#dltr

It is 2am. i am not thinking. if this is not readable i apologise.

Now- this is mostly stolen from a video i watched while half asleep but if it's true the game is going to take a DARK omori-like path.

The theory basically is that;

Due to multiple flavour texts and small conversations between characters (Refer to bottom of text for reasoning) it is suggested that Kris at some point (before the game begins) witnessed, or DID, something that really, really screws them up. It is constantly reiterated they have blood on their hands they can't wipe off, that they're guilty of something, that they have done something they are paying the price for. (Very likely the price is being paid to Carol Holiday - as it is confirmed that the person kris is speaking on the phone to is her.) It is suggested Kris was perhaps put in a mental ward once, or atleast restricted and contained for a while during a period of intensive thoughts they had. Clearly, as they are free to move around, go to school, they've gotten better and been granted the ability to act as a normal teenager. If anyone would like to hear more about that feel free to ask. Now - I have a personal theory that is a small stretch but still interesting. What if Carol- or a similar entity (the knight, GASTER) inflicted the SOUL having control over Kris? Now, hypothetically, let's say Kris and Dess along with the rest of their crew as kids are hanging out. It is suggested that pre-chap1 Kris and Dess wanted to have fun- break some boundaries- and i believe it is implied that moment is when the aforementioned "traumatic event" occurs. If Kris was responsible, hence their "promise" and "responsibility" to do what is clearly not their primary goal by the hands of Carol (or the knight), Maybe simply promising to help them fulfil their task wasn't enough- and they are the cause behind us /the player/ taking control of Kris most the time. This theory would make more sense if, as the fandom likes to believe, W.D Gaster has something to do with Carol. Gaster is known (primarily in undertale theories) to have experimented on human souls. Lo and behold, Kris is the only human we see in game and has a human soul. It would make sense that perhaps gaster has something to do with it. It is interesting he has been *allegedly* proven to not be the Egg man though. Over time i think we will slowly capture glimpses of what happened, or it will be a very hidden side plot like the egg man stuff. It is very, very possible in my opinion that the event had something to do with Dess's death, Kris taking responsibility whether it was them or not and getting blamed, Dealing with significant trauma from it, Carol not being able to let go (she has a 'preserving' motif), and her wanting to try and bring back - no matter what it takes- Dess. In order to do this, she takes newly gullible and traumatised kris and forces them into a deal to help her, manipulating them into a pawn. I think Asgore may also be in on this. (due to basement text and his owning of a black shard) A possible way carol may be able to bring back dess is through the night. The knight could be dess's rotting corpse. Visually it has a rotting skeleton esq figure, antlers, so it's possible. And a pretty common theory is that the knight is dess anyway. We've seen that dead lightners can be - atleast partially - brought back to life through the dark world through gerson, as his ashes and hammer become him in chap4. Carol may be aware of this, and perhaps with the help of Gaster, trying to bring back Dess through this, with maybe something going wrong explaining why "dess" is acting so strange.

Knowing Toby fox is friends with the creator of Omori, inspiration could definitely been taken. And vice versa as the games have been in production at overlapping times.

References as to why kris may be traumatised include the receptionist asking how kris was doing after an event - The "Egg man" (or Forgotten man) revealing cutscenes about kris going to 'Art therapy' and supposedly 'doing that instead of killing eachother' - along with multiple statements about previous intrusive thoughts they've had along with how they've gotten 'better' before not acting like themself (when the soul takes over) Thankyou for listening to my tedtalk. I am not expecting anyone to entirely read this, i am just yapping. interesting though nontheless

EDIT: "you are greeted with yet another prison like area. You wonder why your adventures seem to feature so many of these"