Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28974149-20180305043309/@comment-28974149-20180324223417

TheHumanAmbassador wrote: "Another thing to note is that while we know what Gaster was, we do not know his personality or who he was."

He was a mad scientist. And considering his relation to Sans and Papyrus, he's almost certainly Mysteryman.

"Though, it seems he completely lost it when he wrote Entry Number Seventeen and we know he must enjoy science..."

Hence him being a mad scientist.

"I wonder if he enjoys Puzzles too considering he designed to CORE to be a little maze that can be changed every day to create a new challenge...."

It was created to stop humans. Like any other puzzles.

"We also know he was super famous, Great even, after all he invented the CORE and had dedicated followers..."

His brilliance was irreplacable. That's why nobody can fix what he made.

"We also know his genius knew no bounds. And that he tried to experiment with DT based universe manipulation, destroying himself in the process leaving behind a melted husk and several other pieces scattered across all Space-Time. But that's pretty much it. And we know he likes to have input on his experiments from "you two". Such a juicey mystery."

One of them is almost certainly Sans. We already know Sans worked with Gaster. The other could be Alphys, explaining why she partook in similar experiments. "He was a mad scientist. And considering his relation to Sans and Papyrus, he's almost certainly Mysteryman."

Well we don't know that for sure, plus "Mad Scientist" can't just be who he is it's too incomplete and one dimensional, and as Toby said, this game contains Great Characters.

Besides his experiments do seem sensible, he was basically doing what Alphys was doing except he didn't recklessly inject everything with Determination, he seems to have wanted to give Monsters or himself the ability to DT Time travel  and tested it on himself.. leading to his demise. And possibly even Sans' shortcut power. Which is interesting, it's alot more like debug mode than Save/Load, it was even better than our power..... Maybe his plan was to go back to the war and change fate.

I have my own proof as to why he must be Mysteryman. Gaster, is associated with the number "6" in the game's files his stats are filled up to the character limit with 6s  and the Gaster followers all appear at numbers 61 62-etc. Up to 66 which is Mysteryman. Gaster himself. As he fills the fun value to the character limit of 66. (The numbers only go up to 100 so he can't do 666)

Interestingly Goner kid exists at any fun higher than 90. 90 is 06 reversed. And this also shows how they are distinct from the Gaster followers in some way but suffer the same fate.

"It was created to stop humans. Like any other puzzles."

Accoring to Toriel puzzles are "Ancient fusions between diversions and doorkeys." it's a cultural heritage thing as seen by the Elder Puzzler NPC's distates in the kids today not knowing how to do a REAL puzzle, not a defense thing.

"One of them is almost certainly Sans. We already know Sans worked with Gaster. The other could be Alphys, explaining why she partook in similar experiments."

We don't REALLY know this, what if it's like matpat's theory and they're half and half? What if Gaster looked alot like Sans (which he seems to do) and that's why the narrator, who has been wrong before, confuses them for Sans. It's not really confirmed what the connection is but that is a possibility.

An interesting thing to note is the Gaster Blaster is a magical attack, not a piece of technology, as they are bone colored and have no metal parts, unlike say the CORE or DT extractor, and as we know a monster's magic spells are related to who they are as a person... Sans and Papyrus manifest Gaster Blasters... This could imply two things. Sans and Papyrus are some how pieces of Gaster. Or Sans and Papyrus are biologically related to Gaster and thus "Gaster" would be their last name.

We know Alphys was not involved as she was living in the capital during Gaster's time and was only allowed to become royal scientist because Gaster went missing and the mysterious position was available. We know Alphys, from her screw ups and carelessness is not the scientific type, she's the geeky type. There is a difference, Asgore. The only reason she could do things like build Mettaton was because she already spent time building replicas of Anime characters. Hell, Mettaton's EX body is an Anime character design. Mettaton who was tired of box form just happened to like the design. Alphys probably just used an OC.

Alphys could have been inspired to take part in these experiments by Sans, Alphys said she got blueprints to build the skull shaped DT extractor, Sans is the only one who has all this Gaster stuff stored up, it's likely he gave them to her, probably because he wanted the research to continue.

Also, as one Undertale fan to another, I want to share this with you, while I'm writing I'm listening to this great Gaster battle concept theme called "The good Doctor", well a cover of the original, you should take a listen! There is an amazing undertale music community on soundcloud.

​​​​​​​( https://soundcloud.com/nere_xx/the-good-doctor-cover/ )