Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190716003715/@comment-32182236-20190823131420

Alright.. So let's take a look at how the narration may or may not be linked to the HUD itself, and find out if Chara in fact intelligently designed the HUD for us.

First off, as we know, pink names existed well before then. But.. The monsters themselves had those names.

So the monsters are the ones coloring their names when they're sparing you. Not the HUD. So there's a fact we need to take into consideration. So that's one part of the HUD the monsters are actually responsible for.

Next, we need to find out why the buttons don't exist in Flowey's fight.

It was never mentioned that they didn't exist, and Flowey got the first turn. So one could say that they don't exist simply because they don't exist until you get your first turn.

But Sans gets the first turn in the Genocide Run, and they appear there.

So that means that if we still want to apply this rule, we also have to say that once the buttons appear once, they stay that way.

Or we could consider Flowey as an exception, since he broke the HUD later on.

The name also doesn't exist. This is evidence that Chara is responsible for the name. They also show up in the HUD screen.. But Flowey's own name shows up when he takes control.

Somehow, the HUD is attuned to Chara, instead of Frisk.

Yet, it shows Frisk's stats, since they're the ones equipping items. The phone calls where Papyrus asks if you're wearing item X (for Undyne) makes it clear that Frisk is actually wearing these items. And we know the items heal Frisk, rather than Chara, as Frisk's SOUL is the one shattering.

But why?

Chara is Soulless, and has no determination of their own. They say that their SOUL and determination was not theirs, but OURS. So by every law that we know about, Frisk should be the one the HUD is attuned to.. Not Chara.

Could Chara have had the HUD when they were alive? Even if this is the case, why didn't Frisk snatch it? Why does Chara have to transmit it to Frisk?

Chara appears to be attuned to Frisk. They have no physical form (which is probably why they have no determination), so they have to latch onto Frisk. In a way, Frisk is Chara's vessel.

So it could be that Frisk's stats become Chara's.

But this doesn't make sense. It might make perfect sense for things like HP, ATK, and DEF, because those are physical stats-Stats that would actually be affected by what vessel you're in.

But LV is also there, and that's a mental stat.

So it doesn't look like this works as an explanation. We need an alternative-One that can explain everything.