User:CaveJohnson/Blog:I think I may have just figured out 'WD Gaster' 1

So after posting my previous blog post about 'WD Gaster' I was a little disappointed I didn't get any comments.

and looking over it.... I found a few holes.

So I decided...I can do better.

for a number of reasons, I no longer believe in the Sans is human theory.

And my other theory relied heavily on that...

the last few days I've been thinking this over, discussing it with anyone who would be willing to discuss it with me, looking up any and ALL Undertale information I can find.

And I think I FINALLY figured WD Gaster out.

I think I finally understand his role in the story of Undertale, and the connection between him, Sans and Papyrus.

To get to the bottom of this mystery, we're going to cover everything we know about this guy, and the common theories.

his name is most likely a pun on Wings Dings and Aster, two diferent fonts,  and he has a unused voice clip, 'supposedly' anyway, which sounds like our skeleton pals.

For this reason, he is heavily speculated to have a connection to Sans, and Papyrus.

Especially Sans, because Sans has a workshop with a machine likely related to him, that it looks as though Sans was trying to fix.

Sans also uses 'Gaster blasters'

Some NPCs in the game state that Gaster was the former royal scientist, but fell into a creation of his, was spread across time and space, and that it was a very long time before Asgore hired a new one.

Though it is not directly stated how long, since Asgore had no memory of WD Gaster, (It is implied everyone except perhaps Sans forgot him.) it is unlikely it was out of guilt, or fear the next scientist would suffer the same fate.

So what was it exactly?

I'll get back to that later.

There's a sprite in the game VERY heavily theorized to in fact be Gaster, but there's no actual proof of this.

But...

Personally?

I don't believe it's him, at least...not his true form.

I did for a long time, except Gaster is scattered throughout time and space,

how could he have taken a physical form for any ammount of time?

It might be a spirit that represents him, but I don't believe this is the true form of WD Gaster.

It looks more like a spirit than a skeleton to me anyway.

So now we've covered the basics.

let's cover something different.

Where did Sans and Papyrus come from?

It is stated they just 'showed up one day' some believe WD Gaster created them, some people believe they are two parts of him.

What do I believe?

Both of the above.

Allow me to explain myself.

Sans and Papyrus are skeletons right?

The game leads you to believe that they just 'resemble real skeletons' but is that really the case?

If Alphys, the royal scientist..was allowed to experiment on the human souls, why wouldn't Gaster be allowed to experiment on the bodies?

Thus, he created living skeletons, while they are the bodies of two humans, they do not retain the consciousness of those two humans however, as that remains within the soul.

So what soul do they have?

Gaster's.

I believe Gaster's soul was split in half, and put into both of the skeletons,

likely because of an accident in his laboratory, one of his 'machines' going horribly wrong.

because he tried to insert only a small bit of his own soul, but the machine took too much?

We know that a monster's consciousness persists after losing it's soul, sooo...

Why couldn't Gaster's consciosness persist then?..

Except without a flower host, it just...roams...roaming forever.

and ever.

But you may be thinking:

HOW COULD HIS SOUL LEAVE HIS BODY?

We are told throughout the game, that no monster's soul can leave their body.

except for one kind of monster.

Boss Monster.

Yes, I am suggesting that WD Gaster was in fact...

A Boss Monster.

Now I know, there's no concrete given yet now is there?

Except there is..

something obvious.

The soul of a Boss Monster lives on after death, because of this, it doesn't immediately shatter.

and the monster can live for a short time after the final strike.

Now if Papyrus and Sans really hold two halves of the soul of a Boss Monster.

they should persist after death too.

and here's the thing.

They DO.

Papyrus lives for quite a while after the last strike, even after you CUT HIS HEAD OFF, only other Monsters that do being Toriel, Asgore...

and Sans.

Who lives for so long after death, we never even see him die.

And not ONLY that, but it also makes sense from a character perspective,

Asgore took quite a while to hire a new Royal Scientist.

Why is that?

Maybe it's because...

WD Gaster was a relative of his.

We know he can't be his son, Asgore has no more children, that's stated in game.

But it IS possible WD Gaster was his BROTHER.

Now I know I just said he held no memory of him.

and so he wouldn't know of what happened to him.

BUT...

Think throughout the game, even after saving and resetting, making them forget things, they still vaguely remember things.

Asgore, even if he didn't know why, I believe would be extremely sad after his death.

And so that, is my new theory, on WD Gaster.

I would much appreciate a comment below, I would love to hear your thoughts on this blogpost, if you read this, thanks a million!

...Cya!