There’s something inexplicable that I happens in Undertale that as of yet has no explanation. Who exactly IS healing Frisk? In the beginning of the game, we are pinned down by Flowey. Attacked. And then, we are suddenly healed to full. And Flowey?
Is utterly speechless. His mouth is wide open and he’s staring, as if to say ‘what did you DO?!’
Now, it’s easy to assume that this is Toriel’s doing. After all, we see that she is capable of healing us later on, and blows Flowey away immediately after. But look at where he’s staring … At US. He sees Toriel later, and he looks to the right. So, if Toriel is to the right, and he’s looking at US when we suddenly jump to full health … (Forgive me for not getting that moment in screenshot; his sprite only changes for a fraction of a second and I can’t quite capture it. But, pay attention on your own runs and you will see it.)
Not only that there’s a sound effect that plays when we are healed/Flowey’s missiles disappear that doesn’t play when Toriel heals us … But DOES play again. It plays a LOT. It plays every time we interact with a SAVE point.
And here also we are healed completely.
It plays one more time. During Frisk’s hour of dire need, when they scream out into into the darkness and call for help …
And this time as well, the same sound effect plays, we get healed and Flowey has NO IDEA what just happened. He’s just as confused now as he was then.
So. Let me ask you a question. What healed Frisk? Who could have answered?
Who was with us at every SAVE point? At the beginning of the game, when we fight Flowey, who was there? Who was the last person who had yet to give Frisk their aid in the battle against Omega Flowey?
Who heals Frisk?
I think all these questions have the same answer: Chara.
Some of this is going to be retreading old info for old readers, but others tuff is new support, so bear with what you know .There may be something I’ve not mentioned yet. Here’s the full direction I’m about to take this: Chara is the reason that monsters moved out of the RUINS and into
To cover old ground, I’d like to talk about the number of chairs and beds in HOME. In HOME, there are three, two adult sized, one child sized.
Three people lived here, these chairs seem to say to me.Two adults and one child. Asriel and his parents. Compare this to NEW HOME.
Two child-sized chairs and two adult sized chairs. Four peyple lived here. Chara, Asriel, Asgore and Toriel. Likewise, there are two beds in NEW HOEM and one bed in HOME.
It’s possible that Toriel could have remodeled the kids’ room a little though, right? I mean, she’s presumably only taking care of one child at a time. Surely she’s changed things. The current state of the kids’ room is no indication of what it was like when Asriel was there.
Or is it?
We find this bit of script from a particular section of the strings that includes details like this. I’m talking in the same section that has stuff on ‘goofy rocks’ and early Toriel. RUINS. HOME.
This could be talking about his room in NEW HOME though, right? Its location in the strings is not proof, it’s correlation, and that’s not worth much at all. But there’s other things to be aware of …
There’s a lamp in the far right corner, yes, but we don’t interact with it. Those alarms, those are there to help with programming specific events, and situations. And we don’t really interact with his bed in any meaningful way that would require that many alarms. Doesn’t fit. And as I pointed out, this is back in the RUINS. There’s really only one thing that this script could be talking about, right … ?
Now, what’s interesting is that this clarifies that not only was this room formerly Asriel’s but that it hasn’t actually changed that much since the Dreemurrs left for NEW HOME . The lamp, the bed, they are all ‘Asriel’s. Which, while cute, is also super morbid. That’s not the point though.
The point is that this room has not changed. That Toriel has not refurnished Asriel’s room in preparation for the fallen humans. And that therefore, if Chara had a bed here once, it would still BE here.
That means that Chara’s fall happened before the move. But, isn’t it possible that Asriel already lived in NEW HOME when Chara fell, and then took Chara home? I had only conjecture to suggest this wasn’t true: ‘wouldn’t Asriel not wander that far from his home? Coulod he have carried an injured Chara all the way to the castle in NEW HOME?’ But that was all I had. Until now.
You see, @doge-w-a-bloge found something very interesting in the strings. Monster history books that we never see in the game to accompany the two that we see, one in Toriel’s home, and another in the library. There’s more, and they paint an interesting story of the Kingdom of Monster’s timeline.
