Who Dr. Gaster Is and Why That Matters to Deltarune

Essentially a replacement for my first Deltarune video, so if I repeat myself, that's why.
Things I couldn't fit in that are still relevant:
- The bunker at the bottom of Hometown is playing the room_gaster sound slowed down 666%
- The text-to-speech voice that was used to make Gaster's voice blips is the same one that reads out Deltarune's title at the end of Chapter 1.
- If you reverse the sound that plays when you scare Mystery Man away, it's Gaster's Theme sped up.
- Something I actually DID NOT know until finishing this is that the body parts of the vessel at the beginning of Chapter 1 are called "GONER BODY" in the files, like Goner Kid and Goner Clam.
Chara theory: suzyundertale.tumblr.com/post...
ko-fi.com/mistysparkles

[@perro692]

I can't believe we're at the point when we are like "we gotta explain gaster to the kids"

[@fandomtraveler7953]

Damn were old

[@derpderp7236]

@@fandomtraveler7953 😂😂😂😂

[@Jray608]

I'm twelve and I couldn't believe he didn't know who gaster was, he probably just missed the peak or didn't get a tablet at like five (A bit young to have a device tbh)

[@axlr8deathpls294]

Still doesnt dismantle the fact 99% of gaster's "lore" is fan theory/fanon

[@josk8936]

Exactly the same as explaining what a "Herobrine" is to the kids

[@richardgustafson3575]

"Gaster has to babysit his boss's kid for all eternity." Even without the context of who Chara is, that is a version of Hell on its own.

[@ElectricBarrier]

Regardless of your views on Chara it'd have to be a real pain. Even if it's like mine the kid's probably a fucking handful even under the best circumstances, bet they break down crying about their dead brother and all the mistakes they made every few cycles and he's just gotta be like "UH, THERE THERE, KIDDO." cuz it's like he's an eccentric scientist he doesn't know how to help emo kids with their depression.

[@thisisanuncreativeusername2745]

Anyone who's ever had to take care of a kid some point of their lives will know how torturous it is to deal with one. Kids are bastards man.

[@chaoticneutralsheep]

One possible theory is Gaster could have been the scientist that did experiments on Chara for determination. Considering he was the royal scientist for the Dreamurr's while Chara was still alive, and they both are no longer confined to their respective worlds. Another interesting theory is Noelle's sister in Deltarune has gone missing, and the giant Gasterblaster in the lab looks very similar to a deer's head. Currently Gaster seems like he can offer power (Jevil, Spamton) but it comes at a price. Gaster might also be the friendly dude who gives Kris an egg.

[@tinaherr3856]

@@chaoticneutralsheep I heard a theory about the egg person. Apparently, if you type the word "EGG" (I forgot whether it has to all be capital), into Wing Dings, it makes three hand letters. And these hands make the movement a knight in chess makes. So the egg person could also be the Knight. However, I'm not completely sure that it is true, but the video about it is on KZbin, and it's about this larger "Chess Theory"

[@itwasneverthatserious]

@@thisisanuncreativeusername2745 30yo r/childfree ussers when someone asks them to watch their small kid for 1 second:

[@anonymousyoutuber1405]

"Does Gaster mug you?" "Two of them." "Maybe Gaster has to babysit his boss's kid for all eternity." God I want this characterization to be Canon.

[@andrewzaharias1858]

You beat gaster and he just immediately shoots you and takes your money

[@cofeespear4992]

It's canon somewhere 😂

[@user-file-x-life]

I saw quote except the last one

[@plotheplayer6462]

gaster uses his hands as finger guns to rob you

[@certifiednothingness]

☜☟✩∞◡̈⃝︎φ∑∑❆

[@thatoneguy4835]

Something I noticed is that during the height of undertale’s popularity Gaster was portrayed by fans as a tall calm/collected person but when the first two chapters of deltarune were released fans started portraying him as a silent large uneven monstrous shadow accompanied by quiet whispers and broken speech. This is probably because Gaster has an actual presence in deltarune looming over everything which is most likely what caused this change into something more monstrous.

[@JammyJam5588]

In undertale he felt like a reference to cut content, something left lost and unable to do anything about it. Deltarune starts with letting us know "no he very much CAN do something, and good luck discerning his motives"

[@snowboundwhale6860]

From what I remember of Undertale Gaster it seemed like he was being depicted as the fans imagined he might have been prior to falling into the core, or otherwise showing residual traits of that persona. So the calm and collected demeanour comes from assumptions of what "the previous Royal Scientist" would be like, and tall probably comes mostly from the mystery man sprite being relatively tall. Since there was so little information in the first place it fits that the perception changed so much the moment there was more to work off with the hints in Deltarune.

[@tommykarrick9130]

I think it’s that Undertale fans very much know that they’re dabbling in fanon when they create their gaster interpretations and revel in that fact. If you asked someone who drew a tall sexy man gaster if that’s how they thought he’d really look chances are they’d say “uhh, no? He’s a weird little blob man or something” Keep in mind that there was plenty of spooky mysterious looming entity art of gaster even in the Undertale days. I think it’s more that because gaster is now an active player in the story and we’re getting so many more hints about him right out in the open, there’s greater motivation for people to create artwork more true to how he may actually be within canon (It also helps that Deltarune has a much much smaller AU scene than Undertale had and continues to have to this day)

[@Ally_Leaf]

Well, Wingdings is a dingbat font, so it would make sense if he was a little off-the-wall in his personal life. After the V-day card, I imagine W. D. being like that one comic: "Sans?! Where are my whats-its and doohickeys!? Here, take your groceries, put your brother in the fridge." But when it comes to research Entries? All business.

[@tommykarrick9130]

@@Ally_Leaf I kinda like this interpretation. People are hesitant to say the vday card was gaster because the cadence is so silly - it seems more in line with the Egg man, who himself seems to be either gaster or connected to gaster, but even that’s controversial. But to me it seemed to perfectly in line with gaster’s vibe. He’s this broken entity that has limited vectors for interaction. This time he manifests as a valentines letter because that’s how everyone else is communicating, but he can’t mimic it perfectly. The letter is pre written and yet it responds to the reader in real time, and when you’re finished reading it disappears and you hear footsteps. The cadence and style is silly, but maybe gaster is silly. I’ve also considered that maybe scary straight man gaster and egg man goofball gaster are different gasters - one from undertale and the other from Deltarune.

[@youtubeneedstochange4414]

The funniest thing to me is how, if the mysterious narrator really is him, it means that canonically Gaster is an avid user of Twitter.

[@frejo1931]

we do know hes on that phone..

[@Eleanor__Rigby]

he's a twitter user but he writes like a facebook user

[@kshimo7]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODAMSPDWAIRNFSOIERNSIORFARFETDRTGES

[@CertifiedRookAppreciator]

Omfg I'm gonna cry

[@ThefifthBishopofGord]

Well being shattered across space time isn’t probably a good thing mentally.

[@doubleoof7907]

THEORY: Gaster’s theme is intentionally simple, we’re hearing it everywhere because his pieces were scattered everywhere when he shattered through time and space

[@oppositeday429]

THEORY 2 : Sans and Papyrus are Gaster's fragments, which explain how they just suddenly appeared and how mysterious they are as well.

[@johndantecybulski5510]

I think that is a very distinct posibility. Destiny 2 did something similar recently, where a portion of music that has been part of the main theme of the game (which made its way into most secondary themes) for years was shown to be evil-song-magic-thing-earworm of the big bad.

