Battie's Belfry 🦇💜

The night before Deltarune Ch. 5, I rolled over in bed to my husband and jokingly said, "What if Noelle is the knight. We never see the two in the same place and we know Noelle is incredibly powerful" but now after the weird route update I'm wondering if there's actually something there.

What if the Knight is Noelle from the weird route working with Kris in the present mainline game (this could also explain why we are playing as Kris instead of the character we made as he is trying to achieve some kind of goal with weird route Noelle so the game is in a sense "modded" to have him be our protagonist). She is notorious for modding and uncovering glitches and what's a more common glitch than walking out as far as possible into the water to fall through the map.

I believe you will also need to have two saves to get a "true ending" you will need to complete the 7 chapters in a normal playthrough and go back to your weird route save for "Side B". The game has gotten a lot more meta in a "game realizing its a game" sense this chapter and it has really made me think about a lot of things differently.

I don't know what something like this would mean for Des's story but the sound effect from the weird route where you put on the thorn ring is the same as when Asgore is recounting what happened "that night" and the screen flashes red. This feels like even more evidence that at the very least whatever happened to Des is more connected to Noelle and the weird route more than we originally thought.

I feel like something happened to Des in the Knight's original efforts to change the world and whoever the knight is, is working with Kris to go against the rules of the world to try and bring her back in some way. Would she be able to return in the roaring if she has fallen into such deep darkness like some people have theorized? Would this make the dark fountains (especially Castle Town) the "angels heaven" which needs to be banished? A world where Noelle, a character closely associated with the angel, can have her sister back and be free of her monotonous life?

I've also felt that Friend is very closely related to Noelle based of the imagery in her blog posts. Maybe Friend is guiding her in some way.