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BlackfootFerret wrote: Isthereaplace wrote: Shouldn't repairing the damaged state of Chara's soul mean they lost the ability instead of never having it?

Also, if it is so, it isn't really compelling to someone who likes Chara. It pushes everything in the direction that they are inherently bad, and whatever good you may find in them is Asriel's, who is already good beyond reason. Yet, he has to be even better than that, and if someone likes Chara, they have to like Asriel in them.

I don't want to idolize Chara or anything, they are flawed anyway, but I want to like them for who they truly are, or were, (whatever is the take on that), and not for what Asriel and Frisk makes them to be. Well, the big metaphor in Undertale is that acting like your regular RPG protagonist, thoughtlessly slaughtering all the monsters you find, is bad. So they set up someone with this mindset, and then let you decide if they learn to change their ways or not.

Chara seems to be a tragic, damaged person who was bent on revenge against her villiage after trying to commit suicide by jumping down the mounter, and finding allies instead of death. Seems about right.