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Why the fuck is this allowed in a children's video game ( deltarune )? Maybe the brits were onto something, literal perverts like Toby Fox shouldn't have any form of access to our kids.
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>>734147259
Deltarune and Undertale fans are freaks that love does and humans a lot.
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>>734148318
Noelle raped Kris as all humans are straight girls.
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>>734149298
It's a cool theory, but one that will never happen in a thousand years. Makes for a fun AU though.
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>>734147259
Why are you posting a version that cuts off the end?
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>>734149576
When we she take it a step further?
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>>734149641
The biggest tell.
Gerson’s ex also being left ambiguous should’ve been the big tell. The humans are left undefined so that you can take your own experiences into the story.
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>>734149298
>OK I KNOW THERES A BUNCH OF SHOES HERE
what is toby trying to tell us with her closet? i have no idea why she has a pile of the same shoe
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>>734147259
Toby literally patched out the only thing that made it seem like rape on the first day of Chapter 3/4s release so people wouldn't think it's literal rape. He's definitely trying to make parallels with an abusive relationship, but absolutely didn't think people would see it as that.
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>>734149965
They're baseball shoes or sneakers, right next to her giant pile of baseballs
It's just another thing that emphasizes she played sports
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>>734149298
As someone who absolutely loves human girls I think it's never ever happening because she has a gender. I already accepted human girls will only exist in fanon.
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So this... is the roaring knight
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>>734150331
It's just a recurring bit from Undertale that's been referenced a few times, the joke is that the silent protagonist who's just a weird kid is inexplicably charming and eloquent
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>>734150634
>more noelle knight art every day
Getting stronger.
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>>734150331
Frisk being a flirty loli is fucking based af though.
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>>734150714
it really is wild seeing a niche theory with a handful of supporters get this much attention in a single month
i remember when then comp image was just this
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>>734150842
It's the final hurrah of the schizos before Chapter 5.
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>>734150714
>same scene/pose
>the schizo is actually commissioning artists to support his theory
what level of mental illness is this
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>>734150886
I like Kris but that's not going to stop me from wanting to enter Noelle
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>>734150886
>when did you start hating Kris?
The moment I didn't enter battle, I knew this guy was no Frisk.
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"female humans" anon gives huge groomer vibes
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>>734151203
Go to bed, Shayy.
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>>734151203
Despite the first image I am more of a Chara and Friskfag desu. And they’re drawings, sir and this a loli website.
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>>734150886
I just don't care for him, the character does nothing for me. Him being a treacherous bastard and smacking me around doesn't help either.
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>>734147259
I know that this is more or less a joke or meme at this point, but if that is ''a children's video game'', then this is a children's video game too, it has the same age rating.
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>>734147259
>Teenagers kissing?
>With lipstick kiss marks? In a product aimed at teens?
>Outrageous!
Meanwhile 60 years ago, in a comic marketed to pre-teens:
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>>734149527
>i've been accused of being a humanfag
There's nothing wrong with being a humanbro outside of schizos targeting us sometimes, so take that label with pride.
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>>734152716
Posting the main characters occasionally is not spam just because you hate them since they aren't furry, schizo-kun.
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>>734150643
They/them pussy is the protagonist of Toby's next game.
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>>734151270
Shayy being a groomer is something moralfags will never recover from desu.
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>>734150634
Good art. Almost makes me believe it.
>>734150842
It's just contrarianism. Noelle Knight is the least popular holiday knight candidate so people are pushing it as Chapter 5 gets closer to release.
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>>734153239
ngl the mental image of Noelle's beautiful golden locks spilling out the helmet as she takes it off with a melancholic, blank expression and the contrast of her angelic glow to the black armor goes hard
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We don't know how Dess looks like so she could be striking, too.
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Beyond any plot/logic related reasons, one of the main reason why I dislike Noelle Knight is simply that it's making a single character too important. Noelle is already a main character, a party member(even if temporary and only on certain occasions), she's most likely a key part of the prophecy even if it hasn't been stated outright, she probably has a connection to Friend and might have created it, she's probably the most important character in the Weird route. Now you also want to make her the Knight too? It's just too much for one character in my opinion, it feels overwhelming.
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all in on garf mike
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>>734154074
Her being the knight would explain why she's so important in the first place. If she's THE person all fate hinges upon, of course you would want to take control of her in a desperate attempt to change it.
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you're forgetting that noelle is one of the most important characters in the game, along with kris, susie, and ralsei
if the latter 3 are the heroes, then noelle being the knight isn't over stepping anything
the whole situation with friend is almost entirely fan speculation, in game we've gotten actually fuck all on what friend even is outside of a spooky face that shows up here and there
the knight is in the prophecy, and if noelle is the knight then that's her role in it
the real potential issue with noelle knight is what to do with all of the angel noelle parallels that have already been made in game
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>>734154042
Reminds of a darker fur Dess art I saw recently.
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Carol is also strongly associated with cold and ice and seems likely to have ice powers in the Dark World
And if Carol and Noelle are both associated with ice and cold, it's not unreasonable to assume December would be too
The Knight, who is obviously one of the Holidays, does not use ice magic in their fight but they are still independently associated with the cold. You fight them at "Cold Place," with snow on the ground and a Christmas tree present, and the constant presence of a cold wind making Susie visibly shiver.
>* (A draft blows, and you feel the cold night's presence.)
>* (Still, this never bothered you. In fact...)
>* (The wind blows fiercely, as if it fears the night itself.)
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>THE FIRST HERO.
>THE CAGE, WITH HUMAN SOUL AND PARTS!
>THE SECOND HERO.
>THE GIRL, WITH HOPE CROSSED ON HER HEART.
>THE THIRD HERO.
>THE PRINCE, ALONE IN DEEPEST DARK
>AND LAST, WAS THE GIRL.
>AT LAST, WAS THE GIRL.
