Meh, i draw....

I just wanted to clear up some misconceptions about 2019 being the last year that Undertale could have taken place and that anyone could fall down.

Here we have the opening cutscene, it says 201X. But this isn’t when the events of the game occur.

In the next scene we see a fallen human, but this is not Frisk, this is Chara, the first fallen child. Notice there are no Golden flowers yet to break their fall.

This scene is also continued later during the Asriel fight, and it shows that the human that fell in 201X during the opening cutscene was in fact Chara, not Frisk.

Furthermore, during the Pacifist Route, in New Home there is an OLD calendar from the END of 201X with a date circled on it.

During the Genocide Route when Chara’s personality begins commenting on things, they say “The date I came here.” when you check this calendar. Remember the Dreemurrs lived in the ruins for a time before moving to New Home, and while this date could reference that move, regardless, we can confidently say that Chara fell into the Underground sometime in 201X.

Now here’s the important part:

The dates that the other fallen children and Frisk fell are never explicitly stated in game, but there are some hints as to how long it’s been since Chara died.

After the Asriel fight, he says Chara has been gone for a “long time”.

While sans is talking about practicing knock-knock jokes with Toriel from behind the door, he offhandedly says that it seems like his joke was the best she’s heard in a “hundred years”, and we know how perceptive sans is. Remember, Toriel has been in exile since Chara and Asriel passed and most monsters around now have never seen her.

So in Summary,

Chara fell in 201X, but the other fallen children and the actual events of Undertale as Frisk happen an unknown amount of time after that date, and could easily go into 20XX (or even 21XX if sans remark is anything to go by).

I’m very tired and drew a small thing based on somethin my sis made up while we were talking about how Flowey gives hugs

Jus wraps a lil vine around your finger

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?

maybe call for help.

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’.

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15