Deltarune is definitely about escapism in many ways, the dark worlds definitely represent escapism and all that.
Yeah, but it's still not a theme I like. It gets used a lot. Seen it so much as is. Final Fantasy Tactics springs to mind, among others.
maybe it was self harm stuff
Maybe? Kris kind of has an interest in knives, but I can't see how they'd go for wagon & birdcage first.
Like, the wagon with the birdcage is described as though it's seen a fair number of crashes.
If Kris sat behind the birdcage in the wagon & the wagon slammed into a rock, MAYBE the birdcage could get launched into their chin & bleed onto it?
If they sat in front of it, it might bash into their back.
But otherwise, I'm not sure how one would employ a birdcage & a wagon for self-harm stuff, especially in a narratively relevant & fitting way given what we've seen so far.
Yet what resembles a blood stain is on the floor of their room, so it's probably not from the crashes.
But did Kris seem to bleed when removing the SOUL in the cutscene(s) we saw?
for a non-existent bird, by the way the birdcage has a blood (?) stain next to it and it has experienced multiple crashes before
It'd be crazy if they just had a pet bird that ended up with little to remember it by other than a rusty cage & a stain on the floor.
In fact, it's too crazy to believe, I think.
To be honest, I wonder why the birdcage is rusty. How long should that normally take?
How long has Kris had the SOUL?
Would they leave it out in the rain for some reason to abandon it? Toss it into the lake?
Or, given these:
1. The apparent connection of water to Darkness in this.
2. Onion seemingly hearing a song from down in the sea
3. This is in the same town as what is presumably Gaster's underground bunker.
4. Underground & deep sea are likely both at similarly low elevations, so both may have a connection to Darkness.
....What if they found it in the water? IDK.
Like, why would they have it in the first place? Toriel is often strangely hands off, but Sans just opened his General Store, right?
Was it something they brought with them? Where did they get this bird cage, & why?