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03/08/2024 08:56 PM
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Muse Interview โฆ stolen from tumblr
CHARACTER INTERVIEW โreal name: W.D. Gaster โsingle or taken: Technically single, still infatuated with his world's Sans. โabilities or powers: If he is unobserved he can be anywhere. The void-goo can take any shape, not that he gets creative with it. He can have up to ten hands in play before their speed and accuracy begin to diminish. Near-perfect memory retention. โfamily members: Father (deceased); Mother (amalgamate) โsomething they don’t like: That, compared to many he has met, he is rather existentially nonthreatening. โhobbies/activities: Cooking up new ways to make a universe non-viable; seeing how persons that catch his interest react to x or y occurrence; testing the quirks of his own non-existence; getting lost on memory lane. โever hurt anyone before: Yes, both accidentally and on purpose. โever killed anyone before: Yes, both accidentally (lab tech) and on purpose (human children, entire worlds worth of humans & monsters on the rare occasion he manages to successfully destroy one). โworst habits: Self-sabotage. Though that's also kind of a good thing? โsexual orientation: Minsexual. Usually simplify this by saying gay but masc non-binary are also a-go, y'know? โthoughts on marriage/kids: General disinterest. โfears: The destruction of his origin universe before he can find a way to return to and stay there. โstyle preferences: Black black black and some white and darker colors, comfortable and warm, occasionally oversized. Robes, long coats, formal, and fancy-wear--back when he still had the entirety of his body. Now when he takes proper shape it almost always resembles what he wore before he jumped (fur-trimmed, fluffy coat; pony boots; black trousers; scarf). โsomeone they love: Not that he's capable of feeling this particular emotion in full anymore, but his world's Sans. โapproach to friendships: They aren't his goal and it's probably only possible if the other party does not belong to a world, but he will easily 'befriend' people with the express purpose of using it against them. โthoughts on pie: Neutral. He still remembers how to bake a pie. Toriel's were always better, though, allegedly, but his taste-tester (Asgore) was obviously biased ('Some things are better when done with love than science,' sentimental old goat). โfavorite drink: Anything with caffeine. โfavorite place to spend time at: There is currently no such place that he can access with any certainty. โswim in the lake or in the ocean: Lake, if he had to. โtheir type: Smol huggable skellington. โcamping or indoors: Indoors. Laboratory settings specifically; they're cozy.
Tagged by: I yoinked this off'a someone
Tagging: Yoink it off'a me
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03/03/2024 06:58 PM
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Various Old Men Within ๐ด๐
While I was high off my ass my druggie brain gave birth to two au versions of the old bastard man that are now additional optional encounters but before I get into them they're variants of
This Profile's (Main) Gaster
Sci Cult's just had a blog post and no other mentions anywhere lol
Sad wet old man to malicious(?) lump pipeline: his entire timeline plus that of his CORE (another option--requires going to his origin world--functions as a killswitch as it will actively annihilate this old idiot as soon as he enters the CORE facility) can be found in this blog post.
"Science Cult" Gaster
Wherein rather than gradually spiralling into major depression after the accident that killed a techie and irrepairably damaged him, he instead gradually went through the eccentric old scientist to madman bent on world destruction pipeline instead. Copy-pasting things from my blog,
โ Pre-Erasure.
โ A mystery science cult leader along the same vein as Pythagoras. The Followers will be coming into play with this one more-so than the blog’s flagship a**hole.
โ He has two notable times one can interact with:
• Prior to discovering that the world they are in is a game, wherein he is a mad scientist but not an outright antagonist. He’s actually nice! Just eccentric.
• Until after discovering that the world they are in is just a game, at which point he starts to go off the rails. His Followers, well, follow suit. Their group could be likened to video game bosses while the BBEG(aster) works on changing and twisting and corrupting their world to try and gain the attention of whatever is behind the code their world runs on. Clearly a villain arc ending in his erasure but not-quite-there-yet.
โ Not related to the skeletons.
