Chara/History

## Pre-AFAC

### Time on the Surface

Chara had a good life growing up in a coastal town in Ireland with parents who loved them. They were curious, prone to wandering off to look at something that interested them and prone to asking questions about anything that crossed their mind [4].

Then pirates came and ransacked their village. When they broke into their house, Chara's mother told the pirates they could take whatever they wanted as long as they didn't hurt them. The pirates however, interpreted this to mean they could take Chara and grabbed them. Chara's mother objected and she was run through with a fireplace poker. Chara has misremembered the event, believing that their mother was stabbed with a pirate sword. As they were being taken to the ship, they saw their father's corpse [13].

They spent a long time being treated as a slave aboard their ship before one day, the pirates drank themselves to sleep and Chara took a knife and cut their throats, forming the ideology. In doing so, they discovered a love of schadenfreude from the satisfaction of punishing those who hurt them [10] and formed the infamous ideology "in this world, it's kill or be killed."

The ship eventually ran aground in Newfoundland [6]where when asked what killed all the pirates on the ship, a blood-soaked Chara told them "I did." [7] They spent a year starving in the streets, with a combination of the bystander effect and the Angel's Prophecy keeping anyone from trying to help them [8]. They eventually became so miserable that when they learned of Mt. Ebott, they stowed away on trains to get there [6] and threw themselves into The Underground to commit suicide. The attempt failed and they fractured their leg before being found by Asriel. Upon meeting him, Chara immediately developed a crush on the young goat monster [1] and he took them to Toriel for healing. Upon meeting her, Chara tried to attack her, and their leg broke completely. Toriel numbed the pain and set the bones and carried them around during their recovery period [15].

### Time in the Underground

Over time, Chara lived with the Dreemurrs and became Asriel's best friend. It was also during this time that they realized that they were agender when they asked Toriel about why some monsters didn't have gendered pronouns and were told that some monsters don't identify as either gender [14]. Prior to the discovery of the exit from Home [19], Toriel and Asgore never realized humans needed vitamins to live and kept feeding them monster food. This lead to Chara stealing raw materials from the pantry and eventually catching scurvy. They survived, but after that, Chara was in charge of making most of their own meals [18]. Eventually they form the plan to collect seven human souls, free the monsters, and wipe out humanity, though the idea to commit suicide was caused by the Angel's Prophecy [20]. At some point in this time period, Chara was the first to be chosen to wield the Reset Button's power, but were so spooked by one Reset that they swore off the power until their time possessing Frisk [17].

After researching how to achieve a soul fusion, Chara ate buttercups and died. Chara then had their soul absorbed by Asriel, before they flew off to their home town and were pelted with arrows and farming equipment until Chara finally agreed to retreat. However, their injuries ultimately caused them to succumb [3]. As a wizard, they were able to stick around as a poltergeist, but didn't have enough Determination to stay around constantly, and thus hibernated when there wasn't a human in the Underground [2].

They managed to control Frisk and made them kill everyone in the Underground before Frisk broke free and reset back to the beginning and got the monsters their happy ending. Frisk and Chara's memories got jumbled together during this time and every time Frisk died, Frisk would see their final moments, while they would see moments of Frisk's abuse [16]. Unlike Flowey, Chara killed as quickly as possible to get as much EXP as possible [21]. After all the monsters had left the Underground, Chara destroyed the Reset button so that Frisk could truly lose.

## Red Echoes

Chara escapes into reality through the rift Sans created. They stay hidden in the background for about half the arc, before revealing themself to the askers and mocking them for their emotional attachment to the characters.

They meet Frisk at the mouth of Mt. Ebott, and trigger their memories of a previous genocide run. They are about to possess them when Sans traps them. They tease Sans into getting distracted on the phone with Toriel, escape his magical prison, and possess him. They then move to kill Frisk and Monster Kid, but are intercepted by the Riverperson. They dodge around before Chara realizes that the Riverperson isn't actually trying to hurt them and moves to kill them. At that point, the rest of the cast shows up and Chara tries to kill Toriel with a Gaster Blaster. This fails miserably and Chara traps Sans in his worst memories and threatens to keep him there until Frisk willingly gives up their body. The askers send Sans power, allowing him to become Memelord Sans and soundly beats up Chara before Frisk distracts him long enough for Chara to escape. Before they leave, they throw their knife at Sans, but miss and stab a ketchup bottle he conveniently had underneath his shirt. However, this causes Papyrus to actually think that Sans is dead and Chara realizes this is like Asriel telling them he doesn't want them to die all those years ago. Papyrus freaks out and attacks them, causing Chara to flee.

Chara ends the arc by realizing that their task of ending the world has gotten much harder due to the askers and asks them for power before leaving to prepare.

## Sweet Dreams and Nice Creams

Chara appears in a cameo in Sans's dream, where they are in a cage kicked by Grillby.

