a reference sheet for chara! as usual, this is just for those who’d like to draw/describe/cosplay chara as accurate to canon as possible. however, do not let this hinder your creativity – you’re free to pick and choose what to use from this!
chara has medium length hair that stops above their shoulder.
they have blunt bangs (aka: full fringe).
the bangs of the sprite look less full than the bangs of the sepia art, but that’s probably because the sprite would look awful any other way (here’s a terrifying example)
their cheeks are rounder than frisk’s.
they wear a long-sleeved crew neck shirt .
the shirt has only one stripe.
the stripe only goes across the torso, not across the sleeves.
in the sepia artwork, asriel’s shirt matches chara’s and has only one stripe.
chara’s bottom apparel is a bit hard to decipher. the sprite art appears to be pants (or shorts) with matching shoes, but the sepia art is even more vague. the only thing clear is that they are covered waist to foot in the same color.
chara appears shorter than asriel in the sepia art – even hunched over, asriel is still taller. (we took apart the sepia artwork to estimate the precise height difference.)
asriel’s overworld sprite is actually shorter than chara’s, but measurements based on overworld sprites have proven unreliable.
in the sepia art, chara seems to have a slimmer build than asriel
chara’s jumpscare sprites are called “spr_truechara_laugh_0/1/2″ – chara is laughing during the jumpscare.
their mouth in the jumpscare is really big, but unlike the eyes, does not seem to be melting.
chara’s hair and pants appear to be the same colour in their sprite.
however, the sepia art usually marks the pants as being darker than their hair.
chara’s eyes are normally brown, except during the soulless pacifist ending, where their eyes become red (possibly frisk’s eye colour?).
but the brown could just be a stand-in, just like how toriel’s overworld sprites has black eyes, while she’s seen with reddish brown eyes in battle.
their shirt’s stripe is the same colour as their skin (#ffe9b0)
chara’s jumpscare eyes are not actually black, but the regular colour of their eyes, brown (and, in what looks like a potential colouring mistake, also the colour of their hair).
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