Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29311756-20160726210044/@comment-27701762-20160726212125

Dreemurr495 wrote:

"Why would anyone pass up an opportunity like this?" It is a mistake to think that being "evil" (if that is the only term that can be applied to Chara) requires that an individual always perform the most heinous of acts at every possible moment. Evil people are able to plot and plan, or even stop and wait. Evil can even involve favoring one group over another. There are plenty of examples of truly evil people in history whose mission was not to destroy everything in the world, but to eradicate particular groups who were perceived as sub-human.

Chara's main drive, at least as a human, is their hatred of humanity specifically, rather than their hatred of all living things. Whether they felt a similar hatred toward monsters and were simply using the Dreemurr family for their own purposes is inconclusive, since it isn't quite clear how Chara actually felt toward any of the monsters or their adoptive family.

"Evil," though, probably isn't a particularly accurate term, unless we are sure that Chara really just does hate everything and wants to destroy it (presumably Chara becomes evil as the player goes through the Genocide route, but is not necessarily evil before then). The description of Chara we get is that they are cruel and mean, but in a subtle manner. Perhaps "sadistic" is a better term. Or perhaps something else.