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Mabian wrote: DreamSoulshine wrote: Mabian wrote: Monster Kid: "Yo! You're a kid too, right? I can tell 'cause you're wearing a striped shirt."

Toriel: "You are an... ... 'interesting' child."

"What a good child you are."

"Now be a good child and go upstairs."

"You naive child... If you leave the RUINS..."

"Pathetic, is it not? I cannot save even a single child."

"Frisk...You really are a funny child."

[Not to mention that she constantly refers to Frisk as "my child."]

New Home: "The King and Queen treated the human child [i.e. Chara] as their own."

"They thought that he had killed the child."

Sans: "on days like these, kids like you..."

[Not also counting the multiple times that Sans ends his sentences with "kid," justifying that as a mere colloquialism).

Gerson: "What are they teaching you kids in school nowadays...? Wa ha ha!"

"Try it, kiddo!"

We can also add in the fact that an adult human is so powerful that the power of all monsters combined would equal their strength. No adult human would die to the monsters in the Underground.

Frisk and Chara are definitely children.

'''Did you even read, what I wrote here?! '''"I can tell 'cause you're wearing a striped shirt" says, that Monsters could just mistake Frisk for child, because he was wearing a striped shirt! I was actually in the middle of writing it when you posted your longer explanation.

The major problem is narrative efficiency. Your theory basically says "the entire narration suggests that Chara and Frisk are children, but the narration is incorrect." Which raises the entire question of having that narration in the first place. It serves no purpose beyond "gotcha."

You've provided potential explanations for how the game could refer to Chara and Frisk as kids, but they are actually adults. Have you devoted any thought to a potential explanation for how Chara and Frisk are kids, while the perspective from the opening illustration still portray adults? Well, at first, I actually thought that all intro could be told by Human or Monster's perspective, like some history book, where they either enlarged Monsters to make their victory look more grandious, or belittled Humans to justify their lose in a War (because they didn't wanted to harm children). Chara could have remembered some pictures of it and would show up it in intro. But later I remebered about an ending, where a colorful picture of mountain became yellow and orange, like if it was old, like if it was an already told story, and that led me to conclusion, that story is told by Protagonist (either Chara or Frisk), who, if where kids, would have known, that Monsters aren't that big, as they could have told by various historians, and humans in intro would be higher.