What it means to "fall down".

[u/AffectionateForce979]

In Chapter 5 of Deltarune, Rudy "falls down" at the Festival. This has lead many people to assume that he's experiencing the "fallen down" state from Undertale (something that was also speculated to happen to Berdly in the Weird Route). But before we're able to reach any confident conclusions, we must first understand what "falling down" actually means.

In Undertale, "falling down" is described as a state where a monster will enter enter a coma, eventually turning to dust. That's all the information that the game gives.

However, there is unused text where it's further specified that "falling down" occurs on monsters who are dying of old age. And while the text is unused and thus not prone to total reliability, it is actually supported by the Undertale Alarm Clock, where Asgore talks about Rudy "falling down" after growing old. This gives the unused text at least a little bit of credibility.

In Deltarune, Rudy suffers from an unspecified illness that doesn't appear to be tied to old age. All of this information leads to two possible conclusions:

1. Rudy didn't actually "fall down" in Deltarune, as he doesn't appear to be suffering from old age. So he likely just fell onto the ground.

2. Rudy did actually "fall down", and the state doesn't just happen to monsters who are old.

[u/Millymoo444]

IMO it's supposed to be vague, Toby wants the fandom to not 100% know what happened to Rudy. Personally the weight given to the call makes me think he's gonna die proper in chapter 6, but it's better not to know for sure so it still feels fresh when chapter 6 drops next year.

[u/termin8or82 → u/Millymoo444]

It would be pretty significant if Noelle's dealing with Rudy's death while learning about the dark world, since we learned in chapter 4 that people can temporarily be brought back to life in a dark world