Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34477738-20190419145259

I know that people have speculated that he is their father/third brother or some such thing because his possible sprite's head looks very much like a cracked skull, implying that he is a skeleton(presumably his skull was cracked after he got zapped into the void or whatever) or that Sans was Gaster's lab assistant and both he and Gaster were the ones who discovered Chara resetting the timeline over and over and developed a way to resist the memory wiping (which would explain why Sans says "our reports" during his battle rather than "my reports" or straight up "his/her reports," which would have implied that it was only he, Alphys or Gaster who had discovered the resetting). It's also generally assumed that since Papyrus is unaware of the resetting that he was either very young or not yet born by the time Gaster disappeared, or that Sans and Gaster did their experiments in secret and Papyrus was simply too dumb to ever know about them. And THEN of course there's that whole Game Theory 'Gaster was split into two entities based on the two halves of his brain" thing that SEEMS like a stretch, but I don't know how much Toby Fox is following in Scott Cawthon's footsteps in terms of complex narrative. What does the fandom think? Are there any theories that I missed, or any new pieces of evidence from the game or Deltarune that add new depth to this already confusing and hackneyed plot? Feel free to discuss below! 