Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37334388-20190301031034/@comment-24237085-20190804163751

MagomaevaAmina wrote:

JKPwnage wrote:

Hiff The Temmie wrote: Do you think Chara is evil? Why or why not? The Fallen Child ("Chara") is a representation of how characters in a game would likely interpret the actions of the player. That's why it's so important that the Fallen Child is named after the player. As such, the Fallen Child is only as evil as the player makes them. Common misconception:Toby said that we should name chara after ourselves only if we Don't have any better idea Toby only said "I mean, if you can't think of anything else lol" as a reply, phrased in a joking way. The parent tweet was phrased much more directly and definitively and was likely meant to be taken more seriously than the tweet with "lol" at the end.

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.

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.

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