[@NightTheKittenn]

Knowing Toby you may have hit the bullseye there 👀

[@3bodYking99]

@@oppositeday429 I mean, this is a valid theory that goes around, especially in a lot of fanworks, fan comics, and AUs. It reminds me of a comic I used to read on tumbler that had Chara's "back story", and both sans AND papyrus were the royal "scientist"

[@Mendoxs_]

@@oppositeday429 the Handplates comic says that Sans and Papyrus are parts/fragments of Gaster and since he got erased from existence, some parts of the brothers did too, so that explains why they're "glitchy" as in why Papyrus can "fly" and why Sans can teleport and mess with the game

[@shieldlesscap6124]

13:46 There’s no VERY, VERY INTERESTING, but if you name yourself “KRIS”, “SUSIE” or “NOELLE” you’ll get the voice telling you you’re about to meet someone VERY, VERY WONDERFUL, so

[@existenceispain_geekthesiren]

not Kris, I don't think

[@obsession_expert6245]

Maybe it’s the mystery person from the valentines news letter, that person seems like the opposite of gaster in everyway while also seeming related

[@allhui5828]

​@@existenceispain_geekthesirenyes, i did so and gaster said that You know who he didn't do this with? RALSEI

[@Aveysaur]

the end of the "garbage noise" even sounds a bit like a scream, and to me that makes sense because, based on what happened to gaster and his current form, he must exist in some form of pain

[@karstb8830]

"Is that a cut on your face, or part of your eye? The gash runs down as if you cry. The pain itself is the reason why." -error handler code

[@TeslabladePlaysMC]

the "garbage noise" is confirmed to be (at least a derivative of) Muffet's laugh, just slowed down, pitch bent, reversed, looped, and distorted in some crazy ways. If you speed up mus_smile (the Entry 17 "music" track) over 1000% and pitch bend it back, you get something resembling Muffet's laugh back out. So, who knows... it could just be his laugh stretched across space and time (quite literally)? It could just be a coincidence that he sounds like Muffet, though.

[@fabiosonhandogrande1697]

​@@TeslabladePlaysMC Voice got distorted into high-pitch, before echoing super slowed down lol

[@Ani]

"It wouldn't be very [BIG SHOT] of Gaster to make the seizure warning indecipherable" LMFAO

[@namedsomething870]

Why is it you’re literally on every comments section I’ve looked at?😂

[@Thereisanalienpresenceonearth]

Wait, was that a [BIG SHOT] just now!

[@TwelviSC]

yoooo, its animagician,, ur vids r fire

[@NotASnaccImAMel]

Oh hello DSMP theorist.

[@shoobsuper]

@@namedsomething870 you just mistaked animagician (whoever the hell that is) for OwO.

[@GeorgeMarionerd]

I love how Toby essentially implemented a hidden creepypasta character into his games lol

[@Kurotheskeleton_YT]

Its not like that, all the characters so far have not been personal, even though the odds are not something Im aware of!

[@GeorgeMarionerd]

@@Kurotheskeleton_YT Ok sorry but I have no idea what you mean or how the thing you said is related to the thing I said.

[@GodofDumps]

You sure got a point, i dont think creepy pasta though rather like an ARG

[@kormannn1]

@@GodofDumps imagine if we can find during our walkthrough in the game piece by piece a link for downloading an archive of missing game files, and then we can install them in order to prevent crash in certain moments or a route we wish to avoid? That would be cool ARG trick.

[@mfirdanhb]

@@GeorgeMarionerd not really if it is most likely our computer would get shut or something REALLY creepy like the amalgamation but gaster? He's more of a secret at the least

[@zegnaj_adios__]

I absolutely love how there's ONE piece of text we get from Gaster. We hear (or uh.. see?) him speak ONCE But we almost immideately knew it was him in these tweets and at the beginning of the game just by the speaking mannerisms and the wording he uses. IT WASN'T EVEN THE SAME FONT!!!!!! And here ladies and gentelmen is what good fucking writing is.

[@yumekome]

fr.

[@AnthonyVCL]

I was there in 2015-16, i saw all this gaster lore unfold after my very eyes, yet i still sat and watched a 20 minute video of mostly stuff that i already knew because of the sheer enjoyment i get from seeing people taking coverage on topics like these. Great video, i genuinely wonder why i didn't comment when i first saw this last year

[@nickfarace9339]

Same here man. Remember how intense the underminers reddit was.

[@orchidposa]

a lot of us were there during the gaster theory heyday.

[@MaknaEXMachina]

I played UT almost right after it came out, but left the fandom due to being an edgy teenager and viewing the fans as cringe... then DR sucked me back in and spat out my pride, and now even later I'm finally doing the research I should've done all those years ago!

[@leafsoda]

Gaster is canonically aware of Covid This is the most mind blowing thing in this video

[@asaghcfgdfuyvhrghflowey9997]

"ENTRY NUMBER 17 DARK DARKER YET DARKER THE DARKNESS KEEPS GROWING THE SHADOWS CUTTING DEEPER PHOTON READING NEGATIVE WAIT EVERYONE JUST CALLED IN SICK GOD DAMNIT I WAS JUST GOING TO SHOW OFF MY NEW CREATION SO I'LL JUST TURN ON THE LIGHTS NOW"

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

He’s watching with a cup of tea like “poor humans, with their vulnerable biological systems and antibodies…” -he takes a long solemn sip- “…well, I don’t have lungs, so…”

[@3bodYking99]

@@asaghcfgdfuyvhrghflowey9997 that wouldn't work, being as the "darkness" is a physical thing unlike real darkness

[@asaghcfgdfuyvhrghflowey9997]

@@3bodYking99 WHY DON'T YOU GO FIND SOME REAL BITCHES INSTEAD OF FAKE ONES

[@The_Joshuan_Empire]

I mean it IS possible since they say he is "shattered across time and space"

[@The_LORD_saves]

Let's be honest here, if Toby were ever to confirm that the mysteryman sprite isn't gaster, the Fandom would go absolutely ballistic. 1000's of fan fiction writers' dreams would be crushed violently.

[@MxPokirby]

I mean he basically already did that just by releasing Chapter 2. :p

[@thewall4069]

i could see him doing that

[@dhararry7929]

It's not a possibility, it's a fact. One of the followers said gaster was shattered across time and space, and that he's holding a piece of him. This means gaster is in pieces, and can't LOOK a certain way.

[@Lemon-wr7mr]

@@dhararry7929 nah toby already confirmed that mystery man is gaster

[@dhararry7929]

@@Lemon-wr7mr when?

[@elmago2808]

"It wouldn't be very Big Shot of Gaster to make the seizure warning indescifrable" - Misty

[@habukichan]

One weird thing I want to point out. "Man" is usually used to refer to the egg person, while "Him" is usually referred to Gaster, and the sprite is spr_mysteryman. It is still, very possible that this is referring to Gaster as the 6s and the mus_smile file suggests. But, I just find it weird and wanted to point it out. Note: Thank you for the comments for pointing it out, but gaster is referred as a man at the river person dialogue. There is no confirmation that he's actually is talking about gaster though, since the dialogue is vague enough just enough to let toby put the most fucking mild-blowing 4d arg play into that line

[@ic0nic707]

Well, beware the *man* who speaks in hands.

[@habukichan]

@@ic0nic707 thats an expection but ill take it

[@insertnamehere1398]

YES YES! everytime I hear people talkin about gaster being egg-man, I always think "toby would foam at the mouth if he wasn't reffering to gaster with 'HIM'" now if it was ONE time or in a scenario were it would be weird to fit it (ala the river man) I would let it slide but the mann behind the tree has showed up twice now

[@wuhoh5274]

I genuinely never thought of how new fans would see Gaster until now He was such a big deal back in the day with comics and theories sprouting practically every week so it's insane that some people don't know him

[@Mothblossom]

Agreed it felt like he was everywhere back in the day! Makes me feel a tad bit old in a way

[@user-1mc0n4us.ed-_-]

To be fair I don’t think Toby Fox himself ever mentioned if he did created W.D. Gaster or what is it’s role, unless I’ve missed some posts on he’s Twitter.

