#The Scientist Lost to The Void [Gaster]

[hainuwelle]

The third man theory

Note: This theory takes as starting point Aurora's Fun theory. It states that the invention in which Gaster fell was a new version of a warp door that would have allowed the monsters of the underground to escape to a timeline in which the war against the humans never happened. If this experiment were to work, it would have allowed for a happier ending than the True Pacifist one, because more accidents and deaths would have been prevented.

Sadly, Gaster's experiments went wrong and he was scattered "across time and space". The only other time in Undertale this expression is used is when we call Papyrus in Sans's room, the one that gets us lost in a seemingly endless darkness when we enter it, with a door that suspiciously looks like Mystery Man's grey door and Deltarune's warp doors. This key expression used by Papyrus tells us Gaster's creation and untimely demise should have something to do with these doors.

If this theory is correct, the invention in which Gaster fell would have been under our nose the whole time.

With the FUN theory video in mind, something about Mr. Elegance's dialogues caught my eye.

Evidence 1 - Mr. Elegance, if we didn't previously talk to Jigsaw Joe:

Evidence 2 - Mr. Elegance if we previously talked to Jigsaw Joe:

For a flaming teleportation door one would assume to be magical, the vocabulary used to talk about it sure sounds mechanical and mundanely machine-like : « Fix up », « working on it », « got this door workin’ », « it might break », « fixed that door », « it should work without any issues ». Intriguingly, it looks old, and yet, it is new to the Darkners, who have never seen it before. Is it really Darkner technology?

Of course, to an experienced Undertale player, it looks familiar, similar to the one to Sans's room.

This brings us to my question: Why did Toby Fox add these two different Mr. Elegance dialogues about this door? What purpose do they serve?

It can't be to alert the player that they could malfunction if we haven’t previously talked to Jigsaw Joe, since they always work properly regardless. It’s not like this triggers a side quest asking you to talk to the puzzle man if you don't want a 1/6 chance of the door teleporting you into the void. And they don't serve a comedic purpose either. There is no joke, no punchline. So why warn us about the breaking hazard, if the warp doors never break in the first place ? Why specify that 3 people are needed to get them to work smoothly?

Because this isn’t really about the Scarlet Forest shortcut. The door might not break in the game, but it might have broken somewhere else. This is really about what went wrong with Gaster's experiments.

Time to bring in evidence 3:

First, let's note that this tweet isn't exactly talking about the same situation as in evidence 1 : Mr. Elegance talks about a door that two people got to work and that might break, while Toby Fox talks about a machine that's already broken and that two people could never repair.

However, evidence 2 tells us that when three of them worked on it, the machine should work without a problem. So if we assume that these dialogues are really about the creation that led to Gaster’s demise, this means that the reason things went wrong is because one person was missing.

Two people worked on the machine instead of three, which led to Gaster's disappearance. Yet, we know that two people were trying to repair the machine once it was broken. This means that after Gaster's disappearance, the missing person came back.

Now let's imagine that Gaster formed a trio with two other colleagues that we'll name X and Y. The Royal Scientist is working on a door-shaped machine that would free the monsters from their imprisonment. As the fate of the Underground lies in his hands, a lot of pressure is resting upon his shoulders. The role that X and Y had in this creation is unknown. Gaster could have even built it on his own. But thanks to Entry n°17, we know that shared his experiments with two other people. And thanks to the Japanese translation, we know he was rather close to them.

After the construction of the machine, Gaster and X try to get it to work, but without Y. Maybe they walked away from the experiment, maybe the other two didn't trust them enough, we don't know.

Despite this, they manage to make it work with just the two of them. However, what Mr. Elegance predicts happens, and something goes wrong. Two people just wasn't enough to assure that the machine would work properly. It's too unstable. It malfunctions. Gaster falls inside, is shattered across time and space, and the machine breaks.

Now let's come back to the end of Toby Fox's tweet. ”Neither of them could fix the machine, no matter how hard they tried. No one can." Notice that "neither of them" means precisely two people.

After the incident, Y comes back, but Gaster disappeared. The trio is now a duo. Y and X do everything they can to repair the machine, but can't. No one can. Because Gaster, the person necessary to its reparation, is no more.

If this theory is right, what are X and Y’s identities? And why was Y absent during the creation of the shortcut door machine? A lot of questions have yet to be answered...