Chara is confronted by the askers about whether or not their plan involved sending Goopster to AFAC and they refute this. Chara also tells us that they don't miss Asriel because he betrayed them and let the both of them die.

Chara's next appearance is during Toriel's dream of when Asriel found them. Chara is afraid and tries to attack Toriel, but winds up breaking their leg. Toriel heals them and Chara is still distrustful. Toriel finds this funny and tells Chara they are adorable. Chara tells her they once gouged out a man's eye and Toriel continues to comfort them before it turns into a nightmare and Chara and Asriel die in her arms.

Later in the arc, Chara is seen knitting and they talk about how screwed up the world is and that they're doing the world a favor by trying to destroy it. An asker ask about their determination to reach their goal, and tries to sway them to the side of chaos. They thoroughly rebuke the asker, claiming the askers see the characters as toys and that if this world were to disappear, we would just find a new one to replace it. They then compare our behavior to how Toriel replaced her lost children with the other fallen humans. They say they are disgusted with themselves, and describe the feeling of killing for the first time in the aborted genocide run. They say that people like them aren't uncommon at all, and they want to bring it all to an end.

An asker asks why they have to be the ones to end the world and Chara says that since the omniscient beings aren't doing anything, they are stepping up. If they are wrong, Frisk will win the ideological battle, but as they are sure to be right, they think Frisk will lose. This conversation between Chara and the askers ends with a vision Asriel telling them that there is still good in this world and in themselves before turning to dust.

During the last part of the arc, Chara came in Frisk's room to talk with them. They try to convince [Frisk]] that the world is cruel, and needs to be destroyed, but Frisk refuses to budge and Chara gets angry, viciously pointing out the flaws in Toriel and Asgore and starts on Asriel when Flowey apologizes for doubting them and pleads with them to stop hurting people, causing Chara to freak out and leave.

## Extra Dark Chocolate

Chara's first appearance is a one-panel cutaway of them telling the askers that white chocolate isn't chocolate. Their next appearance is in one of Toriel's flashbacks where they told her that humans are terrible.

After hearing about Maverick, Chara decides to find out who he is and tracks him down. Through a series of flashbacks, we learned that Chara destroyed the Reset Button, because they wanted Frisk to live with the consequences of their actions. Over the course Frisk's journey, Chara began to realize that the world isn't the one that's broken; they are. The askers reveal Chara's presence to Maverick and he prevents them from escaping. After throwing a small tantrum, Maverick tells them that he missed them. They talk about why Maverick could miss them and the subject is steered to Asriel. The askers reveal a picture of the fragment of Asriel's soul in Flowey, but Chara refuses to believe them. Somehow the subject changes to why Maverick isn't wearing a shirt and Chara mocks them for it. An asker brings up Chara's plan and Maverick tries to talk them out of it. Chara refuses to abandon it and teleports away.

## ¡Eclipse Total!

Chara is revealed to be a wizard due to a flashback early in the arc.

The askers reveal the presence of ADC!Chara to Chara and Chara talks about how the world needs to die. Another asker talks about when they poisoned Asgore and they explain themselves before Paolo wakes up. Chara warns them not to interfere in their plan and Paolo tells them they don't have any interest in doing so. Before Chara leaves, Paolo tells them their plan is hopeless and Chara reveals they don't have a backup.

Chara appears in the house while ADC!Chara sleeps off their hangover and enters their mind. They have a conversation about how ADC!Chara is alive and the topic steers to the terrible things they both have done. ADC!Chara tells them they've changed and Chara tells them that if they've both done horrible things, they're both fundamentally the same and imprisons ADC!Chara before taking over their body.

The 4th Wall Kids allow Climax Striker to initiate Operation Drunken Embrace, which consists of tricking Chara into hugging Flowey. This reveals that Chara has the rest of Asriel's SOUL and getting it close enough could allow the pieces to reconnect and resurrect Asriel. It almost works, but Asriel refuses because he can't bear to leave Chara alone. Chara then attempts to kill Flowey but Maverick puts them in a sleeper hold and knocks them out.

Chara demands to know why they can't control ADC!Chara's body and he reveals that he is drunk. The askers pry Chara's backstory out of them and ADC!Chara empathizes with them. Chara begins to sink into despair and ADC!Frisk appears to expel them. Chara assumes an adult form and they attack ADC!Frisk. However, they refuse to fight and Chara is pushed over the edge and vanishes.

## The Most Fabulous Place on Earth

Callalied is revealed to be Chara when an asker asks about white chocolate and then apologizes for their outburst and claiming they don't know who Chara is. Later to help prove that Chara is Callalied, the askers take a peek at their soul.

Frisk, Flowey, and Monster Kid follow Callalied to The Asriel Memorial Park [5] where they have been living and after a brief conflict, they manage to convince Callalied to spend the night at their house.

