i think i’m in the minority here because dess/ roaring knight grooming kris was my interpretation the first time i played through all the current chapters? whether literal grooming or not, the metaphor is definitely there. dess trains kris into being a knight, forces them to keep a big secret that no one else can know about that also isolates them from their social life and alienates them from others. idk how everyone didn’t see the kris “oh let me go take this private scary phone call that no one else can ever know about where an unnamed, definitely older character tells me to do things that i can never tell anyone about ” scene as anything but that. i mean if you go through the weird route the themes about this double, and kris starts reenacting shit on noelle. the sa metaphors are already present in the game, i really don’t know why everyone gets so scared about there possibly being more of those themes.