hey donut holes READ THIS POST. the whole story will be social commentary, as revealed to me in a dream:
>kris is a total shithead but has good optics so everyone in town loves him, even his childhood friend's protective parents, and no one raises an eye at him carrying a butcher knife everywhere and "harmless pranks" like shaking the seat of a ferris wheel despite all the signs telling you "do not shake the ferris wheel seats." elements in a fantasy world of his own creation tell him he's enjoying it, and he hates being watched (noelle watching him play the piano, us watching him play vidya...)
>susie is a shithead who's only nice to other shitheads and people like ralsei who literally have no spine that she can walk over. everything she says is right.
>the ironic twist: dess comes off as a total shithead, and is even written as such so far, and everyone assumes she's being set up for the 'asriel says she wasn't the nicest person' X2 CALLBACK COMBO, when in reality it's just she was the only person who pointed out that kris was a shithead. she's probably kinda grungy and the fake working-class act would be annoying, but hitting kris with a wiffle bat is portrayed as Literally Hitler while slamming him into a locker is fine
>kris's goal has never been to find and retrieve Dess from wherever she is, it's to find Dess and ensure she *doesn't come back.* because she's the only person in town, literally, who didn't put up with his shit.
what exactly *is* the commentary? my dream didn't go that far, unfortunately. haha...