Talk:W. D. Gaster/@comment-132.3.53.78-20151013110137/@comment-27088979-20151020210111

The reason he says "Why even try" is because he knows about timelines and reseting, but can't do anything about it, so why even try? (He explains it in his genocide battle)

And the " we'll never see 'em again (plural)" I would assume means that he forgets all his friends when moving to a timeline where his friends isn't his friends or don't exist, but knows that they ones have been because of little "time hints" he's taking for himself.

This can be most noticed when you are in his workshop and one of the drawers contains a whole album filled with pictures of Sans being with people you don't recognize, but if you've already completed the game in pacifist, a single picture of you, Sans and all the others will be there too (Taken from the previous timeline). So he holds track of all the timelines even though he knows he's going to forget them and probably lose everyone for good