Immediate reaction: part one and four seem to establish some sort of chronology between them. We’ve read both of them in the game. They’re not just in the String, but part of the file, in books. It’s in order.
Part 1: Monsters are sealed and settle in HOME away from humanity out of fear. Part 2-3: Unknown events. Part 4: Unafraid of humans monsters settled in NEW HOME flush with the Barrier’s edge.
That’s a fair assessment, right? Well, that makes the next chapter we can read interesting.
Part 4: Unafraid of humans monsters settled in NEW HOME flush with the Barrier’s edge Part 5: Unknown Events Part 6: Unfortunately monsters don’t know much about illness. Part 7-8: Detailed chapters on what happens when a human dies and how a monster can absorb their SOUL.
Monsters don’t get ‘sick.’ They sometimes ‘fall down’ but the author recognizes this to being similar to, yet distinct from, whatever makes their lack of knowledge on illness unfortunate. Who is sick, if not a monster? Chara. Why are there chapters on how a monster can absorb a human’s SOUL after the chapter on how their illness was not familiar? Because that’s exactly what Asriel did after Chara died.
So, part five is probably the context where they actually talk about how Chara actually GOT sick. This chapter, where Chara must have been explicitly mentioned, is not included in the list of histories available to us in the strings. The events before the move to NEW HOME that gave Asgore the hope for a peaceful resolution with humanity. These chapters were also not available to us in the strings.
Noticing a pattern? I know I am. Chara is important enough to this hstory that their illness is discussed., and there’s not a lot of room in any of these parts. A handful of sentences, at most. Part 5 must be all about how Chara fell ill, there’s no room for anything else.
But that means that Chara’s existence, as a ‘good human,’ must have been established before. Chara must have been mentioned BEFORE. In part 2, part 3 or both … Before monsters settled NEW HOME, and before monsters overcame their fear of humanity.
There is no way that Chara’s fall and monsters’ sudden courage are coincidence. There is a reason, after all, that Asgore calls Chara ‘the future of humans and monsters.’ He’s not just saying that. He believes it …
Chara is the person who convinced an Asgore who agreed with a Gerson that believed that monsters and humans could NEVER live in peace …
… Chara convinced THAT Asgore he was wrong … Probably by example. Chara is the person who gave the monsters hope for a life under the bright sun, in the overworld. The reason that their death plunged the kingdom into despair, and stole all their hope was that Chara was the CAUSE of that hope. I become increasingly convinced of this by the day.
The cameras are Alphys’, but the thing people are picking up on is the narration’s scare quotes in describing the sentry station, which was built by Papyrus, that the camera is hiding behind:
* There's some narration on this& cardboard box./ YOU OBSERVE THE&WELL-CRAFTED&SENTRY STATION./ WHO COULD HAVE&BUILT THIS^1, YOU&PONDER.../ I BET IT WAS&THAT VERY FAMOUS&ROYAL GUARDSMAN!/ (NOTE: NOT YET A&VERY FAMOUS&ROYAL GUARDSMAN^1.)/%%
The actual narrator, however, appears to have, ah, pickier standards than dear Papy regarding what constitutes a “well-crafted sentry station.”
undertale thing i’ve seen a sadly low amount of people mention/analyze when basically everything’s been analyzed to hell and back
chara, as narrator, to frisk: “Despite everything, it’s still you.”
chara, given the chance to talk about themself for once, during snowdin’s ball game: “Try as you might, you continue to be yourself.”
I love how these two statements say so much about who Chara is. They have similar base meanings, but there are so many implications.
This child sees themself as a person who has never been able to do a single thing right in their life. They failed the monsters and their family, every attempt of theirs to be “good” failed, and they weren’t even able to make a pie for their dad without hurting him. This child has an incredible amount of self-loathing and that quote reflects on it. “It doesn’t matter how hard I try, I’ll always be a bad person.”
And then they met Frisk, a fellow human child who managed to push through everything no matter how hard it got. A child who held onto their hope and ideals. "Despite everything, it’s still you.“ Those words hold an admiration that Chara never once directed toward themself, but they are said with sincerity and warmth toward Frisk.
(oh Chara honey, you are so much better than you think you are)
honestly just really like undertale 