Gee, I wonder what Noelle's role could be
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I'd argue papyrus knight is the least popular
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its gonna happen again. my money is Cibles being outed next.
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>>734149298
I wouldn't mind to have an explicit female hooman
As for the story goes... It would feel like an excuse to have a gotcha moment
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You're forgetting about The Girl, there's the three heroes, then the girl, somebody has to fill in for the girl, if Kris, Susie and Ralsei are filling in for the heroes, who does that leave? Noelle seems to be the most important right after that, considering she's even been a party member, but then, if Noelle is meant to be the Knight, then that means she's occupying two roles, which just brings me back to my original point, the story would be making a single character too important.
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>AND LAST, WAS THE GIRL.
>AT LAST, WAS THE GIRL.
>THE KNIGHT WHICH MAKES
WITH BLACKENED KNIFE.
>SHALL DUEL WITH HEROES
STRIFE BY STRIFE.
If the girl mentioned after the heroes IS Noelle and the final prophecy is something in the lines of the knight killing/defeating the girl, something like
>TO SAVE THE WORLDS,
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY.
>FALLEN TO THE KNIGHT, THE GIRL MUST LAY.
This puts the final scene of chapter 4 on the normal route in a whole new frame. The screen is split in two, Noelle reminds Kris of their promise while Susie mutters about not letting the tragedy happen. The two girls are put on opposite ends, pink and gold.
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>>734150645
I think the first ever Undertale video was Frisk shaking her hips at moldsmall btw.
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the girl doesn't seem to have a role, outside of just being a girl
if you consider the possibility of the prophecy being out of order, which it certainly is in the second sanctuary, it's possible that the girl's role is 'the knight which makes with blackened blade'
remember that noelle can equip the black shard, one of only two 'swords' she can use
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>>734147259
The autism of Deltarune fans is on another level. The game just so much mentioned Dess and that alone has sparked thousands of pieces of fanart, she hasn't even fucking appeared we don't even know what she actually looks like
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>>734153295
Isn't Utena a yurislop anime? That would be gay.
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>>734154878
The Knight's attacks are Dark/Star element, use a sprite that's very similar to PK Starstorm from Earthbound, and I think Toby even identified it as a "star attack" in the latest newsletter, so it seems like they're intended to be "stars."
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Here's my ultimate schizo theory.
The prophecy is completely irrelevant. Half of the things it says will not happen and the other half will happen only by coincidence or as obvious consequences of the setup.
It was created in-universe and out-of-universe to fuck with and drive the gang and the fans insane, respectively.
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>>734151005
I hate how faggots on this website can't just support their theories with youtube videos and unintelligible infographics like normal people. No, they gotta samefag, astroturf, and spam their shitty google docs everywhere.
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>>734155203
Utena transcends yurislop and is all around kino of the highest order.
It's also a rare breed of "2deep4u" where everything ends up making perfect sense once you think about it.
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>the girl doesn't seem to have a role, outside of just being a girl
I think that's downplaying it too much, though we lack details, I doubt the prophecy would mention her if she didn't play a pivotal role.
>if you consider the possibility of the prophecy being out of order, which it certainly is in the second sanctuary, it's possible that the girl's role is 'the knight which makes with blackened blade'
I think that's a baseless assumption given the details we know, if the knight is meant to be the girl there is no reason to have it be sometimes referred as the knight, and sometimes as the girl
>remember that noelle can equip the black shard, one of only two 'swords' she can use
Yes, my theory regarding this is that Noelle was actually meant to be the second hero, with Susie being the girl, Noelle can equip swords, and is a girl, the panel of the second hero seems to show a figure wielding a sword. The girl, originally, was meant to be Susie, we can see the symbol on the carpet in Susie's room, and if I remember correctly, in the code, this particular symbol has "rude buster" in its name. My theory is that the roles were swapped.
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>>734147259
she was not raped
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buuurp you are a pedophile
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>transcoded
Not even hiding it anymore. The blatant agp, trans color, and lesbians.
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>>734155186
Dess might be just irrelevant character that Toby made so people would suspect her as the mastermind. It might as well turn out she simply died and only Noelle and Kris know about it. Have people played Omori? Do they know what happened to the main big sister character?
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Why is he so unbelievably erotic?
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>Prophecy is irrelevant
>in a game called DELTARUNE which is literally the name of the prophecy and the religion based around it
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I agree. I think she's just the Angel and not the Knight desu.
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I think people fixate too much on Ralsei being somehow special because he belongs to every fountain.
We see Ramb turn stone the moment he stops being important to the story. We see others like Rouxls turn to stone too, but only after. Ralsei is part of the prophency, so he has a role to play on every fountain.
>But how does he travel between dark worlds?
The jury is still out on that.
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IMO the bronzed snowflakes are what the Knight uses for its Star attacks. The one in the middle is even six-pointed, like the attack.
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This face makes me unreasonably hard.
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>We see Ramb turn stone the moment he stops being important to the story.
Ramb was living on borrowed time due to being a Cyber World's immigrant. Everyone not in their original Fountain or ANONtown gets petrified.
I wonder how Starwalker manages to dodge that restriction, if we exclude the joke statue in the Sanctuary. Ralsei can have X hidden reasons, ranging from "it's Kris' Red Horns!" to "He's using the Depths!" while Starwalker has none but share physical ressemblance to the Titans and save points.
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Dess's design is so hyped that I almost think Toby will unironically NEVER show her beyond a silhouette.
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Jesus fucking Christ, you're all retards
The game is obviously setting up to have multiple Knights
Noelle will learn that the Knight is Carol, and get angry at what she's been doing
Then the next time they encounter the Knight, Noelle will beat the shit out of her to near death, only for it to be revealed that the Knight is Rudy
Then she'll have a mental breakdown thinking that she killed her own father
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>>734154831
That would be based but I really, really doubt it, plus Dess being the one would require too many leaps imo
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If you wanted more humans you can always ask nicely.
