Some of this is going to be retreading old info for old readers, but others tuff is new support, so bear with what you know .There may be something I’ve not mentioned yet. Here’s the full direction I’m about to take this: Chara is the reason that monsters moved out of the RUINS and into NEW HOME.

To cover old ground, I’d like to talk about the number of chairs and beds in HOME. In HOME, there are three, two adult sized, one child sized.

Three people lived here, these chairs seem to say to me.Two adults and one child. Asriel and his parents. Compare this to NEW HOME.

Two child-sized chairs and two adult sized chairs. Four people lived here. Chara, Asriel, Asgore and Toriel. Likewise, there are two beds in NEW HOME and one bed in HOME.

It’s possible that Toriel could have remodeled the kids’ room a little though, right? I mean, she’s presumably only taking care of one child at a time. Surely she’s changed things. The current state of the kids’ room is no indication of what it was like when Asriel was there.

Or is it?

We find this bit of script from a particular section of the strings that includes details like this. I’m talking in the same section that has stuff on ‘goofy rocks’ and early Toriel. RUINS. HOME.

28478: gml_Object_obj_asriellamp_Create_0

28479: gml_Object_obj_asriellamp_Alarm_0

28480: gml_Object_obj_asriellamp_Step_2

28481: gml_Object_obj_asrielbed_Create_0

28482: gml_Object_obj_asrielbed_Alarm_3

28483: gml_Object_obj_asrielbed_Alarm_2

28484: gml_Object_obj_asrielbed_Alarm_0

28485: gml_Object_obj_asrielbed_Step_1

This could be talking about his room in NEW HOME though, right? Its location in the strings is not proof, it’s correlation, and that’s not worth much at all. But there’s other things to be aware of …

There’s a lamp in the far right corner, yes, but we don’t interact with it. Those alarms, those are there to help with programming specific events, and situations. And we don’t really interact with his bed in any meaningful way that would require that many alarms. Doesn’t fit. And as I pointed out, this is back in the RUINS. There’s really only one thing that this script could be talking about, right … ?

Now, what’s interesting is that this clarifies that not only was this room formerly Asriel’s but that it hasn’t actually changed that much since the Dreemurrs left for NEW HOME . The lamp, the bed, they are all ‘Asriel’s. Which, while cute, is also super morbid. That’s not the point though.

The point is that this room has not changed. That Toriel has not refurnished Asriel’s room in preparation for the fallen humans. And that therefore, if Chara had a bed here once, it would still BE here.

That means that Chara’s fall happened before the move. But, isn’t it possible that Asriel already lived in NEW HOME when Chara fell, and then took Chara home? I had only conjecture to suggest this wasn’t true: ‘wouldn’t Asriel not wander that far from his home? Could he have carried an injured Chara all the way to the castle in NEW HOME?’ But that was all I had. Until now.

You see, @doge-w-a-bloge​ found something very interesting in the strings. Monster history books that we never see in the game to accompany the two that we see, one in Toriel’s home, and another in the library. There’s more, and they paint an interesting story of the Kingdom of Monster’s timeline.

(They dug it up so you can read it on their blog, here)

Immediate reaction: part one and four seem to establish some sort of chronology between them. We’ve read both of them in the game. They’re not just in the String, but part of the file, in books. It’s in order.

Part 1: Monsters are sealed and settle in HOME away from humanity out of fear.

Part 2-3: Unknown events.

Part 4: Unafraid of humans monsters settled in NEW HOME flush with the Barrier’s edge.

That’s a fair assessment, right? Well, that makes the next chapter we can read interesting.

Part 4: Unafraid of humans monsters settled in NEW HOME flush with the Barrier’s edge

Part 5: Unknown Events

Part 6: Unfortunately monsters don’t know much about illness.

Part 7-8: Detailed chapters on what happens when a human dies and how a monster can absorb their SOUL.

Monsters don’t get ‘sick.’ They sometimes ‘fall down’ but the author recognizes this to being similar to, yet distinct from, whatever makes their lack of knowledge on illness unfortunate. Who is sick, if not a monster? Chara. Why are there chapters on how a monster can absorb a human’s SOUL after the chapter on how their illness was not familiar? Because that’s exactly what Asriel did after Chara died.

So, part five is probably the context where they actually talk about how Chara actually GOT sick. This chapter, where Chara must have been explicitly mentioned, is not included in the list of histories available to us in the strings. The events before the move to NEW HOME that gave Asgore the hope for a peaceful resolution with humanity. These chapters were also not available to us in the strings.

Noticing a pattern? I know I am. Chara is important enough to this story that their illness is discussed., and there’s not a lot of room in any of these parts. A handful of sentences, at most. Part 5 must be all about how Chara fell ill, there’s no room for anything else.

But that means that Chara’s existence, as a ‘good human,’ must have been established before. Chara must have been mentioned BEFORE. In part 2, part 3 or both … Before monsters settled NEW HOME, and before monsters overcame their fear of humanity.



There is no way that Chara’s fall and monsters’ sudden courage are coincidence. There is a reason, after all, that Asgore calls Chara ‘the future of humans and monsters.’ He’s not just saying that. He believes it …

Chara is the person who convinced an Asgore who agreed with a Gerson that believed that monsters and humans could NEVER live in peace …

… Chara convinced THAT Asgore he was wrong … Probably by example. Chara is the person who gave the monsters hope for a life under the bright sun, in the overworld. The reason that their death plunged the kingdom into despair, and stole all their hope was that Chara was the CAUSE of that hope. I become increasingly convinced of this by the day.