Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20200107114239

Alright, I conceed that Alphys sometimes writes sentences in lower case.

We don't actually see Entry 17 on the True Lab monitors though. We have to hack the very game itself in order for that to be displayed.

Although, there is a paper in the small lab behind Sans' house (which has the same futuristic deco as the Core) that could be written in Wingdings.

Perhaps Gaster didn't want anyone else reading his notes? Not even Sans? Because if they did.. they wouldn't like them?

Both Entry 17's happened at the same point in time on two parallel timelines. With Gaster's version happening in a world where he never died in mid-201X, but continued on to stand where Alphys was standing in Frisk's timeline, where Alphys had replaced him. Then seemingly had a disagreement with the two other people in the room over The Darkest Experiment, leading to Sans and Papyrus warping back in time to try and save the future, creating the second, Beta, timeline where Alphys replaced the Gaster who died early on directly because of this time intervention.

Both must have been researching the same thing: A way to break the Barrier. Something that could only be achieved by collected soul power. And specifically, that of collected monsters.

Sans had to know that Alphys was trying to collect the souls of dying monsters in an attempt to do this. And didn't have issues with it. Which means Alphys was using a different, more humane approach than Gaster was at this problem.

Which is why I think Gaster originally designed The Core, an overbuilt facility capable of generating the enormous sort of power the Waterfall Glyphs say would be neccessary to take the soul from a living monster, to create a soul vacuum blast similar to the one Flowey uses to drink in all the monster souls in the Underground, thus gaining the equivalence of the 7th human soul, and the godlike power to break the barrier.

Alphys' approach, while slow, would be humane, and leave the monster world intact. While Gaster's approach would basically genocide monsterkind, or turn them into a shadow of their former selves, like the toys we see in the dark world in Deltarune. An approach Sans would find violently unacceptable.

Sans, a member of the Font Brigade who had originally traveled from the Other World with Gaster himself, must have been one of the two people. And he must have also been in the dark about the exact nature of Gaster's experiment until this last moment where Gaster revealed all the pieces were in place for the Darkest Experiment. So Gaster hid his deepest plans from everyone, even Sans, his best friend.

So Gaster probably adopted Wingdings as a personal code, much like Leonardo Da Vinci's backwards handwriting you had to read in a mirror, to keep his darkest plans secret.