Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20180104155430/@comment-28517148-20180920085130

We don't know if the Chara we see at the end of the Genocide Run is the Chara that Asriel knew. We do know that. According to game's mechanic the human soul is culmination of one's being and when Asriel took Chara's soul from their body he actually absorbed sapient, self aware being possessing free will. Also, persistent nature of soul allows it to survive Asriel's death, like in case of six humans. In the other hand if one's soul is being destroyed, then there is no way to bring that person back except Save File, like in case of Frisk's deaths, but this thing manages entire World and everything in it. Therefore, if Chara is here, then their soul must be here as well. However, we are dealing with a serious plot hole here: we have to have their soul here so they are not permanently dead, but no one else can find it, which is very unlikely.

For all we know, that Chara we see could very well possibly be a manifestation of determination that brought Chara back, but then proceeded to limit them to evil. Soulless or not, Chara is still sentient being, which they prooved, so whatever they does is their own independant decision. If they are evil by doing or allowing for evil things it is because they choosed it.

Determination!Chara might have erased the world because they were in pain. That is speculation. In fact Chara stated that the world was destroyed (which is a lie, it still stands), become obsolete and they want to move to another and those are reasons behind [ERASE] (instead of RESET\LOAD). Unless Chara really is just "self aware" bunch of stats, then it is true that world is obsolete since from perspective of the Player who destroyed it, You or I really have nothing to do here. However, in this case entire Protection Squad is needless because Chara is nothing but game creator's (who apparently has a problem) judgment on Players choices: ''Selfish brat. Somebody is dead because of you; the potted plant is judging you for your sins; whatever could it mean... It means you've lived a life of sin; hmmm... over lv14, huh. well, hmmm... judgment-wise... you're a pretty bad person; It was you who pushed everything to its edge. It was you who led the world to its destruction''.

The player could very well be the villain, as well as the hero. We are discussing about Chara not the Player, aren't we?

okay, that's the end of the theory. Nothing about Chara's plan of "freeing" the monsterkind effectively leading it to its demise long before Frisk showed up in Underground?