Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190726232913

WhatsYourExcuse wrote: Gaste's memory wasn't erased, otherwise Asgore wouldn't have waited to hire another royal scientist. Everybody remembers Gaster completely. This is where we have to consider that things people say might have more than one interpretation.

When Undyne said 'the only reason we have modern technology is because we study human garbage' in here phone call, there's two ways to look a it:

1-- She's differentiating between "modern" human tech, and Gaster's "future" tech.

2-- She doesn't remember Gaster, and thinks trash is the only real tech source.

I do think the monsters were studying garbage before Gaster arrived. It would explain why Toriel had a camcorder before the migration to New Home.

But Undyne's confusion of whether anime is real or not seems problematic to me. Because if she knew about Gaster's otherworldly tech, wouldn't she know that most of it is beyond-surface human?

Undyne doesn't remember Gaster.

And it's really strange that even Gaster's name was stripped from his fountain. What's the point of a memorial fountain... if it can't remember who it was built for?

Mettaton may have changed the plaque on the fountain. But why keep the text that says he wasn't there at the beginning?

Perhaps some people hold onto memories more strongly than others. So perhaps Asgore does remember Gaster.

Or perhaps Asgore needed to search the kindom for years to find anyone who could make heads or tails of the mysterious tech left behind?

We're brainstorming now, so it's all good. The point is to put as many things on the table as possible, and hopefully something scores a hit.