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Gaster’s eyes flickered. “Red is… an alright color. As long as it isn’t glowing. And it isn’t dark.”

“Geez. Yeah, I was there when we had all the emergency lights in the labs replaced with blue ones,” Herb added. “Red laser pointers are banned. And I’m pretty sure there is an unspoken agreement among the staff to avoid wearing red clothes.”

“I really wish you wouldn’t do that,” Gaster sighed. “It’s red lights I have a problem with, and even that is getting better. You don’t have to change your wardrobe. I wore red last February, remember?”

“Right.” Herb shot the doctor a look. “I don’t know if you thought you were being subtle, but you sulked for the whole first week of February.”

“Reaching this reality…” Gaster trailed off. He brought his hand up to cover his mouth, and in his anxiety, a pool of dark magic swirled in his palms. “It took a long time to get here. Perhaps two years? That’s my best estimate based on calendars here. The space between worlds is incredibly vast.”

“I guess you could say I ‘saw’ a lot of realities on my way here. I lost count of how many times I approached the blinding light of a universe and had to quickly back away. They hurt too much to get close, much less see inside. This world, the underground, was the first that didn’t hurt. I think the barrier had something to do with that. A magical entry point that stabilized me before I came back into reality.”

“What do you mean, stabilized?” Herb questioned. “Why did the other worlds hurt?”

“You know how I melt when I use too much black magic?” Gaster held out his hand, which was now beginning to destabilize. He lightly shook away the shadows in his palms before he continued. “The void between worlds is saturated in it. It was slowly tearing me apart, and until I came across the underground, I had no magic to fix it. I didn’t even have a soul to anchor myself with. While the void was killing me slowly, stepping into reality with no magic would have done it instantly.”

“No soul…” Herb muttered, growing pale at Gaster’s story. “I’m glad you made it here, doc.”

Ask him anything and he will answer to the best of his ability. He probably won’t tell his therapist he can hear you, though.

SCP-3001 by Oz Ouroboros. Content warning: The SCP-3001 article contains gore, body horror, and psychological horror. You don’t have to read it to enjoy the blog, but credit where it is due and all that.

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Gaster pulls himself together. Its been over a year since he escaped, he should be better than this.

I don’t know anything about asl, pardon the sign if you do. I couldn’t find an equivalent word in any asl dictionary, so I had him fingerspell “void”, showing up in the panel signing “d”.

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Gaster looks happy to talk about his work. Now if only he can get the effect to extend beyond the glass… it’s hard to rebuild your life’s work from scratch.

Quantum physics is spooky. Try not to think about it too much.

I looked at some ideas of what a reality anchor looks like, and when I miniaturized them, they kinda looked like the soul canisters… make of that what you will. :)

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GET SLEEP

Gaster doesn’t seem to mind oversharing to some kind voices in his head. He is alone in this room, after all.

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Gaster: Speaking of Herb, I think he might actually be here a bit early… Let me go look for him.

Of the Gaster followers, Herb is my favorite. He is so short, he was standing on Gaster’s desk to put up those posters.

Also, tonal whiplash? What’s that? I only know instant gratification.

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His second favorite part of the day: Messing with Herb. His first favorite: Messing with Felix and Pippin.

Sorry, I’m practically Asgore-tier at naming characters. Oh well, I’m attached to these names already.

For my readers who don’t know SCP, the monsters in the second panel are referencing anomalies from Gaster’s old world. In order from left to right: 682, an unkillable lizard that hates humans, 999, a slime that makes people happy and will tickle fight you if it can, and 049, a really weird and probably insane plague doctor. They are all classics. If SCP had an iceberg, those guys would be some of the ones on the very top layer.

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