Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20180323153236/@comment-32182236-20180407212246

 is indeed self-aware:Them being with us is just further evidence. And  being on the stat window has several possible explanations:I haven't chosen one for this series yet, as I haven't proven which one is correct, but I'll tell the one I think is closest to being correct.. After I go through all of them. I don't say it here because the theory is just that Chara is with us, not what Chara is like. I prove NarraChara in the second thread, but that's as far as I got.

The first explanation for this is that this isn't  at all, but, rather, the player! You do name them, after all, and perhaps the game assumes you named it after yourself. I find this very unlikely though. I didn't assume it was false in this theory, which is why I had to use different evidence to prove the narrator isn't the player, but I don't consider this as a viable theory. However, the fact still stands that I haven't debunked it yet. Hopefully I will soon. (Or somehow prove it right...?)

The second is that since  is with us, they're telling us the stats. However, that combines the narrator with the HUD, which poses all sorts of problems, not the least of which being that the HUD tells us to name the fallen human.. So, Chara's telling you to name them, before you call out their name to summon this? Yeah, we can probably rule this one out.

The third is more clever. The closest I can find to a full explanation. As we know, Chara is with us. We also know they have a red SOUL with of determination, just like Frisk. They lost their SOUL, and body, but their essence, combined with determination, was enough to bring them back as our ghostly narrator. Since they have determination, and they had a red SOUL at one point, it's not hard to believe that they may have just as much determination as Frisk does. And since Chara knew about the mechanics from when they were alive, and Frisk is still new to it, Chara would be the first to set up the stat screen.

...Since when were you the one in control?

...However, since I plan on building from the ground up, hopefully I'll find the REAL explanation.