Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24100805-20160201152915/@comment-28836589-20170802073125

My previous views notwithstanding, (a) Chara sounds more like a female name (I googled it and there's also a Japanese singer from the 1990s called "Chara"), (b) Chara's interactions with Asriel in the tapes in the true lab for some reason gave me the impression she was female and (c) although it's difficult to say for certain with so few pixels, she appears to look feminine. On the other hand, Frisk is more difficult - the name could definitely go either way, although statistically in the US, before Undertale, it was much more popular as a boy's name (ranked #5,733) than as a girl's name (ranked #15,596). We also have less to go on discussing their personality (assuming that they are an independent entity from 'the player'), as all we really see are one or two examples of Frisk in the pacifist route resisting really nasty actions, so we can't make the kind of assumptions we can with Chara. Lastly, appearance-wise, once again they could go either way. Ultimately, since having gotten quite into Chara theories, I tend to see Frisk as a boy, probably just in opposition to Chara who I see quite strongly as a girl, but I can't pretend I don't change my mind frequently. Isn't that what's so clever about their character design, though?