Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26980570-20160320192450/@comment-27907368-20160323054055

Honestly, I take a lot of weird positions on the Undertale theories. I enjoy them - I know most of them are speculation. I don't know, Gaster was brilliant, right? Maybe he saw that the anomaly made it so that nothing mattered and so that monsters were pawns victim to someone playing God. Maybe he thought the only way to escape the anomaly was removing himself from the timeline. Perhaps he didn't commit suicide in the way we think of it - he simply gave up a body that we can perceive. All speculation.

Back to more canon supported stuffs, though.

Knowing that the multiverse exists in Undertale is pretty huge - sans mentions you not telling the other sanses that you're not going to be their friend, all that. So, maybe some weird things can occur.

I get his intentions of making the anomaly happy but at the same time he emphasizes just how much he's given up on going back. You can see that in his boss fight and in his Lost Soul portions. I think he's incredibly defeated and perhaps was trying to go back to his time during the Flowey timeline that then dovetailed into ours. He doesn't know we are the anomaly unless we genocide - he deduces that we end the timeline. I'll post exactly what he says for the next bit (thank you, Undertale wiki luvs c:) He's kinda... figured it out. He may simply be on the lookout for time travelers at the beginning of our run and does not kill us because of Toriel. Anyway, he doesn't care for the Surface because he knows that we reset afterward. (even if we don't... we always have the option to do so.)
 * you can't understand how this feels. [Attack #5]
 * knowing that one day, without any warning... it's all going to be reset. [Attack #6]
 * look. i gave up trying to go back a long time ago. [Attack #7]
 * and getting to the surface doesn't really appeal anymore, either. [Attack #8]
 * cause even if we do... we'll just end up right back here, without any memory of it, right?

I honestly think that Gaster Blaster's are Gaster's face, but hey. I'm going to finish up some in game renditions of [REDACTED] as Gaster - have a concept sheet from goodness knows when. Gaster Blaster's look a lot like final boss Asriel. Maybe that's just Gaster's face? Eh.