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--- Final Chapter  -- “Finding Frisk” --

Dear watchers, I want to thank you for taking this journey with me, and seeing it through to the end.

Now comes the hardest part of all. I have a confession to make.

Whether or not my theories turn out to be true, I’ve seen great beauty in the world of Undertale. And I hope at the very least I’ve been able to show other people what I see, so they can gain a greater understanding and appreciation for these amazing games.

But when I first arrived in this world, I had a dark, very human, singular goal in mind.

I wanted to destroy The Ness Theory.

Let me explain.

MatPat was the one who first inspired me to become a Youtube theorist, and his first two FNAF videos drew me into a world that I fell into, and had to explore.

After watching many playthroughs and videos, a thought started to tug at the back of my mind, and would not let go. Didn’t Jeremy Fitzgerald have to be the Bite of ‘87 victim, by elimination? So I screwed up the courage to make my very first theory video, the badly named “The Final Theory”. I was completely green, and other than the central idea of Jeremy being the Bite Victim, I ended discarding most of the ideas in this video.

But after months of throwing darts at a dart board, trying to find some sort of story that would explain why Phone Guy, the head of security, would keep the animatronics around, even knowing that they attacked the staff whose safety he was responsible for, I tested an incredibly outlandish idea: That a mad scientist was deliberately stuffing people into animatronics to try to put their souls into the robots. And that the springsuits, terribly designed for any other purpose, were designed to extract human souls using The Theory of Living Metal referenced in Chapter 8 of The Autobiography of a Yogi, part of which appears in the FNAF 1 Night 5 phone call.

Suddenly, like dropping a seed crystal into a solution, bits of the seemingly random FNAF more began to fit together in my head. Crudely at first, and though I made many mistakes along the way, I was able to expand this idea and began to see patterns where none seemed to exist before.

Using this idea, and expanding on the 8BitGaming channel’s theory that the Pink Guy and Purple Guy were actually two different people who worked together, I created my first ever feature-length theory video, “The Color Brothers”, finishing it just before FNAF 4 came out. And it successfully predicted that the yellow Freddy suit, which I called Spring Freddy at the time, would be a main antagonist in the next game. As well as that The Bite of ‘87 victim, who was indeed Jeremy, or the Afton family member who went by that name, would be a major character!

As early as it was, and as crude as it was, when I made “The Color Brothers” I felt certain that I must have at least made a crack in FNAF’s seemingly invincible armor, and caught a fleeting glimpse of something truly amazing inside. And while I’ve had to greatly revise my theories over time, Jeremy being the Bite of ‘87 victim, the springsuits being used to deliberately absorbs souls, and The Pink Guy and Purple Guy working together as Two Villains of the series have been keystones to my work that have survived to the present day.

I felt overjoyed. I felt like I’d done something really to contribute to the community. And the one thing I hoped above all else, was that MatPat himself might see “The Color Brothers”, realize the value in it, and use it to further his research into FNAF.

And this.. Is where everything went wrong.

A month later Game Theory came out with the “Why FNAF Will Never End” video. Which, rather than expand upon the promise of hidden lore, seemed to take the stance that FNAF didn’t have much if any of a story to speak of. And even seemed to suggest that throwing in a bunch of random pieces that didn’t fit together was a clever trick to keep theorists eternally searching for an answer that didn’t exist!

My hopes dimmed further when discussion of The Two Villain theory was tabled during the Megastreams, even though I was certain the answers to FNAF must be behind that door.

And then, seemingly without reason, Game Theory openly mocked the Two Villain Theory with “The Pink Guy Truther’s Club”.

I couldn’t believe my eyes. All the hope and joy that I’d felt when I made The Color Brothers turned to ash. Rather than get its day in court, The Two Villain Theory was now considered a joke by the greater FNAF community, despite the increasingly detailed stories I was able to piece together while using it. Which also seemed to resonate with what was happening in the novels!

I feel into a long depression, and almost gave up on theorizing completely. I managed to scrape together another video now and then, but the joy was gone, and I felt like Varik, with his heavy limbs being pulled forward by magnets, still driven forward by a conviction he could barely understand.

So when MatPat’s famous Undertale theory that Sans was Ness from Earthbound came out, which was reportedly his very favorite theory of all time, and met with widespread derision from the internet, I couldn’t help feeling a bit of dark glee, seeing him on the receiving end this time.

And immediately, I knew what I had to do.

I would dive into the Undertale lore myself, find the smoking gun that debunked The Ness Theory once and for all, and crush MatPat’s favorite theory of all time with a compelling argument that nobody could deny.

I would search every file, lift every stone, watch every theory video, playthrough, and ending that I could find, until I found the evidence that destroyed The Ness Theory once and for all. And being the Obsessive Compulsive Asperger’s geek that I am, once I put my mind to something, I don’t stop until I find answers.

If the evidence that destroyed The Ness Theory existed, I WOULD find it.

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And yet.. The more I looked... The more this smoking gun continued to elude me.

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And then, something else happened, that was even worse.

