Talk:Chara/@comment-27559354-20160106183834/@comment-4991168-20160109120648

I don't think Chara's innocent or "pure and harmless" at any point, though. Whatever of them remained with Frisk is just too weak to influence him in any way during the protagonist route. Like I said before, Chara's a well-intentioned extremist originally like Asgore and Undyne in my point of view, but more 'extremist' and less 'well-intentioned'. Although it's the protagonist's actions that really turn Chara 'evil', they're hardly a child in the traditional, immature and innocent sense anymore having experienced both mistreatment in life amongst humans and the realization their 'family' (Dreemurrs) was hurt by humans as well.

Chara was fully intent on killing humans and taking their souls in order to break the barrier, and apparently it felt so out of sync with how Asriel felt that he even noticed he was the one holding them back. The reason Chara may or may not be feeling betrayed by Asriel is because he agreed to the plan but backed away when he realized he couldn't kill humans after all. At the end when she tries to unveil their plan, Chara's hatred of humans and desire to use them to release monsters even at the cost of human lives is genuine and they're more ruthless and determined in doing that than, for example, Asgore. Chara's hardly on a child's level of innocence and morality, we just push them further along the way and extend their desire/ease of murder onto monsters (Chara's former friends and family).

That's how I see it at least.