the princess in shining armor

Dread Ducky proceeding to grow legs and run at Doug with full force

Lucky:Last night you were having a mental breakdown over messing up your makeup.

In this AU, Ralsei and castle town kinda take the place of Bierce and her ballroom. Instead of Malak being replaced for a different character in this AU, Malak still exists, and the knight is kinda like one of the generals, but instead of being a general the knight is kinda like Malaks lackey which can enter both the mortal realm and nightmare realm, opening nightmare realms(aka dark worlds) around hometown in hopes of luring more souls.(this may or may not change depending on who the knight is)

We know that people can look up tutorials online to find how to summon Malak, he mentions it when we see Doug in the hospital. In my AU, Kris got the soul from Malak, in trade for some goal that Kris wants to accomplish. What goal? Well, we don't really know considering we don't know Kris all that well in the game, I don't really trust myself to make any good theories (sorry if this seems lazy, i tried to look for some good theories on Kris's motives but I didn't really find any.)

Susie's kinda oblivious to it all. I think by the second or third nightmare realm she kinda takes things more seriously kinda like in deltarune.

I haven't really figured out which nightmare should correspond to which dark world considering we haven't seen each nightmare and dark world, but I am leaning to having or Prison Panic being Chapter 3's nightmare for obvious reasons.(TV show host entertainment yada yada) I'm also leaning towards making Deadly Decadence Chapter 4's nightmare purely based on appearance.