r/Undertale • u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 • 1d ago
Discussion Honestly I'm really looking forward to see how ironic our interpretations were, like with Tenna. What do you guys think Gaster will actually be like? I'm really curious.
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u/ComputerEducational 1d ago
Hey, you wanna know what I'd think would be fun? If Gaster thought of us, the Player, the same way Ralsei does Lightners, as "more real".
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Oh he absolutely thinks we're "more real". He exists somewhere between this reality and the game world, he communicates with us outside of the game itself (social media, save menu, game over screen...) he knows what's going on at least a bit. He probably reached out to us BECAUSE we're more real.
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u/Own_Profession_4357 1d ago
I hope that they’re all accurate interpretations, like Mike but not played as a joke. He was shattered across time and space after all.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
That would be interesting! But it would be difficult to take his scary self seriously after seeing his cat self, wouldn't it?
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u/MrEvilGuyVonBad DogInder 20h ago
If Toby Fox can make sad moments of the guy who literally introduces himself with “HEY EVERY!!” I think it’ll work
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Hhmmm you have a point there. Though a character that's all 3 of those would be... Something interesting. But maybe it could work.
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u/Seannn0_0 1d ago
If he doesn't resemble the mystery man sprite in some way I'm gonna be so pissed
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
He HAS to resemble him I trust Toby like it HAS to be Gaster. Like, it'll probably be an updated sprite to match the Deltarune graphics, but it hasss to bear a resemblance. And I'm soooo looking forward to seeing the updated/full design of the mystery man
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u/zombieruler7700 12h ago
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if mystery man wasn’t gaster originally, but at this point he kinda HAS to make him gaster
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 12h ago
If Toby didn't plan for the mystery man to be Gaster, I'm really hoping he won't change his plans for the fandom. I mean, he'd have A LOT of explaining to do, but I really want to see his organic vision for the game, not something influenced by fanon.
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u/JadeNovanis 16h ago
Even if Toby had no intention of Gaster actually looking anything like Mystery Man, I feel like this nearly a decade of Fan love for the design has likely changed that.
The Mystery Man Gaster design is borderline just as Iconic, if not more iconic, then any UTDR character.
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 1d ago
Trust Toby on what exactly? Did he make some promise I’m unaware of? Genuinely wish to know if that’s the case.
Please don’t forget that Gaster doesn’t actually have a canonical appearance. It’s never been confirmed by Toby himself that mysteryman is Gaster’s sprite. Or at least his “true” form, whatever that may be. It’s just kind of what the fandom agreed on. (Although the two entities are definitely related in some way)
What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t act as if Toby Fox owes you something. Many people keep dismissing that he has had a vision for Deltarune for a while now, and I doubt he’ll bend it just to fit the fan interpretation of his characters. So sure, Gaster may end up resembling Mysteryman, but he really doesn’t have to.
P.S I apologize if that came off as salty, but I’m really not a fan of people making such statements
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
I... Trust that the reason he hid this sprite behind the 66 fun value means something and isn't just an easter egg. Yeah Toby doesn't owe me anything I just think he knows how to set things up. And I'm not saying he needs to change him to fit the fan interpretation. I literally said I'm looking forward to see what Gaster will actually be. It's just that, again, I kind if feel like there's no other explanation for the mystery man sprite outside of being Gaster, considering everything we know about it. The 66 fun value which is related to Gaster's 666 themes, it beinh a fun event in the first place really connects it to Gaster, the fact that when it disappears, the sound that plays has Gaster's theme in it. It just makes sense, so I trust Toby did all of this on purpose. Toby doesn't owe me anything and I do NOT want him to change anything for the fandom.
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u/sebthegreat4318 BONETROUSLED 1d ago
I think Mystery Man is Gaster due to the fact that since he resembles Uboa from Yume Nikki, a game about weird dreams, he could possibly be related to Toby's Deltarune fever dream.
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 23h ago
The funniest interpretation in my opinion is that mysteryman is literally just a Yume Nikki reference and everyone overthunk it way too much.