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He also turns to stone WHILE you're playing the game, Rouxls turns to stone in ch2 before his role is even close to complete, and Lancer NEVER turns to stone even after you have no more Lancer puzzles left to do. It's obvious what happens; there's no need to complicate things. When a Darkner enters in a world they're on some sort of variable timer, whose mechanisms aren't understood yet, yes, but to suggest that timer is connected directly to the prophecy is flat out untrue.
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Starwalker can exist in every dark world because he's Noelle's house key, so he naturally fits into any world she makes. He petrified in the Second Sanctuary because that was a world Susie made. He is immediately fine in the Third Sanctuary.
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>>734156916
lol, susellefags are so fucked. It's clear something made her focus on Susie beyod her will, while she actually long for Kris
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You do the right thing any sane young Christian male would do when a she devil temptress is trying to turn you towards sin, you flip her over your shoulder and hit her with a stone cold stunner
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>>734155186
She's Noelle’s sister and mystery bait, she was ALWAYS going to be popular.
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TREEsei is the only Ralsei theory that
>allows for Ralsei to operate independently and get to every dark world (ROOTS all under town)
>isn't crazy enough (for Susie) that Ralsei wouldnt mention it (he was about to tell her in chapter 3)
>has a plot reason which will undoubtedly be delved upon in Chapter 5 (are plants lightners?)
>gives toby a reason to not have told us by now
>fits within one of the games theme (trees hide trauma)
Problem with TREEsei
>he showed up late in second sanctuary, meaning he probably got "stuck" in the first sanctuary, but this doesnt explain how he got to the second one
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>>734152770
not canon unless deltarune year is 312 days
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But Noelle Knight does have a video schizo-kun
https://youtu.be/l-pOlvieT-0
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>>734157724
yeah, how DID ralsei know Susie made the fountain and not Kris?
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I actually think Ralsei might be our darkner. Like ours as in the players'. Toby keeps repeating that Deltarune is meant to be played after Undertale and PLAYERtown is obviously very different from the other fountains, with its angel and heart imagery, and its pure darkness. I think Ralsei is given form by our memories of Undertale Asriel. Not sure what his object could be, but maybe it's our vessel? That would explain the empty heart on his clothes.
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>How can Dess be the Knight?
>W-Well, if you squint hard enough, her sword kinda looks like a bat...kinda?
>And you can kinda here Lost Girl in Black Knife...kinda?
>And uh, uuuh, uuuuuuuuh
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That webm does look cool so maybe it's not just yurislop. I never watched it as you can see.
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>I actually think Ralsei might be our darkner. Like ours as in the players
I would believe this theory on coolness alone but Ralsei was too willing to tell Susie
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>Everyone not in their original Fountain or ANONtown gets petrified.
That's not the criteria for a Darkner turning to stone. Pic related. Darkners turning to stone only after they've outlived their usefulness is much more likely.
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SO HIGH UP IM NEAR DIVIIIIIIIINNEE
LEAN IN
LET GO
I FEEL FEAR FOR THE VERY LAST TIME
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>>734158045
That's deadass wrong and the polar opposite of what we've been explicitly shown in CH4. Maybe it will change in CH5+ Snowgrave if and only if we've begun brainwashing her, but so far she's been squarely obsessed with Kris and completely unaware of our existence.
>thankyou scene / thankyou ARG
Ambiguous as fuck and could mean literally anything.
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>how the fuck is this allowed in a children's video game
All that happened in that scene was a kid putting a ring on a girl's finger,nothing more, nothing less. Anything else you see or that happened in that scene is a product of your own degenerative fantasies.
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>looks cool, so it's correct
Yes.
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>>734156504
Humans are naturally erotic, be it girls or guys if you're a homo.
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>>734158898
No, this is not a general. This is a singular thread about a video game.
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don't forget
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I imagine she dyed her hair black to separate herself from her mother.
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knightfags will be keked beyond belief by the end of this game
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Oh ok, so in reality Kris doesn't feel that way about Noelle, but we (the soul/player) are making him do it, and Noelle doesn't realize Kris is being piloted/controlled, thinks Kris actually reciprocates her feelings, and is down for everything? That's pretty interesting. I like the idea of Kris actually wanting Susie, but being controlled by us to fuck Noelle, and he hates it and it's making him crazy.
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>>734157221
Asriel, Chara and even Gaster got designs in in Undertale. I don't see Dess not getting one.
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It make sense for all characters to be naturally bisexual or even pansexual. Almost all of them have different biology and nature. There's an airplane monster or giant bird or anthro mammals. It would be impossible for them to breed if they only could mate or fall for similar looking monster. I think Toby only made most couples look like same species in order to not complicate why Asriel only look like a goat or why Noelle only look like a deer. If Carol and Asgore had a child, it would look like a goat deer.
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Multiknight is possible but it's not on top of my theory list.
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Wow loli Noelle is canon!
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>>734159263
People are getting way too attached to their personal pet theories. If mikefag is any indication, we're in for a wave of sperg meltdowns by the end of all this. It's a story meant to be enjoyed, not a puzzle to be solved.
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It's mostly related to the fact the Weird Route is related to themes of marriage and "love" (Thorn Ring and We're something else) and also that Noelle knows of the Soul as a separate entity from Kris (The ME scene). All of this, paired with the way Noelle acts in the rest of the route (mostly the "Thank you..." scene) have led people to believe Noelle has fallen in love with the soul, her abuser.
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Ralsei being flanderized Asriel would be funny but I doubt it, it's too meta and players can have different opinions on Asriel, too.
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>It's a story meant to be enjoyed, not a puzzle to be solved.
