Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-25958552-20160731111602/@comment-35806478-20180607232014

“Why would Chara be helping a human?”

You’ll notice that the genocide route only starts once you...well...commit genocide. After all, the game can’t read your mind. Simply put, the genocidal encouragement only starts once you’ve done the diddly dang genocide. Now, I believe that Chara and Frisk share the same LOVE, but I’ve already explained why I believe that in another thread, so I’m just gonna copy and paste it here.

‘Okay, let me just say something; we probably are corrupting Chara. If you look at the stat screen, you’ll notice that “Chara” (or whatever you named them) is shown, despite it seemingly being Frisk’s LOVE. “So?” This implies that Chara and Frisk share the same LOVE, which would mean that over the course of the genocide route, both Chara and Frisk’s LOVE slowly increase. And since we know that LOVE is a measure of your capacity to hurt, that means that Chara is slowly gaining capacity to hurt. “You base all that off the fact that Chara is shown on the stats screen!? That would imply that when we get hit, Chara gets hit, and when we equip armor, we are protecting Chara!” Ah, but you’ve just stated a bunch of true statements. You see, Chara and Frisk share the same SOUL; they even say so in their genocide speech. There are numerous examples of Chara being able to feel Frisk’s emotions, so it’s not a stretch to say that they can feel Frisk’s pain as well. Plus, if Frisk’s SOUL were to die, Chara would also cease to exist, since the determination keeping them afloat would suddenly be gone. There’s no other explanation for Chara’s name being on the stat screen; ergo, Chara must share our stats, thus they must share our LOVE, thus in the genocide route, their LOVE - aka capacity to hurt - grows along with Frisk’s.’

This information implies that Chara was maybe in a state of shock - y’know, from killin’ a buncha dudes. Then, once they are out of the state of shock, their LOVE has already gone up a bit, so they don’t object to your killing. Of course, the genocidal encouragement doesn’t start until after you murder Toriel and get into Snowdin - almost as if they aren’t encouraging you to murder their mother. But of course, Frisk’s LOVE grows higher and Chara’s LOVE grows higher, and eventually, they just turn into a demon murder-child.