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goopy Gaster

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Beware of the man who came from the other world.

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It's been 80 years since I last drew him

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(X)Gaster, Creators, and the Knowledge of being fictional

so, in an appearant fit of self destruction, i managed to read part of Xtales plot on a fanon wiki.... and well, i couldn't decipher all of it, but from what i understand, XGaster's motivation comes from not making a good enough AU...which appearantly drove him insane? And appearantly he uses everyone as puppets to try and create the perfect AU as a result.

But how is that any different from a real life creator? I myself suffer from perfectionism, and im sure many other people do to. We all create stories just to scrap them again, especially me. I was told making multiple versions of a story is part of the writing process...what makes XGaster overwriting each story any different from that? What makes him evil, when other creators arent?

it seems to be from the same logic of the people that blame the player for the games actions, while also villifying the player at the same time (or alternatively, frisk or chara). And yet, sans says something interesting, in that the no mercy route is done not out of a desire of good or evil, but because you can, so you have too.

that whole desire of not doing it out of good or evil...thats the thing that people keep forgetting. You dont magically become evil by killing all the enemies in a videogame, even if the game itself says so. The reason? Because the characters you mistreat are not real.

People love to villify the player, but strangely enough, not the creator. You know, the one who makes the story, the one above the player? Why is the player evil, but not the one who enabled the player, and all other evil in the story in the first place?

once again, because characters are not real. But say, what if a fictional character became aware that everything wasn't real? Like, actually became aware that everyone is just a figment of someone's mind, including themselves.

What if, the knowledge of everything being fictional, made them view it like us, the real people, and what if, the desire to create a good story is the same that we do? But don't forget, because the creator is also a character, their own feelings don't matter...which means the only reason they would create a story...

Is to entertain real people, aka us.

So now I ask the question, If a character knew that everything is fictional, and thus not real, whose own feelings don't matter, who only desires to entertain real people...

Would they still be evil then?

But thats the strange thing in the UT Multiverse, while the characters are very much aware of Creators existing, I almost never see it acknowledged that the multiverse is not real, or the sheer horror & nihilism the characters would realistically experience if they found out.

Sure, there is the occasional story that does, but those stories always end with "we feel real, so we are real, so the person who doesnt acknowledge us as real is the bad guy and we should hate them!"

and to put it bluntly, thats a really shallow take to an interesting philosophical question.

As for Xtale? Xtale/Underverse doesn't seem to acknowledge its AUs as "not real" or atleast dont show any nihilistic responses to it (to my knowledge). I find this quite a shame, 'cause well...

It would make Xgaster a much more compelling character in my opinion.

A creator who is identical to us in every way, with the exception that their fictional...imagine all the interesting philosophical questions that would arise. A fictional villain whose descent to villany is acting like a real person

But, thats complicated. Thats not what the surface view of canon implies. Of course we cant have that.

No, the fandom wants a villain they can unconditionally hate, maybe with a semi-sympathethic backstory thats unproportional to their actions, but a hatable villain nontheless.

first was Flowey, then Chara, then King, then Mike, and ofc the Knight & the Player, as well as the occasional Asgore & Alphys, but the scapegoat nobody recognizes as one, is Gaster, who has been villified from day one, and will probably remain so forever...

Which is a shame, not only cause that makes the stories far more shallow than they need to be, but also cause, well, Gaster is both an Undertale and Deltarune character, with meta knowledge, implied to be overseeing everything, so what would the next logical step be?

or in other words, what would make a truly self aware fictional character any more evil than us?

and once again...

what would make (X)Gaster any more evil than us?

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ugh screw this, i think i'm the only person who feels really, really uncomfortable about undertale aus in general, and i wish they didn't make up 99% of the fandom

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do you ever just wish that experiment aus didn't make up half (or more) of all gaster fics? That gaster was treated like an actual undertale character instead of a scapegoat? Thats what im feeling right now

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i feel like i'm the only person in the fandom who doesn't want/see handplates as canon

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i guess one of my more consistent predictions is that gaster is going to break at some point. a lot of theorists conceptualize his potential turning point as him dropping his facade at a calculated moment like Surprise... Im Evol...... everything having gone according to his devious plans but me personally i think he's going to reach a point of overwhelm and just fucking break. like his shit ISN'T going to work and he's going to be like why. why. why won't anything change. and it’s going to completely undermine whatever grip he had left. if we expect him to Go Giygas at some point then why not consider why giegue/giygas was like that in the first place, having lost his mind entirely as a result of sheer grief and frustration, twisting him into a mindless entity of raw, conflicted emotion. i’m thinking of ANOTHER HIM again, where a thrashing, hollering mass of noise steadily builds up the tension until the piano finally shouts it down (the piano even gets noticeably louder at the end), returning to a baseline, before it all happens again on the next loop of the piece. how long can he maintain this before the noise finally drowns him?

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＊An enigmatic encounter.

last breath phase3.

I was asked to draw a picture of Last Breath to a 7-year-old boy.

I hope he likes it.

Last breath belongs to zerjox

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hadal zone

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The piece for @violetthepixie for winning the draw this in your style! I ended up doing both monotone and color since I wasn’t a huge fan of the colored one.

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WOOOOO i finally made more cr art it’s been a hot minute. here’s my meepmorp guys

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Mermay Day 6: Dr. Gaster!!

This one was really fun to do, I always love drawing Gaster being a spooky weirdo... his tail is based off of an angler fish!!

Also! Check out patreon to see the fishy designs of Dust, killer and axe early for $1!!

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gaster designs range from sophisticated gentleman to eldritch horror with glitch aesthetics

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Finally painted something 😵 hi

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progressively abstract mystery mans

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Undertale (Video Game) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: W. D. Gaster & Grillby, Grillby & Papyrus & Sans (Undertale), W. D. Gaster & Papyrus & Sans Characters: Grillby (Undertale), W. D. Gaster, Sans (Undertale), Papyrus (Undertale), Alphys (Undertale), Undyne (Undertale), Toriel (Undertale), Asgore Dreemurr, Asriel Dreemurr, Chara (Undertale), Original Undertale Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gaster Blaster (Undertale), Gaster Blaster Sans (Undertale), Gaster Blaster Papyrus (Undertale), Scientist W. D. Gaster, Parent W. D. Gaster, Parent Grillby (Undertale), Skeleton Chara (Undertale), Goopy W. D. Gaster, Good W. D. Gaster, Evil W. D. Gaster, at some point, its complicated, Gaster is good at heart though, Gaster is a Sasslord, Grillby is done with all this shit, Sharing a Body, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, (or potentionally removed) Summary:

Grillby didn't like being on guard duty, yet it was neccesary, for the darkness attacks happened almost daily now.

So imagine his shock when he slayed the most unusual dark dragon he'd seen, and was now stuck raising its children.

Oh yeah! And he now seems to be sharing a body with these dragon babies' parent!

Grillby just can't catch a break.