Something not entirely related but since this is my "knight thread of spoiler talk" I wanna actually talk about an intriguing observation about the knight as well and a possibility that might be wrong but at least worth thinking on.
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The knight seems to be completely black with some white outlines. This is EXTREMELY similar to titan spawn and of course the actual titan itself. We KNOW titans have a dark fountain at their core, and that dark fountains by enshrouding an area in darkness allow for fantastical things to happen.
Titans on their own are raw darkness, the "fear of the dark" as ralsei says it. No real mind of their own, but very formidable regardless. Such is the power of dark fountains.
Now where am i going with this?
The knight too, seems capable of some pretty "fantastical" feats, beyond just what a lightner entering a Dark World is capable of.
Including:
-the miracle of flight
-transforming their weapon
-whatever 2nd pic is, more of a side effect of it's... condition?
-transforming their body radically
I don't exactly have a super strong basis to know what I'm about to suggest is possible, but the idea of titans being largely mindless creatures of darkness powered by dark fountains, and darkness allowing for fantasy to come to life, makes me think that the knight is experiencing the same thing.
So basically my thought here is... The knight has a dark fountain inside. Going into even further speculation, trying to go by similar things that Ralsei has told us, it might just be that someone can become like a fantasy (more specifically a Nightmare) if they themselves have enough "darkness".
So I guess in this theory Dess would be experiencing a nightmare induced by a dark fountain, turning her into the knight, drawing out the "darkness" within her and using her will (since she is a lightner) to act.
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Now where am i going with this?
Including:
-the miracle of flight
-transforming their weapon
-whatever 2nd pic is, more of a side effect of it's... condition?
-transforming their body radically