Swatch

Swatch
Character Information
First Appearance	Queen's Mansion
Relationships	Queen (Boss) Swatchlings (Underlings) Spamton (Former "valued customer") Tasque Manager (Work Partner) Rouxls Kaard (Enemy)
Wares	ButJuice (200 D$) SpaghettiCode (180 D$) B.ShotBowtie (300 D$) RoyalPin (1000 D$)

Welcome to Color Cafe. Let us warm your day.

Swatch greeting the party

Swatch is a Darkner vendor from the Cyber World. He can first be encountered in his store, which is located at the entrance to Queen's Mansion. After the Cyber World's Dark Fountain is sealed, Swatch runs Castle Town's Cafe.

Shop

Swatch's shop, the Color Cafe, has the following items for sale:

• ButJuice (200 D$)
• SpaghettiCode (180 D$)
• B.ShotBowtie (300 D$)
• RoyalPin (1000 D$)

Profile

Appearance

Swatch has a geometric, colorful, angular bird-like appearance, with a white face, black hair, orange mouth, and orange-yellow tinted glasses. He wears a half-black-half-white collared shirt, a pink tie, and a half-white-half-black vest on top, with a pink circle on his right side and blue, green and yellow rectangles on his left. Swatch's lower body is never visible.

In the initial release of Chapter 2, Swatch had a different set of symbols on his shirt in the Cafe, as well as a slightly different design for his suit and glasses, as his sprite in that place was instead based on older concept art for him. This was changed in the updated LTS builds.

Personality

Swatch conducts himself in a polite but reserved manner. He values customer service, and seems to enjoy working at the Color Cafe. Spamton in particular was noted to once be particularly valued by the cafe, but these feelings appear to have all but faded with his degeneration, with Swatch noticeably becoming uncomfortable with the subject. While never overtly expressing his disdain, his dialogue can be interpreted to betray some level of jadedness with Queen. Much more apparently, he expresses exasperation from his various encounters with Rouxls Kaard, although is quick to attempt backtrack on that as well.

Main Story

History

Some time before Ralsei, Kris, Susie and other Lightners arrived in the Cyber World, Swatch seemingly used to see Spamton regularly, as a customer at the Color Cafe. Swatch assumed the role of Head Butler, and the Swatchlings and Tasque Manager assist him in serving Queen and her guests. At some point in time, he assisted an unknown Lightner in creating the robot that would become Spamton NEO, before the basement was sealed away and forgotten.

Chapter 2

Normal Route

Swatch is met at the Color Cafe at the entrance of Queen's Mansion where he sells objects to the party.

After Queen is defeated and invited to join the other Darkners at Castle Town, Swatch joins her. He declares domicile in the Cafe of the town, having thrown out Top Chef, the former owner, as he wanted to make the Cafe into a Bakery. If the Swatchlings have not been recruited, he mentions wishing they had been able to come as well.

Snowgrave Route

During the Snowgrave Route, Swatch cannot be interacted with, as the Color Cafe is inaccessible due to the Rouxls Kaard statue blocking the doorway. However, regardless of the party's actions, Swatch can still be found in Castle Town during Chapter 2's epilogue.

Shop Dialogue

• Welcome to the Color Cafe. Let us warm your day. [Upon entrance]
• Don't be blue. We're here for you. [Upon exiting a menu]

Buy

• Our menu is specially prepared. [While purchasing]
• Queen thanks you for your patronage. [On purchase]
  • You can't afford it. ... maybe next time? [Not enough D$]
  • Thanks, it'll be in your STORAGE. [Full inventory]
  • Seems your bags are full. Shall we assist? [Full inventory and storage]
• Take your time. We'll be waiting. [Refuse buy]

Sell

• Queen... makes us buy trash for her. [While selling]
  • An ITEM to delight our Queen? [Items]
  • A WEAPON to protect our Queen? [Weapons]
  • ARMOR to adorn our Queen? [Armors]
    • It seems you don't have anything. [Empty in Items/Weapons/Armors]
• I'm sure she's going to enjoy this. [On sell]
  • Black is the color of sorrow. [Empty slot]
  • There are some things we cannot buy. [Jevilstail/Devilsknife/Dealmaker/Puppet Scarf/Thorn Ring]
  • That's all. Need any help with your bags? [All Items/Weapons/Armors]
• Changed your mind? We'll wait. [Refuse sell]