[@Mothblossom]

@@user-1mc0n4us.ed-_- true true

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

I feel the same. I took it for granted that people just knew who gaster was

[@andreymontag]

Deltarune didn't explode as hard as Undertale and we couldn't really expect it to

[@firesd7306]

I love the idea that eventually once Toby actually shows Gaster, it’ll just be a completely different design than what the fandom has given him

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

xd everyone would be like :0

[@thelemondropgirl2140]

It would be funny if that was just some guy.

[@flaco3462]

better fuckin not be cuz that'd be really lame

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

@@flaco3462 seems like something toby would totally do tho

[@flaco3462]

@@paradoxtatorstudios9681 he doesn't subvert shit for the sake of subverting it you fuck especially for something that's been being built up for so long

[@KaibaKid_]

I think that Gaster is Grandpa Semi, because “semi” also calls to mind “semicolon,” and you could look at the mystery man sprite’s eyes as being a slightly embellished semicolon. It also ties into the font lore of skeletons and Gaster, as they focus on the format of the written word when they speak.

[@increbidel4685]

I’m slightly confused as to why the song grandpa semi has mettaton’s motif in it though

[@KaibaKid_]

@@increbidel4685 Well, it could be meant to tie Mettaton to Grandpa Semi, and a connection between MTT and Gaster would make sense, since Gaster was the royal scientist and created the CORE from which Alphys' creations (such as Mettaton) draw their power.

[@_black_bird]

I'm finding this video over a year late, but it's so weird to me how, even if I played Undertale back then, intentionally staying away from the fans made the whole experience with the game very different, I rememeber seeing some videos of some "cool easter eggs" in the game and that's all I knew about Gaster and honestly didn't care at all about him, meanwhile the fans were apparently going insane over this weird ghost skeleton man

[@roguedragon2523]

Same

[@Data-Expungeded]

wait… you’re aloud to do that

[@CosmicTornado1]

My brother’s favorite Undertale memory is when he played the game for his first time and came across the gray door in Waterfall out of sheer coincidence, but he decided to skip the door and come back to it in a second not realizing that the door and hallway would disappear after leaving. He then told me about it (around this time I was deep into canon lore and fan theories and knew all about Gaster), and I just stared at him for a second and told him that he found a rare chance happening and just left it. He laughed so hard. Honestly pretty hilarious now that I’m typing this out lol

[@32mazechannel]

yeah its so rare, after 5 years of bieng in the undertale/deltarune comunity and laying undertale over and over again, i never found it once, still to this day i never found it, i did find 2 gaster followers tho

[@perrykv7312]

Talk about the chances, that kinda reminds me when I was replaying Undertale some days before Chapter 2 would be announced for Switch and I got the Wrong Number event

[@Nico_com_c]

Dude, how many times your brother played Undertale?

[@highsune]

I remember when I was playing Undertale on my tablet, I unexpectedly met one of Gaster's followers. I think I laughed as much as your brother did, because then I didn't know that at the beginning of each playthrough the fun number is generated differently

[@hamishrobertson131]

Lucky I hunted for it for 4 hours no luck

[@Pfincess]

Speaking of gaster, my biggest regret was not entering the mystery man room when it appeared on my first playthrough because I was playing blind.

[@ivythay4259]

A 1/1000 chance, too. That...really sucks. I'm sorry to hear that.

[@enidanni3919]

if that happened on my first playthrough i would shit my pants and wouldve taken longer to beat it

[@TerraKnight27]

wait so did you reset super early on or something

[@DominikPac-Boy]

@@TerraKnight27 No they just got really lucky on fun value.

[@TerraKnight27]

@@DominikPac-Boy the fun value is always the same before your first reset

[@plastikrappavevo4786]

Theres one other Gaster allusion in the hometown that wasnt mentioned. Iirc, when you approach the mysterious doors at the bottom of the Town, it plays a specific sound while near them. If you take that sound in the files and speed it up by 666% in an audio program, it's actually just the Garbage Noise that plays in entry 17 and on Kris' phone. Whatever happened to Kris (and maybe Noelle if we consider her words from Snowgrave) at that door, it could have connections to Gaster. My current assumption is that Gaster has formed some kind of connection with Kris, like he did with Jevil and Spamton, which is why there have been multiple comments on how Kris has changed recently and why they hear the same noise on their phone that Spamton did.

[@plastikrappavevo4786]

Additionally, it turns out that the Wingdings font was co created by a man named Kris Holmes. So theres another connection to Kris and Gaster

[@samgeorge1452]

Obligatory Kris uses they/them. The intro sequence also supports this, though. The dude speaking to us at the beginning not only has the exact same speaking style as Gaster, but his typer value in the code is 666, just like it was in Undertale. So yeah it's almost certainly Gaster who intended for us to be put in an empty vessel, but was interrupted somehow.

[@spaced_out_cadet]

i’d also like to note that the rabbit shopkeeper in snowdin says that sans and papyrus “just showed up one day and asserted themselves” and that nobody knows where they came from if gaster WAS their father (or at least guardian) it would make sense if he was written out of existence, and by extension, sans and papyrus’ connection to the town, since they probably would’ve been living in his house. also, since it can be assumed that sans worked in the lab at some point, it’s possible he was working WITH gaster, perhaps even when he fell. and, y’know, seeing his own dad/relative/guardian be “scattered across time and space” might make you a bit aware of timelines and the quality of reality. might explain how he’s so aware of the player’s meta actions.

[@locrianico6843]

Here's my own take on why Gasters theme appears everywhere: Gaster was shattered across time and space. His musical representation then ALSO is shattered across time and space. Giving you a feeling of him always being around, watching.

[@Clover_patch]

THATS ACTUALLY SO FUCKING COOL-WOW

[@ZeroThyStrange]

BROO I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE MUSIC LIKE THAT

[@CosmicNyan]

and because of the theme being so simple it's very easy to hear it in places outside of toby's influence ever just shatter yourself into the hat in time song "Peace and Tranquility"

[@requetesanty]

I like this theory very very much :P

[@user-vy1kz1co9p]

That's the reason it's so simple too. It appears everywhere, not intentionally, but because Gaster's shatterd pieces have worked their way into the actual universe itself.

[@Danxv33]

When you name yourself "Susie" in Deltarune, the narrator says "you are about to meet someone very, very wonderful". He also calls some names "an interesting coincidence". So the connections are there.

[@RichConnerGMN]

that also happens with a few other main characters

[@leedlelel2373]

I dont see why everyone thinks gaster being the vessel creation narrator is a theory that needs evidence, entry 17 uses a typer value of 666 and so does the vessel narrator, practically confirming it

[@CyanicCore]

@Owen Lloyd Oh god you just added something new to the theory pile

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

@@leedlelel2373 exactly. Some dude said to me that because Toby wants to make DELTARUNE it’s own thing, it doesn’t have any connections. This was AFTER Chapter 2, in fact, a few days ago. It’s incredible how even with the intro to the game, Jevil, Seam and Spamton NEO, there are people who STILL think that there are no connections!

[@youtubeneedstochange4414]

@@CaptainCoolzCT- Spamton NEO literally using motifs and instruments from Undertale songs as part of his theme and then people still say there's no connection.

[@DevilDwarf165]

I thought I knew everything about Gaster. This video made me realise how similar he is to the humans who fell into the Underworld: falling into ever-expanding darkness you have no way out of. Blew my mind!

[@asherhockersmith8271]

I will forever subscribe to the Handplates interpretation, purely because it is so incredibly well written and at no point goes hard enough against canon that it could be ruled out. Zarla has my support in their cannon.

[@cringeykid4960]

REAL HANDPLATES IS THE BEST

[@Vakothu]

Handplates Gaster is such a good interpretation, I love it.

[@parallaxladder256]

the what

[@asherhockersmith8271]

@@parallaxladder256 Ooh! Handplates is a fan comic by Zarla on DeviantArt. It just wrapped up last year. It's an interesting interpretation of the lore and I've been a huge fan for ages.

[@parallaxladder256]

@@asherhockersmith8271 I think I'll check it out, thanks! It's not edgy or cringeworthy is it? It's always a risk with these things.

