Arfia

Arfia-hin was the de-facto Royal Scientist between 234 X and 246 X, continuing Gaster's research into alternate timelines, and later a Royal Guard sentry.

History

Arfia-hin, a skeleton-like yaref, was born in 229 X, ambiently manifesting in then-Royal-Scientist Gaster's lab. Gaster raised Arfia-hin after this point, and Arfia-hin quickly began to contribute to Gaster's research, befriending Alfi Alfizo who would later become the official Royal Scientist, and later on, another skeleton Kobzo-hin (who appeared shortly after Arfia-hin) and the human Okhelai would join the family group; Kobzo-hin was Arfia-hin's "best friend", informally his brother.

Given the unusual circumstances of Arfia-hin's manifestation, as well as his unusual "karma" ability and him and his brother's unusual physiology, he had generally assumed he was from some other reality himself, and had been unknowingly transported to the world he currently resided in without his original memories (he had chosen his name, Arfia meaning "without", in reference to this).

Late in Gaster's life, Gaster spent much of his time on studying alternate timelines and parallel worlds, which would ultimately lead to his disappearance along with Okhelai's death in 234X, at which point Arfia-hin and Dr. Alfizo continued Gaster's research. Their reports showed timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting. Eventually, the models' predictions ended, revealing that an urbax at some point would have the ability to control timelines. Alfizo began to shift focus to SOUL power when she got unexpectedly appointed as Royal Scientist following the original abolition of the position.

While he doubted his original theory about his origin by this point (partially due to the emergence of a large population of skeletons in the Underground in the intervening time) he had regardless incorporated it into his personal narrative as a revelation, and as such he attempted to continue work on a machine Gaster had designed but never finished, intended to contact other universes. However, the design was fundamentally flawed and never ended up working, so he eventually gave up.

After this, Arfia-hin took two jobs: one as a sentry for the Royal Guard (along the same path as Kobzo-hin, who wished to become a Royal Guard member himself), and another as a performer at the MTT Resort.

Arfia was one of the people who befriended the human Ana-hin and as a result played a key role in the breaking of the barrier in 251X. Currently as of 258X, Arfia works with human scientific organizations which share an interest in the nature of reality itself, and remains friends with Ana-hin.