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For starters, this CRT will mostly be addressing this blog here and why I disagree with it.
Timelines and RESETs
This is essentially saying that there is a single timeline just being rewritten over and over, which isn’t exactly the case, I believe, and kind of ignores statements throughout the game.
“*Everyone will be ripped from this timeline...
*…and sent back before all of this ever happened.
*Nobody will remember anything.”
This statement does not exactly contradict the existence of multiple timelines at all. It is saying that the current timeline now stops, and that another timeline is starting anew via RESET. Not exactly important but something worthy to note is that flowey says this timeline, not the timeline, which also kind of implies that there isn't just a singular timeline.
Sans Statement
Sans said timelines in PLURAL buddy, NOT singular, if it was just one timeline being rewritten over and over I feel sans of all people, who is definitely more knowledgeable than most of the cast, would have specified that. The part of ‘timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting’ also fits perfectly in what I said above in the Timelines and RESETS segment, that an old timeline ends and a new timeline begins.
Fun Values
Before I actually go into this in more depth, I would like to mention that Fun Values can only be changed if a RESET has been made, things such as SAVing and LOADing will not change the value at all. (Yes, you can go into the games files and change them manually, but I don't think that was really intended)
Alright all of these points are kinda headcanon-y. Goner Kid’s dialogue is about a world where he doesn't exist, which is evidently seen by the fact there are timelines with a different fun value than the one needed to meet him. It's easier and makes much more sense to go with this interpretation than trying to contrive something from this dialogue that doesn't really make much sense otherwise.
Alphys Statement
I mean alphys never believed anime was real in the first place, so her believing Mew Mew Kissy Cutie is somehow real out there contradicts that entirely. This also ignores the fact that Alphys is rather knowledgeable and supposedly works faster than even gaster, so her word should definitely be taken into consideration.
How Many Timelines?
Alright I think I proved that RESETs create timelines yea? Now how many?
The size of the verse has been stated before many times, although here is a little tl;dr, I suppose.
Conclusion
Chara should get a 2-B rating due to them destroying pretty much the entire game, asriel and human souls should also get 2-B, as asriels was slowly destroying the world and potentially the whole game world. Asriel was also gonna perform a true reset which would definitely be around this range considering its nature of resetting everything.
For starters, this CRT will mostly be addressing this blog here and why I disagree with it.
Timelines and RESETs
"Flowey refers to the ability as ripping everyone from the timeline and sending them back before certain events happened, nobody remembering anything, everything being erased and even Flowey having his memories erased. In his battle, Sans also refers to everyone ending up back (in time) without any memory (of future events) due to the resets, making pointless how the monsters can return to the surface. Asriel in his battle wanting to reset everything refers to it as "All your progress... Everyone's memories... " being brought "to zero".
This is essentially saying that there is a single timeline just being rewritten over and over, which isn’t exactly the case, I believe, and kind of ignores statements throughout the game.
“*Everyone will be ripped from this timeline...
*…and sent back before all of this ever happened.
*Nobody will remember anything.”
This statement does not exactly contradict the existence of multiple timelines at all. It is saying that the current timeline now stops, and that another timeline is starting anew via RESET. Not exactly important but something worthy to note is that flowey says this timeline, not the timeline, which also kind of implies that there isn't just a singular timeline.
Sans Statement
“our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum.
timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting…”
Sans said timelines in PLURAL buddy, NOT singular, if it was just one timeline being rewritten over and over I feel sans of all people, who is definitely more knowledgeable than most of the cast, would have specified that. The part of ‘timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting’ also fits perfectly in what I said above in the Timelines and RESETS segment, that an old timeline ends and a new timeline begins.