[didderd]

lil doodle dump of Nimh, my sona as a dust. (the bottom two doodles are before and after he's allowed comfort.)

they have some lore. not just your typical dust. long lore ramble under cut. (tw: murder. death. manipulation. abuse.)

i figured Gooper would take a lot to become like dust sans, and so they needed a more fucked up backstory.

so normal Gooper. who is from a Fell au. lost their parents at a young age. their parents were taken by the au's Gaster. as shapeshifters, they have a unique set of abilities, and Gaster found interest in that. and as the mad scientist that he is, took them to conduct experiments, hoping to use them for something. but they didn't survive the experiments.

in this timeline/au, some time after, Gooper was found and taken too. they survived the initial experiments, and after Gaster figured he couldn't do what he wanted/he already got that, he decided to continue to make use of them and make them a weapon, making them a royal guard's person.

Gaster made him keep a skeleton form for his neutral form. his excuse being that it's easier to explain to others that he's a relative. but really he just wanted that control over his shifting, and for his 'work' to resemble him. and even now that Nimh's not controlled by him, he has a hard time trying to shift to a different neutral form, out of fear of punishment.

instead of being scattered to the void/code, this Gaster became a fell G!Sans. i'm not sure how, since i don't know the lore behind G!Sans.. but. yeah. things only got worse for Nimh after that. and it might'v even been when G decided to turn him into a weapon.

they still have the glowing crystal necklace that Gooper wears, which i decided was infused with their parents' magic. but. G broke it. and it lost the magic. it doesn't glow anymore, and they don't wear it. but they keep it close. they also have a scrap of paper with their parents' names on it. ripped carefully from paper records of their parents' experiments. in case they forget.

so when the human came around, Nimh was put on the task of dealing with them. their memory of each reset slowly got better, from deja vu, to remembering everything. and as they started to remember every failure at killing them, and every painful death by the hands of the homicidal child, they started to lose it... more than they already had. G would'v already been feeding him LV, handing him monsters he has to kill to get stronger, and they started taking more outside of that till they were killing everyone. including G. once they realized that's an option and how to do it. which they found great satisfaction in every time. for all the things he put them through.

eventually, like dust sans, the human gives up, and Nimh is left in an empty underground.

but dw. he is eventually picked up by a goopy demigod and allowed a chance to heal. :3

[tarobii]

Void Gaster

Undersociation Masterpost here

W. D. Gaster was a scientist who worked on the core in order to provide energy to millions of people.

Unfortunately, he fell into the core and was lost to the world.

Now he's a gossipy housewife doting father watching over his children from the void.

[thepaintedsable]

Another spread, mostly colored doodles. Pokémon and Undertale junk to let off steam after class.

Closeups and Junk under the cut!

I love learning that games for a console that was discontinued in 2013 are still leagues out of my price range. And that if I only had the next version up of said console I could have paid like $30 and had a Pokémon game. Now I want to figure out how to get an R4 card without getting scammed, because I could care less about having an OG physical card but I am also… not the most technically inclined. At least not when it comes to video games, for whatever reason. I just wanna play the game.

Undertale. Don’t know why I started drawing it again but here we go. I started thinking of my original phase because of all this, and I was weirdly, unironically obsessed with Nice Cream Guy X Burgerpants back then??? The underpaid service workers ship. The capitalism pals.

Also thinking of my original, childhood Undertale phase, I decided to redraw my old self-inserts. Classic. In the time when I didn’t have social media and was watching Tumblr ask blogs on YouTube to get my fandom fix. I wholeheartedly believe younger me would have both loved Tumblr and also have gotten bullied off the platform. Thank god I was never brave enough to make an account.

Anyways, from what I can remember, both of these characters were 14 at the oldest. I was young enough to think that was mature. The cat was a super smart scientist who worked at Grillbys and was also a part of the Royal Gaurd, somehow? Normal undertale timeline. Was either related to or friends with Burgerpants? The only reason I hesitate to say they were related is because I know they weren’t father/daughter or brother/sister and those were practically the only two relationships I thought were allowed back then. Liked Temmie a lot. Maybe had a Sans ship thing????? The fox… I mean I know they started off as just a redesign of the cat to make her more original but. Uh. After finding a blurb in an old sketchbook from that time: she is a creation of Ink and Error (????) and was raised by them, tried to kill “their Chara” (????? I thought they were created by the void crew??? Where’d Chara come from?) and won but also died, where their dust “traveled the multiverse” (How?) till it fucking possesses a body created by Gaster and Sans in a little AU (????????) but this AU breaks and becomes the Void (HUH??) and is AGAIN raised there until she is 11 with the goal of killing “their Chara” (girl I thought you did that already). She finds her way back home (Ah, void #1) eventually and is a “Multiverse traveling reaper.” Also she likes Underfell Sans. I give younger me 10/10 for creativity, but a C for continuity because????????? Either I thought I’d remember the extra details or I thought it was obvious somehow? At least the cat I can just justify as just a person who needs to work multiple jobs. We are missing data for the fox I swear. Lost to time, smh.

