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Character information: Dr. W.D. Gaster
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Monster-Human
Soul color: Purple (original), black (current)
Family: Sanse (adopted), Papina (adopted), Chara (godchild), Asriel (godchild)
Sex, Gender, and Pronouns: cisgender female (she/her)
Hobby: Reading (specifically nonfiction books)
Random quote: "I stared into the void, and the void stared back. I fell into the void and have become one with it. I may be forgotten, but I am not gone. You can see me? Funny. I see you too."
Extra multiversal information:
-She is deeply ashamed of all the other Gasters she meets within the void.
-When traveling the multiverse, she goes by the name Wingate or Dr. Goodman, so other Sanses and Papyri don't immediately suspect her as a Gaster.
-Is easily persuaded into doing something; weak willed.
-has an Australian accent
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Wingate Dingo Gaster has always wished to be normal. Her mother died giving birth to her, making her the only female in a now family of four; she was the only monster-human in the family, and she was the smartest. One brother was a brainless jock. Another brother frequently hung around gangs. Her father was neglectful to her and her two elder brothers. And while the boys fought for their father's attention and love, Gaster never did. She stuck to her studies and scientific curiosities. Her brothers would pick on her for her fascinations and make all sorts of misogynistic remarks. She had to learn how to do things for herself, like cooking, going to school on her own, steal her dad's credit card to buy cloths and school supplies, etc. She also developed a cleaning habit due to the extremely messy house.
At the age of 8 she became fascinated with souls, how they shape a person, the intricacies, and how they differentiate between humans, monsters, monster-humans, and soul mages. She made predictions on her family's souls and jot it all down in her journals. Her brothers would trash her things, ruining her hard observed research. That didn't deter her, for she learned to always have a backup in case of instances like these. However, it was always upsetting to watch hard work be so easily destroyed, and then having to rewrite everything in a new backup from the backup.
At the age of 9, the dad was arrested for illegal drug usage, neglect, and child abuse. The children were all submitted into the foster system. At the age of 10, Gaster was adopted by a family that lived in a small community village. They noted how special she was and doted her with praise. But she never wanted such praise. She only wished to be normal. That only became harder when she moved away from her home, and into the community village. While she wasn't picked on or bullied, it was hard for her to make new friends, as she couldn't connect with any of the kids due to the walls she put up to prevent potential future bullying and lower levels of empathy. She became self-conscious of every minute thing that was pointed out about her. Her genius-ness, her skeleton monster form, her maturity at a young age, etc., all things pointed out as unique that Wingate hated about herself because it meant that she was not normal. But that would change with a set of new friends.
The family she lived with now sat beside two other houses, with very rambunctious children. One day, on a summer morning, while Wingate was reading a book in the front yard, she noticed it got very quite. She had gotten used the the loud children, that she was able to block out their noise and read. Now that they had gone silent, Gaster found she couldn't focus. When she looked up, Wingate was startled to see two goat heads poking up from the top of the fence. The two introduced themselves as Torel and Asgore. Gaster tried to shoo them away, but they decidedly sat in Gaster's front lawn a couple feet away from Gaster herself. Gaster tried to ignore them, thinking they would go away, but Torel asked if Gaster could read to them from her book. Gaster said they wouldn't understand half of the words in it, but Torel challenged that notion. Gaster became curious at the challenge laid out, and accepted it. While neither could fully understand what Gaster was reading, Torel would pipe up from time to time to ask questions. Gaster would answer swiftly and kept reading. Asgore then had an idea. They should all study their souls. They each took turns as Gaster Pointed little nuances in their souls. After some time, Gaster proposed an activity: stargazing. They laid there for hours, watching the stars, until their parents called to each of them for bed. The three agreed to meet up again the next day. For Gaster, it was why. Why go out of their way to try and befriend her? She knew what they were doing when Torel challenged her, but she let them because she was curios how long they would keep up the "act". She didn't expect them to actually enjoy her company, and expected them to stop trying when her interests popped up. That was when they revealed that she was just like them- different, unique. Torel explained about his hunches, and Asgore explained her ability to tell someone's emotional state or their true desires, not to mention her rare three soul trait. With that Gaster found her friends, two little wierdos who were just as unique as her. From that moment forward, they became the three amigos. They always made time for each other and keep each other in a healthy-ish lifestyle.
When Gaster was 12, 7 mages made their home in the community village. Gaster didn't care too much about the group as a whole. What Gaster did find intriguing, is the fact that it's a group of 7 soul mages, each with a different soul type. Gaster became curious, as always, and observed the group, and that was when she started noticing things. They had a mob mentality and hierarchy. Sol, the determination soul mage, was the leader; anything he said goes and the others either agreed or held their true opinions to themselves. Derrin, the justice soul mage, was Sol's right hand and enforcer; he tends to dictate who joins their inner circles. Following up in their hierarchy is Tamila, bravery, their keen eye and muscle, and Alex, patience, their brains. At the bottom of their hierarchy are Chloe (Kindness), Pier (Integrity), and Mags (Perseverance); the three that don't seem to gel with the rest and maybe follow along due to peer pressure, or something else entirely. Gaster also noticed that Sol has a bit of a disdain for monsters and monster-humans. He was charismatic enough to not outwardly direct that disdain towards them, especially if they approached him first, but certain things he said, and the way he acted afterwards made his disdain clear.
