2010s

## Timeline

### Current

2010s

*"My heart can't take this any longer. I can no longer take this failure. But it didn't begin with this. It began so very long ago."*
―Toriel to Asgore Dreemurr[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred during the **2010s**.

## 201X

### December

* By this day and age, humans no longer have as much knowledge to use magic as they did centuries ago and have practically lost their abilities for its lack of use. Now, they build their economy and agriculture manually without magical assistance most of the time.
* Chara has already found that he is living an unhappy life among humans, developing a hatred towards humanity.
* With his misery, Chara abandons his home village and travels to Mount Ebott, where he finds a massive hole and falls into it. He lands in the Underground, specifically in a cavern leading to the home of the Monster Royal Family. Fortunately, Chara does not suffer any injuries other than a bruise on his left cheek and a few scratches.
* Asriel Dreemurr finds Chara in the cavern and extends a helping hand, smiling at the human. Kneeling in front of Asriel, Chara is surprised by his kindness and smiles back.
* Asriel brings Chara into his family home to be cared for. Overtime, the two begin bonding as friends.
* A few days later, Asgore Dreemurr and Toriel decide to adopt Chara, whose scratches are healed, as their own child.
* As the Monster Royal Family prepare to have a family photograph, the adoptive brothers each hold bouquets of Golden Flowers. Asriel is beaming delightfully while Chara still feels nervous about his new life.
* Chara looks up at his parents before exchanging glances with Asriel. The Prince simply smiles and closes his eyes in glee, making Chara cry tears of joy over feeling loved. The human child covers his tearful face in his bouquet when the photograph is taken.
* The fact that a human has been adopted into the Monster Royal Family fills the Underground with hope.

## 2014

* Asriel Dreemurr watches Chara happily drawing the both of them with crayons.
* Asriel lays down next to Chara on the bed of Golden Flowers on the place where Chara first landed in the Underground. Chara feels joy and reaches his left arm out towards the sunlight beaming onto him.

## 2015

* Chara and Asriel Dreemurr venture through Waterfall while holding hands. When they hear a music box melody playing from somewhere, Asriel points out that the source is the statue with the umbrella. The brothers proceed to watch it in peace.
* The Monster Royal Family and monsters living in the city which would become the Ruins decide to migrate to a location near the Barrier. They establish their new capital named New Home, and Asgore Dreemurr's residence is situated closest to the Barrier.
* Asriel draws a blue sword labelled Chaos Saber and gleefully shows it to Chara, who approves of it and gives a thumbs-up.
* Chara and Asriel make golden Heart Lockets for each other as a symbol of their friendship and brotherhood.

## 2016

* Asriel Dreemurr and Chara eat chocolate together, which is Chara's favorite sweet.
* Chara happily shows Asriel his drawing of them being yellow looking up at a giant Golden Flower.

## 2017

* Asriel Dreemurr watches Chara laying his stomach on the floor while both playing with a sock puppet and eating Toriel's Butterscotch Pie, which he enjoys.
* In an area in the Monster Royal Family's residence with Golden Flowers, Chara sits on a massive rock and teases Asriel while the latter tries to record him with a camera, but its lens cap is on.
* Some time later, Chara, wishing to free monsters from the Underground, constructs a plan to achieve this. He is aware that seven human SOULs are needed to destroy the Barrier, so he explains to Asriel that he will commit suicide by consuming buttercups so that Asriel will obtain his SOUL, cross the Barrier and collect six more SOULs.
* Asriel is against this plan, but he reluctantly agrees to it. Chara then becomes terminally ill from eating buttercups, saddening the Monster Royal Family.
* **Sacrifice of Chara**: Shortly afterwards, Chara's condition becomes worse, exactly as he planned, and eventually, he dies in front of the devastated Monster Royal Family.
* Asriel proceeds to absorb Chara's human SOUL and become an entity with incredible power. During this, Asriel and Chara share control over the former's body, so Chara carries his own corpse across the Barrier and travels to his home village.
* **Assassination of Asriel Dreemurr**:
	+ The human villagers notice the monster Prince carrying Chara's body, and they assume he had killed the teenager.
	+ The humans attack Asriel with many man-made weapons including a sword and arrows. Chara attempts to retake control over Asriel's body to obliterate the humans he despises, but the tearful and hesitant Asriel wants to show them mercy and holds the furious Chara back, making his eyes glow red in rage.
	+ Maintaining control of his own body, Asriel walks away from the village, still clutching onto Chara, while the humans strike him with blow after blow on his back.
	+ Returning back to the Underground, the heavily injured Asriel begins fading into dust upon entering the Barrier. He places Chara's Heart Locket into his dead hand then settles his deceased brother onto the ground. His very own Locket also drops near Chara's body.
	+ Due to his lethal injuries, Asriel turns to dust, which is spread across the garden in New Home.
* Asgore Dreemurr and Toriel discover Chara's body and Asriel's dust at the Barrier, and Toriel cradles Chara's body while breaking down to tears in front of her husband. They both fall into extreme despair and depression, and soon, the Underground does as well.
* The next morning, the grieving Asgore assembles an announcement to the inhabitants of New Home. Donning his armor, the tearful and enraged Asgore stands at his balcony to face his subjects while the internally depressed Toriel sits at her throne next to him.
* Asgore declares that he will end their suffering, and that every human who falls into the Underground shall die and have their SOULs contained. Once he collects seven human SOULs, Asgore will shatter the Barrier and allow monsters to enact revenge against humans. However, Asgore's actual priority is to inspire hope for his kingdom since his compassion and life is devoted to them above all else. He is secretly hesitant and unwilling to murder innocent humans, but he will do so for the Underground's sake.
* Toriel, who does not realize she herself is broken, becomes disgusted at Asgore's actions, choosing to abandon Asgore, the kingdom and her title as Queen of monsters.
* Wanting to give Chara a proper burial, Toriel travels across the Underground to return to the former capital city which will be known as the Ruins. She buries Chara under the bed of Golden Flowers on the area where he first landed into the kingdom. Overcome with guilt, Toriel promises to never leave Chara's side, taking to watch over his grave regardless of what is necessary, even refusing to eat or sleep.