[promise-keeper-papyrus]

UT AU, where Toriel is the one that gets enraged and declares war, after the deaths of Asriel and Chara... While Asgore is the one that leaves his Kingdom for the ruins in his grief... This causes a butterfly effect of sorts that greatly changes the Kingdom in the present...

In this story, Toriel becomes colder and a shell of her former self and she feels guilty over the things that she's done, but she's better at hiding it then Canon Asgore...

Toriel is a bit less of a pushover then Asgore and was considered the brains between the two, so she wouldn't let Undyne be the Royal Guard Captain or Alphys be the Head Scientist, due to the former's temper and the latter's nervousness...

Instead, the Captain and Head Scientist would be different and more professional people...

And Papyrus is actually part of the Royal Guard, but he's in the lowest rank...

Undyne is also still in the Royal Guard, but she's only a rank or two above Papyrus, while Alphys is an alchemist instead of a scientist and while she's technically not part of the Royal Guard, she forms a trio team with Papyrus and Undyne to try capturing (and possibly destroying) a human together.

The robot that later tries to attack Frisk isn't Mettaton's ghost, it's instead the Mad Dummy's angry spirit. (But the robot body helps calm his temper somewhat.)

Mettaton is with Napstablook and they formed a band.

Sans is weakened, has almost lost all hope and stays in bed most of the time; he's on the brink of falling down.

The amalgamates don't exist in this story, instead Frisk would find the human souls in the True Lab.

Gaster (who's trapped in the Void) is the one that created Flowey for some reason.

Flowey is basically the same, except he's somewhat more patient.

Flowey tricks Asgore into thinking that he a friendly flower and tricks Frisk as well.

Asgore makes Flowey promise to watch over and protect Frisk, if the child ever leaves the Ruins.

Flowey becomes Frisk's partner and he tries encouraging Frisk to destroy the kingdom and find the other humans souls.

After a reset and learning of Flowey's true colors, Flowey tells Frisk that if the child tries to leave Flowey, then Flowey will tie Frisk up in vines and tell the Royal Guard exactly where Frisk is.

So, Frisk is forced to let Flowey stay a partner.

Asgore would still try to battle Frisk, but he would desperately beg Frisk to stay and at the end of the fight, he would burst into tears and apologize to Frisk.

Unlike Canon Toriel, Asgore realizes that the other human deaths are his fault as well and he tells Toriel that he forgives her.

[dark-47]

UnstableTale prehistory

Unstabletale - Like its copy, used to have a high level of cold, from which humans and monsters suffered. Humans decided to overthrow the monsters and declared war. After the war they managed to imprison monsters underground. The barrier that humans had put up to keep the monsters underground also began to absorb and contain the cold, preventing it from reaching the surface, but at the same time leaving the monsters in an eternal freeze. Although the cold was not so strong as to kill the monster, it greatly interfered with a quiet life. Gaster, a royal scientist, invented and created a CORE that provided energy and heat to the entire Underground. After such success, King Asgore entrusted him with conducting any experiments for the benefit of the Underground.

The first fallen child was Chris, who fell into the dungeon due to curiosity and the fact that in the village where he lived, he was bullied because of his weak soul. The first who he met was Sans. He and his brothers Chara and Papyrus were under Gaster's guardianship, also they were his experimental subjects (expect Papyrus, because he was too tiny). Sans tried to lead Chris to the Ruins, because there was a house that belonged to no one, so that Chris could hide and not be seen by other monsters and especially Gaster. But nothing worked out for them and Gaster killed Chris without hesitation, taking his body and soul. Gaster created an unique type of monsters that were in human bodies, but retained and enhanced their abilities that they originally had. But this experiment was dangerous and not many monsters managed to survive, and those who did were left with some defects: Sans’s magic weakened, despite the fact that he had a soul of determination - Chris became his vessel. Chara got ill with an unknown disease that could not be cured, and he did not have long to live, but he hid it from everyone. Undyne suffered the least because she was the oldest - she was blind in one eye.

After these experiments, Gaster disappeared for unknown reasons, leaving Chara, Sans and Papyrus under Toriel's and Asgore's care. A few years later, Chara died and when the cause of death surfaced and these experiments were approved by Asgore, Toriel left into the Ruins, taking Sans and Papyrus with herself. After years Sans and Papyrus moved to Wastelands (local Snowdin) and stayed to live there. Sans was able to become a royal guard, as he had long dreamed of, despite the disapproval of the people. And Papyrus plans to become a great chef.