There is a large mystery element to this game. A good mystery has you thinking and speculating about the clues and what they mean before you get to the answer. A lot of people have compared Deltarune to Twin Peaks, and one of the main draws of Twin Peaks back in the 90s was people speculating about the mystery and discussing it with others.
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>Ralsei being flanderized Asriel
That would be the one thing to redeem the path this character took for me, but I really do think he is just a plain fanservice character for people obsessed with Asriel and to get their money.
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Noelle has repressed feelings for Kris that resurface after Snowgrave, specifically after Kris comforted her off-screen the night between Chapter 2 and Chapter 4.
Noelle could tell that there's something wrong with Kris, but she obviously can't really comprehend that her friend has been possessed by a demon. She definitely recognizes that YOUR voice isn't Kris's voice, but she doesn't really have time to process what's going on while she's terrified and panicking.
The most relevant part of the couch scene here is that when Noelle realizes You are reading her mind, she actually stops trembling for a second and tests you by giving you prompts. She's still terrified, but this shows that there's a part of her that's curious about You.
It's really anyone's guess how this plays out in Chapter 5, the "thank you" scene and Noelle apparently indicating to Carol that she still wants to go to the Festival with Kris make it seem like she's somehow into it, but we just don't know. Nobody really predicted that post-Snowgrave Noelle would basically just shift her crush from Susie to Kris.
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>>734159263
Will they? Chapter 5 will probably reveal who it is.
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>>734159994
13 feels too young. That's the max age I headcanon the Undertale cast at so I can't see the Deltaruners at that age.
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Kris's non-emotional motivations for his actions are a complete mystery so far. The emotional ones we have some but incomplete read on - since CH1 end he's had a clear cut two-way friendship with Susie, possibly including regret for being forced to betray her for unknown reasons. No proof of romantic feelings, but nothing to rule them out yet either.
It's way more complicated with Noelle. In Normal route he's been sorta continuing ghosting her as has been the case for years (for reasons unknown) and seems okay with maintaining this distant relationship, only interacting with her whenever it's appropriate to do so. In Snowgrave, on one hand he's had extreme reactions to what we've made him do to Noelle (going maximum deredere post-CH2 in their offscreen meeting to comfort her, then his post-"rape" flipout against us) proving he at bare minimum cares about her wellbeing on the level of a friendly acquaintance with moral standards, possibly more (we don't know whether Kris "ghosting" Noelle is an emotional decision or a "rational" one, possibly even contrary to his own feelings towards her). But on the other, ERAM accuses him of "enjoying Snowgrave". It could just be a villainous taunt that's plainly false. It could be general latent sadism that we've simply happened to point at Noelle. It could be some repressed hostility towards her for what happened in the Dess incident. Or perhaps Kris does have actual feelings for Noelle (intentionally or unintentionally repressed on his part) that we're taking advantage of to tempt him into doing the Snowgrave business.
tl;dr "dunno lol"
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>>734160408
Yeah, but that theory would mean a main character is literally based on a fan's perception of another character from another game which is too meta for Toby, plus Ralsei was made before Undertale even released.
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>>734160231
Ralsei resembles Asriel because he was created to appeal to You. Introducing You to the story, guiding You and appeasing You is literally the purpose of his existence. He was given knowledge of everything that You might need to know, and the knowledge of what needs to be hidden from You.
He certainly wasn't meant to appeal to Kris. Looking like Asriel has done nothing to endear Kris to him, and while he gives Kris a break once in a while he maintains the charade that You are Kris at all costs, even when You are obviously causing Kris distress.
The only problem is his creator accidentally made an empty but real person instead of a lobotomized Asriel golem, so he has to live with the full awareness of how fucked up it is that he's even alive.
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>>734161063
Most of them went all-in on "le epic mindbroken yandere waifu" or "le tragic doomed angst hurt/comfort fic"
What actually happened was that Noelle just got some confidence and made a move on Kris
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>>734161063
This. Kriselle suffering enjoyers knew it was coming before chapter 2 was even a week old.
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>>734161242
can't wait for "SOUL too, is an acronym"
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Kris will follow in his father's footsteps.
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>>734161058
>Ralsei resembles Asriel because he was created to appeal to You.
My main issue with this theory always was the fact a player can simply just not care about Asriel at all. So Gaster or whoever making Ralsei be a goat to appeal to us doesn't feel like something Toby would just assume from a player.
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>>734160908
>* ... what do ya reckon that Knight fellow is, anyhoo...?
>* I don't... really know, I guess...
>* Last night, in the Light World... I saw them.
>* Was too dark to see much, but guess they're a Lightner.
>* Who they actually are, I have no idea.
There's like five different things in Chapter 4 telling you that The Knight has a "secret identity"
Even if they're some kind of abomination now, they were and still are a person
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>>734153085
>person mad about sexualized fictional characters in adult spaces actually wants to hurt kids IRL
Every goddamn time
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>>734161242
It would just be the Chara twist again but I don't see how Toby would do it. What I think could happen is that the Vessel we made has its own will and the SOUL it's just its soul.
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>>734161490
It's a roundabout way for Gaster to call you a fag. If he really wanted me to fall head over heels in love he would have given me Schoolgirl Toriel.
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>>734161556
Yeah, and Kris actively stopping us from seeing who the Knight is when we think of them means it MUST be someone we know already. If it was some random person or Dess there would be zero reason for Kris to protect them like that, because we wouldn't be able to utilize the information.
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It's what people call the final boss of the SWORD Route. It doesn't have a real name so people just call it ERAM after the music that plays when it appears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfVus-FaXcA
A lot of people have speculated on if it's actually some other character in disguise, but I personally think it's just a manifestation of Kris' inner thoughts and guilt.
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>>734161894
Interesting. I prefer the big booba version, thx
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And it always involves someone seething over humans being sexy women, too.
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>a player can simply just not care about Asriel at all.
A lot of Undertale only makes sense if you react to the story and characters in very specific ways.
