10th of Fabruary - The Contact /I’m still in the past, but I hope I will check it tomorrow/
A scetch today, ‘cause I’m not so STRONG to make a big art of this xD It will take a day I guess. Maybe later…
So, the Contact. The key moment of a Choicetale. And a great amount of text xD
It should be said that there are no relationships we used to know in the Choicetale. Chara had a childhood trauma, so she was not interested in a human meaning of love /actually in the Choicetale she could even kill if someone would try to talk with her about it/. Talking about monsters, their relations in the Choicetale are completely different - as long as they are made of magic, their relations are based on energy and magic sharing. Everything - even children’s birth, - is explained with this phenomenon.
Contact literally is a process of magic/energy sharing through the skin contact. It is normal for parents and children or for lovers - in other words, for monsters who are very close to each other. Friends can use it in a very light form, but it’s not very common.
As Chara discovered, human also can be involved in the Contact. Feeling of magic can be described as a complete safety feeling, warm and calm. It is so disarmingly innocent and pure that you should have a great strength of will to abandon it. Actually, Chara never had enough strength to break the Contact by herself, because it was the only way for her to feel safe, loved and serene.
In the Choicetale Asriel used Contact for the first time when he and Chara was in the age of 11, trying to save his friend from awful terrible nightmares she saw every night. Actually, young prince didn’t really realise what he was doing, he just repeated the action Toriel used to cheer him up (mother and child, very close relation). Anyway, it helped, and Chara felt herself much better. By the age of seventeen the contact between her and Asriel was habitual and even the information about ‘what exactly contact is’ didn’t change anything.
Also, young friends discovered that when they was in contact, Chara could use fire magic of Asriel, and share her HP with him. It was funny and influence on Chara in a very good way. In the end of her life she already wasn’t such violent and rude as when she was a child. Moreover, the feeling of a complete trust and love healed her soul, so she could raise fallen children and not kill them.