#tabs!gaster

[solusminds]

Tabs!Gaster meets Solus!Papyrus

Solus!Papyrus belongs to me

Tabs!Gaster belongs to @ryleejam

[ded-lime]

some time ago god knows why i set on a journey of reading through gaster tag (with plenty of picking and choosing) and when a fic goes on about sans being depressed and trying to bring him back my mental image meanwhile goes something like this

[copper-skulls]

I've been rereading Seasons of Grillster by @aeris-blue little by little and i love them so much. anyways the concept of flames catching colors of other monster's magic is very cute hfkjadhs

[grillbyz]

still thinking about the. asgore's winter alarm clock dialogue like. If they ever finish this (please) imagine waking up one day to asgore divorced-reemurr saying "he was... my rudolph" ab some guy he used to know like

"I was... his Santa. He was... my Rudolph." With those sprites. like. Oh he was yours and you were his, huh. Sir. Sir--

hello, sir, what was that about the mistletoe--

Oh so. he uses the same nickname your ex-wife used for you. Is that so. The very same huh---

Oh so you wanted to show him the sun huh. You wanted to hold his hand and bring him to the surface and show him the beauty of the sun didn't you

[aethergate]

Many reasons, some more complex than others. You are a kind and caring individual. You have a amusing sense of humor. You have stayed with me despite the many reasons not to, and continue to do so. None of that is for your reputation. You do so even without others around to witness it. I am glad that you have found success, but it is not my main reason for loving you. I love you and, despite everything, you continue to love me. What more of an explanation is required?

but then why do you love me? :(

[ballgame]

Why is Gaster in my notifications tab

[n0maku]

Some details from the Undertale Legends of Localization book

271 pages! If the localization of Undertale into Japanese interests you, I suggest getting the book off of Fangamer yourself. Anyhow, here's some details I noted from my reading:

-"mt.ebott is "toby" backwards, inspired by mt. itoi from MOTHER" (translation note from Toby to 8-4). This detail is also mentioned at another point in the book.

-An image of the debug tool that 8-4 developed to quickly jump to points in the game has "No Mercy" as a tab...(?) selector...(?). I don't quite recall what other names have been used for the route 'officially', so found it interesting enough to note. It is also referred to as such a few other times in the book.

-The name they used for the fallen human (shown in their debug tool menu image) is "Rose".

-Toby instructed the translators to keep ICE-E somewhere, even if to keep it funny the wordsearch got changed to something else.

-It has been known by people already, but the book notes how each item has three names! One standard name, one abbreviated for battle menus, and one abbreviated for battle menus during serious scenes. I think I recall some post calling it "Serious Mode"...? For example, the Butterscotch Pie goes in the battle menu from "ButtsPie", to "Pie" in the Toriel fight from "Serious Mode" . (Though, it says they cut the abbreviating for the Japanese translation as there were less space needed for the item names. I guess that means the japanese version didn't get any 'silly' item name variations...?)

Now, this gets pretty long, so I'll just put a readmore here...

-The translation of the Wrong Number Song comes up in the book, and it actually references that the main fan theory for who the "G" is is Gaster! BUT it reveals nothing about it basically. Toby remained mysterious about the "G..." person referenced in the call, with his note on it being "Character's name beginning with "G"... Actually, it might be suitably bizarre if you leave this line completely intact in English." Disappointing, but admittedly expected that this book wouldn't give any more details about it.

Apparently initially the localization team also thought it was meant to be "Gaster" and put a "Ga--" in an early draft, but it got overruled by Toby's decision to keep the call in English.

-A section emphasizes how while Monster Kid's dialogue uses ore, a more masculine pronoun, ". . .Toby designed the character to have no clear gender," and "Monster Kid's gender is never specified in the original script." I personally found it nice how the section asserted Monster Kid's gender neutrality and emphasized the pronoun choices being more purely used to reflect character, and chosen after consultation with Toby. -Onionsan's unclear gender led to the translators choosing for them to use watashi (which the section describes as a "polite, somewhat gender-neutral" pronoun), or simply "Onionsan" (which works to emphasize their childish vibes). -There is nothing about Frisk/their name is never mentioned. A section on Parsnik only notes that Hard Mode is accessed when you "give yourself a certain human's name." -Apparently Toby says Alphys is pronounced "al-feez"

-It is noted that Toby did not mean to reference the "it's over 9000!" meme with the dialogue "OH YES! MTT-BRAND OVENS CAN REACH TEMPERATURES UP TO NINE-THOUSAND DEGREES!" -For the (slightly inaccurate) Kitchen quote CHECK text (two lovers standing over the cauldron of hell...), Toby asked the translators to just translate it directly instead of grabbing the exact lines from the Japanese version of Kitchen. The section emphasizes how Toby was so unattached to it being a reference that he specifically requested the translators to not bother with it.

-There is a section on Entry Number 17 (the wingdings one, not the unused alphys one)! However, it is not referred to as such, merely vaguely talking about it- how most people never see some of the lines in Undertale, and the process of translating the wingdings. (They wrote out the Japanese translation with English spelling, keeping the same wingdings font.)

The image examples they use are images of the wingdings "THE DARKNESS KEEPS GROWING" and it translating to wingdings "YAMIHA NOUDO WA MASHITE YUKU". Funnily enough, the section notes ". . .it almost feels like these messages contain dark secrets. . ." and ". . .the localization team wanted to preserve the 'dark, mysterious, and unreadable' vibe in Japanese too." "Dark" twice... ha ha, these writers, I swear...

Sadly, no mention of Gaster or any other insight on the entry. An example sentence they use for Wingdings is "I EAT BUGS EVERY DAY," so uhhh maybe that's a clue that he's a bug eater? (I'm joking...) -"Asriel Dreemurr" being an anagram of "Serial Murderer" is confirmed to be intentional by Toby. -Toby notes how the "But it refused" line has two meanings: One, that it can mean "refused to die," secondly, that it can mean "'re-fused', referring to how the heart fragments fuse back together again." It's another thing that's been noted by some people, but a neat detail regardless!

Alright, that's what I've got...! There's a lot of other stuff, like how dialogue that was referencing other games was handled, (which is a LOT), but these notes are what I found the most personally interesting and relevant to Undertale.

[thelunarsystemwrites]

not exactly an infodump about an AU, butt! about aroace fell (and currant) :]

ALRIGHTY! FIRST AND FOREMOST! the fell!brothers real full names are sans serif W.D and papyrus font W.D! but fell removed their last names from the government when the monsters got to the surface! but at times people call them by their last names lol

the monsters were free when fell and currant were at least 27-25 respectively! SO! it has been quite a while since they've been on the surface >:]!

fun fact: fell can be clingy when his sleepy or if their asleep- (mostly cause he feels safer when someone is in their arms, mostly in sleep-)

the skelebros life was pretty okay when they were younger, gaster being a decent but mostly absent father since his a scientist, until fell became 13-14..yeah, ya can guess what happened there. (gaster was only a mad drunk emotional/mental abuser..but still an abuser-)

and woah! the good ol' "gaster falling in the core" incident happened! they were 19-17 when that happened-

and uhh, lots of shit happened with fell and stuff- (it's actually mentioned in my blog..)

i like to think that currant has girls night with fell!alphys and undyne lmao. i think it would be fun. fell now actually pays fell!grillby in cash and coins since he can't be a bitch about it on the surface lol.

annddd...that's all :)

THIS, THIS IS WHAT IM TALKIN' ABOUT!! >:]]

Love the casual drop of Gaster being abusive—Makes sense why fell doesn't drink 😭

Also love how they can't avoid his tab anymore XD

AWEEE CLINGLY FELL!!

Ohhh I didn't know Currants middle name was Font, makes sense though!!

AHGHIYFIIHFIGD EATING UR FELL AU RN NOMNOMNOMNOM THANK YOUUU

[dailygasterdoodles]

"Self Explanatory"

Day 128 of drawing Gaster every day until Deltarune is finished

I listened to this on loop while drawing this

original under tab!

[the-pink-dino]

HANG ON. HANG ON.

EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME. I KNOW EVERYONE ALREADY CONSIDERS THE MYSTERY MAN TO BE GASTER, BUT LISTEN!!!

In the Spamton Sweepstakes, at the "damn you tenna" link, if you click the TV, scroll down and click on the top bunch of static, then you reach a blueprint-looking image, with a repetitive noise of bitcrushed water washing against a shore or something else.

This is just after Spamton complains about everyone, "everyone, except..."

The tab's caption is "AREN'T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING?" notably in all caps. Does this image remind you of anything? Any location, perhaps?

It's the hallway. Who else speaks in all caps, like in the tab's caption?

Gaster.

I know it's been well-established in the fandom that yes, the mystery man is probably Gaster, but technically that's still a headcanon. But this link, the evidence, it all leads up to the conclusion that this IS actually Gaster. It's not just a headcanon anymore. There is tangible proof that the sprite we see in that Waterfall room is, in fact, W.D. Gaster.

I think I just actually proved that this fandom-chosen sprite is ACTUALLY Gaster, and not just an elaborate fandom creation.

[solusminds]

Undersolus art dump

Kinda? "'._.

Bonus of Solus!Gaster beating Tabs!Gaster with a guitar

Undersolus belongs to Me

Tabs!Gaster(and Undertabs) belongs to @ryleejam

[anomalous-writer]

here is the long-awaited hysteriatale update - everyone give a warm welcome to papyrus, the mascot of hysteriatale!

a few fun facts about papyrus:

-the star in his eye spins based on his emotions (extreme happiness: spins really fast; extreme sadness: completely stops). if he's super excited and happy, his star will actually glow, and if he's completely miserable or in a serious moment, it may disappear entirely

-papyrus was the first character i fully developed for hysteriatale and oh boy did he look different

-papyrus is the one to judge you in the judgement corridor, not sans

-papyrus is also the final boss of hysteriatale's geno route (known officially as the factory route) and he is RIDICULOUSLY powerful. you have to psychologically crush him in order to actually beat him

backstory below the cut!

back when the happy meat was first developed, sans encouraged papyrus to stay back and observe its effects. he wanted to make sure that papyrus was safe from it, since he knew his brother was prone to addictions. this worked for a while... until it didn't.

papyrus and sans, along with a few other townsfolk, started getting bullied and downright harassed for refusing to taste it. papyrus's battle body was completely torn up by the townsfolk attacking him. one day, when a greedy salesman arrived, selling the meat at a cheap price, papyrus finally caved and bought the happy meat.

he kept this secret for quite a while, though sans quickly picked up on his new strange behaviors. in addition to the sudden mutations that the meat gave him, he was also acting quite differently. he was hyperactive and completely manic most of the time, and his depressive episodes were quite rare thanks to sans being around.

but over time, sans became distant. he spent more and more time at grillby's, drowning his sorrows with cheap booze. papyrus is deeply afraid of being alone, and wanted his brother back.

so, one day, papyrus served him breakfast - homemade spaghetti and meatballs, this time with a different ingredient: happy meat. when sans first tasted it and papyrus mentioned the new recipe, he asked what was in it... to which papyrus replied, "happy meat."

at that point, sans snapped.

before he knew it, papyrus felt the beam of a gaster blaster right in his face, and retaliated out of instinct. the two were heavily injured, and sans soon packed his things, paid his tab, and left... leaving papyrus alone.

papyrus eventually made a new friend: pewter, a young and playful monster based on an arctic fox. pewter kept his mental health in check, and truthfully, he was the only thing keeping papyrus sane at that point. papyrus still frequently called his brother, but soon enough, sans stopped answering. at several points in time, papyrus had attempted to quit happy meat in the hopes of getting his brother back, to no avail. the loneliness is still eating him alive, and despite his attempts to shove down his emotions, deep down, he knows he's miserable.

if only someone could help him...

[ask-duotale-b2fc]

sans / Grillby

Other Names: Funny bone man | Sansy | Comedian | Dunkle / Hot Sauce | Fire Man | Flambo | Grilbs |

Age: older than you, kid. / ...

Gender: Male / Male

Height: 4 / 5'9

Sexuality: Tumblr / Gay?

