Welp, we got the low-down on Goops & Dee. It's practically obligatory to ask at this point: What's Virus' story? Why does he call himself "Virus"? How was his jaw broken? What was he trying to ultimately accomplish? ("You KNOW the fate of the timelines! You KNOW what I'm doing is the only way to stop it!" - Virus during [RESCUE]) He acknowledged that Sans and Papyrus were his sons, HOW COULD HE KILL PAPYRUS AND NEARLY KILL SANS?! Why use Dee? I KNOW THAT'S A LOT TO ASK BUT PLS I GOTTA KNOW! ;~;
AGAIN, IDK IF I’M TOO COHERENT RIGHT NOW BUT I’M GONNA TRY MY BEST TO ANSWER!
I feel like I can’t write down Virus’ motivations right atm, and I’m sorry about that! I tried it on the last ask sent to me, and I feel like I mADE NO SENSE? sobs...
But what I feel I CAN answer right at the moment is his background! And how his jaw was broken, along for his reasoning on destroying the timeline!
You see, Virus is, in many ways, very much unstable. His mind is constantly being filled with the voices of the souls he absorbed, all screaming for help at once, in agony, corrupting his thoughts, driving him mad, and destroying many of his thoughts into a mess of anger, anguish, and a need to destroy everything around him in desperation. The power the souls have given him have too corrupted him. He is in a constant need, and urgency for more power, and at the same time, an urgency to let out all the extra power out in destruction and chaos. The magic he absorbed is literally so much, it drips out of him. That’s what drips out of his eyes and mouth. Like a burst vessel in his eyes if he were human, the magic pours out of him from it not being able to be contained in his body. This is also why, whenever he implants his own magic (the strings!) onto his victims, their magic pours out as well. He has so much of it, whenever he transfers any, his lack of control of it shows, and it overflows the bodies of his victims. It’s how you can tell if Virus is controlling someone too! Their mouths and eyes will overflow with magic!
And now for his backstory:
Virus was born into a small farming town back at the surface. He was born only a few years into the human vs monsters war. The farming town was owned by a single human family, a very famous and wealthy one at that! When the war started, the demand for goods from them increased, and the workload was so much, that Virus’ parents had to focus mostly on work. They looked after Virus, but it wasn’t really enough. Virus grew detached from them, not having many fond memories to share with them, but not really having any bad ones to resent them for. They were just the ones who kept him alive. That’s as much as he knew. He never really knew a family’s love from them. Now, they were not neglectful or bad parents, but they were very much distant from working day in and day out. They were paid well enough to compensate for the extra work, and were well off, but not very attentive to their son.
Around when Virus was 8 to 10 years old (in human years), the small village was attacked. The humans who attacked killed all monsters they could find, and any humans who tried to protect them. They were traitors to them, and were going to be dealt with as such. Virus, however, managed to escape when his father fought off some of the attackers, keeping them at bay while his mother created a safe escape for Virus. He was instructed to run with the other survivors to the home of the village’s owners. He was to inform them of the attack, and stay there for sanctuary. Virus did manage to escape, but not before clearly witnessing the destruction of the village from not too far away.
Virus escaped, along with other villagers, to the mansion of the village’s patrons. They were all welcomed in, and Virus found out that the family had actually been hiding monsters under the mansion, in what was basically a giant bunker, keeping them away from the war, and the humans who wanted to destroy them. All their lives they had lived peacefully along side monsters, and refused to join in their slaughter.
Out of all the monsters who managed to escape the village’s eradication, Virus was the only child. The only minor, to be exact. Seeing this, the mistress of the house took him in as one of his own. His whole life had been mundane and uneventful, and it seemed like the sudden, extreme violence had shaken him to the core. He had no one who could explain this to him, no one who would keep by his side and comfort him... He had no one left. No family, no friends, no nothing. This only made Lady Evangeline, the mistress, feel for him more, and she took it upon herself to be there for the small child. She had children of her own around the same age, and she was sure he would fit right in with them.