Over time, the Barrier began to weaken and let the cold through to the surface, and at that moment the last human named Frisk falls into Underground, but not to free the monsters, but to exterminate them. The last human killed everyone, they didn't listen to Chara. Chara decided to intervene into the universe code and into the final fight to stop Frisk, but breaks everything. The timeline started to glitch and erased itself. Chara lost everything, but stopped Frisk with the cost of whole universe. But in exchange he gets the "Hack" button.

Syne this universe became a place called the Gray Void. It was empty practically endless place, which was absorbing glitches and anomalies. Also this place had a few rules: any creature that gets there must have at least a grain of soul, otherwise the void will literally tear their code into pieces and leave nothing, also there is no way out of the Gray Void, and if this succeeds, upon return the Gray Void will consider it as an error and destroy. Also in the Gray Void absent gravitation.

Several years passed after the incident and Chara created a simulation, which he managed to copy at the last moment of destruction using the "Hack" button. The simulation is an almost complete copy of the erased universe with its own characters, who were created using their old code and gained their own intelligence over time.

[ratsoh-writes]

Oh also! What did Sans and Wine talk about anyway?

Has the drama been resolved and we can have some "lore" related to their pasts with the research?

Eheheheh sure~

Alright so this goes for the “canon” too, not just the rps

Anyways it gets long so under the cut it goes!

Sans gaster was a great father to sans and papyrus in the beginning. Even after they lost their mum when papyrus was a baby, Gaster stayed strong for his sons. Sans was his pride and joy, his firstborn and his successor. Papyrus was the memory of his late wife, a lovely baby

However gaster made a horrible discovery. You see he was always had a love for the void. The space between every alternate universe. At the time though, it was seen as a miniature universe or a pocket space. People even stored stuff in it. Only the parts closest to their AU was ever seen

Gaster was a genius and he was determined to explore farther into the void than ever before. He created a machine that could do this, and he discovered the tears.

You see, the void was unstable and had been for ages. Every year it slowly unraveled more and more. Think of it like a space ship. Inside the ship, things are stable, but if a hole ever appears, everything inside gets sucked up and thrown out into space, and that’s what every au was to the void. A little ship floating in space

He theorized that if the voids tears grew large enough, every au would collapse and it would be the end to everything. He slowly went crazy with this knowledge, working longer and longer hours trying to find a solution to the mess

In the end, gasters dear and paranoia led him to experimenting on sans, the only one who he ever hinted to at his research, causing sans to be stuck in a time loop (the resets) until the void finally collapsed

However gaster didn’t predict that instead of destroying all the AUs, the collapse would simply lead to the void reorganizing itself, making a completely new universe. (And if anyone could explore it these days, they wouldn’t see any more tears. Apparently this happens every couple billions of years but they don’t know that)

Now wines side:

Wines mother (not gaster) was the head scientist of his AU and also obsessed with the void. However when discovering the tears, before she could make any theories on it, she was assassinated to keep the information from leaking

Wine was originally supposed to follow in her footsteps and become her successor, but with her early death, covered up by the fact that she had just had coffee as an excuse, his father (gaster) had him shipped to the royal guard instead

Wine has always felt like he was missing something, and in his teens he found some of his mothers research she hid before her death. It was incomplete, and when he went to his fathers for answers, they got into a huge fight. His gaster threatened to get rid of him and put coffee in his place instead, and wine snapped, pushing him into the core killing him.

In an ironic twist, sans gaster also died by falling into the core. Except he was thrown in by his machine exploding. Sans tried to catch him but just missed him instead

To wine, the research is the last memory he has of his mom, and he wanted to understand what she died for, so when he got wind of sans having something similar he jumped on it

To sans, his fathers research was the cause of everything bad in his life. And having it get out to anyone would only bring trouble. It’s why sans was so resistant to wine finding it!

Anyways it was papyrus who convinced sans to compare notes with wine as his first steps of healing from his past. For sans this was a way of letting go and freeing himself from the fear. For wine it was getting closure and getting a piece of the happiness he used to have

[stargazer-tps]

Stargazer-TPS’s Take on Gaster

(Deltarune notwithstanding.)

Hey look, it’s a guy. Commonly accepted fanon-compliant? No. Canon compliant? Almost definitely not. He’s a guy who has been heavily modified to act within Erscoga and its rules of the multiverse (with people being Authors and Characters, which I STILL haven’t explained properly, and with the Multiversal Gumbo Trinity in mind).

