Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29788596-20160906011125/@comment-35806478-20180607174929

First off, I’d like to know how to use the quote button. Because, uh, I don’t know where it is or how to use it.

Okay, let me just say something; we probably are corrupting Chara. If you look at the stat screen, you’ll notice that “Chara” (or whatever you named them) is shown, despite it seemingly being Frisk’s LOVE. “So?” This implies that Chara and Frisk share the same LOVE, which would mean that over the course of the genocide route, both Chara and Frisk’s LOVE slowly increase. And since we know that LOVE is a measure of your capacity to hurt, that means that Chara is slowly gaining capacity to hurt. “''You base all that off the fact that Chara is shown on the stats screen!? That would imply that when we get hit, Chara gets hit, and when we equip armor, we are protecting Chara!''” Ah, but you’ve just stated a bunch of true statements. You see, Chara and Frisk share the same SOUL; they even say so in their genocide speech. There are numerous examples of Chara being able to feel Frisk’s emotions, so it’s not a stretch to say that they can feel Frisk’s pain as well. Plus, if Frisk’s SOUL were to die, Chara would also cease to exist, since the determination keeping them afloat would suddenly be gone. There’s no other explanation for Chara’s name being on the stat screen; ergo, Chara must share our stats, thus they must share our LOVE, thus in the genocide route, their LOVE - aka capacity to hurt - grows along with Frisk’s.