#knight ant

[scorchrend]

tenna… your dreams are on display

[cryptidcanid19]

yeah

[penistparker]

im not the step tv im the tv who stepped up (spoilers)

drew this at like 3 am last night

[the-irreverend]

You had one job Toby...

AND YOU FRICKIN NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[korolation]

please tell me no one has made this joke before

[akanemnon]

IT'S!! TV!! TIME!!!

[marmarmiya]

Deltarune peak as usual, assorted doodles and funnies yyaaaaayyy

i love tennnaaaaaaa yyeeeeaaasssss

[themintman]

Well shit. Lord of screens really WAS cleaved red by blade. Okay then.

[next2hue]

help

[semiohazard]

why did the knight make him die slowly

[first-fallen-human]

deltarune sillies the sequel

[scorchrend]

way to blow your 2 chances idiot

[the-swaggy]

VARIOUS CHAPTER 3 RELATED BLINKIES & STAMPS

made these instead of sleeping.. credit not needed!

(i have like three different posts w/ just fake-mike stamps/blinkies, so i didn't add anymore of them here 😭)

[dodush]

I think I'm gonna start posting art here again

[haveapizzaparty]

Chapter 1 Shadow Crystal Holder: Weird clown that foreshadows Queen through text but otherwise doesn't resemble her except through general eccentricity.

Chapter 2 Shadow Crystal Holder: Extremely pathetic talky television man-type who's desperate for attention and validation, much like Tenna.

Chapter 3 Shadow Crystal Holder: The Roaring Knight, who goes on to be the main villain of Chapter 4.

Chapter 4 Shadow Crystal Holder: Gerson Boom.

From this pattern of Shadow Crystal bosses becoming increasingly like the main antagonist of the next chapter, we can extrapolate that the main antagonist of Chapter 5 will be...

Two Gersons.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

It's interesting to think that, like... The Dark Sanctuary Dark World in Chapter 4 is the first Dark World we've seen that has no real connection to the theme of 'abandonment'.

Like, Card Kingdom is based on an unused classroom filled with abandoned toys. The entire plotline there revolves around King's anger and resentment at being abandoned by the Lightners and his desire to take revenge.

The computer room that became Cyber World is usually very frequently used, but.... because the Internet is down it's not at the moment. And Queen is driven by the anxiety of being abandoned if this internet shutdown continues, synthesized through her ego in a very "what would the Lightners do without me?" way.

And TV Land is the heaviest on this theme. With Tenna being driven by the grief of falling into disuse due to both technological advancements and the Dreemurr-Holiday Family Unit slow dissolution and the fear that this will get worse and he will be thrown out.

But then in the Dark Sanctuary... The Church is often used by the people of Hometown, this doesn't seem like it's going to change anytime soon and we see no Darkner be anxious about, like, the canceled Choir practice or anything like that. The closest thing we have to a 'leader' in that Dark World is Gerson/the Hammer of Justice, who is clearly a precious and well-loved Monster-Equivalent-of-an-Urn. If anything, his main worry is about him not being there for his Lightner son!

And, like, I said the Hammer of Justice is the closest thing we have to the 'Dark World Leader' slot in the formula seen in the previous three worlds, but that's also not quite the case.... cause he's also the Shadow Crystal Bearer of the same world. If the Hammer is like the Jevil or Spamton of this world, than it doesn't really have a King/Queen/Tenna for itself?

I remember when Chapter 2 came out, I already noticed this 'Abandonment' Pattern and I wondered whatever a Dark World created from objects that are not neglected or abandoned would just be far too.... content to actually have an adventure in it. Like, there would be no one to fight cause all the Darkners would just be chill and happy they're fulfilling their purposes.

And I also wondered if the Dark is, like, attracted to objects which were abandoned or neglected, gives them bigger importance or power in the Dark World. Hence a 'TV Land" instead of a general "Dreemurr House Land", the TV is the most abandoned thing there and so it is granted more focus.

And on that same topic I wondered about the fact Kris deliberately turned on the TV before opening that Dark Fountain. Like they were intentionally trying to aim for a TV Land Dark World.

Obviously the first idea, that non-abandoned Darkners would all just be benign NPCs has been disproved by the Dark Sanctuary, which has it's fair share of enemies to battle. But I think the idea that the Dark gives extra power and importance to things that have been Abandonment might have some merit. Not just with the Dreemurrs' living room being ruled and controlled by their disused old TV but also with the fact there isn't a clearly equivalent to Tenna (or Queen or King) in Dark Sanctuary.

And again, it makes me think of Kris' reasons for turning on the TV... Was it because their plans is to deliberately invoke the prophecy as much as possible and a TV Guy being slashed by the Knight is mentioned so they had to make a TV Guy?

Could they intuit that the Darkner that would be created from the Television would probably be desperate for attention and obsessed with Toriel and thus easier for the Knight to manipulate.... and also maybe that the Abandonment it feels will make it stronger?

(Notable perhaps that they also slightly opened the house's front door before turning on the TV and making a Fountain. In light of the events of Chapter 3, it seems like it was Kris laying a trap to pull Undyne to the Dark World so that the Knight could kidnap her)

Have Kris and/or the Knight have been deliberately seeking out abandoned and disused places that will therefore have stronger 'boss' Darkners that are easier to manipulate towards the Knight's goals?

And if that was the case, why did they stop with the Dark Sanctuary?

Did they just kinda... ran out of obviously abandoned places/things around Hometown?

Was it simply a matter of following the prophecy?

Was it a desperate attempt to re-capture Toriel via the choir practice?

Was the Knight just desperate to open a new Dark Fountain... somewhere and went with the Church as their first opportunity?

Was that pattern I noticed just a coincidence and doesn't actually mean anything?

A lot of things to think about...