Skye does art

Hi! I’m edit-axolotl, but I usually go by Skye. Anything axolotl related is fine too. I go by they/them or she/her (I prefer they tho).

I am an adult, but all the stuff I draw is sfw. I do curse, so be aware of that.

I draw stuff. Usually it’s deltarune fanart or undertale multiverse fanart. I usually just draw whatever I feel like. Theres not really a set thing.

About Asks

I’m always open to asks. There’s no guarantee I answer everything, however. I’m open to drawing requests too, but they’re just little sketches usually.

But I’m open to all asks, I like to answer them. They’re fun.

Will she be hurt? Yeah. Will she be angry? Yes. But i dont think she’ll completely abandon them. That’s not like her.

Like, look at how she reacts to ralsei. When he spends so long lying about how much he knows of the prophecy, when he acts weird thru all of chapter 4, and when it’s finally revealed he’s hiding stuff…

She gets mad. She’s hurt. Mostly she wants to know why. But when ralsei explains himself? She accepts it, and allows him to keep hiding things. Because she reached an understanding with him.

In chapter 5, when ralsei shows his fire magic, he’s worried Susie will get mad. But she doesn’t. She’s just glad he eventually told her about it.

So please. Tell me why it’s such a popular concept that Susie will flip on kris and not forgive them for lying?

It’s a bigger issue yes, your friend being possessed for most of the time you’ve known them is a big issue, on top of them working with your enemy. But it’s not like she’d refuse to hear kris out. Hell, she tries talking to the fucking knight during its fight. She yaps to them for most of the fight before finally giving up. She’s open to hearing out the other side.

Especially if it’s kris. Ch 5 has specific references for how she trusts kris, most interesting being this one: If you wait out aqua and Seth’s first glasses attack she’ll go along with it saying “your strat sucks kris. But I trust you”.

“Your strat sucks kris. But I trust you”, you say? Maybe, just maybe, this also relates to whatever kris is doing with their plan with the knight. She doesn’t agree, she thinks it sucks, but she still trusts them.

When the conspiracy is revealed, she is going to be upset. She is going to be angry. She is going to be hurt. But she’s also going to be willing to hear kris out.

Mermaid mask tomorrow

ok so. I made 2 posts. one detailing the logic of how the knight works in the dark world. the second detailing its logic in the dark world/in general

im now going to analyze the likelihood of each knight candidate (carol, Rudy, kriselle amalgam, and dess) based on those two posts.

im going to use the concepts (ie: lightner, amalgam, straight up just dess) of those 4 candidates to which reading of the knight is the most likely, in my opinion.

THIS IS A DESS KNIGHT POST AT THE END OF THE DAY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

so. let me get this out of the way . the knight is not Rudy or carol. the knight came be any lightner, not in a traditional sense.

the knight so fundamentally breaks the logic behind a lightner going into a dark world. ligtners have slight appearance changes. new outfits, and get magic. the knight has a drastically different appearance, its body is constantly shifting forms, its incredibly powerful.

not to mention the knight doesn't even change between the light and dark worlds anyways.

there is no way the knight can be Rudy or carol without it breaking literally every single rule that has already been established for how lightners in dark worlds work with no precedence or buildup or any indication that's the case.

its much more likely the knight is something other than a lightner or darkner in the traditional sense.

now. kriselle amalgam is a divisive theory, and I dont think this specific iteration of the idea is possible. but I believe the logic of it follows.

let me explain.

kriselle amalgam is the theory that kris and Noelle on the weird route end up drowning in the lake and fusing to become the knight. they then pull some jack noir bullshit and end up in all timelines in a way that's a bit too convoluted for the point I'm trying to make.

the possibility of the knight being an amalgamate is highly likely, in my opinion. it would explain why its body is able to change shape, and why it seems so much more unstable compared to the titan, for example. it explains why the knight is able to go to the light world despite being a darkner of some sort. so many of the knights attributes could be a result of it being some combination of a lightner and darkness.

hence why is said the concept of kriselle amalgam is possible. I dont think its those two in particular, as the mechanics of how the knight appears without doing their weird route doesn't make sense, but the concept of "the knight is an amalgamation of 2 different things" does make sense to me.

