#the lore...

I wish I did!! Yen was adopted on January 5th, 2022, and the shelter said he was between 2-6 years old at the time (the vet confirmed he was probably on the older side of that range).

These are his shelter pics, which are the youngest of him that I have!

Neopet came to us on October 21st, 2023 from off of the street, and the vet thought he was around 2. Here are pics from the morning after we took him in!

Holo was a farm cat but was adopted when she was about 1 year old in 2017! Here is her at her known youngest

And finally, there's Mika who WAS adopted as a kitten! We think she was born around July 30th, 2016. Here she is, a little over 6 weeks.

So fast forward to now: It's no wonder the familiarity feeling I had with the site name and refused to join it when it launched since I felt something was off. My gut is usually right so I follow it. But this? Coming full circle? Crazy. I got proof too: https://file.garden/ZdrSAhPsnD-ojeVz/santae_psd_proof.png

[For those wondering: I didn't charge upfront so that was a lesson learned and one I follow to a T now. I didn't want to even try or waste time trying to get it from him since his behavior was awful. I was unemployed at the time too.]

and to imagine how big their family tree would be, and what their ancestors were like, imagining that their ancestors had a pack of warriors, fighting in wars, dealers, merchants, killers, etc, and how obssesed i am with how their powers were small little bits of their ancestors powers, and or similarties in features / personalities from their family members/ancestors (i might be a bit of a gremlin when it comes to family trees, and mafiafell...)

First off, this sounds like a cool idea in general! I can legit see this working. We need detailed thinking like this more often.

Also, be a gremlin. That's one of the best things to be in life. 😌✊️

As for the family tree, I'm a bit embarrassed to say that while I do have a family tree for the Gasters, there's like only one other member.

I don't want to get too much into detail with this character, but when I was in my Solygbm phase a few years back, I made Mar have a father, whose name I think was named Memory. He was an orphaned child of no origin, couldn't speak, and was traumatized from something indescribable. He was found by another child, Gerson (funny how deltarune chapter 4 has him in it), and were raised together, eventually living within a happy, small business in Gerson's pub. Eventually, he would fall in love with another monster, I think her name was Smokey??? I dunno. It's been like 5 years. She was, would you have guessed, a smoke monster and they would have only one daughter. Unfortunately, Smokey the Smokster or something died from childbirth and Memory raised her by himself. And he did until he disappeared after visiting WATERFALL to get Mar a gift. Neither Mar nor Gerson would know what came of him, but it's assumed that he was unmistakably murdered.