UH

SKETCH

PALE COLORS

COLOR LINEART

SHADE WITH MULTIPLY LAYER THEN MERGE

THIS TOOL (or similar found on clipstudio paint)

OUTLINE ALL YOUR STUFF (use color picker tool to get similar colors and outline with the outlines already in place)

CLEAN (blend? And basically go to the color parts and shape them into your outline, and then erase bits of the outside of the outline until it looks right)

MULTIPLY AGAIN (i used a shade of orange)

OVERLAY (same shade of orange but with overlay function)

CLEAN AGAIN

FINAL OVERLAY (to tie colors together) And THEN MERGE EM ALL (use clipping tool to keep the overlay colors inside the drawing)

CLEAN IT ONE LAST TIME and add hair and additonal details and just make sure it looks how you want

And then you did an art??? I guess? (I just tried this pen today but I like it)

Notes: Less is more, the sketch has to be recognizeable at least, and don’t do drugs

-Mod Avery

*cracks knuckles* OKAY SO,

1. You’re correct in assuming Horrorshift is a post-neutral run story shift

2.The Neutral run in question left Papyrus and some ruins monsters dead, and Sans, knowing that Papyrus was dead, didn’t spare Frisk which led to his death.

3.I was never a HUGE fan of the concept of Horrortale in which Undyne takes over and that’s why everything is so totalitarian so instead of having Toriel take over after the death of the king, in this Timeline, Frisk had attempted themselves to run the Underground in a peaceful way assuring that no humans would fall down anymore, but the general population of the Underground was LESS THAN THRILLED. Despite Toriel’s attempts to keep the peace it led to a rebellion that Frisk single-handedly wiped out, became corrupted by LOVE and the fact they now had power and then subsequently everything just went way downhill from there. So rip the good child their intentiosn were good but once they got in way over thier head everything just went haywire.

4. Asriel is part of the small human division of the rebellion against the Overlord, SOUL, being that him and Chara soulbound (more on that in a second) and Chara is the leader of that human division.

4. The other Dreemurs:

Toriel: 

Heading the Monster Forces against the Human Overlord. She has long since lost Sympathy for the human and now just plots for their immediate downfall due to the state of the underground and all that’s happened to the people living in the world.

Asriel:

 Has taken half of Chara’s Soul and bonded it to himself. Due to this, Chara is able to take inhuman amounts of Physical abuse, starvation, illness, and persistently hangs onto the edge of death; because they’ve esentially made a horcrux out of their own freaking brother. As long as Asriel’s Alive, Chara’s not going to die.

Asgore:

Works for the Overload because he fears for his own life, however still secretly vies for thier overthrow. Sabatoges machines constantly to allow things to be easier for the resistence movement, but is calculating and sneaky about it, and due to the Overlord’s pushover-ish nature, they forgive him if he simply explains himself. Consumes himself in his work to distract himself from the persistent guilt his has regarding his own cowardness, as well as the guilt he has regarding the fate of his daughter, who was reprogrammed by some scientists under the Overlord’s command to be esentially a mindless military machine, rather than the professional robotic wrestler they once loved to be.

All of this juxtoposed by the chip implanted in his brain that will turn him into a killing machine if activated. He has not figured out how to remove it but it can be permanently deactivated by a strong enough bolt of electricity. When it happens Asgore black out but is horrified by the atrocities he commits when it’s on.

5. All the Dreemurs care about each other; but Toriel is very very upset with Asgore, unaware of his efforts to sabatoge the Overlord. Even still she cares about his life and would not harm him. Chara fell 3 years ago and at this post Asgore was already astranged from the other two; but Asgore cares about All human children and would not harm one if he could help it. 

6. Chara lives on thier own with Asriel in Snowdin Forest, though Toriel knows the location and will often drop by to check up on them under the guise of “exchanging information between the two divisions”. Toriel cares about them very much and just wishes all of this madness would end. Chara is a stoic child who dosn’t emote much and is emotionally stunted due to having only half a useable soul but they very much wish that they could just live with her in peace with Asriel.

