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It isnt Dess, it isnt Noelle, it isnt Rudy, it isnt Papyrus[???]

Its noone in hometown. Its noone at all. Its The Roaring Knight.

I know I know no fucking shit The Knight is The Knight, groundbreaking theory here everyone. What I mean though is that they dont HAVE a counterpart in the light world, that is to say in the same way that Kris in the light world is Kris in the dark world, The Knight in the dark world is The Knight in the light world.

Lets step back a good long bit, Chapter 1, Ralsei's introduction. Ralsei is very obviously a dark world counterpart to Asriel, theyre the same in all but one regard. Asriel has Kris, even in Undertale has Chara. Asriel has a sibling, and Ralsei does not.

I think that The Knight is the Kris to Ralsei's Asriel.

I think that The Knight is, or rather was, a darkner.

Now I hear you, "Darkners cant open fountains!" "The Knight ran away in the LIGHT world!!!"

But thats where the was comes in. I think The Knight became a lightner, and I think they told Spamton how. Maybe Jevil too. [Strong maybe though]

Spamton NEO. At the start of the boss battle he says that he needs to get "so very big" that he can "see above the dark", and he says he can do that if he takes Kris's SOUL. I think The Knight told him to do that. They told him if he took Kris's SOUL he would be able to "see above the dark".

Because theyve done it before.

Let me paint a picture.

The Knight has it drilled into them that their purpose is to serve lightners, to fulfill the prophecy, to do as they are told. Ive already posed them as the Kris to Ralsei's Asriel, so tell me, what is the one thing we know Kris yearns for most? That's right. Freedom. The Knight is told to serve lightners and decides they dont want to, they decide to try freedom instead, they decide that they should call the shots, they decide that they should be a lightner instead.

Now how does one go about becoming a lightner? Well what do lightners have that darkners dont...? It might sound obvious but... Light.

"It's so dark here."

How do you go about getting light...? You take it. You take it from them by force. You take a lightner's SOUL and make the light within it your own.

The Knight took the light from the first lightner it found. The Knight took the light from one December Holiday. The Knight drowned Dess in the dark where they had been trapped for so long.

But part of her remained. Just as a monster absorbing the SOUL of a human. That's why their sword, taking from them being a counterpart to Kris, is shaped like a bat. That's why their helmet has antlers. Not because Dess is The Knight, but because The Knight took part of Dess.

This next bit is related but a bit more speculative.

I dont think Ralsei is singing Don't Forget. Theres a reason it's a woman's voice. It's December.

Of course we won't forget the prince of darkness standing right next to us for essentially our whole journey. It'd honestly be harder TO forget him. The same goes for any OTHER darkner. But we might just forget a girl lost in the dark, someone who knows first hand how cold and dark and terrifying it is in the dark.

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