Oh boy, everyone, we got new Undertale related content,
and this video is sure gonna have some massive spoilers, so don’t say I didn’t warn ya!
Well, it appears I’ve fallen back down the deep, deep hole that is Undertale Hell.
And before you say anything,
I don’t care about the fanbase,
I don’t care if people wanted to fuck Sans,
Look, I don’t care about big titted Toriel
or... ecto... members...
I-I care about that a little...
None of that shit affects my love of this game.
My personal relationship with a media is far more important to me than what some no account fandom thinks.
All fandoms are bad, none of them are good.
Their feelings don’t have to inform mine,
so go to hell with your “oh but the fandom’s bad” shit,
that’s not what we’re here for, okay?
And the FNaF fandom is way more annoying by the way.
Anyway, Deltarune.
Now, we could talk about many things. How pretty it is, how it’s more of a straight RPG than Undertale,
but how it’s also a deconstruction of Undertale, which in itself was a deconstruction of the RPG genre.
We could talk about Jevil,
I LOVE JEVIL SO MUCH, YOU GUYS.
We could talk about Kris and the nature of the Soul,
and if we’re even playing as these characters or if they’re just our puppets
and how screwed up that is from an in-universe standpoint.
I’m serious, when Kris tears out their soul at the end,
you can MOVE THE SOUL in the cage! We’re the SOUL, you guys.
Nope, that is not what we’re talking about.
We’re talking about what no one else on the face of the internet has talked about.
DOCTOR WING DINGS GASTER.
[Gaster's Theme plays ominously]
Now if you follow the Undertale Twitter, and saw it October 30th, 2018,
you’d have noticed it appeared to have been taken over by… someone.
The icon and name were blacked out, the text was in-character, and in all capital letters,
speaking ominously.
Then it said something…
telling.
"I HAVE SOMETHING I WANT TO SHOW YOU."
"SOMETHING I THINK YOU WILL FIND VERY, VERY INTERESTING."
If you’re a lore-delver, and know about the hidden log 17, that quote will sound very, very… familiar.
It’s very clear who is talking to us here.
Dr. Gaster has bent the Void to his will and now has access to Twitter and hacked Toby Fox.
And if you don’t know who Dr. Gaster is...
Google exists.
If I start explaining him now, I’ll just scream for eight hours about my THEORIES
and how he’s Sans and Papyrus’ father and he was really nice
but like also a MAD GENIUS that performed experiments on himself,
and it did him in!
But I won't.
Basically, Gaster is sort of the embodiment of unused content in a game,
and how horrifying that concept would be if you were an actual person that was just deleted from existence.
The impression you left is there, but no one knows you, and you’re not a physical entity any longer.
Gaster even has attack and defense stats in the game, and they’re all various combinations of sixes.
And the fun value you have to put in to see this Mystery Man is 66,
and that’s pretty damning evidence that he's Gaster,
so that’s why everyone in the world uses the mystery man as Gaster.
So, I will too, because…
I mean, if it wasn’t that’d be kinda weird, right?
So, what does Dr. Gaster have to do with any of this?
The Twitter said to wait 24 hours, and many, many people were expecting Gaster answers,
maybe even a game centered around him.
Instead, we got-
[DELTARUNE]
A game which Gaster claims to have...
created in some capacity.
Assuming this is Gaster, which…
who the hell else would it be?
Come on! Some other mysterious figure who speaks in all caps and is shrouded in darkness?
It’s Gaster. We know it’s Gaster.
YOU'RE NOT SUBTLE, WINGLE DINGLES.
What’s Gaster up to?
Why is he so interesting in thrusting us into Deltarune?
He claims to have created it. How? Why?
And why is it so different than the Undertale we know,
despite having many of the same characters and similar relationships?
I get that it’s an alternate universe, but why does something just… not feel right?
Why does nothing we do matter anymore?
Why can’t I feel joy without pouring my money into plastic figurines and stuffed animals?
Why does Gaster’s theme pop up everywhere?
[Gaster's Theme plays]
[Gaster's Theme plays but slower]
[ 'Another Him' from Deltarune plays, it shares the first few notes of Gaster's Theme]
[ 'Card Castle' from Deltarune plays, the bass melody is pretty much exactly Gaster's Theme]
[ 'Rouxls Kaard' from Deltarune plays, the melody is harder to hear but is hidden in the bass]
[ 'Gallery' from Deltarune plays, it's melody is very similar to Gaster's Theme]
[ 'Darkness Falls' from Deltarune plays, much like 'Another Him' it shares the first few notes of Gaster's Theme]
Well, I’m here to present you with theories with varying levels of legitimacy
of what Dr. Gaster has to do with Deltarune.
