Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27573099-20160304020037

Here's my logic, people often assume Chara's the narrator, who takes control during the neutral run, but I can see the few problems with this:

1: What is Chara? How are they still alive after all this time? This is something that's never really explained.

2: No matter what route you take there are points where actions happen without your input. One key example is Frisk supplying their own name, that isn't you, you don't know their name. What does this mean? Are both Chara and Frisk fighting for control? If so where do you fit in, you control any actions almost all the time, with only occasional losses of control.

3. Upon closer inspection the personality we meet at the end of the Genocide run, seems to be notably different from the narrators red personality. The red text seems cold, malevolent but rational, they know what they're doing and why they're doing it, and can evidently remember who they used to be from the room descriptions in their new house.

So here's my theory: You are Chara, more specifically; you are Chara's soul. Normally a human can't absorb another humans soul but when Frisk falls, the fall kills them. Not sure what happened to their original soul, it might have not been determined enough to survive, but because Frisk's body is now lacking a soul, it leaves room for Chara to jump in, in the process bringing them both back to life as a sort of conglomerate. This makes too much sense to be coincidental, we know human souls can persist after death, from the coffin we know Chara's soul was red, and through the whole game while you sometimes lose control of Frisks body you NEVER lose control of the soul, because that soul IS you.

So I'm hearing you complaining that this doesn't explain what happened in Genocide: HOLD ON I'm getting to that.

See only you know the reasons why Chara went full Genocide, mabye like Flowey they were just bored/curious. Frisk however had no idea what these reasons were. They'd been brought back to life, then suddenly they were watching themselves kill everyone around them, people who just wanted to help them, meanwhile a demonic Flower was calling them Chara and acting like they were best friends, identifying Frisk as a soulless being like himself. What do you think was going through Frisk's mind at this point? See it's hard to say how much control Frisk exacty had over their own actions, I think they were very scared and unsure of themselves, so after seeing all the things in the geoncide run, Frisk totally snaps. They begin to believe that they ARE CHARA, based on what they know from Flowey. Check the description of the locket "YOU can feel it beating", not "I can feel it beating", which seems odd given this only appears in genocide, and all other geno text uses "I". My theory is this shows that Frisk's grasp on reality is beginning to waver. In the end they break down, striking visciously at both Asgore and Flowey before confronting Chara/You with a mad rant about how they are a demon and the feeling that you get when a stat increases, before finally turning the knife on Chara's soul, a suicidal and insane act which kills both of you. Frisk, who still believes themself to be you then refuses to allow you to reset, knowing you would try to erase their memory also, instead making you give control to them, so they can reset how they want. Pacifist is now permanently corrupted as Frisk is now broken and emotionally unstable, behaving as they would but occasionally and horrifyingly lapsing. 