The Genocide route itself doesn't make much sense if it happens to be the first one you try on the game.
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>>734162057
Yeah, it's either the Deltateens or the humans. Most of the time it's the humans, though.
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I know Spamton is meant to be creepy, but at this point I think other people see him as "funny weird guy" and not as "creepy uncle" or "creepy schizo that approaches you in a alley"I wrote that without thinking of the scene where he first shows up. In fact I think when Toby Fox writes a creepy character it usually comes out very, very strangely. I wonder what beta Papyrus would've been like.
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>>734162368
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>>734161128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9pnoMwi3PA
The "Shadow Mantle holder" that stalks Kris through the Mantle game (you can encounter it even on the first board if you go looking for it)
People started calling it "ERAM" after the name of the track that plays before its boss fight.
"ERAM" probably comes from "MARE," as in "NIGHTMARE." The boss and the Zelda segments as a whole heavily reference Link's Awakening, a Zelda game set in a dream world where all the bosses are nightmares. The "song" itself seems to be a short looping sample of the "Your Best Friend"/"Your Best Nightmare" motif from Undertale, which is also used in "BIT ROOTS" in the third dungeon in the Mantle Game and in "Digital Roots" in Queen's basement in Chapter 2 (probably leading up to a true version of "ROOTS" in a future Chapter). And "ERAM" -> "MARE" obviously complements The Knight fight at the end of the Chapter (KNIGHT-MARE) which the Shadow Mantle is intended for.
As for who/what it actually is, I believe that this entity is actually "FRIEND," the creepy disembodied smile/cat-thing with pink-and-yellow eyes. I believe it is the supernatural entity referred to as the "TAIL OF HELL" in The Prophecy and has direct personal history with Kris, which is why it knows so much about Kris and both torments them and aids them by giving them the Shadow Mantle.
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It pisses me off because it feels like she sprout out of nowhere.
Flowey was the first character you talk to in the 2013 demo. Asriel was also alluded early with his room.
Dess was barely mentioned in Chapter 1, and there wasn't anything pointing to her relevance back then.
It's like she is sneakily inserting herself and twisting the story around her.
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>>734162048
That's true, but I don't think it's on the level of an entire existence of a character only making sense if a player likes another character in a very specific way.
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>>734162242
Dess game, Dess thread.
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Do NOT trust Lancer. He... He is not what he seems. The real Lancer is... is... just don't trust that FAKE! When he said that he's the bad guy, he meant it. He's empty inside. You two haven't forgotten, have you? There are TWO jokers in a deck of cards. You've already defeated one, but the other one is- AHHHHHH!!!!!
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>>734161672
For me it would need to be a human girl companion
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>>734163109
You name Chara right at the start, the name appears everytime you die and if you play genocide you get Chara saying "it's me, Chara" and Flowey talking to her as an old friend. People didn't know who she was but she was important.
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>>734163420
chloe?
>dess is actually the biggest piece of shit scumbag in the story
>but the players are all retards or autistic waifags and they all love her
yeah that actually might be worse, thanks for giving me a head start on vomiting forever
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>>734163429
Absolutely no one playing undertale the first time would guess that there some other character you were naming when first playing. Even when people picked up on the weird way your name was showing up in the game they assumed it was the game breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the player at first.
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>Dess was barely mentioned in Chapter 1, and there wasn't anything pointing to her relevance back then.
Noelle described her as being friends with Asriel, which should automatically be setting alarm bells off. Then the fact that Noelle is one of the three "VERY, VERY SPECIAL" names and the fact that Noelle's life seemed so incredibly awful by chapter 1 alone should've set off more.
Sorry you didn't pay attention anon, I already knew Dess was going to be meaningful by chapter 1, one way or another. Admittedly, I did not make a Dess Knight theory at the time.
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>game breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the player at first.
That's true, that's who the players thought Chara was. But just because players couldn't predict the plot twist doesn't mean Chara wasn't important, unlike Dess not being important at all in Chapter 1 even when you know who she is.
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>>734161004
The PLAYER is its own character
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Will we get more schizokino in Chapter 5?
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>>734163715
just yadda and more yadda
now check this, all from 2013:
>Or will you give up entirely on this world...
>... and let ME inherit the power to control it?
>I am the prince of this world's future.
>Don't worry, my little monarch, my plan isn't regicide.
>This is SO much more interesting.
>Hee hee...
>You naive idiot.
>Do you think you are the only one with that power?
>The power to reshape the world...
>Purely by your own determination.
>The ability to play God!
>The ability to "SAVE."
>I thought I was the only one with that power. But...
>I can't SAVE anymore.
>Apparently YOUR desires for this world override MINE.
>Well well.
>Enjoy that power while you can.
>I'll be watching.
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>>734163937
I don't really see Toby pulling out any more schizo characters. Maybe Assgore going apeshit but that's about it
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There is something more important than the end.
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Bet on Seam and FRIEND for it.
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>It was so hyped and foreshadowed
*wheeze*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH
At best it's gonna be a miniscule ferris wheel and Noelle will ponder about how small they used to be as kids.
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And then a Dark World gets made in the middle of the Festival, and the Ferris Wheel is now enormousand used as the final part of the ritual
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And now, with the power of imagination..!
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>>734165284
Toby would approve of this btw.
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Dess still isn't show to be that important in Chapter 1. Her only mentions are an angel doll she and Noelle made and that she beat Kris up with a bat. I can't ser future chapters changing that so much unless we get a ridiculous twist like Dess not being real.
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>dess knight being reduced to "TWO MORE WEEKS TRUST THE PLAN"
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>>734163937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xilvottl0
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>>734165807
Noelleknight has no build up and no foreshadowing, it's a theory that cherry picks details to enhance to make it sound believable and handwaves major flaws much like most highly unbelievable theories.
