[TO EVERYONE ELSE, I EXIST. FOR THE TIME THEY INTERACT WITH ME, AT LEAST. THE SECOND THEIR INTERACTION WITH ME CEASES, MEMORY OF ME IS ERASED FROM THEIR MINDS...]
[sOMETIMES, IT IS SAD, YES, BUT SOMETIMES IT CAN BE USED FOR THINGS LIKE JOKES AND PRANKS. MOSTLY ON APRIL FOOL'S.]
[YEHEHEH....]...
[...YES. IF WE SEE A FRAGMENT, YOU MAY HAVE ITS SOUL. THEY SERVE NO PURPOSE. ONLY TO HINT ABOUT GASTER'S EXISTENCE AND THEN BE FORGOTTEN.]
[YOU SAID I STATED MY SOUL WAS WHOLE... I... THAT'S A LONG STORY. USING A NEW ELEMENT, I WAS ABLE TO SUSTAIN MY SOUL.]
He wasn't telling a full truth...
[...]
[GASTER. HE IS... HOW TO EXPLAIN.]
[GASTER. AS YOU WERE BUILT BEFORE ALPHYS'S... CORONATION, I BELIEVE YOU CALLED IT, YOU REMEMBER HE BUILT MANY THINGS.]
[iNCLUDING THE CORE.]
[NOW, HE FELL... INTO THE CORE. AS YOU MAY REMEMBER. ONLY YOU, ME, AND SIX OTHERS REMEMBER.]
[WHEN HE...
[iF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CALL ME "RIGHT" OR "BLOODY IDIOT" THOSE ARE WHAT MOST PEOPLE CALL ME, SO.]
[THERE'S THAT.]
He finished writing his notes and the notebook he had disappeared into thin air. A new notebook materialized in his hands, this time a grey one. He looked a bit peeved at this...
[...NO, GASTER IS THE MAN WE ALL WISH TO BE BUT CANNOT.]
[ALTHOUGH, THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHY ANY OTHER SYSTEM DOES NOT REMEMBER ME...]
He was apparently crossing out and rewriting actual notes, unlike the drawing he had completed a moment earlier.
[...AH. I SEE. I AM TRULY SORRY FOR YOU... TRUTH BE TOLD, ALPHYS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE ROYAL SCIENTIST...]
[sHE WAS NEVER CUT OUT FOR IT, MORE OF A, UH, BLOGGER, IF THAT QUALIFIES AS A PROFESSION.]
He looked sad as he said this. He seemed to have some sort of experience with the Royal...
[!]
[OH, I'M SORRY. PARDON THE BLUNTNESS, BUT, WAS THAT, ER, WHY YOU WERE IN THE SNOW?]
[ALPHYS, SHE DOESN'T HAVE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD TRACK RECORD WHEN IT COMES TO CREATIONS, YOU UNDERSTAND...]
[AGAIN, EXCUSE ME, PLEASE.]
He was reminded of his own fragile soul when the robot said that...
[OH. UH, I LIKE TO...]
[THIS IS GOING TO SOUND ODD, BUT I PREFER TO MAKE PROFILES ON EVERYONE I MEET.]
[YOU SHOULD HAVE, UH, SOFTWARE TO DO THAT ANYWAY, BUT, I HAVE TO MANUALLY DO IT...]
He showed the robot the drawing of itself he had been working on. It was rather good, actually...
[uH, WELL, USUALLY WE JUST CONSUME THE ENERGY WE NEED, AND THEN STORE THE REST FOR LATER...]
[uNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU'RE GOING INTO HIBERNATION, IN WHICH CASE THE ENERGY YOU WOULD NEED IS QUITE A LOT, BUT...]
[iT SEEMS YOU'VE JUST WOKEN UP FROM HIBERATION!]
He was rapidly taking notes in a...
[OH, UH, SORRY! I HAVE A BUNCH OF FUEL IF YOU NEED IT, THOUGH. HERE.]
He happened to have had the plasma all in a large box in the closet, and he went to retrieve it immediately. It looked heavy.
[HERE YOU GO, UH, PLASMA, LOTS OF IT.]
[sO, UH... NOW THAT YOU HAVE THAT... S-P-G?]
He...
[...? UH... DO YOU NEED OIL, TIN MAN?]
[FORGIVE ME IF THAT CAME OFF AS RUDE, BUT I SINCERELY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, SORRY...]
He had a small idea what the robot was thinking of, but what would be the purpose of this robot if it was built without a speech inhibitor? Just one more...
[OH, UH, WHOOPS! LET ME GET THAT... WHAT'S A GOOD OBJECTIVE??]
[... OH! YEHEH.]
>execute commandoverrideversion1
>>rewrite objective\written
>>answer user [redacted]'s questions
>>rewrite objective\written\stated
>>abc123doremi
>execute reboot
[uH... THAT SHOULD WORK. IF I...
[...NEAT. UH. HELLO, THERE? X-E-9? S-P-G?]
He was trying to execute some of his old command codes, trying to see exactly what this robot was supposed to be. Perhaps they wouldn't work, he was erased from most people's memories. But...were robots' "memories" the same thing as humans'?
These...
"Umph!"
He wasn't expecting that. Was it a human-killing model? Even if it was, it shouldn't have hit him, he was quite clearly a... well, actually, now that he thought about it, he was kind of a mix between a skeleton and a ghost. That would explain the confusion.
He tapped the robot's...
[...?]
He saw the small energy core deep in the heart of the robot. It appeared to be powered by plasma, a resource with a short lifespan. It got even shorter when it all disappeared overnight. No one knew why.
Except for Hope, of course. He was the one who had took it all, in efforts of...