That is the same in the game when speaking about Chara. Plural is used in two cases in English: for talking about many persons (plural “they”) and for talking about someone who doesn’t have a gender (neuter “they”)



Frisk - like Chara, the river person, Goner Kid and Monster Kid - is gender neutral. They are neither male nor female and can be either way, following people interpretation. Therefore the article “they” is use to refer to them or any of the gender neutral characters. And since I am following the game base and not giving my personal interpretation, I am keeping them all gender neutral to have people keeping their own interpretation of the character.



Don’t blame me. Blame English. I only can stay in the single tense, when I start with their name or say “the kid” and such. It is annoying but like many things in English, it depends of the context. Since here we are only talking about Frisk, (like page is only about them) there is no other interpretation you can have.

When I write my text, I make sure to properly isolate cases of real plural and neutral. In case, Frisk and many persons are referred in the same text, I make sure people can tell the difference. For exemple by adding a complementary information to the sentence: “They, Frisk and the other, went....” or “They altogether went....”. Or if I am referring to the rest of the group (plural) while talking about Frisk first with they (neutral) I’ll tricks like “the kid was... the other were”



If not such a thing is mentioned, then I am mostly referring to Frisk. If the conversation or narration is not about a gender neutral character, I am referring to the regular plural (many person).



I concede, it is confusing at first, then you get use to it. But it would be great if english had a single neutral term as well. But still, despite the confusion, you still manage to know when I was talking about a siingle individual. So it is still working.