Now that I've had time to think, let's talk about the Roaring Knight and why I believe wholeheartedly that it's Dess.
When the Roaring Knight is first introduced, they're shown crying in a snowy area with distorted sleighbells ringing behind them. They have a noticeably long, distorted figure and horns crowning their head.
All features of a Holiday. Especially the club shaped horns both shown on Rudy and Noelle.
Second, the Roaring Knight's hands. I could be wrong, but it looks like they're using magic. We see Noelle and Ralsei use their hands for magic, more notably Noelle.
Does this mean all the Holiday's are magic users in the Dark world? That would make sense with the pun "Holiday Magic" coming to mind...
But additionally, we see the Roaring Knight use a sword- but originally, it looks like a Baseball bat.
Something Dess is well known for.
And if you place a light in front of a baseball bat, it's shadow can distort to look like a sword.
But the handle and hold on it remains the same. Even the form of the Roaring Knight is a distortion of what looks like a shadow of a Holiday member.
And when it screams in pain, the Roaring Knight notably opens it's ribcage revealing a noticeable deer head towards the top.
We know the Dark World can take an item dusted with a dead soul's dust and make them alive again (Gerson), but what if that person is still alive? What if Dess is still alive, but warped from so many years stuck inside the Bunker's fountain?
We know the shadows distort and lie to the player, and we've never seen the Roaring Knight in the light of the Light World to reveal who it truly is.
Additionally, the Dark world can distort a person if they've been placed in a fundamentally different Dark World (Susie's dark world vs what I assume to be the vessel's prophesied dark worlds), so it's not a far fetched idea that Dess in this instance has been fundamentally changed by a Dark World's shadows.
It's also not far fetched to assume that the bunker is the original dark world in this world, and that Dess has been there years. It would likely distort both her vessel (no sunlight, no proper nourishment) and her soul (no way to seal the fountain) into something that is a shadow of her former self.
It would also help explain Kris's visceral fear of the bunker. If Kris saw first hand how the bunker distorted Dess, it would make sense why they're fighting the player so hard not to return. There was no smoke, no pulsing darkness indicative of a dark world when the bunker doors were open in game- just pure darkness.
And as we know, it gets darker, and yet darker before light emerges.
In this case, Dess is an unfortunate deer stuck in the headlights of prophecy, a victim to something far beyond her understanding.
And Kris is the one in the passenger seat, forced to witness it all.
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TL:DR I do not want to cancel the show, I don't want it to cancel me.
So I have been forced, basically, to make this statement as I am being asked about this character or 'introduced' to it (and the incoming new show) against my desires. I have deleted all previous posts about my encounters with this problem long ago for personal reasons that will be apparent, but people don't know about my situation and do deserve an explanation. I will keep this post short for my own mental health. This is the first time I have disclosed any of this information to the public, and it is hopefully the last. My silence has been a part of my uncomfortable situation, but it's clear the world won't let me try to just ignore it any longer, so it's full disclosure time.
1, Yes. I know about Mr Puzzles and his uncanny resemblance to RGB, my character from the on going comic The Property of Hate, who pre-exists Mr Puzzles by approximately ten years.
I did not, as a consequence, base RGB off Mr Puzzles...
2, I have received very violent and manipulative hate mail from fans of that character over the past few years due to this similarity, many threatening to slander me via cancel culture to discredit my own creations. The worst of these messages almost caused me to commit suicide which close friends can attest to (this period coincided with the death of my father which they used against me to full effect).
Since then the hatemail has been less frequent, but continues, and I am afraid it will pick up again with the advent of this new show.
3, I have contacted the smg4 management about these issues, to no avail. My first email was a request to tell their followers to cease sending me hatemail, which they did not attempt in any way. They have never responded to the large overlaps in terms of RGB's design, and when I finally sent them an email via a lawyer as a last resort (which cost me £4000) they did not respond. Please note that I did not ask for a cease and desist, I only wanted the hatemail to stop, and perhaps for them to alter Mr Puzzle's design very slightly to be a little less like RGB's. I even made this simple suggestion as an example:
Despite going out of my way (against the lawyer's wishes) to phrase the letter in a none-hostile manner, and offer them an alternative, they did not reply to this email at all.
I am a disabled indie cartoonist; I do not have the money to take further legal action, and in any case I do not want to. I hate conflict, and the emotional toll of sending that email alone was enough to make me miserable and exhausted for months. All I want is to be left alone, and for people to know that RGB was invented first. I cannot afford to do anything to protect myself or make anyone listen legally; this post is the most I can do, and it is the only post I intend to make about it.
that's it. that's the whole situation. please do not message me about the show, or the character, as both are very distressing to me: if you do I will either delete the message, or block you, depending on the angle. I have blocked all related tags, and I will unfollow if I see posts, so I am doing everything I can to take care of myself in a non-aggressive fashion. I have only made this statement so that people understand.
a small example of some of the hatemail (which was preserved only to be sent to the makers as evidence which, again, they did not respond to) below the readmore. read at your own discretion, it is unpleasant.
I love how I’ve seen all sort of hate, discourse and criticism for each character of TADC except Kinger, and if you somehow managed to find a way to even be slightly negative about him people usually look at you like:
