Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20181123023529/@comment-26006155-20181126121625

Alright, I do think I'm right about the MTT fountain having previously been a memorial to Gaster, I just had the timeline wrong.

Chara didn't arrive decades earlier. In fact, she arrived within the last decade. Asgore's "old" calendar lists the End of 201X as an important date, and Chara's red text in the No Mercy ending says this is when she arrived.

It must have taken a while for Chara and Asriel to grow up together, so their doomed buttercup adventure must have happened in early 202X.

Which means that the MTT foundtain couldn't have been a tribute to Asriel or Chara anyway, since the fountain was built in 201X. I very much doubt Asgore would have tolerated Mettaton trashing a statue of Asriel and replacing with his own water-puking visage. Gaster, though, would not have been missed nearly as much (especially in the wake of what he tried to do).

So 201X -was- when Chara arrived. And Frisk's Undertale adventure is happening in 202X.

This is why I'm reviewing everything. One missed detail could throw everything off.