Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31536324-20190117214835/@comment-27136653-20190317032352

And I've just remembered, the main reason why I think Chara doesn't remember stuff across resets, LV.

Frisk obviously remembers everything, or at least, there's no proof that they don't. Chara gives them a bad ending even after resetting, and their actions are identical with our actions, and we DO remember everything. Meaning that the LV is not Frisk's. But that's obvious. First and foremost, the save file doesn't even bear their name, it has Chara's name. So in other words, it is Chara's save file. But that also means the LV is Chara's. Which goes to imply two things:

1) LV measures your level of violence. It could be just numerical and meaningless (like, at LV 1, you don't know yet if that person is capable of killing, you only know they haven't done it yet), which would agree with the fact that when you abort the genocide route, they immediately stop with their control-assuming shenanigans.

1) But there's also the possibility that it does indeed mean something. Like, describing Chara's mental state. In other words, as LV rises, so does Chara's psychosis. In other words, corruption. However, don't think of this corruption as mind control or whatever. After all, when we abort the genocide route, they immediately stop. Which means that the genocide route is something special. LV does make Chara change, but not very substantially. Only if they see that you're doing the maximum possible AND that you mean it, does something flip inside them and they start helping you. And I think it ties to what Gerson said about the delta rune symbol, about its ulterior meaning.

2) Either of those are however unrelated to this second thing, and that is the fact, that when you reset, so does the LV. As the saying goes, what has been seen, cannot be unseen. So either the resets wipe Chara's memories, or we simply travel back in time and rejoin the timeline at a point where Chara wasn't yet corrupted. I think it's the latter, but if you're a fan of the meta interpretation (ie "game is real"), favor the former. But basically, I don't see any way through which Chara could keep their memories, but not their LV. If their LV isn't meaningless, that is. If it is meaningless, then it means that it isn't connected to Chara's mental state, it means that it's connected to, literally, the amount of monsters they've killed, which can only be explained through the theory that the UT world is canonically a game, capable of checking for such bizarre and abstract conditions.

So, to summarize and close this off, I've found one fact, drew two conclusions from it, and gave each one two interpretations. You can now expand & improve this if you wish.