Talk:Chara/@comment-33170295-20200211015654

Debunking time! It's time to debunk all the stupid bits of evidence that are used way too often in the Chara debate.

My opinion on Chara's morality is still non-existent. I'm debunking evidence from both sides.

"Chara posessed Frisk on the Genocide route!"

Not exactly. We can presume they were the ones who attacked Sans, Asgore, and Flowey, but that's it. Definitely not for the whole time.

"Chara only killed because you taught them to!"

"Cool motive, still murder" still applies here. The Genocide route supposedly driving Chara insane should be taken as an explanation, not a justification. That's the logic the game follows on the Genocide route. It doesn't matter why you killed them, all that matters is they're dead because of you.

"Chara's just a child!"

A genocidal Frisk is 8-10 years old and they killed everyone in the Underground. To give a real-world example, a child who commits murder is tried as an adult.

"Chara calls themselves a demon, so they have to be evil!"

This is a game about empathetic monsters. And before you reply saying that demons are evil by definition (you know who you are), so are monsters, and yet..

"Chara manipulated Asriel!"

Asriel is naive, not manipulated. Nothing he says implies it was Chara that molded him to be that way.

"Chara poisoned Asgore and then laughed about it!"

Asriel had a hand in that, too. It was not intentional. And as for the laughing bit..

"MY POOR LOVE, I'M SO FILLED WITH GRIEF, I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!"

"Ha.. ha.. I don't want to let go.."

"We can't do anything, so why be morose about it?"

Chara is not the only person in the Underground who uses humor as a coping mechanism.

If you have any more overused evidence that needs debunking (or better yet, that you've already debunked), reply with it. I'm curious.