Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20181123023529/@comment-32182236-20181127191116

Alright, two things I'd like to add.

First, I never stated Mettaton was always there. Just that him being there now meant the original person need not be dead. I had argued this was indeed a statue of Asriel after all. But, of course, it flat-out says it's a memorial.

Second, proof that Mettaton wasn't around in 201X.

As we all know, Mettaton was created by Dr. Alphys, just before she became the Royal Scientist. It was to impress Asgore (yet not Toriel), and become the Royal Scientist. (It took ASGORE ages to find a new scientist. Not Toriel.)

He made it big at around the time Alphys' DT esperiments began, which must have taken place after at least the third (or second, if you don't think Chara counts) human fell, because Alphys extracted DT from human SOULs (plural, so not just 1.) (If anyone has proof it was even later, perhaps even proof that it was after the seventh/sixth human fell, go on and add it, that'll make the whole proof even stronger. Catty and Bratty fangirl about a realistic human, but all that proves is it's been so long since the last one fell that nobody would remember, not that Mettaton had never encountered a human. There ARE hints that it was after the seventh, like Alphys' original design being a human eradication machine, but it being shut off when Frisk fell down:The odds of Alphys watching other humans falling down and not rooting for them, yet suddenly root for Frisk because "watching someone on camera makes you root for them" are quite low. But that's not proof yet.)

Now, we have to ask:How long since Mettaton's creation did the DT experiments begin, and Mettaton made it big? Answer:Alphys' first ever lab entry details the preprarations for the experiment. And Alphys just discovered the lab tapes in Entry 4. As a result, it couldn't have been long at all. And due to the lack of an entry about a human falling, no humans fell between Mettaton's creation and the DT experiment.

Since Mettaton was definitely created after the third human fell (and almost certainly after the seventh human fell), that means he could not have existed way back in 201X. The resort that the statue was in, MTT resort, therefore, was NOT always MTT resort.