Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27524978-20160317154321/@comment-26887879-20160906144429

Chara was obviously very flawed (literally like every other character is in this game), but the way I see them, they just tag along with Frisk's/player's decisions. Yeah, they erase a world, but only after player has killed everytone. Player can cancel genocide at any time before arriving directly to Asgore without Chara interfering.

And I do think that they had bad life on surface, even Asriel states it. When they were alive, it was never implied that they killed a single monster, they only hated humans. That doesn't excuse them wanting to kill all the humans of course.

And during Asriel fight, Chara was the only one capable of saving Asriel. Frisk could save the others because they already made friends with them, but they didn't have any good memories with Asriel, they weren't even born at the time of Asriel and it's implied that Chara's essence awakes as soon as the player falls/at the beginning of game.