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I started to find evidence.. That supported the Ness Theory.. That others missed.

Clam girl, a new NPC added with an update, Says a lot of colorful, confusing things about synchronicity. But there is one thing she’s very sure of: Your neighbor has a daughter named “Suzy”, with a Y at the end. And that this Suzy might be the reason you came here in the first place.

Is this a reference to Susie, the purple monster from Deltarune? Possibly… although it’s spelled wrong

But your neighbor also has a daughter named Suzy.. in Earthbound Zero.

Sans shows amazing telekinesis during his boss fight, and his eye flashes yellow and blue whenever he uses this power. And while Ness’ special PSI attack is never defined, and you can call it literally anything you want.. There is a scene in Earthbound where a baby Ness reaches for a bottle.. And it starts moving towards his fingers. Ness does indeed have the power of telekinesis.. Canonically.

Then there’s what Undertale deliberately won’t show you. It will never, under any circumstances, let you see what it looks like when Sans teleports. Even though Sans mocks you all through the game with this ability, making no doubt that he has it, even on the Genocide route where Sans tells you you’ll have a bad time, and literally teleports IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE.. the screen always goes black, so that you can’t see what it looks like when this happens.

So we know two important things: That Sans CAN teleport. And that Tobyfox considered showing Sans teleporting, on screen, would be too large of a spoiler to actually show, so he made a point of never showing it. Which means the method Sans uses to teleport is very important.

In Earthbound, Ness has a unique method for teleporting. He and his friends have to find an open area, then run around in a circle with increasing speed, until they finally fly off the screen in whatever direction they end up going.. Yet always end up where they actually wanted to go.

Sans does this very thing when he twice takes Frisk along with him for dinner, going the wrong way outside Snowdin, then running up an blind alley at the MTT resort, yet somehow teleporting both himself and Frisk inside. Both his telekinesis, and his ability to teleport, are a match for Ness’ own abilities.

And while many have said Sans must be using magic, there is no magic in Earthbound, only the pseudoscience of Psychokinesis. And while human souls cannot canonically use *magic* in Undertale, the six human souls that escape from Omega Flowey are certainly using a power of their own which isn’t magic. They’re using Psychokinesis.. Just like Sans is with his human soul.

But the real nail the coffin was when I watched the end of the Halloween Hack, and saw Doctor Andonuts’ mutilated Uboa sprite fall down from above.

Yes, this sprite is a reference to Uboa. But if you look very carefully.. You’ll see a black line raising from one eye, and the suggestion of a line falling from the other eye, marking this sprite as very similiar.. To Wingding Gaster.

Varik isn’t the main character of the Halloween Hack. GIYGAS isn’t the main character in the Halloween Hack. The entirely story, from its very beginning, centered around one person: Doctor Andonuts. A legendary mad scientist capable of doing seemingly impossible things.

Can you name me anyone else, who could make a time machine, go on adventures with children while using that time machine, and revolutionize the technology of all the monsters in the Underground to a level beyond that of the human world above?

Only Doctor Andonuts could do something like this.

The entire Halloween Hack, from its very conception, had the goal of establishing a parallel background story to the genius inventor who traveled to the Underground along with Sans. Was ultimately killed by him.. And came back as a ghost that had fused with Giygas, to form an Amalgamate of incredible power.

The only character Gaster could possibly be.. was Doctor Andonuts.

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And if I went forward with that reveal, telling the world that Gaster was a character from Earthbound?

I had no choice, but to personally confirm the Ness Theory.. Myself.

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I’m embarrassed to say that I agonized for a long time about what to do. And postponed the decision for as long as I could. For a full two years, I tried to decide, while working on other projects like FNAF, and Steven Universe.

The last thing in the world I wanted to do was personally confirm Matpat’s favorite theory.

But if I didn’t confirm the Ness Theory, I couldn’t claim that Gaster was Doctor Andonuts. And I’d be denying myself the chance to claim one of the greatest mysteries in gaming.

And then there was the moral question. People might make mistakes, but deliberately leaving out information about the story of a video game wasn’t cool. In fact, it was horrible. Theorists are supposed to find the truth, not conceal it.

Misrepresenting ANY video game, large or small, was a terrible thing.

And deliberately misrepresenting the story of a masterwork like Undertale.. was unthinkable.

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Eventually, I ran out of time.

When Deltarune came out I knew I had to act, or forever hold my peace.

And even if it wasn’t what I wanted, the exact inverse of what I wanted.. All my theorist instincts were telling me that The Ness Theory was real. And if I didn’t reveal it, the sequels to Undertale eventually would.

So I reviewed my notes that were two years old, refreshed my memory about Undertale as much as I could, and wrote down my findings in this very script.

And while I was doing that, I came to a realization.

Stories are works of art, and they deserve to be told. They’re treasures that belong to the whole world. In the grand scheme of things, whatever beef I had with MatPat was ultimately meaningless.

And the reason so many kind viewers like yourselves watch Youtube theorists like us, who spend most of our lives wearing sunglasses in a dark room and hoping people will think we’re cool, is that you’re hoping against hope that one of us will find something real.