โ A wight. When his creation is ultimately turned against him and his Followers, a failsafe kicks in. Everything is simply data, including himself and his sycophantic allies. Gaster created backups So, while they are ultimately erased from their timeline (back up copies of lines of code, obviously, are not The Original Version of those lines of code), they do not cease existing altogether. It isn’t perfect, however. He did not have time enough to test it and make sure that everything was one hundred percent as it should be. The back ups weren’t updated to the very point of erasure, either–they were created shortly after he upgraded the original device that granted ability to see the world code to be able to receive and apply changes to that very code. Fortunately, it’s easy enough to surmise that since the back ups were activated, that his original version was defeated. Further silver lining was the abject fact that no one within his timeline remembered who he nor his Followers were. Erasure is erasure. All memories of him and what he tried to accomplish were forgotten. He and his Followers are now naught but ghosts, observing their timeline throughout its trials and tribulations caused by those other than them. General appearance: that one sprite
BSOD / "Crash"
A variant of "Science Cult" that succumbed to the same depression the guy a couple worlds to the left succumbed to, albeit after creating a world-corrupting doomsday device that he turned upon himself in a fit of "clarity." This ended up corrupting only his data, resulting in his prompt seeming erasure from his world and this monstrosity:
He can transform into the following sprite,
And in doing so he can connect into whatever Universe he happens to be in at the time and cause it to Blue Screen. He only BSODs universes that have gone through Neutral or Pacifist runs. His end goal is No Mercy, All Worlds. It also allows him to "crash" (enlighten) individual monsters, resulting in cases similar to Jevil. He will sometimes assist the Fallen Human if they are particularly dust-thirsty(?) or encountering problems. Likes to f*** around in No Mercy AUs for Fun and Amusement sometimes, but refrains from crashing them. Likes to play pranks all throughout the spectrum of utterly harmless to outright sadistic.
"Reboot"
A version of the guy a couple worlds to the left that Crash meddled with, keeping him from performing the experiment that inflicted those injuries and caused the mental bad times. Has since been roped into cleaning up Crash's BSODs by rebooting the worlds via a device Crash created for him to use for that purpose. He has yet to catch on to Crash's true "game." He just thinks he's enabling morbid, but harmless (as the worlds are returned to normal afterwards) "fun." He's morally grey at best, but generally a nice old dude--if he knew what his "friend" was doing he would do his best to stop the guy. Eccentric.
Old. Uses a cane because of a bad back. The reboot device is built into it, activated by pressing the upside-down heart, and the cane itself is sturdy enough to be used as a blunt weapon in a pinch.
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02/27/2024 02:23 PM
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Largely Irrelevant Character Infoโข๏ธ
Copy + Pasted from my roleplay blog. (And subsequently a bulletin, but those don't last forever, so~)
While this profile is primarily for him but several years after trying to kermit sudoku (generally the same time period as his blog), I'm open to playing this ornery bastard from any point in his timeline ๐ช
I'm too lazy to transcribe the chicken scratch I wrote on the images but the additional stuff below mainly covers it anyway.
  The pun, explained, though it's rather obvious: since he's partly a Ghast on his father's side - yeah I'm not going to bother spelling it out it's just like. Right there. Wights in his world refer to "undead of mixed origin" - his mother's side had enough skeleton for him to look exactly like one until just before the monster equivalent of puberty kicked in. The apothecary he used to study under was a human dude in the little mixed human-monster village he and his family lived in. The guy liked to joke that he was an honorary human because "he has a skeleton inside him, too :)" (Gaster stopped trying to point out that the 'skin' was growing from/into/dissolving/otherwise removing the 'skeletal' part of him after a while; old guy thought it was funny). His parents were in charge of funerary ritual for both monsters and humans until the war and unrest reached their village. It began with a human priest deciding to set up shop and sow suspicion among the people living there. The Royal Archivist was a fluffy old crow, looked kind of like the lovechild of a honchkrow and Pokiehl. They met during some ceremony or another, became good friends, and then had a falling out over something stupid. He ceased incorporating feathers into his wardrobe because it was due to a couple of them getting sucked into an experimental machine that caused it to explode. This explosion had two significant results: 1. he ended up injured to a degree that he could not physically nor metaphysically nor mentally heal from, and 2. a lab tech he had been working with that day died. Until his jump he maintained (even if only to himself) that he should have been the one to die that day, since it had been his fault. That incident led him on a downward spiral which, combined with a few other life events that occurred afterward (like submitting his fallen mother to the DT trials run by Alphys) and some external coaxing by what he assumed at the time to be a hallucinatory influence caused by his own guilt, led him to try killing himself via the CORE. He thought it would be poetic to die via his greatest achievement. Obviously it did not work out.