Some Erscoga!Gaster Trivia and Design Notes:

He WAS just like… a normal monster at one point, a shadow being similar to the Pondecle on Dunkel, or Deemo from the game Deemo, or my version of The Narrator from The Stanley Parable.

As stated by the Gaster followers in-game, he was the Royal Scientist of the Underground and built the CORE, and got shattered across time and space. For the purposes of Erscoga, though, this period of his life was entirely unremarkable other than everyone singing praises to his brilliance.

Because his story specifically includes being erased/deleted/whatever, his being in The Void was inevitable. Usually Characters only end up there when they’ve been revised out of their stories (like on a literal meta level); Gaster was specifically written to be “deleted”—so even though he has this “past” he doesn’t really remember any of it, and that’s also why it’s so unremarkable. He’s a little paradoxical, and a bit like Rob from The Amazing World of Gumball in this way.

Because his first and only real memories are of being in The Void, he takes it upon himself to become the “Void Herald”—that is, he greets newly revised-out characters and provides them comfort and assurance that The Void isn’t all that bad once you get used to it (despite the fact that actually it does suck pretty bad). Most of these deleted characters either found some Storyline to be put back into, or were fully absorbed into The Void. (The Void as a place is highly corrupting/corrosive, and will wear down a deleted Character’s mind/body/soul gradually until they just become a part of it, like the world’s worst compost bin.)

In the Author/Character system, he is an Observer (despite being a “character” written by me) because he is unable to interact with/be a part of/manipulate Reality in any sort of meaningful way. Although the longer he stays in The Void, the more he is learning about how to bend it to suit him…

Despite being there for, like, All of Eternity, Gaster has yet to fully be “composted” by The Void. He has lost his physicality (see: the doodle that looks most like the Mystery Man sprite), his voice, and much of his compassion, but he is not fully gone. Truthfully, though, he and The Void can never be meaningfully separated, even when he was “alive” and “existing” in the Underground (or if he gets removed to a physical location like Erscoga), because of the narrative purpose he fulfills (i.e. being a Deleted Character is his main character trait). So really he never would be fully composted, he’d just exist as fragments scattered throughout The Void and perhaps as The Void Itself, which is more than could be said for other characters who get fully composted. Confusing.

At the beginning of his nonexistence, he was capable of speech; his voice being lost/corrupted is the reason he now speaks in Wingdings. He also has learned to talk through The Void Itself (using the bits of himself that have sloughed off and been scattered there) rather than through his actual body, because talking through his actual vocal cords hurts him.

Due to the nature of The Void and his own (non)existence, he is able to access the memories of every other version of the W. D. Gaster character. Occasionally, this leads him to be confused as to which one he actually is, what he actually wants, etc. At the beginning of his time there, he was able to filter out these other Gasters quite easily, but it has become harder and harder as time has gone on (ESPECIALLY with those other versions of himself also losing parts of themselves to The Void…). He is still separate from these other versions of himself, though—think Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Moving on to his design: his “face” is just a white mask that he wears so that he actually has a perceivable face. He thinks that it makes him less unsettling than if he just showed up with a black oval for a face. He also wears white formal gloves for fun and for flavor. (Also, he’s a huge drama/theater nerd. He might be going the way of The Phantom of the Opera.) Both of these become fused to his body after he loses enough of his physicality.

His “clothes” (other than the mask and gloves) may or may not just be a part of his body that he can re-shape at will.

[iced-souls]

Thinking about other possibilities for papyrus’s relationships with the gaster followers in the past, and so now i got void gang and this new thing where papyrus is more teenager. Cause in void gang i figure him to be older, maybe 20 or 21. So in this world, when the accident with gaster happens, papyrus is like… 15-17??

So in this one, i got gaster being a big kinda neglectful father to papyrus, because in this case i got the idea that he created sans in the way where he would be like a clone of gaster, but in the tub tank thingy sans was starting to fall apart, so gaster used some human magic from the 2 souls they had at the time which kept sans together, but the body lost like 60-70% of his actual… bijazzle. Gaster being a very very calculated and prepared guy, he was all ready for one child. Using the human souls isn’t a thing he was really allowed to do so he kept that a secret, and locked away the room with the tube. So when a couple years later when he has to go get some parts from that room, he discovers the pieces that fell to the bottom of the tank seem to be assembling together thanks to the little bits of some excess human magic that fell off of sans. But the body is probably gonna die since that stuff isn’t exactly enough, so gaster with his fatherly instincts tries to save the new child, ending up having to use the some more human magic from the newer souls that have been collected over the couple years. Gaster wasn’t prepared for a second child, so when papyrus was created, he tended to be used to sans, but forget about the new guy.

