!!deltarune chpt 5 spoilers!!

There's kind of a recurring pattern in Kris's life, it's that it's marred with a lack of control regarding the people around them and eventually feeling like they've been left behind. Dess disappeared and they couldn't do anything to prevent it, someyhing they seem to feel responsible for. Their parents marriage fell apart and they could only watch as their dad becomes more and more obsessed with fixing everything to a concerning degree. Their brother, the closest person to them, left for college and now they can't even stay in contact due to the internet outage in the town. Noelle and them have continued to drift apart with no easy way to reconnect. Working with the Knight is a choice that they made but it does feel like they've been coered into staying with their 'promise'. Now, it's like they're starting to lose Susie, someone who makes them feel like they can do anything, to both escapism in the Dark World and to Noelle in the Light World.

90% of the Light World segment this chapter was just Kris thridwheeling Noelle and Susie's date. Sure, there are options to do things with both of them seperately but regardless it culimates in the lake scene which, while cute for Suselle, is both awkward and probably painful for Kris to be around because they DEFINETLY heard/saw everything even if they were 'asleep'.

They already don't seem that thrilled about Noelle and Susie's relationship developing, as evident in some Dark World dialouge, and now their own private 'thing' is going to becomes Noelles. Now Kris is facing the possibility of losing Susie in both worlds.

However it's not just about jealously toward Noelle. Her and Kris used to be close but haven't been for a while but when they seem to be hanging out again, it might seem on the surface like it's mostly just for Susie while Kris is just kind of the unwanted but also neccessary thrid to connect the two to eachother. To Kris it might seem like Noelle has completely moved on from them and now their old bond has been taken up by Susie. We know that this isn't the truth, that Noelle misses Kris so much but is unable to commuciate it due to fear Kris doesn't feel the same way and it makes things even worse.

The worst part is even if they wanted to explain all of this, they can't actually say anything about it due to us. They can only talk when we prompt them to and depsite how they feel about us and our influence, they also need us to fullfill their duty to the Knight, whatever that entails. And Kris has only continued to shut us off from knowing them more and more as the game goes on so we can't make them tell anyone about this. You might think since they can take us out of them at any point, they have more control but they will actually DIE (THEY GO FROM THEIR NORMAL COLOUR TO GREEN AFTER A NIGHT) if they go so long without us so we're also neccessary for them to live, otherwise.

In Chapter 6, the divide is going to be stronger with Noelle entering the Dark World and with the new relationship with her and Susie, Kris can only watch as their new bestie and old childhood friend only grow the more closer and feeling more like an outsider to both of them. Not only that, the Knight only grows stronger and closer to their ultimate goal witu each passimg day, and Kris is going to have to make a choice, they're already sturggling with the gulit but can they really decide a side?

They won't betray the knight because of their promise and/or a sense of gulit and they won't betray their new friends because they care about them. But this balancing act on both sides clearly can't last forever, at some point Susie is going to find out, whether she pieces it together on her own or someone else exposes it and it won't be pretty (throw in the soul stuff and it'll be 10x worse). Something's got to give.

In the end, I think they're going to choose neither.

The next step in the prophecy seems to be the Roaring so wouldn't Kris starting it be playing right into the Knights hands? Thing is the Knight seemily could've just cause the Roaring now but not only does the Knight want to follow everything in a specific order, they clearly need people like Undyne and Asgore, both of whom were connected to the police which cpuld be seen as them limiting the amount of people who could stop them but why try to take Toriel, who is just a school teacher? They need Lightners for some reason and are keeping them in the bunker, is it to save them from the Roaring or is it more nefarious? We don't know.

But Kris would, they would know they would have to follow the Knight's plan and why it's important so going against that and starting the Roaring pre-emptively, not only forcing the Knight to go ahead with everything unprepared, but also forsaking their friends, both Light and Dark to a horrible fate.