December Holiday is an extremely plausible candidate for the roaring knight. She also is an extremely plausible candidate for the voice in the unused code, and I've been struggling to reconcile these too ideas, because it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to think that the roaring knight and the unused are the same person. The roaring knight is running around and doing things, whereas unused is trapped alone in endless dark with no way to even track the time.
And sure, the knight could be carol instead. That idea has gained some traction this chapter, with the confirmation that Asgore cannot possibly have been the voice on the other side of the phone, meaning it was probably Carol, who suspiciously knew where the next fountain would appear. There are things about it that don't feel quite right, though. Do we really think that Carol would have created a darkworld with her daughter at the epicenter? Could the ever-busy mayor really disappear for the amount of time it takes to do knight things without anyone noting it as odd. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it leaves me with questions.
There's something else that has been bothering me. In the weird route, Noelle talks about it like no one knows what's on the other side of the lake, but this is a basically modern setting. Someone should know that. They have phones. It should be incredibly easy to google. Except the internet went out shortly before the game started. Alvin used to constantly get letters from Gerson's fans, but they recently stopped coming in. Tenna used to be able to show all sorts of programs, but now he just plays the same old reruns. The road that presumably leads out of hometown is blocked off by police tape, despite the town's general lack of crime.
The town has, at very least, been deliberately cut off from the outside world, but the lake scene makes me wonder if the outside world even exists anymore. It makes me wonder if it ever has.
The best explanation i've seen for how the weird route continues in chapter 7 is that kris and Noelle managed to clip out of bounds and skip ahead to the dark world under the town. Why would there be such a thing as 'out of bounds' if it wasn't supposed to be impossible to cross the lake? Doesn't it make every other way out being blocked off so much more suspicious?
If the outside world doesn't exist, then Asriel isn't at college right now. So where is he?
Maybe, just maybe, the outside world was, 'intended' to exist, but was ultimately deemed unnecessary. The space that should have been Asriel's university became unused, and he, as the only relevant character there, remained as sentient artefact, living in a space that doesn't exist, waiting for his cue to step back into the light.
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