ANYWAYS, so relationships with the past gaster follower dudes. First off, all the ones in hotland are past scientists that worked with gaster. I’m just gonna use the names i got in void gang to make things easier—. MG is a kid who admires the science stuff, and always seems to somehow sneak into the lab to watch them. Sans also works as a scientist, but like papyrus kinda already worked there because of gaster, so they already helped out. Papyrus graduated 2 years early from high school, but is still just a helper because gaster… forgets—… and after constant reminders gaster still thinks papyrus is still in highschool. So they’ve given up and just decided to wait it out.

So my personal favourite thingy is with mosiac’s role. He’s an older guy, maybe in his 40-50’s. A very humble, chill guy. Why I like him is because he acts like papyrus’s father figure. And I REALLY FRIGGIN LOVE THIS STUFF AND I DON’T KNOW WHY—. So technically they knew each other longer cause of the whole science thing, but they first started actually knowing each other, which i imagined it being something where papyrus was upset and he was passing by, so he just sat down beside him, with a little bit of distance, and asked what was wrong. After getting the silent treatment he said that he was a very good listener and can keep stuff private. And so papyrus just said he was upset at his dad-man. But that was the start. Then all the stuff gaster never did, mosiac did. Like coming to his graduation, complimenting his work, giving good life advice, giving him headphones for his birthday, and yada yada yada.

Chris doesn’t have much a role in this one. Beanstock, my mind has been debating whether he’s a best-friend, partner, or also nobody. But i like the partner thing cause in this world he’s a much more upbeat, “yooo wassup duuude” kinda guy and really helps papyrus out and does a lot of confidence boosting.

MG is also undecided, but its either best buds, or beanstock papyrus MG family time. In which both i love but again my mind always seems to lean more towards the family thing. So when MG sneaks in when more chill about the science stuff around people are there, [aka sans, papyrus, beanstock, and sometimes chris or mosiac], papyrus usually tends to show them what’s happening and sometimes teaches them stuff.

As for the angst time of the accident. I’m gonna write about that later because i just realized i got carried away with this and need to do some dumby dumb schoolwork before school starts up again—. But do be wanting to let out my thoughts for that because it makes me go GUH and feels like my heart just got stabbed—.

[null-siren]

"Mm."

Apparently they were simply not going to talk about it. That left him free to speculate as to how best to utilize the discovery that confirmed that it was the brother that had been lost, and wasn't simply stashed away someplace relatively safe--and therefore could not be used alive in some cruel machination. In the meanwhile the living one still clung so desperately to life despite the harsh conditions - and for what? Unfortunately 'why do you persist' was not a very normal question to ask of once's acquaintance without a Sisyphean mountain of a lead-up.

As Gaster followed Red into the wooden corpse of Grillby's--all the while keeping up the silence he'd kept upon their departure from that 'unfortunate' meeting behind the ruined house--the resulting train of thought he had been on pulled to a stop at a station much more orderly than the mess outside of his head. His focus shifted from one internal musing to another as he came to a brief stop outside of the back room door. He watched as his big-boned companion prised the door open and, after it was opened, he slipped in, still with nary a word.

Internal musing number two: tools. Anything within immediate view as he roamed through the room was grabbed up by a disembodied hand and stuffed into the void of his body, regardless of its state. Attempts to repair anything broken or significantly chipped or otherwise worn by the strain of previous use or the unfettered elements could be made, otherwise the metal could potentially be melted down and repurposed. On that note... A large part if the materials they would be working with would be metal.

While he doubted it would be in the repertoire of a man presumably also made of fire in this neck of the disorderly mess that was the multiverse, he made the request, "Please keep an eye out for a blowtorch." Welding was very much on the horizon, in some manner or another. He sincerely hoped they wouldn't have to set up an old fashioned forge and smithy… Mostly for Red's sake. The former Royal Scientist went into science for many a reason, one of which being that when one was a scientist, heavy lifting and strenuous exercise were usually carried out by machines or persons more suited. There were no machines. The conclusion was therefore simple.

When his void companion was once more back on the path through town, it was as if a switch was flipped within the lumbering skeleton. That hostile demeanor was quickly replaced by the usual lazy grin and casual slouch of his broad shoulders as he followed, his blaster now seeming more content and docile than it had been moments prior. As if none of it ever even happened. But it had happened. There was no mistake about that despite how the mood seemed to shift.