7. Chara has not been eaten because they have an axe, a resting b**** face, and a permanent “do not f*** with me” attitude and generally monsters know that humans are very very dangerous and that this one has just been Very Good at living so far and do not want to find out why

And that’s my TED Talk

-Mod Avery

Dude I TOTALLY Agree, like, I get the only time you see their physical appearance is in a negative light, but at the same time, following the heavy evidence towards the narrator chara theory and analyzing their motives and emotions a little bit, we can see that the kid is a lot more multidimensional than people give them credit for! 

Gonna ramble for juuust a minute here but they say stuff like “Cactus, truly the most tsundere of plants.” and “Scandalous! It’s Toriel’s sock drawer.” Like that is a kid who is funny, probably has some dry wit, but they tell PUNS too. 

“Mandanna” “Leg, Hero” “Bisicle/ Unisicle”

This is a kid who probably picked up on the general light-hearted humor of the family since their time staying with the Dreemurrs, as well as some cultural osmosis I would think, being that anime seems to be an extremely important cultural aspect of the underground (that is a sentence that was bizarre even for me).

And they have a little bit of dark humor, as evidenced here by thier “dirty joke” towards woshua

It doesn’t make much sense until you realize they were telling a joke about a kid who took a “dirt nap”; why would  Frisk to tell a joke about a dead child? Now, it would seem out of place unless you look at the Chara is the narrator theory, putting the thought of that into their mind.

There was a pink hand knit sweater, probably made my Chara and Asriel, that said “Mr. Dad Guy” for Asgore! And he’s kept it all those years. I know it may have been knitted by Toriel, but Chara pauses before finishing that sentence, almost as if they needed a moment. 

Oh yeah, demon children with nothing but Chaos and destruction on their mind draw FLOWERS, and no, before Flowey, so no dramatic cruel irony, just probably saw a pretty flower and drew it.

The kid hated humanity, but any child who hates humanity was probably undoubtedly wronged in some way by them, especially if the parents were negligent enough to allow their child climb the cursed mountain where “Legends say those who climb the mountain never return.” They also say shit like, ‘If you look cute, monsters won’t hit you as hard.” Like, what kid who hasn’t experienced something like that says, well, something like that?

Nobody is born evil, and I think that, well, considering characters like Flowey, that’s a big point Undertale was trying to drive home. Another thing I picked up on Undertale was that good people can do bad things with good intentions, even if all the motivations were not pure as gold, as evidenced by Asgore and Toriel. 

Asgore killed children to bring hope to the monsters, bad thing for a good cause, but he was also motivated by his fear of humanity. Because of the atrocities humanity had committed against monsterkind, he was afraid. The death of his beloved children? He was greiving. Sadness and fear, as well as duty to the kingdom, encouraged him to put aside his morals to prevent crisis. 

He is a kind man, silly sometimes even, giving Alphys a lizard cup he thought looked like her (a professional under his rule, he’s like her boss and Alphys is comfortable enough to have a crush on him), and forgiving, giving Alphys a hug and forgiving her for being afraid of confessing about the amalgamates, because in the end she did the right thing. *cough* But according to Toriel she didn’t do the right thing soon enough *cough*

And speaking of Toriel, Toriel had left him when he decided to kill the children, stating that there was another way. But people were dying of the loss of Hope, waiting on another child to fall and die of old age wasn’t an option for most of them, not when the whole kingdom was stricken with grief. Toriel stated that he could have taken just one child’s soul, and taken to to get help from the humans, or perhaps to get souls from the sick and dying, but is she not a boss monster as well? When Asgore failed to step up to the task, Toriel failed too. Where was she when the underground was collapsing, falling down? 

She got into the throne room easily enough to attack the king, it’s not like coming back wasn’t an option. Fear and Pride are her motivators, and she did not want to admit she was afraid, nor that her morals were in fact, fallible. 

