I wanna know your take on FRIEND. I am very curious.
Me personally my take is more FRIEND is something that is a friend in the way it itself is doing things that end up helping but are very. Unorthodox in method. Like how in the ERAM fight, while the FRIENDs try and hurt you, they can drop healing for you. They help ERAM as much as they help you. Though also this is me moreso hoping FRIEND isn't just roaring gc evil fucker who is dastardly and wants to be EVIIILLL and ROARING and it TOOK DESS!!! like everyone thinks. While it likely was there for the Dess incident, I think it'd be neat if it wasn't exactly true ill will but moreso just. Monkey's paw. Thing's a bit strange.
My detailed thoughts on FRIEND change depending on the day. However, there are a couple throughlines that always stay the same:
FRIEND is, above all else, an agent of Gaster. This, however, does NOT mean that they are incapable of having their own thoughts.
This conclusion is mainly a result of FRIEND's "DEVICE_" prefix which irrefutably tells us that Gaster created them. Another large piece of evidence is the fact that FRIEND is, of all things, a black cat, flawlessly paralleling Toby Fox's white dog self-insert.
FRIEND is Gaster's eyes and ears. Essentially, I believe FRIEND is Gaster's primary means of "interfacing" with Deltarune's world: Everything that FRIEND sees, Gaster sees. Everything that FRIEND hears, Gaster hears. Like I've already written above, this does not mean that FRIEND has no will of their own.
FRIEND is Seam's missing cottonāor, in other words, FRIEND and Seam used to inhabit the same body. I mainly believe this because it just makes sense: It simply cannot be a coincidence that the two characters most intrinsically linked with shadow crystals are cats. FRIEND's apparent shapeshifting abilities also align perfectly with what you'd expect from a creature made of a soft, malleable material.
FRIEND is linked with Mike. While I'd still hesitate to say that they're the same person, that's the direction I'm currently leaning in. Either way, I believe Mike and FRIEND are very, very closely linked.
FRIEND is the Tail of Hell. This one's a bit of a no-brainer: FRIEND is a cat so they'd naturally have a tail. And with FRIEND's demonic theming, it only makes sense for said tail to be pointed. Also, I love the idea that their tail is meant to evoke a mouse cursor; it pairs really well with my belief that FRIEND is Gaster's central means of influencing Deltarune's world.
FRIEND did not lure Dess into the Shelter. For whatever reason, this one's quite controversial, but hear me out: Thus far, we've seen zero evidence that darkners can exist in the light world; it'd make no sense for FRIEND to be the sole exception. Instead, I believe FRIEND lured Dess into the Depths after she and Kris had already entered the Shelter and created a dark fountain.
One may counter this with the "lost where the forest would grow" text, but 1. Hometown's forest already existed prior to Dess's disappearance, and 2. chapter 4's egg room taught us that the trees aren't literal. Kris merely uses trees as a means of blocking out unwanted thoughts and traumatic memories.
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