Ask Drunk Chara
is a fanmade ask-blog/webcomic based on Undertale. It takes place several years after the True Pacifist ending, with Frisk, Chara, and Asriel (the latter two having been revived in the intervening time) now being young adults.
The story mainly focuses on Chara, who (as you would expect) has garnered a love of alcoholic beverages. Chara's antics act as natural fodder for humor, except when they don't. Also featured is Chara's crush on Frisk, Asriel Streemurr, Core Frisk, and more.
There are several dubs across YouTube, but the most popular (not to mention officially sanctioned) is by Starbot Dubs.
Warning: Unmarked Undertale Spoilers below.
Provides examples of:
- Alcohol Hic: Happens a few times, usually when Chara is very drunk.
- The Alcoholic: There's not really anything to say here.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: A common result of the blog's very premise. According to a flashback, Frisk was susceptible to this as well (despite only having two shots).
- Deconstructed. After Chara's drunken antics land them in an alternate universe, ultimately causing them to get possessed by an evil alternate version of themself, of course Toriel and Sans would start being far more protective of them and make Grillby cut them off. But on the flip side of the trope, Chara's alcoholism still isn't helped, so they just sneak around them to seek alcohol from other sources.
- All Just a Dream: The apparent finale of the brief paper-based Art Shift, though Asriel keeping the beard drawn on him indicates otherwise.
- Alternate Self:
- Frisk and CORE!Frisk.
- The Ask Frisk and Company crossover features Drunk!Chara encountering AFAC!Chara, with horrifying results.
- Art Shift: While both Chara and Frisk were in Ask Frisk and Company, leaving Asriel alone to run things, a magic anon temporarily made the comic be drawn on paper.
- The Atoner: One of the main reasons Chara drinks — he recognizes his sins, regrets them, and has moved on. Or rather is trying to, with mixed results.
- Better as Friends: Frisk's decision after Chara's Kissing Under the Influence moment. At least for the time being.
- Big Brother Instinct: Asriel is protective of Chara and tries to shield them from the harsher askers.
- Bittersweet Ending: Chara is killed saving Frisk's life and Frisk resets the timeline by at least ten years to just before Chara was resurrected, erasing everything everyone had experienced in that time. Fortunately Sans, being aware of the resets, for once isn't angry with Frisk for resetting, and understands why they did it, and it's implied that things will be pretty much the same for everyone post-reset, but unfortunately this includes Chara's alcoholism and depression. Sans also asks Frisk to one day tell Chara about what happened. However, Core Frisk then appears and shows the readers in a Distant Finale that Chara and Frisk do Earn Their Happy Ending, and are shown getting married.
- Booze Flamethrower: Happens to poor Grillby once or twice.
- Brick Joke: One asker submitted a bottle of alcohol with Frisk's name on it, saying it was "Chara's favorite." Some time later, during a flashback to Frisk's only time drunk, the specific brand MK picked out for them had their name as a brand. Frisk was confused both times.
- Butt-Monkey:
- As usual, poor Burgerpants cannot catch a break. He appears exactly once during a flashback, just long enough to show Chara accidentally breaking his leg.
- Underfell!Sans in spades. He gets zero respect from the askers (who gleefully mock his over the top evil persona), he loses the fight to Frisk, and his “gold tooth” is revealed to be a candy-corn, all in rapid succession.
- Canon Immigrant: Core Frisk, originally created by this individual.
- Can't Hold His Liquor:
- Frisk gets drunk hilariously quickly. Chara comments this is to be expected because they hardly ever drink.
- Chara was like this in the past, getting very tipsy after drinking one beer at Alphys and Undyne’s wedding.
- Cerebus Rollercoaster: The story likes to swap between funny alcoholic antics and angst. A general rule of thumb is that if the story is exploring Chara's reasons for drinking, it's going for angst.
- Chickification: Toriel. Contrary to how she appears in the game, here she is prone to weeping, crying out “My child!” and even fainting away and needing Sans to catch her when things get really bad. It’s a far cry from her canonical, fearsome Mama Bear self.