[@dragonsquid8453]

“Gaster has to babysit his boss’ kid for all eternity” I love that

[@ThatGuyRNA]

Sounds like a nice sitcom

[@IFeel404]

Lmao

[@lisandramariaurbano8413]

someone has to make comics out of that-

[@fedoriij9897]

@@lisandramariaurbano8413 I saw some dubs of comics with similar idea, but can't find it again. Remember that they had an gasterblaster's prototype 0.2 or floof

[@Darachu]

I absolutely love the idea of gaster having to babysit chara for all eternity

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

“CHILD GET OFF ME THIS INSTANT” “but doooooccccc I’m boooorrreeeeeeddd” “I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DONT GET OFF WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT IF ITS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DIE T W I C E”

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

It would be interesting to see which of them have the most self destructive habits.

[@kauanjos3199]

Boss baby but across time and space

[@e.v4892]

My headcanon when Deltarune first came out was that Deltarune was essentially a mechanism for Gaster to babysit Chara and/or the Players and keep them contained. In Undertale player choice was everything, leading to whole routes depending on genocide or pacifism. Deltarune didn't have that, perhaps because Gaster saw Chara/Player's choices as dangerous. I haven't been keeping up with Deltarune, though, so I'm not sure if this theory holds up.

[@mayoactual2065]

@@Daniel-jk6ve Gaster was literally self destructive so I mean

[@guffthebird72]

13:15 gaster wants to show you his pokemkn card collection.

[@lapispiderp1544]

Don’t forget about that bunker in Deltarune where if you higher the pitch of the noise that plays near it it plays the garbage noise Also jevil and spamton give you shadow crystals that are described as pieces of glass and in Undertale they say he shattered across time and space so glass shatters and they could be literal pieces of gaster

[@shyguymike]

One more reason people think Gaster is the skelebros' father, is because no one remembers him and skelebros are said to have just shown up one day. If their creator/parent was erased from everyone's memory, it would make sense for people to see them as if they just appeared out of thin air. Of course this is just a theory, but that is the strongest piece of evidence for it IMO.

[@jebus4261]

Personally my favorite idea i saw in a comic is that sans and papyrus were cloned out of two pieces of gaster’s hands. Hence, the holes in the hands

[@davidpico1579]

@@jebus4261 handplates one?

[@jebus4261]

@@davidpico1579 maybe. I don't remember.

[@meatballman_botw]

@@davidpico1579 handplates was THE undertale comic.

[@shyguymike]

@@shafootodess This assumption mostly comes from no one aside from Gaster's followers acknowledging him, plus Goner Kid's dialogue. And I think there was also some dialogue about no one knowing where the core came from, but I don't remember where. If you want to categorize it that way, then it is a theory, that stems from another theory. It's not baseless fanfiction tho.

[@jonasquinn7977]

It’s very fitting that the character who was scattered across reality has a theme simple enough that it can be heard in the background of most songs

[@BlaxeFrost-X]

I thought the same thing, it's also fitting that he's everywhere from the code to the games to the lore to freaking twitter

[@ericy1817]

I will say though that apart from the undertale main theme, the other examples given are pretty likely not linked to gaster because even if the musical structure is similar, the underlying chords are fundamentally different in such a way that it's more likely a coincidence.

[@-FutureTaken-]

@@ericy1817 i think that is what they are saying, gaster (or rather, his theme) is everywhere because he was shattered across reality

[@ericy1817]

@@-FutureTaken- My point isn't that gaster isn't everywhere, but rather the assertion that his theme is everywhere is questionable because it's pretty likely that the other instances of the theme might just be coincidences from other common musical structures.

[@peterjohnson11655]

@@ericy1817 thank you for saying this any song can be seen as gasters theme its such a simple melody literally any melody that goes up and then down can be gasters theme

[@apothecary4371]

Could "Gaster" be a pormantaeu of "ghast" meaning ghost, and "aster" the font? It would kinda make sense considering Gaster's etherial presence in the world.

[@looselytelling]

I know who Gaster is but I love this video so much. Feels like old school theorising where we're grasping at the very little we have and it's got such a mysterious vibe, I don't need answers I just need clear and concise clues (fnaf I'm looking at you). Anyway thanks for this video even though it's kinda old, it's sort of a comfort video to me learning about our possible skeleton possible threat possibly doesn't even show up guy.

[@Ammiteur9]

I actually also think Gaster is more likely to be a Deltarune character since many things we know about him could be forshadowings to deltarune. Also Toby wanted to make Deltarune bwfore he came up with Undertale.

[@Swaggingdaily]

He is definitely asriel's college professor

[@Kurotheskeleton_YT]

the only thing that he is for sure in Deltarune is still very very trapped

[@peeka_]

Undertale seems to be a story inside Deltarune like, a fairy tale? this may explain why both games have practically the same characters. Someone may have written a story (maybe that was even Gerson) about the town, OR USED the residents as characters for it. Just think about it, it's not far fetched

[@Ammiteur9]

​@@Swaggingdaily I really like this Idea.

[@hawke1032]

@@peeka_ undertale is literally called an under... tale so it kinda makes a lot of sense

[@vissersixty-nine6246]

fun fact: I was like 12 when I played Undertale for the first time, and I was absolutely SO UPSET by having to leave Toriel. I was calling her, over and over again, in every room, only to get no response... and then I got the wrong number call and I swear to god it made me cry

[@rami-succar7356]

Poor guy lmao, must have legit been horrible...

[@gh05tb0yz]

god the same thing happened to me when i first played undertale! i was literally floored that i had to leave her and i was so sad, and EVEN WORSE was that i almost killed her, until one of my more knowledgeable-on-undertale friends let me know that it was bad. i was a video game junkie, normally a "FIGHT" option doesn't do any sort of ethical brain-fuck.

[@alexwang982]

Toriel doesn’t respond because…. The dog stole her phone! (I’m not kidding. Call her in the dog room.)

[@nikolawojcikiewicz1645]

SAME

[@masela01]

when I was 12 I thought I was an edgy almost adult teenager 💀

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

My nephew had no idea who Gaster was since he was never a part of the fandom since he's 8- but he watched the entire video without speaking and was very interested in it and I've never seen him be this interested in a video lol

[@theriveracis5172]

I always fancied the idea that the wingdings font was something he got after his, let's say, 'predicament'. He was originally just using that Aster font, but following the event, his words themselves fell away into the intangible.

[@flamo2666]

His name is literally Wing Ding Gaster WD = WingDing

[@SpacePrincessPuppet]

I can imagine Toby sitting at home looking at people's fanart and comics depicting Gaster as mystery man just laughing saying "hah! That's not even him lmao"

[@andreymontag]

Playing Delatarune made me feel like he just took a bunch of fan stuff that was popular and mixed just enough that I get hit with all the info my mind blanked before. I literally went off on a 3 hour tangent about undertale multiverse after playing deltarune

[@youtubeneedstochange4414]

@@andreymontag I have a feeling that Toby definitely took some inspiration from Undertale AUs when making Deltarune an alternate timeline.

[@TorutheRedFox]

@@youtubeneedstochange4414 Deltarune was conceived before Undertale so I sincerely doubt it

[@Z3R0Steam]

@@TorutheRedFox just because he thought of it doesn't mean he had all the details, I had the idea for a video for years once and the final product was vastly different from the concept

[@paperpopper2586]

THIS LMFAOOO

[@aghitsaplane4262]

i NEED a story where gaster and chara go around AU's in a ''grumpy uncle and adopted child'' story

[@Kurotheskeleton_YT]

no, never them together....leave this innocent man with his innocent kids, not that demon who has destroyed more then hope and love

[@simplymax1337]

that's basically almost like core!frisk and gaster

[@simplymax1337]

@@Kurotheskeleton_YT we don't know if the chara that is going around AU's is a genocide route one or a pacifist one

[@painslut]

Instead of learning to distance themself with us, Chara will learn how to be a scientist, yay ! Mad scientist ? Unethical mad scientist ? Who knows !

