Talk:Chara/@comment-27537497-20160103171421/@comment-27555277-20160106023043

It's speculation based on events in the game. It's not really as obvious as the quote implies, but rather in smaller hints. There are several references to Chara making fun of Asriel for crying (and this sticks pretty well, considering Asriel brings it up even as you're fighting him), the most direct one I can think of is in the videos. If you return to the ruins Asriel admits that Chara was not a very nice person, and possibly even says something along the lines of them not being as good of a friend as he thought, but please don't quote me on that part (I'll be finishing another pacifist route soon, though, so I'll edit this or make another comment once I know for sure). Especially for someone who has been bullied a lot, these hints can seem a lot like bullying, but I suppose to the normal eye it just seems like regular sibling tomfoolery.

As for his fear of Chara, one possibility is that it's linked to how they were fused at one point. If Asriel knew that Chara was the one who wanted to destroy the people in the village, then he ought to also be able to see a variety of sinister thoughts that came from them, assuming they had that mentality at the time. I'd imagine that would be rather frightening for anyone. That, though, is also speculation ^^