Fun Values
Before I actually go into this in more depth, I would like to mention that Fun Values can only be changed if a RESET has been made, things such as SAVing and LOADing will not change the value at all. (Yes, you can go into the games files and change them manually, but I don't think that was really intended)
Why what Goner Kid meant on what he said can be irrelevant to take as a canon fact?: This is just a thought a kid has. More importantly, given the different interpretations of what he said that I'm yet to point out and the vague indications of them no one's meant to take facts out of this. That much being the more likely take on the matter; "Cool to speculate about but nothing's confirmed". Goner Kid saying "Please don't think about this anymore" can refer to its irrelevance in this sense.
This thought he has is depressing and a world where everything is exactly the same without one's existence means a hypothetical world where "you" (himself or Frisk, likely the former) don't exist and nothing changes, the text not meaning as in "there exist other timeline in the multiverse!". This is thematically fitting to his apparent mood with the reaction he gives to Frisk bringing an umbrella, finishing that by saying "Please forget about me" and saying "Please don't think about this anymore." if Frisk tries to talk with him again, Goner Kid also being gone if Frisk leaves and reenters the room, in which he was alone at the tip of a bridge in a dark place. I'm not saying he did anything in particular, but that the subtext of the comment was simply this off, or that this thought that terrifies him is little more than that. This is also a bit thematic for the player and/or Frisk, who may or may not leaving the Underground without being the hero they needed to be, it may work on 2 levels.
Or maybe he's already a ghost.
He could be referring to what's happening to Gaster. Goner Kid not being a Gaster follower in the games files you can only see via editing the game doesn't matter, as far as a player knows, he looks like them, + he could be saying something that just so happen to be fitting to Gaster's lore without Goner Kid knowing that person, hence he's not a follower. If it needs to be said, the world where "you don't exist" wouldn't go as in Gaster having never existed, but having stopped "existing" from 1 present moment in time forwards.
He could be referencing what the fun values do to the game without it being canon, like a character breaking the 4° wall to reference the audience or a number of other things that aren't in-canon there, this being a reference Goner Kid may or may not know he's doing. Undertale has many game mechanics as real things that exist in-universe, but not all of them, and a subtle reference to 1 doesn't necessarily make it canon.
He could be referencing how sometimes a player may or may not see him with this much being canon and working like it really does; you play the game, you may or may not find certain things and if someone else plays the game then they may or may not find certain other things, without there being other data inside the game with copies of everything one's doing for each fun value, just 1 per playing the game, in 1 timeline. This regardless of hacking the game while playing it. I believe making a reset also changes the number, but you would only know this via editing the game and meanwhile you can figure on your own certain events can happen at random, just by playing the game.
Alright all of these points are kinda headcanon-y. Goner Kid’s dialogue is about a world where he doesn't exist, which is evidently seen by the fact there are timelines with a different fun value than the one needed to meet him. It's easier and makes much more sense to go with this interpretation than trying to contrive something from this dialogue that doesn't really make much sense otherwise.
Alphys Statement
“See here. To quote Ricsi-viragosi about it "That is not confirmation. Her research consists of watching anime as well, and she believes Mew Mew Kissy Cutie is out there, in an alternate universe. Taking her word on that is as reasonable as accepting her claims that humans go around with giant swords and mechas."
I mean alphys never believed anime was real in the first place, so her believing Mew Mew Kissy Cutie is somehow real out there contradicts that entirely. This also ignores the fact that Alphys is rather knowledgeable and supposedly works faster than even gaster, so her word should definitely be taken into consideration.
How Many Timelines?
Alright I think I proved that RESETs create timelines yea? Now how many?
The size of the verse has been stated before many times, although here is a little tl;dr, I suppose.
- The 6 Humans who fell down evidently RESET before, but how many times they actually did is not known
- Flowey RESET so much he pretty much did everything the underground had to offer
Conclusion
Chara should get a 2-B rating due to them destroying pretty much the entire game, asriel and human souls should also get 2-B, as asriels was slowly destroying the world and potentially the whole game world. Asriel was also gonna perform a true reset which would definitely be around this range considering its nature of resetting everything.
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