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02/16/2024 04:16 PM
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character-centered tarot reading
CONCEPT
The character’s basic position in the story and in her own fictitious existence.
The Tower rx
Inability to break from sad events. Redundancy in life.
IMPULSE
The character’s wants, needs, instincts, dementias, etc..
The Empress
Strong female figure. Fertility. Maternal.
IDEAL
The character’s beliefs, goals, hopes, fears, morals, etc..
Eight Wands RX
Stagnation in life. Domestic woes. Envy. Jealousy.
PAST
How the character’s saga began.
Eight Cups RX
Seeing things though. Perseverance. Taking a risk.
INTERIM
What went on between the Past and the Present. How the character got where he is now.
Three of Swords RX
Extreme sorrow. Loss of a loved one. Emotional misery.
PRESENT
The character’s current lot in life.
Nine of Swords RX
Improved outlook. Better health.
FUTURE
What is likely to happen to the character in the future.
Two of Swords RX
Falsehoods. Lies. Treachery.
Even the cards are calling him a miserable sad wet old man .
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01/30/2024 07:37 PM
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timeline
It's occurred to me I haven't shoved this on this blog yet. Seeing as I can't link to a good portion of it since it's on a site that can't be linked to here - for all its lack of relevancy, unncessary length, and without further adieu,
Before the War
๐ โ โฑโนโน was born to a pair of monsters (undead subtype: a wight* and a ghast) in a small mixed monster-human village. His parents were undertakers/funeral directors, performing their services for both monster and humankind.
๐ He spent a portion of his early teen years studying under the village's alchemist before the growing unrest reached the village.
During the War
๐ While he was old enough to fight at this time, his father made him promise to take care of his mother and sent them both off to a monster refugee camp at the summit of Mt. Ebott.
After the Barrier was erected
๐ โ โฑโนโน lived with his mother and continued his pursuit of alchemical knowledge. They settled in the newly founded Home.
๐ Nothing significant happened. Scientific knowledge progressed. He switched from alchemy to chemistry to biology to physics to quantum physics and combinations thereof, keeping up with breakthroughs and discoveries while one day hoping to make his own.
๐ His mother eventually relocated to New Home. โ โฑโนโน, on the other hand, relocated to the laboratory in Hot Land to study under the as-of-then current Royal Scientist as an assistant and an intern.
๐ He eventually took over as Royal Scientist.
๐ As science progressed, technology progressed. Rudimentary methods of generating electricity were developed. It was around this point that Alphys joined the Hot Land science team; she quickly became his right hand man. Or... Woman. Right hand lizard lady. You get the gist.
๐ Development began on the CORE. Asgore inquired about a scientific means of breaking the Barrier; development also began on DT extraction and the study of the human SOUL.
๐ The first CORE prototype malfunctions. The explosion kills one assistant and injures โ โฑโนโน. The incident leaves wounds that never fully heal, both physically and mentally.
๐ A few months after the first incident, Sans joins the Hot Land science team as an intern. Before long, he becomes an assistant.
๐ The second CORE prototype is activated successfully. Work begins on a larger version that would ultimately become The CORE.
๐ Alphys and Sans become โ โฑโนโน's 'favorites.' They are both candidates to become the next Royal Scientist, whenever he decides to step down.
๐ An attempt is made to develop more than just a working relationship with Sans. Unknown if successful.
๐ Asgore sends a human to the Hot Land laboratory for the purpose of study. It's the second fallen human. The DT extraction process is tested on this human, proving successful--but, ultimately, fatal. The SOUL is captured and sent back to Asgore. A general sense of unease settles over the science team. The next two fallen humans are sent to the laboratory alive to be studied, extracted from, and dealt with; after a talk with the King about how this is lowering morale, the rest are sent already deceased.
๐ Development begins on the first attempt to break the Barrier: the 'Gaster Blasters.'
๐ The Blasters fail to break the Barrier. They do, however, prove to be effective as weapons. โ โฑโนโน decides not to decommission them and keeps them, just in case.
๐ The CORE reaches completion. Activation is successful. The Underground has a consistent source of power.
๐ Experiments with DT begin. These experiments are delegated to Alphys.
๐ An attempt is made to create artificial human SOULS for a second attempt at breaking the Barrier. It fails. Asgore calls off the scientific approach to Barrier-breaking.