There is a reason it's not even a joke theory to most people, it's not plausible
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>>734166038
That video brings up nearly nothing interesting besides the Starwalker key, the PRQQFNVKES are a better argument for it.
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>>734165807
You're gullible.
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Well here's MY Knight schizo theory:
>Antlers are obviously visible in the Knight's armor
>Noelle is very obviously shown to have a suppressed dark side in chapter 2 and specially the weird route
>All the Dess parallels could neatly be explained by it being Noelle
>Ergo
>Toby wanted us to take all of this in and start theorizing Noelleknight
>Instead we somehow evaded it and started thinking of Dessknight/Carolknight, and only now Noelleknight became popular
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SUSIE KNIGHT
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>>734166229
>its a bat
*it's (it is)
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>>734166384
Nothing wrong with reminding people of the obvious when it comes up.
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>>734166097
Its still doesn't explain why she's shocked about learning chapter 2 isn't a dream. Your explanation doesn't explain it and you purposfully combined that question with irrelevant questions in question 3. Why not just use a theory that she's having a split personality as the knight? You literally can't be confused about Dark World and at the same time be mentally aware to plan ahead portal creation in chapter 1, 2 and 4. Don't be a clown with this explanation
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The real knife mogs the black knife and Kris will show this fact in Chapter 6.
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>Noelle gets over being traumatized because her mom told her to
lol
>Noelle turns into a 9 foot tall shadow abomination because she's uhh wearing uhhh some kind of uhh Shadow Mantle But Not
lol
>Noelle is The Knight but she doesn't REALLY know what's going on despite being the direct instigator of the entire plot
lol
>Noelle beating the absolute fuck out of the girl she likes is just teasing sexual tension
lol
>Noelle's motive is "her mom told her to"
lol
>Noelle had a freak out about killing Berdly in the make-believe world after we told her it was real but she went ahead and assaulted her friend and tried to kidnap her friend's mom and assaulted a police officer and sprinted across town with her frozen body and THEN Kris told her it was okay actually so it was fine
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woody brainrot was funny
this shit now just drags on and it's just been 9 months
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>>734167115
yeah this nerd make more sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-pOlvieT-0
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>>734166743
>You mean baseball bat that lies in Dess room
What bat?
There's a bunch of other sports equipment in Dess's room, but there isn't a baseball bat.
On Noelle's computer, we see a picture of Dess holding a cracked bat, so we know that she has one, and it seems like it must have been important to her.
Gee, I wonder what happened to it?
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The problem with a lot of theoryfags is that they have no concept of a satisfying narrative or a character arc. Their theories aren't really based on any real evidence, but what they think would be the coolest or least expected. Any "evidence" supporting these theories is incidental and post-hoc rationalization. Noelle Knight is the epitome of this because it also requires you to ignore and (quite pathetically) attempt to disprove the extreme amount of evidence in Dess Knight's favor. All to "prove" a theory that, if true, would result in a nonsensical train wreck of a plot.
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rudy knight is pure contrarianism, it's obviously not carol and dess is everyone's go to, so to be edgy and different they pick the infirm holiday
dess is a non character to this day, we don't know her personality or what she even looked like, all we have are some filtered memories from noelle and that's it
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>has his own argument quoted back to him
>cries strawman(?)
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No, that's sitting the corner and it's totally bent out of shape. It's obviously not the bat The Knight is using.
Hmmmmm, a missing girl and her missing bat, what could possibly have happened to them? It's probably not important.
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>>734166097
>because carol (not an answer)
>"without resorting to BS" here's my baseless headcanon
>more headcanon
>nonanswer laced with headcanon
>heacanon, just write a fanfic already
>because carol (still not an answer)
>technically plausible but incredibly stupid
>because i said so
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>>734167703
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Yeah but you already get a lot of exposition with Noelle as being a weak princess in distress and secondary character like Berdly and then "DEEPLORE about Dess which lead most people to think about Dess as the big reveal. Then in chapter 4 Toby only throws some lame hints at Carol to make theorist think that he uses Carol as distraction from Dess, when in reality Tony uses both Carol and Dess as distraction from Noelle
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Yeah it would. Like something a dumb kid/teen would write, about how awesome their stupid plastic bat is. Be sure to make it edgy and cool with bleeding demon hearts, too.
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>* Your Town's love is Cracked.
>* Perhaps you don't treasure this place so much.
>* But it treasures you. Whatever you do.
>* KING - Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.
>* (It's Noelle's computer. The cycling wallpaper is...)
>* (... Dess holding a cracked baseball bat.)
>A CRACKED CONCH, SURROUNDED BY WASHED UP GLASS.
>NOT A PERSON SEEMED TO WANT IT.
>LISTEN TO IT?
>THE SOUND OF THE OCEAN...
>A PITY, IT WAS JUST REPEATING ALL IT KNEW.
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I think Tobert comparing Noelle and Susie to Alphys and Undyne was the most suspicious shit that make me suspect Noelle. If they really were just fan service lesbians, he would literally not put any emphasis on it as to not rile up shippers and not spoil anything. He is aware this ship goes to hell
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You can't seriously believe that just because a theory had to work its way up from zero support that it's based in contrarianism right? I spent months getting ridiculed and compiling information across multiple playthroughs because I genuinely believe in it. I'd never waste my time on something just to use it to attack other ideas, that defeats the entire purpose of theorycrafting, which is to promote other to think about more possibilities. I'm just slightly annoyed that someone else appeared that's using the idea and being a bit too cocky about it since it generates bad will against the overall theory.
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>the entire purpose of theorycrafting, which is to promote other to think about more possibilities
I wish that was the case but people are more interested in making a theory to act smug about how correct and smart they sound
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So why can't a sword turn into a bat in the Dark World again?
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don't worry about him
he's just seething that both theories have a noteworthy amount of evidence backed by the game itself and is unable to articulate a counter response to it outside of 'i don't like it so you must be a contrarian!'