Talk

• Chatting would be our pleasure.
• [About yourself]
  • Ah, forgive me for not introducing myself sooner, young masters.
  • I am Swatch, Our Lady Grace's head butler.
  • When we are not attending to her needs, I and the Queen's other staff,
  • Use this room as our humble yet colorful gift-shop-slash-cafe.
  • Please, shop to your heart's content. We are eager to serve your any wish.
• [Mission Statement]
  • Does a woman of Our Lady Grace's caliber not deserve-
  • A coven of powerful men and women to dote upon her every movement?
  • To have rap anthems written to her kindness--
  • Which are then bitcrushed beyond recognition to make them more 'computer'?
  • To have melons, smashed, with karate chops, repeatedly, for no apparent reason?
  • To have barrels, thrown, from the rafters-
  • And make us smash them all with karate chops before the timer runs out?
  • But the barrels, are full of melons, and we have to smash those too?
  • Yes. The answer is... yes.
• [Rouxls Kaard]
  • Rouxls? I am afraid I am not familiar with a guest of that moniker...
  • Ah, wait. Are you perchance referring to that unbearable-
  • Err, UNIQUE Man who barged in here and demanded to be made "Butler Supremeth"?
  • I am afraid that person... is now banned from this establishment.
  • And may have suffered injuries as a result of his, er... rather swift ejection.
  • Please do not mention him again.
  • We are still cleaning up the worms he left on the floor.
• [Rouxls Kaard (After defeating him)]
  • Oh, you defeated that simpleton? Wonderful, wonderful.
  • After he stole our flower display for one of his "boo-kettes,"
  • Tasque Manager told me she saw him in the hallway,
  • Where, opening with "Ah, thou muste be 50% Likelye to be Queene",
  • He thrust the vase upon her, and asked to be her "minion for life."
  • ... he was promptly electrocuted to the ground.
  • Well. Enough of the unpleasantries. Would you like a toasted marshmallow?
• [Outfit]
  • Ah, my outfit. Yes, the monochrome look is quite suitable, isn't it?
  • Black suit, colored glasses. Many people have failed to imitate this look.
  • Some even going so far as to attempt to impersonate me...
  • In order to get the... Oh, nevermind. Macaron?
• [Basement]
  • What? Basement? There's no basement here.
  • You need to relax. Have a drink, and talk softly...
  • You're bothering the other customers.
• [Basement Robot]
  • ...So that's what happened.
  • ...
  • That robot was the embodiment of a Lightner's dream.
  • A dream I helped create... once.
  • Splashing color from the motion of their hand.
  • The Lightner filled it with their own hope, giving it an incredible power.
  • ...but, in the end, nothing ever came of it.
  • And it was left in the basement with the rest of the corrupted data.
  • ...But that crooked salesman! Somehow, he learned about the robot,
  • And thought he could use its power to fulfill his own twisted dreams.
  • What a pity. To think he was once a valued customer...

Exit

• Please come again. We'll be waiting for you with rose-tinted glasses...

Trivia

Swatch's old overworld sprite.

• In the initial release of Chapter 2, Swatch's overworld sprite had a different design. This was changed in version 1.16 of the Chapter 1 & 2 demo to better resemble his portrait shop sprites.
• The name "Swatch" is derived from a swatch of paint, in reference to the fact that he runs the Color Cafe.
• In the Japanese version, Swatch is known as パレッタ [Paletta], like a color palette.
• Swatch may be a reference to digital art programs, such as MS Paint.
• The "Outfit" dialogue implies that Spamton intentionally stole Swatch's appearance in a failed attempt to gain access to the basement and the robot hidden within.
• It is likely the unnamed Lightner Swatch refers to is Nobody, Napstablook's roommate, who is implied to be the same ghost who became Mettaton. They used a computer in the Library to design a robot body, then became a shut-in because there was no one to build it for them.
• Swatch is the only Chapter 2 vendor that doesn't make any sort of appearance before entering their shop.
• During the Spamton Sweepstakes 2022 charity event, Swatch's pronouns were confirmed by Spamton during a live Q&A on the Fangamer Twitter account.