Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34756441-20190102051238/@comment-35009785-20200129175940

Goner is a state in which your soul is shattered across space and time, with only one memory holding you to this world. Asriel said it himself. "Every time you die your friends forget you more." I think that when you get damaged by Asriel, you in fact die, but you hold on, as alluded to in the "Hope" option. The strange objets being sucked in by the Hyper Goner are memories. Goner Kid's memory is the umbrella. Gaster's memory is his sons. The amalgamate's memories are their families. If the goner is killed one more time, then the universe is like it never existed. All timelines of that AU are replaced with ones in which they never existed.