>>542457231
friend as a puppeteer doesn't make any sense because everything in the plot is positioning it as a puppet, not a master. you can even connect the friend/spamton/knight similarities to weave a plot about how friend is the knight and is manipulating kris to try and gain freedom from the strings that bind them both, that being eram and/or gaster. that would even explain why friend drops health in the eram fight; it is subservient to eram but rebellious and secretly allied with kris.