#we've already foiled a massive part of the plan with Kris failing to keep it the Soul to themselves

[british-catgirl]

these were gonna be tags but oh god never thought about it like that; but that is horrifying to think of

while I don't think Carol is the knight; this single-handed lets me see that she may still be the one on the phone.

WE KNOW THAT SHE'S ON THE PHONE AT THE END OF WEIRD ROUTE

my theory is now that she's the white text and the knight is the red text, which I think is somewhat common, but my new headass revolutionary theory is that Kris wasn't even supposed to be on call in the kitchen study of Kris' body language throughout (screenshots from Whsipernyan's video

what we hear from up there, Kris is not paying attention, Kris is quite literally taking a shot of something (white voice being carol, Kris really doesn't want to listen to her)

Kris locks the fuck in on hearing the red voice but more importantly, Susie (if the red voice is the knight as we think, then perhaps Kris would rather listen to them) another thing to note about the red text is its directness

unlike the white text, the red text talks to Kris directly, and about a matter that would be unimportant to the current plan, but is very important to Kris. My theory is that Carol is unaware that Kris is here and the Knight let Kris into the call. my main reasoning?

the white text doesn't do this. it refers to them as if they aren't here. in fact, the red text cuts off this text with the prior image. The Knight seemingly cuts off Carol because the Knight knows that Kris is listening and doesn't want them to hear what Carol will say (also, on hearing the word 'stop' as in regards to stopping Susie, Kris lowers their head a little. just a little detail that's worth mentioning. they don't want to 'stop' susie)

Kris also lowers their head after hearing tonight's plan, the church where toriel is SUPPOSED to be.

this is thefinal message which renforces the idea Carol/White Text doesn't know Kris is listening. Really, Kris was only meant to hear what the knight had to say, but ends up listening to more due to us stalling Also, touching on the ending

Kris did not answer the phone. The phone turns on without input. Compared to the weird route's ending scene...

where Kris has to manually has to answer the phone. the first seems to be some sort of reminder Kris has set on their own phone or has been set on their phone. the second is something goin awry and going unexpected and Carol having to manually call Kris to confirm something with them. which make sense given the context. overall, I find Kris very intersting in this dynamic. we can assume it's only a three person effort, Kris, Carol and the Knight. Carol is obviously the one with power the one in full control of the outside Light World making sure nothing about the execution CAN go wrong. The Knight is the one making sure all of the Dark World stuff and actual execution of the plan goes ahead, consider them the brute of the plan. With them, they basically dictate the flow of the Dark Worlds. Kris, however, doesn't deal with Light World or Dark World stuff. They deal with our world. Kris is a specialist. They are, in some way, baby-sitting the one uncontrollable variable. Despite that, they're still performing so much and going through so much, even killing a titan, while battling with the player, who, in some way, is essiental to the plan, and is essential that it doesn't destroy everything else before hand. Kris still has to make a dark fountain and slash their own car's tires to bait in Undyne. Even the act of keeping us contained is a multi-faceted juggling act. The precision needed to succesfully DISARM A SOUL IN A SINGLE SHOT, TWICE cannot be understated. And keeping the whole thing a secret? Hell on earth. That's why weird route's whole conflict causes Kris to crash out so much. They failed. We've multipled. On top of everything; Kris has to babysit Noelle if they want to babysit us. We don't have enough to say what promise was made or even Kris' wider motivations or how Kris got into this mess. We do know one thing. They're having a horrible time.

What's really evocative to me in all the new revelations and hints about Kris' true nature and intentions in Chapter 4 is the impression that... Kris is never free.

When they are free of our direct control, they are still not acting 100% of their real desires, they are following the orders of some evil Voice(s?) on the phone.

The ending seem to imply some sort of emotional conflict between them wanting to help out Susie, who is very dear to their heart, and following this plan which is probably not beneficial to her. A plan that they have to follow cause...

When Kris is not controlled by our very literal puppet-strings, they are instead controlled by the coercion and emotional manipulation of their mysterious benefactor. No matter which option they go with, Kris just cannot be free.