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This is a follow-up to my answer on this thread http://undertale.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:52556.

I think I hit gold with this one, everything seems to line up very nicely. That's probably how many think of thier headcanons though.

The basic gist of the story is, Chara’s a sociopath. She can’t feel emotion in a similar way Flowey can’t,  which is kinda ironic I guess. Here’s another link for you. http://www.lovefraud.com/beware-the-sociopath/key-symptoms/the-inner-triangle/ This is essentially a very basic article that goes over some key points in a very long book about sociopathism. Now, I’m not cultured enough to actually read a book, but I did glance over this page while thinking about the story. On of the main ideas was a sociopath’s inability to feel real love, but their ability to sometimes feel small bursts of affection, of course which is usually cancelled out for their lust for (this seems like a melodramatic word, but oh well) POWER!!! Sound familiar? It fits Chara’s story perfectly, she obviously feels some traces of affection for her adopted brother, yet her need to be manipulative usually rules it out.

Now into the actual story. Chara is fascinated by Asriel when she firsts meets him, as many of us are. The idea and concept of love is astounding to her. It’s commonly believed that Chara went through some tough stuff, and thus might have never seen a trace of love in her life. Asriel (bless his soul) is so full of the stuff, he sticks his neck out for her, tries to play games with her and make her happy, he looks to her as a real sibling besides her obvious unwillingness to share that opinion. Chara is absolutely dumbfounded by the concept of love he feels for her, and she want to feel it too. He tries to explain love to her, and for a while she even thinks she might be able to feel it too, and starts acting the way someone loving might act in an attempt to experience it. She tries and tries and tries to live the sensation that Asriel’s so ecstatic about, yet she just can’t.

Once she comes to this realization, Chara’s want to experience this love brings her to a manipulative nature, as many sociopaths adopt. See where this is going? In an effort to feel what Asriel feels, she manipulates him into fusing souls, maybe if they were in the same body she would feel the same way he does. When they fuse though, she's unable to due to being two deperate concious being in a body ("Dreamer Reborn style") yet she tricks herself into thinking she can experience it, and tries to do something she thinks a loving person would do. Asriel had mentioned something about sacrificing something for the happiness of the people you loved, so of course the first thing she does thinks of is sacrificing her friends, family and entire village to free the monsters from the underground. Of course Asriel refuses, and the story continues on as we know it.

I think this can also be adopted onto Flowey’s later opinions towards Chara. In his child life, he likely noticed something a bit off about her, and he definitely noticed something a bit off about her when she decided to slaughter her entire village. As a flower though, he wants to be with her because she’s the only other person who understands what he’s been going through not having emotions. That or after the possible millennia of being a flower compared to his short time as a kid, he just forgot/blocked out the bad parts about her. Either way, I’m pretty satisfied with this theory.

<span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">So maybe this one wasn’t as interesting or in depth as my other writings, but I really just wanted to share a cool story idea I had. <ac_metadata title="Chara Headcanon (Oh boy)"> </ac_metadata>