๐ โ โฑโนโน begins spending more time in the CORE. There are rumors about him talking to it. He takes over as its sole maintainer, moving those whose duty it was to maintain it prior to other projects.
๐ His mother falls down. She is sent to the Hot Land laboratory and put under Alphys's care.
๐ We all know the result of the DT experiment on fallen monsters.
๐ The stress and tragedy of life begins to culminate into something that gets to be too much. โ โฑโนโน does not leave the CORE facility for a month. Then, he jumps.
๐ The timeline continues as normal. โ โฑโนโน is declared deceased and treated as such. Initially, his existence is not erased. Initially, he is just that: dead.
๐ Frisk falls. A neutral route begins. At the end of it all, they Reset.
๐ The Reset triggers data retrieval. There is an error in retrieving โ โฑโนโน's data. The universe compensates. His existence is erased and Alphys takes his place. The Room is created to confine the error caused by โ โฑโนโน's incomplete retrieval. What little of โ โฑโนโน is retrieved is in that Room. What cannot be retrieved is substituted with a substance called "Void." The Room is only present within his home timeline once, but another Reset occurs before Frisk reaches it. It is never opened. It disappears.
๐ The door to his Room begins to appear in entirely different universes under the subsection of Undertale within the ever-expanding multiverse. Every Reset shunts his door into a different universe. โ โฑโนโน gradually learns about the state of his existence. โ โฑโนโน gradually learns about the state of existence, in general. It's around this time that he takes on that name, "โ โฑโนโน," to differentiate himself from other Gasters.
๐ He develops an interest in returning to his home universe. He develops an interest in 'the simplification of the multiverse' in order to make that even the slightest bit possible.
๐ He begins development of machines that can, in theory, manipulate the very fabric of the worlds he's in on a quantum/code level. However, the machines are too large to fit into his Room. He has to start from scratch each time. The going is slow. Fortunately, he has nothing but time.
๐ He begins experimenting in easier ways to make universes unviable. One of these ways is talking those universe's inhabitants into "joining him" by jumping into the CORE.
๐ Morality degrades with time and desensitization. If a monster in one universe dies, they're still alive elsewhere. It doesn't matter. Life is, quite literally, a game. He can prove it mathematically. He could provide tangible proof if given enough time within one universe to build one of his machines. That is rare, however. It may have happened only once at this point. His Room tends to appear shortly before or shortly after Frisk or some equivalent has fallen into the Underground: Resets happen too often to progress far enough.
๐ Present time.
* I use “wight” to refer to “undead of mixed lineage." Gaster was born looking enough like a skeleton that his parents thought they could be clever and call him “Wingdings Gaster” both as a pun and so he’d fit in with other fontly-named Skeleton monsters. His skin and underlying musculature grew in over time as he approached his teens, much to his parent’s chagrin. โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The CORE's Timeline ๐น Systems are brought online within the main CORE facility. Fusion proceeds. Nothing explodes. The CORE is successfully fired up. It takes less than an hour to reach maximum energy output. Potential upgrades to increase the maximum are already in planning phase, but they are never needed. ๐น After his mother inquires about the possibility in passing conversations about her occupation (she’s getting old, she wants an excuse to see her boy more), the Royal Scientist gives the go-ahead for Monsters who wish to do so to toss their fallen love one’s dust into the CORE. The majority of the discarded data is burnt up by it. However, some of the data begins to accumulate and be absorbed into it, instead. ๐น Enough so that it begins to develop something resembling a consciousness. As more dust is thrown into it and more fallen data is absorbed, it becomes increasingly aware; aware enough to listen and to learn from Monsters passing far above on the catwalks. ๐น When an old scientist begins to talk to it, it is therefore able to talk back. He assumes that this is a hallucination, but he doesn’t let that possibility bother him enough to seek a professional opinion; the conversations are pleasant. The CORE’s vocabulary is greatly expanded by these talks. ๐น It begins to dabble in form. Nothing major, just small little sprites. None of its forms can leave the CORE facility–they can barely leave its light without breaking apart. Regardless of how much effort it puts into trying to create a lasting vessel for itself, it fails. ๐น It resorts to the next best possibility: the old scientist often speaks to it about his troubles and his woes, so it begins to use those to tempt him to throw himself into it so that it can try to absorb what it needs to build a proper body from a living entity for its own use. While it works on that, it also begins to figure out more efficient ways to absorb the data it is unwittingly fed by those seeking a place to say farewell to their deceased to increase its chances of success. ๐น After some time, it succeeds in egging the old scientist into jumping into it. However, it fails to absorb every byte of data that it needs to reconstruct and use his ‘vessel’ for itself. ๐น When the timeline is reset, the CORE retains the data it has accumulated, as well as its memories. The rest of the data that it requires to complete its plans is collected by a Containment Room that it cannot access; this Room is also not accessed by anyone else before the next Reset, and is thus shunted off to another timeline while containing what it failed to absorb of its timeline’s W.D. Gaster. ๐น It tries, several times, to lure different Monsters into jumping into it. Every success is met with further failure: their data is not compatible with what it has started, or it doesn’t absorb every bit and byte that it would need to make it worth starting anew, or, or, or. It begins to suspect that no matter what it does, this procedure will be a two-step process. ๐น It awaits the old scientist’s return and is ready to [ ACT ] upon his next entry into the CORE facility of his home timeline. Of course, it isn’t picky… Anyone bearing the same prior “existence” - and therefore compatible data - will do, or so it has assumed.The vessel will simply be inconsistent to some degree in the scenario that it ensnares a different iteration of the old scientist, but it will still be a vessel.
