r/AsrielKnightSquad

Not directly an Asriel knight theory, but it's asriel knight flavored and certainly makes me confident he will have a significant place in the story, and imo it provides proof for AsrielKnight.

"Roots" is something a lot of the theorizing community has been speculating about since chapter 3 and 4. What none of them ever mention is that the "roots" motif in Digital Roots and Bit Roots, is a version/modification of the intro riff to Your Best Nightmare. It plays in two of the most mysterious locations in the game - Queen's basement before Spamton's fight, and the manhole dungeon before we fight the shadow mantle boss. It also seems to just be a part of a song, and is repeated over and over in its uses, similar to the intro riff to "Your Best Nightmare".

There's also a major key version of the riff - the Dark Truth motif. It appears first when Ralsei explains the nature of dark worlds, but is also in Neverending Night (ch4 credits theme), and notably plays while the knight is attacking the fun gang with walls of swords at the end of chapter 4.

I'm not sure how to explain the similarities here in a way understandable to everyone, and feel like to even people who don't read sheet music there are visible similarities, so I've highlighted the notes present in the "best nightmare" motif with a color corresponding to a same note, so hopefully people who don't read notation can understand. I've tried to use color similarity to portray musical similarity. For instance if there's an interval that's similar but not the same, the color will be slightly different. I've linked all these songs in the body as well so you can listen.

Overall, I'd say there is absolutely no doubt in my mind these are all directly based off of Your Best Nightmare. The major differences are Bit Roots and Digital Roots having some extra notes and ending on a perfect 5th instead of a major 3rd, and Dark Truth being in a major key and ending on a major sixth.

Susie's battle theme features a similar riff, but it changes significantly in the riff's second half. Like the Omega Flowey fight, Susie has a pre-battle intro featuring the riff (You Idiot/Imminent Death), then a full battle theme (Your Best Nightmare/Vs Susie). Her using this makes sense - her character parallels Asriel in a lot of ways. Asriel also readily accepts "lower realities" as real, praying for forgiveness after killing Yoshi, and like Flowey, Susie says she viewed herself as a "broken toy". There are certainly more parallels I won't get into here but, imo comparison and contrast to Susie's beliefs and motivations is an important aspect of an antagonist in this story, and her having a motif similar to Asriel's calls to mind these comparisons with him in particular.

after the newsletter dropped i couldnt get the idea of asriels role in chapter 6 out of my head, i think its fair to assume that chapter 6 will take place in the holiday anor making it the perfect oppurtunity for dess lore, and who else do we know that was extremely close to dess? asriel, meaning that this chapter is also the perfect time for him to show up (along with the fact that noelle is very likely going to play a huge role in this chapter, giving us the trio of kris noelle and asriel along with the mystery involving dess) regarding his potential role i do deftinetley think hell initially show up and will js be introduced as kris brother, with susie having one of those momments like, "woah dude, thats your brother?" i think that throughout the chapter he will be giving us some bread crumbs of lore, and obviously this wouldnt be on the asriel knight subreddit if i dont include the fact that the big reveal for who the knight is will probably also be in chapter 6, leaving room for chapter 7 to finally conclude all of the other mysteries of game.

It's a bit early for Halloween, but still :)

Also, he has ice-e body spray while Dess has no ice-e merch. If there’s a link between ice-e & the Knight, then it further indicates that the Knight is him instead of her.

This confrontation becomes one between a good version of Flowey & an antagonistic version of Asriel.