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Thinking about it. People have discussed to death and debated over whether Chara was ‘good’ or ‘evil’, and talked about their feelings on fandom’s early tendency to cast them as a villain. But now I’m wondering why a lot of fanworks cast them as a hyperactive little shit who swears a lot, gets mad easily, argues with everyone, and is sassy as hell. 

Sassy and sarcastic I can see if you’re going by Narra Chara. But rude, hyperactive, yandere-esque, and especially the swear words… not so much? 

And yeah, I could make arguments about how hiding their face paints a very shy and quiet image. But I’m not going to grasp at straws from still images. I’m going to use dialogue very few ‘Chara is evil’ believers are willing to argue DIDN’T come from them. 

In No Mercy, which is the one route basically everyone agrees they narrate, they’re direct and to the point and usually distant and unemotional. They’re not yelling that you’re a fucking donkey for believing you’re above consequences and can take back control, or heartlessly ripping into the monsters for being so foolishly naive and weak, or gloating over their victory. They calmly explain who and what they are, and what they want. The few times they do insult you, they use sophisticated words like ‘perverse sentimentality’. When they dismiss the monsters they’ve met until now, they don’t go out of their way to be really cruel and insulting. They remain direct and to the point, and are usually cold and harsh statements of fact. 

Toriel’s check in No Mercy is ‘Not worth talking to.’ They’re not wrong. In every other route, talking does nothing, only persistently sparing her lets you make progress. 

Papyrus gets ‘Forgettable’. Again, they’re not wrong. Very few monsters really take notice of him, most only remembering him in relation to other people. As ‘Sans’ brother’ or ‘Undyne’s trainee’. 

Monster Kid is just ‘in my way’. Cruel, but objectively not wrong. It’s less of a ponted insult, and more how little they think of them. 

For Undyne, the narrator isn’t even particularly cold or disrespectful. In two out of three possible flavor texts, they refer to Undyne as ‘the heroine’. Quite a compliment, and one that isn’t wrong, considering how she’s standing up to a mass murderer and protects Monster Kid. 

Mettaton, in No Mercy, gets similarly positive or neutral remarks. ‘Dr Alphys’ greatest invention’ and ‘Mettaton NEO blocks your way’. He sure is blocking your way. And most of the Underground sure does know him as Dr Alphys’ greatest invention. I guess it could be read as sarcastic, but with the tone of all these other bits of flavor text, it feels more like a neutral statement…? 

And of course. Sans. He probably has the absolute biggest variety of No Mercy flavor text. ‘The easiest enemy’ could be read as insulting, but this is corrected to a more objective statement of encouragement. ‘He can’t keep dodging forever. Just keep attacking.’ Other bits of flavor text are objective assessments of how tired Sans is, how YOU feel, and how dwelling on the flavor text isn’t a great use of time. At no point do they call him smiley trashbag, that comedian, or…anything really insulting. 

At no point do they call ANYONE anything especially insulting. They’re not like Flowey, calling everyone idiots. If anything, a villainous and murderous Chara comes off as more cold and distant. Even the Save Points don’t tell you ‘5 more idiot babies to slaughter’ or specifically demand that you finish everyone off before moving on. Until you reach Sans, Chara makes no effort to discourage or persuade you. They just state objectively ‘x left’ or ‘but nobody came’. 

They just… don’t care. They don’t care about any of these people anymore, not even enough to waste energy on insulting them. All they care about is reaching ‘the end’. (Or one could argue they’re at least trying to act like they don’t care.)

Chara states that they were confused upon awakening and chose to follow your lead. Personally I’m inclined to believe that they’re not lying. They choose to follow our orders to the utmost, even when they do not understand those orders, even when those orders lead them to the edge of annihilation. 

On a final note. It’s kinda sad how Chara’s systematic completionist mentality is cold and horrifying in No Mercy… but in the Winter Alarm Clock dialogue, it’s a funny anecdote of a more lighthearted time which both Asgore and Toriel remember fondly, and a behavior Asriel still continues to emulate even after he stops idolizing Chara. 

Any trait, when taken to the extreme, can become nightmarish. 

