Why Revived Lightners (e.g. Gerson) lack a PFP/Dialogue Picture

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this could just be a rabbit hole.

if gerson is a Lightner revived as Darkner, does the DW interface (in DR canon) get confused and the profile picture driver crashes?

LW and DW are characterized by their different UIs

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Is it canon

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UI changes between light and dark world, so it could just be in the canon

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IDK if it canon
let's see
@sansbot fortune

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:crystal_ball: Yes definitely

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then this theory's probably true

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so maybe the game goes:

> Reading character data
> Loading dialogue picture
> Error: Character type "Revived-Lightner" is not supported

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probably

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I think it was to keep it ambiguous whether the Old Man was a lightener or darkener since Susie explicitly asks that question and doesn’t get an answer.

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well yes
but the canon in-universe reason is this

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I heard it was because since Major Lightners have monochrome portraits, but Major Darkners have colored portraits, the game goes “ok then no portrait for Gerson”

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what

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cough shambling mass cough

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i dont think there needs to be a diegetic reason. i think it's just to not spoil the twist by having it be coloured

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Most characters, Lightner or Darkner, don't have dialogue portraits.

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BUT, for these who do, the Lightner have Monocrome portraits and Darkners have Colored portraits.
As someone else pointed out earlier,

See?

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It's just because all the secret bosses have no dialogue pictures.

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wait really??

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Its probably just to not give away whether he's a lightner or a darkner, but it keeps up with the trend of secret bosses having no dialogue pictures.