#just a quick answer

[zarla-s]

do you have any pixel art of Gaster similar to the art of the bros in the ukagaka? I made them out of perler beads and I want to add Gaster, but I can't find any good patterns and I'm not good at pixel art myself

I do! Let's see...

[rent-day-blues]

love this series of fics! It's been mentioned that John gets migraines- I wonder how that would affect the family?

Sally had learned to watch for signs years ago, because heaven only knew John would never open his mouth to say he was hurting.

The trouble was John was always subtle, even as a tiny babe in arms, and adulthood too soon had only taught him guile.  He hides his pains well; the merest frown or scowl, easily explained by the endless stress and worry, the only sign of the feeling of a head in a vice.

Sally never had migraines, but her Grant, god rest his soul, occasionally suffered for them.  It hurt her, that John had inherited the malady, and that there was nothing she could do to make it easier for him. The only pills they suspected would help him were priced so high as to be little more than a fantasy.

It takes her a few minutes to ease herself out of bed, her own pains pulling her back from her grandson in ways she’s grown to hate.  Alan’s long gone, door slammed hard enough to make even her wince, after the TV had been snapped off.

John is where she was afraid he would be, sat at the kitchen table, head on his arms.  The gills, such as she can see, are an unfetching shade of green.

He only twitches as she turns the faucet, lets the water run a moment before putting the mug left on the draining board under the flow. He’d cleaned, but she can still smell bile.

She sets the cup next to his arm, turns back to run a clean dishcloth under the water before turning off the tap.

He sighs, barely a whimper, as she presses the compress to his temple.  “Grandma, I’m fine, and it’s too chilly for you to be….”

“Hush child,” she pushes the mug closer.  “Let me take care of you for once.”

That he lets her tells her just how much he’s hurting.  She stands as he sags onto the table again, her gnarled, stiff fingers pressing into his taut neck muscles, combing through his hair.

Her hip grumbles, but she silently tells it hush too.  Her boys needed her more.

[zarla-s]

can ask who vargas and scriabin are and the story behind them?

They're from a very long JtHM fic called Vargas I've been writing on and off for many years, haha. I drew a comic a while back trying to summarize it and a much longer text post about jthm as a whole, the whole thing is complicated to say the least. I do have some old info chibis around here somewhere though...

[zarla-s]

So in Mercyplates how would Gaster react to Papyrus floating or Sans teleporting???

They actually wouldn’t be able to do either of those things! Gaster’s disappearance is what specifically led to their weird abilities, haha.

[zarla-s]

Idk if it's clarified yet, but do you believe the Gaster Blasters are some kind of special magical power only ever inherited by gaster and the bros? And if so, was Gaster's blaster always at it's largest while since the brothers are different, could their blasters be... growing? These are just some theories based on the recent page.

The blasters and their origins have come up before, but it was a super long time ago, haha. Gaster first mentions them back when they were in the lab as high-intensity magic emitters. They aren’t an inherent magical ability, but more like a weapon that can be “tethered” to a monster’s SOUL, thus allowing them to call and dispel them at will (he refers to them as tools here). Gaster planned to roll this breakthrough out to all monsters, as implied with his binder of instructions for their usage in his office, but never got to in the end. It’s possible that he ran into trouble getting the blasters to “stick” to a non-skeletal monster, or some other issue arose.

As for size, I think it has to do with familiarity and practice more so than magical power, although that does play a factor, haha. Sans’s blaster at first was very small! With focus and determination though, he managed to get it much bigger without changing his general magic power level. When the brothers hold hands, they can make a huge blaster, but I think making ones of different sizes isn’t too hard for either of them at this point. Sans makes them all kinds of sizes in his own battle without too much trouble!

We’ve only ever seen Gaster’s blaster at full size… I do like imagining that he did the first test of the blaster concept by attaching it to his own soul, haha. So he quickly mastered all the little details about them and catalogued it all down. However, that does imply that at some point, Gaster had a little blunt toothed baby head blaster like the brothers…

[zarla-s]

Hey Zarla, I’m going to be (hopefully) cosplaying Gaster this weekend at a local con and I am going to try to play his personality to be like yours, bc I’ve been following Handplates for about 2 years now and I really love the way you portray him. Could I know the namesigns you would use to refer to Asgore, Frisk, Chara, Sans and Papyrus, Toriel, Asriel, and maybe anyone else you’d think important? And maybe any other advice? (⌒-⌒; ) Thank you!

Ah namesigns, let’s see… a few of them are already established, haha. Most of them are letter + word.

Alphys - A + Smart

Asgore - A + King

Toriel - T + Queen

Asriel - A + Prince (this hasn’t appeared before, but it’d fit the pattern)

As for the humans, I doubt Gaster would refer to them as anything other than “human”, haha. He’s not particularly close or familiar enough with anyone else to probably give them namesigns… the brothers can understand Wingdings, so he doesn’t sign to them in general, and if he was talking to someone else about them, he’d probably use their proper names, so it’s unlikely he’d have a name sign for either of them. Though, it’d probably be hard for him to think of them as anything other than 1-S and 2-P.

[yumiyumai]

Brutus is cute as hell,,

Heya Anon!! Kinda too sleepy to do art right now.. but Brutus enjoys your compliment heavily .