theory: chara in natural light should be coloured differently

(undertale spoilers)

after noticing things in certain sprites, i’ve started taking my consideration that maybe chara is only lightened up to stand out against the dark a bit more seriously.

first, we have these:

while looking at my gif, i noticed something – frisk and chara have the exact same shade of hair/outline. this is unusual because, in the coloured version of chara we saw, their sprite had much lighter hair.

i was going to drop it, but then i noticed the bed sprites in the soulless pacifist ending…

the same hair shade strikes again!

granted, in the photos, chara’s hair my have been left darker so they don’t blend in with asgore’s cape, and for the bed thing, it might have kinda killed the transition if the hair suddenly became lighter.

when chara is standing next to frisk against a background, though, chara looks really out of place because of their colouring (example). so maybe chara IS just lighter to stand out against the dark, or maybe their original colouring is correct in normal lighting all the time.

anyway, i messed with the brightness of chara’s sprite until the hair colour was roughly the same as frisk’s and got this:

maybe it’s more accurate? maybe not!