The yellow shadow seems to represent the sun more than it does fire in general to me. While it doesn't make a big difference, it should be noted that the sun does have a few associations with Christmas. Moreover, the sun is a star, and stars definitely have a ton of associations with Christmas.

Susie is most likely not homeless, if you walk around the town with Susie most houses are fine to her, but one specific house gets Susie nervous and she asks "Kris, weren't we going to your house?"

Two things! A) I think, if Ralsei's IS a Partial Hat, it could represent how we only have a partial understanding of him. We only have a part of the image, because we only know one side of Ralsei

There's something I've noticed about deltarune, and it's that only certain characters have chat box sprites. Specifically about the kids in Kris's class. Obviously, Kris, Suzie, Berdly, and Noelle have chat box sprites, but there are also Catti and Jockington, both of which do have chat box sprites. But the other kids in the class don't. I think this implies that either Catti or Jockington (or both perhaps) will join the others. My bets are more on Catti, but I do also think that Jockington is absolutely a possibility and might be the green rather than ralsei. We all know Berdly kind of started out as a sorta joke character and became very serious, so maybe history will repeat itself???

Regarding orange, the only time we see it with significance to canon is whenever Ralsei tells the legends in the beginning of Chapter 1 and the end of Chapter 2's normal route. Could orange be referencing the roaring? We also see that the orange shape could be smoke, similar to that of the smoke whenever Kris opens the fountain in Chapter 2. Kris, while their main color is blue, has orange accents. Their sword and shield are orange, and in the overworld they have orangeish-yellowish skin. This could point to Kris being the knight, but we still have 5 chapters to go so this could be completely incorrect.

An interesting thing about Noelle’s Ice Powers. When a monster is frozen solid it doesn’t fade, it just stays put in a solid form…it doesn’t move…it doesn’t leave.

I always thought they represented what they struggle against/with

4:25 It's actually kind of weird that the trophies ralsei puts into kris' room is an exact mirror of the ones in asriel's room, it could just be toby reusing sprites but I kind of doubt it considering that they've been recolored to match the lighting of the room.

I think the parallel between Susie's potentially dysfunctional home life and her idolising of Kris' home life is very telling, since technically Kris' home life is also 'dysfunctional' due to divorce, but its seems like paradise compared to what she's used to. The theme of home and comparison and contrast between the potentially dysfunctional side and the seems ideal but is also secretly dysfunctional side is interesting.

18:15 If dark worlds are escapist fantasies, and the roaring is the world being consumed by dark worlds, then by transitivity the roaring is the world being consumed by escapist fantasies. If your right about characters feeling the call of the dark worlds as something offering to assuage their lonliness, its definitely foreshadowing for what the roaring might look like on the light world side of things. Furthermore, when I first heard the Papyrus is the knight theory, I thought it was ridiculous because I can't see Papyrus being involved in anything sinister, but wanting to help people overcome their lonliness is definitely a motive that might get Papyrus to act as the knight, especially considering his poor judgement and naivete. Plus, we all know that Toby loves a sympathetic antagonist with altruistic motives.

well, i noticed the bird shadow is smiling, and berdly is always smiling until you learn more about him, maybe it means like a fake smile, until you eventually become friends with him, where he eventually shows an actual, genuine smile? idk im just guessing here.

The yellow shadow for Noelle might in fact represent a "sun" instead of a flame. As seen with spamton's whole deal, the sun (and "light" in general) is oftentimes associated with the concept of Heaven, aka Freedom. Spamton and Noelle have a seriously strange amount of connections with eachother, with Noelle saying that she finds spamton's dealmakers familiar if you try and equip them to her in the games code iirc, and him calling her "angel" on the weird route. There's also the fact that Noelle is heavily associated with angel imagery in other places across the game (see her wanting to grow wings and fly away in the dark world, the angel figure she made in youth group that's in her father's hospital room, and the arguable interpretation that she fulfills undertale's angel of death prophecy in the snowgrave route). Personally I feel the yellow shadow is rather a sun, and represents Noelle wanting to obtain heaven, or a freedom she cant have with the life she currently has with a very controlling mother.

20:21 yeah i still think its crazy that the fandom made sans pink slippers canon

I just checked the Bluebird (animal) wikipedia page, and at the very bottom there's something very intersting: "In traditional Iroquois cosmology, the call of the bluebird is believed to ward off the icy power of Sawiskera, also referred to as Flint, the spirit of the winter. Its call caused Sawiskera to flee in fear and the ice to recede"

I'm surprised no one tried to link the color of the souls and the traits with them to the shadows.

kris+berdly: hiding their mediocrity