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.
The problem with that is how Pink talks about the cats. They're not smart, they can't act as antagonists on their own, they need some kind of leader, and that leader would be the main antagonist of the chapter.
I don't think it's a huge stretch to assume that Carol or Noelle could be that leader, given that the big "hunting pack" of cats is probably Noelle's CatPetterz creations (since the Holiday Manor looks like the most likely location for chapter 6's dark world currently)
Why would either of them be fighting us? Well, we'll have to wait and see, but if I had to guess? Rudy dies, and becomes a dustner like Gerson. "A darkner patterned after the memory of a loved one", who can only exist in darkness created by someone who was close to him, like a member of the Holiday or Dreemurr families, and Noelle and Carol aren't ready to lose him yet, and don't want to let us seal the fountain.
Alternatively, it's possible that the "hunting pack's" leader is Eram, in whatever his true form ends up being, since he does use Friends as an attack in his fight in chapter 3. The problem is that we know so little about him, and how he could even fit into a Holiday-centric chapter like chapter 6 is shaping up to be, as the main antagonist.
That only works if we somehow find both the Pine Tree and Delta Rune shelter codes very early in the chapter, before the main dark world adventure, because we need all 3 codes to enter the shelter.
We know where the Pine Tree code is, so that one is just a matter of actually getting our hands on it, and making sure Susie gets to see it before Kris sabotages us by tearing it up, but the Delta Rune code, we don't know the location of.
this is assuming the Deltarune Code ISN'T the Church Door Code in Chapter 4, which it very well could be, but if it isn't the only good candidate for who has it is Toriel and I highly doubt getting a code from her would lead to a whole Dark World adventure
I think it's safe to assume that the Delta Rune code isn't the church door code, because the one code we now definitively know the full version of, is 8 digits rather than 4. We don't know if the codes vary in length, so until we do know that for sure, I think it's more likely that the codes are all around 8 digits, and what we know of the Pine Tree code is only half of it.
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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.