Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20180323153236/@comment-29855659-20180412191748

I think you might have misunderstood me there.

in my opinion, "perverted sentimentality" refers to your desire to bring back your "friends" and play everything again, i.e. liking the characters? You don't just want the game to be over, instead you recreate it. I'm just going to assume that most Genocide players don't immedaitely do a second Genocide Run, but may try to "redeem themselves" or something similiar, or may want to play Pacifist or Neutral again because of how enjoyable these routes are. After all, there wouldn't be so many complaints about the lack of a "redemption run", or about the Pacifist ending being tainted forever, if people wouldn't want to do one again. That's probably because most players care about the characters in a weird, twisted way. These feelings of caring or sympathy are not enough to stop anyone from slaughtering everything out of pure curiosity but at least they'll feel bad afterwards. Not as much as they claim, but at least a tiny bit.

All of these (shallow) emotions, like nostalgia, the want to play the game again, joke with Papyrus and Undyne again or maybe the desire to "atone" for the Genocide ending are the reason for why most people recreate the world the first time. When they do the Genocide Run again, Chara comments on that behaviour. If you think about it reasonably, you have already won the game in every possible way, there's really no reason to play anymore. More-or less feelings of nostalgia or sadness that outweigh reason - that's the definition of sentimentality. However, nostalgia and sadness due to sympathy for the other characters is nothing that you can comprehend when you are a sociopathic, emotionally dumb undead full of LOVE (i.e. not feeling anything after distancing yourself from the pain you inflict).

Therefore it is impossible for Chara to comprehend the player's sentimentality, making it appear "perverted" to them. When they hadn't participated in Genocide, they had significantly much LOVE.

(We know that Chara gains LOVE too: Chara is with us, as you proved, therefore Chara must have witnessed the deaths of everyone and as they played a supportive role they were responsible as well. They probably distanced themselves from their/your actions, and in turn gained LOVE. Maybe they already did Genocide when they were alive, if so, then they might have had LOVE from the very beginning.)