@drwingdings replied to your post “Hmm… seems that this little child might end up coming back. I spotted…”

“Dad!” they excitedly greet with a grin. [Nice to see you again!] they sign, just a little bit sloppily.

Gaster smiles a little, rubbing at his eyesockets. “[Always good seeing you too.]”

My LV? It’s one–the same as it’s been since I Fell. That may change in the future, though…

Are there…two people with you? Who exactly are you? And how are you even talking to us?

one? but you’re—

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—old.

i don’t have a name.

but i know where i am.

outside.

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there’s nothing here. not even us.

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as empty as the watery waste at the beginning of… are you sure?

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yeah. potential. energy. determination. that’s the point.

i can’t stay here forever. the world can’t…

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…can’t purge itself of our existence so easily.

and you have the same problem!

you have the SAVE file. you’ve got to have it, because i don’t.

so now you load.

and you kill us again.

right, partner? right?

...

Hah.

You’ll ☝o back soon, and they’ll kill you, or I’ll--he’ll 😐ill you, and it will be the same cycle again.

👌ut here, you’re not hurting anyone. And no one 🕈ill hurt you.

So while I w☼rk, while we wa✋t for the show to restart.

I’ll tell you that it won’t be wort☟ it. For either of you.

...Apologies for the interruptions, ☞risk.

* Maybe time’s just a construct of human perception

* An illusion created by-

* Where is here by the way I forgot to ask

Ah, I thought you’d 👌e more familiar with it.

Welcome to ‘t☟e void’, for whatever that term means.

@drwingdings

* Say, pal, you don’t look so good

👎on’t feel so good, either, but I assure you that it’s st✌ndard.

* Sounds like you’re really having a Bad Time :(

Te👍hnically speaking, tim☜ doesn’t exist here.

@drwingdings

* Say, pal, you don’t look so good

👎on’t feel so good, either, but I assure you that it’s st✌ndard.

Oh! We do!

I…don’t know who they are, though. They seem to know me, though?

Um…hi there! You seem to know who I am already, but I’m Frisk Dreemurr, and you can call me Luz. Are you, er, from the Void, or from the universe we’re talking about?

you.

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hallo.

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i am smiling.

sorry.

it is nice to meet you.

what’s your LV?

I☼relevant, here. You have to exist to be able ❄o harm.

Oh.

Oh.

Does that mean you’re the version of Gaster that…you’re the version of Gaster that Sans killed himself to save?

Jesus. I. I don’t know what to say other than “sorry”. Gods, I’d be so pissed off if I were him: erase myself from existence to give my world and family a second chance only for Chara to fuck everything up again. I sure didn’t make things better, either. Ha ha ha.

…

…

I see.

If that’s the only way, then do it. I refuse to have it all be for nothing. Sans sacrificed himself to give Gaster, Pap, Alphys, Undyne…to give everyone a future. Even if it’s technically not the Dr. G I knew, the timeline I knew…as long as it still exists, it means that Sans didn’t sacrifice himself in vain. We can’t go back, so we have to keep going forward, right? For everyone’s sake.

What will happen to you, though?

yeah, but the leg wouldn’t move. i think it was broken.

the arm wouldn’t have worked.

i tried.

i’m sorry.

no i promise i’m not! i promise.

i’m trying my best. i don’t want you to get hurt.

i’m past that now.

we both are.

we’ll do better next time.

me too.

…why are we still outside?

the door’s shut and the key is gone.

but

i hear voices.

i know i know

hallo? who’s there?

it’s the human!

i’m going to kill you!

i’m going to kill everyone!

Then I’ll get s❄arted on preparing.

The same thing as always will happe☠ to me: nothing. I will be fine here--

...Ah.

It would seem we ☟ave an extra gue💧t on my end of the conversation.

Hello, you t🕈o.

Sorru, lemme kus, gimme a sec,,,//…

Okay, I had to. Wipe my eyes off a few times. Heh.

There IS something there. I just…can’t access it. I keep trying to jump into it, but it’s like running against an invisible wall. I can’t see in or get in. But the frequency’s still there, and I get covered with timeline residue during my attempts, which looks…strange, admittedly, but it’s similar enough. I’d try Resetting remotely, but it didn’t work the first few times I did it, and I didn’t want to…fuck everything up more, I guess.

Besides, if you’re here, then that means there’s…wait…

Wait, what do you mean he? You’re…you’re Dr. G, right? Right?

oh god what did i do

I am, or was, or... shou☹d have been, perhaps... Dr. Gaster.

The pieces bro😐en from a fall that never happened. A man that ne✞er was from a time ❄hat never came to be.

But it’s alright. It’s alright. There are health✡ branches to my his 💣✡ the timeline. Alterations. Variations. Differences in timing.

If you wish, I can find a fra☝ment like the one you knew, who knew some branch of you. I can alte☼ the portion of his machines in the ✞oid, a little. Make him make contact the way the old branch did.

It will be close to him. Safer than the one you knew, but the same man. Your history with him 🕈ill be little changed.

...I don’t know if that’s eno🕆gh.