

We can spend a lot of time thinking about and looking through the text for evidence to support our theories. Asriel’s motivation was to help his friend. They wanted to break the barrier, but we can only guess Chara’s motivation. What we don’t know is what the plan was supposed to be. We know that Asriel doesn’t think that Chara is a good person and that he had second thoughts about their plan.

This is where some speculation comes into it. With the tapes, you hear about Asriel changing his mind, and in the True Pacifist Ending, you hear a little about why. This goes along with the True Lab Tapes as well. You can hear about Asriel’s feelings towards Chara by going for this ending. They also add some more interesting things about the story of Undertale. I like how these tapes change up the story we’ve heard about the relationship between Chara and Asriel. It was explained that Chara died of an illness. This points to a suicide plan between the two of them. However, Asriel has second thoughts about the plan they had come up with. You find some VHS tapes informing you about Chara and Asriel’s plan. This is where you learn more about Chara and her relationship with Asriel.

It almost feels like Chara thinks you have gone too far. If you do a second Genocide route, Chara starts to question what you’re doing. It implies that you have been working together this whole time.Ĭhara asks if you think you were in control if you choose not to erase the world. If you choose to erase it, then Chara calls you a “good partner.” This is a little creepy. Chara is evil, and she didn’t intend to do something good for the Underground.Ĭhara gives you the option of erasing the world or not erase it. This tells you a lot about Chara.Īny assumption that she might have been a good person is thrown out here. She is talking about the game that you just played. She thanks you for bringing her back to life, and she asks if you want to erase the world. With this ending, you get to see and hear her. You don’t see her too much during the game, and she doesn’t have much to say. Let’s talk a bit about each of those moments. The only dialogue she has in the Genocide Ending. She only appears in the True Pacifist route and the Genocide Ending. There aren’t too many key moments for Chara in the game. The only way for you to learn more about her is to beat the game. You learn that she was evil, but you don’t know much more than that. This is a case where the mystery about Chara is what makes her a compelling character. With the Genocide route, your character gets compared more to Chara. A lot of this gets explained by Asriel in the epilogue. It’s explained that she was not a good person and hated humanity. A young child trapped in the underground then befriends the monsters and gets adopted into the royal family.Īs you get closer to the end of the game in True Pacifist, you learn that everything was not as it seemed. If you go for the True Pacifist ending, then you will get the story of the relationship between Asriel, Chara, and Flowery.Ĭhara is initially portrayed as a sympathetic character during a True Pacifist playthrough. I missed a lot of the backstory about Chara when I first played. If you choose to kill everything, then you can meet Chara.Ĭhara isn’t mentioned by name much during the game. She mentions being able to destroy and remake the world.