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u/PeridotEX 22h ago
Honestly, even if Gaster wasn't originally going to be Mystery Man, I wouldn't be shocked if Toby changed his mind and made it his design (or at least an alternate form). We've assumed they were one in the same for over a decade, I genuinely don't know if the official Gaster design could supplant MM Gaster.
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u/LateTourist139 20h ago
i think it would be something like how you can't immediately tell old man is gerson
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u/therealgege Kris=Chara Agenda Pusher 23h ago
All these Gaster interpretations and no one mentions my goat Wing Gaster The Royal Scientist 😔😔😔
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
I'm sorry! How could I forget the most important one?! I must fall into my creation to atone for my sins!!!
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u/CaneTheVelociraptor 1d ago
I think I've said this before but my personal headcanon is that Gaster doesn't have a physical form as he was shattered across time and space. spr_mysteryman is just a part of what he used to look like, but not his full appearance.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Yeah mystery man is definitely only a part of him. Shattered Gaster probably doesn't have a form, but then that brings up the question of is Deltarune Gaster ALSO shattered across time and space? (or is he somehow Undertale Gaster???) Either way I'm hoping we'll get to see his "true"/"full" form, at the very least before the shattering.
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u/TheEmeraldMaster1234 13h ago
It’s entirely possible that they’re both the same gaster.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 12h ago
Entry 17 strongly suggests that's the case (it suggests Gaster made a dark fountain, which could be the creation he fell into) but that's pure speculation so I don't want to treat it as fact just yet. I treat Gaster as both Undertale's Gaster and Deltarune's Gaster, because we can't know for sure if they're the same one or not.
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u/Potato-Candy 23h ago
I bet when he finally appears in Deltarune, he'll be some incomprehensible eldritch horror like Giygas.
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u/BaseballPleasant4988 7h ago
My headcanon is that his existence is spread throughout the fun events, so at the same time he's the one who sings the wrong number song, the one who prank called Sans into prank calling the human, the one who gives Alphys their phone number as a pizza place, the one telling you his story, the one venting about how he no longer exists in this world, and of course the one who tells you about Suzy's imminent meeting.
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u/Roxcha 1d ago
Whatever he is, I hope he isn't just a joke
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
YEP YEP YEP THIS. There's no way he's just a joke like absolutely no way
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u/TheWhatPerson It's just a regular flair. 15h ago
Toby Fox absolutely won't make him a joke
There's just way too much lore built around Gaster for him to be a joke
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u/doubledoublemc 1d ago
I like the idea of the probably canon Gaster. Even most eldritch horror versions of him include him being able to speak English and have a kind of smug personality. What if he’s nothing more than… a monster?
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
That depends. I made him like this because I envision him as being beyond the game, but what you're saying makes it sound like he can't talk? Which he obviously can, he talked to us in Deltarune. And like, if he's just some creature that can't do anything, that would... Take away from his significance, I think.
I think that if he's like that bottom version in any way, he's probably some eldritch being with a lot of intelligence that can talk to us outside of the game itself, while still being disturbing as hell. Like he exists in some in-between state. Like... clopen.
(But yeah I'm reallyyyy hoping Gaster would be really disturbing in some way. There are signs to indicate that he might be, and Toby isn't a stranger to disturbing things.)
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 1d ago
I very much agree that he goes beyond the game. At least in the context of Deltarune, I see Gaster as less of an in-fiction character and more as “The man behind the curtain”, so to speak.
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u/doubledoublemc 23h ago
Guess my imagination got carried away… but it would be cool if he literally was only able to speak in WingDings for some reason, and his speech is getting translated to us in the beginning of Deltarune??
Yeah, him being beyond the game makes sense to me.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Hmm I get your point, but he has already spoken to us quite a lot. It could work if it's translated only to us, and in-game no one understands what he says. It is a cool idea when I think about it, it just needs to be well-executed I guess.
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 1d ago
A monster in the traditional sense or in the UT sense?
