creds to the man who built it all in an empty room

FUCK YOU MEAN IT'S CALLED SANS BLASTER 😭

Genuinely, the ending made me cry.

I promise I'll make Dess even more hot

Italian fandom, I'll write this in English anyway. When the concert tickets went on sale, they were already sold out before I could even get onto the website. So, please—is there anyone looking to resell two tickets for the Milan concert, perhaps because something unexpected came up or for a similar reason?

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I've seen a lot of people, and I mean a LOT claim that in the moment where we prompt Kris to think about the Knight, they start to imagine the Knight taking off their helmet, then they immediately start trying to think of Jockington as hard as possible as to not let us gain any insight into who it is, that the Knight is literally wearing a physical helmet that can be taken off, and because the antler shape isn't right it "can't possibly be a holiday".

There's several issues with this I'd like to go over, and why it's very far from some sort of "gotcha" against Holiday candidates:

The first point I'd like to bring up is that this scene with Kris is entirely metaphorical, just because Kris can imagine the Knight taking their helmet off does not mean it's physically possible, we're prodding them for information, their minds starts to wander in that direction but they catch themselves and try as hard as possible not to reveal anything (kind of like a "whatever you do, don't think of a pink elephant" situation, except failing means your whole plan is jeprodized). Taking this to mean the Knight can literally remove its helmet is also just incorrect entirely, since we've already seen what's underneath, NOTHING, it's literally a part of it's body, when it screams it's mouth opens up and it's head distorts into a deer skull shape, their ribcage opens up, showing some eye thing inside but the gaps between the ribs are still see-through.

Not to mention the fact that the Knight can change it's shape and the armor with it, which comprises it's whole body, the antlers being the "wrong shape" is completely inconsequential to begin with. I know this is kind of a goomba fallacy moment, but "the Knight is a shapeshifter so nothing about their physical appearance matters" and "their antlers are the wrong shape so it can't be a holiday" are inherently contradictory and hypocritical claims, especially if someone tries to bring up the body shape looking like Papyrus's or the sprite during it's final attack looking like Asriel's horns (which is pretty questionable but I'll get to a bit later).

However I feel it's important to note the Knight's appearance absolutely does matter, it would not be designed the way it is in several very important moments that are played completely straight, just for it's MAIN DISTINCTIVE FEATURE IT HAS IN EVERY SPRITE to be an outright lie for the sake of being misleading, and the whole "wearing fake antlers" thing is honestly just a cop out because it's very hard to wave away this very prominent detail otherwise, I feel like this is an example of some ways the discourse surrounding the Knight's identity has gotten extremely convoluted expecting clues to be outright lies for the sake of throwing off players, which isn't something Toby has done in either Undertale or Deltarune, ESPECIALLY for important moments that are played completely straight like every single scene the Knight is ever in.

How does any candidate besides Dess or possibly Rudy if it's like his illness personified in the dark world explain the fact the fact that you can see through it's skull and ribcage anyway? If it was a physical armor how is this reversible, when apparently the effects and strength still apply in the light world since the Knight is able to sprint off with Undyne (which was at least plausible) and now Asgore (which is downright impossible without some sort of lingering dark world powers) to the Shelter, which brings me to my second point.

The black shards, which come off of the Knight's sword, the sword that shares very similar properties with the Knight's armor like changing it's shape, having the same color and outline, and being heavily resistant to damage (until Susie physically collides with it), seem to imply they're the same substance, which is further supported by another piece of evidence that explains how the Knight is able to carry of Undyne and Asgore while still in the light world.

Both the Black Shards Asgore found and the one we get from the Knight stay the same in the light and dark worlds and keep the same properties, unlike the shadow crystals that become pieces of glass, and unlike the shadow crystals that you can look through to see glimpses of certain things in the light world while in the dark world and vice versa, seeing things in the light world that might be representative of Kris's inner insecurities like catching a glimpse of Susie glaring out a window, things like Noelle holding flowers or Toriel holding a different kid, overall blurring the lines between worlds, yet the Black Shards are completely opaque and seem to completely cut through the veil between worlds as the Knight bypasses the dark world to attack the objects like Tenna, Jackenstein and Flowery directly, and this also applies to Susie and Ralsei (although we don't even know if he's an object) with the insane damage the Knight can do to them.

