Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190708065801

Ambassador, while your idea that people other than the Followers have forgotten Gaster is interesting... I'm not certain that's the case.

The Followers mentioned that it took Asgore a long time to come up with a replacement for Gaster.. because he was brilliant, irreplacable. Alphys' greatest accomplishments are mostly derived from his work, the notes of which she found around the lab.

If Gaster's existance had simply been purged from the timeline, why wouldn't Asgore wake up and think "Hey! We need a new scientist!" and quickly get one? It's because he wanted one As Good As Gaster.. he had a very large pair of shoes to fill, and he ultimately settled for Alphys because she was the closest person he could find in the kingdom, while still a far cry from the original master of science.

While Sans would certainly have been a workable replacement for Gaster too.. we only know that because of the hidden lore. Sans cultivated his persona of being a goofy slacker non-human skeleton very, very careful. His survival depended on people not knowing just how strong his connection to Gaster was, or that both were humans.

You question about how Alphys struggles to recall how she met Sans, and how Sans replies "Doesn't everybody?" could feed in to my own theory that Sans is a future version of Frisk. Everyone body knows Sans.. because everybody knows Frisk! So why wouldn't everyone we meet also know about Sans? They'll all met him before.

I'm certain Sans and Papyrus didn't forget about Gaster, they've got blasters with his name on them. And I think Sans is a leading cause for why Gaster isn't around anymore in this timeline.

Why didn't Alphys become a follower of Gaster? Well, she might be a young monster who never got the chance to join the club. And she might also be disillusioned with some of the things Gaster made that she found in the lab.

On the surface Gaster was a miracle-worker with seemingly magical science powers, who promised to grant the monsters their long-lost freedom. It makes sense that he would have fanatical groupies who viewed him as a kind of God.

Alphys, though, might know better than most that Gaster didn't live up to this ideal. She's a pretty smart cookie. She probably has a lot of questions about him that have yet to be answered.

Perhaps Sans has already told her a few things? Time will tell.

I admit I'm assuming that Sans and Papyrus were the two people in the room when Gaster talked about Entry 17.

Although if Alphys was selected years later after Gaster's death, as Asgore searched his empire for a worthy replacement, it doesn't sound like Alphys was an apprentice of Gaster at the time. Otherwise she would have been the natural replacement from Day 1.

Your info about Uncle Semi in the prototype notes for Undertale was very interesting. But in the finished version Sans, Papyrus, and Wingding Gaster are the only known members of The Font Brigade.

The Font Brigade has to be there for a reason, something that connects these characters. And we know Sans has Gaster Blasters, and Papyrus seems to have once had one. These two know Gaster. And they both traveled through time together to end up in Snowdin... without Gaster in the party.

There had to be a falling out of sorts. Something went wrong, that split The Font Brigade.

If the humans had 22nd century technology, the monsters would have adapted that by now also. But Snowdin, the moster traditional monster settlement we're bound to find, seems very much to be living in the modern era.

Future tech hasn't normalized all through monster society yet, which suggests the human world is also in the modern day.