Soul Type: 🤍 / 🤍

Fluent in: English | Monster | Wing Dings / Sign Language | English | Monster | Possibly Wing Dings

Birthday: so cool / Unknown

Zodiac: the sky. / The Fire Nation

🦴~~~~~~🔥~~~~~~🦴

Likes:

Puns | Dad Jokes | Ketchup | Hot Sauce | Feline fine | Hot cats | Sleeping | Hanging out at Grillby's | Rolling in the snow | His brother

Snow | Cats | A good conversation | The colour pink | Brandy alcohol | Occasional jokes | When Sans drinks too much

Dislikes:

Taking his job seriously | Not being the only Sans (there's too many in his eyes) | When people put his socks in the drawer

Water | When Sans doesnt pay his tab | When Sans drinks too much

Stats:

[Will add later]

Powers:

Turns you blue | Gravity alteration | Bones | Gaster blasters | Karma | Teleportion | Time manipulation

Fire Magic | Roasting Hazelnuts & Marshmallows

🦴~~~~~~🔥~~~~~~🦴

Extra:

🔥Rarely speaks, but when he does, usually Sans is around.

🦴Can be easily distracted by a lazer.

🔥Is the one who taught Luci how to make drinks

🦴Gaster Blaster is alive. It likes pets and treats. Serves as a gaurd dog when Sans is sleeping.

🔥Carries Sans home when he drinks too much. Though he hates it when Sans does this, he enjoys the time they spend at Sans' house after.

🦴Doesnt drink actual alcohol. He drinks ketchup.

🔥The alcohol he makes is made of pure magic. So it actually doesn't do any harm to the body. The only effect it has is the tipsy or drunken state if one drinks enough.

[ariadnesweb]

Mystery of the Eyes

AKA What's up with this reoccurring image, of two eyes, one yellow and one pink?

This face appears as an easter egg in the background of the Basement during the Spamton sidequest - notice it in the dark, in the lower left corner, before the teacup elevator activates.

A similar image reappears in the Spamton Sweepstakes, in this page. If the chair image is saved, or occasionally clicked too many times, the second image of 'Eyes' is seen - similar but different to the first image.

An interesting, but not too important detail, is that the tab header for these 'Eyes' asks: "What if it could get... Darker than Dark?"

It's possible that these images are in reference to Spamton...

But it doesn't seem likely.

This type of 'projection' isn't an ability Spamton has - if he could 'project' his eyes and follow Kris like that, Kris wouldn't need to get the Empty Disk from the basement, which Spamton uses to accompany Kris. This image appears to activate the Teacups, before Kris ever gets the Disk.

There aren't a lot of other characters that could fit the bill for this 'Pink & Yellow Eyes Face'.

Especially because this 'face' seems to be present in all sorts of ways - it was included in cut content.

And this face probably has some connection to Gaster and the introduction - the asset name for the image is 'DEVICE_FRIEND' - fitting the naming scheme for the introduction assets.

Y'know, this place:

Where we create a vessel,

Which gets interrupted by...

This voice.

It's been theorized before that this voice is 'Chara', due to similar ways of speaking, though this theory runs into the bigger question of 'What's Chara doing in Deltarune?', which runs into all sorts of issues.

More likely is that this 'voice' is its own character withing this world - an interrupting force in Deltarune's status quo - someone we haven't met yet -

We are left with a huge mystery regarding who or what this voice even is - 'Chara' or Gaster or some other mysterious force. What we DO know is that this force is related to the meta plot of Deltarune - it acts upon the space between 'Us' and the 'Light World'.

There is a high likelihood this force is the same as 'DEVICE_FRIEND' - someone else closely tied to Gaster and the meta plot.

There is another interesting piece of text to analyze regarding this 'voice' - at the end of the Spamton Sweepstakes, on the blurb for 'Spamton's Fate', it says this:

It is HIGHLY likely the speaker for this blurb is the same as the interrupter during the introduction sequence - these two sequences have a number of similarities: a solemn attitude, a malicious undertone, a tendency to philosophize in the middle of speech...

The most obvious detail about the speaker of this blurb is their open envy of Spamton:

"Why should he be so special?", "He wasn't any better than any of us.", "Don't you think it's about time someone else got the spotlight!?"

