Poor Chris... He made a mistake when he was 14, but I can understand everyone's anger at how he just *stayed* out of Hope and Frisk's lives, even after he'd snapped at his parents... Still, though, if I were Hope, I'd have forgiven him by now. There's no point in staying mad and grouchy at someone that is genuinely wanting to apologize and help, even if it's years late. Also he's been verbally bludgeoned by Sans and Deacon AND Hope now, so I mean. I think we're good, lmao.
Well he only stood up to his parents basically after she’d gone missing and was in the Underground, so he didn’t really have a chance after that point to try and get back in Hope’s life, unless he was willing to cross the Line as soon as it opened. Which wouldn’t have meant very much for all the years before that (since it would have only been a few months earlier than it is right now).
But I don’t think that Hope was very grouchy at the end of this chapter? If anything, she was the most understanding by the end of it out of all of them (with Sans and Deacon being a lot angrier in general for their own reasons).
Also this like... happened in the space of like, two hours? Maybe three? She hasn’t had a huge amount of time to process. But I don’t think she gave the impression of holding a grudge, personally.