So like... gaster is at least a titan if not the angel, right? (THEORY)
[Note that this post needs major cleaning up, and I will be back to fix it up later, since i have not slept whatsoever, thank you for understanding c: For this reason, if anything is unclear, please don't hesitate to ask me to clarify/elaborate.]
Before I start explaining my thought process, I want to explain why I’m saying titan or angel, and not definitively just one of the two: I’m fairly certain that Gaster is at least a titan. However, due to how present he is in the narrative, and how subservient the titans seem to be, contrasting how vocal the Gaster character seems to be and how active he is, I’m inclined to believe that Gaster is the next possible thing in the hierarchy. (I don’t believe he’s the knight, I think it’s pretty damn certain at this point that the knight is Dess, and while the knight has hints of Gaster-like qualities, most everything that’s roaring related has Gaster-like qualities.)
(Some small credits: I got most of my screenshots from https://www.youtube.com/@mistysparkles and https://www.youtube.com/@ShayyTV , and one screenshot was provided by @sajdd on tumblr, who got it from @/pipislover1997 and @/playcentermd on twitter.)
Another thing I need to note: Some of these things are going to be really far-fetched arguments. This is mostly so that I can get this brainworm out of my head otherwise I will never find peace, and I’m not saying it’s the end-all-be-all answer that will solve the mystery of Deltarune: It’s just a theory after all. Anyway, with those two disclaimers, onto the stuff I have to say.
Please direct your attention to these elements of the titan:
On the right, we have the dark fountain coalescing into a new being that will later become the titan. On the left, we have the grey stone casing that the titan will later watch out of. The grey encasing will be important later, but first, I’d like to point out that the stuff that coalesces into the titan has the same texture as the background in the first cutscene of chapter 1, where someone, commonly assumed to be Gaster, directs us on how to create a vessel.
After that, once the titan starts hatching, we have the following:
First, the hand of the titan, that has a hole with an eye in the middle. Then, once Kris starts climbing on the titan, black and white eyes are revealed to be hiding within the grey cast, eyes that ooze some sort of droopy black liquid. Note how all of the elements of the true titan are black and white (aside from the magic they use.)
The knight can also use their eye as a mouth to laugh. Eyes in general appear in a lot of places in Deltarune; while they don’t appear in the dark worlds themselves, they appear in the in between places, like the area leading up to the pure dark fountain and Tenna’s dark world.
That is a place where I would argue another true darkness is, aside from Ralsei’s kingdom’s fountain. I mean there’s no toy equivalent to them, they seem to just… exist in the dark world.
Now. Where have I seen all that before?
Oh, and by the way, when I say that, I do mean all of that. Gaster is hidden within a grey room, and he is primarily black and white, he is droopy and formless, and his eye and mouth are the same slit, that is only sometimes seeing. (Unrelated by also related, he seems to disappear when Frisk touches him; the only thing that banished the titan was someone with a human soul disturbing its appearance. Gaster and the titan seem to react the same way to light, drawing yet another connection). And given that every single major character that we’ve seen thus far in undertale has in some way been referenced in Deltarune (even down to Muffet), and this is the last ‘major mystery’ of the game that remains, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that this mystery man doesn’t correspond to a general concept, but is an actual representation of a character that does/will appear in Deltarune at some point.
However, you will note that during this entire analysis, I’ve been taking the mystery man sprite as to be the definitive appearance of Gaster, and I think I have some evidence that at least strongly connects the mystery man, the titans, and Gaster all together.
Please remember how the casing hiding inside it the true titans’ form was cast in grey. Note also how before the cast formed completely, we have the same texture as the background in the create your character segment as the game, a vessel which in the files is dubbed “goner body”. Obviously, the goners, who talk about Dr. Gaster, are also cast in grey and disappear very similarly to the mystery man. Note however that when you create this grey body, it is called the “vessel”, and Kris is referenced as being a cage in the prophecy. The one responsible for creating the human vessel, in the same circumstances and processes as the titan was created, is Gaster. This possibly suggests that the gaster followers and the goner kid are a vessel for something, and here I would say that they are a vessel for knowledge, and the way they’re drawn and positioned in the game makes them look and feel very stone-like in disposition.
With all the above, I think it’s difficult to disprove that Gaster is, at least, a titan, but now you might also begin to understand why I’m going so far as to suggest he might be the angel.
First of all, he created the vessel in the first chapter, and the stuff used to create the titan has the same texture. It seems a little unlikely to me that a simple titan that needs this much help to collapse a fraction of the world would be capable of creating a stable vessel from scratch, so I’m inclined to believe that Gaster, in this aspect, is at least some sort of higher power than a titan. Another direct reference to Gaster and the angel stem from the him.png file that was uploaded to deltarune . com all those years ago:
It’s notable to me how this phrase was specifically written in wingdings, since not only is that font usually immediately correlated to Gaster, but this phrase, without Deltarune as context, is already cryptic as it is - there’s no need to encrypt it further with a font like this, unless you want to hint at a deeper connection between the two concepts.
Gaster is also as far as I remember (please correct me if I’m wrong) the only character so far to directly correlate the dark worlds and the roaring to the angel, information that no one else seems keen on sharing or knows. The last thing I have to prove as a connection comes from the bunker.
Now, there’s three symbols on the lock on the bunker: A pine tree (Noelle, Dess, or Carol), a police badge (Undyne or Asgore), and the delta rune. The delta rune is an emblem comprised of three triangles (one darkner, two lightners), and a sphere with wings above them (the angel). Now, a lot of people attribute the symbol as belonging to Toriel, but I think this connection is tentative at best. The only connection Toriel has to the delta rune is the uniform she wears and the fact that she manages the choir of the school, but the delta rune is generally a symbol of worship everywhere. There are so many characters that are directly tied to the delta rune, like Gerson and Alvin, and so many characters that are only loosely connected to the delta rune. The symbol is absolutely everywhere, and Toriel is not the only one to wear a garment like that.
However, there’s only one character that notes that they have a direct connection to the delta rune. At the very end of the credits of chapter 4, the person speaking to us in chapter 1, aka Gaster, starts talking to us about our progress with the story, before dropping this bombshell of a phrase:
Firstly, to get it out of the way, I think Gaster is one of the potential people being alluded to with the third symbol on the lock (there are more candidates, one of which could be Asriel, but this isn’t about him). However, I will say that it’s a little intense to say that the emblem of an entire religion belongs to you. Unless, of course, you are the reason why the religion exists, and you are the one people worship, and you are depicted on said emblem.
With this in mind, I do have some strong inclinations that Gaster is the angel. Is this a definitive theory? Absolutely not, but I do think it has some really strong foundations. With this in mind, I think if I am to take this theory as “canon’ then I can make a pretty strong case about Kris being something of a Darkner instead of a lightner, but that’s another theory for another day. I never make theories. I am never this passionate about my own theories. Deltarune what have you done to me. Toby Fox I am outside your house, come outside.
