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And here we are! The shift from pre-death Chara to post-death Chara!

Part 7:Now What?

So, how has Chara evolved? Well, there's two ways to look at it. The first is to extrapolate what happened so far, and work from there:Asriel got Chara and himself killed because he didn't want to kill the humans, which, given how easily hate can overtake them, would naturally get Chara to become furious with what Asriel has done. Them lacking a SOUL wouldn't help either. Meanwhile, you've awakened them, willingly or not. So, there's four ways this could go. The hate of Asriel might extend across all of monsterkind, leading Chara to switch sides back to the humans, based on what you did (unlikely since the humans were also responsible for them dying once more), an outcome similar to the one I just described might occur, but Chara now wants BOTH races gone (fairly plausible) sees you as someone who was like them, they might simply see you as someone someone who shares their goals, or Chara might attribute Asriel not listening as a fail on their part, seeing as they are human.

We might eliminate the first possibility due to its sheer unlikelyhood, but we're still left with three, and we haven't technically disproven the first yet, so technically, there's still four. And we don't want three or four possibilities, we want to narrow things down to ONE! So it's clear that simply using this method won't work. We'll need to use the second method of looking at it:Analysing their actions within the game itself.

(Did you note how some of those possibilities hinted at Chara wanting Genocide to happen, and others hinted that maybe they're not so genocidal after all? This is probably why there's such a divide on what Chara's true nature is:At first, the evidence seems to support both takes are true. But, we're going to look deeper to find out what their true nature really is. As further evidence to my hypothesis on the cause of the Chara split, take a look at the last possibility. That implies Chara has grown to hate THEMSELVES, which is a very common point of view the CDS takes. Now, take a look at the second possibility. Taken out of context, sounds a lot like a genocidal maniac who just want to kill everything, right? Taken IN context, you get something like nochocolate's take. We get the exact split that we can observe within the fandom.)

Part 8:The Narration has the Answer

Now, analyzing their actions within the game itself at first may seem quite hard to do. I mean, we only ever see them physically at the end of the Genocide Route after all! But, if you recall the fact that Chara is also the narrator, you'll see there is indeed a LOT we can learn about Chara throughout the events of the game. We just need to analyze the narration, with the knolwedge that Chara is the one acting as the narrator.

As early as the Dummy fight, we can notice the narration joking around about the dummy. Knowing their relationship with Toriel, this makes sense. However, that doesn't really give us much information. It doesm't matter what their point of view about Toriel is now, they're going to remain similar to Toriel in this kind of way out of habit for a little while. Though really, the actual KINDS of jokes hint more at a relation with Asriel. But all that gives us is that they were friends. Which we already know.

Our first useful piece of information comes from the narration of the original Froggit fight. The narration originally states that the Froggit attacks you, but the Frogit hasn't even made their first move yet, and thus, didn't actually attack. Chara couldn't have known the monsters' aggressiveness against humans, so that means one of three things must be the case.

1:Chara HAS grown to hate the monsters after all, to the point where they presume that such an encounter was aggressive, and thus, warn Frisk about it, to kill such a monster.

2:Chara is attempting to trick Frisk into thinking they're in danger when for all Chara knows, there is no danger. This would clearly be to try to get Frisk to kill the Froggit:

3:The Froggit DID show a sign of being agressive in some way. If this is true, that suggests the monsters aren't as peaceful as they might want you to believe.

No matter which one of these are true, it's apparent that Chara's love for the monsters, if they have any, isn't all that strong anymore once the encounter happens, and that's pretty early on, before you even choose a route. Whether this encounter is what lead to such a conclusion, or Asriel betraying them as the death occured is currently unknown. But further analysis should help narrow things down.