Theory number one! Dr. Gaster accidentally broke time and space while collecting pieces of himself.
Alright, so according to Gaster Follower #2, Dr. Gaster
“shattered across time and space.”
It has been often theorized that Gaster would logically try to gather his pieces and put himself back together.
This is why the Mystery Man sprite looks kind of melted and doesn’t have legs,
it’s not all of him, it’s just… a lot of him.
Perhaps a manifestation of his consciousness if you want to go into
raving lunatic theorist territory.
[DEEP INHALE]
Well, since Gaster’s pieces are scattered across time and space,
and that’s where he has to go pick them up.
He merrily is going along his way, picking up the pieces,
but whoops, he accidentally broke time and space.
Now time and space is fractured, and the universe has now split off like an amoeba
into a new deformed version of itself.
All because Gaster accidentally broke something instead of picking up his femur.
So in this new world, things are kind of the same but ever so slightly different.
The monsters now rule the overworld
and the underground has manifested itself as this alternate dimension full of homages to Alice in Wonderland.
Because
Gaster liked that book, I don't know.
Frisk and Chara have fused into a teenager named Kris,
and Toriel and Asgore still have marital problems
despite Asgore being a completely sweet and loving person
and not having murdered any children in this AU.
I’m sure Toriel has her reasons though,
after all, he appears to be a terrible flower shop owner not making any money.
Now, about Sans.
Because you can’t have a meta Undertale discussion without him.
Sans remains eerily unchanged from Undertale
and still appears to be aware of the medium he’s in.
Since there are implications that Sans knew Gaster,
maybe worked with Gaster,
WAS MAYBE EVEN RELATED TO GASTER.
and is the only one left that knows Gaster even existed,
it would kind of make sense that Sans that would remain self-aware enough
to not change when the universe was torn in half.
If you want to go down an even deeper rabbit hole,
there’s some compelling evidence that Undertale’s Sans is actually from the Deltarune universe
and might even be trying to get back, but hasn’t found a way.
And if you want to dig even DEEPER,
there’s even some evidence that Sans is a Darkner, from the Dark World.
The most substantial evidence for this being that he bleeds out from his fatal wounds,
which don’t immediately make him start to dissolve like it did with Undyne,
who didn’t even bleed.
While, Lancer implies with one of his failed plans that Darkners do bleed quite profusely when thrashed.
Also, if you talk to this Clam Girl in Waterfall that only appears if the Fun Value is between 80 and 89,
she tells you about her neighbor’s daughter whose name is Suzy,
and says all this weird stuff, and at first you think this is just, like, random dialogue, you know.
but if you get her, then the contents of Sans’ drawer in his secret room changes
to a picture of three smiling people with “Don’t Forget” written on the back.
What was the name of one of the protagonists in Deltarune?!
That's right! Susie!
Like the clam girl's neighbor!
Like, yeah, they're spelled different, but, splitting hairs.
And whaat was the name of the end credits song?
"Don't Forget!"
♪ Don't forget, I'm with you in the dark ♪
Also, in the Switch version, Clam Girl changes to a gray-scale creepy version of herself.
You know like a Gaster follower.
And says that you might meet Suzy very soon.
Guess what came out a little over a month later?
I, uh, digress.
Point being, Gaster broke time and space and is now scattered across two universes.
Maybe the reason you can’t interact with him directly in Undertale is because his body in Undertale,
while his consciousness is in Deltarune.
[sigh] Okay, uh.
Theory number two. This is The Void and Gaster has created a world to entertain himself.
When Gaster “fell into his creation,”
he entered what we like to call The Void.
Which I legit cannot remember if that was stated somewhere in the game,
or if that’s just completely accepted fanon.
We know that The Void is probably very dark, considering the dialogue.
In Entry 17, Gaster remarks something becoming “darker, yet darker”
then mentions that this “next experiment should be very, very interesting.”
One of his followers, the only truly original Gaster follower sprite
that looks suspiciously like this guy in Deltarune,
mentions that one of Gaster’s experiments went wrong,
which is presumably the one that sent him to The Void,
which I’m guessing is the “very, very interesting” experiment that Gaster mentioned he was about to do.
However, The Void connected him to a world his experiments created.
The world of Deltarune.
He can’t exist in it entirely, but he can see it, control it.
Do what he will with it.
Much of this world is based on his own memories of the surface and the underground,
and he likes to keep it updated.
However, he has difficulty seeing into the world of Undertale,
and can only really listen to it,
Pieces of his memories are still lost in time and space, so details are spotty at best.
He remembers Chara, but knows there’s a new human now,
but can’t remember their name.
Was it...
...Kris?
Yeah, close enough.
