Undertale: Chara's Origin/Transcript

Chara came back from school that evening and proceeded to go to his room when his abusive and drunk mother accused him of doing something. Again.

Chara’s Mother: Chara, where have you been this late?

Chara: I went to school… a-a-and there was homework so I-I-I was…

Chara’s Mother threw a beer bottle towards Chara and a piece hit his forehead.

Chara’s Mother: Go to your room! I don’t want to see your face ever again! Tomorrow you have to be at school.

Chara was traumatized by what his mother did to him but he had no choice but to go up to his room.

Chara: Mum, please, I didn’t mean to come home late… I’m sorry...

He fixed his music box and then kept it in his pocket waiting for another day to come.

Chara: I’m sorry...

The next day, Chara immediately went to school while his mum went out drinking. He doesn’t have any friends in school so he’s kinda lonely. He couldn’t wait for the next class.

Teacher: Alright everyone! Come now, children. It’s time for a story. An old tale of Humans… and monsters.

Song: Once Upon A Time by Izzy Orchestrals

Teacher: #This story #Ends sadly #Humans scared #Monsters not spared #Monsters banished #Monsters punished #Mountain’s cursed #No one returns#

Chara: #I don’t want to live in a world of humans! #I want to disappear as the legends say #I don’t want to live in a world without love #I will be gone #No one would care #Oh well…#

Bully: #Look at little Chara #Oops he fell down #Now he won’t come back up #Look at little Chara #Now he’s gone #Down the mountain, he did fall#

Chorus: #Look a little human #Will they free us? #Will they save us all?#

Chara woke up in the underground. He felt like he is dead.

Chara: Huh? Where am I…?

Then a faint voice of a boy is heard.

Asriel: It sounds like it came from over there!

Chara: I… I…

Song: Lost Hope by Izzy Orchestrals

Chara: #I’ve found a place #Where have I gone? #Have found something strange #A new dawn? #Left the people’s world #Now I’m free #I can’t see... #… a future for me #Here he stands #An angel? #Where am I…? #Did I die?#

Asriel: Oh! You’ve fallen down, haven’t you? Um… are you okay? Here. Let me help you up. What’s your name?

Chara: Ch- Chara.

Asriel: Chara, huh? That’s a nice name! My name is Asriel!

Chara: Am- am I dead?

Asriel: Nope! You’re in the underground!

Chara: The underground? I… don’t underst-

Chara then felt a sharp pain as Asriel tried to help him.

Asriel: Oh! You’re hurt! I can help you! Well… my parents can. I can take you to them.

Chara: Wh- what?

Asriel: Here! I’ll help you walk… you’ll be okay.

Song: Are You Okay? by Izzy Orchestrals and Josh Kynaston

Asriel: #Oh, Chara, you’ve fallen down #It’s okay, don’t you frown #I’ll help you, be by your side #Throughout the underground #Come with me, safe you will be #Let’s see my family #They’ll help you be good as new #Healthy you soon will be! #Why’d you fallen here? #Didn’t ya hear? #The legends, you disappear #Doesn’t matter now, it’s okay #I guess here you will stay!#

Chara: #Asriel where are we now? #I’m scared, yet I trust you somehow #You’re being quite nice to me #Is this really where I’m meant to be?#

Asriel: #Oh, Chara, just hold on! #You’ll be safe, see a new dawn #Come on, Chara, let’s go home #Where you won’t be alone#

Asriel helped Chara when entering his home. Toriel noticed Chara and sat him on a couch to heal him.

Toriel: It’s alright my child, you’re safe at home.

Song: Home by Adriana Figueroa

Toriel: #Come, my child, #Stay with me #I'll protect you and your dreams #Rest my child #Neath the tree #Like it's branches reach for me #So let me keep you safe and warm here in my arms #Think of the life that we could live, the joy that it could give #Even if we're worlds apart, stay in my heart #Someday when you have a choice to make, I hope you'll think of me #Think of me #Think of me#

Toriel put Chara in bed. She kissed him and said goodnight. Then Chara woke up thinking about his real mother.

