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Frisk: She's white/black mixed race. Her father left when she was 6, leaving her abusive mother and her big sister as well. Her big sister (Tanya) was depressed for a long time, and when Frisk was 8, she tried to kill herself (she didn't succeed). After that, Frisk's cousin (who was 9 at the time) started living with them (she ran away from home), but Frisk's mom never knew-- Tanya and Frisk always hid her. Frisk's original name was Christopher Andrew Burns, though she'd like to change it to Christine Andrea Dreemurr. 'Frisk' was a nickname given by her sister and her cousin (whose name was Aliza). When Frisk was 10, just after she began to work out she was really a girl, her sister tried to kill herself again. This time, she succeeded.

After that, it was much harder to hide Aliza. Though, a few months later, Frisk's mom left on an errand and never came back. Frisk and Aliza survived at that house by themselves for three weeks until someone figured out what happened. Then Frisk was sent to a group foster home, where she met Jason. Aliza disappeared, Tanya was dead, her mother (who she didn't know how to feel about) was missing. Jason helped her. Frisk introduced herself to him as a girl and as 'Frisk', and that made her feel a lot better, even though she had to remain in the closet to fly under the radar of the 'mother' in the group home.

A while later, when Frisk and Jason were 11, a mean kid named Luke dared Jason to go up to the mountain and bring back flowers for 'his little girlfriend, Frisk'. Jason went up, but he never came back. (He was the Justice SOUL).

A year later, when she was 12, Frisk had had enough of all the bullying and abuse she went through. She was constantly covered in scratches and bruises. The bandage she had when she fell covered a cut on her cheek that eventually scarred. Then she was dared to go up and do the same thing Jason did by Luke, but when she got up there, she just jumped.

When she left the Underground, it was only a month away from her 13th birthday... one she spent with the monsters who loved her.

Chara: She was caucasian, and physically female. At a young age, her father was killed in an accident. After that, her mother (who grew increasingly more abusive as time went on) began seeing other men-- not surprising. However, the men she brought home were... sleazy, to say the least. They treated her... horribly. They left her with a secret she would be forced to keep all her life.

Eventually, her aunt and uncle both passed away, and her younger cousin came to live with her. Her name was Nicole. She was four to Chara's six. Chara's mom enforced strict gender roles, rules, and god-fearing behaviors in the two. She would beat them to a pulp if they broke a rule. Chara was pale, as she was usually inside since playing outdoors wasn't 'ladylike'.

Eventually, her mother began seeing a man named Daniel. That man abused Chara more than her mother ever did, with the same kind of thing the men did to her when she was younger. (You all should know what I mean). Chara was lucky to save Nicole from the worst of it. For a long time, she tried to shield Nicole from most things.

Finally, just five months before Chara turned 12, her mother broke up with Daniel. But then, five months later, Chara's mom found Chara's diary. It detailed everything-- every time Daniel hurt her in any way, every time she secretly broke a rule, even her feelings about not being a girl (she was genderqueer). Her mother went ballistic and, in her rage, Nicole was killed. Severely physically (and emotionally) hurt, Chara ran to the mountain-- the once place she knew she could go to end it all. Her head swimming with the insults her mother threw at her ("Whore!" "You deserved to be hurt!" "I knew you were evil!" [because of her red eyes]). She felt the hair her mother had chopped short as a punishment, when it used to be long and beautiful, and then she fell, trying to die on the day (12 years later) that she was born.

Of course, it didn't work. The Dreemurrs took her in, she lived there for a year and a half (turning 13) before The Plan happened.