Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29788596-20160906011125/@comment-37550376-20181118183740

"Really, just saying it wouldn't do it justice from Chara's perspective. "They don't like monsters" or "They attack what they don't understand"? ..When you just say it like that, it doesn't really seem like a good reason to hate the species as a whole, let alone think they deserve desctruction! (Though the latter Chara probably wasn't going to reveal until after the whole villager attack, once Asriel kills them out of self-defense, citing the encounter itself as evidence). But, if Asriel would experience the humans attacking an innocent, HIMSELF, firsthand, wouldn't that increase the odds of Asriel getting Chara's message? And based on his Genocide Speech as Flowey, he did end up getting the message.. But only AFTER he actually died. Though his soullessness probably played a big part in that, to the point where if he came back WITH a SOUL, he might not have even reached that conclusion. Things like this affect your decisions about their nature a lot more than just saying it would."

That's a good point in regards to Asriel, and one I agree with. But before their buttercup plan, I feel their refusal to discuss it was marred more by a desire to avoid memories of whatever happened to them on the surface, since they hadn't planned to return to the surface before that point.

As for the speech... I that is one way of reading it, and one I had not considered before. To be honest, with how stilted Chara speaks at that moment and the lack of inflection/nuance since it's only text, it can be interpreted either way. To me, it honestly read like they are saying that your guidance is what helped them realize their new "purpose." If for no other reason than because they don't come to the same conclusion in the other paths even though they are still there, the only difference between the pacifist and genocide routes being what we (player/Frisk) choose to do. And our choices seem to influence the way Chara behaves/perceives the world, considering how different they are between the two routes. Considering they either actively help you in the pacifist run, or at least do nothing to get in your way and that there's never a real attempt to tempt you into violence until after you start killing, they seem to have come to a different realization in that path through the game.

Of course, if we aren't incorporating the narrator theory then all of that is irrelevant and your point stands uncontested.