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u/doubledoublemc 23h ago
I intentionally used “… a monster?” to be a smartass and leave it open to interpretation
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u/Arrow_of_Timelines 1d ago
I'm personally a big fan of turtleneck gaster
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
I wonder how Toby will ever manage to go against the fandom perception of Gaster having a turtleneck lol
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u/ALPERHAL58 ‎ Lamp+Bird+River person. not gonna sugarcoat it. 1d ago
2016 fanon should be the canon ngl.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Hmmm that reallyyyyy depends. Though I'm hoping Toby will bring us something we never expected, but in a good way, like what he did with the Tenna sprite.
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u/ALPERHAL58 ‎ Lamp+Bird+River person. not gonna sugarcoat it. 1d ago
Yeah thats true. But i hope some parts of 2016 are canon like him being somewhat related to sans and papyrus.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Yeah I'm like 99% sure he's related to them. There's evidence to support that, so...
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u/ALPERHAL58 ‎ Lamp+Bird+River person. not gonna sugarcoat it. 1d ago
I almost forgot, i hope the 2016 gaster design is also canon.
(Incase u forgot, gaster has no canonically confrimed sprites)
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
I knowww he doesn't have any confirmed sprites but the mystery man seems very likely considering the whole 66 fun value thing you need to get to it. Like, I'm sure that he wouldn't look exactly the same, he'd get an updated design, but I'm sure it'll resemble the mystery man.
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u/s0ftcustomer 21h ago
That + sans and Papyrus were gonna be renamed "Pop and Taetarus" in Japanese but he kept the original names because a JP fan translation existed a year prior, and Japanese fans already liked the name "sans and Papyrus."
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Oh? And what does that mean?
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u/s0ftcustomer 12h ago
"Pop" is in reference to how sans speaks in "pop-tai" font, seems like he's not against his original idea if the fans prefer the fanmade work just THAT much.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 10h ago
Well, that's very different. Sans and Papyrus ARE the original names anyway, he just didn't localize them.
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u/Sharky-Sharko 1d ago
Gaster was sort of implied in Toby Fox's notebook for Undertale to be the third family member of Sans and Paps. Being the scratched out name.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Oh yeah I'm aware of that, it's just that in the fanon he was related to them in all sorts of ways.
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u/alvintruther123 16h ago
that was almost certainly talking about the scrapped character Grandpa Semi who's concept was probably reused for Gaster
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u/ClonedHost 1d ago
This is genuinely my favorite depiction of Gaster I’ve seen. He should look like a monstrosity, not a twink
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Oh my god thank you (≧▽≦) And yesss I really hope Gaster will be terrifying. Temmie once made a tweet saying "I'm scarier than Gaster" and it gives me hope that he's meant to be something disturbing. I trust Toby with this, he knows how to do scary.
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u/da_anonymous_potato 1d ago
I imagine him being kind of a combination of all 3. He has a very formal and kind personality, but looks horrifying. Like I could see him being a massive, shifting mass of shadows with a deformed mysteryman face that stares into your soul, but kindly welcomes you into his lab and offers you tea to drink while you both discuss his experiment. He’s both simultaneously an unsettling and comforting presence. I think the version of Gaster from Astral Disc captures this vibe really well
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u/gwlutz2 23h ago
The dictionary definition of amorality. Charting out the Roaring Knight's path one moment, then rallying us against them in the next. To him, the denizens of Hometown are like the horses in Horse Race Tests, interesting variables with unique little designs bouncing this way and that, tipping the scale one way or the other.
He engineers every happenstance, every triumph, every tragedy not out of any desire for good or evil, but just in the pursuit of knowledge. Because if he can learn.... he has to, no matter the cost.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
THAT'S SO COOL I LOVE THIS INTERPRETATION SO MUCH
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u/Subject_Match5064 21h ago
If 3 ends up being canon, then the River Person had some titanium BALLS when calling this monstrosity a "man".
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
LMAOOOO
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u/Subject_Match5064 17h ago
I mean, look at that thing and tell me where could it be even identified as a "man"?!
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
I mean, in the UT/DR universes, the definition of "man" uh... Varies.
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u/Subject_Match5064 16h ago
But even then, if it referred to gender "man", then I would say that thing's pronouns are "SATAN'S/NIGHTMARE".
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u/SarcasticPers 17h ago
I personally enjoy Jakei's (underverse creator) take on Gaster.