[@gferrisboy]

@@simplymax1337 yeah hopefully its funny narrator chara and not genocide demon chara

[@KyrieFortune]

I just want everyone to know that this video, this damn video, is appearing EVERYWHERE on my feed. Metal songs? Second or thrid suggestion? Hazbin Hotel? First suggestion without failure. Videos of a guy cleaning pipes? Gaster is there. Walkthroughs of Phoenix Wright? I am starting to think Gaster was the one who shot Gregory Edgeworth.

[@kiwitheparakeettiger1277]

i like this channel a lot. they constantly sound like they’re on the verge of laughing at all their silly jokes and im here for it

[@spoonsareoccasionallymadeo5728]

Let's not forget Gaster's (possible) association with eggs, with the mysterious "man behind the tree" Now let's combine that with the royal scientist's great fall, and being shattered across time and space, never to become whole again. And now we arrive at the conclusion that Gaster is in fact... Humpty Dumpty That's right I think Gaster is Humpty Dumpty and you can't convince me otherwise.

[@Kurotheskeleton_YT]

He cant move or go anywhere though

[@shinyaltaria1388]

Who wants to make a parody of the nursery rhyme with Dr gaster!

[@kazunoee]

This guy actually has a point

[@auramaster2068]

He does look like a cracked egg

[@drmeduimant5066]

Did he also became Flumpty after shattered across space and time?

[@erikm8373]

Can you imagine if Undertale came out before datamining and the internet was such a big thing? One day, you're playing through it like usual when you see a weird, grey NPC who mentions a guy called Gaster who never comes up in the main story. You never see this NPC again on any subsequent playthroughs. You post on a forum to ask if anyone has seen anything like this and the only responses you get are "idk man sounds like a glitch or something." or people assuming you made it up, and you're left to wonder if it did actually happen

[@hope.world.mp3845]

And then it could potentially become a creepy pasta 😭

[@gabrote42]

Exactly. It's just as toby said in his audio "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE SECRETS NOWADAYS. BeE-cAuSe OoF NoI-sY pEoPlE lIkE yOu!". Glad it got release nowadays tho

[@KanaTokisho]

TBH kinda like Missingo in Pokemon Red and Blue. You'll get vague playground rumors and boom. I do believe UT would have been in a similar boat without the internet, but I also don't think it would have hit so hard either, because 4th wall breaks are important and in the genocide route when Flowey is talking to you he mentions how the player and him are better than those who are just watching. IE kinda hitting the outside world who is too scared or not wanting to ruin their save with the genocide route.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

@@hope.world.mp3845 one day, a kid named johnny buys a pirated copy of undertale, but it was haunted, and there's this dead doctor's soul who haunt the undertale cartridge

[@somethingwithbungalows]

@@kakyoindonut3213 and sans had empty eye sockets and blood flowing out of them when you fought him in genocide instead of his one blue one Then the game opens your real life computer camera it shows you’re missing your eyes too and there’s also blood flowing out of them but that’s not real because you can still see and then blood starts coming out of your ceiling, landing on your face and then the air around you goes cold and then you hear what sounds to be the wingading text sound W.D Gaster has playing in the dark corner of your room.. in your closed closet in which you hear something shift from within and then the door slowly but surely slink open… and then.. and then.. sans

[@MisterTTG]

a favorite theory of mine that I can't remember if I came up with or not: when gaster was scattered throughout time and space, you can see him everywhere, in every town and around every person... Dr. Wing Ding Aster was splintered into countless asterisks. * He's right there. * At the beginning of almost every line of dialog every character speaks. * He's always been there. * He always will be. * Silently watching, reading your words, your thoughts.

[@NoraNekos7]

Well, Papyrus doesn't use asterisks

[@theReincarnate]

@@NoraNekos7 toby said the reason he doesnt is because the asterisks in the papyrus font were too small. if that changes anything

[@NoraNekos7]

@@theReincarnate ah yeah, right. That does change things

[@PommyDragon2525]

“Ridiculously talented Musician And Leit Motif Enthusiast Toby Fox” is one of the best description of him and his work I’ve ever heard. 23:55

[@pulsekinesis]

18:06 "I will say that gaster seems to have a real talent for suddenly disappearing from existence" I know this isn't meant to be taken at face value, but I can't stop giggling over the idea that Gaster was actually just helping Spamton but then suddenly disappeared from existence mid conversation.

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

G: All you need to do i- (Peaces out) S: Do what? Do what?! /j of course

[@ihaveagun3183]

@@KitTheAnkafolk So G = Gaster and S = Spamton, correct?

[@I.astar.]

G: "Alright so then you wear this sui- ah fuck not again.." *disappears*

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

@@ihaveagun3183 Yes

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

"Hey Spam, Liaten well, I dont have much time left The secret to achieve Heaven is-"

[@chazmitchell5696]

i love how not only does "gaster" as an enemy cause you to lose money, basically mugging you when defeated, he also causes you to lose xp, meaning he somehow drains your experience when defeated.

[@cin2110]

Execution points

[@dedo9990]

Napstablook does that

[@generictimestamperstupendi9021]

Thing is if i recall , Napstablook takes away 1 Experience Point... as in it will be pretty much the only time "Experience Point" is actually said. All other times its the abbreviation (which is later shown to be EXECUTION Points) which implies theyre 2 separate things

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

Does that imply that Gaster can make you a better person? Lol.

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

WAIT A SEC IF BEATING UP GASTER IS GOOD DOES THAT MEAN HE'S THE ONLY TRULY EVIL CHARACTER WE'LL ENCOUNTER?? Gaster being a genuinely irredeemable character would be a great plot twist. He's associated with the Devil, so...

[@chemistry2182]

Gaster has to babysit is bosses kid for all eternity got me dead

[@ocarinadude762]

I’ve always been a fan of undertale, but never was interested in the fandom as a whole and looked down on it a bit (mostly because I was too old for it and they were a bit rabid back in the day) so when you mentioned fandom, I was more then a little worried this video would be difficult to watch for people not into the culture. However, I was pleasantly surprised that the video is very friendly to people out of the loop and enjoyable to watch. Good job on the intro parody by the way, hearing that specific theme (was it called “fallen down”?) was a nostalgia trip.

[@tux1468]

I actually find it pretty creepy how Gasters theme is in so many seemingly unrelated pieces of music, like he's been entwined with the fabric of reality and is revealing himself through subtle changes in it.

[@JcoleMc]

Dam is you're pfp Pinewood builders logo ?

[@tux1468]

@@JcoleMc cryptomnesia

[@JcoleMc]

@@tux1468 No wonder you got no replies .

[@basedimperialism]

Well, he was supposed shattered *across* time and space, so it's entirely likely that parts of his being were woven into everything.

[@penguinwithafancytophat]

It’s even in the background of once apon a time It’s everywhere

[@Minefan200]

Small brain: Gaster in Deltarune is an Undertale reference Big brain: Gaster in Undertale is a retroactive Deltarune reference

[@MirrorHall_Clay]

Not retroactive at all, I think... Toby's said in the past he's been working on deltarune since before undertale was ever a thing, so he probably always intended for it to tie into deltarune!

[@Minefan200]

@@MirrorHall_Clay That's what I mean by retroactive, yeah

[@Minefan200]

Gaster was a part of Deltarune's story before Undertale was ever concieved

[@markmckittrick2596]

5:31 I don't think he looks melty because of the heat. Remember what happened to the other monsters injected with determination?

[@maxiguess9922]

It would make sense that gaster melted because of determination of some sort, as it is mentioned that in order to make a darkworld a lightener needs to bedeternined to do so, and Gaster appears to havesome connection to the darkworld shenanigans

[@FoldFable]

Didn’t alphys do the determination stuff on her own. And that was her main project to make for a while.

