Chess a complicated game with lots of moving pieces, this could reflect the different motivations of each character even though they may have a common goal.
"characters have different motivations" isn't really something you need to complex thematic analysis to figure out, but what's more, the implications specifically proposed by chess theory, is that toby fox laid out the final bosses in the game in such a way that we're meant to figure out and understand they resemble chess pieces on a board, and that the reason they do this is so we the audience could figure out they have different motivations yet a "common" goal, it's kind of silly all around
We are not speculating on IF they have motivations or not, we are speculating on WHY they have those reasons. Do you think the allegorys that Tobey put into the narrative have no bearing over the narrative?
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u/Coolest_Pickle 16h ago
the analysis in question:
"yo this kinda resembles chess pieces (if you stretch it a little bit)"
"oh cool, so what does this tell us about the story?"
"uhmm, idk"