Talk:Chara/@comment-35549737-20171227033611

The naming easter egg about Chara being 'the true name' probably doesn't actually mean that the first human's name was Chara.

Yesterday, when digging through the sprite files, I noticed that Chara's sprites for the Genocide Route end cutscene are literally named 'truechara'. The phrase 'chara' is clearly short for 'character', as Frisk's sprites are named 'mainchara'.

(Why the word 'true'? I feel like it's probably referring to the fact that the game misleads you into thinking that Chara is the character you play as, via all their memories you relive and the fact that you name them when you think you're naming Frisk. The true character that all those memories belong to is Chara.)

So, in short, the whole 'The true name' for Chara isn't telling us that Chara is the right name. It's another little joke Toby slipped in. Very clever, Toby.

I'm not saying that we need to stop calling the first human Chara, I'm just pointing out this amusing little joke that a lot of people seem to miss. Chara is the true name because it is literally the 'true' name.