Prediction wishlist (is that even a thing)

• Asriel comes back from college
• asgore flower shop dark world (where we get asriel character development)
• chapter ends with festival dark world (all the hometown lightners have their own adventures/quests which are affected by your interactions in previous chapters) then the shelter dark world as the epilogue.

Of course this could all be incredibly wrong (except the asgore dark world because tricky toby has to redeem the divorced goat dad after he legit stalked his eggs wife at her church recital).

Id really love a festival dark world with all the hometown residents because I feel like currently they all come off as inconsequential side characters. There has to be a pay off for spending time in hometown and interacting with all the residents otherwise deltarune is like every other jrpg where NPCs are set dressing rather than narrative agents (not every npc needs a epic side quest but the ones you interact with should have something).

Also a festival dark world would also raise the stakes for the story in a real way since "the world will end" from the prophecy doesnt feel that impactful since the story is concentrated on a teenage coming of age cast. If every hometown lighter participated then I could be invested in the story a lot more.

Weird route should end in chapter 5, if chapter 4 locks you into the weird route then itd be hell to have to write around for multiple chapters.