#my personal hunch is that gaster building the CORE is something toby fox decided retroactively late in UT’s development

[deltaruminations]

i was bitching in my drafts about gaster fanon and fans using “b-b-but undertale’s timeline, papyrus seems too young” to argue against skelebro gaster as if undertale’s implied timeline relative to characters’ age-coding/environmental storytelling/etc. makes any fucking sense in the first place when interpreted via the rules of Real World Logic (i don’t really think it does, nor does it need to) and i probably won’t post that stuff because it’s needlessly salty and annoying. BUT i have decided that if we’re going to insist on Facts And Logicking about how long it “realistically” takes for a talking skeleton with a doctorate to arrive from an alternate universe, build a geothermal power plant, explode himself into the fourth dimension, then be replaced by an anthropomorphic lizard who creates a number of terrible abominations and proceeds to hide them long enough in her basement that it becomes an Even Bigger Problem etc. then i think we might as well file Sans And Papyrus Apparently Not Aging During This Time under “shit that might make more sense if they’re actually darkners.” like if we’re gonna overthink this then let’s overthink it. you know