Chara: #Maybe we'll #Meet again #And I'll have made many friends #But if you #Find I've strayed #I'll forgive you anyway #So I’ll stay determined as I grow, love as I go #I’ll think of the kindness that they've shared I’ll cherish those who care #Even when we're worlds apart, stay in my heart #Someday I'll have a choice to make, I hope that I'll be good #I’ll be good #I’ll be good…#

Chara went to bed. The next day, Asriel invited Chara over to his dad’s speech.

Chara: Asriel, where are we going?

Asriel: We are going to give a speech in front of the monsters. Don’t worry, everyone is super nice.

They went up as Asgore gave his speech to the monsters.

Asgore: Ladies and gentlemen, all monsters of the underground, may I present to you, my adoptive son, Chara Dreemurr. My eldest son, Asriel founded him in the ruins after falling down and now, he saved him. Now, he will save everyone.

The monsters cheered but all of a sudden, Chara felt terrified. He tugged into Toriel’s robe which worried her.

Toriel: Chara, what’s the matter, darling?

Chara: I… I… I…

Toriel: It’s alright Chara, it’s alright.

Chara: I dunno.

After the speech, Asriel and Chara were going to bed.

Asriel: Chara, it seems like you were acting off during dad’s speech. What happened?

Chara: I dunno. It’s just that, I haven’t felt loved throughout my life before. Really. My mum keeps abusing me, I haven’t had a dad in my life and I was always bullied.

Asriel: Sorry Chara. I promise that my parents and I will look after you.

Chara: Really?

Asriel: Yes. Good night.

Chara: Good night.

Chara and Asriel went to sleep.

The next day, Chara and Asriel went to the fields to play. They were having fun.

Asriel: Are you ready Chara?

Chara: I’m ready.

Asriel: Okay, Chara, it’s on!

Chara: Alright then, here we go... (jumps on a rock with wooden sword and shield) All humans in the surface have no fear, It is I; Chara is now back here! With my good friend who helped me take care of me...

Asriel: (jumps on s rock with him as he also got with wooden sword and shield) Asriel! I'm the young prince of monsters with my father King Asgore Dreemurr and mother Toriel! We mean you all no harm, we're just harmless monsters, we want peace and harmony without war!

Chara: Oh you... (he grabs Asriel head and gives him a noogie) Come here!

Asriel: Chara! (laughing) Stop noogie-ing my hair!

Chara and Asriel fell on the soft ground with no injuries, when a small music box fell from Chara's pocket when Asriel noticed.

Asriel: Hey, what is that?

Chara: Oh, that's my own music box. I made this in the surface. I really wish that I could show this to mum and dad. But dad is out of the picture and mum, she kept abusing me.

Asriel: It's alright Chara, I know that your family is gone. But since when you fell in the underground and I meet you for the first time, I and my family will take care of you the best we can.

Chara: Thanks... so Asriel, do you want to listen to my music box?

Asriel: Will I? Sure!

Chara open the music box as it opened soft music labelled "Star", Chara is feeling happy and Asriel liked it.

Asriel: Wow... Chara, that sounds so beautiful.

Chara: (smiles) Yeah... so, soon when we free all the monsters then our world can change... Right?

Asriel: I don't know, but very soon. Oh dear, the camera is running out of batteries, I better turn it off and charge it to save.

After filming, Chara and Asriel continued playing. Several months later, Chara and Asriel grew close like they are brothers. They were in their room when Asriel made heart lockets.

Asriel: Chara, I made us heart lockets.

Chara: Really? Thanks, Asriel.

Asriel: You’re welcome.

Chara: Hey, I made something for our dad.

Asriel: Really? What is it?

Chara: It’s a sweater with the words, ‘Mr Dad Guy.’

Asriel: That’s cool.

Chara: I’ll give it to him.

Chara went out of his room and went up to his dad, Asgore.

Asgore: Oh, hey Chara. What are you doing here?

Chara: I am going to give you something.

Asgore: What is it?

Chara showed Asgore his hand-knitted sweater.

Chara: It’s a sweater, with Mr Dad Guy on it.

Asgore: Aww… thanks, Chara.

Chara: You’re welcome.

After that, Chara went out on the fields to look at the gold flowers. Asriel went out to find him.

