@skartadart@KrissyAnemone "DessKnight" is not a monolith nor does it have to be, so it doesn't make sense to say that every single DessKnighter should have the same opinion on the knight.
@spookydoodyt Ever seen "The Sound of Justice"'s battle, Spookydood? The game has already established evil fake darkner versions of people don't deserve to live and theres zero ambiguity about it. This is just fencesitting about the Knight's identity for no reason.
@edensMannequin Additionally, despite the cats seemingly forming the colour pair of pink/yellow/green/blue there is no green cat. Likewise for the aces, theres no green rudinn in MANCOUNTRY, and the sprite for the green ace is hidden in the game's files. This probably means... something?
@jimmyjohnsyum@ewroifhnewf@KrissyAnemone ERAM/Nightmare and the Knight both have very similar final attacks, with the same background colour scheme even. There's also this line from Dess in unused:
@tackyfella@jimmyjohnsyum@KrissyAnemone Fumbling their plans is a pretty consistent trait of the knight that would also have to apply to Rudy. The entire church fountain was a failed attempt to kidnap Toriel.