Hear me out:
Dess is a Kirin
>fits with holiday family's Japan obsession
>extra tall compared to the other deer
>Fire theme that fits with the hypothesis that Dess might have used fire because she was a rebel and/or because of Asriel's influence

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I have a new theory:
Dess is a Kirin
that's why the knight's horns are also kinda draconic and fits with the weeb obsession of the Holiday family