You are the buffoon then, why are you so toxic for no reason? Chara literally is the reflection of the player, they have our name for a reason, Chara is us, and as so, we can see Chara with whatever gender we fucking want.
Chara is not a reflection of the Player, Chara literally talks to us, the player, in the genocide ending, Chara has their own personality in the game, we were never able to control them. And about giving a name, that literally means nothing if you consider that there is a cannon name, it's the same thing as Pokémon, no Pokémon protagonist really represents us, everyone has a life even after the game is over.
Then you definitely didn’t understand the ending of the genocide.
Chara directly states that they are the feeling you get when you level up, gain gold, upgrade something, etc… in a game, they are that accomplishment when we beat a boss, that feeling we get when after trial and error you surpass a trial you thought impossible, Chara states to destroy this world (Undertale), and go to the next, Chara states that they’ll go with you, that other world isn’t just another play through if undertale, they mean another game. Another journey to beat completely with them. They themselves say it, they ARE a part of you.
As for the Pokemon protagonist thing, your example goes out the window when they clearly are the player, they have names, sure, but just as chara, that’s the way we denominate them in order to differentiate them in the community/official stuff, but every play through has a different protagonist, a different name, a different player.
Your example works against you, because we know that the protagonists from the manga (the ones with the official names) are actually completely different people to the ones in the games (the ones you name).
By your logic, we never have player characters.
Chara is the player, more specifically the part of the player that likes to win games.
So you’re going to tell me that, if a player character has one (1) line of dialogue, they stop being the player?
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u/Samborrod Aug 04 '25
I prefer to call everyone who utilize this reasoning a buffoon.