Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30937172-20180506213504

Hello. My name is Mikey. I am here to talk about Chara and Frisks' soul. The meaning behind it's color, and it's power to revive after death and reset timelines. I personally believe it is connected to Earthbound. Now I know that Matpat's video connecting Earthbound and Undertale wasn't his best work. Although I am a fan of both Earthbound and Undertale, I do not believe a single thing in his video. This isn't about me saying this character is that character. I do believe that Earthbound and Undertale take place in a similar universe and both seem to have a similar history.

But I am talking more about Chara and Frisk. One thing I always wondered that where do these souls come from? How do they form? What's the meaning behind their colors? Here's my take of the history behind the soul DETERMINATION.

As many of you knoow, Chara is a human raised by monsters. But when their father, Asgore, gets sick, Chara devised a plan: First Chara gets sick themselves, and gives their soul to Asriel. Asriel carries Chara to a human villiage to "place their body on their favorite flowers" and humans saw Asriel and thought he killed them and attack him. Asriel dies and his dust was spread over the garden in his home. The thing is though, is that Chara is planning to use Asriel to kill all of humanity. What's weird, is that Giygas from Earthbound shares a similar backstory.

Giygas was a alien raised by humans, but due to his nature he grows up hating humanity. Giygas tried to convince a felow family member to join him, but was refused. Like I said, I am not saying Chara IS Giygas, but they are connected.

Giygas started out as a alien who was raised by a species that he was meant to hate, to a all evil force that can only be defeated by specific means. In the end of Earthbound, Pokey/Porky says that Giygas is no longer the master of evil, he has become the manifestation of evil itself. What's that have to do with Chara or Frisk? It's more about Giygas' appearance and his powers that are similar to that of Chara and/or Frisk. As established, those with DETERMINATION have to ability to reset and change timelines and also have the ability to revive after death, immortal in other words.

In Mother 3, Earthbound's sequel, Pokey/Porky returns as the main villian and Giygas was nowhere to be seen. He says himself:

"Let me fill you in on something. No matter how much you attack me, I'll never die. Even if I somehow wind up beaten, I'll never die. Bet you didn't know that, did you?"

"I've gone through time and space so many times I haven't aged like a normal person. Who knows, I might be 1000 years old, or even 10,000 years old. But despite that, I'm still the same kid at heart! Is that funny? It is, isn't it? Does it make you laugh? *cough* *wheeze* Are you laughing at me?!"

Pokey/Porky explains that after Giygas was defeated, he had optained the ability to travel through time and space, and he also says that he is immortal. He'll never die, no matter what. Isn't like how the player always revives after game overs or how players can reset timelines? Sure, it's not the same thing, but it's a similar concept. It appears that either Giygas posessed him, or perhaps he was given those abilities by Giygas himself. Giygas seems to have those abilities himself, since we can see him travel through time and space himself. It seems that Chara was once a innocent human who lived happily with a family, until something inside them awakened. It was Giygas. The soul that Chara and Frisk have, the soul that gives them powers beyond any comprehension, was actually a small piece of Giygas himself. It is also mostly due to how the soul is more powerful than every other human soul in the game, and how both Frisk and Chara and Flowey(once) were able to become alive after death, and how they were given the power to reset timelines, as in they travel back in time. 