do you have a meta list of all potential roaring knight identity theories (including the less common ones like the knight just being the concept of itself etc)
I dont have a list of "this is every single possible candidate for the roaring knight ever" for two reasons. one is that many dess knight theories can boil down to "dess is the knight bc xyz happened to her", with xyz ranging from she's just normal dess in a suit of armor to homestuck levels of timeline fuckery. second reason is, I wasnt in the fandom for ch 1 days and early ch 2, so idk what was flying around then. I only know from what ive seen on YouTube and Tumblr, so I dont have the widest source of knowledge either.
that being said, ill try to give the most comprehensive list I can with what I've seen. I just can't guarantee it's literally everything. some of this might be stuff I vaguely remember seeing but my memory is not to be trusted most of the time lol.
if you wanna know more about specific candidates, you can ask and ill do my best to explain.
the current frontrunner theories I've seen are: rudy, carol, kriselle amalgam, or dess (in some variation at least, ill explain more lower down). also papyrus is there too.
theories ive seen that are almost definitely disproven are: oberon smog (Gerson), kris (tho they obviously are working with it), asgore.
theories ive seen that aren't outright disproven, but aren't super widespread (and probably not super likely imo): eram, gaster, alvin, pizzapants, noelle, Asriel, mike, friend (especially given the new lore drop).
theories that the knight isn't a person but rather a concept (these are really cool imo I wish they were more popular): the knight is the memory of dess in hometown's mind manifested, the knight is fear manifested (similar to the titan, hence why it looks similar), the knight is a manifestation of the loss/guilt left behind by dess, the knight is a manifestation of darkness itself, the knight is a manifestation of the desire for dess to come back, the knight is a manifestation of the prophecy itself, the knight is specifically kris' guilt about what happened to dess, the knight exists simply to ensure the prophecy is fulfilled and doesn't exist outside that purpose.
ive also seen the knight is an amalgamate. this is different from kriselle amalgam, bc i dont think it was specified as to what it was an amalgamate of, just that it was one (and it was before ch 5 came out). kinda like how the memory heads weren't said to be a specific monster but were still amalgamates.
also the knight just being the knight, as in it has no secret identity or anything and it just exists is something ive seen thrown around. not super common but still interesting.
also I think ive seen it mentioned that the knight could be the angel? idk I might be making that one up tbh, but I feel like I saw that when looking at stuff from the ch 1 era. idr.
going back to the dess possibilities thing rq, there's not really a feasible way for me to say all the theories people have for the knight being dess. like sure, dess-knight at is core is "dess is the knight", but the how as to how dess became the knight is the part that has so much variation. I think ive said this before, but we have so little information to work with on how the knight was made, that anything we say can sound plausible. so its really hard to write every variation of dess knight out just bc she's such a popular candidate, and everyone who believes it has a different, feasible reason for how it happened.
that being said, ill try to list out all the ones ive seen, plus ones I think could also work in my own opinion.
the possible variations of dess knight ive seen are: dess and kris' original soul fused together to make the knight, the knight was created by trying to bring back a dead dess but it went wrong, friend is possessing dess and that created the knight, a dark fountain was created inside dess and made the knight, dess clipped out of bounds at the lake and became the knight, gaster turned her into the knight, the knight is dess' reanimated body using the power of darkness, the knight is a creature meant to look like dess but isn't actually her, the knight is dess fused with pure darkness, dess was hit by asgore's car and that made the knight (yes it was a theory before it became a meme), the knight is dess' dust that got turned into a fucked up darkner, the knight is just dess in a suit of armor and she's completely normal.
yeah that's all I can think of. I really have no idea where to go to research this, so I had to pull from my own shitty memory/out my ass to get this list. sorry if I missed some. and if you wanna know more about any of them, feel free to ask.
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