“i’ve seen people have chara saving asriel at the end and that bugs me because it should be the player”
i mean… why not both
weirdly i’ve started seeing a semi-backlash to soft chara (not saying this post is an example of that but it reminded me of it) which is like “don’t forget that chara made mistakes” or “let’s not make chara too soft” or “chara didn’t save everyone alone either”
and it’s like… yeah? people know that. nobody who knows the game well enough to defend chara would somehow miss that, to put it lightly, they messed up pretty bad with their plan to break the barrier. that they were. again putting it lightly, unhappy
but people creating content that puts chara in a different light know that. they’re doing it directly in response to people who portray them as evil, as cruel, as unredeemable. people doing things like, for example, having chara being responsible for saving frisk and reaching out to asriel’s soul… they’re doing it in response to people who scapegoat chara as the mastermind of the no mercy route, as the character who kills and kills and kills everyone in the underground
yeah, in both routes, it’s ultimately your responsibility, because you’re playing a video game and the choices you make are yours. but, if we can say that the player’s actions in no mercy are filtered through chara, we can just as easily say that the player’s actions in the pacifist route are also filtered through chara.
i’ve got… a few thoughts… about a thing… that i’ve been seeing a lot recently. i’ll try to keep this as low-sodium as i can lmao
undertale fandom as a whole is a lot more accepting of the idea of chara as a nuanced character with flaws and virtues like the rest of the game’s cast than it used to be. it helps that over the past six months a lot of evidence has been found supporting chara-as-the-game’s-narrator as a real thing. there are still plenty of folks who disagree, but there’s a lot more breathing room for folks who are into that reading.
(if you hadn’t played undertale or interacted much with the fanbase yet back in september/october, for the record back then us team chara folks legit needed our own term for chara-as-not-innately-evil because the evil chara reading was so overwhelmingly popular and the content we wanted to engage with was so difficult to find. we needed our own term so badly that people took my silly soft grunge/a softer world jokes and made them a thing – that’s where the phrase “soft chara” originated. some fun trivia for the day.)
so, before i get too sidetracked recounting Ye Olde Fandom History – my point is, there are a lot more people willing to believe in chara’s potential for goodness now, and thus willing to believe that the no mercy route isn’t chara’s doing.
this growing acceptance generally makes me very happy, but it also leads to the discussion of “so whose fault IS no mercy then?” and, uh.
spoilers: the correct answer to this question is not and will never be “it’s frisk’s fault.”
Undertale slice of life – the comic where Asriel pokes depressed Chara ! This was an even shorter one so I tried coloring for the first time xp
I noticed my most recent comic suddenly got like 300+ notes. wow, this was an unexpected surprise 0_0 like, seriously. Thank y’all kind fellas and artists! hope you enjoyed your stay !
Art trade with a friend!! She wanted a Chara u v u
I like the idea of Chara being a daddy’s kid or basically being close with Asgore! (I mean, they even made him a sweater, that’s adorable as heck :”^> )
honestly just really like undertale 