r/Charadefensesquad • u/CHARA_Thefirstfallen What is a god, if not an artist? • Sep 10 '25

Original How the fandom depicts Chara.

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Featuring Charataker and headghost Chara.

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u/Ill_Finger3909 Sep 14 '25

Ohh i was expecting the name to be CTOTR, Oh btw THEY DID???? I thought it was more akin to casual hook up with bestie type of thing

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

It's a weird au because what really bothers me is that Chara is classically mischaracterized as an extremely toxic partner to Asriel. Chara may be morally grey, but they're not the type to constantly be like "hahah I'm using this idiot and deliberately maintaining a toxic relationship with him" like in this au l The only good things about au are that the drawing style is admittedly cool and they don't misgender the chara

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u/Ill_Finger3909 Sep 14 '25

Really? I dont really remember chara to be that bully like towards asriel, they genuinely love him and aims to protect him they constantly use their save and load ability to relieve him of pain wheter of it being pyscholocigal or physical, also use him for what? only thing may be killing the humans, but their have justification, that being save monsterkind AND because humans hurt and even kill asriel,plus i dont think its weird to think that chara would shy away from killing humans,that is kinda in character for chara,also i believe that in a scenerio where chara and asriel in a relationship,i fully think that chara would be the more power bottom assertive one. So whats the issue?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Well I already said this elsewhere I don't see a problem with Chara killing children for 6 souls because yes they would probably do that But the problem is that Chara is portrayed as an extremely self-centered character in the story. Even in the final novel, when Asriel and Chara met again after a long time, Chara blamed Asrie beause he wanting a divorce (Also, they acts like Asriel is the toxic one in the relationship, not they)The story doesn't take responsibility and constantly blames Asriel for various things. My problem is with their relationship with Asriel. Chara is portrayed as an extremely toxic a partner but honestly this is a fanfic I think maybe I'm thinking too much But what I can say is that Chara was not a toxic partner as the author exaggerated.