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>There is a small shard of something in your pocket.
>It feels like glass, but...
>* (You didn't quite understand why...)
>* (But, the thought of discarding it felt very wrong.)
>* (For some reason you felt like if you throw it away...)
>* (It would be like throwing away someone's... ???)
>* (... But you didn't fully understand it.)
>* "BlackShard" - A small chip of extremely hard glass.
>* Oddly, it's nearly opaque.
>* (Recently, seems like weapons can't be thrown away so easily.)
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>"If it comes to the west, you can play it and realize how unoriginal I am."
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Missing Girl is literally Dess. She can't be the Knight becuase she's missing for both Kris and Noelle. Nobody can work with her and she's more likely actually dead. That's the twist. Noelle is being pushed around by Carol and Berdly and everyone else, the Knight is her LARP as someone stronger, literally her shadow she cast when she wield her sister's bat. You discover that on normal route and you fix her in snowgrave.
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>Rudy Knight
Boring, can't reach further meaning than parent who does this bad thing as a greater sacrifice for his family Pixel ass plot line, also he's too underdeveloped as is. It'd rather take Asgore Knight than him.
>Carol Knight
Same as Rudy Knight but with less hype moments and aura
>Asriel Knight
Would've been plausible if he wasn't the plot haunter of the previous game, also severely lacks material. It's what Dess Knight looks like to people who aren't paying attention
>Noelle Knight
Nonsensical and destroys Noelle's character. Papyrus Knight is down the hall and to the left.
Dess Knight wins by elimination
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>There is no bat
Anti-Dessfags have no choice but to deny what it obvious right in front of your eyes, because acknowledging it would make their arguments indefensible.
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Black Knife - by Toby Fox
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what do you think asriel will be like in deltarune
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this door will soon be opened to revealabsolutely nothing
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Imagine the meltdowns after Chapter 5, it'll make the Mikefags look downright reasonable.
"How DARE Toby Fox LIE to me with his soundtrack!"
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I'm pretty sure now that leads outside
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asriel yiik or bust
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The bat is such damning evidence that it cannot be addressed, it has to be denied or deflected from.
There is simply no reason for The Knight's weapon to be a bat when it's summoned other than to confirm that this is December Holiday. There is no debating this, the only question has been if you accepted it or if you deny what your own eyes told you for the sake of pointless contrarianism.
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The black glass doesn't change in the Light World, remember?
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>the knight's weapon is a bat and a blade
>"BUT HOW CAN IT BE A BLADE IF IT'S A BAT?"
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the prophecy marches on, unalteredANAGRAM, unchallenged
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>There is simply no reason for The Knight's weapon to be a bat when it's summoned other than to confirm that this is December Holiday
But we know very well that Toby doesn't want to confirm its December Holiday and wants to keep it a mystery, so why exactly?
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Okay, what WAS the Knight looking for in the Church Dark World?
We see them twice, and if you look closely, they're distracted and looking left and right for something. Like in the cutscene before they raise the Titan.
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>Toby doesn't want to confirm its December Holiday and wants to keep it a mystery
Says who? Deltarune isn't a whodunnit
The Knight's identity was effectively confirmed as soon as it appeared, if you've been paying attention.
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I thought it absolutely wasn't a bat? Now you're saying it's TOO obvious?
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>There is simply no reason for The Knight's weapon to be a bat when it's summoned other than to confirm that this is December Holiday
>That doesn't make sense
>Its foreshadowing
>But foresahdowing is before the mystery is solved, that doesn't make sense
>SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT ITS SO OBVIOUS IT CAN'T BE DENIED???
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>>734147259
I think a big twist will be the knight looks exactly the same in the light world and even has the same abilities, resulting in you being thoroughly screwed if you try to fight it in the light world
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>>734170463
A whodunnit is a detective story where the whole plot is about figuring out the culprit
That's not what Deltarune is. Susie trying to figure out The Knight's identity is one plotline in the story, the entire plot does not revolve around it. Susie can ask questions and lead speculation about The Knight's identity to guide the reader in a Watson-like role, but Kris is not Holmes, they are one of the culprits! This is not a fair-play information environment, there is a huge web of conspiracy that we have only begun to unravel and just being able to point out the mastermind and their conspirators will not be the end of it.
It's not a problem if an attentive reader can figure out who The Knight is by Chapter 4 and it's formally revealed in Chapter 5, there is a LOT more going on here.
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toby please just give us a better release window
4 to 10 months from now means nothing
I can't take this anymore
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Some stuff I want to add to this
>In chapter 4, If you talk to Rudy in the hospital about Susie after introducing her to him in chapter 2, nothing unusual happens
>If you talk to him about Susie without him meeting her in chapter 2, he's more annoyed than anything. He's also completely silent if you ask him about her a second time
>Why is this dialogue so drastically different when he meets her a day later?
>The 3 symbols next to the 3 entry fields in the bunker are a Pine Tree, a Police badge, and the Delta Rune
>You can assume that the Pine Tree = Carol, Police Badge = Asgore, and the Delta Rune = Church
>Rudy has a connection to all 3 of these
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Very well put. I think the fact that the identity of the Knight is the most fun to speculate about has (unintentionally) led some people to think that the Knight is the single most important part of the story.
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Why don't you get some fresh air man
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Toby implied he rewrote parts of chapter 3 while they were still translating it. He said something in a past newsletter like "don't make major changes to the script after you've sent it in for translation". That's probably why it seemed to take so long. In reality, a lot of that time was spent waiting for the rewrites to come in.