Lady Evangeline found tutors who also sided with protecting monsters, and she hired them to teach her children and Virus. This is when they discovered that Virus had a very good lil’ head for science, and they started to specialize his lessons on science. Virus couldn’t be happier about this, and he began to grow attached to Lady Evangeline from all his gratitude to her. She had been the first person to show him love, and the only one who had cared for him the way she did. She was the only real mother figure he had ever had, and he loved her as strongly as he would love a mother. She became his savior, his family, his reasons to keep living....
And so, when they were found out to have been hiding and aiding monsters, their home was raided. In the attack, many monsters fought back, but were not able to kill any of the humans. Their magic wasn’t strong enough. Just like in Goop’s timeline, monsters in this one did not possess battle magic by nature. They were not able to fight back the humans, and they killed many of the monsters... along with Lady Evangeline and her husband. While they were being attacked, and the children tried to escape, Virus found out that they had been discovered when the eldest son had been convinced by their army that monsters were not to be trusted, and had to be eliminated or locked away permanently. Blinded by rage upon hearing this, Virus attacked the eldest son. Knowing fully well that his magic wasn’t strong enough to kill a human tho, Virus used his new knowledge of human anatomy, and drove a fire-iron straight into his chest, puncturing his heart instantly. The other children were terrified, and tried to stop Virus, but his anger had not subsided. He was still angry, enraged by discovering this, and now fully convinced that humans were not to be trusted. Humans had taken everything from him, his home, his family, and now they had turned against their own mother, the light of his life, and gotten her killed. She was murdered by her own kin. Humans were nonredeemable in his eyes, and so, he locked the remaining children in the mansion as it was set ablaze in the attacks. To anyone outside of this, the children were victims of the human’s attacks. They were killed like all other human-sympathizers. They were not killed by monster kind... and Virus could wipe the blood off his hands.
Virus then joined the monster army. He was young, but everyone could see he was a powerful monster, and a worthy ally. He joined their ranks, training monsters to increase their magic, and became known as a ferocious, strict, and very intelligent commander and strategist. While no monsters had been able to kill humans yet, thanks to Virus, a lot of them had been stopped. He had turned many humans against each other and watched as they eliminated one another. Monsterkind feared him, but were grateful to him either way. He was one of their strongest officers... But the war was still lost in the end.
When monsters were locked in the underground, Virus began to create many experiments in their new home. He locked himself away from other monsters, only communicating with other officers he respected from the war. His experiments were always eccentric, but beneficial to monsters living in the underground. Thanks to him, and his commands over those who still followed him, they created many things, and had technology more advanced than they had ever seen from humans. It took decades, centuries even, before Virus successfully created the Core. It was here when he was named the Royal Scientist, and his experiments were funded by the Royal family. Virus began to create monsters with powerful magic, his first experiments being nothing but failures to him. One had magic unlike that of any boss monster, but could die at any given moment, and the other one had a body with inmensurable endurance, but what seemed like subpar magic to Virus. He kept these two experiments, however, as references and as something to extract magic and resources from when creating other monsters. He named them Sans and Papyrus.
Eventually, Virus managed to make monsters stronger, but it wasn’t enough. He knew that humans would find them again, and when the time for it came, he needed them all to be prepared. He began to experiment on innocent monsters, some who had fallen, and others in secret. He made them powerful, their magic beyond what monsters had ever known before... But when the first human fell, he realized monsters were not the same anymore. The king and queen had taken the fallen human as one of their own, and had no intention of killing it. In fact, they had declared that this human would be the one chosen to bring peace between humans and monsters! Virus was enraged by this, not wanting to give the idea even the slightest bit of a chance. To him, humans were rotten creatures, and seeing the traces of what appeared to be evil in this human, his beliefs did not weaver.
Virus continued on with his experiments, and soon enough became feared by everyone... But before the Royal Family could put a stop to him, the events of Chara and Asriel’s deaths happened, and the king came to a conclusion. He would allow Virus’ experiments to continue if he could show that monster kind would be able to destroy humanity once they escaped. Virus very much reassured him of this... And so, he became that who monsters would fear among them, the man of many warnings, but their last hope at the same time.
