Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27524978-20160317154321/@comment-27907368-20160425072641

I think the player is meant to represent determination in that we choose what we do. Self-determination is a huge facet of human nature; we choose what we want to do and no one else pulls our strings. Good or bad or something in between, we are able to choose.

This is in comparison to monsters, whose actions are more bound by their SOULS because they aren't much more than these constructs and because they are made of compassion, mercy, goodness (or whatever the monster mix is, I forget). They are inherantly good; even Undyne befriends the PC and she "hates" humans going into our encounter.

So, in a way, the player is Chara and Frisk. However, Chara gets tossed into "genocidal maniac" while people gloss over the fact that they are a human without a body. We are aware what a monster without a SOUL looks like - a human without a body, we are unsure. Chara surely doesn't have full access to the PC's physical form (for the most part), so they may be unable to be who they actually are. If that makes sense.

Yeah, I never understood using Chara as a scapegoat.