Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-32182236-20200113120336

-The narrator refers to themselves by the name we choose for the Fallen Human, thinking that this was actually our avatar in the game.

The reason why the narrator refers to themselves by the name we give the Fallen Human is because they actually ARE the Fallen human that we just named. There's no reference to said human being an "avatar" of the player.

I've already shown they're not the player, but that doesn't mean they're not Chara.

The narrator learns from what the player is doing in real time. They learn what Water Sausages are after we read about them. They thing Monster Candy tastes like Licorish, until we try it, and find that it doesn't.

That only means they are WITH the player. And we already knew that the narrator is with us. The narrator is not all-knowing because the Player isn't all-knowing either.

Here's the thing, the narrator got something that the PLAYER did wrong. When we laugh at Snowdrake, the narrator assumes for a bit that we CRIED. Tears running down our face. They got our own actions wrong. So they can't be the player. And ALSO, they can't be an onmiscient narrator, because if they were omniscient, they wouldn't get that wrong. They can't be the player, because if they were, they wouldn't get the actions of the PLAYER incorrect. You know what YOU did.

The encounters with the Amalgamates are so horrifying that the narrator could be going off the deep end a bit being sarcastic.

But that's not what we tend to do. That's a disconnect between Chara and the player. So we're not the same person.

Chara and the Player are clearly linked.

Yes, they are. They're our narrator. That's the link.

And the game may assume that, as we were Chara, and had a story the existed long before Frisk arrived, that Chara is remembering things that we should know, like when they arrived in New Home.

Chara arrived in the Ruins. The hole they fell in matches the hole in the Ruins (but without the flowers), not the New Home entrance.

What Asriel was doing in the Ruins at that point in time is beyond me.

If we act like a good person, we get to save Chara's soul that's still residing in Asriel, and fix its damaged ability to feel Compassion.

How do we know that we fixed anything? And what rules out the obvious choice that we're saving ASRIEL, for the time being? (Before he turns back into a flower, that is. Saving this last person did get him to stop, after all.)

If we act like a terrible person, then Chara takes over, and emulates us by killing everyone.. including the Player. Taking our soul is a trophy for restarting the game.

No, we're still around. The reason why we're in a void is because the universe was deleted. Chara killed everyone EXCEPT for us.

Either Chara gained power from LV, like they seem to hint at, being the feeling we get when these numbers go up, and thus could only gain physical form and start killing prople once we reach LV19... Or the Chara Defenders are correct about Chara-Our LV corrupted Chara.

Do I believe the Chara Defenders are right? No. But that's still more plausible than them actually being the player, or a stand-in for the player. They have their own personality, separate from us. Like, for example, everything we know about their life prior to Asriel's death.