Hrm. Also very good points. Which also makes one wonder if he, too, might have a deal with the devil 😅

I think so probably.

I dunno about its tie to the scratching. The butter knife reference (which I can't recall the exact location of) doesn't correlate to the other scratching incident. It almost seems more coffee house/possumy in some ways. Like where would you die by extreme acts of butter knife? Probably not in your dorm. Or in a geology building to be honest. But you might be buried in a cemetary from those wounds.

As for the RC, given that we know ot wasn't K Boy or Maria ... have we considered it could have been the faculty sponsor herself?

I find this an intriguing idea. Like what if he does actually see the being on ceiling but also has an in depth knowledge about its behavior in such a way that while he doesn't actually control it, he can interfer with it in a way that might be helpful in small moments. The questions are, what would happen if he had to engage with the entity directly or had to actively protect multiple people?