buttercup_eater | Influencing Fanworks

Fanworks that, while not necessarily canon to my interpretation of Chara, influence the way I write and see them and might be worth taking a look at if you want to understand them. Or if you're just looking for good fanworks.

Since Chara is, in and of themselves, pretty much a giant walking spoiler for Undertale, consider this a warning that none of these are spoiler free. I'll also try to warn for any works that are pretty trigger-y but since Chara is a giant bundle of Issues in general most of these are going to most likely at least hint at it.

Fanart

"Are you afraid of me?"
"Boy or Girl?"
"But- but then why-"
But I believe we're the enemy.
"But remember what I said long ago." (tw: blood)
"Come on, quit tricking me!" (tw: blood, child death implied)
determination. (tw: blood, child death)
"Don't you have anything better to do?"
"Golly! What a miserable three days!" (tw: suicide, illness.)
"How does it feel?"
He's even ready to- (tw: suicide) (not in fact an influence on the Soft Reset thread, but a neat coincidence.)
"Hey C̷̡h́͠҉̸̧a͟͡r̸͟͏́ą̴̛̛̕, you alright?" (tw: disassociation, body horror maybe)
"I am terrified."
"I had always wanted to believe that you were a good child." (tw: child death)
"I'll go wake them up."
"I'm thinking."
"In truth, we were rarely happy..." (tw: child death, abuse- also gendered Chara.)
"Is this all what it comes down to?"
"It's just easier this way."
"It's our first ever family portrait!"
"It would be nice for us to be together forever."
"I was surprised at her big hand." (tw: implied child abuse.)
"...I wish you could just..."
"Like seeing a shooting star, you know?"
Loneliness.
"Love, hope, compassion..."
Maybe there's something more to them than power.
"never again."
no butts
"No hard feelings... about back then... right?"
"Pull the trigger, Asriel." (tw: blood that is actually ketchup?)
Some things take a few tries to get right.
"Such filthy creatures."
"Such would be a terrible fate, don't you think?" (tw: suicide)
"SUCK IT"
"That's what sets you apart..." (tw: blood)
"The human became very ill."
"They must have broken your fall."
This Pie is Like Your Life.
"Was this what your BAD TIME was supposed to look like?"
"What do you wanna be when you grow up?" (tw: suicide?)
"Why are you even alive?" (tw: blood, self harm.)
"Wow! You are superfast at being wrong." (tw: blood, child death)
"You look so nice!" (tw: child abuse)
"You're just prolonging the inevitable."

Meta

Chara and Their General Relationships With Others - (tw: abuse, suicide) "if they’re a little nightmare and make people upset and angry on purpose, at least they have control over the situation and get to bypass that vulnerability they’ve come to recognise as the calm before the storm."
Chara's Presence In Undertale. - "Only one person with you could possibly have heard them."
Megalovania and Chara/Odio: A Post About Undertale And Live A Live Parallels. - "To be honest, this connection, shapes the way I think of Chara in general." (a.k.a. the essay that explains why Rosie headcanons Oersted as Chara's Persona in crossover stuff.)
On Chara and RPG Morality - (tw: suicide, child death) "chara is trying to do the right thing, where “right” and “wrong” are extremely rigid, inflexible concepts. the humans are wrong, therefore, killing them will make it right. the monsters are right, the monsters are the Good Guys, so freeing them is also right, no matter the cost."
Why Would You Ever Climb A Mountain Like That? - Depression, Suicide, and Surviving In Undertale. - (tw: mental illness, suicide, death.) "There’s more than a few pictures we can put together with these pieces, but none of them are very optimistic ones."
You know how Flowey's favorite "character" is Papyrus? - "And you can learn a lot about their personalities from their “favorites,” because honestly, who doesn’t have a fav that we see ourselves in?"
you said you could write a tag essay about Chara, pls do so. - (tw: suicide, abuse, child death, self-hatred) "here’s the short of it: chara doesn’t think any other part of undertale is their story."