FRIEND's name is Chara
not [insert player name here] like the undertale character everyone calls Chara
but literally Chara
>Greetings.
>You have made yourself completely clear.
>Understood.
>I, your humble servant, will follow you to the utmost...

>>718120793
FRIEND is this motherfucker, shows up in your face during ralsei's explanation of dark worlds in chapter 3 but also shows up in 2 and 4 in blink-and-you'll-miss-it "cameos"

Why was he so prominently displayed in chapter 3, while all other appearances are extremely hidden?

>>534107010
>hell cat
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Hellcat
>They obeyed the whims of their masters but were notoriously independent, willing to change loyalties within an instant.
>Invisible when under any kind of light, bezekiras were only visible in total, non-magical darkness.
>Hellcats possessed a unique sense that allowed them to sense how powerful an individual was, letting them scout the power of potential masters before telepathically offering their aid.
>They demanded live human or demihuman victims once per week, requiring no other form of sustenance.
(the sacrifice mentioned over the phone?)
>When given two options for masters judged to be equivalent in desirability, hellcats decided randomly between the two.
Pink and yellow eyes, Susie and Noelle's Dark World icons
This all sounds like it could be a FRIEND we've seen.

>wingding is a party
>a party of multiple people
>in the game, you control a party of 3
>FRIEND looks like Endogeny but a cat amalgamate
>like a party of cats
I'm scared...

>>533717427
Did we not literally get confirmation of his appearance at the beginning of Chapter 3
Why does everyone ignore it

>>532325678
>>532325664
shut up i know you're FRIEND and you want mynpenis picture so you can steal my penis and add it to your weewees on your body i won't be fooled and my spamton tulpa will defeat you and my tenna tulpa will counterattack you and my pipis thoughtform army will explode you and you are in league with evil forces WTF SPAMTON PENIS

>>532095618
The Master and Margarita (Russian story with various adaptations) actually reminds me a bit of Deltarune with its mix of Christian elements and witchcraft.
>Professor Woland, a Mephistopheles-like figure implied to be Satan, with one black eye and one green eye, who is a stranger causing chaos in the city and claims to predict the future
>and an entourage of wacky night creatures
>including a large talking black cat called Behemoth who can walk on two feet, change into human form, and is a sarcastic fucker who likes chess, booze and guns

>Toby is a dog
>Ebott is a god
>Toby is a white dog
>Inverse Toby is a black cat
>Ebott is the black cat
>FRIEND is Ebott
>FRIEND is Mt. Ebott

>>531769004
>so everything she does is the schrodinger's cat of flirting.
The what of flirting?

>>531646436
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>>531547260
>FRIEND
Oh shit uhhhh
"DARKER THAN DARK" maybe. Can't believe I landed on something that might actually BE a future boss lmao

>>715452650
Kris's soul was sold in a deal with a devil
(You) own it
It's YOURS now

I found a Japanese song that is very catchy and reminds me of a FRIEND. Take a look at the song and translated lyrics.

>私は猫の目 (I have cat eyes) - Sheena Ringo, also translated as "I am free" or "Je suis libre"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=axGB3ZnffU4
https://lyricstranslate.com/ja/ringo-sheena-watashi-wa-neko-no-me-english

>>530149414
Saved, great work anon

>>530139665
The magenta version only appears in the Battat minigame and the rarecats page of the Sweepstakes. In every other instance of the colors appearing together, it's SPARE pink, not KARMA magenta.

>>530029948
It's how he's depicted when Ralsei is explaining Dark Worlds and Darkners to Susie.

>>714468962
No one knows, it's some bizarre entity (or entities? a concept?) that keeps appearing on the wayside.

>>529431287
If this is FRIEND then he's ugly as hell, but I think that's kind of the point. Horrible-looking spideresque darkness demon. I do appreciate how the gaps between his limbs form images like how Endogeny's do, and that he seems to have five appendages, like a hand. I think he'll end up being a shapeshifter anyway, at least from the neck down.

I did not play Deltarune at all. I have never played the game.

>>529089098
explain your thought process please

I was looking at the FRIEND sprite some more and I just noticed that the empty spaces between his limbs look like smaller cats.

>>528462063
FRIEND does not exist in the light world. It represents a primordial entity at the core of the actual ontology of the dark realm's dichotomy. It exists at the layer below the dark worlds we see accessed by fountain

>>528454182
DEVICE_FRIEND appears in the Sword Quest more often than it does anywhere else in the game, and only to Kris/Player soul when they're alone and isolated from the party. The controller you use to play the Sword Quest is the same color as FRIEND's eyes, and only appears after you enter the room with the game. Seems pretty blatant that the entity wants you to see it. It's not clear what role FRIEND plays in the game's overall narrative at present, but so far it seems pretty symbolically charged, always showing up in the margins when the player strays from the main path, and especially in relation to all the Shadow Crystal related content (Spamton wears FRIEND-tinted glasses, the mantle boss summons it as an attack, Gerson refers to a field of pink and gold in his boss fight). Thus far it almost seems like a symbolic personification of Deltarune's murkier, more opaque narrative sublayer that lurks below the clean, fairy-tale style narrative that Ralsei presents in Chapter 1.

While the thread is moving at this speed, no one will notice me posting my fantasy about Tenna farting in Spamton's mouth and filling him up with ozone gas like a balloon.

THE DARKNESS IS AN OCEAN, THE DEPTHS ARE THE DEEP SEA ABYSS AND DEVICE_FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE SQUID

Shadow Mantle doesn't just refer to a cape or the Earth's mantle (layer above the CORE) it can also be part of a squid's body

>The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. 'vampire squid from hell') is a small cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans in extreme deep sea conditions.
>Infernalis
>Hell's roar
>Inferno of pink and gold
>The vampire squid uses its bioluminescent organs and its unique oxygen metabolism to thrive in the parts of the ocean with the lowest concentrations of oxygen.
>Kris holding breath in Roaring Knight fight
>The vampire squid is almost entirely covered in light-producing organs called photophores, capable of producing disorienting flashes of light ranging in duration from fractions of a second to several minutes.
>If highly agitated, it may eject a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light from its arm tips.
>Vampire squids are at increased risk for micro plastic pollution because their diet is mostly marine snow.
>If hypotheses may be drawn from knowledge of other deep-sea cephalopods, the vampire squid likely reproduces slowly by way of a small number of large eggs, or a K-selected strategy.
>Reproduction of the vampire squid is unlike any other coleoid cephalopod; the males pass a "packet" of sperm to a female and the female accepts it and stores it in a special pouch
>inside her
>mantle
>The main part of the body containing all the organs is called the mantle. It is the pocket of skin that covers the body.

hello friends

what does he want