Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39353593-20190611163415/@comment-33883848-20190625134234

Virgalyssa wrote: KHOO BOO PING wrote: Extra note, is the player (us) Frisk? Or an entity who controls Frisk? I think that's left up to interpretation, but I'd say it's leaning towards the player not being accounted for/not a separate entity. As an example, in the game OFF, the player is very clearly stated to be a separate entity and is addressed as such. In Undertale it's a lot less clear. Whenever the game seems to be speaking to the player, it uses either the name Frisk or whatever name you chose at the beginning for Chara, who are their own characters themselves. So I think Frisk's actions are attributed to either them or to Chara, not to the player.

There's evidences that the player does exist and other that they dont.Here the pros and cons:

Pros:Alphys (during the mettaton's quiz)and Flowey(in the genocide run) implies that an entity "out there"is watching over the characters,Sans who constantly face the 4 wall when he make his (bad)skele-puns and break the 4 wall during the hacker ending,without mentionning that the dialogues are refered to as "dialogues"by the narrator,the mention of keyboard,river person who know what's the day we are playing undertale depending on our computer's date and the hard mode end.Even Frisk is sometimes forced to do something they would absolutely don't alone,for example donnating anoying dog since they see it as a "waste of their time"and is "relieved"if you refuse to donnate,showing that they wouldnt do it alone and hinting that their body acts out of their own will.

Cons:Frisk if clearly designed for us to project ourselves into:they have ambiguous gender,race,backstory,personality,always have a "blank expression"and is very silent,implying that they are our avatar.Furthmore, sans's comment about Frisk having a "look"of someone who killed someone "just to see what he would say about it",implies that Frisk acts on their own will rather than being possesed by a cosmic entity(or perhaps they dont realize that they are possesed since the player's actions rarely contradict what frisk would do themselves).The player's existence would also weaker the impact of the game as frisk would not be the one who befriend everyone and never really spare or kill anyone,they would be reduced to our pupet.And if the player exist in the game,then the game would likely ask "our own name"like in any RPG where the player exist(as Earthbond or Deltarune)

Those wre all the "evidences"i found for each interpretaion.And yeah,i didnt use sans's mention of an "anomaly"and the fact that frisk has their own name as arguments as they are weaker evidences since the "anomaly"in question could be anyone who has or had the reset power and the fact that Frisk has their own name doens't prove anything since in MANY games ,the protagonist has their own name while we still play as them,for examply link and mario has their own names but we aren't playing as ourselves,we are playing as the protagonists and Undertale is a ROLE PLAYING game.