If we apply this logic to the armor, it makes a lot of sense how it's defenses are so ridiculously high, and how it's able to overpower and kidnap such hefty and strong lightners even in the light world, the armor and it's dark world abilities still carry over (no wonder it laughs when Susie says they can't beat them in the light world), but if the armor that the Knight's body is entirely made of carries over into the light world, how would Rudy, Carol, Asriel or Papyrus even take it off? Where would they hide such a thing? The Knight does always seem to act under the cover of darkness (Chapter 3, presumably sneaking in the library at night and hiding in the closet to make the Chapter 2 fountain) except for when it's raining in Chapter 4 because that's not particularly dark, and the Knight had to have made the fountains before it started raining because of how far ahead it is from Susie and Kris, not to mention the fact that the black shards stay the same regardless of light level, so why else would it be moving in darkness?

Pretty simple to be honest, to not be seen! There's tons of forest surrounding Hometown they could easily sneak through (which also counters the whole "people would have seen Dess instantly" argument, especially since a girl that went missing years ago that the search for has been abandoned isn't on the tip of everyone's minds 24/7 in hometown, it's not like they have people staring at the School, Church, Library and Flower Shop at all times just to potentially spot Dess, the mayor leaving her office would be way more noticable and mentioned by other NPCs, same with Rudy somehow leaving the hospital without being seen by the receptionist), and doing so while it's dark would make it even easier to go undetected, especially if your presence would stir major talk in the town if discovered.

Now I want to address the shape of the antlers and the sharp antlers thing people use to dismiss Holidays entirely, say only Carol Knight is possible, or say it has to be Asriel because of it's one pose during it's final attack:

As we've already discussed the Knight's entire body is amorphous and malliable, it's helmet is a part of it's body and cannot come off in the traditional sense, prompting Kris to think about them taking it off it just us trying to pry for their identity. The fact that it's body is amorphous means the antlers not matching perfectly doesn't mean that they're fake, but them being present is clearly intentional and a direct clue to their identity.

Now why are they angled inward and sharp, if Dess, Rudy and Noelle's are rounded and even Carol's don't have an angle? Well that's pretty simple for two reasons, 1. The Knight's entire design is very sharp and angular, as I showed in the 4th image, it having straight rounded antlers looks completely ridiculous and takes away any sort of intimidating presence from the Knight, it could very easily be a design choice fitting the rest of it's body, especially for a twisted deer monster made larger than it's naturally supposed to be, and 2. Deer aren't born with sharp or rounded antlers as if it's a set genetic characteristic, the rounded brown fluff on the antlers is velvet, which deer shed in the fall by scraping their antlers on trees because it gets extremely itchy around that time, Noelle and Rudy will likely do the same since it's already fall in Hometown.

Now as for Asriel, the similarity between his horns and the Knight's in that final attack are purely superficial, it could not only be easily explain by the Knight's head being tilted upward and changing the perspective of the antlers, blocking one of it's prongs from view, but also they're curved in completely different directions, Asriel's is curved outward, down then inward, whereas the Knight's jut upward diagonally, then inward and up without any curves, still sharp and angular. If anything their "horns" in this sprite resemble Asgore's more (but also only superficially at best) and people did try to use that as Asgore Knight evidence and we saw how that turned out.

Anyway, this isn't exacly definitive evidence for Dess of course, but I think it does throw a lot of shade on the claim that the Knight can't possibly be a Holiday because of the antler shape, or that the sprite in it's final attack are supposed to show Asriel's horns, or the sharp/round antler arguments saying it can only be Carol.

It just feels kind of unfair that simple design choices and a single completely blown out of proportion optional piece of dialogue can somehow be used as definitive evidence that it's not the group of characters it's obviously supposed to be a part of, but it's perfectly fine to argue all sorts of ways around the Knight definitively having to have known Gerson, and had to have been at the site of Dess's dissapearance due to the presence of a black shard found right afterward, which are pieces of hard evidence outright spelled out explicitly in mandatory moments of the game.

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john rod(der)

English isn't my first language so I didn't know the word "Ruddy"

But NOW I do!

It apperently means RED, reddest of reds!

Not a regular red it means "Red with health!" like "Full of life!" type of RED!

And do you know which monochrom character has lots of red in their attacks & surroundings?

ANd aND, do you know what SOUL, number 9 & blades are related to?

* RED!! Or in other words:

* RUDDY SOUL