Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-32182236-20190426000142

Ambassador, you're a champion of Occam's Razor, right? Why do there have to be eight universes?

There doesn't. The eight universes were all different interpretations of your theory. I wasn't just going to take one interpretation and say that since that specific one was impossible, that means your theory's debunked. So I'd debunk each one individually. I suppose instead of calling them "universes", I should have called them "scenarios" or "possibilities". Really, in your take, I'd only say there were three timelines:The Alpha Timeline, the one where Alpha Frisk first showed up in, and stopped Gaster's mad experiments, the Beta Timeline, where Gaster fell in 201X by the hands of Sans again, and the Gamma timeline, where Frisk comes back into the world far past 201X. (Hmm, if Deltarune is an alternate timeline, that makes things pretty interesting... What Greek letter comes after Gamma again?)

I already narrowed them down to four once you made the claim that Flowey existed in the Alpha timeline. And I'd like to continue to narrow them down, until we reach to the specific universe that is YOUR theoretical universe.

Was Alphys working with Sans and Gaster or not? Can we even be sure? Did Alpha Frisk kill anyone before reaching Asgore?

You are aware of what a deconstruction is, right? Because that's what I'll be doing with your story, when I get to that part of your script. I'll start by making a narrative that faithfully represents your hypothesis.. Which is why I'll be working with you to make sure it matches... Before tearing that very narrative apart. This is why I'm trying to make sure I'm not assuming anything about your theory... Because if I don't do that, I might end up tearing apart the narrative based on a hole that didn't even exist in your original theory! And that'd be bad.