(EDIT: I know you were more talking about Chara in general getting written as an antagonistic rude little shit in fan content whereas I glommed onto Fanon Evil Chara, but I think it's the same root cause of "not the greatest person" means "RUDE and MEAN" and must have been a total condemnation of Chara as a person, and Chara's true personality being seen as being "Like Flowey from the jump".)

It is weird how incredibly unlike even canon Evil Chara fanon Evil Chara (or even Not-Evil-But-Not-Very-Nice Chara) is portrayed. Because yeah, they're usually written act more like Flowey than their own self from canon: rude, insulting, short-tempered and angry, snide, cruel, delighting in others' pain. They'll spout off Floweyisms like it's going out of style, like calling people idiots, Sans is the smiley trashbag, "kill or be killed", etc.

In the game, it's Flowey who delights in interacting with people: he is the one who wants to play with them, squeeze all the entertainment value he can get out of them by seeing everything they can say or do, and kills gleefully, terrorizing and mocking enemies as he captures and kills them for his own fun. Without the compassion and love he's used to, his loneliness and isolation has turned to "socializing" in an incredibly fucked up way.

By comparison, Chara's problem the further into Kill All we go is very much marked by growing disinterest and the letting go of all "sentimentality" they have left, to the point of only categorizing people by how much of a problem they will be to fight (and only evaluating how useful or useless the things you check are to completing the Kill All path). People stop being people. They are "free EXP". They are "the enemy". In game, Evil Chara views killing not as their way of having fun, like Flowey. It's a means to an end: power, destroying the world, and moving on. They become very focused, utilitarian, and goal-oriented, while Flowey is the one enjoying it more for entertainment and novelty.

Flowey twisted his own emotions and became a monster in the other sense of the word. Chara blunts and loses their emotions to become a weapon. I think this comes down to a mixture of their basic personalities (Asriel craves companionship and amusement like any kid to try to recapture how he felt before the tragedy that happened to him, suicidal Chara who was told they were "the future of humans and monsters" needs a purpose to latch onto) and how their respective soullessness affected them (ONE DAY I SWEAR I will write my thesis on human soullessness).

So it is really weird how Chara gets characterized in fan works where they're evil "just cuz", because yeah even in the route where they're definitely evil, they act so incredibly different from how fun-lovin', fun-havin' Flowey and yet creators will take so many cues from him in how they depict Chara: manipulative, viciously gleefully sadistic, resetting to play with people like toys and kill over and over again, cruel and taunting, flings insults and taunts around for extra bullying before the murder, screaming in rage and denial when things don't go as expected. Meanwhile Canon Evil Chara just kinda… hangs out listlessly and hardens more and more into cold purpose.

It's part of a weird pattern I've noticed in general where Evil Chara is portrayed really differently from canon. There is a sense of "Chara is ambiguous anyway so this is how I portray them," but like you said, Kill All Chara is actually very explicitly characterized. They have their own personality, but a lot of creators will make them act like Flowey when they're filling in as villain.

Other examples of Fanon Evil Chara outright flying in the face of canon (bolding for emphasis mine):

"With your guidance. I realized the purpose of my reincarnation. Power." > Chara is the one "guiding" Frisk to kill, an evil spirit either trying to manipulate or badger them into attacking, giving them nightmares and hallucinations, or actively swiping their body to do it themself. Note there is no indication anywhere in the game that we are being tricked or pressured to kill by an unseen force. Chara's words just randomly get flipped on their head to suit the "demonic possession" narrative.

"Interesting. You want to go back. You want to go back to the world you destroyed. It was you who pushed everything to its edge. It was you who led the world to its destruction. But you cannot accept it. You think you are above consequences." > SO MANY TIMES, I have seen this line used against Chara by Frisk, Sans, etc, or even just the narration of the fic itself, in the sense that Chara has escaped justice somehow and arrogantly plays with people's lives without care, or is shifting blame wrongfully off themself (y'all you are the ones who played the game and did it though, like literally, the game is just acknowledging this). They'll be carefree and unrepentent about any of their actions, unlike their canon self clearly viewing it as this thing that Cannot Be Undone.

