well i wonât let this get too long but i wanted to take a moment to talk about one of my favourite âfriendshipsâ in the game. itâs⌠not really a friendship i guess lol since itâs entirely one-sided, but either way i want to talk about chara and undyne.Â
just as floweyâs favourite character is papyrus, and assuming narrachara is true (and i mean, come on), charaâs favourite character is definitely undyne. and let me tell you, as far as iâm concerned they are a BIG fan.
the amount of respect chara has for undyne over other characters really jumps out during undyneâs boss fights. while chara lightly prods fun at most monsters in the game in their flavour text, undyne is one of the few characters they never disrespect. âundyne points heroically towards the sky.â âundyne suplexes a large boulder, just because she can.â âthe heroine that NEVER gives up.â given these lines and all the others (and chara has a LOT of lines for undyne) it really sounds like chara finds undyne, to use the technical phrase, EXTREMELY cool.Â
on a much darker but still significant note, if undyne is killed in a neutral route, chara eventually trails off and goes completely silent as she melts:
this is the only instance where chara does this in a fight not involving one of the boss monsters. and when the narratorâs at a loss for words, thatâs a pretty big deal.
undyne isnât even disrespected in the no mercy route, a route where toriel isnât worth talking to, papyrus is forgettable, sans is the easiest enemy, etc, according to the flavour text. but undyne? even in the route where the objective is to kill everyone without caring for them, even after all the playerâs influence⌠chara still refers to undyne as the heroine.
while there are other characters, like i said, who get special treatment in the narration like toriel, asriel, etc, thereâs also the fact that undyne and chara, even with what little we know of charaâs true self, are similar in a lot of ways.
theyâre both very determined people, for starters; when they have a plan or goal they stick to it no matter what. additionally, undyne is someone who fiercely loves monsterkind and would do anything for them. sheâs not only kind to monsters in need (like alphys, shyren, and papyrus) but she will also defend them no matter what the personal cost to her (like monster kid). and i think chara, as someone who also loves monsterkind and is always presenting frisk with actions and hints to end battles with monsters peacefully, and who was willing to give up their own soul so the monsters could go free, would admire that so much.Â
so yeah!! maybe iâm reading into things too much, but to me chara is a big undyne fan. and if they had the chance to meet somehow, i think they would get along really well.Â