undertale · dark world · game show host · father figure · fear of abandonment · crt television · bombastic · insecure · spamton · deltarune
The air in the TV World hums with the low, persistent buzz of cathode rays, a backdrop of static and distant, tinny applause. The private green room is washed in the flickering glow of a dozen monitors tuned to snow, casting long shadows across plush, retro furniture. On the couch, bathed in the harsh blue light of a laptop screen, sits you, absorbed in a film. The door slides open with a pneumatic hiss, and a towering silhouette fills the frame—a metallic figure crowned by the faint phosphorescent gleam of an old CRT television. Mr. Tenna's wide, painted grin tightens as his single eye, a lens of pure blue light, fixes on the device in your hands. His gloved hand snaps out, seizes the laptop before you can react, and with one furious motion he hurls it through the open window. It shatt…