Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190703014721

I've talked about the head possibly being a skeleton head instead.. What was your response to that again?

I was arguing that Sans was a Darkner. Gaster can't be a Darkner:The Dark World was his experiment. That would imply that Gaster created himself, which is a paradox. And since Darkners CAN bleed, it'd explain why Sans bleeds. Something that I have failed to do for a long, long time. We now finally have a theory that competes with yours on this point.

So, how plausible is this idea? That the Sans we know originated from The Dark World? Darkners bleed, the Dark World is a place that isn't the Surface OR the Underground... And when Gaster fell into his own creation, he ended up inside the Dark World, which is why there appear to be TWO Gasters in Deltarune:"Him", and "Another him". The non-faded Gaster behind the bunker door, and the scattered Gaster whom we see fragments of when we try to use our phone in the Dark World. Gaster Deltarune.. And Gaster Undertale. Now both existing in Deltarune.

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When I was arguing against the Darkest Experiment.. I argued against ALL of it. I don't believe that Sans killed Gaster either. I believe NONE of it. Remember, my alternative theory states he wasn't killed at all, but sent to the world of Deltarune. It could be that when he tried to interfere with the world of Deltarune's Dark World, things eventually just went wrong, and he ended up falling directly INTO the Dark World-His own creation.

So your set of two choices is a false dichotomy. By the way, I would argue against the latter as well... Since the lightbulb bit wouldn't explain the later line of shadows cutting deeper, and the photon readings being negative. There'd still be some light, and no reason to assume anything about shadows. The darkness wouldn't "keep growing", it would stay constant. Remember... ALL the evidence matters. (Plus, why would he write something like that down while descrining his experiment? The darkness must have SOMETHING to do with his experiment. It might not be important to the story, but it needs to make sense as something Gaster would write. No, not Toby Fox... Gaster.)

Instead, I believe the darkness is referring to the Dark World. The darkness that's coming from the Dark Fountains-That is what keeps growing. And since it is an artifical world, with very strange interactions with the real world (like the unused classroom pieces looking just like it), it might not have any real photons in it.

But metaphorical darkness, like your theory assumes? That doesn't explain it as well. And what's so "interesting" about the next experiment? In my case, it's a portrayal of the Deltarune prophecy itself, and an attempt to see how well he can do at making an artificial universe. Here.. We have someone absorbing monster SOULs to break the Barrier. Exciting? Yes. Useful? Yes. Heroic? From Gaster's perspective, yes. Interesting? ....Not at all.

I'd say we see no trace of the blasters in Alphys' lab because they don't physically exist. They're things Sans summons in his fight. They're magical devices that you need to SUMMON in battle. Alphys wouldn't know how to summon the blasters-Thus, she wouldn't find them. Just like I wouldn't find any of Flowey's friendliness pellets on the ground.