Granted, she did change her mind later, coming after Frisk in the end, but we gotta remember, six other humans weren’t as lucky as Frisk.

I believe some motivation as to why she protected humans who fell down to was make up for the fact that because of her and her ex- husband’s cowardice, they would be killed later. Motivated also by wanting to relive her happy past perhaps, she stays in the ruins after all, and has not changed furniture around for what can be assumed to be a century or longer. Perhaps she blames herself as well, and I would honestly like to see that explored more, but back to Chara for now.

Now, if they liked the Dreemurs even a little bit, think, for one second, that maybe a 9-year old is not a manipulative demonic mastermind, and enjoyed having a loving family who showed them love and friendship and kindness, things they probably were lacking on the surface, that could add an entirely new motivation. Asgore kept telling them they were the hope for humans and monsters, they probably learned about souls, basic monster history and what human and monster souls did, they could have killed themselves, and knew their soul could be used to free monsterkind. 

But Chara did want to go back just to kill the humans, say they were just a vengeful, hateful child for what humanity had done to them, whatever that may be, even if you think it’s minor, this child felt so STRONGLY about it that they took their own life. That’s strong evidence that this was a child struggling with something deep within themselves, that they couldn’t come to grips with, and they wanted to end the pain. A child was driven to suicide out of hatred and vengence, and people are going to completely and utterly demonize that? 

So, Chara killed themselves to free the monsters, but was also motivated by vengence to get back at humanity for what happened during thier time on the surface. A person did a bad thing with good intentions, but all the motivations were not pure as gold. Seems to run in the family don’t it?

And the way they killed themselves?

Buttercups.

The same thing they accidentally poisoned Asgore with, the same thing he almost died from, and where they learned about that poison. Just because they laughed didn’t mean it was funny. 

Going to assume tears also ran down thier cheeks when Asgore got poisoned too.

We all know Chara had a daggar, it would have been quick that way, they could have made that look like an accident. There’s other kids of poison probably, something faster, maybe. There’s a lot of ways. But instead they decided to die slowly and painfully, with stinging and itching poison, the same thing they hurt thier dad with. 

Now, as for Chara’s relationship with Asriel, there’s plenty of evidence Chara and Asriel had good times together, Chara’s the only person Flowey cares about as a soulless husk, for one. The Best Friends Forever amulet, the Memorial which is highly believed to be of the soul-fusion before they dusted (Memory plays, which is Chara and Asriel’s combined theme), and even when the Asriel Dreemur Memory Sequence happened, those memories were a combination or Chara and Asriel’s memories, There is no possible way Frisk could have known those memories were there, Frisk probably wasn’t even alive at the time. And the only other people who could have shared some of them were the newly freed Lost Souls, Toriel and Asgore, and they weren’t there for half of them. 

Chara and Asriel were not the healthiest sibling relationship. But relationships AREN’T always black and white, abuser and victim, sometimes people just aren’t good for each other. And it’s unfair to paint Chara as abuser and Asriel as victim, they were children, they probably didn’t realize all the nuances to unhealthy relationships, heck, if Chara had experienced abusive behaviors in their time on the surface, (ie. Big kids don’t cry) then they couldn’t see a pattern with what they were doing as unusual, especially given Asriel’s idolization of them and his willingness to enable them to do things that miiiight not be the best idea. (Making a pie without thier mom’s help, killing themselves, little things). But just because they weren’t the healthiest relationship didn’t mean Asriel and Chara didn’t CARE about each other. Chara and Asriel TRUSTED each other, Chara for Asriel to carry out the plan, Asriel for Chara to go through with thiers.

And over the years, even after Chara caused Asriel to lose his ability to love, even after he lost his body, he did not hate Chara. He put the kid on a pedestal, and they are a multifaceted kid, they are not a beacon of perfection, and even according to Asriel, they were not the best person. But even still, there’s no way he would put the kid on a pedestal for no good reason. They probably had lots of good, happy times together, and as his time as Flowey, he remembered them, he clung to them, like sticky seeds that don’t want to let go. And he MISSED them. 

