Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190726190048

I think you're onto something.

But I don't think SOULs are made of memories.. I think essence is actually made of memories. (But souls in FNAF and essence in Undertale are about the same thing anyways.. Except essence doesn't create emotion)

They say that monsters spread the deceased dust onto the monster's favorite items, so that they may live on in those items.. But why is that place any more favorable to live in than anywhere else? The monster is dead, so they're not conscious, so they're not aware that they're near their favorite items.

In the real world, it's ambiguous what happens after death, so it makes sense for people to have differing beliefs on the matter, and act according to those beliefs. They may have imagined they'd survive past death as a ghost of sorts, and would need to be around their items to keep themselves happy.

But in Undertale, the SOUL is literally a scientific thing that can be studied, and we KNOW that essence exists within monster dust. It can be studied. Analyzed. So the answer to what happens after death is knowable. They could figure out that the monsters won't be conscious. The SOUL is known to vanish, and all that remains is dust.

So... why do they do it?

Because their favorite items also contains the most of their memories. With enough memories around, it can stay existent. But with nothing left of it remaining.. Then it can't be said that the monster "exists" anymore.

So now that we know this, we can theorize on what Gaster's Darkest Experiment actually was. We have several clues about what it exactly was.

1-It involved "darkness" 2-It's connected to the Dark World (the prophecy was explicitly given in the secret Deltarune Wingdings) 3-It ultimately resulted in Gaster being shattered across time and space, and with that, his memories (Gaster's everywhere and watching now, so his essence shattered. And essence and memories are the same thing.) 4-It may have involved a machine that is now broken. 5-Alphys might be close to repeating the same experiment 6-It probably had something to do with freeing the monsters 7-Is "very very interesting".

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Because of this, we should be looking for an experiment that

1-Involves the Dark World and the prophecy of the Delta Rune 2-Would result in an interesting result if successful 3-If something went wrong, Gaster's very essence could be shattered across time and space 4-Could be repeated by Alphys 5-Actually has a purpose (though I suppose Gaster could be a mad scientist and is just doing it for science!)

So, what kind of experiment meets all of these criteria?