Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20190825012208

Look, we see Chara arrive in the Underground wearing a striped tshirt. A very modern outfit.

Toriel recorded her pun-filled pitch about having a kid with Asgore at a time where she was holding a modern video recorder.

This was before the monsters suddenly lost their fear age-old fear of humans, and made the migration to New Home, because Home has one child bed in it, for Asriel. Asriel was born before the migration to New Home.

But Chara arrived after the migration to New Home, because although Asriel found her in the Ruins, nobody ever made a bed for her there. Instead, they made a bed for her in New Home, which had already been established as the new capital by the time Chara arrived. It was a couple hours walk at the worst.

Chara arrived after the captial switch, and also after the establishment of the Core, which was designed as part of the New Home complex. Gaster made the Core, Gaster much have arrived in the Underground before Chara.

Inspite of Gaster's massive infusion of Other World Technology, the ripple effects of this massive overhaul in monster society are only just now beginning to spread to places like Snowdin at the time Frisk arrives. Which means Frisk could not have arrived too long after Gaster.

The arrival of Gaster and Frisk on the scene could only be, at most, a decade or so apart.

And Chara arrived after Gaster did.

Also, in the garbage dump and during Alphy's date, we get to see human garbage, actual artifacts from the surface world, and it all looks modern, not futuristic.

Everything I see suggests that the present state of Undertale's surface human society is a close reflection to our own world. That through the example of Undertale, we're supposed to learn things that apply to our own experiences.

I see no logical way that Chara's arrival could be centuries in the past, or Frisk's arrival centuries in the future. The two characters are clearly linked in some way. Most likely by meeting each other in the Alpha Timeline.

Although Frisk was probably calling himself Sans at the time.