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Feargm wrote: PancryPancreas5 wrote:

Well, much like Sans, we can't know for certain if Chara really destroyed the world or just tricked us into believing that... It is another Schrondinger case, I guess. Destroying the entirety of the Underground would require some stretching, but literally 'erasing the world' sounds like something someone would say to trick a gullible kid into giving up something important, like (in the case of the protagonist of the game) their SOUL. Trap you in a completely darkened out room, say the world has been erased - even though that's not something you can even do, make your demands and wait. Here's all of Chara's dialogue if you want it for reference. c:

Well, how I saw this ending was that Chara slice and diced our physical body. Frisk/Chara/The Player all act within the same physical form and without that form being alive we cannot see. The void is our disembodied spirit trapped in limbo because we've persisted after death. As humans do.

The ending of genocide when we see Chara "in the flesh", they want to "erase this world and move on to the next". Now, that's kind of curious, given that the void Chara (loading the game again) then chastises us for wanting to go back. They do this time and again on subsequent genocides, always saying that we think we're above consequences.

Moreso, they say that bringing the world back is a compromise - meaning that both sides differ and make concessions to achieve an agreement. To be blunt, Chara doesn't want to go back and we do. Chara then shows us that we should have listened to them and that we aren't above consequences - they smile at us as we pay for our sins in both soulless endings.

So, looking at it this way, when Chara says "move on the the next", they may mean dying. You know, one of the two definitions of freedom we get in Undertale.

Yeah, Chara says that they want our SOUL. This may follow the same definition of determination that Flowey gives us - he says that he attempted suicide but something primal brought him back. Perhaps Chara does not know how to rest.