Man

Well, there is a man here.

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The **Man** is a mysterious character that can be encountered multiple times in *Deltarune*. He is always hidden from the player's view, making his appearance completely unknown.

He does not have any direct dialogue; instead, every interaction with him is described through the narration. The tree the Man hides behind is similar to the red-leaved trees that populate the Field and Forest in Chapter 1.

## Profile

### Personality

The narration only gives very brief and mundane description of the Man. He offers Eggs to Kris for unknown reasons. He does, however, seem friendly to them, as he is once described as "waving happily to [them]."

The Man is able to travel through both the Light World and the Dark World, but whether that means he is a Lightner is unknown.

## Main Story

### Chapter 1

Between the room with the Starwalker Bird and the darkening room, there is a very small chance (1/50 or 2%) of entering a hidden place between the two areas. This area consists of a small path leading to a tree. The music is replaced by a simple piano melody and Kris is the only one present upon entering it, regardless of who is in their party at the time.

When inspecting the tree, narration states that "he" is behind it. Inspecting behind the tree reveals that there is a man behind it and that he offers something. If the offer is accepted, it is revealed to be an Egg. After that, inspecting where the man was reveals that he is no longer there. The area cannot be re-entered.

### Chapter 2

If the man was met during Chapter 1, he appears in Hometown at the beginning of Chapter 2. When leaving the School to go to the Library, inspecting any car in the traffic points out that there is a man in it who waves happily at Kris. Inspecting a car once more reveals nothing about the man.

Regardless of the party's actions in Chapter 1, the man can be found in Cyber City's tree room. If the Annoying Dog cutscene has already played and the game is not on the Snowgrave Route, there is a 1/50, or 2% chance when attempting to enter the Dog Dumpster room that instead Kris alone ends up in the tree room, just as before.

The tree room contains a low tree, in the same design as the one in Chapter 1, and the music is replaced with the piano melody again. When examining the spot behind the tree, the man offers another Egg to Kris. Once taken or declined, the man ceases to exist there, and subsequent examinations reveal that "there was not a man here." Exiting the area returns the party to where they came from. The area cannot be re-entered.

## Trivia

* The track playing in the background of the hidden rooms is not present in the official *Deltarune* OST. It is known in the game files simply as "*man.ogg*."
	+ The track was originally created as a fan song titled "waltz of seccom masada" for the game *Yume Nikki*. It was part of a collection of songs called "made up yume nikkis" that was posted to Toby Fox's Tumblr.
* The Man may be related to "Mystery Man," a secret character in *Undertale* found in a similar fashion.
	+ The areas the Man resides being "[rooms] in between" are similar to the fake hallway leading to Mystery Man's room that may appear if *Undertale*'s Fun Value is set to 66. The areas themselves resemble the actual Mystery Man room in structure.
* In *Undertale*'s True Lab, there is a room filled with refrigerators. Before turning on the lab ventilation, fog in the area changes the protagonist's interactions with the refrigerators to vague assumptions. One of these interactions describes "*Something in the shape of a man*," which may be an allusion to The Man.
	+ Another interaction describes something that "*feels like a tree, ripe with delicious fruit*," which could possibly allude to the tree The Man hides behind.
* At the Fangamer FAQ with Spamton during the Spamton Sweepstakes event, Spamton will tell you that the white Egg is the Man's treasure. The quote "*A WHITE ONE, THAT'S SURELY [another man's treasure].*".

## References

1. ↑ gml\_Object\_obj\_doorw\_musfade\_Alarm\_2 script, line 19
2. ↑ *made up yume nikkis* - fwugradiation on Tumblr, April 02, 2012.
3. ↑ *EGGS!? WHAT!? LOOK!! THAT'S "MR. PIPIS" TO YOU! EGGS... ONLY [friend like me] CAN CALL "THE BOYS" THAT. A WHITE ONE, THAT'S SURELY [another man's treasure]. [Think before you] [Stink], FUNWAD!!! AND THANK YOU!* - @Fangamer on Twitter, September 18, 2022.