Gaster subplot master post.
For the past while, I've occasionally posted sections of one "Project Yggdrasil"
These little blurbs are all fully canon to The Overseer, and now that I've finished writing it, I'm going to put all of them in a row here so you don't have to wander aimlessly through the blog to find them all.
Username: PAPAWINGDING
Password: GastaMasta3!4159
Folder: YGGDRASIL
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Entry 1: This is the first entry in a personal project of mine. I couldnât help but overhear the two royal children conversing with each other, and Chara was speaking about some very, very, interesting things. to put it into those fun science terms my wife constantly teases me about, Chara was speaking as if they were capable of temporal manipulation. Iâve dabbled in timeline theory in my free time, and if Chara is speaking the truth and not making anything up, which is very much a possibility, my young son Sans comes up with a new tall tale every day after all, but if Chara is truly capable of this, I am intending to work with the child and see what might be possible.
the name âYggdrasilâ was chosen because of a creation I have always dreamed of making, a machine that can connect multiple timelines and allow people from different timelines to interact with one another. much like the great tree from human myth, which was a central point that allowed many worlds to be connected.
Entry 2: Much to my joy and amazement, Chara was not lying! it took a bit of time, along with a promise not to talk about it with anyone else other than themselves and Asriel, but Chara went through some tests to prove that they could go back in time to set points. Iâm currently working with the child to see if doing this causes any unusual readings on any of my instruments, if a particular reading ends up occurring consistently, it could be a clue as to how we can research this strange ability further.
Entry 3: Research is going incredibly well, I found a set of readings that are consistent with Charaâs temporal manipulation, something they refer to as a âbuttonâ for some bizarre reason. The readings are incredibly difficult to extract meaningful data from, but the fact that I have managed to get any readings whatsoever is incredible progress.
Entry 4: Chara has fallen ill, I will be postponing research for Yggdrasil until they recover, this is a good time for a break for other reasons as well, as I have recently learned that I am having yet another child! So as Chara rests, I will be taking time to be with my family.
Entry 5: Chara and Asriel are dead. Me and my family are just as devastated as the rest of the underground, it is my understanding that this happened partly due to Chara wanting to make the world a better place. With this being the case, I will continue project Yggdrasil unhindered, I cannot let Charaâs previous efforts be in vain, they wouldnât want this to be abandoned, it will be difficult to juggle both manning my home while my wife is pregnant and doing research, but I know Iâll manage.
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ENTRY 6: I have finished construction on a new device, a machine that is able to give detailed readings on souls in mere moments. The original goal of this machine was to assist on my work with Chara, and while that is now impossible, I finished it anyway. I am sure to find a use for it eventually. The kingâs new order to hunt down fallen humans doesnât rest well with me, but at the very least, it may give me as the royal scientist a chance to study human souls further for the purposes of Project Yggdrasil.
ENTRY 7: My wife has died shortly after delivering my second son, I have chosen to name him Papyrus. To call this a devastating blow to myself and poor little Sans would be an understatement, but she was always a woman who would look forward. While my mind aches to continue research, I know that for the sake of my family, I must put Project Yggdrasil on indefinite hold. This will likely be my last entry.
ENTRY 8: It has been several years since my last entry. life has been hard but manageable. I return to this old project because of a thoroughly unexpected development; A human has fallen into the underground, and while she has evaded detection from monsterkind, she was last sighted nearby my lab. I set up my soul reader along the pathway through my lab, and in a stroke of luck, the human passed through. while her soul contains much smaller traces of the aspects that allowed for Charaâs temporal manipulation, they are still present and can be researched.
ENTRY 9: The girlâs soul is in front of me in a jar as I type this. I consider this a loss, but what little good can be taken from it, I will take. Research is progressing well, and even if my dream device never comes to be, the breakthroughs in timeline theory being made here will not be forgotten. The substance that allowed for Chara to travel through time has also been shown to be the same substance that allows human souls to persist in this bizarre stasis even after death, the name most of my colleagues have taken to referring to it as is âDeterminationâ.
