Theory - Chara is Not the Villain

Genocide. We all know it. Sans tortures us. Mettaton dies in one turn. We kill Flowey. We meet Chara. We blame Chara. But is Chara really the cause of all of this? Are they the one who told us outside of the game that we should kill every monster in the game? Does Chara influence our-world events? No.

Chara is not the cause of our doings. Sure, the second-person text in game, the red color and the sudden changes to first-person text is unsettling and possibly enough to point fingers, but let's think of it in another way. What does death do to you? Perhaps it eliminates your memories. When we meet Chara, it's in a black abyss of nothingness. A void. So what's saying Chara hasn't lost all of their memories? From what little information we learn about them from Flowey, the monsters in New Home and the tapes, Chara doesn't seem like the kind of person who would do something so devastating to the monsters. If anything, they hate humans more. So why would they "force" us to kill all of their monster friends? The answer is: they didn't. This isn't Deltarune - these are our choices that thoroughly impact the game. Nothing's controlling us in our-world other than peer pressure and people shouting to their favorite YouTubers "kill! kill!".

We don't know Chara personally. We don't know the reasoning behind why they killed themself (best pronoun I could come up with) and what the whole of the plan was. Chara was a child - are we really blaming a child for all of our actions? Yes we find a locket and a rusty knife, but we don't know what the knife was used for, since there were no reported killings while Chara was living in the Underground. Perhaps it was used to cut a cake! We don't know, do we? But we always argue that we know everything. "We know why they fell down! They were abused by humans!!!!11!! They hate humans!!"

The most controversial part of this theory has to be when Chara confronts us at the end of Genocide and their speech, or when Frisk acts on their own. There's already a theory on this on YouTube, I believe (sorry I can't credit, I have not actually seen the theory for myself and I don't know who it was done by), which I fully agree with. I believe that we are teaching Chara and Frisk since we control them and their soul(s?) (we also see this at the end of Deltarune, when Kris throws the soul into a cage and we can still control the soul in the cage but not Kris). As I said earlier, what most likely happens after death is that you lose your memories, which would also explain why Frisk/Chara cold-heartedly killed Flowey, who is the resurrection of Asriel, Chara's brother/best friend. Evidence for this is Sans' speech about EXP and how it affects the mindset, making it easier for the gainer to inflict pain/damage and also makes the gainer have a larger capacity to hurt, making them less vulnerable to pain (it's interesting to note that Sans only has one capacity to hurt). Although the player is not affected by EXP and LV, Frisk/Chara are, which makes them act on their own.

This was my theory! Thanks for checking it out.