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Lesser dog is always alone

Lesser dog to me used to be just a cute, funny dog. C'mon, what could be strange or sad about this cutie?

That was until I looked in the trivia section of the Undertale Wiki and found some things that I had never noticed about lesser dog before: Lesser dog is never mentioned by the other guard dogs, killing them provokes no reaction from them, and if lesser dog is the only royal canine left alive the way it behaves at grillby's does not change. Also, the red bird NPC comments on the royal guard dogs being missing even if lesser dog is still there.

In the true pacifist run, lesser dog is the only dog to not be outside the snowdin library playing with Endogy.

Even the way it's encountered feels disconnected from the rest of the canine unit. All the other dogs are scheduled encounters that occur in specific places with a cutscene and stuff, but lesser dog just appears like any other monster and there's no guarantee you'll run into them at all.

Lesser dog sitting alone in the corner of grillby's, playing card games with itself and losing used to be just funny, but now it makes me wonder. Why are they so isolated from everyone else? Do they feel lonely? Why did Toby Fox include these details? To make us sad? Will we never get the answers?