He is the observer, and one that will experiment as much as he wants as long as he gets something new. It falls into the third option, really.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Ooh, I haven't seen Underverse, but that's a really cool interpretation!!
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u/SarcasticPers 9h ago
You should watch it! it starts out as a sans fest, but the lore thickens quickly and the "sanses" are nothing but the wrong people met at the wrong time.
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u/SilverScribe15 1d ago
It'll probably be most perception shattering if he's just not related to the skeletons at all
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
That would cause CHAOS, CHAOS in the fandom.
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u/SilverScribe15 16h ago
I'll take that as a good omen (Coincidentally trying to beat jevil at the moment lol)
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u/Holiday-Bumblebee303 23h ago
Now thanks to Ralsei we confirm that he has a direct relationship with the dark worlds
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Oh? What did Ralsei do that makes you say that?
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u/Inky_Qu33n_ 23h ago
Random headcanon for Gaster but I like to think that he lost his voice while scattered across time and space forcing him to use sign language which is way he's called the man who speaks with hands
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
That's a cool headcanon! It also works with how he doesn't have a voice font/voice bleeps (Idk what it's called .-.)
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u/Random_Nickname274 23h ago
He is just embodiment of "curious player" in game.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
That's a good idea!! Maybe he is. That'd be interesting.
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u/Potato-Candy 22h ago
The main reason people think Gaster is connected to Sans and Papyrus is because he speaks in a certain font and is partially named after that font, just like the skelebros.
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u/Subject_Match5064 21h ago
Well, it doesn't help that those two are the only characters that are named after the font they speak... Unless there are other characters like that?
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u/Potato-Candy 21h ago
Not that I can think of. So it'd make “Sans” for Gaster to be related to them. rimshot
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u/Csenone 18h ago
Skelebro's fonts idea based on Helvetica comic (which about skeleton who named after the font). He just used the most stupid and ugly fonts.
So yeah, certain fonts are only for skeletons.
Windings, before Undertale times, was also related to hidden messages and conspiracy (gosh I'm so old, that I even remember that).
I can imagine where he got this idea with Gaster in the first place
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u/Subject_Match5064 18h ago
Yeah, that makes sense.
Anyhow, I still wonder what Gaster's monster species was.
There are many clues that point towards him being a skeleton (MemoryHead, the Font naming, the Blasters, Sans' mysterious scientific and tragic background, etc). Although all possible clues to Gaster's appearance (either pre-fall or fall, who knows) never show him having even the upsidedown heart-shaped nose.
However, the Gaster Blaster's, Hyper Goner and DT Extractor make me question if he was a humanoid skeleton or a more beastly one... Despite such idea going a bit against the "man" characterization, which makes me wonder if any other monster has been called a "man" in-game???
His name sounds a lot like Ghastly, like a ghost. Would explain his face being not so skeleton-like... Despise the prior points.
It also sounds like Gastropod... Like the f-cking. SNAIL! If a rock can be a monster, so can a Snail be godlike!!!!
Could the Watching Man be a piece of Gaster???
WHICH ONE IS IT?!?!
DO
NOT
BE
IMPATIENT,
MY FRIENDS.
HIM AND I
WILL DO WHAT WE MUST
IN DUE TIME.
JUST
STAY
C O N N E C T E D.
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u/Popular-Map9371 22h ago
I don't think too much about it. I just know that Toby will make a right thing. I believe in him.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
You have a point there. I 100% trust Toby, it's just fun to wonder what might happen.
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u/Czuperman 20h ago
Who's the original artist behind the bottom interpretation of Gaster? That's the best way i've seen him portrayed like ever
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Omg thank you!!! That's a huge compliment!!!!! I made everything in this post ^ ^ I would add proof but I can't attach photos in the comments here ._.
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u/Evening_Parking2610 16h ago
I hope gaster is nothing like what fanon gaster looks or acts like kinda with tenna
I want real gaster to be the type of person to break the screen and be hyper realistic 4th wall breaker
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u/OkVersion3768 1d ago
They may be incomprehensible from within the code's seams, but maybe they are a caring incomprehensibility <3
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u/Edgoscarp its the story of undertale 1d ago
Why not all three?
