Iâm a crackhead Rudy knight theorist here to share my Lights Theory
So we know in chapter 5, Rudy is doing the lights for the festival, putting them up all by himself as he insists upon. And upon leaving the darkworld, Susie notes how the lights are âstill upâ. This is initially seen as just a one off comment since most of the festival has been taken down by that point. However. What really stands out here is that in the weird route, at an earlier time, the lights are never there to begin with. Just Rudy, sitting in the same spot we found him in, not having put up any lights.
This could easily be nothing. It could be that Toby Fox somehow forgot about the lights he made a comment on in the other route! Yeah nah I donât buy that. I believe this was an incredibly intentional decision. So hereâs where I dive in to Rudy knight.
Rudy putting up the lights was a very convenient deterrent to any belief that heâs the knight, I mean why would he be in dark worlds if heâs putting up lights? However, in the normal route, surely he wouldnât have continued putting up lights after his fall. This means his fall happened right where the lights end, at the house next to the flower king shop. Given that Rudyâs best friend is obsessed with these dark worlds and his wife is at the very least a conspiracist like Asgore and at most a direct affiliate to the soul. This means itâs very likely that carol may know of the prophecy, after all sheâs working directly with Kris who knows of it, and Kris has been sneaking out on the phone with carol to either meet with her or someone else we donât know of. So if carol knows of the prophecy, SURELY Rudy has been told of it. SURELY Rudy has at the very least heard of it and at most is directly involved. So, if he knows of the prophecy, surely he knows of the flower king in asylum, and knows of a dark world being made there.
I propose he took a fall to give Kris and Susie leeway to enter the dark world. That he fell to have a minor (but not serious) sense of urgency for Noelle to leave and by extension, for other people in hometown to be distracted as well, all so Kris could initiate the next dark world.
This is where I get into Rudy knight⌠that after taking his fall, eventually carol or himself were able to get people away for him to he could serve his purpose of going to the dark world, given late, and kidnapping asgore. And boy did he cut it close.
Any other points from previous chapters about Rudy knight can be found like. Anywhere else. But this is specific information that no one (to my knowledge) has noticed. This feels to me as far too intentional to be an oversight. Toby wanted us to pay attention to this line from Susie, to pay attention to the fact that Rudy is the only other npc in the weird route aside from SANS. Thereâs something more to Rudy, more than weâre permitted to see right now, and even if he isnât the knight, he is definitely not just the sick guy. He knows something.
This is all to say. If Rudy didnât need to take a fall in the weird route cuz thereâs no darkworld, why would he need to put up lights in the first place? If Kris isnât at the festival, Rudy wouldnât need to try, he could just sit there all day and only see Kris at the end of the day knowing the fountain wasnât made! The lights feel more like an alibi than some random thing he decided to do. In the normal route his insistence upon doing them through this lens feels more deliberate than stubborn.
Also in case thereâs any doubt or thinking that he fell at the town hall, the lights were not up anywhere except the town hall when we were at the festival! These lights were only put up after we left the festival! (As seen in the third image)
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