Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27997069-20160317174518/@comment-28721944-20160611190515

Chara is not the player. There is no Player to begin with. Frisk is who the physical player in undertale controls. Sometimes they also control Chara (most of the time, they do not control Chara). Charas bait and switch is you name the character you don't control. you cannot control or leash Chara, their actions are almost entirely their own. The only action you seem capable of taking as the player in reference to Chara, is to do a true reset, or to take the second choice in options which seem to mirror Chara's attitude vs Frisks (Anime is Real, Anime is not real, I like spaghetti, I have zero redeaming qualities, The violent options in the cooking scene etc.).



There is no scene where the player comes into the game except for the times when Sans directly tells jokes to us. Everything attributed to the player can be explained as Chara or Frisk's point of view. Flowey talks to Chara at the end of the game, and Chara talks to Frisk. It's possible that a player could exist, but it's also not necissary for them to exist either. Their existance doesn't add much to the story. they could have been incorporated more, but they don't seem to have been.