Frisk and Flowey introduce Callalied to Skyrim and the askers reveal to Toriel that Skyrim is rated "M" and Callalied denies knowing this. Later that night, the kids tell ghost stories before deciding they're going to stay up all night and fall asleep less than an hour later. Erika allows the askers to see inside Chara's soul and this reveals that they are unconscious and Asriel is keeping them afloat in an ocean. Asriel reveals that Chara's plan was to dig up their corpse and possess it to infiltrate School to convince Frisk that the world needed to die. However, the events of ¡Eclipse Total! caused them to give up on living forcing Asriel to keep them in this world and Callalied functioning [12].

After a flash forward to the field trip to Monsterland, the askers try to convince Callalied that their life is in danger, but they refuse to believe them. When Janet reveals Frisk's deadname, Callalied joins the other monsters in looking intimidating toward Janet. Later in the day, Asriel runs out of power and Flowey and Chara fall unconscious. However, the askers save them by giving Asriel the power to move themselves out of danger. Callalied wakes up and is taken to the nurse's office where they begin to remember their time as Chara. When no one is looking, they escape.

Frisk, Flowey, and Monster Kid spot Callalied atop a tower and assume they are going to jump and after getting up, Callalied asks them to tell them the memories they're regaining aren't theirs. Frisk tells them that they're real and gives an empassioned speech that coincides with Chara and Asriel forgiving each other for what they've done and Chara becomes a full skeleton. There is much rejoicing before Burgerpants comes up and yells at them for being in a restricted area. However, after getting a call saying that Chad broke his leg, Burgerpants allows them to stay as long as they man the spot light for the play.

Chara and Asriel return with Frisk and co. and they reunite with Toriel and the group. Toriel allows them to stay after Asriel convinces her and Sans slows down time to tell them that if they step out of line again, he'll kill them.

Their final appearance is at the end of the arc sleeping while Sans watches.

After Callalied and Flowey returned to school as Chara and Asriel, their classmates were mildly confused, asked some questions, and immediately accepted them before asking when lunch was [9].

## Drop Down Town

Chara's first appearance in the arc is in the bedroom playing Skyrim with Asriel when Frisk comes in and says that Aidrian is going to die next Sunday. Chara says something wrong while trying to cheer Frisk up and they start crying. They follow Papyrus with Frisk and Asriel to Asgore to tell him what's going to happen.

They later appear with the group at The Pit's locker room looking for Flowers.

Their next appearance is in the stands watching a match between Lady Inferno and Antanasia. When Papyrus challenges Undyne for the position of Captain of the Royal Guard, Chara is shocked to see how powerful he really is [12].

## In The Alternate Timeline

In this timeline, Chara still destroyed the Reset Button, a choice that became the biggest regret of their life [11].

The events of Red Echoes didn't happen, so Sans was never possessed. After Aidrian turned into an abomination and killed Frisk, Toriel, and Gaster, they went to Flowey, realized they had Asriel's soul, and gave it back. They and Asriel then took the time to turn Chara into a skeleton. Following a sudden outbreak of abominations, the world started becoming more dangerous and Sans took Chara and Asriel under his wing to protect them. Chara takes on the codename "Shadowrogue" and Asriel becomes Maverick Chaosdragon. They become a couple until Chara was killed by abominations.

## References

[2] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/146937241812/that-would-mean-that-charas-been-dead-for-98-107
[3] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/184566794632/so-like-what-happened-with-chara-and-azriel-the
[4] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/184807119087/what-was-chara-like-before-the-pirates-came
[5] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/185189491312/i-assume-the-island-is-mmts-park-is-that-a
[6] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/189679702517/finally-where-is-mt-ebott-from-the-fact-that-it
[7] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/189686619647/alright-hold-up-im-sorry-tq-but-there-is-no-way
[8] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/189679654402/23-my-second-issue-comes-about-from-having
[9] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/613903145668575232/how-did-most-of-the-kids-at-school-react-to-flowey
[10] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/614009505019232256/is-that-sadist-part-of-chara-you-mentioned
[11] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/176573164892/quick-question-why-didnt-the-frisk-in-everyone
[12] http://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/167483776987/wait-if-chara-is-dying-then-how-come-callallied
[13] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/615632111210217472/what-information-can-you-tell-us-about-saorise-and
[14] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/625426167343742976/when-did-chara-realize-they-were-agender
[15] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/640615155956334592/uh-charas-leg-was-broken-100-years-ago-and
[16] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/642618046974984192/i-just-had-a-mildly-cute-thought-since-i-believe
[17] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/662607642747879424/so-im-wondering-how-exactly-can-their-be-two
[18] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/664949479886209024/if-humans-can-only-gain-nutrition-from-human-food
[19] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/665551749579472896/did-chara-catch-scurvy-before-or-after-they-and
[20] https://askfriskandcompany.tumblr.com/post/673023352241274880/how-much-prophecy-fuckery-was-involved-in-charas