Chara Dreemur

Chara's Original Apperance

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(Editor's Note: All info has been taken from the Undertale wiki as a placeholder until Further notice.)

**Chara** (/ˈkærə/ *KARR-ə*), also known as the **fallen human**, is the first human to fall into the Underground. Chara is their "true name" on the naming screen, though their name typically varies on what the player enters. They are distinct from the eighth fallen human, who is the protagonist in *Undertale*. They were used Potatopathofglory until 2/4/21 when they were adopted by Ash's Second Herald.

## Profile

### Appearance

Chara is a fair skinned child who looks strikingly similar to Frisk. They both have an ambiguous gender, and a "similar fashion sense," as said by Asriel Dreemurr. Both appear to have been around the same age when they fell into the Underground. Chara's SOUL is also the same color as Frisk's, which is indicated by the red SOUL on Chara's coffin.

At the end of the Genocide Route, Chara is seen to be wearing a lime and cream-colored striped shirt (which is an inverted color of the protagonist's shirt) and red-brown pants and shoes. Chara has peach skin and brown hair, rosy cheeks, open brown eyes, and a smile that contrasts the protagonist's stoic expression.

### Personality

While initially cast in a sympathetic light, Asriel admits at the end of the True Pacifist Route that Chara "*...wasn't really the greatest person.*" Asriel states that Chara climbed Mount Ebott for an unhappy reason, and adds that Chara "*hated humanity*".

At the end of the Genocide Route, Chara behaves in a polite, formal, and terse manner. They thank the protagonist for teaching them the purpose of their reawakening: power. Chara informs that their determination woke them from death when entering the Underground.

If the protagonist refuses to destroy the world, Chara's eyes become wide, and rhetorically asks: "*SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THE ONE IN CONTROL?*", before destroying it with corrupt laughter. In the abyss, Chara is blunt, and criticizes the protagonist: "*You want to go back to the world you destroyed.*"

After a second Genocide Route, Chara expresses confusion at the protagonist's "sentimentality," and states that they can no longer understand such emotions, implying that they, like Flowey, have lacked a SOUL, and thus emotions, since their death.

Chara's personality is best described as a mix between Sothis and Flowey. Though they look to be 7 years of age, they are snarky and smug, using big words as if to act older than they really are.

## Abilities

### Plant Manipulation

Chara is able to control plants and seeds like their brother.

### Ghost thingys

Chara can do things ghosts can, being one themselves.

### KNIF

They can summon knife's from anywhere they want.

## Relationships

### Undertale

##### Asriel Dreemurr

After falling into the Underground, Chara was found by Asriel and adopted by his parents; Toriel and Asgore. The two of them grew together as siblings and best friends. But despite this, Asriel is willing to see past Chara's flaws since such defects are what made Chara unique and special to him, as witnessed by Asriel's confession to the protagonist during the epilogue and the walk through New Home on the Genocide Route.

##### Flowey

Flowey perceives Chara as his partner and best friend, despite his inability to love. Seeing Chara as a creature akin to him, he helps by clearing all obstacles in the way. He says that Chara would never give him any "worthless pity" and is the only one who understands him.

##### Frisk

Frisk only encounters Chara if the Genocide Route is completed. As the protagonist kills monsters and gains more EXP, Chara, or something, seems to grow stronger. "Chara" refers to the protagonist as a "partner" if the player accepts their offer to erase the world.

If the protagonist completes another Genocide Route, Chara questions why they continuously recreate and destroy the world. Chara then goes on to say that the protagonist has a perverted sentimentality that drives this odd behavior.

##### Toriel

When Chara fell into the Underground, Toriel took on the role of Chara's mother. She cared for Chara very much, equally as much as Asriel.

##### Asgore

Similarly to Toriel, Asgore acted as much of a father to Chara as he did to Asriel. Flowey expressed confidence that Asgore would show them the human souls, even if he didn't for Flowey.

## Trivia

* The child being "fallen" can refer both to the child having fallen into the Underground, or to the phrase "to fall from grace" (to become morally corrupt). It is also a word used to describe someone who has died.
* Toby Fox suggests naming the Fallen Child the player's own name, though he then replied to that Tweet with "I mean, if you can't think of anything else lol."
* "Chara" is likely short for "Character," as all internal references of either Frisk (mainchara) or Chara (truechara) use "chara."
	+ The official Japanese translation of the game translates Chara's name as "キャラ *Kyara*". This matches the katakana for the English word "character", which is written as "キャラクター *Kyarakutā*".
	+ "Chara" is also an alternate spelling of "Cara" and "Kara", both names having their roots in Latin, meaning "darling," "beloved," "dear" or "loved one."
* When attempting to name the fallen child "Chara," the response becomes "The true name." Removing the name from a SAVE file results in the name "CHARA" being given by default. These are the only two instances where the name "Chara" appears in-game.
* Chara is implied to like chocolate; in the Genocide Route, should the protagonist check the refrigerator in Asgore's Home, the text reads "No chocolate."
	+ While there is no chocolate in Asgore's home, there is a bar of chocolate in the fridge in Toriel's Home; it is possible Toriel kept it in her fridge in memory of Chara's tastes.
	+ It is also implied that Chara has interest in knives, as the text upon inspecting Toriel's kitchen reads "Where are the knives." This is further evidenced by the Real Knife.
* The Locket may belong to Chara, as the text "Right where it belongs." displays when the protagonist equips it during a Genocide Route.
* Chara's jumper's color scheme (cream and green) is a color negative of Frisk's (blue and purple).
* Chara is the only character whose dialogue is never accompanied by voice bytes.
* The music as Chara introduces themself to the protagonist has the filename `mus_zzz_c`, with the jump scare music named `mus_zzz_c2`.
* If the game is not in windowed mode during the jump scare, the game will automatically go into windowed mode.
* Toriel and Chara both greet new figures using "greetings" (Toriel to the protagonist at the beginning of the game, Chara to the protagonist at the end of the Genocide Route). It is likely Chara assimilated this behavior from Toriel.
* The comment that Chara makes about being "the demon that comes when people call its name" may be a reference to naming a character in an RPG. The player assigns a name to their avatar and, in a typical RPG, kills enemies to gain power.
* In the Japanese translation, Chara uses "watashi" and "jibun" for themself and refers to a person using "omae". Their speech is also written in "proper" Japanese, that is to say, it employs a standard level of kanji usage (Chinese characters), which puts it in stark contrast with the rest of the game, which hardly ever uses kanji in its text. This gives their speech an air of high formality.
* In the *Undertale* Greenlight Trailer, Chara’s name appears in some of the battle shots.

* Within the game files, there are look-alikes of Chara with their yellow-and-green shirt and pants, with a different skin tone and lacking a face but having shading under the eyes. In debug mode, it is possible to have these sprites appear as the protagonist's reflection in puddles and mirrors; it has been speculated that this was going to be a feature in post-Genocide Route timelines.
	+ This sprite bears resemblance to the character Kris, the protagonist of Toby Fox's later game *Deltarune*. It is possible this was an early prototype design of the character, as *Deltarune* was planned since before the release of *Undertale*.
* It is implied in the scrapped *Undertale* Alarm Clock dialogue that they overfill their glasses of water, and that Asriel adopted that method.

## Notes

1. ↑ There is no official pronunciation for the name "Chara".
2. ↑ Distorted title "Fallen".