"But. You and I are not the same, are we? This SOUL resonates with a strange feeling. There is a reason you continue to recreate this world. There is a reason you continue to destroy it. You are wracked with a perverted sentimentality. Hmm. I cannot understand these feelings any more. Despite this. I feel obligated to suggest. Should you choose to create this world once more. Another path would be better suited." > Tying in with the "above consequences" line above. Individual stories and entire AUs (like Killer Sans, Dusttale, and Last Breath) where Chara is the Big Bad doing a laughably absurd number of Kill All runs for the lolz, the tormentor and arch enemy of Sans and the source of everyone's misery. Stabby baby, can't you think of anything else to do?? You really like doing the murder dance for minutes on end and waiting for enemies to poke their heads out, that much? Compared to canon, where Chara will accept it with some grumbling because it really is up to you, but shows no enthusiasm or enjoyment for it and "suggests" something else. (What they're doing in the Soulless Pacifist ending is a whole nother can of beans, but another KA in the Underground is canonically something they wouldn't do if it really were up to them. Which makes it weird that's literally all they do if given the chance in so many fan works.)

It's just funny because… evil advisor, above consequences, killing on loop, literally all of this is Flowey in game too! His opening speech is trying to trick you into thinking LV is how you get stronger, he advises you on how to get to the best ending only to use it for his scheme, his behavior clearly shows he does think of it as a game now and only in True Pacifist does he come back down to Earth, and we know he's reset and killed everyone enough times to have gotten bored with it and let the world finally move on enough to let Frisk fall down.

It's frankly bizarre how much even Evil Chara's canon words and behavior get tossed out the window in favor of Even EVILLER Chara that's just Eviller Flowey. I think it's a combination of people assuming "laughed it off" means Chara was literally a cackling supervillain who poisoned people for funsies and for some reason no one saw anything weird or off about that (lol), from there assuming Asriel is emulating Chara as Flowey and therefore Chara's true personality = Flowey even though we see everything we see from them even in Kill All shows them reacting very differently, and also I think people just want a villain LIKE Flowey because he makes for such a delightful little jerk, but they don't want poor likable lil Asriel to get beat up by Sans. So instead Chara gets his personality grafted onto them, so THEY can be the little sadistic dirtbag above consequences who gets beat up and killed. Huzzah! (Because they're not the greatest person, so that means they were literally Flowey but even worse, right?? Right.)

Just, very selective reading of the characters.

and here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven (even though we didn’t deserve it)

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Undertale fan art from the Kill-All route.

The first image shows Sans fighting in the Judgement Hall, his arms flung out and skull sweating with effort from the fight. We're looking over and down his shoulder at Chara, who is possessing Frisk's body with their gold heart locket on and still mostly looks like Frisk (a human child with light brown skin, wavy brown hair, purple-striped blue shirt, blue pants, and brown boots), except for Chara's little blush stickers on their cheeks. The encounter screen is between them, just a see-through two-dimensional square with Frisk's soul inside of it, turned blue with gravity magic and held in place by Sans. The floor of the Judgement Hall has dusky yellow-orange tiles alternating with light pinkish red.

Although Sans is sweating, eye glowing, to keep them in place, Chara is just standing there watching him with a malicious narrow-eyed smirk, a cocky hand on their hip, the other gripping their knife, knowing they've got this win in the bag. Behind them, their shadow is clearly outlined, a solid black shadow in the shape of a child holding a knife, with a fainter, more amorphous shadow surrounding that one, like something just under the surface of the water.

The second image shows Chara at the Erase/Do Not screen. Chara is a human child with light beige skin, blush stickers, fluffy red-brown hair, yellow-striped green turtleneck sweater, reddish brown pants and boots, and red socks. Chara is sitting in the blackness with their knees folded up childishly, one hand grasping their knees, the other placed firmly on Erase as the red soul tries to go from Erase to Do Not, a knowing, unreadable smile already on Chara's face as they tip their head up to look at the player.

On the Judgement Hall picture, the Undertale-style black-and-white textbox reads, "You want a better story." On the Erase/Do Not picture, the textbox reads, "Who wouldn't?"

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I honestly don’t have any words that aren’t cheesy ;v; or that haven’t already been said. Thank you so much Undertale for, well, no good food per se, but for some bad laughs and nice friends! Happy 1 year anniversary and may you see many nice years to come. Speeppaint below!

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Undertale fan art of Frisk, standing outside the entrance to the Underground in a wash of yellow and red colors over what looks like green bushes and the entrance of the cave, making it appear that they are on the mountain at sunset.

