Doesn't Chara specifically say that you, the player, not only awoke them with your crazy violence, but actually made them worse than they were when they were alive? Chara was always a bit of a shithead morally speaking, but was able to appreciate a family life and so on. With the players help, they possess Frisk and then get so twisted that they end the world.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?This is where a time line would come in handy. But I'm pretty certain that yeah Chara only went full demon after he died. I always like to think that Chara had a really crappy life in the human world, and thus hated humans but cared about the Monsters.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850From my reading of the story, it seems to me Chara killed themselves with the assumption that Asriel would merge his soul with them and create Flowey. This was presumably so they could gain power from the souls of the monsters and other fallen humans to attack the humans on the surface, since there's multiple mentions in the story about how much they, for whatever reason, hate humanity.
I don't know if this is just a crazy fan theory no one else shares but I've always assumed this is roughly how other people understand Chara and the main reason they believe them to be such a dick. The few details we're given about them just make them seem more sinister than a simple precocious kid, at least to me.
edited 31st Dec '15 12:08:31 AM by HilarityEnsues
Writing up my first adventure for Edge of the Empire. It's fun.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

actually lemme spoiler undertale rant real quick
why does everybody portray the fallen child/chara as an inhuman monstrous demon who was always a genocidal monster
yeah the video tapes show us that chara wasn't exactly a level-headed kid but you have to remember chara is "you", and by going genocide route you give "you" so much power that he stops being "you
and since you just made "you" literally slaughter an entire underground nation he's not exactly going to be all sweet and kind