Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190714134701

Ok, we have a few seemingly conflicting lore items:

Asriel was there when Chara fell into the Underground. And there's only one child bed at Home, so when Chara arrived she didn't stay there.

But there's a home video in the Castle from before Asriel was born.

Something caused the monsters to lose their fear of humans, and to leave Home to head for New Home. Was it Chara's arrival? Could Chara have actually spent 10 years in the Underground, if the monsters left in early 201X by Toriel's calendar?

But if the monsters left for New Home in 2010, why did it take to the end of 2019 for Chara to arrive at New Home? It only takes a day or so to actually walk from one end of the Underground to the other.

And why would the arrival of a creepy little kid make the monsters lose their fear of the humans? Especially when one just fell into their supposedly-safe Ruins?

But if Chara was the first human to fall into the Underground.. why does Mt. Ebott have a reputation for people disappearing on it, long before Chara arrived? What happened to their SOULs?

In New Home, Narrator Chara describes how one bed is "His Bed", one bet is "My Bed", and the dresser contains "OUR CLOTHES". This suggests Asriel and Chara both wore the very same clothes. Which seems to be confirmed by the cutscene when Asriel finds Chara for the first time, and both of them are wearing single-stripe shirts.

It's heavily suggested that Asriel and Chara were the same age. Two children growing up as siblings, sharing the same clothes, being about the same size. And why we might not know exactly how fast Boss Monster kids age, if Asriel and Chara kept sharing the same clothes for any period of time, we can assume it was a similiar growth rate for both of them.

So it still seems more likely to me that when Chara arrived, she was quickly taken to New Home, and a bed was built for her there.

Which puts her fall into the Underground at a point in time when the Dreemurs were already established at New Home.

But I'm open to hearing alternatives.