Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20160613103837/@comment-27620479-20160614043339

Starscream1998 wrote:

Jillianbrodsky wrote: Everyone wants to make Chara into this absolutely evil being because of the end of the genocide run. In reality, it's Frisk's actions that led Chara to the conclusion of power etc.

But okay, you won't agree with that. It says in the game that monsters can't absorb other monster souls. Humans can't absorb human souls. But flowey absorbed the souls of humans AND monsters. Therefore he is neither.

"ENTRY NUMBER 7

We'll need a vessel to wield the monster SOULs when the time comes.

After all, a monster cannot absorb the SOULs of other monsters.

Just as a human cannot absorb a human SOUL...

So then..." Ironically, I completely agree with your bit on Chara as I subscribe to the narrator Chara theory. Asriel's merge with the monsters was clearly imperfect as they began to influence his mind in a way the 6 human souls never did. I hope you know that the narrator Chara theory includes that Chara and Flowey are soulless, and that is why:

- they are so much unlike in real life

- Flowey-Asriel recognizes Frisk as Chara through their shared emptiness (despite none of them are their former self)

- and are morally corruptable.

Also, it assumes that since their souls were combined, both would have the same fate. So, either both of them has a soul, and Asriel's "don't kill, no matter what" philosophy somehow turned into "kill or be killed", or none of them has, but I still got an answer that Chara has. Well, at least before going on to destroy the world if you ever take that direction, but then again, I haven't seen them pick one up on the way, they still need one in the void, and if we assume being soulless as having no feelings at all and taking a soul as the one giving it becoming soulless, then it is not the player's. Because completely without feelings players wouldn't try to scapegoat and demonize Chara.