Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29788596-20160906011125/@comment-38300801-20190401033929

Christ, this thread is stupid.

Toby does not make one dimensional characters. It would be way beneath him to make an irredeemable villain who has no reason for their actions. Chara is no exception.

It’s made clear that LOVE easily corrupts a person, as Sans says in his judgment. This is why Chara let’s you ERASE the world. Also, the world is completely pointless now. You killed everything and now there is nothing.

Boot up Undertale. Play a Genocide Route. Does Chara EVER appear ANYWHERE before you kill Asgore/Flowey? No. They simply make you own up to your consequences near the end.

Chara isn’t perfect. Help, they killed Sans and Asgore in a Genocide Route. In those two instances, the player didn’t deliver the final blow. But at that point you were too far gone. You fed them your DETERMINATION and LOVE and it, unsurprisingly, took its toll.

To reference the Judgement Boy’s video, it does not matter if they call themselves a demon. Asriel, the perfect little goat everyone loves, called himself the GOD of HYPERDEATH. And he wasn’t soulless, he had six SOULs and every SOUL in the underground. Yet everyone forgives him.

Also, there is no way Chara made a genius plan to make ASGORE ill and diabolically kill the entire human race. Chara is a child. They did not know Buttercups were poisonous.

Asriel, ASGORE, and Toriel are Boss Monsters. It’s stated clearly that Boss Monsters are the only type of monster SOULs a human can absorb. It’s an odd fact to put in the game, right? And yet, it proves the ‘Chara isn’t evil’ theory. If Chara did not care for the Dreemurrs and just wanted to kill humanity, she could’ve killed Asriel, take his SOUL, and with their power, destroy humanity. Hell, human SOULs are much more powerful than monster SOULs, there’s no proof Asriel would’ve even been ABLE to rebel like we see in the Photoshops Flowey fight.

It’s fine to believe Chara is corrupt, they likely are. But it’s YOUR actions that awaken them and feed them the LOVE that corrupts them. The Player is a very real character in the game and is often referenced by Flowey.

I really just hope people don’t sum up Chara as ‘evil child.’ Toby is much better than that, he wouldn’t make a random villain with zero remedy or motives. That’s why I care so much. It’s unfair to sum up a character to a one dimensional personality. Toriel is overprotective. Papyrus is egotistical. Undyne is aggressive. Alphys is a coward. Asgore is a murderer. Asriel is clingy. Every Undertale character has their flaws, but they’re so much more than that. And I believe Chara is, too.