Toby Fox using "shrouded in darkness" phrasing in a reply to someone asking about hidden "triple pacifist" and a Gaster boss fight; the wiki already notes that that phrase was used in Deltarune teases. Worth mentioning this possible one?

Wiki Discussion
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For starters, sources:

https://imgur.com/a/gaster-gIDzWBP (sorry UK editors)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/3yy379/comment/cyho5kf/

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112031041/https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snfu3n

The exact quote is a twitter user asking "@FwugRadiation so on a scale of 1-fullr***rd, how much is /v/ overspeculating about the secrets hidden in the game? People are talking about triple pacifist and hidden bossfights against wingdings"; Fox responded with:

@ParasolWaddleD regarding this... the very nature of it is shrouded in darkness. looking too hard here will just bring you despair.

Wiki already notes "very nature is shrouded in darkness" phrasing as being tied to Deltarune; being used in "next game" teases in 2013 and 2016. while this usage being tied too is speculative, since it is verbatim the same phrase I believe it is worth mentioning somewhere. Thoughts?

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Bump on this, what does everyone think?

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sounds cool

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Bumping this again... I feel this is worth a mention somewhere, not as a certain Gaster tie but as a possible early, unassuming allusion to Deltarune. Phrasing is essentially exact.

Wording could be like: "Soon after the release of Undertale, Toby Fox responded to someone asking whether "triple pacifist" and a boss fight against W.D. Gaster were in the game with "the very nature of it is shrouded in darkness. looking too hard here will just bring you despair". This response nearly directly quoted the phrase "its very nature is shrouded in darkness", which was used by Toby to allude to Deltarune in 2013 and late 2015."

Location would be on the Deltarune page, possibly on the Gaster page but I can understand the concerns with this. On Deltarune it would go in initial development if accepted.

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It does, but mainly I am wondering about the wiki. Do you think it is worthy of inclusion?

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So, the point of including this information on the wiki is that Toby's claim involving Gaster uses the same phrasing as used for Deltarune, implying that Gaster is connected to Deltarune? I think that's more suitable for the Gaster page on Undertale Wiki rather than Deltarune's development.

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Alright, I have added it there. Feel free to look that over or remove it if you don't like it.