Talk:W. D. Gaster/@comment-25216661-20151227221526

My personal theory is that Gaster started the determination experiments but couldn't get them to work/did not fully understand how they worked and ended up somehow injesting determination and thus melted (which would explain his appearance in both of his possible sprites) into an amalgamate.

However, in extension of my other theory, I think it's possible that Gaster was actually two separate scientists, named Wingdings and Aster (perhaps the royal scientist and his assistant?), who both got contaminated with determination and fused together into one being. when found, this fusion was treated with much fear, so he tried to introduce himself as 'wingdings' and 'aster' at the same time, causing the names to mix into just garbled nonsense, with only the sounds W, D, and Gaster being coherent.(the g on gaster coming from the final letter in wingding)

After being found, perhaps whoever found him tried to kill the amalgamate, but as we know, the amalgamates are unkillable, or at least very difficult to kill.

So they threw him into the CORE. He "scattered" across time and space because the CORE turns physical matter into magical electricity. Since you can't kill amalgamates, he survived being turned into the electricity, and took on a more ghost-like form. Also, since this electricity was sent all throughout the underground, this ghostly apparitions would have been sent everywhere, and thus explaining his apparent omniescence.

This also explains why Gaster was 'forgotten' by everyone. He wasn't, because Gaster ''never existed. ''There was only ever Wingdings and Aster. W.D. Gaster was simply their fusion, which had his existence never revealed to the public. If you asked someone about Gaster, they would have no idea what you were talking about, but if you asked them about Wingdings or Aster, they would know, because the two of them actually existed.

man that got long.