[@jaceanator9yt765]

23:15 if you've ever played gaster's theme on a piano, and have played that part of jevils theme, you realize that really is, as andrew said "three gaster motifs in a trenchcoat"

[@delphoxlatias1821]

Imagine if it was completely intentional to have gaster’s theme everywhere to make it feel like he was truly everywhere

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

bro the poor man got shattered everywhere, he IS everywhere

[@pizzweak580]

Imagine taking a shower and a piece of Gaster is just watching you the whole time.

[@laziwastaken]

@@pizzweak580 who's to say he isn't =)

[@ksrhys-]

I've made music for ages and played games all my life, and I can safely say; if Toby intended even that microscopic level of subtlety to Gaster's character and influence on the world, to make the other soundtrack pieces work as perfectly well as they do while simultaneously, intentionally, hinting at Gaster's theme... then he is the undisputed greatest mind video games have to offer, and someone I would single out as the most likely living human to ever successfully do a Kamehameha.

[@Blightsprout]

''After all it is very rude to talk about someone whos allways listening''

[@brandonhk9917]

Something I feel like a lot of people aren’t talking about enough is the fact that, in the Deltarune timeline, Gaster should still be alive. No royalty = no royal scientist = no experiments = no “creation” = no falling into “creation” = no space time bullshit blah blah blah you get the idea. Unless the space-time-shattering affected him across all timelines somehow, or something else happened in this timeline to achieve the same result. Maybe Gaster as a character is just “doomed” to a fate such as that, similar to how Deltarune Burgerpants seems to be “doomed” to live a similar life to his Undertale one despite the radically different circumstances?

[@rompevuevitos222]

He may exist and be alive, we can't be sure just yet Perhaps he works in the sealed bunker

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

The mystery door plays mus_smile slowed down. Could be his place

[@pablopereyra7126]

He may be a fucking dentist for all we know

[@Apotheosister]

I like how this theory implies Asgore is doomed to be divorced, just for that I have to endorse it.

[@couchpotato4928]

My headcanon is that he did the same experiment, but in the bunker

[@nihilsnake4017]

Gaster kinda reminds me of a more mysterious and creepy version of Professor Paradox from Ben 10 Alien force, while Professor Paradox was a good guy who traveled from multiverse to multiverse helping to make sure the timelines and everything is fine, one of my favorite characters- then you have Gaster, this ominous figure who is basically unknown, in my little head cannon- who has a morbid curiosity when it comes to multiverses and timelines and stuff like that

[@benimel3204]

Ben 10 reference in an undertale deep dive video is always welcome

[@waffler-yz3gw]

i would never forget heats flamesman's name, i literally out loud said "wtf no its heats flamesman" when 'hots fireguy' was mentioned

[@_asha]

"now gaster has to babysit his boss' kid for all eternity" my god, that's by far the funniest thing i've heard this week 😭

[@smileyface81mc77]

“Jevil went fuckin’ coconuts” did it in for me lol

[@dani.5087]

I LOVE the "you had to be there" factor for Deltarune ch1's initial release. The tweets. The survey program file. Not knowing what it was then being MINDBLOWN when it turned out to be an entire new game. It was fantastic. (Honestly given that Toby was working on deltarune so far ahead of undertale, im like 99% sure the reason that gaster was so vague in undertale was that he was a teaser for deltarune)

[@diamondmatter2919]

"im like 99% sure the reason that gaster was so vague in undertale was that he was a teaser for deltarune" Same here! I try not to get my hopes up but I can't help thinking: if I was in Toby's shoes, I would want to not only create a fascinating "dummied out" mystery in my game's files, but actually pay off on it in a big way later on.

[@w.d.gaster6855]

⬥︎♋︎■︎⧫︎ ♏︎♑︎♑︎✍︎

[@pyramidserum]

@@diamondmatter2919 i literally remember where i WAS when it dropped. it was in homeroom art class and i saw tweets like “IS THIS UNDERTALE 2? WHAT THE HELL IS THIS” AND IT WAS SOME SKETCHY ASS PROGRAM I DOWNLOADED OVER SCHOOL WIFI AND LIKE THREE PEOPLE CROWEDED AROUND ME ON MY SHITTY LITTLE SURFACE TABLET WATCHING ME PLAY IT WAS SUCH A GOOD EXPERIENCE

[@camarvan]

Straight up thought I had a virus and deleted then redownloaded it akjfds

[@ladystarfire]

@@pyramidserum I remember where I was too! I was in my room, after a trick or treat night. I think it was REALLY dark out and I wasn’t able to understand what was going on??? people on wattpad we’re going insane but I couldn’t understand so I just went to sleep and the next day (first of November) i woke and went crazy

[@milliequick1271]

I am reeling from the revelation that…Mettaton is a ghost!? It makes total sense…there’s just so many layers to the lore of UT that it doesn’t surprise me something basic like that escaped my attention

[@KwikBR]

it's shown through the game quite a bit, for example in the true pacifist run after defeating a certain boss, (i cant remember what it is) the house next to napstablooks is unlocked and it's revealed that that is mettatons old house as a ghost

[@ga1axyz3r03]

Deltarune is turning out to be such a beautiful game as the chapters release when they can be released. Updates are given at times and it's not rushed. When the next chapter does come out and hype has basically died, the gameplay, music, everything really, brings the community swinging back to the game and everything just jamming out.

[@charl3s373]

I like to believe that his “creation” was actually Deltarune itself. A world where monsters and humans could live together in peace. He fell into his creation, and pieces off himself were shatters across time and space. A bit in Undertale. A bit in deltarune. Maybe bits somewhere else.

[@peterjohnson11655]

alright here is my new crackpot theory that makes literally 0 sense gaster invented sans sans was just a normal monster that originated in the delta universe at some point in time sans ended up somehow leaving deltarune and being trapped in the undertale universe, where everything sucks and hes forced to live underground it would explain why he seems relatively unchanged in deltarune and some other things probably this is almost definitely wrong i made this theory up in like five seconds lol

[@bumblebot2458]

Considering that, last I checked, the description for Deltarune lists it as being in the Undertale *series,* this does make sense. Toby Fox said he was planning Deltarune for quite some time, so perhaps he was planning for Gaster then too?

[@peterjohnson11655]

@@bumblebot2458 I think Deltarune has been in development since far before Undertale. Considering how much more prominent his role is in the former, I wouldn't be surprised if Gaster was originally created for Deltarune's story, and his appearances in UT are simply foreshadowing.

[@blokos_]

@@peterjohnson11655 i think gaster was made just to connect ut and dr at some point

[@peterjohnson11655]

​@@blokos_ i wouldnt be surprised it definitely seems to me though that gaster was originally a deltarune character who was referenced in undertale in the form of easter eggs i have a feeling his role in deltarune will be much greater than it ever was in undertale, though that doesnt necessarily mean he'll be incredibly important to the story

[@superspider64]

considering Gaster was "split apart time and space" it makes a weird amount of sense that his very simple 4 note theme could be vaguely heard in every other theme

[@KitTheAnkafolk]

And with notes missing occasionally!

[@Luckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Thank you so much for this video, I didn't even know where to start to research Gaster and I couldn't make heads or tails of what I did find. You summed everything up perfectly and it's made my Undertale & Deltarune experience a lot more interesting 💕👀

[@darwinaguilero3175]

I really like this video. You sound like you’re having a blast and grinning the whole time. Plus, having such a concise explanation over a massive trail of breadcrumbs spanning years and two games is very nice. Cheers!

[@logans.7932]

I love the line "Don't forget, I'm with you in the dark." In the UT/DR Pacifist route, that's comfort from the player's friends that they are being told. It could be Sans, Susie, Asgore, Ralsei, etc. In the Genocide/Weird route, though, it's a threat. From the player to Frisk/Kris.

[@HyperTextMarkupLanguage-HTML]

true

[@NetheriteMiner]

maybe it's gaster. he's with you in the dark. the dark, darker, yet darker, dark.