now to bring this all to dess. in my mind, dess is the most likely candidate, but specifically dess being an amalgamation of something. whether its darkness, a titan, kris soul, you name it. she isn't herself as in if the knight goes in the light world, out comes December fucking holiday in the flesh. but the knight isn't just some avatar of darkness the same way the titan is.

we dont have enough information to know for sure what exactly happened to make dess into the knight. we could spin it a million different ways and come out with something probable every single time. we dont have enough evidence to prove or disprove any narrative relating to dess rn.

kinda a part 2 to my last post, but you don't need to read that one to understand this one. its here if you wanna read it tho.

I'm going over the logic of how the knight operates in both the light and dark worlds. basically the rules it follows, since it kinda follows its own rules. this post is about its general logic, as well as how it works in the dark world

I think the knight might be a bit physically unstable, in the same way the amalgamates in undertale are.

let me explain.

the knight is seen shapeshifting constantly. the knight from we usually see them in is probably their natural form (tho I have seen it argued that it could instead be the ball form), and we see them shift into the ball form, and the bird. their visor moves around their head constantly, acting as both their moth and eyes. when they roar, they're chest and face split open. the roar they do at the start of their battle looks almost like something trying to rise out of tar, the way the string of black run across their mouth as they open it. they're also seen crying or drooling or dripping at the very beginning of their encounter too. the knight is also always followed by this aura or distortion. basically, their physical form is an ever-shifting mess.

it also looks visually similar to the titan and titan spawn. they're all back and white, and they get staticy whenever they are hit. the knight does seem to get significantly more staticy tho, as its form destabilizes more than the titan's does at the end of its fight.

so what am I saying? I think the knight is, physically at least, in some kind of in-between state. it has properties similar to the titan, in that it looks like the titan and responds the same way when hit. but its a much more unstable version of the titan, as its form constantly shifts and there's a distortion following it around.

what does this mean? I have no fucking clue. the only thing I can think of as a plausible explanation is that the knight is some kind of fusion or something.

no, I don't believe in the kriselle amalgam knight theory to be true. but I think the knight might follow a similar type of logic, and that's why its so unstable. I've said before I'm a dess-knighter, so maybe dess got corrupted by darkness or fused with darkness or something, and that's how she became the knight?

its kind of impossible to say. we just dont know enough about how the knight was made to be able to say anything definitively. literally any idea we could come up with can be plausible if we stretch it enough. we just dont have enough information to say for sure rn.

the only thing I can say for sure is I think the knight is in some sort of in between state of being a titan an being a lightner. they're not a regular darker by any means, and that's why they behave so differently. they're some third category of thing we have yet to see

to add on to that, they're able to ignore stats for some reason? like, flowery's fake stats they're able to flat out ignore.

side note: I dont think they're actually changing the amount of damage flowery is doing to them, I think they're calling his bluff. like, if someone pulls out gun in rock paper scissors, if you accept it as happening it counts as a loss. you allow the other person to insert something outside of the rules that allows them to win. but if you call out the other player and say that there's no gun in rock paper scissors, the gun has no effect. you dont allow. it to work because you dont allow it to defy the rules of the game. I think the knight slashing the numbers is basically a shorthand for calling out flowerys fake stats following this same kind of logic

so for some reason, the knight can call out flowery's bluff. his fake stats are acknowledged by ralsei, for example, but its not like ralsei can outright ignore the damage flowery deals when fighting him. unless he can and just chooses not to. i dont wanna think about that tho. the knight however, can and does.

so the knight can tell when stats are being faked, and is able to ignore that fake stat. whether its a skill unique to the knight or not is hard to say. but its the only one we see actively ignoring them at least.

the knight also has really high defense when fighting it. I dont think this is manipulating/ignoring stats tho as much as it is just having a high defense stat in general. it's just something interesting at least.

