue into similar concepts. For both Gamzee and Jevil, there is a sense that their insanity comes from knowing too much about the artificiality of their worlds. This gives them power and unpredictability. But what they do further is they inspire us, the observer, to engage in their insanity. Whereas games and other media are ostensibly trying to get us \"lost in the world,\" these characters force us to confront that these worlds are, in fact, artificial. We try to get \"secrets\" that we can only really know about if we understand that these media are fake.
Song: The Carnival, The Circus
Game: Homestuck, DELTARUNE
Composer: Erik Jit Steele, Toby Fox
