Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28898329-20160901162911/@comment-25104255-20170102010510

TL:DR

There's enough evidence to think it's possible that Chara did not want to kill anything before we came along, and that we are the ones who decide whether they will help save the world, or destroy it. This makes the Narrator theory plausible.

I don't really think Chara was evil to begin with, just dangerously depressed. As a depressed person myself, I can guarantee that their actions in the True Lab Logs could just as well them coping with depression. So I don't think we can be certain that they ever wanted to kill anything (other than the humans to save the monsters) without our influence. And with that....

I'm one who believes Chara is souless, but not in the evil way. The same kind of souless as Flowey started out as. (Flowey states that "You're empty, just like me", and the like.)

This means that if Chara was more or less a blank slate, for the player to mold with their influence. If we kill everything, we tell the emotionless remains of a horribly depressed child that killing is the answer, and they become what we see at the end of a No Mercy run, because of the influence of the player.

However, if we are nice, we are reminding them of the reasons life is worth living, and keeping them from becoming another Flowey.

Thoughts?