Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34798955-20180310144518/@comment-35615238-20190121174100

Okay, so you are true in the sense that Chara just did the whole "golden flower burial" thing for a setup, and even if the plan wasn't to destroy humanity, the monsters would eventually have had to do that either way since the humans wouldn't give them a warm welcome.

So I talked about Chara helping you to spare monsters in my last message, right? While they may not do that specifically, they still help you in some way, even if it doesn't lead to sparing. So you are questioning the thought of Chara helping Frisk, a human whose species murdered and abused them. While Chara may not exactly be fond of Frisk toying with the world, they're stuck to them. They can't really do anything against it because they're bound by determination. And the reason why Chara didn't fight back in Genocide, and actually assisted in the killing, is because that's what you teach them by feeding them with EXP and LOVE constantly. They forget the nice nature of the monsters and decide that they're just as meaningless as the humans were.

You said that the humans wouldn't have had a reason to attack Chara if they just absorbed Asriel's SOUL, and you are correct. But if you actually think about the situation, Chara could very well just attack the humans out of nowhere with no warning. And Asriel not fighting back is not because he wants to protect them. He specifically agreed to the plan of getting 6 human SOULs, and he was reluctant to it, which reveals that he didn't fight because he didn't want to fight. He was a child who wanted peace, and in turn, did not fight against an angry mob that was killing him. It's highly unlikely that Asriel would choose a bunch of attacking strangers over his best friend, so not fighting back wasn't to protect those humans, but for a desire of mercy. Asriel always trusted Chara, so there's no way he'd just turn his back on them.

So SOULless beings lack the power of feeling love. That doesn't really make them evil by nature. Take Flowey, for example. When he first woke up, he didn't know what was going on. He called for help and got it. And when he found out about the power of Reset, he started experimenting with the world. At first, he decided to be nice to everyone. He'd make friends with Papyrus and all of the above. The only reason he started engraving "Kill or be killed" into his head was when he got bored of the same Pacifist route happening over and over again, so he killed for curiosity, not because he liked it. With this being said, Chara wasn't automatically heck-bent at killing the monsters when they woke up and bound to Frisk, because even if they were SOULless, they didn't start hating the world at the first second. That's what Frisk teaches them. Even if they can't exactly agree with a human, why would they hate a child that did absolutely nothing to harm them and potentially accepted their help? Even if Flowey was a SOULless being, he still cared about Chara because they were the only one that understood him, so compassion isn't completely absent from a SOULless person. Chara may have had some hate in them, but seeing as how they were loved by monsters, they still remembered that and didn't just let it go because they were murdered seemingly because of a refusal to fight, which was probably one of their motives from the start (to erase themself from existence).