## References

1. ↑ *Glitchtale: 2.01: My Sunshine*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 *Glitchtale: 2.09: Hope*
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 *Glitchtale: 2.08: Animosity*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 In *Undertale*, Frisk finds a calendar from the end of 201X in New Home. A date is circled on it. In the Genocide Route, Chara confirms that is the date they came into the Underground. It is assumed this happened on the same date in Glitchtale, for timeline purposes.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 *Glitchtale: 1.05: Continue*
6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 In *Your Best Friend*, *Continue* and *Animosity*, flashbacks to Chara and Asriel Dreemurr’s childhood are displayed. In *Your Best Friend*, this moment is Chara and Asriel finding the statue in Waterfall. In *Continue*, these moments (excluding Chara and Asriel’s first interaction) are:

	* Asriel showing a drawing of Chaos Saber to Chara, who approves of it
	* Asriel recording Chara with the camera's lens cap on
	* Chara and Asriel eating chocolate
	* Chara showing his drawing of himself, Asriel and a giant Golden Flower
	* Chara playing with a sock puppet while eating Butterscotch Pie
In *Animosity*, these moments (excluding Chara and Asriel’s first interaction as well as the Monster Royal Family photo being taken) are:

	* Asriel watching Chara draw himself and Asriel with crayons
	* Asriel laying next to Chara on a bed of Golden Flowers
The flashbacks in *Animosity* showcase Chara and Asriel at much younger ages, thus they can be concluded to occur first. The flashback in *Your Best Friend* showcase Chara and Asriel slightly younger than their teenage appearances, thus it can be concluded to occur second. The flashbacks in *Continue* showcase Chara and Asriel about the same age as they are during the Battle of New Home, and additionally, these memories seem to take place in New Home, thus they can be concluded to occur last. The memory of Asriel attempting to record Chara is reminiscent to Tape 2 in the True Lab in *Undertale*. Evidence supporting this is the fact the brothers are in a garden in New Home, and in Tape 2, there is the sound of birds chirping. Furthermore, Chara is teasing Asriel in the flashback, parallel to how Chara teases [they] would not do [their] creepy face again in Tape 2. This tape takes place some time before the siblings's deaths, and since Asgore Dreemurr getting sick from buttercups happens between Tapes 2 and 3, we can estimate that Tape 2 would likely occur in a few months before the tragedy, therefore making it the last flashback to happen before the Sacrifice of Chara.

Children, on average, run away from home from the ages ten to fourteen. Chara passes away when he is fourteen, and in the flashbacks in *Animosity*, he is relatively much younger, so his arrival in the Underground can be approximated to when he is ten or eleven. If he has spent four years of his life living with the Monster Royal Family, that four-year span can be estimated to occur from 2014 to 2017, the median four years of the 2010s. All the flashbacks can be evenly distributed from 2014 to 2017 if they occur in the order they are revealed.
7. ↑ *Glitchtale: 1.04: Your Best Friend*
8. ↑ *Glitchtale: 2.06: Game Over*
9. ↑ Chara and Asriel Dreemurr make their Heart Lockets during their early life together from 2014 to 2017 (see other references), so the median year is 2015, the estimated date of this event.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 *Glitchtale: 1.03: \*Determination.*
11. ↑ *Glitchtale: 2.05: My Promise*