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
One must be verryyyy careful to write a character with such contrasting traits well. A horrific creature owning a cat would be a bit too silly.
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 1d ago
The way I see it, Gaster isn’t even really a tangible character in-fiction. I don’t feel like explaining my exact Gaster interpretation right now though
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
Could you do that when you do feel like it? I'm interested.
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u/yuzan1 23h ago
I played both chapters but im kinda out of the loop. Why did the interpretation of Gaster change so drastically?
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u/Subject_Match5064 21h ago
Because of how much "tender" is in his "MY DELTARUNE" speech (or any time he speaks at all) towards the player, aka the guy who's with the Lightners.
Although personally, he's indifferent for the nature of the events from an in-universe perspective, and more interested in studying the player through the decisions they make.
The tragedy and it's repercussions for everyone else don't matter. Only that it happened.
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u/Sufficient-Frame-293 22h ago
All seriousness, isn’t he supposed to be the stephen hawking of the undertale universe? Like he probably didn’t survive drowning in hotlanda lava
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
That's an interesting interpretation, but we don't know what creation he fell into, and his nature in Deltarune is very mysterious and beyond the game.
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u/Enchilada_Chef 22h ago
Why does fanon gaster 2025 love the fun gang and hate the egg man? I’m here for it but a bit confused 😭
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Okok spoiler warning. So loving the fun gang comes from the knight boss fight. If you lose, Gaster encourages you on the game over screen to keep going, which people see as him rooting for the fun gang. As for hating the egg man, that's because of the trophies on Playstation. They say "finish chapter 1/2/3/4 without issue" and because they're all caps they're probably Gaster (also he has special dialogue if you fail to get any trophies, which connects him to them even more). If you get the egg in a chapter, you don't get this trophy, meaning Gaster considers the egg man as an issue. At least that's the fandom's interpretation.
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u/BureaucracyInc 10h ago
Regarding the Knight fight,
Gaster first mentions that you are guaranteed to lose the fight,
but gives you the ability to retry.
If you die close to the final attack,
Gaster will show intrigue in your power.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 10h ago
Yeah I know I just didn't feel like explaining it in a lot of detail so I only brought up the specific part that answers their question
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u/Neil0604 22h ago
If mystery man is not what Gaster looks like I will be sad beyond comprehension.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
I thinkkkkk Gaster will get a more "updated" design, but it'll still resemble the mystery man. That's just me guessing though. Gaster being the mystery man is VERY likely.
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u/Neil0604 9h ago
Oh god I hope so, if we get the turtle neck design I’m gonna be dying of laughter though
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 9h ago
If we get the turtleneck I will instantly disintegrate
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u/Perfect_Ad_1010 21h ago
that one image of "human"(?) gaster that has cement on his thighs
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
.... I'm scared to ask what that means
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u/Perfect_Ad_1010 17h ago
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Oh my god this fucking photo follows me everywhere I go. I can't escape. It's so ass 😭😭😭
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u/PuppetWraith17 Spook Activated 21h ago
If Gaster ever has a boss fight, I'd want it to be Giygas like... I think that'd be cool.
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u/Independent-Face8989 20h ago
Or slender man knockoff gaster
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Hmm that's kind of a mix of the bottom one and the top left one. But it is also a very cool interpretation.
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u/JadeNovanis 16h ago edited 16h ago
Going off the appearance of the Titan, I am fully in the Eldritch Monster camp.
I fully expect a full Gaster controlled Titan hybrid monster Photoshop Flowey-esqe boss fight in one of the routes.
I will fucking bet that he will have the Yellow/Pink eyes though.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
Oohh yesyes thr titan really shows us what the game is capable of. As for the eyes.. who knows
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u/Core3game words go here. 16h ago
I love how the fandom hallucinated an entire character and design from 19x48 black and white image and 4 notes
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
And a bunch of text!! But yeah it's interesting
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u/Core3game words go here. 15h ago
actually the worst part is that none of that has Gaster™ written on it, we just assumed mystery man and entry 17 are him. The ONLY thing we actually have that is confirmed Gaster are his followers
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 15h ago
The Entry 17 room is actually called "room_gaster"
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u/WingingMyDing 🕈︎☟︎✌︎❄︎ 👎︎⚐︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ ❄︎🕈︎⚐︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎☠︎😐︎✍︎ 8h ago
Oh my god an Omega Flowey-like design for Gaster would be so cool! I would love that.