Asriel: Chara? Where are you? (saw him and he is looking at the golden flowers) Oh there you are, what are you looking at?

Chara: Oh hey there Asriel, I'm watching my favourite flowers that I called; Chrysoslouloudis, not really an official name but it’s really interesting for me.

Asriel: I see, my father used to call them Gold flowers. So tell me, Chara, why did you like the... Chryso-something or even Gold flowers.

Chara: Well, since I was a young kid, my mum... my real mum is showed me the flower shop with so many old flowers and even knew that no-one has heard about. Until I saw the Chrysoslouloudis that the owner said it was one of the rarest flowers ever because it might be extinct, it looks very beautiful so I can save them in my home as the garden. When I saw that the Gold flowers are in the underground, so thank goodness the flowers were not extinct.

Asriel: That was really great, maybe you can show to the humans that the Something-loudis is not extinct.

Chara: Thanks Asriel, well If I’m going to see my only mum and dad I will give them my flowers because I'm gonna miss them. (cries)

Asriel: Chara, it’s okay, you can stay here with us.

Chara: (sniffles) Thanks.

Asriel: Since it is nice weather today, why don’t we sing a song on my new guitar?

Chara: Sure.

Asriel started strumming his guitar.

Song: Undertale Beta by Attica Kish

Chara: #Someone once #Said to me #It's bad karma #Go in peace #I'm so scared #That I'll be #Changed from me #When next we meet #There's a tale #No one minds #That goes #Once upon a time #Of our hope #And a dream #So long gone #There's no meaning#

Asriel: #'Twas a child #Born of man #Who fell down #Into our land #'Twas a son #Of our king #Who the child #Found beneath #Where they walked #Where they led, #Was left lost; #Was left unsaid #Yet, it feels #Like somehow #It's become #Familiar now#

Chara: #It is a story of a soft gold flowerbed #A story of somebody else's actions and regrets #Not quite finished yet, and yet near to the end #When just like me, the human child became someone's friend...#

Brad: #Then misfortune grew from the friend that we made #Who did what humans always do, who vanished and who changed #What will you do when it's your turn in the end? #Spare, talk, or hit and miss and find there are no more options left#

Chara: #It's a story bitter in the bittersweet #Tell me what tale you want to hear the next time that we meet#

Many months passed and Chara and Asriel were going to make a pie for their dad but they made a big mistake. They accidentally put buttercups in the pie. Once they gave the pie to Asgore, he started eating it but suddenly, he got sick. Chara laughed it off but Asriel didn’t, he felt bad. Once the 2 were in the field, they talked to each other about it.

Asriel: Dad must’ve been so sick, we should’ve put butter instead of buttercups.

Chara: Yeah, hey, which reminds me, we need to free all monsters. You need to take my soul and cross the barrier to take the other 6 souls.

Asriel: Are you sure Chara?

Chara: Yeah, but you have to kill me by making me sick by making me eat those buttercup flowers.

Asriel: I’m not sure Chara.

Chara: Please Asriel, it’s for the greater good.

Asriel: Okay.

Chara: You really are doubting me, aren’t you?

Asriel: What? No, I would never doubt you. Ever.

Chara: You promise?

Asriel: Promise.

After Asgore got sick, Chara started eating buttercup flowers with Asriel by his side. After a few days of eating those flowers, Chara got sick. Asriel started crying. Soon Chara is about to die and the entire Dreemurr family are with him.

Toriel: My child, please don't leave us. You're our only child who can help us and everyone.

Asgore: Chara, you have to stay determined. You are the future of humans and monsters.

Song: Kingdescription by Attica Kish

Asgore: #You have got to be determined #This cannot be the end #Even lying on your deathbed #Little one, don’t give in #I must be a stronger person #That is what a king is #But I don’t think I can bear this #I just want you to live #Child, you’re our very future #Isn’t that what we are fighting for? #But if you should only give up, instead #Then our hope shall wither… #Though I don’t think you can hear me, #And I don’t know if you understand #For the three of us who dearly love you #Open your eyes again…#

Chara: Mum... Dad... I want to talk Asriel... (coughs)

Asriel: What is it Chara?

