Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26139703-20160516232505/@comment-26347196-20160516235313

The Genocide route really says a lot about Chara. Technically, they don't have the control over Frisk, but in a sense, they're controlling the path the whole time. Chara gives Frisk the guidance. Everything starts when the save point in Snowdin guides you on how many kill count you should make. At the end of the Genocide route, Chara always chastises on every action being made by Frisk, and like you said, it's true.

However, there's the guidance. At the end of the Genocide route, Chara locks Frisk down into the path of giving their soul to Chara. Furthermore, there's the quote "Since when were you the one in control?". Chara is very meticulous, I'd say; manipulating Frisk from the backline, use their own malice to make a backfire on while made sure that they have absolutely no real reason to blame on Chara.

From Until Dawn, I remember Alan Hill have a quote: "I don't know which is worse, actively triggering events that lead to someone's death, or passively waiting for a tragedy to occur". There's the whole discussion on that part in Until Dawn game (which you don't need to know), but Chara is capable of doing both while keeping their hands clean.

That would mean Chara is still responsible for the Genocide route. Just not entirely.