“Grillby used to moonlight as a handyman, so we can hope.”

It wasn’t that far really, so much so that Red didn’t feel the need to ride on the blaster as much as he walked beside it, allowing it to follow like a pup out for its walkies. Just past the abandoned library, a small stretch of branching path which lead to frigid water, and there it was… the desolate remains of Grillby’s, it’s sign reduced to but a few letters hanging onto the facade for dear life in the biting wind, the window long since shattered and the inside wrecked from years of the elements invading into the building.

Red didn’t bother with the door, not when the bay window had long been demolished and he could easily step through it, the sound of snow and old shards of glass crunching beneath his feet. The bar itself was a mess; overturned tables nestled in drifts of snow, stools toppled or broken altogether, and the back shelves which once held various bottles were now barren, save for what appeared to be the remains that even scavengers didn’t find useful.

Moving further into the room, his blaster seemed content to stay out on the path, finding amusement in sniffing at the structure while Red motioned for Gaster to follow.

“Should be in the back. C’mon.” It wasn’t that there was anything else the egghead could wander away to, but rather he wanted him to see what tools were available as he pushed the door into the back room open with some protest.

[gastergettingbetter]

[null-siren]

If there was any sort of correlation between the weapon and casino management, it was lost on the old scientist. Try as he might, he could not put them together - or perhaps it was that the area it was located in was a hazard requiring self-defense? Even that thought didn't make much sense to him, though; there were guards… Or rather police for that, weren't there? How positively shady--or, in other words, intriguing.

As he watched the Human fish out his wallet and procure a card, Gaster gave his own definite answer: "I shall, though I will be the first to admit that my luck is of a rotten sort." That was putting it politely. Fortunately he doubted he was being invited to gamble given the conversation that had been had.

From someplace outside of the visible spectrum of light a disembodied hand slipped forth to take the offered card with a polite and manners-minded, "Thank you," from the one it gravitated towards after. He took a moment to look it over and, though he committed the details upon it to memory and no longer required it on him, the extremity that had accepted it drifted with card held delicately betwixt index and thumb into the void of his body for safe keeping and future reference.

"Useful little things. Perhaps I should start carrying my own." He returned the brunt of his focus to his newest acquaintance. "It was a pleasure meeting you, but I dare say that I have kept you long enough for this evening. We will meet again."

Giovanni inclined his head. "I can respect one who seeks knowledge, even if the depths of it often elude me."

He was the man that paid people to do science.

At the question, he simply shrugged and offered his answer. "I manage a casino downtown. You should come by sometime."

And it was the truth, just perhaps not all of it.

How that did, or didn't, relate to the firearm in question, he left unanswered. He didn't make any effort to hide the fact--in many cases, hiding things simply drew more attention to them.

Downtown wasn't exactly considered unsafe; though it had its areas just like any other city, so maybe it was a bit strange. And this was in part because Giovanni had hammered order into the criminal underworld some years back. Violently. But, with these new monsters showing up, who could blame him for being armed? And he was carrying it legally. Well, as far as any legal documents were concerned. He had no doubt that certain organizations (mainly the FBI) knew damn well who he was and what he was involved in, they simply had more important concerns for the time being.

A hand slipped into his pocket and he withdrew his wallet. He shifted through it for a mere moment, before taking out a business card which he held out to the monster.

[scarecrows-trashcan]

Familiar Face? (_Mystery_Man_?_)

~Doctor W.D. Gaster~ [From Undertale?] A new Face...Or a familiar one? These are one of these low effort, small projects that I finished in about 30 minutes.Changes, suggestions, and requests are always appreciated! Hope you Like it!

[ratsoh-writes]

3/3 SO gets sucked into the void one day beyond explanation, and skeleton becomes the only person who remebers them. A few months later, they are spat back out by the void (or for the more sciency skeletons, brought back) and are traumatized from not having a physical being for so long. Reactions?