[@Lol-sv1zy]

@@NetheriteMiner too dark bro

[@CaptainCoolzCT-]

@@Lol-sv1zy GAST GASTER YET GASTER THE GASTNESS KEEPS GROWING

[@haxalicious]

pipis -> 🔵 route

[@aroach4689]

7:07 to be fair assuming that this call is Gaster related by the G alone might have been a stretch a few years ago, but now with the retrospective that Gaster is often associated with phone calls I don't think it's too outlandish of an idea.

[@simplymax1337]

or it could just, y'know... Spamton *G.* Spamton

[@pablopereyra7126]

@@simplymax1337 The "G" in Spamton G Spamton stands for Spamton. If you ask him why he starts throwing pipis at you

[@audrey0919]

@@simplymax1337 spamton couldn't possibly exist in the Undertale world because he's a darkner

[@gavinreedisgay5770]

@@pablopereyra7126 So... Spamton Spamton Spamton?

[@echoes_smechoes]

Theory that that phone call was just SPAMTON trying to call for Gaster. that’s pretty outlandish tho

[@mikazuki1955]

This is my comfort video thank you for making it

[@RobinBird147]

I remember a week after my dad had shown me undertale I finally decided to leave snowdin and came across this gray door and saw gaster I immediately started panicking and called for my dad and we both had no idea what was going on I then looked it up and realized how lucky I was it was absolutely crazy

[@CraftingMenace]

As a very avid writer who enjoys foreshadowing in the most obscure of ways, I am 100% convinced Gaster was always planned to be a big part of Deltarune, and any blatantly obvious Gaster insert into Undertale (like the fun value 66 door) was just Toby deciding to play the super long con and foreshadow 10 odd years in advance.

[@youngjellyfish8694]

I'm pretty sure (although my memory could be playing tricks on me) that I heard somewhere that deltarune was a game idea that he got from a dream, before developing the game undertale and that deltarune was always going to be the [BIGGER] game. I mean, right now there seems to be 7 chapters planned, and the first and second combined are about the same length as an average undertale playthrough...so deltarune will certainly become significantly longer once its finally completed.

[@krisdeluxe4417]

The fact that Undertale is legitimately almost 10 years old is fucking with me

[@WispWatching]

@@youngjellyfish8694 Yes deltarune was/the story was made before Undertale. It was updated though because Undertale and it was obvious Toby would change things to include things from it.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

According to Toby fox, he’s been planning deltarune long before undertale and even claimed he was making deltarune for the purpose of fulfilling a video game ending he saw in a dream. Though sometimes I feel like he just added gaster to mess around with players. Like the missing piece of the puzzle that can never be found and frustrate the player to no end!

[@gabrote42]

Deltarune is a game that's a mix of an original game concept and a game that evolved from it (UT). That game never had a single room made for it, but it was a game that had an ending Toby saw on a 2011 fever dream, using characters from a deck of cards made by a tumblr user. A lot of the script was written by august 2012. :D

[@eddiedombrowski1960]

"Gaster has to babysit his boss' kid for all eternity" I love the idea that Gaster gets excited about what he and the player makes, and Chara just comes in and destroys it like a toddler drawing on their parent's papers

[@wolfcl0ck]

Very excellent video! As a day 1 (or close to it) fan of the series, I had never considered that newer members had no idea about the ominous and horrifying shadow monster man that is constantly watching our every moves throughout the game.

[@syweb2]

16:08 He seems like a reference to poorly translated Japanese-to-English in older RPGs.

[@kimjongunsucksbooty750]

imagine if toby is laughing at how everyone thinks gaster is some tumblr sexyman skeleton in a black and white suit (based off of the mysteryman sprite) when really he looks completely different in canon (Obviously the mysteryman sprite has a strong connection to him, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it IS him)

[@muanims]

If mystery man wasnt gaster then that just opens up alot questions Like who the hell is mystery man Why does He disappear when you touch him What does gaster looks like then etc

[@simplymax1337]

i've thought about this and i don't think he's that evil to do it. he has probably changed the initial concept of gaster a slight bit to fit people's views of him more.

[@Kurotheskeleton_YT]

that would be very ignorant of him then because those pictures ARE what he looks like, there are other AU's with other art as well for the direct dimension he is from

[@jjQlLlLq]

@@Kurotheskeleton_YT uuuh fanmade AU's? If it's fanmade it's not official

[@MB-hc9we]

At this point toby is kinda fucked if he had a different look for gaster in mind, everyone's associated that sprite with him so much he'd have to make it at least kinda similar.

[@ottomanwinposts6753]

“It wouldn’t be very big shot of Gaster to make the epilepsy warning indecipherable”

[@springdude1165]

9:18 Beware of the man who came from the other world.

[@spytf2-pb3yo]

This is one of the best written video theories/essays i've seen in a really long time, and the humor makes it even better. Keep up the good work

[@sociallyawkwardtrash]

i actually love gasters theme being everywhere directly relates to him being "spread across time and space" he's LITERALLY been spread everywhere to the point of weaseling his way into all the music

[@NormalExploiter]

i like

[@deepstrike9750]

There's is a SONG ABOUT HIM BEING SHATTERED

[@marchdarkenotp3346]

@@NormalExploiter What the frick is this kid talking about? You look like you confused the concepts of "space" and "place," and know jack shjt about consciousness.

[@Handle_Space_Goblon]

@@marchdarkenotp3346 epic 10/10 he edited it so that you look like a dumbass

[@justcallmekai1554]

@@marchdarkenotp3346 What happened here? Their comment is edited and its seemed to be about something different going off your reply.

[@sackfu7952]

"It wouldn't be very BIG SHOT of Gaster to make the epilepsy warning indecipherable" is such a great string of words to me for some reason, especially if someone had never heard of Undertale before

[@thesauce9365]

This is irrelevant, but I completely forgot what video I was watching because I was jamming too hard during the lietmotif section. Deltarune music slaps hard bro

[@Thrust8EX]

Omfg when you played the vocal ending and then all the others got so much more ominous the more i thought about it. "Dont forget, im with you in the dark" just kept echoing in my head...

[@WoodlouseChucker]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the man behind the tree that gives you eggs (egg in wingdings is left forward forward, the move that knights perform in chess)

[@rompevuevitos222]

There's no real connection to Gaster there, other than being as unexplained as Gaster itself Well, the entirety of Gaster is just theories anyway

[@virtuousthing9070]

omg

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@rompevuevitos222 it's not about Gaster so much as a connection to draw. Wingdings are how Gaster likes to speak, and the egg-giver is out of bounds, like how Gaster is broken out of the bounds of the game. So trying Wingdings on egg gives the hands showing the direction a Knight moves in Chess, and remember, Gaster is often believed to be "The Man Who Speaks In Hands"

[@alguienmisterioso9597]

@@uncroppedsoop yeah and the track it sounds in that room contains gaster's theme leitmotif aswell so it's pretty much implied

[@alex_is_anoob148two44]

this can sound stupid but i've noticed that gaster's head looks like a egg and that man gives you a egg so- ( don't hate on me i said this as a joke )

[@sharksuperiority9736]

I feel something that’s been kinda lost in the fandom hyperfixation, is the fact that Gaster is legit scary For one, Mystery Man’s sprite is very spooky, and Gasters theme is also very ominous And like, imagine finding all of this stuff for the first time Toby did really well making Gaster and his entire story, and I just want to respect that

[@ivythay4259]

He didn't stop being scary.

[@Friedphesh]

I was terrified of him back in 2016-17 when I was into undertale. I couldn’t sleep after I saw videos with him haha.

[@simplymax1337]

Which is exactly why I love when fan projects portray him in a more sinister way. For example, cybo's Deltarune fan tracks on a hypothetical Gaster boss fight.

[@Tom-101]

Also his theme is quite similar to Michael Myers theme from Halloween, now that I think about it.