ENTRY 10: Wonderful sucsess! small amounts of determination have been syphoned from the captured soul, and have been used to successfully interact with a nearby timeline, this interaction manifests in unstable concentrations of energy that I have deemed 'nexus pointsâ appearing in seemingly random points around the experiment. unfortunately. They only manifest for less then a second before vanishing, and to make things more complicated, the only way to open a way to actually travel from one timeline to another would be to connect the nexus points in some way. It is here that I am stumped, while I know it is theoretically possible, how in the world am I supposed to both generate enough power and command a large enough space to pull this off? it would require a complex of such astounding size and energy consumption that it feels nearly impossible to carry out.
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ENTRY 11: Magnificent news! I have managed to acquire a massive chunk of Hotland by order of the King in order to create a power plant with the geothermal energy there. Not wanting such an opportunity to be wasted, I also acquired permission to use the structure for my personal endeavors, so long as these projects wouldnât interfere with energy generation, and I know for a fact it will not. Construction on the CORE has begun, and I have much work to do, my dream device may be possible at last.
ENTRY 12: Issue 1 with timeline travel: energy consumption on a scale hitherto unseen. Solution: self explanatory, the CORE is a geothermal power plant. Issue 2 with timeline travel: nexus points, when generated at this scale, will appear within a massive area. Solution: take advantage of all the land lent by the King and construct the CORE as a rectangular building that encapsulates the entire allotted section of Hotland. Issue 3 with timeline travel: nexus points appear at seemingly random points, and must be connected perfectly to open a gateway. Solution: construct the CORE in such a way that the interior of the building is made of a series of modular rooms with Yggdrasil tech integrated in all of them, and allow these rooms free movement across the building to be rearranged at will depending on nexus point locations.
ENTRY 13: I have kept this project mostly to myself, even the scientists who assisted me with soul analysis were only there for general soul research and were unaware of my personal plans with project Yggdrasil. But the CORE is something at a far greater scale then anything this project has previously demanded. Therefore, for the sake of my own sanity and more so for the sake of my sons to allow them to have a present father, I have decided to gather a team of close companions and tell them everything about project Yggdrasil, from Charaâs initial discovery, all the way up until the plans for the CORE. With this team, I hope to bring this miraculous device to fruition.
ENTRY 14: Hello. I have invited you two members of my team to view this file. You should be made aware that there are some personal elements to it, and that disclosure of these personal adages is strictly forbidden, I am only giving you access for the sake of letting you know some of the history of this project. Onto a more relevant subject; A second human soul has been found and brought into the lab, you two are to investigate the soul and see if it will prove useful for the project, though it is already more or less fully planned, more data cannot hurt.
ENTRY 15: The new soul has proved interesting, but ultimately has given no new information pertaining to Yggdrasil. Regardless, the CORE is nearing completion, and the energy already being generated by the geothermal power plant should be more then enough to carry out the experiment. For the two of you who have access to this file: Further research on the new soul is unnecessary, you are to join the rest of the team with your full capabilities instead of splitting your time between soul research and the CORE construction scientists.
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ENTRY 16: The core test was a catastrophic- success! we have opened a pathway into multiple- system collapses, the entire team struck by a nexus point, I must talk as much as I can while I still- am planning further testing, perhaps even collaboration with alternate versions of myself and others across the timelines. this is a new field, and as such, it opens countless doors into- Already, I can feel myself slipping. my form neither here nor there. my entire team is much the same, one moment, we exist, and the next⊠I can hardly fathom- The possibilities of historical research are unmatched, we can cast away our historical theorizing of âwhat ifâ and actually find a timeline where things played out differently to see for a fact how events can change the course of history.- Sans⊠Papyrus⊠Iâm sorry, and I hope this message will survive, even in part, but even that sounds like wishful thinking. They deserve a father, and I have denied them this once and for all, to say nothing of the families of everyone else affected by the- Iâll have to present my results to the king, and then go home, this has been incredible, but my family comes first, and Iâve been gone for some time. I think I ought to cook something tonight, smash burgers, I know Sans has a love for burgers, but I want him to know what real burgers are like, not those greasy things- devoured by the void, by time itself. this is not just vanishing, we are all split through timelines, the nexus point and us becoming one, I doubt anyone will remember⊠any of us. Gooodbye. -the two of you who have access to this document, take a break, you deserve it.
ENTRY 17: Dark darker yet darker. The darkness keeps growing, the shadows cutting deeper- Photon readings negative, this next experiment seems very, very, interesting! what do you two think?