And dipping into Badtime territory, Sans and Asgore are killed automatically, however

It is the PLAYER who must click to follow through with the killing blow. It is NOT an immediate action on Chara’s part.

Also lest not forget the ONLY fights during pacifist the narration gets into “Serious Mode” for are the fights against the Dreemurr family; the fights hold a lot of weight in regards to storytelling, so that is a possible motive for the activation of serious mode, but it is also Chara’s family. And that’s a fact that I don’t think should be outright ignored.

When Frisk fell off the bridge and landed on the pile of flowers in waterfall, Asriel’s first words to Chara played. Every time Frisk dies, Asgore’s words to Chara to Stay Determined, ring through Frisk’s head. This is IRREFUTEABLE evidence that throughout pacifist, CHARA. IS. THERE. (also that there’s heavy evidence they are the narrator but I digress) 

And they are there, NOT guiding Frisk to do genocide, not encouraging violence, they are there, commenting on how Frisk plays in the leaves, calling pie Buttspie, makes jokes as to Frisk’s greed from taking too many pieces of monster candy, they emulate FRISK. And who controls them? YOU.

They look for guidance from Frisk. And what Frisk does is what we have them do. The true enemy of Undertale isn’t the evil “demon that comes when they call it’s name.”  YOU called their name and YOU guide them through paths with Frisk.

All that reloading and resetting even after getting fucking obliterated by sans a gazillion times? That was the player doing that, Chara is just looking to you for what to do next. At ANY point, except until the very end, when you’ve fully brought Chara back under your quest for curiousity, when the world is erased, you could stop, and Chara comes along. 

Perhaps Chara and the player share the same “human soul” and ‘determination”, but note the quotes, I believe that what Chara’s referring to is the game constructs of those concepts used during your run. 

I think a big mistake that gets made when characterizing Chara, especially for things like comics is that they try to seperate the player from the equation, but like Chara says when you complete genocide a second time,  

They then proceed to tell you that you, the player, are strange for wanting to keep recreating and resetting, they can’t understand what you, the player is feeling, because they can’t understand this sense of utter completionism that comes from knowing everything and everything. 

The reason they think this was the way to go was because you WILLED this ending to happen. YOUR Guidance. YOUR quest for power. YOUR views as all of monsterkind as the enemy that needed to be eradicated. They took ALL of it to heart, they took all of it as a guide, as they do pacifist. Chara is an impressionable child whose ideals you warp with your genocide route.

And the part where everyone likes to assume Chara was the grand mastermind? 

Well, unless you’re masochistic enough to actually enjoy playing through the genocide route through all it’s frustrating grinding and impossible two boss battles, then you kinda let your determination and curiousity get the better of you, huh? 

You weren’t even able to control yourself.

Chara is not someone who did nothing wrong, nor is Frisk, following along with all these plans of yours, perhaps for once they decided to follow instead of lead and see how that turns out. They are willing to be complicit in the deaths of all thier loves ones and follow what you say, but sharing your determination and soul, I would say thier choices by themselves are pretty limited.  

Going back to what I think is a common trend with people handling Chara’s character in UT comics is that they like to combine Chara with the metaphysical concept known as the “Player”. However a big part of the player’s motivation is simply CURIOSITY and COMPLETIONISM, whereas Chara makes it clear they wish to erase the world, or to even get back at the humans by taking your soul and going to the surface. 

The one thing I tend to dislike about removing the player from the eqution is that people also tend to remove Chara’s capacity for good, making them wholly responsible for the genocide route, which i feel undermnes another big lesson from the game, which is Your Chosen Actions have Consequences.

Granted, some instances of this have been done skillfully and tastefully (such as AFAC, which I follow closely because thier Chara is an amazingly done morally dark grey character) but others painting them as a soulless and ruthless murderchild with no room for redemption make me sad because there is so much more to them than that. 

