Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-32182236-20190906131631

My response to Chapter 9 was made before I realized how your memories could be erased from the world. I still believed that Gaster was erased, but I thought it happened the moment he fell into the CORE.

And I still see that as a huge possibility.

Here was my take on his fall.

Gaster's machine was a machine that could travel through time and space. Even different timelines. Kind of like the Phase Distorter, but better.

However, experiments with that machine went wrong, and the machine broke, just as it was sending Gaster somewhere across time and space.

So, he got stuck there, and was shattered.

...But that wouldn't really explain why he wasn't remembered. It'd definitely explain his mysterious disappearance and why he's watching over us all, though. His experiment failed while Gaster was traveling across the void.

Which made him stuck in it.

Essentially, I believed him and Goner Kid shared the same fate somehow. I believed he was sort of "erased" from the timeline, which is why everyone who followed him, or witnessed his death, like the Gaster Followers, shared a similar fate.

When I said in Chapter 9 that Gaster died for the second time, I was reffering to the fact that he already died in the Halloween Hack. So my mysteriously came back to life for no reason, and Sans was guilty for doing something that he had previously done without guilt at all.

That was what I was going for. Which is why it's a mistake now.

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It doesn't matter if there's similarities-As long as differences exist, they cannot be the same.

There are many similarities between Newtonian relativity and Einstien relativity. But the differences are enough to tell us that they're not the same. One is clearly wrong.

The same is the case here. The two mechanics may be similar, but they're not the same. We can't call the two the same when they have differences. That's like calling a red giant and a blue giant the same thing. (I'm talking about stars. Not mythical giants. I'm not even sure if there are red mythical giants.)