Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33883848-20190807180622

Chara and Gaster are probably not only the most mysterious characters of the game but also one of it greatest mysteries,however,there's some canon info about them we need to take into consideration if we want to study them.Compared to Gaster,Chara has much more lore to work with so let's start with them and more presicely while they were alive:

-They were the first of the eight children to fall in the underground

-They fell in the year 201X

-Asgore and Toriel treated them as their own child

-Asriel and Chara became "like siblings"and best friends and Asriel had a locket that says "best friends forever".

-Their soul had the same color as Frisk's one

-They brought hope in the underground

-Asgore viewed them as "the future of huamans and monsters"

-According to Asriel they strongly hated humanity although they never told why

-According to Asriel they climbed the mountain no one return from for an "unhappy reason".

-Accodring to Asriel,they weren't "the greatest person"

-According to Flowey, they were both "inseparable"

-Accodring to Asriel,Chara was the only person who could understand him

-According to Asriel,he and Chara often used to play with each other

-They made a "creepy face"to amuse Asriel

-Asriel loved to prank them with cameras

-They were embarassed with Asriel when their parents showed too much affection for each other

-Chara made a picture of a golden flower in New home.

-They loved chocolate

-According to Asgore,they had a "strong feeling of hope"in their eyes

-They were very tense while posing for the family's photo

-They accidentally put buttercups instead of cup of butter while baking a pie with Asriel for Asgore and Asriel says that they laughed the situation off and that he should have reacted the same way.

-They planned to use the same buttercups to kill themselves to allow Asriel to absorb their soul,cross the barrier and take 6 human souls on the surface in order to break the barrier.

-Their dying wish was to see the golden flowers from their village

-When Asriel absorbed their soul,the control was split between the two and Chara was the one who picked up their own dead body to bring it in their village from the surface to carry it on the golden flowers that bloom there

-Seeing Asriel holding Chara's body,the villagers thought that Asriel killed the human and decided to attack them

-Chara wanted to use their "full power"against them but Asriel resisted which made the villagers kill the fusion

-According to Asriel ,killing the villagers would wage another war but it's unknown whether or not it was part of Chara's plan

-Chara's body was originally mumified in a coffin in New home

-According to Flowey,Toriel took Chara's body and buried it in the ruins when she left Asgore

That's more or less everything we know for 100 % about Chara while they were alive but what about post death Chara ??

-Chara is the one that's showed in the intro,not Frisk

-Chara is the character you name,not Frisk

-Chara's name appears in the stat's menu,battle interface ,save load menu and reset menu not Frisk's

-Chara's memories appear every time Frisk die,sleep or fall and in all runs

-Asriel confuse Chara for Frisk near the end of the pacifist run but aknowledge that they are separate people when you save him

-Asriel's pacifist run's goal is to keep Chara arround forever because Chara is "special"to him as they understand him and the only person who's fun to play with anymore

-Asriel's memories of Chara is what allow him to feel love again

-Flowey adress Chara in pacifist post credits scene,ask Chara to "take a deep breath"as everyone is finally happy,claim that Chara was fighting to stop reset power ,aknowledge that Chara can reset and ask them to not if they want to.

-In genocide run,Flowey believes that Chara stole Frisk's soul and is possesing their body as Frisk behaves as a person who's "empty inside"and as believe Chara is soulless like him

-In genocide run,Chara says "It"s me Chara"while checking the mirror in Toriel's house and "where are the knives"in Toriel's kitchen

-In genocide run,Chara speak in first person in new home and describe the life they had in new home through their narration however the narration is extremely focused on the "mission"

-In genocide run,Flowey ask Chara to "finish"what they started and break the barrier

-According to Flowey,Asgore would make exeption for Chara and show them the human souls

-According to Flowey,Chara is the only person that's currently unpredictable to him

-According to Flowey,Chara still the only person that understand him as he believes that they are a creature like him and thus "won't show any worthless pity"to him

-In genocide run,Chara make a "creepy face"to Flowey while he mention that soulless people won't hesitate to kill each other if they get each other way

-Chara appears only if Flowey is killed at the end of the genocideaa run

-They introduce themselves with "greetings"just like Toriel does at the start of the game

-Chara thanks Frisk for bringing them back to life thanks to their power(either lv or dt).

-They explains that they were confused when they came back to life and did not understand their purpose untill Frisk showed them why through their merciless actions:to gain power

-Chara tell that they are the feeling that Frisk feel every time each number increases

-They give you a "choice"to erase or not the world and move to the next as there's "nothing left"for you here and as you reached the "absolute"

-If you refuse,Chara tells that you were never in control,make a jumpscare and erase the world anyway

-If you accept ,they tell that you're a good partner and that you'll be "together forever"and destroy the world

-If you wait 10 min,Chara says that your actions led world to it's destruction and accuse you for wanting to come back to the very world that you destroyed and ask you if you think you're above consequences

-If you choose "no"Chara ask you what you're looking for then.

-If you choose "yes"they simply says "exactly"

-Regadless of the choice,they will propose you to recreate the world but only if you give up your soul to them.

-They recreate the world if you accept

-They leave you again in the abyss if you refuse and make the same dialogue if you wait again for 10 min

-If you achieve a post genocide pacifist run,Chara replaces Frisk at the really end and cross Frisk's friends faces in the picture if you decide to not stay with Toriel.However,it's unknown whether or not if any human is killed

-If you choose to stay with Toriel in post genocide pacifist end,Chara take over Frisk while they are sleeping with a creepy laugh and red eyes.

-If you abort the genocide run ,Flowey will still think that Frisk is Chara and think that Chara just want to "mess around"out if curiosity before finishing their plan

-If you choose a neutral route after a genocide run ,Chara won't interfer and won't kill any monster

-If you do another genocide run,Chara claims to be "the demon that comes when people call it name"and that a "perverted sentimentality"that they can't understand is what push you to recreate and destroy the world all over again and feel "obligated"to suggest you to take another path that's "better suited"and suggest you to destroy the world again to recreate it in order to choose another run

-If you agree,they'll claim again that you're a good partner and that you'll be together forever and restart the game

-If you refuse,they'll claim that the feeling you have at this point is the same as they spoke before and that you already made your choice a "long ago"and restart the game anyway

That's all to know about Chara for 100% and while there's plenty of details about them,all of those details are ambiguous regarding their personality and the kind of person they were,thus Chara is up to your own interpretation but not as much as our next subject,Gaster.Little is known about this guy but each detail is important to theorize about him,so what do we know about him??

-He was the previous scientist before Alphys.

-His brillance was "irreplaceable"

-He built the CORE

-He wrote the entry number 17 that's accesible only in game files and that shows him experimenting over darkness with two 2 partners

-The reasons behind his death are kinda vague,one of his followers says that he "shattered across time and space",another says that he "fell into his creation"while the last one that "his experiments went wrong",it's unknown which one is "correct"or if they are all have a causal link with each other.

-One of his followers claim to hold a "piece"of him.

-Asgore waited very long before hirring a new scientist as Gaster was irreplaceable

-He speaks in Wingdings and has a pretty creepy theme

-He' s often associated with "6"number in the game files,a number that's commonly associated with the devil.

-Sans's weapons used in genocide run are called "Gaster blasters"but it's unknown how Sans got them.

-He's still listening

-The game crashes and restart if you name Chara after him

That's literally everything we know about him and so possibilites are much more limitless than with Chara,so you're free to imagine him however you want!!Anyway,i hope that this "guide"would be helpfull and will help you to to imagine your own theories about those two characters! 