Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190131130037/@comment-26006155-20190201001644

Teslamania91 wrote: Starbomb155 wrote: Whatsyourexuse even if it is in debug mode toby fox still thought of it so even if he thought it wasn good egough for the game the thought of him thinking to add it must mean something or for him to add as content at all even if it is unused If something was scrapped, of course it wouldn't be relevant to the plot unless the plot was about accessing unused content. I think you're onto something there.

If you wanted to make a story where having a character go back in time, and change the timeline even before the game began.. how would you convey that to people?

The two Lab Entry 17's are super-deliberate easter eggs in the game code. You're supposed to play Undertale, and wonder "Where is Entry 17?" then find the Gaster easter egg with all it's super-creepy animation. And then, later, discover Alphys also made a version in the game code.

How can there be two Entry 17's? It's impossible for them to exist in the same timeline.. so they don't. The only way you can find them is by peering at the background code of the universe for an echo of something that once existed before.

The timeline you're in isn't the original timeline. Something was changed. And in the world before, Gaster was standing right where Alphys was when she recorded Entry 17.