- Creator Provincialism: Some early blogs explicitly state the story — and for that matter, the source material itself — takes place in Argentina. Incidentally, Hawker is Argentine.
- Crossover:
- Did one with Ask Frisk and Company, in which Drunk Chara (literally) stumbles into the AFAC universe.
- Frisk briefly visits Underfell while searching for Chara during the above.
- Death Glare: Asriel gives one to the askers after several send Chara cruel messages while others encourage them to start drinking again.
- Descent into Addiction: Chara hovers between a heavy drinker and a textbook alcoholic at the beginning of the comic. It doesn’t take long for them to fall into true addiction.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Chara gets distracted by shirtless Frisk while possessed by AFAC!Chara. It causes the shared mindscape to turn pink and sparkly, much to AFAC!Chara's annoyance.
- Does Not Like Spam: Contributing to the growing Undertale meme, Drunk Chara is yet another Chara who dislikes white chocolate with a passion.
- Drinking Contest: Chara challenges Sans to one of these. It looks like Sans has thrashed them, only for it to be revealed he’d cheated by drinking ketchup instead.
- Drunk Driver: In a brief flashback, Chara appears behind the wheel and obviously soused. Poor Toriel sees them and seems on the verge of a breakdown.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: At one point, one asker mistakes Chara for a woman.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In an early strip, Chara uses the “Creepy Face” to try and get Grillby to sell them more beer when he cuts them off. Though admittedly hilarious, it seems a pretty OOC thing to do looking back. This particular Chara hates being called a demon and is hugely tormented by their dark past, trying to distance themself from it as much as they can. note
- Everyone Can See It: Chara’s crush on Frisk is obvious to everyone (except Frisk, ironically).
- Foreshadowing: After rescuing Chara from the AFAC universe Frisk says that they would reset the timeline just to save them. Come the finale, after Chara dies saving Frisk, Frisk does just that, resetting the timeline back ten years to when Chara first got their body.
- Foul First Drink:
- Chara hated the taste of beer when they first drank it. Unfortunately, they enjoyed the effects a little too much.
- Frisk gags after drinking some of Chara’s beer.
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: Naturally, since this is an ask blog. Core!Frisk acts as an in-universe filter for the mail slot, which is how they join the cast proper.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Inverted, some of Chara's nosedives into depression are triggered by multiple askers judgmentally and self-righteously reminding them of their more depraved actions as both a child and during the Genocide route. Less severe are some of the posters who actually mail Chara exotic alcoholic brands.
- The Gadfly: A few of the askers step into this category with their actions, from sending Chara a lot of alcohol (to the point where all gifts ended up being rerouted elsewhere), to delivering harsh lectures in order to get Chara to start drinking (and presumably get into drunken hijinks as a result).
- Good Counterpart: Chara is basically this to AFAC!Chara. He’s what they might have been if their Heel Realization had fully sunken in. Askers even point out that for all their issues and regret over their past actions (the reason why they drink so heavily), they're a lot happier living with their friends and family than the Chara who is plotting to destroy the world.
- Hostile Show Takeover: After getting drunk himself, Flowey hijacks the blog both in and out of universe. (Even the URL was changed briefly, though changed back quickly to prevent it from being hijacked...and then altered again, with another blog created to keep the original URL safe.)
- I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!: Non-violent example. Chara tries using their “creepy face” to get Grillby to keep serving them drinks after he cuts them off. It doesn’t work.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: When Asriel is debating what to do with his new beard, one ask suggests he get a "GOAT-ee." Naturally, this is immediately blamed on Sans.
- Kissing Under the Influence: Chara confessed their feelings to Frisk and kissed them while drunk. Then immediately passed out.
- Liquid Courage: After the askers challenge them to a drinking game, a completely plastered Chara confesses their feelings to Frisk and kisses them. Something Chara flat refused to do while (mostly) sober.
- Mood Whiplash: Asriel reverting to Flowey is suitably shocking and frightening at first...then it turns out that this happens regularly and he acts like it's nothing more than an inconvenience.
