>>714943329
Wait hold on when I wrote this I was kind of shitposting but now that Im thinking about it a little more its hard for me not to see it. Toby Fox has never really leaned into the unhinged theories that most of the fans like to conjure up, despite the lore he likes building in these worlds his story for Undertale was always a simple one. All the grief the monsters felt in Undertale sprung from Asriel dying, and most of the main casts plight was either a direct or indirect result of that, plus with all the music motifs leading back to Flowey and Asriel, it was pretty obvious what the main story point of Undertale was in retrospect.
With how Chapter 2 introduced the idea of the tragedy, 3 and 4 making a big deal of Kris's relation with the deer family and how Dess's disappearance was kind of a big deal that fucked everyone, and how Chapter 4 specifically made a big fucking deal about Dess's room, and how supposedly Kris made a promise or deal with the devil of some sort, what if Kris's main goal here is to save Dess, but he has to go through all this prophecy bullshit to do so. It would explain why Carol is so nice to Kris and us the player, what were doing is necessary to bring her back. Plus what anon said here >>714943518
with Dess being just a fucking puppet and all. Like its not subtle. If Undertale was the prototype story of this then this is the main thing Toby is going for, except we CAN save Dess in this game(hopefully)