Eventually, however, Virus had gone too far with his experiments. He created a machine that would allow him to look past everything, past their future, and past their own reality. Virus created a rift to the Void. The Void that connected every timeline, and that allowed him to access them and watch them without direct interference. Virus then realized that he could take his goals further. Not only could he use this to bypass the barrier and destroy humanity, but he could destroy them from every timeline he had access to. But would he be able to? Would he be strong enough to do so? No... From his observations on other timelines, one monster would not be enough. Not one monster could fight humanity at their current state. If he were to do this, he would need to become stronger. Stronger than any monster had ever been before. Stronger than anything the world had ever seen... and this is when he witnessed Flowey. In the timelines he could see, in a distant future, Flowey would absorb the souls of the humans and become strong enough to tear reality. Virus knew what he had to do.
Virus approached the King, informing him of his plans, his intentions, while fully believing the King still wanted the destruction of humanity. He could use the souls they had now to become strong, to become a god, and destroy any trace of humanity from any timeline... However, Asgore had now regretted his plans of revenge on humanity, and seeing Virus’ plans horrified him. He could not believe that Virus would want to take his revenge so far... It was beyond horrifying to him, and he was set on stopping him... He declared he would stop him, and upon seeing this, Virus was both enraged and disappointed. But he wasn’t going to be stopped... Not by Asgore, not by any monster. Not by anyone. Now being able to stand up to Asgore’s magic with his own experiments being used on himself as well, Virus managed to defeat Asgore... He managed to kill Asgore.
Virus took the human souls, and approached the rift. He was going to absorb them, he was going to destroy humanity, and he was going to tear all the others from humanity’s influence forever. Upon seeing him absorb the green soul, Sans and Papyrus, who had been kept in the lab most of their lives, tried to reason with him, tried to stop him, but were not getting anywhere. In their desperation, Sans took one of the souls, which prompted Virus to attack them. These two were nothing to him. They were only failed experiments, and they were but a smear in his otherwise perfect list of successful experiments. He first attacked Sans, cracking his skull with one fierce hit, driving his fist inside the other’s skull. When he witnessed this, Papyrus grabbed the cyan soul, and tried to use it to heal Sans while Virus recoiled from the green soul fighting back against him. He seemed to be losing control of himself, the power of the souls being stronger than Virus could have imagined. While he struggled, Sans had absorbed the cyan soul, and it aided him in fighting back against Virus. As Virus launched an attack, enraged by seeing Sans taking one of the souls, Sans attacked him, throwing a large attack against Virus, knocking him towards the edge of the Core into the rift, and shattering part of his skull. Virus, however, managed to grab onto Papyrus as he fell, smashing the skeleton’s head against the railings, and killing him instantly. As Papyrus began to dust, however, Virus used the power of the soul he had absorbed on the rift, which in return, corrupted it. The corruption spread across his timeline, loading, saving, and deleting all at once with the soul’s power, corrupting it beyond repair. His timeline began to tear apart, everything coded into it being affected by the corruption, and in a flash, the timeline was destroyed. Virus entered the Void, having only been able to absorb one soul, and losing all the remaining ones to the corruption.
It was here where he discovered something else. In the Void, there were many like him. There were other W.D. Gasters. Even with all his efforts to change everything, he had suffered the same fate all versions of him did. He was sent into a hell he could not escape from, and was fated to disappear like all others like him... Except... Virus was stronger than them. He was stronger than all of them! None of those who he met in the time he was stuck there had magic like his own... And he soon began to jump into other timelines. He began to steal souls from them, but the souls had begun to corrupt him as well. The same damage that affected his timeline had scarred him, and the increasing magic from the souls was making it worse each time he took another. Soon, upon entering timelines, that same corruption began to follow him. When he entered the new timelines, his twisted code would destroy everything he touched, and had costed him the destruction of souls before he could get to them. This is when Virus realized he needed something else. A proxy. Someone who he could use to enter the timelines and do his bidding for him. Someone who he could trick and manipulate into following his every command... Someone weak, someone who could believe his lies... But someone strong enough that would not become disposable...
And so, he found Dee. The perfect puppet to follow his every command... And he was successful in doing just that.