Talk:W. D. Gaster/@comment-26907577-20190808015441

Hmm. There's an assumption I believe many of us have been making, and I don't know if this has any implications, but... Maybe you can make something out of it.

Gaster follower 3 notes that "his brilliance was irreplaceable". This might be ordinary, except that both they and 1 note that Asgore took a long time to hire a new scientist.

Gaster's death and his total erasal, including other's memories, were separate events.

Had they been the same, Asgore would wake up to a lab with no-one to staff it, and would after some time hire Alphys. But he wouldn't be trying to replace Gaster's brilliance, because Gaster would be forgotten by this time. He would just hire whoever looked most qualified without regard to matching the old Doctor.

Any ideas from this? I'm a pretty grounded-in-facts guy.