*But it wasn't funny.

Chara Week Day 3: Laughter

[Image Description: An Undertale comic that takes place in the True Lab. Panel 1: Frisk and Chara stand side-by-side, looking at something off-screen to the right. Frisk looks scared and is hugging themself while holding a stick. Chara, a ghost, is translucent and has a similar look of distress on their face. Panel 2: The amalgamate that resembles Snowdrake stands at the opposite end of the room, saying "Sn...o...wy..." Panel 3: A close up of Frisk's face. There are tears in their eyes. They hold their stick in front of themself as they open their mouth to speak, but Chara cuts them off with a laugh from off-screen. Panel 4: Chara holds a hand up to their face, smiling with their eyebrows knit together. They say, "...hehe. You laugh, and keep laughing." Panel 5: Chara is laughing in the foreground, hovering with their knees curled up to their chest and their arms wrapped around themself. They say, "It's SO funny, you can't stop." Frisk is in the background glancing sideways at them with concern. Panel 6: A closeup of Chara's face on a black background. They're laughing even harder and covering their eyes with their hand as tears run down their face. They say, "Tears run down your face." Panel 7: Chara looks to the side at Frisk, hand still covering one side of their face and still smiling, but their laughter dies out. They say, "... What?" Panel 8: Chara floats on a black background, alone, beside Frisk's red soul. They ask, "You didn't do that?" /End ID]

they've been sleeping on the ground for a week - chara week, day 1: family

chara week day 5: ghost

hello! i’m feeling well enough to continue my chara week project! i had fun experimenting with lineless art ( ๑^◡^๑)

close-ups and speedpaint under the cut

[ID: A messy digital drawing. Someone (presumably Frisk) is holding the Heart Locket in front of Flowey, such that it obscures his face. Sunlight strikes the scene. In the background, Chara stands and watches. End ID.]

Chara Week: Day two. Gold.

Saw the “Chara Week” art week idea proposed a couple weeks ago and Chara Dreemurr is the only character that my executive dysfunction ridden brain can make the exception of allowing me to draw fanart of, so I decided to seize the opportunity.

I was going to try at some rendering stuff but just getting this flat-color drawing alone done took me like 3 and a half hours so I decided to call it there. But I think I did at least okay for the first finished digital art I’ve done in like, a year.

(Oh, the prompt for day 1 is “Family” in case you couldn’t tell.)

HAPPY CHARA WEEK! I didn't get to participate and I missed it :-( BUT, I drew this for it anyway ^_^ everyone who did participate, did super well!!! I loved the art, good job guys!!! :-))))

chara week day 5: ghost

I like narra chara so I wanted to draw 'em together

Day 1 — Family

I know I’m late but I really wanted to participate in Chara Week so here’s some goat fam snuggles

Chara week day 2 - Gold I figured the judgement hallway might be a good fit for the prompt so here's a scene of Chara and Asriel playing hide and seek.

Day 2: Gold

Chara Week Day 5: Ghost

Every time I see that machine in the True Lab, I wonder if it could possibly be Chara's soul in there? Probably unlikely, but not impossible... It's interesting to think about what the implications of that would be.

A version with no text and then a version with just the machine, because I think it looks pretty cool and ominous alone as well.....

Yes.

Chara week day 1 : family

chara week day 4: flowers

(click for better quality)

[ID: A digital drawing of the Ruins. Napstablook's back is at the foreground, a stereotypical ghost silhouette. Frisk is standing in the background, clutching their stick and leaning towards Chara's ghost, who is leaning towards them and has their hands on Frisk's shoulders. They're both looking at Napstablook. End ID.]

Chara Week. Day Five: Ghost.

"Sad Cat Poem" by Spencer Madsen

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.