2 more weeks until I finally stop beefing with the shadow cat forever, final thoughts.
Kinda sucks cause I don't actually have a problem with canon Friend, it's a genuinely compelling mystery of what the hell is up with that thing, if it even is anything.
My beef comes from the fanon insistence that it's the EVIL reason behind every mystery in the game and replacing every other characters' agency and relevance in the story in an "aliens built the pyramids" kinda way.
Tho I'm not sure if I'll react well if it does appear in CH5 either after all that...
Anyway the one thing I'll still never understand why is, the tail.
We've never seen it with a tail firstly, but also, why specifically the unused Jevil prophecy one?? Cause "that cat obviously has to be evil and from hell"???
The closest we've seen Friend associated with any sort of tail is, Pluey.
Not a bunch of circles with a triangle, but a tail-maw.
The holy grail for big theory heads, the Temmie tweet of "a cat's tail is a snake in disguise", something something cramming Jockington's involvement and weird speech in all this.
I have never seen any Friend depictions with a tail-maw despite this being basically served on a silver platter OTL
Tho it'd be funny if in CH5 Pluey goes "actually it's trendy to wear chains with triangles as a tail so I'm replacing my current tail for this from now on"
As for theories, I'm not really invested in any that would take away any characters' agency.
I think my crack theory warmed up to me, and until CH5 debunks it I'm going to believe that Friend is actually what hatched from Noelle's glitched pipis, hence why is has Spamton's eyes and Tenna's smile, and why it's such a haunting presence in anything related to them or to catpetterz, manifested from Noelle already being scared of everything.
Either that or the other timeloop theory, with how Friend is emphasized as an amalgamation of many different fears, and Eram uses them to taunt Kris about what's to come.