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//Spoilers for Chapters 3&4 of Deltarune//
So that's the hypothesis: Mike is an angel, and he exists to demonstrate that there is no single "Angel".
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This means that there are at least two angels -the Player, and Mike- and one of them could be the Angel of Hometown. Then there's Gaster, who also has many Angel-like properties, implying that he could be one, as well, but I don't wanna get into that rn.
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Then there's the Player. The Player is not Mike. Mike interfaced with Jevil, Spamton, and Tenna in ways that we, the Player, never did. However, Hometown's religion implies things about the Angel that can be applied very well to the Player.
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The only evidence I have is that Mike *might* be named after Michael, implying a similarity between Mike and Michael, making Mike a protector of a blessed nation of believers, which resembles the Angel of Hometown.
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To prove it, I'd need a smoking gun - some evidence that Mike is a relevant figure in the religion. But there isn't any such evidence.
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Admittedly, though, beyond the evidence that Mike is *an* angel, there's nothing suggesting that he's *the* Angel of Hometown. I checked - none of the text in the game suggests that Mike is direct association with the Hometown religion.
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Seeing as he calls out to Mike when he thinks he's about to ascend to Heaven, it's reasonable to conclude that Mike resides there, which would make him an angel.
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Spamton's very fixated on themes of religion. He refers to Noelle as the Angel, and he mentions communion when talking about the Knight, and his main goal is to ascend and reach "Heaven."
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It's very likely that the mysterious benefactors of Jevil, Spamton, and Tenna were all the same entity, and that that entity is Mike. Is there evidence that Mike is the Angel of Hometown? There's some, but it's not conclusive.
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Spamton calls out to Mike when he thinks he's about to ascend, and in Chapter 3, Tenna receives real-time instructions from Mike via the antennae, similar to how Spamton's benefactor used to instruct *him* via telephone.
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The otherworldly origin of the knowledge Jevil acquired, plus the "garbage noise" that played on Spamton's phone, all suggests that both of their benefactors came from beyond their world.
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It's widely accepted that the one who contacted Jevil was the one who contacted Spamton. Jevil learned some esoteric truths from his mysterious contact, and Spamton's mind and nature were seemingly changed after coming into contact with *his* benefactor.
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Let's explore the possibility that Mike is both the Angel of Hometown, as well as the mysterious entity that was in contact with Jevil, Spamton, and Tenna.
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So, there are many god-like entities in Deltarune's world, and Mike is probably one of them. Furthermore, he might even be *the* Angel of Hometown's religion, considering the fact the he's named after Michael, who's characterized as the guardian of Israel.
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Even the Player -who interacts with the world of Deltarune in ways that no character can- has to play by the rules. Unless the Player does some hacking, the Player can't claim to be the god of Deltarune, because they were not that world's architect.
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No one in Deltarune's world can claim to be the ultimate authority over that world, because none of them have direct control over the metaphysics of their reality. Many characters come close, but none of them *made* Deltarune.
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Back to how Michael's name begs the question of God's uniqueness, I believe that Mike, as a character, is meant to demonstrate that none of the "angels" in Deltarune -not the god of Hometown, not the Player, no one- can be that world's one true god.
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Why would the god of Hometown be called an "angel"? In the context of Abrahamic esotericism, angels are not gods, and there is only one god, to whom they are all subservient.
I believe that there are multiple "Angels" in Deltarune, and Mike is 1 of them.
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Hometown's religion worships an "Angel". In the game, the Player is characterized as a sort of deific figure, playing god in Deltarune's world. There's a theory that the Player is *the* Angel, but I believe that it's more complicated than that.
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Now here's where things get bizarre. Religion is an explicit theme in Deltarune, to the point where the Church in Hometown is plot-and-lore-relevant, and the Heroes are following a Prophecy that's part of Hometown's religion.
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Michael, from Hebrew, translates to "Who is like El?" This rhetorical question is meant to communicate that no one is like God. More on this later.
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In Abrahamic texts, Michael is one of the most important angels, being a sort of leader of all angels, as well as the guardian of Israel. (I'm so tempted to elaborate on how Asriel/Ralsei is an anagram for "Israel", but for the sake of this discussion, I will hold myself back.)
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The microphone aspect has already been thoroughly elaborated as of Chapter 4, but I want to explore the potential meaning of "Mike" as "Michael". There's already plenty of precedent for names having deeper meanings, so that might be the case here, too.
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Ok, so with all that in mind, what's up with Mike? In everyday use, "Mike" is an abbreviation for both "microphone", as well as "Michael".
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Sans and Papyrus are named after the fonts used in the textboxes when they speak; Undyne is a pun of "undying"; entering Chara's name in the title sequence gets you the description "The true name"; and Gaster is so important and mysterious that entering his name crashes your game in both UT and DR.
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I already talked about Asriel's etymology, but his name is also a portmanteau of his parents' names, Toriel and Asgore. Toriel's name is a pun on "tutorial", and Asgore is apparently a reference to a Latin word for being sad or something idk lol
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Second, let's go over the name thing. Chara's name is a reference to the word "character" This communicates that the most important thing about them, as a person, is the fact that they were a crucial-yet-nebulous character in the past.
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Off the top of my head, Frisk is the second-coming of Chara, a la Christ; Asriel is the God of Hyperdeath, named after the Islamic angel of Death, Azrael; the Delta Rune Prophecy in Undertale evokes a common esoteric trope where Hell goes empty; and there's angelic and demonic imagery everywhere.
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First, let's quickly go over the Abrahamic esotericism. Undertale and Deltarune are full of imagery and narrative motifs from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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yeah
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isn't that that one indie horror series on YouTube
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