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Eskaver wrote: No. I think coincidence is simply coincidence. They picked the “white knight” in shining armor thingy, mostly due the phrase, I’m sure. Plus, they were pretty limited as Bishop, King, Queen makes no sense and Pawn is demeaning, so they really only had Knight and Rook to work with. But you just pointed out why it is likely to be an allusion. They literally used the chess piece of the white knight to be Killian's symbol to Alice, and Through the Looking Glass is based on a chess game. If anything, the use of the actual chess piece strenghtens the allusion.