Frisk is a human child with light brown skin, a deeper flush to their cheeks, shut eyes, and chin-length brown hair being stirred around slightly in the breeze. They are wearing a blue turtleneck shirt, frayed red scarf, gold heart locket, and a blue fish barrette and white bone barrette clipped into the side of their hair not being tossed by the breeze. They are holding a bouquet of golden flowers, and have the start of a small smile, something both joyous and serene in their expression as they stand on the mountain and face the sunset.

Under and in front of the bouquet, an Undertale textbox in the style of the narration reads in white text, "Sometimes, you return to stand on this mountainside." In red text, it adds, "I thank you for that."

Next to Frisk and only faintly there in the glow of sunset is the just-barely-there transparent figure of Chara, a human child with pale peach skin, red hair, and a smile of their own they have turned away from Frisk, unseen.

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hi!!! a little bit late BUT!! days 1-4 of undertale september complete 😎

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Undertale fan art for Chara and Frisk, and Asriel and Toriel, all in black-and-white with a sketchy sort of look to it.

The Chara and Frisk scene has Chara as the taller kid looking over Frisk's shoulder. Chara has short, choppy hair, freckled cheeks, a striped sweater over a collared shirt, shorts, and a heart locket. They have their arms folded smarmily behind their back and are giving Frisk a gleefully amused side-eye, telling them, "Wow! You are superfast at being wrong." Frisk says nothing, a silent dot-dot-dot by their head instead, as they have a sheepish expression with a small embarrassed smile and a bead of sweat on their face. They have short, wild hair, a bandage on their cheek, closed eyes, a striped turtleneck sweater that poofs out a little like it's a few sizes too big for them, and a stick gripped in hand.

The Asriel and Toriel scene is a side-view of the two facing each other, Asriel accepting a plate of pie from Toriel's hand as Toriel gently touches the side of his face with her other hand. Asriel looks just like a younger version of Toriel. He is a kid with little eyelashes, a turtleneck sweater, and mostly smooth fur except some big untamed tufts of fur on the side of his head. He is meeting his mom's eyes with a grateful, cute little fanged smile and happy blush, looking like he was pleasantly surprised or maybe cheered up by the offer of pie. Toriel is taller than him by a head or so, has similar little eyelashes, fanged smile, and a happy blush as well, a set of long-sleeved high-collared Deltarune robes, and small mostly tamed tufts of fur herself on her forehead and back of her head, almost resembling a pixie haircut. Unlike Asriel, she has clawed fingertips, horns, and a crown. Her horns curve forward and are pointed, each about as long as her pointer fingers. She has a gentle look about her despite all this, and is looking happily back at her son.

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Chara as the angel, because I think they're neat

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Undertale fan art of Chara. Chara is a small human child with pale peach skin, short brown hair, a long-sleeved green shirt, and dark shorts. Their eyes are hidden by shadows and the rest of their face is mostly hidden by their hair and by the bouquet of golden flowers they're holding up in front of them, with the bare bundle of green stems sticking out beneath the blossoms.

Directly behind Chara's head is a four-pointed yellow save point "star", looking like a crown or halo. Above and behind this save point is the word "Save" in all-capital letters and in rainbow colors. The background behind "Save" looks like a muted rainbow sky.

There is a pair of massive angel wings spread out behind Chara, white but faintly tinged rainbow colors. There are ruffles in the wings that look like feathers, but also give the wings a look almost like papier-mâché, like an art project an ambitious child might make. These "feathers" are being blown off and scattered from the bottom of the wings, where they're blown into a black void and seem to be turning into golden flower petals.

Under the wings, the background now looks more like the sky at sunrise. This background is cut off at Chara's knees and becomes the black void where the golden flower petals slash angel feathers are scattered.

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Found some old ut doodles!!

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A group of Undertale fan art about Sans, Chara, Mystery Man (Gaster), Asriel, Flowey, and Papyrus. The first image is all of the scenes together, followed by images of "close-ups" of each "scene". The background for the whole group is mostly solid white.

