Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31066439-20170116175126/@comment-31066439-20170117160101

Hey, I didn't say Gaster's name wasn't a font thing. In fact, I specifically mentioned it. I think you're being a bit unfair about that. I just think that, in addition to being a font, it's also a big golden flower with sticky seed pods and a couple of pertinent meanings. Though the whole thing is a little obscure, I still think a frequency count taken of the connections that seem to occur shows it's likely that these flowers are asters. If you doubt that Toby Fox went to the trouble of using a real flower as his model for the golden flowers, that's fair, but I think his mention of typha (water sausages) in the beginning wasn't just a silly aside. It was an indication that he's being extremely detail-oriented, even where plants are concerned, and the fact that the king's golden flowers are, conversely, never named, plus his mention of sticky seeds (an oddly specific detail) makes me think he wants us to try and identify the king's flowers. Well, there are several types of aster, including sunflowers, but one of them in particular is a dead ringer for the king's golden flowers. If you don't think there's any connection between them and Gaster, that's fair. The only connection I have there is his name. So forget about the Gaster thing, if it suits you. Also, forget about the kids thing. Kids thing is out the window. What about the asters?