they are the only one who can swoon the party. I have. no idea what to say to that except. they're fucking strong. like, stronger than the titan, cause the titan doesn't swoon the party. idk what to do with this information than say "well, more evidence the knights some weird third thing"

so what do we know of the knight? like I outlined earlier, the knight seems the be physically unstable, like how the amalgamates were in undertale. its similar to the titan, but a more unstable version, like its some kind of combination of a titan-like entity and something else. it knows of flowery's fake stats, and its able to call him out on them by straight up ignoring them. we dont know if its the only one able to do this, but its the only one willing to. it is strong enough to swoon the party, seemingly stronger than the titan bc of this. and obviously it has sword and star magic like we see it use constantly

I think the only conclusion I can really draw from this is that the knight doesn't fit cleanly into an established category. they're not a regular darker bc they can go to the light work (see part 1 for more info), they're not exactly a titan bc they're both stronger than one but at the same time are less physically stable. they're certainly not a lightner in the traditional sense, because their logic breaks every single example of a lightner going into a dark world that we have.

I've been thinking about the logic to how the knight works for awhile, and I wanna share some thoughts I have. this will probably end up being multiple posts.

(psst. here's part 2. its the dark world logic part)

ok so. does the knight have a light world form?

no. I do not think they do. for multiple reasons.

first of all, the black shard doesn't change between light and dark world. it remains as the black shard whether you check it from your light world menu or your dark world menu. it doesn't change, so why would its source change?

the black shard is taken from the knights sword. so at the very least, the sword has to remain the same between light and dark worlds. since the sword looks visually the exact same as the knight, doesn't it also make sense that the knight itself would follow the same logic? otherwise, wouldn't there be some visual difference between the two? because then it just gets confusing, like its purposely misleading at that point.

it is possible that the knight has some alternate appearance in the light world? potentially, but I sill find it unlikely. if there is, I would think its a pallet swap of the knight itself instead of it actually being an established lighter.

adding on to this, I think the knight is only able to operate when its dark in the light world.

we know the knight operates in the light world. we see them in ch 3 taking undyne, we know they made ch 4 fountain, and they run off with ashore in ch 5. they also make ch 2 fountain, but ill get back to that later

so the three times we know of them doing stuff, ignoring ch 2 for now, are: late at night (ch 3), in the rain (ch 4), and after sunset (ch 5). all times when its dark.

except wait, ch 4 was during the day, wasn't it? doesn't that ruin what I was talking about?

except no. it doesn't. I specifically said when it's dark, not at night. and, even if isn't technically dark enough when it's raining for it to count as "dark", I think it is. specifically because its raining.

we know that darkness and water are essentially synonymous in deltarune. the most obvious example being the dark fucking fountains. so I think its possible that, given the fact its raining, that makes the ight world "dark" enough for it to open the fountain. both bc clouds cover the sun and make It darker, but also bc rain is like "darkness" in and of itself.

I think given this, it's likely ch 2's fountain was made at night. it'd be weird if it was made during the day, especially if it was after Noelle and berdly already entered. so it was probably made beforehand, and those two went in without thinking anything was wrong? or maybe they did realize, and a similar sequence to ch 1 with kris and susie happened to them? idrk

suffice it to say, I think the knight can probably only operate when its dark enough in the light world, whether through rain or it being nighttime. I also don't think the knight has a different lightworld form; they remain as the knight in both the light and dark worlds.

Fr lol. They are probably ecstatic but also shaking the soul like “fuck you I can’t be happy make them happy instead”

I do like how in most of those scenes, there’s an effort to include Noelle. Like, kris and Susie make a heart in the Ferris wheel, Susie says it’s for Noelle.

I think the most particularly tragic thing for kris is, even if you choose all the krusie options (or even kriselle those are incredibly sweet too), Susie and Noelle still have that really intimate moment kris probably overheard at least some of at the lake. That probably stings at least a bit.

Kris is the type of person to be extremely self-sacrificial and self-harmful. We see this in them literally ripping out their soul in one of the most painful self harm allegories I’ve seen. We see them grab the suspiciously chara shaped flower seeds with warning labels that we have no idea what they plan on doing with them. They try to cut their flower statue thingy in half while only trimming Susie’s at the start of ch 5s darkworld. The promise to house the soul and give up their agency likely comes from a place of guilt. I could go on, but suffice it to say Kris is usually the last person they think of when doing anything.