As if it was a competition, and Spamton's 'Sweepstakes' (& existence) was the sudden reveal at the end - after the Speaker already put in their share amount into 'winning'.

(...Mayhaps the Speaker doesn't enjoy someone with a similar fashion sense getting so much attention...)

And the speaker compares themselves directly to Spamton - "After all, are we really any better...?"

As if the speaker shares some qualities with Spamton... It's not a happy comparison they make.

Here's an interesting tidbit regarding Spamton - he was deliberately erased from public consciousness by Queen.

Ensuring that the average citizen would not encounter or hear about him.

Other interesting detail:

And he was obsessed with a 'machine' for a bit... said machine has roots from places 'more heavenly' than the Dark World.

(What was the purpose of Gaster's Inventions anyways? There's the CORE and the machine he fell into...)

Seems our Mystery Character's encounter with Gaster didn't end up going well...

[saltnpepperbunny]

Hey! I was checking to see how you’re doing so I decided to make two arts this time.

I wanted to draw Mantle, Tabs, and Iya. I thought it’d be cool that in my AU, Tabs made Team Magma hoodies and everyone seemed to like the concept but Asphalt (who is the rude Mantle of this universe) didn’t like it because he thought “no one would take us seriously if we wear this” so they put it in the gift shop for decoration and it was a unanimous decision to add it. And that’s story behind the hoodies. And I really like Iya. She’s so adorable and she looks so kind and I would love to give her a hug. In fact, she’s the one that inspired me to give all the light spirits powers for example (some even have two), Iya has really cool electric powers and I’ll tell you a secret with her electricity SHE CAN EVEN TURN HER HEAD INTO A DRAGON HEAD (it looks like a Gaster Blaster) I don’t think I ever told you this but you’re the reason why I get these ideas, additions to stories. It’s like you’re my motivation. Once chapter 1 is done in my story, I’ll give you credits for my motivation. But that’s all for my speech. Get well soon.

Cool! Thank you for the fanart. ^^ Mantle and Tabs in the sweaters is cute, and I love how you drew Iya.

[ut-monochromasis]

Gaster Gang's bio

This Bio is gonna be a bit different due to the nature of the Gaster Gang.

"The Gaster Gang" is just the collective term for the 100 Gasters that survived The Noir's rampage on the multiverse and now assist and accompany Monochrome!Sans.

These 100 Gasters are:

UT01 - 66 (Undertale)

US01 - 5 (Underswap)

UF01 - 5 (Underfell)

OT01 - 5 (Outertale)

DT01 (Dancetale)

FS01 (Fanonswap)

FF01 (Fanonfell)

UW01 (Underwar)

RT01 (Reapertale)

OF01 (Outerfanon)

NT01 (Negatale)

OcT1 (Oceantale)

FT01 (Futuretale)

BT01 (Birdtale)

ZT01 (Zephyrtale)

DrT1 (Dragontale)

CT01 (Chesstale)

ST01 (Slumbertale)

FSF1 (Fanonswapfell)

MT01 (Mafiatale)

DeT1 (Demitale)

UD01 (Underdarkness)

FE01 (Fatal Error)

They keep tabs on him and monitor him to make sure The Noir doesn't break out.

Not that it would, but just to be safe.

However, only about 10-20 of the Gasters actually follow Mono and keep an eye on him at a time.

Most of them actually spend their time living their own lives in the Omega timeline. Making friends, helping out the scientific endeavors of the OT, and just generally vibing.

Also, an extremely important note. The Gasters don't technically have actual physical bodies. They're "bodies" are moreso just metaphysical representations of their existences, and thus take no physical space. So they can appear and disappear at will, similar to CORE!Frisk.

It also means that they can change their appearance to whatever they want.

Or, in other words.

However you draw Gaster is basically canon to the Gaster Gang. They can look like anything so any interpretation you have of Gaster's design is canon to the Gaster Gang.

These designs were provided (from left to right) by me (obvs), @bigfungus7, @thetruegodofstatic, and @shigg315

The only exceptions to this are UT01 and UT66, who both have more concrete appearances they take.

Aside from that, any way you draw the members of the Gaster Gang is valid.

The format of this bio is based off of @ut-poppy-askblog, run by @fmsdraws.