Chara gets a bad rap. Mention their name, and most players think: creepy red eyes, genocide route, evil incarnate. But what if Chara isn’t the villain of Undertale, what if they’re just a reflection of you?

Undyne is already a force to be reckoned with, but in the Genocide Route, she becomes something else entirely: Undyne the Undying, a living embodiment of Determination.

At first glance, Sans is just a pun-loving skeleton with a knack for naps. But under the hoodie and bad jokes lies one of Undertale’s most complex, and unsettling, characters.

You never meet W.D. Gaster in Undertale, at least, not directly. But his shadow stretches across the game like a crack in the code. He's the former Royal Scientist, scattered across time and space after an experiment went wrong. Or so the whispers say.

Asriel was once the golden child of the Underground, literally. Beloved, kind, and full of hope, he had everything going for him. But his tragic transformation into Flowey shows just how fragile innocence can be when ripped from its context.

Ralsei is sweet, kind, and always ready with a healing spell, but something about him feels off. From the start, he knows a little too much about how things are supposed to go. He tells Kris and Susie they’re “Heroes of Light,” explains the prophecy, and somehow already has a castle waiting for them.

From the moment you start Deltarune, one thing becomes clear: Kris is not like other RPG protagonists. You don’t create them, you possess them. The game explicitly tells you this in its chilling opening sequence, and then proves it when Kris rips out their soul, your connection to them, and acts on their own.