- My God, What Have I Done?: A major theme of the blog is Chara’s crippling guilt over what they did in the Genocide Run. It’s why they started drinking in the first place: to try and block out the pain.
- My Greatest Failure: Frisk is determined to help Chara get better, not just because they care for them so much, but also because they blame themselves for Chara’s problems. Frisk feels this way because it was them who started the Genocide Run, killing out of curiosity. They regretted it very quickly but the murders had “corrupted” Chara, who then forced them to carry on. Being in control during most of the killing was what left Chara so broken and guilty.
- Naked on Revival: When Asriel regenerates from Flowey, he has no clothes.
- No Antagonist:
- Not in their own universe, at least. As one anonymous asker puts it, "Chara's crippling depression/alcoholism is the villain".
- Gets subverted later on by AFAC!Chara, whose actions only occurred on their own native comic outside this one, and the briefly appearing Underfell Sans, who's Laughably Evil at best.
- Not in their own universe, at least. As one anonymous asker puts it, "Chara's crippling depression/alcoholism is the villain
- Oblivious to Love: Frisk is totally in the dark about Chara’s crush on them. Until the askers tell them bluntly, closely followed by Chara drunkenly kissing them.
- Off the Wagon: Continuing with the theme of Chara’s addiction being portrayed realistically, their recovery hits several setbacks where they crack and drink again.
- The Omniscient: Core!Frisk, a Frisk from one universe where attempting to reset at the same time they fell into the CORE resulted in their soul getting scattered across time and space, making them omnipresent. They decided to use this power to start a "Dumb Ask Disposal Service," which is how they were introduced to Ask Drunk Chara.
- Other Me Annoys Me: AFAC!Chara does not get along with any alternate Charas (Charae?) and ADC!Chara is no exception. This is mostly because of AFAC!Chara's serious issues with the concept of redemption clashing with ADC!Chara's status as The Atoner.
- Psychological Projection: When AFAC!Chara meets this blog’s Chara, they immediately accuse their counterpart of trying to run away from their problems. Chara is actually The Atoner who is trying to make up for his actions by being a better person than he was during the Genocide Run, while AFAC!Chara is trying to destroy the world largely because they don't want to confront the fact that their Genocide Run was entirely their own fault (and can't be blamed on humanity being inherently evil or something else like that). When askers point this fact out, AFAC!Chara has a Villainous Breakdown, which culminates in a Despair Event Horizon.
- Pungeon Master: Sans, naturally. The askers get in a few good ones too.
- Recovered Addict: It’s an uphill struggle, but eventually Chara decides to give up drinking. The flash forward to the Distant Finale shows that, happily, it seems to have stuck.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Played for Laughs regarding the Art Shift mentioned above. The reason? Hawker's computer was fried, preventing her from making any more digital art until she could buy a new one. The anon made the shift to hand-drawn style so as to keep the comic going in the meantime.
- Relationship Upgrade: Two happen literally back to back: Frisk and Chara get together, and Sans and Toriel announce their wedding.
- Self-Harm: Apparently something Chara was susceptible to in the past. In many cases, they have visible cutting scars on their arms whenever their sleeves are rolled up.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Aside from all the resets in the main game, ADC has two major examples:
- Frisk resetting just before the end of a Genocide Run and going back to do a True Pacifist one instead.
- Just before the blog ends, Chara is stabbed while protecting Frisk. Frisk takes back their full soul and resets all the way back to when Chara first got their body in order to save them.
- Shipper on Deck: The askers ship Frisk/Chara hard. So much so that some of the dubs give up reading out all the “Confess! Kiss!” etc. messages one at a time because it would simply take too long.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Asriel after reverting to Flowey.
- Wham Shot: After Chara gets attacked by some thugs from the bar they were at, Asriel shows up, gets punched...and starts to melt. The very next update ends with him reverting to Flowey.
- Will They or Won't They?: From the beginning it’s obvious Chara is majorly crushing on Frisk. Later on, they do become a couple.
