Talk:Chara/@comment-35030974-20191223053215/@comment-32182236-20191230021144

I actually have a very similar hypothesis on why Chara went to the mountain, though I believe they did know about the legends. After all, Asriel mentions the legend to us and asks why we climbed, and he could only have gotten the legend from a human who fell, like Chara. Flowey tried to take our SOUL, though failed, then realized he couldn't save and LOAD before. If another human fell between Flowey's appearance and Frisk's, Flowey could have taken THAT human's SOUL, and yet we don't see him with said human's SOUL. Therefore, Flowey must have been created after all 6 humans fell, thus, Asriel could only have heard the legends from Chara, thus proving the legends were around when Chara climbed the mountain.

But I do think Chara ran away from the humans, and the fact that it's meant to be this mountain nobody comes back from is exactly why they climbed it. Not to die, but to go where no human dares to go. Perhaps the monsters they banished away would be better.

And it turned out they were. At least until Asriel went against the plan!