Chara can vary wildly depending on what run is done, and whether you complete pacifist or genocide, they’re going to learn lessons based on what they learn from your actions. I believe that the true hero/villain of undertale is YOU, but only if you want to be. Only if your curiosity doesn’t get the better of you. You lend Frisk your determination, and what they can do with it is up to you. 

The player’s Determination creates a happy ending, and their Curiosity takes it all away.

I love to see lots of morally grey and even morally dark grey Charas, but it’s gotta be done with sense and taste, depicting Chara as chaos for chaos’ sake makes no sense because, as stated before and what I believe is a big part of UT, No one is born evil. And personally, seeing some softer Chara’s is cool too, we don’t see enough of Chara showing off thier childlike side, and I think it’s great in getting people to see Chara as more of a morally complex character.

But hey, that’s just my 2 cents

whoa geez this is long make that like uhhhhhh $1.36 on the matter

Of course other people have different headcanons and all of my thoughts on this don’t always align with everyone’s headcanons, but I hope you enjoyed my little ramble nonetheless. I want people to be able to see Chara as complex and interesting; despite not being related to the Dreemurrs, they sure tend to be the scapegoat for a lot of the player’s actions less-than-tasteful actions, yet not for any of the good ones. Feel free to add your thoughts to reblogs and such, I love analyzing this game, and I know I probably didn’t get everything right but hey, 

  *peace sign* 

-Mod Avery

To be quite honest, I just wing it! I write big portions and for a while i work off what I wrote in the script, and when i reach the end of my script or feel the mood to write again i just write more of it! however, it should be noted, I marked down specific events, occurances, personalities, plot points, major plot twists, and the ending, all of the script writing I do is basicalllly just to fill in the middles.

Also, I tend to ALWAYS go off-script when i’m writing, because when I write pre-planned jokes, I tend to overthink it and it turns out bad, however winging jokes makes them sound a lot more natural. A lot of dialogue also gets changed to make it sound more natural. 

Writing it down, however, helps me to remember:

 1. Spoken Quirks

-“F-Flowey’s stutter” (I always forget)

-Toriel not using contractions

2. Body language quirks-Chara holding thier hands close together

-Basing Justice’s perception of the world soley on hearing and other senses

3. Easter Eggs/ Foreshadowing

-you gotta find those yourselves my dude 

- gifts from sans scattered across toriel’s home

I go off script a lot though, but the script basically serves to give me direction, adding small tidbits of new juicy info is fun, but not when I don’t have a script to guide it in a feasible and approriate time frame (a mistake I made in the napstablook fight arc).

That being said i have ONE chapter written out in it’s entirety already, for a very future date however.

*(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

*(Mmrph thamk muo!)

*(Well, if it’s really important… I’m sure I’ll learn about it later. Especially because Flowey is starting to get impatient. I’m sure he’s gonna start asking them a lot of questions…)

“There’s not a GHOST of a chance I’m gonna give up these puns. It’s … PUNdeniable.”

*(Is this one alive? I’m sure they’re be scared of me…. Even I’m kinda scared of me…)

*(Maybe I’ll find a way to give hugs someday… but for now the chocolate and stuff is nice! Thank you all for being so nice!)

*(Oh my gosh you sound like the Frisk kid… I GUESS I LIKE I DONT KNOW PSSSHHHHH)

*(Thank you…)

*(Sometimes it’s hard for me to express myself… but you guys saying all these nice things… thank you for that.)

*(Imma choose Mudkip. He’s got silly cheeks!)

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And that concludes our asks! I’m going to let Chara play that game for a little while, but thank you all for sending in asks to this little cutie! I’m glad you guys like my interpretation of Underfell Chara! To be honest I was scared of including them because I was afraid of how they would be received, but I must say, I’m very happy with how it’s all coming out!

Thank you guys, have a swell day!