Chara: I... I want to see the golden flowers patch from my town... before I pass away...

Asriel: But Chara, we can't leave the underground. It has been sealed by powerful magic.

Chara: I know... but... you can... have mine.

Chara places his hand on his chest as it released a glowing red heart-shaped object and Asriel is surprised.

Asriel: Wha-what is this thing?

Chara: Well... everyone in my town call this as... a SOUL the very culmination of our beings... It has other colours too but there are six of them... But... Asriel, you can have mine to take me home...

Asriel: But... Chara... I can't.

Chara: I know you're scared Asriel... but please... do for my final favour?

Asriel nodded and Chara gave his soul to his brother.

Chara: Okay... Thank... you... very..... much..... my...... best....... friend......... (passed away)

Chara took his final breath and passed away. His soul is floating away from his body and it is enough time for Asriel to absorb his soul. Then, he transformed into a boss monster with horns and a black robe similar to Toriel’s robe. He picked up Chara’s body and went to the barrier.

Song: Footprints On The Surface from Prince of Egypt the Musical

Asriel: #The second heir– #My father's wrong #It's got to be the easiest role on Earth #Just play around #Just play along #Enjoy the bounty of my birth #So what's today's amusement #For this second heir? #Which one shall I choose from so many kinds of fun? #Which one? #I could ride one of the horse #Go and shoot some arrows #Take a sail on the royal barge #But standing in the shadows #Of these villages of the humans #I see the contrast couldn't be more stark #Their deeds forever known #In story, song, and stone #While I won't leave the faintest mark #Like the humblest of the monsters #I won't leave the faintest mark #Footprints on the surface #Ripples on the river #Wispy drifting clouds #That blow across the blue sky #One day, we are here #And the next, you vanish #Vanish in the blink #Of an ibis' eye #We vanish in the blink #Of an ibis' eye #It’s not that I want glory #Or the world to know my name #But maybe just to leave things #A little changed from when I came #But it’s not my lot #Use what you’ve got #And all I am is #Footprints on the surface #Ripples on the river #Echoes of a sound #From a distant fading chime #One day, we are here #Next, I know, I vanish #But I’m a fool #And so, I like to fool myself #That I’m #Not just footprints on the surface #But someone who’ll leave footprints #On the sands of time#

Asriel crossed the barrier and was about to lay Chara on the golden flowers until humans saw him carrying the little boy.

Asriel: Chara... I... (got tears) I'm so sorry Chara... (hugged Chara and cried) We can be like friends forever... but now... I’m gonna miss you so much...

Then, a scream is heard at the town, causing Asriel to be scared.

Human 1: Everyone! There's a monster who killed a child!

A human mob began to attack Asriel with flame-torches, farmer forks, swords and spears

Asriel: No wait please, this is just misunderstanding! I didn't kill Chara!

Human 2: Chara?

Human 3: It might be the child who lost his family, and that Monster murdered him! GET HIM AND FIGHT!!!

Asriel: Please! I don't want to harm you all.

Human 4: You think you're calling us a liar?! GET THAT BEAST!!!

The humans attacked Asriel but he didn’t fight back. He smiled, carried the body and went back to Mt. Ebott.

Human 4: Over there! Shoot it!

Human 5: So long you beast!

The spear struck Asriel so hard. He picked Chara’s body and went back to Mt. Ebott. He went to the field of his home and passed away there, fading into dust.

Asriel: Mum… Dad… I’m fine… I’m sorry...

He said his last words and Asgore and Toriel started crying.

Asgore: The humans have taken our children, from now on, no more humans will fall down here. If they do, I will take their souls and break the barrier.

Toriel: Asgore, I am now disgusted by your actions, now I’ll leave my reign and we’ll divorce.

Toriel left angrily and Asgore wanted her to come back.

Asgore: Tori… come back!

Toriel: Don’t Tori me!

Toriel and Asgore got a divorce and separated.

The Narrator: The kingdom fell into despair and many human children and Asgore took their souls. Many children followed until the last human child fell. Her name is Frisk, she came to the underground and saved us all. From that day on, she saved the monsters and reunited the Dreemurr family and she is also part of it. From that day on, Humans and Monsters lived in peace.