 Content on this article may be incomplete or inaccurate. Reason being: None Given Yet. |
 Content on this article may spoil current key events of the comic. |
| “ | Sure, humans have caused heaps of tragedy. But I ain't about to let a few rotten eggs ruin omelettes for me. | ” |
— Gerson, Part 24
|
Gerson (full name: Gerson Boom) is a resident of Waterfall and lived through the War and the Waterfall Incident. He was also one of the three heroes who fought Integrity.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Gerson is an elderly tortoise-like monster with olive-green skin and crooked teeth. He wears archaeologist attire, complete with a tan pith helmet. He sports a goatee and is unable to open his right eye.
Personality[]
Gerson is friendly and dislikes conflict. He immediately recognizes Frisk as a human when he first meets them and tells them not to blame themselves for the actions of other humans. Despite having lived through both the human and monster war and the Waterfall Incident, he does not hate humans and believes that it's not fair to judge an entire species.
History[]
Gerson fought in the war between humans and monsters and earned the title of a hero in said war.
Prior to his resignation sometime after the Mage's death, Gerson was the leader of the Royal Guard.
When Asgore declared war on humanity following Chara and Asriel's death, Gerson disapproved of it, and had a talk with Toriel, convincing her to stay with Asgore and reason with him.
After Asgore killed the Patience SOUL and decided he would leave to the Ruins in guilt, Gerson had a talk with him and tried to convince him not to leave Toriel alone with his problems, but his efforts were in vain. After Asgore left, Gerson encouraged Toriel to cancel the war and was with her when she announced said war's cancellation.
One day, Gerson wrote a letter to the Mage about a human founded wounded in Snowdin brought to it's town for recovery. Said human soon woke up, slayed the nearby guards and proceeded to Waterfall, where they caused the Waterfall Incident. Gerson, Toriel and the Mage fought her across several reloads until eventually killing her, ending the incident.
One day when Gerson was still the leader of the Royal Guard, he found a human with glasses and a notebook. He took the human into his shop and kept them safe there, and the human started to read about the history of the underground. Once they found out about the Waterfall Incident and how many human souls it takes to break the barrier, they started to feel guilty about the incident and how the monsters are trapped underground. Gerson tried to get their hopes up, and eventually tried to give the human to Toriel and The Mage so that they could live with them. But it was too late, because the human drowned themselves in the river nearby, giving up their soul to the monsters.
Main Story[]
Gerson is mentioned in earlier parts of the comic, but he makes his first physical appearance in Part 24, where he is seen arguing with The Snowdin Trio at the Forgespring graveyard.
He is seen later in Part 25, where Frisk talks with him and buys some items from his shop.
He appears again in Part 33 in the audience of the tournament, but doesn’t say anything throughout the chapter.
He later appears in Interlude 2, where he appears as a guest on Mettaton's newscast and tries to talk some sense into Undyne, discussing the complications of Frisk’s presence underground.
His appears again in Part 49 as one of the monsters who call Mettaton to tell Undyne to let Frisk go, arguing that being a hero means making tough choices, and letting some people down.
His latest appearance as of yet is in Part 60, where he is seen talking to Masa and another NPC regarding their future with their shops on the surface.
Gallery[]
| Characters | |
|---|---|
| Main Cast | Flowey • Frisk • Chara • PAPYRUS • Asgore Dreemurr • Napstablook • Sans • Alphys • Mad Mew Mew • Mettaton • Undyne • Toriel |
| Ruins | Froggit • Dummy • Ruins Bullies |
| Snowdin | Dogamy and Dogaressa • Doggo • Lesser Dog • Greater Dog • Snowdin Trio • Snowman • Jerry • Monster Kid |
| Waterfall | Bassiere von Dohj III • Knight Knight • Madjick • RG 01 and RG 02 • Gerson • Masa • Spout Wassar • Bratty and Catty |
| Hotland | RG 03 and RG 04 • Glyde • So Sorry • Parsnik • Astigmatism • Migospel • Misyrm • Muffet • Burgerpants |
| The CORE | Robot 98 • Robot 100 • The Season Dudes |
| True Lab | Mechamalgamates • Memoryheads |
| NULL | Spamton • Lilac |
| Other Characters | Fallen humans (The Mage) • W.D. Gaster |