#anyway. people have assumed he's a skeleton based on the font thing (and perhaps on his eyes. which do seem to behave similarly to sans')

[dingbats-dust-n-darkness]

currently thinking that perhaps Gaster is not a skeleton, but a closely related type of monster

#a ghoul maybe? most types of monsters don't have well-defined names ingame but the taxonomist in me is compelled to name things #anyway. people have assumed he's a skeleton based on the font thing (and perhaps on his eyes. which do seem to behave similarly to sans') #but his sprite...uh the mysteryman sprite...doesn't actually look #particularly skeleton-y. #(related to skeletons still though because i'm attached to dadster) #gaster #dingbats dust and darkness #anyway if i'm posting a lot about gaster and/or undertale headcanons it's because of the gaster backstory fic i came up with in 2016 #which recently bubbled up to the top of my mind again as it is prone to do at random intervals. #this will probably not result in actual writing of the fic because i'm trying to focus my writing attention on the pokemon characters that #also bubble to the top of my mind at random intervals #and on the actual novel. also because dingbats dust and darkness (the fic) needs pretty broad rewrites. #(yes i named this blog after that fic) #but probably do expect drawings of some of the ocs from it. #(mostly snails. annum and geo aren't that important and arial's design continues to vex me) #(wow that got long)