I don’t talk abt this hc as much as I think abt it, because at this point my brain considers it canon and assumes everyone knows, but like...
this is a screenshot of after Flowey circles your heart, after previously damaging you to 1 HP. toriel is... far away.
and something’s missing from this screen, a name... ‘Chara’
their name doesn’t appear until after this fight. no menu or anything.
there’s a big theme of calling for help in UT... and presumably, someone coming. so when faced with a terrifying flower that hurt them, what would frisk, a child, do?
and maybe, someone would come.
I’ve always assumed this is when Chara attaches to frisk. they hear them call for help, so they come. they’re the one who makes Flowey’s attack disappear. they’re the one who heals Frisk. we all know Toriel is nowhere near them, after all.
the question is, is this the only time Chara can do something like this? or do they choose not to?
Chara does seem to have rules against playing god, after all. the power they were fighting to stop... being their own power.
there’s a theory that Chara can, in fact, take control of frisk— and does so when you choose to run away. the flavour text switches to first person. maybe they’re just faster than Frisk.
which means that regardless of what Chara can do, they might choose not to if it inferes with other people’s lives.
...with another exception.
in the Flowey boss fight in the neutral ending, there’s a callback to your first meeting. he damages you to 1 HP and then circles your SOUL.
...the pellets disappear again. and you’re healed.
while Flowey is wondering what happened, the SOULs rebel against him. we’re left to assume that they did this, but...
...maybe it wasn’t quite who we assumed. after all, moments before this Frisk calls for help.
and Flowey inserts in, ‘But nobody came’.
it’s interesting, because Chara isn’t the one who says no one came. they do in the bad run, but not here... maybe they know it isn’t true.
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