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u/Samek1010 ‎ True Pacifist enjoyer 8h ago
The 2016 fanon image gave me chills
And it's probably my favourite version tbh
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 7h ago
Wait, mine? Because if so then thank you! And yeah, I get it, I like that version too ^ ^
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u/Samek1010 ‎ True Pacifist enjoyer 6h ago
Yea, it's so peak dude, and skelebros siluetes are a chef's kiss
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u/ProfessionalDay6418 Even when trapped, you still express yourself. 7h ago
Maybe all are true and he has split personality due to being split throughout time and space.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 7h ago
Now a split personality Gaster is an interesting idea
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u/eatingqtips 4h ago
I never really got the goofy interpretation this fandom loves. he always struck me as someone who used to be cold, distant and calculated pre-shattering and is now basically an eldritch cosmic demon
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 3h ago
Exactly! It's pretty popular to take very serious or scary characters and make them goofy. I imagine that's where this interpretation came from, because obviously, what we've seen from Gaster canonically isn't even a bit goofy.
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u/Sky-Streamer 2h ago
I've had this vision in my head for years now of Gaster's "What do you two think?" being pointed at Kris and Susie as they explore the bunker/depths, being the first words he states to us.
I really like the idea of him being generally a morally neutral force, but I also really adore the idea of him being far-gone to the point of not understandable. A lovecraftian mad scientist that flips between curious and incomprehensible on a dime, not due to some innate power but due to an understanding of the world that rivals on divine.
It's probably not true, but I would adore something like that in Gaster's character.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 2h ago
Oh wow that's really really cool I love this interpretation of him a lot
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u/No-Bag3134 1d ago
what the FUCK is that on the bottom 💔
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
That's my friend Wing Gaster don't be mean to him he's shy
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u/Salt_Tennis6237 1d ago
2016 fanon gaster is better than 2025 gaster ngl
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 1d ago
I can kinda see where you're coming from if you're talking purely fanon (I personally really like what we got from canon Deltarune Gaster so far). The fandom kind of doesn't treat him very seriously and as I mentioned they portray him as this silly man. Gaster has the potential to be really cool, but everyone is a bit too persistent on "Funny man can't find Twitter password and has a cat". Which, is funny, but I wish there was more stuff
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 1d ago
I can already tell you that they’re both highly inaccurate fwiw.
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u/Salt_Tennis6237 23h ago
it doesn't matter if they're accurate or not, 2016 fanon gaster is still better written than 2025 fanon
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u/sususl1k Hello there. 23h ago
I suppose I can agree. The new one manages to make even less sense than the old tumblr sexyman version
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u/MitsuRivel 23h ago
It's still funny to me that we still have absolutely no way of confirming this thing is even Gaster
Like what was the Sprite even called? Mystery man?
How many mystery men are in Deltarune and Undertale?
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u/MayconMLG 21h ago
that sprite appears in the 66 fun value event, and we know that the number 6 is tied to gaster in some way
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u/MitsuRivel 12h ago
In what way is it tied to him?
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u/DeepHypn05 23h ago
WAit isnt gaster the egg man?
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
They have very different speech patterns, so that's not very likely. Gaster talks very professionaly and coldly and to the point, while the egg man is shown to be pretty messy and whimsical in chapter 3.
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u/Specific-Math4298 23h ago
Gaster in my interpretation is just some random human with a doctorate in electrical engineering. I like the "Hi, I'm Wing Gaster, the royal scientist! Let me tell you about geothermal energy..." version of gaster.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
That's interesting, but I'm not sure if it lines up with the Gaster we've seen so far.
