Tentative!Chara

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**Tentative!Chara** is a Chara variant created by **Mandaryne**, along with being the submitted character for the Monthly OC Contest.

They are the Royal Scientist of an unknown AU (Alternate Universe), in which they are in charge of researching about the DETERMINATION found in other Monsters. In Tentative!Chara’s world, they were sent into the Underground to extract the little bits of DETERMINATION that monsters had in their SOULs; they were tasked with finding the aforementioned substance by their own nation, in order to win a world war.

## Biography

### Background

Tentative!Chara came from an AU where she was sent from the Surface in order to perform research on other monsters. In her world, Humans were still aware of the existence of monsters, living in the Underground. However, unlike the original plot, Chara was never adopted into the Royal Family, but instead belonged to an actual family; albeit an estranged one.

Some time during her research in the Underground, she later discovered that the SOULs of these monsters possess small amounts of DETERMINATION. Knowing about this fact, she eventually decided to begin extracting the said substance out of the SOULs of the monsters.

### Surface

On the Surface, there happened to be devastating world war going on between nations. Chara’s own nation had assigned her with the task of finding this special substance, DETERMINATION, that could potentially help their side win against all others. The nation Chara lived in believed that if they were to inject DETERMINATION into humans, they would be able to persist after death, or last longer after a severe injury.

### Monsters

Despite the monsters possessing very little DETERMINATION in their SOULs, it was still excruciatingly painful for them to have it extracted. The DETERMINATION that the monsters possessed was what kept their max HP (HoPe, in this case) up. If someone were to get rid of it from their SOULs, it could potentially decrease their max HP, which would cause the said monster to die quicker.

The substance was also something that allowed the monsters to retain their physical form. Due to being made with very little matter in their bodies, they would essentially ‘crack’ and dust fairly quickly because of the lack of DETERMINATION holding their bodies together.

## Profile

### Appearance

Tentative!Chara is a human with average height and a fair complexion, with red eyes and short, straight brown hair that can often be seen tied into a low pony-tail. Her face is framed with uneven bangs and side bangs that go down to her neck, along with having prominent rosy cheeks that don’t seem to ever fade away for some reason.

Her usual attire consists of a green turtleneck, with a broad yellow stripe running horizontally across the center. She happens to wear a white lab coat with matching white gloves, brown pants, and black loafers.

### Personality

Tentative!Chara is a cold-hearted, and reserved individual that will often raise their walls around others that seek to be closer to them. Because of an incident with her and Frisk, Chara had grown to be very distrustful and hesitant towards others’ help. They are quick to doubting the good will of others, and will occasionally give those who truly love them the cold shoulder.

Pessimistic and analytical, Chara has also been shown to be very intelligent and observant towards others; hence why she was given the position of being a scientist in the first place. While she is capable of easily understanding the way other things work, she does have a hard time trying to understand her, or others’ feelings.

Being in the war, it’s known for Chara to have a cynical view towards humanity in general. Like most of her other counterparts, she dislikes humanity quite a lot. However, despite holding a great dislike for humans in general, she’s able to fully care for them; though, the most amount of care she can give to others is a great amount of pity and empathy.

### Abilities

* **DETERMINATION**: While they may have DETERMINATION like the other versions of themselves, unlike many of her counterparts, Tentative!Chara in unable to RESET or SAVE on her own, and may only reload into the places where they’ve last slept in. Despite this ability not being effective on her own terms, it can be quite an advantage for her own nation; as they are able to report about what had happened during their last ‘run’ to have them dead, which could allow them to potentially evade those mistakes in the next ‘run’.
	+ **Regeneration**: Tentative!Chara has a unique SOUL of DETERMINATION, in which she is capable of extracting her own DETERMINATION in order to heal others. Their making of DETERMINATION is rather slow, but can easily regenerate others in seconds right after acquiring a small dose of it. However, extracting the substance from their own SOUL will cost them a great amount of energy, along with the reproduction of DETERMINATION being very slow. This process of regeneration will only work if their determination is injected into one’s own SOUL, but cannot work on the user themselves.
	+ **Invulnerability**: By extracting the small bits of DETERMINATION from monsters, Chara is able to inject the other’s DETERMINATION into their own SOUL, which will allow them to regenerate themselves. injecting the DETERMINATION of others will also allow Chara to have some invulnerability against attacks that come right after consuming it.

## Relationships

### Family

Tentative!Chara and her family have a very distant relationship with one another; often not associating with each other at all. While neither of Chara’s parents had neglected or abused Chara, they didn’t really socialize much with her, causing them to drift apart.

### Nation

Chara’s nation and herself are in a rocky relationship, but cooperate with each another in order to stop the war. Their nation would occasionally take advantage of Chara’s ability to ‘restart’ and tell them their mistakes in order to avoid doing it again. Chara doesn’t particularly like her nation, but also doesn’t seem to take a liking to it either.

### Monsters

Because of Chara being the scientist who is constantly tasked with extracting the DETERMINATION from the monsters of the Underground, many of the monsters have grown to dislike Chara; however, they are incapable of fighting back, due to the guards that keep Chara safe.

Chara, on the other hand, feels a lot of pity and sorrow for the monsters, but won’t show it in order to not have the nation feel as if she’s betraying them, or disagreeing with their orders. In fact, she would rather not have been in charge of this role at all. She didn’t want to hurt the monsters, but she had to, as she placed the ending of the war over the happiness of monsters.

## Trivia

* Tentative!Chara is about 26 years old in this AU.
	+ Tentative!Chara’s birthday is on July 4th.
* Tentative!Chara may not be a scientist of royalty, however, they are the main national scientist that works for the government (if that counts..??)
* Tentative!Chara was originally going to be a character who extracted the DETERMINATION of monsters for their own benefit, but the idea was later scrapped, as the author deemed its plot as not enough to be considered as a good character.
	+ They were originally going to be named as Lunacy!Chara as well.

## Gallery

Tentative!Chara Fanart (OLD: Lunacy!Chara)Tentative!Chara (New half-Ref)