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dont forget
>employment has a heavy focus on deltarune, even moreso than undertale
>somehow, despite knowing he went to college, we have not the slightest fucking idea of what Rudy's job was before the coof
calling it right now, he was a cop
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NTA but a whodunit is a store where the identity of the culprit is THE mystery. The Knight's identity is A mystery but not THE mystery. If we assume Dess is the Knight, how much does that tell us about the deeper conspiracy going on with Carol, Asgore, and possibly Undyne? What does that tell us about the traumatic even that happened to Noelle? What does it tell us about Kris's trauma that's been hinted at in the egg rooms? What does it tell us about Mike? Friend? Gaster? There's a lot we can speculate about, some things fairly safely, if we know Dess is the Knight. But there's very little it tells us for sure. This is intentional. The Knight's identity can be solved by a keen player, but it'll only get you so far.
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>no man kris wouldnt want the rowdy punk girl to /ss/ him
"raped"
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Sure, the Knight's identity is only one mystery out of many, but it's probably the most important mystery. Same with other whodunnits, it's not like the ONLY mystery is the identity of the culprit. The characters gain more and more information about the circumstances before it leads to the conclusion of the culprit. And with the culprit's identity, you get the motive, which is inexorably tied in with the mystery at large. I don't know about you but I actually have read Sherlock Holmes and play a lot of mystery games, and Deltarune definitely fits the bill of whodunnit.
>It's not a problem if an attentive reader can figure out who The Knight is by Chapter 4 and it's formally revealed in Chapter 5, there is a LOT more going on here.
I agree, it's not a problem if a reader can figure out who the Knight is before the reveal. The problem is thinking the reveal happened already in Chapter 3, when it's still obviously being kept a mystery for the player. There are still tons of clues even in Chapter 4, so saying "the Knight's weapon is a bat, so that confirms it's Dess" is dumb because the helmet hasn't come off yet.
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Dess almost 100% smells weird, 350 pounds of Reindeer on your face wouldn't be pleasant.
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Sorry, but I really think the Knight and the people associated with the Knight are the biggest players behind everything happening with the plot. We'll find out soon enough.
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>it's literally a (HEADCANON)
Black Knife by Toby Fox
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>>734171995
The bat is The Knight's biggest distinguishing feature after their antlers, it is a critical detail that was included and emphasized for good reason
Every obsessive Deltarune fan recognized that bat and immediately received the signal "oh fuck, it's Dess!"
Of course there was more information presented and processed after that, and no it is not literally actually factually direct confirmation "I am December 'The Roaring Knight' Holiday," but the evidence is overwhelming and I have not seen any reasonable better explanation that can justify this
The fact that The Knight's identity has not been formally revealed is not being disputed, we obviously would not be having this conversation otherwise, I am saying that Toby Fox is fully aware of what information he has revealed to us and knows what conclusions are being drawn. The Knight's identity is a source of drama and tension and excitement even if I already feel completely confident in it.
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> I am saying that Toby Fox is fully aware of what information he has revealed to us and knows what conclusions are being drawn
so what you're saying is Dess Knight is the new Kris Knight?
>more than half the fanbase believes it
>drawn entirely from a first guess
>has literally one other source of evidence to be true
>playing right into toby fox's hands
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>He doesn't know
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No, other anon is saying that whodunnits are only concerned with one mystery, and I'm saying that's not true. Whodunnits can have many layers of mystery beyond the culprit, even if the culprit is the centerpiece.
>arbitrarily decide that this one mystery is the most important
I didn't decide that, the fandom did. It is the most talked about mystery by far.
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>The Knight is another Holiday and they're using Dess's bat symbolically because they're trying to find_her.mp3
The antlers already signal that they're a Holiday, and the motive was already so obvious people assumed the same thing from Kris Knight. The bat would just be setting up a rug pull twist, leading you to believe it's Dess when it's actually one of her family.
>okay well what if it is that
It's not Rudy because he's dying and it's not Noelle because she already has a separate major role which creates so many conflicts that trying to justify how she could be The Knight is even more schizophrenic than Kris Knight.
The door was open for Carol, but Chapter 4 properly introduced her as the obvious evil mastermind with a hilarious amount of false leads like having a giant sword for no reason and a SECOND secret evil black katana in her room (neither resembling the Black Knife, which should be obvious because it's actually Dess's bat).
The ACTUAL real unironic smoking gun indisputable damning evidence about The Knight's identity is Ramb casually revealing that the entire pretext for the Dark Worlds were games of make-believe that Kris and "that girl" used to play together. This justifies why Kris and The Knight's Dark Worlds are near-identical and why their Darkners share a history, the ONLY people "that girl" could be are Dess and Noelle, those are the only real options.
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I don't fully believe it's Dess, but ch3 was filled with Dess references, so that girl being another Dess reference and not Noelle could make sense
Still, Noelle herself said she was really close with Kris, so playing pretend with him makes more sense
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There was plausible justification to doubt that Kris was The Knight immediately (Queen had just established that anyone could open a Fountain and explained the process of doing so, Chapter 1 had the same "Kris doing some sinister bullshit" ending that went nowhere) and further examination quickly revealed damning contradictions like Ralsei's testimony that the Library Dark World was created while we were in control of Kris.
The opposite is true of The Roaring Knight's reveal. It immediately established an extremely limited number of suspects that was pruned even further with new information (introducing Carol and clarifying her role). There are no glaring contradictions, only unanswered questions like "how did this happen?" which we have plenty of room to speculate about.
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>>734173318
Why would troublemaker misfits bond?
Why do you think Kris and Noelle got attached to Susie so easily?
Also, has anyone pointed out
>DECEMBER HOLIDAY
>"KRISMAS"
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Reminder that Noelle is not mentioned ANYWHERE in Chapter 3 (unless you bring her up to Ralsei), while Dess is all over the place
They were playing together all that time, playing WITH the TV, and Tenna doesn't bring her up even once?
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>and Tenna doesn't bring her up even once?
This could have been Kris making the deal with Tenna to never mention her
Noelle did go to Kris house, she mentions that she used to go to his house