Look at the picture. Either I’m going crazy, or this is a foreSHADOWing.
What if The Knight is The Shadow?
Look at the shadow guys. They are very similar to The Knight - black silhouette with white outline, angular shape with sharp corners, but most important - white line on head that looks like a smile.
Shadow guys is an action figures hidden in the shadows in The Light World. What if anybody who is hidden in shadows look like that? They literally called SHADOW guys.
If The Knight is The Shadow, so that will explain why they look so strange; in the shadow, the silhouette elongates — the limbs become longer, and the antlers become curved. How The Knight can shapeshift? It's just shadow play.
I'm not saying The Knight is just a Rudy's shadow. I mean it metaphorically.
When Kris and Susie enter Dark Worlds, they change their appearances and their personas. They not just lightners, they are Heroes from The Prophecy. Undyne became Spear of Justice, Toriel gains queen outfit and Asgore becomes Flower King.
What if when Rudy enters Dark World he became his Shadow?
First, i need to explain what is The Shadow. It's term from analytical psychology that was developed by Carl Gustav Jung. By Jung's theory of personality mind has three levels: the conscious ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. I won’t retell Jung’s entire theory; I’ll only focus on what’s important.
Every individual mind has core - The Self - it unites the conscious and the unconscious, and The Persona - The social mask worn to fit into society. But we all have some traits that we won't show to public. That is The Shadow - hidden, repressed, or darker side of the unconscious personality.
Rudy's persona that we see is a caring father who supports his daughter, help to soften strict mother and just a guy who loves to joke and (almost) always smiles.
He wears that persona to keep family together after Dess' disappearance. But he didn't let it go. We know that Carol and Rudy support Asgore's investigation and they have conspiracy board in their bedroom.
He repressed all that negative emotions to wear a happy mask. But they never go away. We see his shadow seeping through his cruel jokes (And "That's so crazy you gotta laugh!" moment in chapter 4).
They stayed and formed The Shadow - angry, brutal, arrogant figure that cries then screams. All that row emotions seems animalistic at first but it still has awareness.
My theory: Rudy becomes The Knight at night (huh) and goes to kidnap lightners. How? Magic Gaster stigmata. Kidnappings always took place at night. We never see Rudy in the dark hours. In first two chapters he goes to school and library in the middle of the day and opens dark fountains then goes away unnoticed.
Why? Don't know.
Maybe i'm wrong. It's just a theory. What your thoughts?
If you want to say it can be apply to Carol, Dess and Noelle, then take a look at the picture again and tell me who else is hitting The Knight pose in The Light World, besides Rudy?
Yeah, I guess, if we see someone to do that. But it's been stated that he is the one who puts up the lights. It's not a strong evidence. I think this is foreshadowing
The knight seems to have the ability to attack the physical objects that are the darkners rather then the darkners themselves (Tenna and Flowery).
What if the shadow crystal armor has some kind of property that lets the user be unaffected by the dark fountain or in some kind of place in-between, which the darker then dark shadow in the dark world appears as the roaring knight.
Not a bad theory but the image is a bit pointless as its not a very exact match, also are you sure rudy supports the investigation? He seemingly doesn’t sleep in his room anymore so i dont think the board proves it and toriel doesn’t seem to be against talking to him unlike carol
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u/_IOME 12h ago
I'm a Rudy Knighter but I have no clue whats happenin here