It didn’t matter what I wanted. I had an obligation, to all of you, to share whatever it was I found. And while history might judge whether my theories were right or wrong, I would have done my best because I had been honest to my audience.

So I set aside my differences, and choose to confirm The Ness Theory myself.

And this is when I made my final discovery about Undertale.

All along, I had hoped that my theory that Sans was a future version of Frisk would displace The Ness Theory, with one theory overwriting the other.

But that isn’t what happened.

In fact, the more I looked at them, the more the two theories seem to fit together, like a pair of puzzle pieces.

Frisk was definitely Sans. Sans knew almost everything that was going to happen to him, and did everything he could to help Frisk with this pre-knowledge. They both shared the very same psychokinetic powers. And while Sans either wouldn’t or couldn’t teleport Papyrus along with him, he gladly took Frisk along, and treated him even better than his skeletal best friend.

But Sans was also Ness! The entire Halloween Hack was leading up to Doctor Andonuts being Gaster, and Earthbound’s influence on Undertale, and Sans in particular, couldn’t be denied.

So Frisk was Sans. But Sans was Ness.

What does that mean, when you put them together?

FRISK WAS NESS!

Which makes sense, because Frisk was the only one wearing a two-striped shirt this entire game! The very same two stripes that Ness always wore!

We didn’t get a meet a legendary Earthbound character in 3rd person, we WERE that hero from the very beginning!

And all  this time.. Sans wanted to save himself, and the whole Underground, by helping Frisk remember the hero he’d always been from the beginning.

Sans once asked us a question:

“Do you think even the worst person can change? That everybody can be a good person, if they just, try?”

And when Sans asked us that question, he was asking about himself.

Can someone who has made mistakes, even terrible ones, turn their lives around and do the right thing? Can someone who has lost their innocence, ever learn to like who they are again?

The answer is: Yes.

There is no one in this world who hasn’t made a mistake.

Anyone who has ever taken a risk to do what they felt was right, has likely made tons of them along the way. And anyone who’s so terrified of making decisions that they’re run away from them all has barely learned to live at all, which is itself a mistake.

The world might seem grim. Our path, like Varik’s, might seem set. But ultimately, we decide how to live our lives, and find that there are places where we can make choices, if we just look hard enough.

The best ending often requires the hardest path. But finding that path is possible, through the power of Determination.

Sans had to scour the infinite multiverse countless times, in his quest to find an innocent version of himself who could save Asriel, and break The Barrier. And time and time again, it ended in heartbreak.

But there are infinite possibilities in an infinite multiverse.

Which means that somewhere out there, there’s another version of ourselves who has done the right thing, and lived to tell the tale.

And deep in our hearts, we can find our own Courage.

If we could only remember their name.

Thank you all, for listening to my story.

Goodnight everyone.

CREDITS

The Final Jam that plays during the Credit is “Remember Me” by Fox Amoore: Bandcamp https://foxamoore.bandcamp.com/track/remember-me FurAffinity (lyrics and cast credits) https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12489534/

(the lyrics to the song appear at the bottom of the screen while the Credits roll above) (the font starts with Comic Sans. Sans is the one singing the song) (the text color sometimes alternates between blue and yellow, sometimes both)

I took a movie to bed last night The hero journeyed to set things right His smile.. was familiar to see

He fought off the world and never failed Got the girl cause he held tough and prevailed Just like a better … the way I remember… Me….

Tell me it’s not too late To be the man I used to be Tell me..Tell me... You’ll help me see

There’s a way to reverse my fate Help me find the way back to where I can… Remember Me.

Once I was the star, and life was fine                       (for a moment, the font changes) Then I got scarred and began to decline                   (font returns to Sans) I watched other movies, and forgot about mine And if I had a job I’d send flowers to you                   (suddenly, both blue and yellow colors) If I had a life you could share in it too If I had.. The strength.. I’d need nothing.. But you……

Tell me it’s not too late                                               (stronger font returns, and persists) To be the man I used to be … used to be… Tell me.. Tell me… You’ll help me see.

You want a man who won’t sit and wait For others to succeed. Well I’ll be that man. (back to single color) Please… Remember Me.

(musical interlude)

Tell me it’s not too late                                               (back to Sans) To be the man I used to be Tell me… Tell me….. You’ll help me .. see…

(music swell)

That in time I can animate…                                   (strong font, both colors) And the spirit I need.. (words get larger) We’ll all be free…                                                    (larger) IF YOU…                                                                  (Larger) CAN…                                                                      (A SCREAM) REMEMBER……                            (HALF THE SCREEN, solid blue strong letters) ……………… ME! (Ness’s two yellow stripes appear on both words!)

(long hold, then eventual fade)

(Final Jam credits)

Wooah ooooo…                             (small, back to Sans) Wooah oooooo… oooooo…. (fade)

(The end picture with Frisk and his friends fades in)

(Asriel fades into the picture)

FIN.