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first-fallen-human · 15 days ago

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the knight, the secret bosses, hope, and freedom

so. with chapter 4, we can safely assume that the one to drive jevil and spamton crazy was not gaster, as many (including myself) had assumed, but instead the knight.

when speaking to the king in ch4, he says that jevil was the one to tell him of the knight and of his eventual rise to power. so, jevil likely met the knight at some point.

spamton also knew something about the knight, though he cuts himself off and does his usual thing before he can reveal anything useful.

as others have pointed out, ch3 is the one chapter without a "proper" secret boss, and the shadow crystal is instead with the knight. which could mean nothing, or it could mean that they never got a chance to give it to a darkner.

this does change something: what the hell did the knight tell these two? before, we had assumed it was the knowledge that they live in a game, but that was because gaster is fourth wall breaks georg. at this point, we don't have much reason to assume the knight is self-aware.

the aforementioned conversation with the king does bring up a good candidate, though: the prophecy. jevil has always had suspicious amounts of knowledge, and now we have confirmation that it's because he knows the prophecy. he's probably also the reason why seam knows all the secret bosses, as we know he told them some of the truths he learned.

but, this brings us to a new question: gerson "the old man" boom. why was he not driven insane by the knight? why did he simply find his shadow crystal, instead of being given it?

simple: there was no need to. he knows the prophecy, hell, he wrote a whole book based off of it! and as to why he wasn't driven insane, it's because he has hope.

the freedom motif appears in every secret boss' theme, except for the knight. that's because freedom is exactly what did or didn't drive them insane.

jevil, believing that there is no escaping whatever horrible event he learned of, instead stopped caring about anything and everything, seeing the world as nothing but a game, because if nothing matters then nothing has to be grieved over.

spamton, believing that there is no escaping the bleak, horrible future he saw ahead of him, instead fell into a deep denial, trying to escape fate by any means he could, to become someone else, to escape his body that was nothing but a puppet following a predestined path into hell.

gerson, meanwhile, doesn't believe in prophecies. he believes that, if you read between the lines, if you jump through loopholes, if you have enough hope, you can defy fate itself. what's the fun in a story that had its ending spoiled on the first page? through that belief in freedom, that determination if you will, he was able to not only remain himself, but go against his own death in order to deliver a message to his son.

at the start of ch4, seam tells us that our next opponent would be nearly impossible to beat. and surely gerson at his full strength would be just that. but the gerson we fight, the kind old man full of faith in the youth, is not the person seam was expecting us to meet. perhaps he broke the prophecy after all.

#deltarune #deltarune meta #deltarune analysis #gerson boom #jevil deltarune #spamton deltarune #barely. sorry

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ramvur · 4 months ago

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