So cut to Susie and Noelle’s relationship. Kris knows Noelle has a crush on Susie most likely since the start of the game. At the very least they do in ch 2, as during the Ferris wheel scene the dialogue options give the vibes of Kris trying to wingthey for Susie and Noelle. Maybe they don’t have feelings for Susie yet, maybe they do. But either way, they’re not going to get in the way of Susie and Noelle getting together.

Now it’s ch 5. Susie and Noelle very clearly have feelings for each other more than in ch 2. We see at the end of ch 5 Kris has feeling for Susie. But would they ever get in the way of Susie and Noelle at the festival? Hell no.

I firmly believe that if we the player choose all the suselle options, Kris will go along with them and play the best wingthey there is. Not bc they are forced to, we’ve seen them go against our orders or speak things quietly enough no one can hear them on multiple occasions. But bc they don’t want to get in the way of their best friend/crush and childhood best friend(/maybe childhood crush).

Like I said before, Kris is the type of person to put everyone else before themself. So, provided the soul chooses the options, Kris will wingthey the best they can for suselle bc they care about their friends happiness more than their own. Besides, in their mind it’ll be easier this way for when they inevitable betray Susie. She’ll have someone else to fall back on, right?

Kris istg your self sacrificing bullshit is going to send me to the fucking grave. But I digress

Kris would never get in the way of suselle. Even tho it hurts them to watch those two get close, they wouldn’t stop it from happening. Hell, at the shorted weird rout hot spring, they’d rather dive headfirst into the water than allow the soul to tell Susie “don’t get between me and Noelle”.

But now they’re at the hot spring with Susie on the normal route. Susie, the girl they have a crush on, the girl who’s their first real friend in a long time, the girl who’s been there for there whole adventure. The girl who said “I gotta practice giving this to someone” and then threw a goddamn flower at Kris’ face when they scared her. No I am not ok about this. And the two of them are sitting together, and Susie’s worried her and Noelle won’t work out. And…

Kris can’t say they will. Looking at her, as the soul picks that “you and Noelle will work out”…Kris can’t say it. They mumble the words low enough Susie can’t hear.

Is this bc they don’t think Susie and Noelle will actually work out? No. In fact, id bet the opposite. They think the two will work out, but some selfish part of them, probably a part they hate, wants them to not. Not bc they want the two to suffer, but bc that single, selfish part wants to be with Susie. And when it’s the two of them alone…they can’t fully ignore that part well enough to tell Susie what she wants to hear.

And then the chapter ends, and it’s just the two of them again. (Given the right option is selected) Kris rips out their soul and it truly is just the two of them as they walk back to castle town. Susie reassures Kris and reaffirms their bond, but at the same time says that “the dark world can’t just be a you and me thing anymore. It needs to be Noelle’s thing too”.

Even tho she tells them they still matter to her, even tho they know that, Kris is still hurt by this. Ignoring the various reasons Kris probably doesn’t want Noelle in the dark world, her getting included is getting in the way of their Kris and Susie thing.

Like obviously the two aren’t alone the entire dark world and Kris still cares a lot about ralsei, for example, but at the end of the day, when the fountains are sealed, Kris and Susie are the only two left who know what happened. Who experienced king, queen, tenna, the knight, the titan. Who experienced that dark world in its full capacity. And they did it together.

Kris knows Susie still cares so much for them. But seeing their face at the end of the chapter as they walk home all alone, and just how fucking sad they look. It’s not hard to imagine they feel like Susie is drifting away from them too.

First dess, then Noelle, then Asriel. Now Susie too.

Like, the darkness that creates the dark worlds, and the darkners in general come from fountains. So it’s already linked to water.

Iceshock would essentially be freezing that water/darkness and stopping it from functioning anymore, like a waterfall freeing over.

I can’t even write bro my watermark looks like shit how tf did I do this.

The lore drop was so good it made me ascend past my inability to do shit with my right hand. You are filled with the power of stabilization and line tools.