Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28898329-20160901162911/@comment-33883848-20190814194411

"From there, it is reasonable to interpret Chara's laughing at Asgore's sickness as that prior evil/malevolence/sadism."

Asriel said that he was supposed to react like Chara did to Asgore 's poisoning,something he wouldn't if it was a malevolent laugh,so no they weren't sadistic.As many monsters notes,they brought hope under the ground and Asgore viewed them as their future ambassador.If Chara was malevolent,pretty sure that monsters wouldn't have a such good opinion of them,unless you argue that a 10~year old child manipulated a whole kingdom,adults included and two monarchs they lived with for a whole year without any reason as they could simply slay all the underground,take a boss monster soul and go to rampage against humanity.Instead they chose to kill themselves very painfully to make up for what they did to their father and free the only people that even showed them kindness.Chara sure "wasn't the greatest person"(as killing people even for the greater good can't be justified)especially comparing to paciFrisk who refused to take anyone's life even in self-defense (fun fact:you can be a HUGE jerk in the pacifist run as Well ,the only thing needed to complete a pacifist run is just not killing people and befriend the main cast,you can still beat everyone ,insult etc....so no this kindness thing isn't what make Frisk so different from chara for Asriel,but what defines frisk in a pacifist run,their refusal to kill anyone) but Chara wasn't the worst either because otherwise monsters wouldn't love them so much.