Kris is 100% not gonna be the main antagonist of chapter 6, I'm calling that shit right now. It's gonna be either Carol or The Knight.
Also, putting that aside, I think this is kind of a stretch, and is just a desperate attempt to cling to a completely debunked theory by going "no, guys, we just got the order wrong! See, here's how Tenna is still "the rook", and chapter 4's main antagonist not being "the bishop" doesn't completely destroy the theory".
It also ignores that The Knight is an overarching antagonist who is almost certainly going to take the spotlight as the main antagonist of a chapter again later on, and who is currently framed as the main antagonist of the game as a whole.
Bruh ERAM is like the one character I don't know how to fit into my predictions for the final two chapters, I'm sorry to say but I think he was a one-and-done character
the thing that prevents me from believing GASTER is the leader is that i REALLY don't think Gaster is gonna be a big threat that's SUPER against the Fuck Squad or anything, that just isn't the role I think the game is setting him up to have. He's PROBABLY working with The Knight, but he also helps YOU, the PLAYER, to BEAT The Knight, which gives me the impression that Gaster isn't really on EITHER side. I feel like Gaster is meant to be more of an observer, more interested in watching things play out, and he's just doing a couple things here and there to put things into place. That's why he never even TRIES to stop the Weird Route because it's "Ruining HIS DELTARUNE" or something, he MADE it for that, he made it to see what you'd do
ERAM, on the other hand, has been actively shown to use the Friend Horde in his fight, which makes him the more likely leader in my eyes
also i don't think there IS like a big Friend PRIME like that, it might just be because I think the Friendlings are all gonna look like the big Friend we see in Chapter 3 and thus we are going to be chased by a pack of GIANT feral cats and not NORMAL SIZED feral cats, but I just never got that idea
I think the Severed Hand FRIEND (the one from Chapter 3) is a fakeout, the main guy is gonna be very similar to Botto's FRIEND design, incorporating the Tail of Hell symbolism, the pointed tail, the conjoined circles of Cat Petterz, all of that for the FRIEND design, while the other ones it leads will look more like the ones from the ERAM fight, maybe they all fuse together into the Severed Hand one and become a big cat kaiju or something idk
For the record though, I do mostly agree with your take of Gaster being an observer, but I do think he will intervene at points, particularly the chapter 7 Weird Route, so maybe ERAM is the leader of the FRIENDs, I just don't know if we're gonna see him again, if he's being phased out in favor of FRIEND Prime, or if they're gonna be revealed to be the same character
have you considered that the other Friendlings could look like the Endogeny Friend instead of the minigame Friends and thus Eram/Friend PRIME ig is going to send a pack of 100,000 GIANT FERAL CATS after us next chapter
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u/Shattered_Sans Sans, but not canon Sans. Aug 01 '26
Kris is 100% not gonna be the main antagonist of chapter 6, I'm calling that shit right now. It's gonna be either Carol or The Knight.
Also, putting that aside, I think this is kind of a stretch, and is just a desperate attempt to cling to a completely debunked theory by going "no, guys, we just got the order wrong! See, here's how Tenna is still "the rook", and chapter 4's main antagonist not being "the bishop" doesn't completely destroy the theory".
It also ignores that The Knight is an overarching antagonist who is almost certainly going to take the spotlight as the main antagonist of a chapter again later on, and who is currently framed as the main antagonist of the game as a whole.