Talk:W. D. Gaster/@comment-27159162-20160117192848

What if Gaster was scattered with Chara's DT?

It would explain how Chara manages to control you, and why neither Toriel nor Asgore recognise your name despite Chara and Asriel being pretty damn important to them.

There is some evidence that scattered entities can still leave a mark on the world. in the form of Gaster's log. This would mean it's possible for Chara to have a place in history while still having been scattered.

As for why Asriel recognizes Chara's name, it's possible that DT can cancel the retconning effects of scattering. Since Flowey is pure DT in a flower vessel, and Asriel presumably still carries the DT, that would explain it nicely. There's also some extra evidence: if you hack to find Gaster, your game isn't erased.

This raises another question: why does naming your character Gaster reset you? It's possible that Frisk doesn't have any DT of their own. It's all Chara's. Have we ever been told that every human has DT? If Chara's DT was scattered and ended up in Frisk, it would explain why Chara can control Frisk in the genocide run.

Actually, are we even certain that Frisk exists at all? The entire game is based on the choices that the PLAYER makes, not the choices that FRISK makes. Chara is named after the player. The player literally IS Chara, and every choice the player makes is a choice that Chara makes. It wasn't Frisk that chose to do a pacifist run, it was Chara.

Except Chara changed their name to Frisk. Asriel flat out says that the main character isn't Chara, and he's right; Chara was a pretty sadistic person before they were scattered, but after the Pacifist run, they separate themself from their former identity.

''And the player lets them. ''From the moment that Frisk is created, Chara is shunned as an entirely different person to Frisk. Frisk didn't almost kill Asgore and laugh it off, that was ''Chara. Frisk'' didn't almost complete a Genocide run, before failing thanks to Papyrus. Chara was the one who killed everyone, but Papyrus let Frisk take over.

But if you finish a Genocide run, you have to live with the guilt. Even when you complete a Pacifist run, you still have the knowledge that you killed everyone. You are still Chara, the smiling, sadistic, inhuman human who wants only death and destruction.

And you accept it. You accept that Chara is still the one in control. Frisk doesn't exist in the post-Genocide Pacifist run.

Frisk isn't just some human who fell into the underground. Frisk is the physical embodiment of Chara's DT, which Gaster collected from Asriel's dust, before attempting to experiment with it and accidentally scattering them both through time and space.

As for what Gaster was trying to do?

Well, Chara freed the monsters from the underground, didn't they?