[@pancakes8670]

I've seen some artists use an Analog Horror aesthetic to depict Gaster, and I feel it's honestly very fitting.

[@ChosenMango4233]

I love your energy towards this topic. Been a while since I brushed up on my gaster lore and this video really brought all that excitement back 🙏🥺🥺

[@lynn4840]

meanwhile, fandom elders are watching this video like "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. i was there when it was written!" lmao

[@supermathews0209]

You forgot the door at the bottom of Kris' HomeTown in Deltarune. It's a misterious door that "won't open". When you get close to the door, you can hear very, very, very, but I mean, VERY slowed down version of the garbage noise. Very, very interesting isn't it?

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

I think the sound of entry seventeen and stuff is like canonically what his voice sounds like, Because if it’s unintelligible when you read it why should you understand it verbally??? So what if gasters like just yelling into the phone when kris calls in the dark world: “OH THANK GOD PLEASE HELP ME IM STUCK IN THE FU- wh- did they just HANG UP!?”

[@xem_ity]

@@distantmaniacallaughter8690 that is the only theory i can imagine kris just using the phone and gaster just screaming and then kris hangs up

[@thesithofearth3617]

That is Very, Very Interesting

[@Eris.s]

@@thesithofearth3617 I feel like that phrase will haunt me for existence

[@Data-Expungeded]

@@Eris.s oh same dude

[@LilAnonomus]

Finally someone explains it. It always felt like an inside joke or secret when people talked about him.

[@rompevuevitos222]

It sort of is, since the whole thing is that the character was deleted from existence, there is no decisive proof in-game of who he is nor how he looks and Toby sure as hell never even acknowledged it The mysteryman sprite is just a likely candidate

[@benjaminfricke4791]

Well, that’s just the result of Gaster being a continuous point of speculation ever since Undertale’s original release. Easy to assume everyone’s at least vaguely familiar with him. That said, it’s really cool to see how many new people joined the fandom after Chapter 2. I hope this trend continues in future chapter releases.

[@rompevuevitos222]

​@@mussi_1256 You can get the door, but the chance of it ever spawning is decided at the start of the run, and only 1% of runs are even eligible to have it spawn (the fun value on your save must be set to 66) A way to know if you got the right run is to see if any other rare events happen, only 1 fun value event can happen per run, so if you see any other you can tell your run won't have it spawn The way people do 100% secrets runs is by saving, editing the FUN value and loading, but in PS4 you can't afaik

[@Rachel-ou6pk]

welcome to the club

[@zirconiumzealot6613]

this video is a year old but i gotta say i love the joy with which you speak in this video, especially when trying to voice gaster. thank you for speaking the truths to me kind individual

[@apl.and.banna08]

Thank you for the video! I get confused by everything in this game, so I’m glad this helped. What I super like about Gaster’s theme is that I feel like I’ve heard it in different games before, like my favorite game. Chrono Trigger. It adds to the creepy affect :)

[@NRobbi42]

Snowdin Town's theme in Undertale also has the "Don't Forget" leitmotif in it. Which is fitting since that's where Sans' lab with the Don't Forget photo is located. Bonetrousle was originally meant to be Deltarune's battle theme before it was repurposed for Undertale, so it makes sense that Toby would've written a lot of these themes and melodies before Undertale came out. Also the Bunker in town plays the entry 17 noise when sped up by 666% Edit: Also also, Queen says that Noelle needs to "close her eyes and sleep away into a darker darker dream" in the snowgrave route, and Gaster's theme is 100% present in the song playing during the hospital scene where Noelle is talking to herself. Edit2: In the ch 3-5 teaser songs, Toby put the Snowdin Townin motif in Deltarune's new hometown theme

[@leedlelel2373]

What Dont forget isnt in snowdin And toby said bonetrousle was actually going to be UNDERTALE'S battle theme, not deltarune's, but regardless, yes, deltarune was confirmed to be thought of long before undertale finished development

[@NRobbi42]

@LeedleLel I just looked up the interview to be sure, and yes, it was originally supposed to be for Deltarune or whatever Deltarune was before he made Undertale. Also if you listen to Snowdin Town's theme, you can here Don't Forget at 0:33

[@leedlelel2373]

@@NRobbi42 ok ill admit it sounds like it but it definitely doesnt use the same notes, but i mean, who knows ig lol Anyways could you link or quote the interview?

[@NRobbi42]

@@leedlelel2373 Links aren't working😔

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

Read the description They know about the bunker sound

[@thechaosqueen6986]

"Does Gaster mug you?" The research grants aren't cutting it anymore now that he no longer exists.

[@sug4rys0ur]

Can't get paid if you _'die'_

[@meem6154]

Damn that’s good.

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

I’m just imagining goopster in his gray room surrounded by gold simply because well if HE can’t go and buy tea why should anyone ELSE

[@destroyer4929]

Why of course he mugs you he needs his funding to reform after all

[@nidgithm]

somehow i never even considered the idea of newer fans not knowing what gaster is lmao this kinda brings back some nostalgia & memories of playing undertale when i was younger and being so scared that i got one of the fun values that gives you the sound test room, the gaster room or one of the grey npcs bc it kinda freaked me out. i think i even had a _nightmare_ about getting the sound test room and my whole pc getting corrupted and not being able to turn it off, and i rarely have nightmares. man i was so easily scared as a kid

[@kakr4739]

Something I heard was that the man behind the tree was also somewhat connected to gaster, someone that the game doesn't allow us to see, you have to break through reality to find him, and even though Asriel and Susie follow you all the time, the second that you go off trail, they disappear. Heck, this guy isn't even called the man behind the tree, he's called "He". Familiar? Everything about the man behind the tree breaks the rules about space and time. But idk, it's just a thought

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Also, the Z's that appear when Sans falls asleep in his battle in the genocide run are in the Aster font. It doesn't appear anywhere else in the game but there. That's why I find it so ridiculous that people make grand theories of what will happen but leave Sans out entirely. He's clearly connected.

[@leedlelel2373]

Wth do you mean literally everyone brings up the overrated skeleton when talking about g man but like, okay lol Also the z's in his fight were analyzed by nochocolate on tumblr and they arent really in the aster font

[@sander303]

Oh yeah they appear in Chapter 2 as well.

[@randomcatdude]

it's not the aster font it looks vaguely like it, but so can thousands of other fonts. if it was Aster specifically, it would be an identical match. but it's not. it's just a stylised Z that was drawn manually, then reused. it means nothing. the games do the same with SFX; Susie's Rude Buster spell makes the same sound effect as when Jevil throws scythes down at the heroes in his intro cutscene. does that have any meaning? NO IT DOESN'T.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

@@randomcatdude It's a serif font though. Sans' whole thing is being sans serif. The fact that the font even bears a passing resemblance to Aster is meaningful

[@randomcatdude]

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep there are so many other serif fonts that'd also have a "passing resemblance", aster is only being fixated on due to its one-letter difference from Gaster. it just feels so vague, and it's literally a single letter.

[@eflat_music]

"Too vague to prove anything, but notable enough to not dismiss it entirely." ^ Literally ALL of the undertale lore

[@JulianCaesaro]

Best comment on the video, and like all of the Gaster “lore” 🤔🤣

[@CGFillertext]

Other things to note: Gaster’s theme possibly shows up in the unused track (but still present in official releases of the soundtrack) “Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans”. This track also includes leitmotif from Bonetrousle/Nyeh heh heh! making yet another possible connection between Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster Undyne mentions that Papyrus is actually pretty strong, which suggests even more that Papyrus could have the capability to use gaster blasters Deltarune was originally called “SURVEY_PROGRAM” and the sound test in Undertale talks about feedback Whatever the heck is going on with the mysterious figure behind a tree who gives you an egg. At first it seems like a weird easter egg (haha), but then the tree/egg guy returns in ch 2

[@Oyasumi05]

Appreciate the video, wanted to catch up on the lore and you put it all in a very understandable and nice way 👍