fulllifeconsequences

i saw bits and pieces when i uh

when flowey

i just wanted to find out more and it seemed like sans knew

Edited 2016-07-09 03:35 (UTC)

I see. You cracked open the bones of the world, to sample the marrow within.

I'm not going to judge. I've done the very same.

[spr_asriellocket_0.png. See, Frisk? The Locket is theirs. He wore his.]

He absolutely knows something. We had an event once. Wonderland displayed false memories for everyone to see. I found his.

[...Wait. Where were they going with this? What was his memory again? Think. Focus. Why is it so hard to remember anything with... rhymes-with-blaster. Gaster. With Gaster?

Right. Gaster.]

I can no longer... recall the exact nature of the memory. What happened, or what their relation was to each other. But he was in it. Wonderland placed him in Sans' false memory.

I didn't think about it at the time. It wasn't relevant to what I was doing then. When you and Frisk came back, after I'd reprogrammed everything, I honestly almost forgot about what I'd seen.

But I still remember. The monster that fell in the CORE. The man who speaks in hands. W.D. Gaster. The weird... face I'd seen.

What do you think really happened? There were the gray monsters - a lot of them were incoherent.

Oh. Uh. And keep this between us. I don't know how much Frisk is aware of, but I told Sans I wouldn't tell anyone else.

[A secret from Frisk. Well, the things they know, as far as Fun is involved, do seem to differ. No matter how many times Chara calls themselves your humble servant, Frisk doesn't react. Perhaps they can't pick the atoms of the world apart in the way Chara - or Asriel - could.

In fact... Asriels seems to have been more adept at it than Chara. He holds on to more. Remembers better. Knows things Chara can't tell if they never learned or couldn't hold in their memory. Interesting things.]

My lips are sealed.

I think you are a page ahead of me, however. The doctor... fell into the CORE, you say. Then is that the reason he is missing from the story? Is that what makes him so... absent? Elusive? Is that what makes the very concept of Dr. Gaster so insubstantial?

[He'd always had an uneasy feeling after seeing that face, even as Flowey. Even when he was devoid of any concept of emotion at all. It didn't speak, didn't try to stop him, but the whispers of the other, grayed-out monsters was enough to keep him steering clear.

Maybe that... was also why he hadn't tried something like that again, the second time.]

One of the gray monsters says 'It's rude to talk about someone who's listening.' I... I don't think he's truly 'absent' at all, Chara.

Sometimes these monsters can reach the real world. I don't know if Frisk knows.

Edited 2016-07-09 16:48 (UTC)

I left my partner a message, but I don't believe they dug deep enough to find it. They won't know anything I don't.

Sans, however... He wouldn't tell me how the doctor erased himself. He did warn me, though, that there are traces left behind. It is possible he knows of the gray monsters, perhaps.

The face didn't have a name. But there's whispers of it, deep within the universe's code.

W.D. Gaster.

Gaster.

ID number 66, 666 HP, 666 DEFENSE, 666 ATTACK, and so on.

All I'm aware of is that something happened, and he fell into the CORE. He created the CORE. What is the CORE, really?

Will Alphys end up the same way?

I hope so. I hope someone pushes her in.

[But Chara also hopes someone pushes them in, so take it for what it's worth. Now that they know, now that he's just handed them the secret to obliterating yourself from the story... well, it's just something to file away for later.]

She used something like a Gaster Blaster against me. She built the DT Extraction Machine based on blueprints already in the lab. It's possible there's something she's not telling, either. You could always try to push her into talking if Sans won't.

Okay I definately knew about the DT Extraction machine but.

She knows about Gaster Blasters?????? She can build them?????

[Hey guess who he's visiting next!]

Apparently yes!!

They're slightly off-model, but they certainly function the same. Sans knows about them too, but that's only thanks to me and my charming penchant for gossip. They might be a Wonderland Original, so to speak; I recall finding nothing about Alphys' weaponry in the script back home.

So... did Sans make the blueprints for her? Did she already know? Why would she build them here?

Alphys is the Royal Scientist, but she's not connected to Gaster as much as I can remember.

