Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27130793-20160212011843/@comment-27907368-20160410135559

I always kind of thought Chara was quietly within all of the PCs and their DETERMINATION ran parallel to Frisk's. At the end of pacifist, we know that Chara has gained no STATS and, thus, no "power". Frisk's DETERMINATION aids us in the Asriel fight and Chara can take a back seat as they see their best friend for the first time in a long time.

The dialogue from Asriel has to speak to Chara in some way... In my opinion, we SAVE all of our friends and then also SAVE Chara. While calling out after saving our friends, we have to save "someone else". Flavor text here:
 * ... No... That's not JUST it. I... I... I'm doing this because I care about you, !
 * I care about you more than anybody else!
 * I'm so alone, ...
 * I'm so afraid, ...

''Strangely, as your friends remembered you... Something else began resonating within the SOUL, stronger and stronger. It seems that there's still one last person that needs to be saved. But who...? ... Suddenly, you realize. You reach out and call their name.''

Then, the Asriel/Chara memories play. The flavor text is then:

You feel your friends' SOULs resonating within ASRIEL!

I believe that this is recognition that we just saved Chara and that she's our friend in the pacifist ending. We have reminded Chara of what she was like in life - a friend of monsters and a beacon of hope.

Humans are tied to their bodies, right? Perhaps Chara doesn't know how to feel about Asriel (or much of anything) because they are without a body. They definitely follow our lead, though. And for that, I don't think Chara is evil. Even though they kind of are the name of genocide, they don't have to be encountered and it's entirely on us which route we take.