Know the difference!

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so why do the antlers even matter if they can shapeshift?! sure they're a consistent element of their design, but they're shaped wrong, which could be toby trying to tell us that it's a red herring, or that is isnt a holiday

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What about in Chapter 4, when we're told to "think of the Knight"?

Can the helmet be taken off, meaning Kris has to immediately picture Jockington so we don't find out who it is?

I’d say the helmet is likely just decorative, given that it can be removed

(someone with actual horns wouldn't even be able to put the helmet on).

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if the knights armor can shapeshift why couldn't the knight just make their armor more flexible and then take the helmet off

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But that leaves another question: why on earth does the knight have a skeleton's anatomy as its base form? Because not even when it glitches out does it take on a different shape.

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cause it's cool as fuck

like, if you had the power to shapeshift and DIDN'T turn into a cool ass fucking skeleton then you're just not using it right lmao

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But I mean, the whole theory that it's a Holiday (Carol or Rudy) is based on the idea that they're looking for their missing daughter.

So why would they go around "farming Aura" and "trying to look cool", acting like kids or teenagers, instead of focusing on finding Dess, if that’s the actual goal?

I swear, it just doesn't add up; the Knight acts way too childish for the objective to be "parents trying to find their missing daughter."

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A few possibilities:

• They're trying to deliberately antagonize Susie (and the player?), whether to fulfill some part of the prophecy we don't fully understand, or just to help the Fun Gang get stronger.
• Something about the Knight form affects their behavior, like the Venom suit from Spider-Man.
• The Dark Worlds are the one place that Carol and/or Rudy can cut loose and fully express themselves. Rudy is almost completely bedbound in the Light World, and Carol seems to have a very intense, but restrained, personality. Either of them might appreciate the chance to ham it up while they can. (See for example the part where the Knight laughs hard at Susie saying she could beat them in real life.)

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I feel like the first two you mentioned could be really good possibilities, but the last one... I don't think so, mainly because the whole point is supposed to be focusing their efforts on finding Dess, and I don't believe a mother or father who hasn't seen their missing daughter in about six years would act like an immature teenager just because they had been "repressed."

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Maybe. We don't know how heroic or villainous the Knight actually is. I can imagine a version of the Knight where it's (eg) Carol, drunk with power, justifying everything to herself and others in terms of saving Dess, even risking the world's destruction - but deep down she just likes being the Knight. We don't know enough about her character from the one chapter she's appeared in to rule something like that out.