So a friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, told me a theory about Deltarune. Everyone who's taking the time to read this right now knows who W.D. Gaster is so I won't bother with the details. He fell into his own creation, now he's scattered across time and space, what an idiot!
My friend had an epiphany. Gaster's scattered across space and time, is always listening and always watching, and speaks in hands.
Well, who else do we know that does that?
1. Sees and watches everything these characters do
2. Is present across all endings, all timelines, all at once
Yes, we think the player (and Toby Fox) is Gaster. Scattered across time and space? All of us playing the different routes. Always watching and listening? Watching let's plays, watching the characters do their thing through the screen. Speaking in hands? Again, the mouse.
Obviously we don't mean in a LITERAL sense that we're Gaster in the story, like Gaster is a bunch of random fragments of some guy that got stuck in the bodies of whoever bought Undertale and Deltarune on Steam, the intention of the theory is that Gaster is the character we all collectively play as, and the narrator of Deltarune is a meta-narrative representation of Toby Fox.
UTDR has always been about making in-universe explanations for video game stuff, like the ability to save, the concept of EXP, the concept of controlling the protagonist, etc. When I heard this theory, I felt it was on brand for the kind of writing these games have because of that.
It would also explain why we can never name ourselves Gaster because that's our "real" name and we can't let anyone catch on to the idea of Gaster being a thing.
Honestly, whether we're right or wrong on this, I wanted to post this here just so I could look back on it and either laugh or pat my friend on the back. It's such a smart way to look at things and I think it'd be a really cool twist. I've never heard it before, soooooooo check back in a couple years if chapter 7's out by then and see where it led, if anywhere.
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