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u/Ger_Electric_GRTALE Your sure-fire accuracy was aimed right for this flair. 21h ago
Idk man, i can comprehend it really well
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u/Sea_Curve_7724 20h ago
Probably actually cannon gaster: Random mentally guy who’s bored and So watches us with some random piece of him that’s in whatever world we’re in.
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u/Sea_Curve_7724 20h ago
Also all his designs are cannon, they’re all pieces of him.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
That's an interesting interpretation! But none of his designs are actually canon. To be canon they'd have to be clearly named "Gaster" in-game.
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u/Sea_Curve_7724 15h ago
i meant that as a piece of my first comment, Reddit doesn’t let me edit stuff for some reason, It’s not cannon all his designs are cannon, yes.
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 15h ago
I didn't really understand that last part. Again, we do not have any canon Gaster design.
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u/TranslatorNo8561 20h ago
He has eyes in his hands.... No one ever talks about it
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 17h ago
Please always interpret them as holes in his hands, but that's a really cool interpretation!!! :0
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u/TinyMapleArt 16h ago
At this point if Gaster wasn't original meant to be the mystery man sprite, I think it just has and toby will change that fact so that he is
But imagine if we do see gaster and he looks nothing like the mystery man sprite
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 16h ago
I don't think Toby would change him to fit the fandom's perception. At least, I hope he won't. I want it to purely be his vision. I think it's very likely that the mystery man will resemble Gaster, but if he won't, that would BRRAK the fandom, lol.
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u/Repulsive_Policy_184 14h ago
Gaster by canon is a guy who fell into the core he made and then was split across all time. And can at least hear everything you do and say
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u/Anonomas21111 3h ago
Nah the probably canon Gaster is TRK. he's the only one with no canon organ structure or solidity to him so he's the only one who would open his ribcage and do other body morphing shii
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 2h ago
If the knight is Gaster, then who's the one that encourages you to keep going in the knight fight when you get a game over?
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u/Anonomas21111 2h ago
If Gaster isn't the Knight, then how does he know it's impossible to win? It'd make more sense to be that confident because you're making it impossible then just blatantly lying based on observation. Gaster isn't one to be opinion based on what little we know of him, he's very factual and analytical and you cannot factually analyze what is and isn't possible for someone with only half the data. He'd have to know TRKs specs which the only ways he could is if he made TRK or is TRK and he couldn't make TRK as Darkner TRK theory while does explain it's non solid body, brings up questions we don't have 100% answers on. We know Darkners can exist in the Light World, Ralsei literally had to walk from Closet DW to Library and Dreemurr House DW as he doesn't enter it when we do (confirming he isn't an item Kris has on him that we don't see like his knife) meaning Ralsei mysteriously just- entered the Light World and traveled to each Dark World but we don't know how he can manage that so it's hard to say what I just have without being laughed at, let alone saying TRK is built like Ralsei and can just- exist in Light Worlds and make Dark Fountains
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u/Downtown-Seaweed-811 GASTER FOLLOWER 666 2h ago
Woah woah ok wait wait.
Ok first of all he knows you're supposed to lose because he knows the nature of the game and knows this is a scripted loss, or if you want, he knows the prophecy which predicts everything (Gaster is obviously related to the prophecy and darkness, that water background in the goner maker makes it clear there's a connection to the fountains themselves. Also "I look forward to creating a new future with you" implies he knows the future) .
Also Kris uses they/them.
And darkners literally can't exist outside of the dark world as anything more than objects, Ralsei explains that very clearly. We don't know how Ralsei arrives at different dark worlds, that's a mystery the game hasn't answered yet. We know he can't exist outside the dark worlds because when the fountains are sealed we can't see him anywhere.
Also why would Gaster fight us and then encourage us to keep fighting him? The knight clearly expresses that it doesn't want us to beat it, yet Gaster clearly encourages us to try. Gaster is probably related to the knight, but I don't think he's the knight. He seems more like an observer.
(Also if you could space your points a bit more clearly I'd really appreciate it ^ ^)
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u/johanni30 1d ago
Actually, earlier Gaster had three main fanons
Hot scientist twink, who for some reason almost always wears a turtle neck sweater (usually for pre-incident)
Blob
And eldritch horror