In the top-left, there's two Sanses. Sans is a short, squat skeleton wearing a blue hoody open over a white shirt, black basketball shorts, and pink slippers. The leftmost Sans is him from the Kill-All fight, with his mouth stretched into a "grin" with his right eyesocket black and empty, his left eyesocket full of cyan and yellow light with a yellow-blue trail of light emitting from it. His hands are held up and curled, his phalanges looking wickedly sharp. The perspective has the viewer looking up and him looking down, as if he's looking down on the viewer injured or dying on the ground. Behind him is a blur of orange.

To the right of this is a Sans with his hands in his hoody pockets, his shoulders hunched, both eyesockets black and empty, his mouth thin and grim-looking. He's shaded darker than his counterpart. He looks nowhere near as dangerous, instead just looking incredibly tired. Blocky blue-outlined text next to his head reads, "Ohh u silly depressed skeleton man…"

In the top-right, there's Chara and Gaster together, the background still white but with a gray swirl behind them. Chara is a human child with pale peach skin, short red hair, black eyes, a thin grin, a heart locket, a green-and-yellow striped shirt over a white-collared shirt, brown pants, and red boots. Gaster is a skeletal looking man wearing black robes, with holes in his hands, a wide empty black grin, his left eyesocket open while the right is squeezed or melted shut, and with cracks along his eyes and mouth. Chara and Gaster are both smiling at the viewer with their faces melting/dripping slightly, half creepy and half goofy, bent over and leaning towards each other almost conspiratorially, Gaster's hands folded in front of him politely while Chara's hands are open and claw-like at their sides. An arrow pointing at Chara says "Local disaster", while an arrow pointing at Gaster says "Babysitter". Over both is yellow blocky text that reads, "Stuck in the Void buddies".

In the bottom-left, there's Asriel and Flowey together. The background is almost solid black in this one, with a yellow ray of light behind Asriel shining down from above, maybe symbolizing the place where the fallen humans fall into the Underground. Asriel is a boss monster child with white fur, long floppy ears, a tuft on the top of his head, a friendly fanged smile, dark grayish green eyes, a green-and-yellow striped shirt, brown pants, and green boots. Flowey is a golden flower with a face on it, rooted to the ground. These two sides of the same coin are almost back-to-back with the word "Howdy!" above them in yellow text, Asriel fully facing the viewer with a sincere smile, his hands folded behind his back, and a little pop-up box in gold-yellow with a black "happy" emoticon face coming out of him. Flowey is also facing the viewer, but twisted around to face them from the side, his gold-yellow petals mostly shadowed by this angle and also by the taller Asriel. Flowey's face is almost entirely in black, with his "happy" expression in white, matching Asriel's "happy" emoticon face, only much more sinister.

In the bottom-right, there's Flowey and Papyrus together. Papyrus is a tall skeleton with a friendly open smile, red cape and gloves, and white "battle body" croptop made up of a bulky chest-piece and shoulder-pads. He is facing the viewer head-on with his arms held up and out to talk expressively, Flowey wound around the entirety of his right arm like a snake. Flowey looks much less sinister here than his counterpart, with his face no longer shadowed and now making an Asriel-type expression with the same type of fanged mouth and squeezed-shut eyes as he happily exclaims, "Someone will die…" in a dark gray word bubble, before Papyrus finishes it with his own cheerful all-caps yellow word bubble saying, "Of fun!" The artist signature (Arrimorr) is in red at the bottom-right corner.

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Undertale September Day 3 - Chara

“The meeting begins now,” said Chara. They were standing on a stump, with Frisk and Flowey at their feet. “Apprentices, you have completed your training. Now, you will become warriors. Little one, come forward. What is your name?”

Neither kid moved for a moment.

“Flowey. That’s you.”

“I’m not that little!” Flowey whined. He scowled at Frisk, who was looking down on him and laughing. “Okay, whatever. I’m, uh, Rottenfang.”

“Technically you’d be Rottenpaw,” said Frisk. “You’re still an apprentice.”

“And I get to choose your warrior name,” said Chara. “Rottenpaw, you are now Rottenflower. Serve your clan with pride.”

Flowey opened his mouth to argue, but thought better of it. Frisk raised their hand. “My name is Starpaw, Lilystar,” they said.

“You can’t be Starpaw,” said Chara indignantly. “What if you become the leader? You would be Starstar. And that is stupid.”

“I think it’s cool,” said Frisk, crossing their arms. “But if you hate it so much, I’ll settle for Redpaw.”

