Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34762984-20180927183143/@comment-34762984-20180930170402

TheHumanAmbassador wrote: Yep. The only reason why they help you is because you have the same goal as they do. This is also why they say the two of you are partners-You kind of are.. As long as your goal doesn't differ from their goal.

And this balance evolved over time. Originally, I really DID think they were PURE evil, as I said in my Fallen Angel post, and I had no idea what changed them, except maybe Asriel betraying them, and I wasn't certain that'd be enough to change Chara so drastically. But now, I'm convinced they didn't really change that much after all-Just lost some compassion as a result of losing their SOUL, and grew hatred for the monsters because of what Asriel did, and most of the monsters still trying to live peacefully with humans.. And Toriel supposedly completely forgetting about Chara (she didn't, Chara's what caused her to leave in the first place, but it appears like that), and probably so much more. I thought Chara was your sterotypical villain, but now I call them more of an anti-villain. ...Which happens to fit in with just about every other character in the game who's sided against you. I suppose it's only natural. (Anti-villain:A villain who isn't just pure evil. It's not that far on the sliding scale, being more of a Tragic Villain, but that's still technically an anti-villain.)

I still don't see a way to reform Chara, but now that I understand their motivations more, no longer beliving they were all purposefully malificent, I don't see the idea of reforming Chara nearly as far-fectched as I did before. I still don't see it happening anytime soon, but.. who knows. Interesting. You say they're an Anti-Villain and I say they're an Anti-Hero. We're not so different after all.