-sunset anon

Well unfortunately this only applies to the sanses. Since they shared the same ability (which I haven’t revealed yet) as their gasters, only they can remember resets and anything that has to do with the void. When SO comes back, it’s still like they never existed. The papyri won’t remember them

Sans: when SO sees him again the first time, he’ll look like death. Sans worked frantically to bring them back. He hasn’t slept in days. Probably hasn’t eaten even longer. All SO gets is a broken sob as he embraces them for the first time in forever. It’s a long road to recovery for both SO and sans. But they can do it together

Papyrus: he has no idea who this strangely beautiful human is and why they’re sobbing into his arms. Or why they appeared in his basement from his brothers machine. Papyrus has been trying to get sans to confess for months about what’s been making him so frantic. Well papyrus never leaves a sad person unattended so he decides to comfort them first

Star: Star may be very smart, but he’s not a scientist. He does however know someone who is. With the help of his undyne, Star has been doing his best to track SO down. Finally they got lucky and pulled them out of the void. Star is a weeping mess holding his SO while twister (underswap undyne) is shouting in victory. Finally people will believe her that the void can sustain life!!! Not the time girl

Honey: one day, a beaming but nervous Star, a crazed and victorious looking twister, and a broken looking human show up at his house. The human pulls honey into a hug crying about how much they missed him. When honey awkwardly pats their back and asks for their name, they just break down. He feels terrible but he doesn’t know how to fix them. Honey makes a tactical retreat to his room while Star comforts the human

Red: this calls for drastic measures. When red’s father fell into the void, he managed to throw his notes up at red for him to catch. Red uses those and his impressive engineering skills to build a small version of a void pocket. But his first attempt was only successful in grabbing the attention of one of his least favorite people. Desperate times call for desperate measures though. And together red and sans are able to recreate the machine in record time, saving his SO only after two weeks.

Edge: he was very concerned when his brother suddenly got a very big interest in the work of their late father. Edge had thought red was over his obsession with gaster. In his frustration, red winds up telling edge all about the void and the resets. Edge doesn’t believe red however until he finally meets his SO again for the first time. He has no memories of this human, but looking at them and he can just feel himself fall in love all over again. Edge believes red now

Mal: he’s lost. An absolute wreck. Mal is not a scientist, or even that well educated. He never got to go past elementary due to his and cash’s bad childhood. To him he thinks SO is forever lost until wine worriedly asks if he remembers them. For months they had been working together with some others to try and access the void until one day SO suddenly reappears. Mal almost doesn’t believe it and actually backs away at first before vaulting into their arms

Cash: a while back, his brother practically screamed at him over forgetting a name he doesn’t know. It’s been months now and cash still feels the tension between him and mal. His brother has been going out lots, and coming back late. It’s stressing cash out like crazy. When mal comes back with some random human one day, they have one of the biggest fights ever since he was an addict. Mal tells him again about the resets and the void and claims this human is his SO. Cash feels bad for the obviously sick human, but how the hell is he supposed to help someone he doesn’t know? Even if his soul is telling him he knows them

Oak: when SO disappeared, oak had a day long panic attack thinking he was going crazy, imagining being in love with a fake person. And poor willow was near panic as well not having any idea what scared his brother. It’s not until willow mentions the next day that this was almost as bad as the day after gaster disappeared that oak remembers what happened to SO. And he knows just who to call. Him and sans had been working for weeks to bring SO back. And of course red remembers and got involved. Like with red, oak gets his back in two weeks tops.

Willow: his brother keeps referring to this person willow has never heard of and it’s starting to freak him out. He’s checked every familiar place he can think of for paranormal activity. Nothing. Nada. Willow is pretty sure he made the entire ghost population go extinct. When oak sans and red come home one day with this strange human however, willow just knows. He may not know their name, but he can just feel they were his.

[determination-saved]

tag dump

[allw3doisadvert1se]

So that’s what all this is about. For a while we thought that perhaps the doctor was following similar motivations to our testing process, experimentation at all costs. But no … it appears he is constricted by emotional pains primarily, and the grief of a lost loved one.

To say this doesn’t disappoint us would be a lie, as we always appreciate meeting scientists with similar ideals to ourselves. However, this all does spark a new question. How is the use of an asker soul vessel supposed to bring someone back from the dead, or the void, or wherever Gaster’s wife is? Perhaps, given enough time, we will see.

Day 60 of drawing Junior Secret Squad until Chapter 3

Destiny...

I know Knight Papyrus is a popular theory for who the Roaring Knight of Deltarune is, but for Ish and Fool's Fate, I've liked bouncing around this idea of one of my OCs, Arial, being the Knight. Do I know it's literally impossible for Arial to be the Knight since she's a character I made? Yes. Will that stop me from some how inserting her. Probably not. Mostly I've been going with "If Papyrus ends up being the Knight in Deltarune, then I'll make Arial the Knight instead in Ish somehow."

I need to actually see what ends up happening with the Knight to do anything definitive, but I still might end up having Arial be a Knight in Fool's Fate, idk. Probably not The Roaring Knight, but a Knight.