...right?

Doubt Sans had any part in it. Like I said, he was taken by surprise when I mentioned them. He could have been bluffing, I suppose, but why would he tell her how to make them if he doesn't tell anyone anything?

I think she's got secrets. Well, more secrets than the usual ones.

I know I told Sans I wouldn't spread this to anyone else, but... if she knows something, I'm going to find out.

SHE OWES ME.

She owes you.

We had a little talk. A long time ago. About how much she wronged the flower. The one mistake she didn't own up to. About everything the flower did for monsterkind, about how much the flower suffered living without emotion or connections.

I did not mention any names. I did not state who the flower used to be. But if she's uncooperative... I would gladly remind her.

I didn't know, she says. I thought it was a nice gesture I was doing. Excuses. Excuses!

How does a scientist, the Royal Scientist, not know how magic works? How was she not aware of something so textbook that young monsters learn about it early on?

And now you're saying she's keeping even more secrets. This is RIVETING.

Even I learned the tradition. When a monster dies, you sprinkle their dust on the things they loved most. That way, their essence lives on in those things.

Perhaps she forgot what it's like to lose someone. What it's like when anyone but her is in pain.

[Those old videotapes, and the things contained within? Not worth thinking about. Forgot 'em. Easy to make Frisk feel sorry for her, with her mentions of doing something cowardly, but she doesn't have it in her to care in the least about people who really do that cowardly something.

"You drove the flower to want to erase himself from existence," Chara tells her, and it's still all about her. Chara's just being a scary meanie to poor, tragic Alphys! Who cares how the flower felt, right?]

If she has no sympathy to spare for you. If she only cares that a mistake like you hurts her feelings, makes her look bad. Then I see no reason to afford her any. Do you, Asriel?

What does it say when you start seeing a monster that killed you repeatedly over and over with more sympathy than one that's just groveling for their life?

From what you've told me, you're going to be both of those, aren't you?

[...That's not funny. That feels more like punching themselves in the gut. Probably punching Asriel in the gut, too. You've gone too far, Chara. As always.]

...this is different.

You're different.

Ha. No wonder I took so well to wholesale and pointless murder. I've had tons of practice killing the mood.

[Get it? Funny, right? It's back to being funny? You don't have to be scared anymore, right?

...Let's change the subject.]

It occurs to me that even if Gaster erased himself... the DT Extraction blueprints, the lab, the CORE, a broken machine in Sans' back room... those all stayed behind, wholly untouched.

[It's not something he wants to talk about right now. Not something he wants to... remember. He's trying not to be terrified of Chara.

But they make it hard, sometimes.]

So why is it that everyone... forgot about him? Falling into the CORE fragmented him and a few others. But are they 'others', or extensions of him?

Bad memories, perhaps?

Bad Memory.

[Threw it away. ...But it came back. Hurts you, weighs your pockets down, won't leave. Only useful when you're on the brink of snapping into bright red fragments.

* Lorem ipsum dolcet.]

...It doesn't make sense for more than one monster to have fallen into the CORE. That... was an accident, wasn't it? He fell by mistake. There are too many grey monsters to imagine they all toppled in with him, surely.

I'm holding a piece of him right here.

I think only Sans knows for sure. But he won't talk. Maybe this Gaster just doesn't want people to talk.

...

Sometimes when you remove something vital, the remaining data can't compensate for it. Maybe they're just corrupt.

The value cannot be committed unless a SAVE has occurred.

Edited 2016-07-09 21:49 (UTC)

I wonder... is it any sort of rewrite that has that effect? Perhaps Floweytale left a few jagged edges behind too. Or... would have, if the time line had not been reset.

But perhaps the alteration the CORE made was sloppier than something a sentient hand would do?

You're the only one who can say if my own rewrite was fixed. All the monsters went free, but... I don't know what happens after that. I waited, and then I was here.

But this one doesn't make any sense. They say he fell into the CORE, but monsters don't get 'split up' when they die. They just die.

The CORE powers the entire Underground, doesn't it? So what's so unique about it that it would do something that extreme?

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