Probably a lot like that creepy kid Chara, they even have the same color soul.
He was the royal scientist, so clearly he remembers Toriel, Asgore, and Asriel.
He doesn’t much like Asriel being dead, so that’s not so in this world.
But he also doesn’t know what Asriel would look like now if he was alive.
He might be college aged, maybe, but he keeps him out of the story because he doesn't really know what he'd look like.
He remembers Sans, very, very vividly,
and that’s why he hasn’t changed a bit.
But his memory of Papyrus has yet to be regained.
Maybe Papyrus was a child when Gaster fell into The Void,
and it’s a similar situation to Asriel.
All he knows is things he hears, like the...
distant trousle of bones. ['Bonetrousle' plays distantly]
The Dark World though, that is The Void.
It’s dark for one, darkness is quite a big theme.
Perhaps this is the place where Gaster can physically exist.
After all, he appears to have met and talked to Jevil.
Seam directly quotes him.
It may have been him that hid behind a tree and gave you an egg to give to Asgore so he’d
get some damn protein.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the plight of the Darkners so closely resembles the situation the monsters were in.
Gaster made this world, these characters, to parallel the world he came from.
He just gets some details wrong sometimes.
Like... blood types.
And tells random jesters they’re in a video game and drives them literally crazy.
What a dick move that was, Gaster, jeez.
He was perfectly happy, and you just destroyed this man's life.
Also, sub-theory.
Gaster is actually the Knight that characters keep alluding to,
but since he’s in armor, you wouldn’t immediately recognize him.
Which is why he can appear to Jevil and not be identified as the Knight.
Because he's not in the armor.
OKAY! Theory three!
This is all just Gaster’s AU fanfiction.
A dumber version of the previous idea.
To keep himself occupied, Gaster has taken to writing friend-fiction to keep himself entertained.
Like previous theory, his memories are spotty, but figures Gerson must be dead by now.
He doesn’t ship Alphyne,
and ttthhhrusts his love of Mew Mew Kissy Cutie 2 on that Mew Mew 1 loving idiot, Alphys.
Asriel is alive and well in this fic, but again, hasn’t decided on a design for him yet
He really liked Asriel when he was alive, so he adds yet another in the form of him as Ralsei.
He doesn’t like that Toriel and Asgore got a divorce,
but thinks it adds some interesting drama to the story, so he kept it.
Chara is aged up to high school, because high school drama is more interesting than elementary school drama.
He changed their name to Kris after readers of his previous fics couldn’t agree on how to pronounce Chara.
Was it Care-uh? Is it Chair-uh? Is is Car-uh?
A lot of people have noticed that Rouxls Kaard’s face kind of looks like Gaster’s.
Well, there’s a very good explanation for that.
Rouxls is Gaster’s wish fulfillment OC.
He wants to be a classy anime pretty boy like in the anime that Alphys had shown him,
and Rouxls is his way of doing it.
Of course it’s an AU fanfic.
Why do you think it’s being split up into chapters?
Why do you think it’ll take so long for those chapters to come out?
Fanfic authors who put this much effort into their stuff only update every like 8 months.
Because they're busy playing Minecraft
Or.... Undertale.
I know these ideas may seem kind of out there, especially that last one.
Or is it the most sane?
But I’m willing to bet at least one thing I said here will be correct.
At least one tiny smidgen of one theory that I came up with will be in future chapters of Deltarune.
Regardless, we all have our theories and headcanons on Gaster.
He was a mad doctor, he was a loving father, a good friend,
a sexy skeleton man in a turtleneck.
He fell into the Core and is now a goopy monster in a gray Void.
All these popular headcanons and such, they’re great!
I love and subscribe to many of them.
I really want him to be Sans and Papyrus’ dad, you guys.
But with Deltarune, I’m ready.
I’m ready to know the real Gaster.
So far, he’s shaping up to be a morbidly curious mad genius of sorts,
though not outwardly malicious.
If that Twitter promo is Gaster, and is considered canon by any measure
then yes, he possibly did make Deltarune in-universe.
If not, then he appears to be controlling it to some extent, or has manipulated it to his desires somehow.
He’s aware he’s in a game, he’s aware of the anomaly's, well, our, existence.
I hope Toby Fox can, at least for his sake,
get Deltarune’s progress going a little faster so he can tell his story in a quicker, but quality way.
As long as it takes to find out about the true Gaster,
who absolutely has something to do with all of this,
I will wait as long as I have to for canon information.
As much as I love my theories…
I’m ready to know the real you,
you sexy, sexy skeleton man.
♪ If it takes forever ♪
♪ I will wait for you ♪
♪ For a thousand summers ♪
♪ I will wait for you ♪