Over the years, Gaster noticed more odd behaviors from them. For one, each soul mage took up one very important leadership position in the community. Sol became mayor, Derrin became head judge, Tamila became head of the sheriffs department and local security manager, Chloe became head chairwoman of the Ebott Meadow school system, Pier became the main founder for the fine arts department and entertainment and distributor of information, Mags became chief engineer and real estate manager, and Alex became the deputy mayor. And that's not mentioning how they all funded a church for their religious organization, the Purity of Soul. Gaster didn't care for religion, but from how Asgore and Torel described it, it could prove dangerous if not dealt with. But what could they do when the 7 soul mages now are the most powerful people in their community village, and the powerful people in Ebott city being too "busy" to do anything about it.
When Gaster turned 16, she finished high school, and went on to attend college in Ebott City, which was only a hour long bus ride. It was also at this time that her parent were planning on moving elsewhere, due to the rise in popularity of the PoS, a group that hates monsters and monster-humans alike. Gaster, despite knowing the danger she could put herself in by staying, she also didn't want to leave her two closest friends behind to deal with this themselves. Luckily, Asgore had just bought a house, and Torel also moved in to help pay rent. Gaster begged her parents if she could move in with her best friends. After some discussion, and numerus talks with the chaotic duo, Gaster's parents signed a custody form for Gaster to live with Asgore and Torel, and they are her legal responsibility until Gaster turns 18. Her two best friends got her into Rune University, one of the most prestigious schools in the country, for her to get her doctorate for Soul Science. She would also work as an intern at the Soul Research Science Division in Ebott city, coming home at extremely late nights and falling asleep on the couch.
It was on a night exactly like that when the monster massacred occurred. Gaster didn't hear the alarmed shouts of other people outside, or the shouting of her friends and house mates, until she was violently yanked off the couch and dragged outside by Asgore. It was then she saw the situation at hand, burned down buildings, bodies and dust in the streets, people actively being killed. As Asgore and Torel went on the defensive by guiding survivors to safety, Gaster went on the offensive. Gaster created diversions and slaughtered any offender she could see out of sight of those she cared for most. A couple times she tried to kill one of the soul mages, but they were too well coordinated; Gaster couldn't land any significant blow to any of them. But they got a blow off her. Derrin managed to scar her right eye before Gaster had to retreat to the caves under Mt. Ebott.
While Asgore and Torel were labeled the unofficial leaders of the Underground, Gaster became the scientific advisor. While she did work heavily with the soul research department, she also made sure the other divisions ran smoothly, everything stays organized, and answer any questions along the way. She started a new journal, which she named Journal of Scientific Inquiries, where she would document life in the Underground, research, and code illegal experimentations, namely done to herself.
During an incident with Chara, Asriel, and a cursed mask, Gaster tried to make an artificial soul to save Asriel from their flowery state using the small piece of Chara's soul temporarily. However, two humans that had fallen down and been accepted in the Underground, who was actually a PoS worshippers, destroyed the rest of Chara's soul, destroyed the prototype artificial monster souls, and set fire to the lab, which contained the formal notes on the soul research, before dying by Gaster herself. And while Asgore and Torel would be more concerned for her safety and generally distraught over the loss of both children, Gaster would think that they were disappointed in her for failing to keep the two children safe.
Gaster would burry herself in her work. She went back to the ruins of the lab and got the souls of the two PoS members for research. She built a secret lab in the back of her house to store the souls and to test on them. She would start to detach from sentiment, becoming completely logically minded with barely any care for how she started treating other people. That is until she hurts Flowey as she demanded for answers. She self evaluated and realized how toxic her mindset was becoming and worked to changing it. However, that doesn't mean she would completely abandon that sentiment, as she would use it from time to time when experimenting. A rule she would always adhere to, never experiment on children, would be disregarded more and more often, especially when said children offered themself for the experiment in the first place. It started with Flowey when she offered to test reset abilities, and it would continue with two other children that Gaster comes into possession of.
Much later on in life, she would be coaxed to adopt Sanse and Papina, who had recently fallen into the Underground. While Papina would be easy to deal with, Sanse would be nothing but a source of contempt for her. They do work things out with each other eventually. One day, Sanse would offer themself for experimentation due to their unique soul type. And while Gaster tried to refuse, all it took was blackmailing to reveal Gaster's black soul -that she tried so hard to hide- to her best friends, Asgore and Torel, Gaster agreed. The experiment worked-ish, with a lot of errors, some resetting, the accidental discovery of DT poisoning, and Gaster infusing their soul into Sanse for stabilization, the experiment Sanse proposed was a success. Gaster hoped that would be the end of experimenting on her children, but Papina would change that. Papina would demand Gaster implant some determination into her, after reading the latest entry in Gaster's journal and seeing what has happened with Sanse and not wanting her sibling to suffer reset remembrance alone. Gaster would again refuse, but Papina would gradually wear Gaster down, tiring her out until Gaster agrees. Gaster would be much more precautious with Papina in experimenting. She would also use some of her soul as well to see if just a little of everything would have an effect, as a secret experiment.
Other than experimenting on children, her children, Gaster managed to heal and live happily with Sanse and Papina as a whole family. That happiness would soon abruptly come to an end, as another PoS memeber attack Gaster at work, sending both of them into the core and erased from existance and forgotten by everyone. Everyone, except the two children Gaster instilled a piece of her soul into.
From that point forward, Gaster would be stuck in the void. She would meet other Gasters, most of whom she doesn't talk to. The ones she does talk to, she tries to glean information from them in regards to their universe. When she isn't doing any of that, she watches Sanse and Papina grow up into capable young adults. And watches, helplessly, when Frisk falls down into the Underground and changes everyone's lives there.
And that is where Gaster's story ends for now.
Up next will be both Chara and Asriel.