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Anyway he has no reason to joke about it It's Toby Fox's Twitter. If it's meant to be joking, it'd be obvious. The reply is obviously joking, whereas the parent is not.

"Furthermore, Toby never refers to the fallen child as "Chara". It's likely that "Chara" being """The True Name""" is only because that's how the sprites are named as an abbreviation of "character"; as a placeholder for whatever the player names the fallen child."

He mentionned Chara only once and when their name wasnt revealed at all. When? "If the fallen child weren't meant to be named after the player, the fallen child wouldn't be manually nameable at all, and the murder ending would look a lot different and would likely need to be rewritten entirely"

Exept you know to mislead the player about which character they control during the whole game and reveal that the character you name and the one you control are not the same.And perhaps because Chara's character fully depends on the player and their interpretation. Exactly. But simply misleading the player about which character they control can be done without allowing the fallen child to be named, so it's clearly meant to be because the fallen child's character fully depends on the player and their interpretation because it it's a representation of the player and their interpretation.

"The entire point is to hold the player responsible for the actions they take in any game, not just Undertale."

How naming Chara after ourselves make us more responsible for your actions? Having your actions directly attributed to your name forces a mental correlation between the two. Why do criminals often wear masks? Why do people act differently on the internet when they're anonymous? Because if their words and actions aren't associated with their own identity, they don't need to worry about their identity being associated with words and actions that society deems immoral, and they can act as they please without guilt.

"(also the fallen child is always referred to with they/them pronouns ingame)"

Just like Nastablook,Ice wolf,monster kid,Frisk,mad dummy's cousin etc... (the point of that last bit was just to express annoyance with all the people in this thread referring to them with she/her pronouns)