Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33504407-20171031195942/@comment-32182236-20171120225100

Well, 201X isn't a real year, so that's the monsters' calendar-Therefore, we can't say it's in the 2010's. Their different cultures would result in different calendars being developed. But, there IS a way to figure out when Chara fell in the human calendar.. By taking a look at the current year of the game, based on the looks of the Surface, and figuring out how many years passed between 201X and the game's present day.

We have regular schools, regular cars.. Asgore's trimming statues old-school.. The cars don't appear to be self-driving.. But there are skyscrapers.. That puts the events of the game around.. The early 21st century-Present day.

Now it's time to work backwards. Now, we can't estimate how long it was from Chara to Frisk directly, but we CAN figure out how long it was from the WAR to Frisk, and use statistics to figure out when the first human would likely have fell. Taking a look at the images from the intro, the war likely happened either in medieval times, or during Roman times. For the sake of argument let's say it was in the medieval era-Let's give it a generous 1500.

A total of eight humans fell underground, and they would have fell randomly, with a constant probability. Since we have about 500 years between the war and the events of Undertale, that means the humans fell at an average of 1 human per 62.5 years. Let's be REALLY generous and say Chara fell 100years after the war. That puts us at 1600... Yeah, nope. Not much different.

Besides, Asriel can become God of Hyperdeath with 7 SOULs, and pretty much rip apart space-time, use Hypergoner.. As the narration said.. "The whole world is ending." So all those guns, even if humans DID somehow have access to them in 1600? USELESS!! You can kill a man with one, but not a god of hyperdeath. Asriel's the only reason why humanity is still alive. (In Undertale)

Really, the problem with pre-death Chara is their hypocrisy.. They're (were) a human too, after all...