Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34404643-20180120053816/@comment-34404946-20180120080939

From what I have gathered Chara didn't have a goof life when she was with humans. Her experiences left their mark on her and that likely messed her up. I don't think she was really fully evil. Considering how Tori and Asgore are if Chara had shown up and been murderous then they wouldn't have taken her in and adopted her. But I also feel like what happened before she fell changed her and her desire for justice or revenge or whatever she was after in her plans ((the ones in which she died so Asriel could cross the barrier)) corrupted her in a way. It takes a sense of commitment to acutally off yourself for the sake of revenge.

I think more those dark intentions drove her mad and corrupted her. Then her soul remained in the Underground when Asriel came back, and I'm under the firm belief that in a Genocide run Chara has possessed Frisk and she's maybe not actually killing everyone, but at the very least whispering in Frisk's ear to kill everything. I think it's a bit fuzzy there since I'd like to think that Frisk doesn't want to harm anyone at all, hence the whole True Pacifist thing, but that she is on some level possessed by Chara so whenever the run isn't a True Pacifist run then Chara is manipulating her at least a bit ((since even one monster killed means it can't be True Pacifist)). This of course excluding the neutral ending where no one was killed but not all bosses were befriended.

The more brutal runs are those in which Chara has more control or at least more influence. In my personal image it's more like an actual possession and Chara is the one acting when anyone is killed, and Frisk is the one in control when people are spared. That's just me though so -shrugs-

I think this also makes sense since a Genocide run makes Frisk powerful enough to actually destroy the world, which is beneficial to Chara. She makes a deal to sell your soul in exchange for bringing the world back. This can be interpreted as you or as Frisk and I haven't entirely decided what I like better yet, though it makes more sense for it to be you I think? Becuase Frisk is part of the game and the game makes a point of being self aware. But then the point of selling the soul is to allow Chara above ground in a Corrupted True Pacifist ending and going with the Frisk is possessed thing I have going I think Frisk makes more sense?

Anyway, like I said, the point is to allow Chara to access the surface so she can actually enact her regence or vengance, or justice upon the human race. It has to be justified in her own mind, but since we really know nothing about what Chara went through it's hard to say of it is justified, but then hurting that many people to get there.... That doesn't exactly scream "good person" to me, so I'd say yeah she's pretty bad, even if she might not have been that way if things had gone differently.