Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20181123023529/@comment-26006155-20181228235039

PersonThePerson wrote: Why would the other Papyrus live in the city? I thought the only difference between the two timelines was Gaster and Sans. If I wanted to be really creepy, I'd wonder if Papyrus might be a skeleton that used to belong to an actual human... Although he doesn't show any signs of determination residue.

I also keep wondering about that diagram in Alphy's lab that seems to show a heart being flipped upside down while she was building Mettaton. As if the similarity between human and monster souls might be greater than we thought.

Some of my story above is guesswork. Gaster could have put himself in the Determination Extraction machine, and that might have been a point where he got corrupted. But I thought it would be more dramatic to show just how SCREWED Sans got if Gaster took the energy from him. It might also explain why Sans has less determation than Frisk, if some of his was already tapped.

Ambassador, I don't have an explaination for how Gaster died in the past in the timeline Frisk experiences.

My original idea was that Sans went back deeper in time and re-killed Gaster, so that Frisk simply wouldn't have to deal with him in the same capacity, and have a greater chance of staying innocent. This would help explain how incredibly tried Sans seems, having to repeat this process again, and again, with each world, all on the vain hope that Frisk would turn out to be a good egg, a hope that usually doesn't pan out. But this is kinda dark.