“Redpaw is acceptable,” said Chara. “But now, you will be… Redsoul. Serve your clan with pride.”

Frisk laughed. “Is that the best you got? Are you roleplaying as Asgore?”

Before Chara could answer, a group of teens approached the clan, hissing. The kids who had arms mimed clawing motions.

“Ambush!” shouted Flowey.

“That’s right, losers!” Snowy tried to push Chara off the stump. They didn’t move, so he just stood in front of Chara instead. “Deathclan, the mightiest of clans, is taking you over! And I, Eaglestar, will rule over you puny kits!”

Chara put some extra gravitas in their voice as they assumed a fighting position. “We will never surrender to the likes of you, foolish one. I suggest you retreat before you feel our wrath.”

“Oh yeah?” laughed Monster Kid, who was squaring off against Frisk. “How’re you gonna win? There’s only two of you!”

“Actually there’s-“

“Wrong, Redsoul!” Flowey exclaimed. He encircled the group with his vines, preventing Chara and Frisk from escaping. “I betrayed you and Lilystar! I’ve been working for Deathclan all along!!”

“Wait, since when?” said Snowy.

“Since always, fools! And you never suspected a thing!!!!”

“Well, we’ve only been playing for five minutes,” said Frisk.

“Quit breaking character, Redsoul!” Chara snapped. “So, Rottenflower, you have turned on us.”

“Maybe I wouldn’t have, if you let me be Rottenfang,” said Flowey. “You’ll pay for that now!” His vines constricted, making all four kids look worried. “Surrender, idiots!!!”

“Never!!!” yelled Chara. “I summon the power of Starclan and slash the vines into pieces!” They smacked at the vines. “You have to pretend like you’re dead now, Rottenflower.”

“Haha, that’s what YOU think… Well, I actually was blessed by Starclan, so I have extra lives! I get back up!!!”

“I start emitting black smoke,” said Frisk.

“That’s not a cat thing,” said Chara.

“Maddie does it.”

“Ugh!!! Whatever!!! You’re all captured now, okay?” Snowy flapped his wings in frustration. “Now we’ll take you back to our hideout and keep you there forever!”

Suddenly, the bell rang. Flowey de-summoned his vines and jumped into his indoor flowerpot.

“‘Cool’ game, Chara,” said Snowy.

“I didn’t even get to do anything,” complained MK.

“We’ll continue from this point next time,” said Chara, picking up their backpack. “What name did you pick?”

“Bonepaw,” said MK, following the other kids into the school building. “Snowy made me Boneflake. It doesn’t even make any sense.”

“It doesn’t have to make sense,” said Chara.

“Then why couldn’t I be Starpaw?” said Frisk.

“The power of not letting you pick a cool name overtook me.”

chara day!!

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Fan art of Chara, with a solid reddish pink background. Chara is a small child with pale peach skin, faint pink blush, bobbed reddish brown hair, and black eyes. They are wearing a green turtleneck sweater with a wide yellow stripe across the chest, dark brown pants, and light brown/reddish boots. They are drawn in a cute, cartoony style with Chara standing facing the viewer, a big cheery open-mouth smile on their face and hands out at their side like they're saying "Wow!"

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undertale september day 2, asriel/flowey ft. chara

image id: a collection of uncolored drawings of asriel, chara, and flowey. The main drawings are of chara and asriel hugging, asriel saying “dont you have anything better to do?” in front of the flowers upon which frisk lands, chara scaring asriel with their goopy face that they seemingly applied with their hands, asriel smiling at the viewer, and asriel showing chara a drawing of his and talking excitedly about it. in all of these both chara and asriel are wearing their lockets. There are also small floweys filling small spaces with angry, scared, flustered, and mocking expressions. end id.

ok new tag game, what character’s fanon version do you hate the most

[Image description: Fan art of Chara, mostly in black and white except for the pink blush on their cheeks. They are indeed doing their black-eyed gaping-black-mouth jumpscare face from the game, with black liquid from their eyes and mouth. Except, they are also dressed as one very dapper kid: they're wearing a suit jacket over a button-down shirt, a flower pinned to their lapel and a bow tie at their collar, with dress pants slightly rolled up, and black dress shoes. They are in fact so very fancy that little anime-style stars of perfection surround them even with their nasty jumpscare face. End description.]