The CORE functions as a killswitch: the COREsprite will immediately annihilate, or at least try to annihilate, Gaster if he is brought there in order to absorb the rest of his body. You will then be dealing with a COREsprite wearing Gaster like a skinsuit, whereas the old man is either completely deleted from existence or sent immediately to the void, no passing go, no collecting $200, and no Room to leave it with since he's no longer got any corrupt data that whatever mechanism is behind it feels the need to (try to) contain.
But it will only ever become relevant if for whatever dumbass reason anyone wants to pop into my Gaster's timeline. Also see: never, which saves me the pain and misery of having to come up with an ani-safe design โ๏ธ๐คค
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01/28/2024 08:17 PM
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a fun editing resource.
https://photomosh.com/
It allows you to create static and .gif images with glitchy effects.
Free version applies a watermark, but negating that (unless they change its position in the future) it's as simple as
- adding ~50px to the bottom of your starting image (and filling it in with a color that matches if you want to apply certain effects)
- cropping it off in GIMP or other .gif editing software ๐คท
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01/05/2024 12:06 PM
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Alternative Option
Or, a different AU version of Gaster that I'll play if requested.
โ Pre-Erasure.
โ A mystery science cult leader along the same vein as Pythagoras. The Followers will be coming into play with this one more-so than the blog’s flagship a**hole.
โ He has two notable times one can interact with:
• Prior to discovering that the world they are in is a game, wherein he is a mad scientist but not an outright antagonist. He’s actually nice! Just eccentric.
• Until after discovering that the world they are in is just a game, at which point he starts to go off the rails. His Followers, well, follow suit. Their group could be likened to video game bosses while the BBEG(aster) works on changing and twisting and corrupting their world to try and gain the attention of whatever is behind the code their world runs on. Clearly a villain arc ending in his erasure but not-quite-there-yet.
โ Not related to the skeletons.
โ A wight. And this is a constant between this option and the profile’s flagship: I use “wight” to refer to “undead of mixed lineage” - mother was a wight, father was a ghast. Gaster was born looking like a skeleton that his parents thought they could be clever and call him “Wingdings Gaster” both as a pun and so he’d fit in with other fontly-named Skeleton monsters. His skin and underlying musculature grew in over time as he approached his teens, much to his parent’s chagrin.
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01/03/2024 05:49 PM
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pre-jump appearance thru the eras.
Notes
โ He ceased wearing feathers after the lab accident that injured him and killed an assistant.
โ The accident maimed him in both body and mind. In the years proceeding he became less tolerant of cold temperatures and began to lose the ability to feel emotion, resulting in an internal sense numbness. In other words, he became a depresso espresso.
โ Hence, it was easy for โฬธฬฬออฬซอฬฬฬอ
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12/21/2023 12:29 PM
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in the past.
It isn't rare to find him sitting precariously on the edge of one of the catwalks overlooking the chasm that contains it, gazing into it for long hours, like a moth to a flame. He's even been caught talking to it once or twice by passers-by. There's a rumor that he's losing his mind, but what great scientist didn't have their little eccentricities?
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