It's been few weeks since Chara fell down the mount Ebott and started living with the monsters. King Asgore and queen Toriel, who, as Chara discovered, carried the family name Dreemurr, adopted her as their own child. Asriel was showing her all the places he was allowed to go to in the underground and met her all monsters he knew. Chara mostly liked the Temmie Village. Temmies, half-dog half-cat little monsters with black hair, were all cute and friendly and talked on funny broken English. Unfortunately, Chara was allergic to both dogs' and cats' fur. One of the Temmies actually was allergic to humans' hair and got red itching allergy spots all over their face. Yes, their. Chara had no idea what gender the Temmies had. One of them, who, unlike the others, had a separated name- Bob -and spoke clean English, confirmed that he is actually a male.
The Dreemurrs were waiting for The Core to be finished so they will be able to move over in to the new capital of the Underground in Hotland, the hottest area of the kingdom, part of a volcano. Chara also met the royal scientist, W.D Gaster. He was a nice person, with quite good humor, but also a brilliant scientist. Chara sometimes came to watch him during the building as he showed where, what and why to the workers. He explained that The Core will be the source of all the electricity in the underground, produced just from the incredible heat of Hotland. He also took quite an interest in Chara's soul, as it was pure DETERMINATION. He took some analyzes to study the power of DETERMINATION better. Chara didn't mind.
So, meeting more and more monsters, Chara felt like part of them. The Dreemurrs were her family now. She felt happier with them then she was with her actual biological family. She got mostly attached to Asriel. He was like a little brother to her.
-Hey, Chara! What are you drawing?-
Asriel shouted, running his pencils over a sketched drawing he already did. Chara was trying to find a pencil or a marker that was the closest to golden.
-A golden flower, like the ones that grew in my town.-
She answered, finally finding the needed marker and starting coloring the petals of the flower. Asriel playfully filled his sketch with colors, until suddenly he became more serious.
-Chara… Why did you fall down mount Ebott? And… How was your life before?-
He suddenly asked. Chara looked up sharply. She hoped she will never have to tell anybody. Sighing, she flipped from lying on her abdomen to her back and sat up. Asriel did the same. Sighing, Chara began:
-I lived in a small town right beside mount Ebott. I was the youngest in my big family, thus everybody stopped noticing me when I learned to go and talk a bit. My parents were all the time at work, my siblings-at school. When they came home, we all sat around the… Uh… Late dinner table. Then my parents asked how was the day. Until I went to school, nobody gave me to say a word. When I did and suddenly thought of something that happened to me, my father yelled: "Give your brother/sister a chance to tell!". No matter when it was, even if it's been at least fifteen minutes without anyone saying a word. You see, I wasn't such a great pride to them as my siblings, and I was the only not planned child. My sister, the second younger before me in the family, already was in sixth grade when I went to first, so I would have few years to catch up and make something that will make my parents think that I'm not a mistake. When I had an event at school where I could bring family, nobody came. But the rest of my family always gathered together in those events. I was always an outsider in my own family. But… My problem wasn't only with them. All the people in my town were like this. There was no single person who would behave to me like you, Toriel and Asgore did. I had no friends. There were just no kind people there. Everybody hated each other, people who sold things raised the costs just from greed, in school everybody competed who is better, even beat each other sometimes... Once, the neighbors of mine decided that because my eyes are almost red, I'm a demon, and my family took me to exorcism. When after the normal ritual my eyes stayed red, I was whipped… And even worse. It was so painful… One day, I couldn't take my family nor the society around me anymore. I ran to mount Ebott to hide from all the people in the world. I planned to live in the cave, but I slipped on a vine completely by accident and fell down. I was pretty scared, because I wanted to live my life, not to die. Luckily, I was DETERMINED to stay alive and make my life worth living.-
Chara flipped back onto her abdomen, continued coloring the flower with no enthusiasm.
-The only beautiful things in this world for me were the golden flowers. They were… They were pure, and… And soft and beautiful. Not like the society.-
Pausing coloring, Chara looked up at Asriel, whose eyes were widened.
-I don't understand why the monsters want so much to get to the surface. The world up there is ruined. The air and the seas are polluted, the society is wicked, the beautiful things gradually get smashed. Here, the life is much better. Everyone are accepting and kind. I have no idea what circumstances you can have to get to the surface if not to destroy humanity.-
Chara understood that she said a bit too much. She'd better discuss it with Asgore and Toriel. Asriel was… Still too young and innocent for such talks. Chara tilted her head.
-Don't get bothered by it.-
She said and picked up the drawing.
-What do you say? How's my flower?-
Somehow, Asriel went from mode "terrified" to "playful" in less then three seconds and they started a drawing competition. They had no idea that their parents listened. Gloomy, Toriel and Asgore looked at each other.
-So, I guess humans merely changed since the war.-
Toriel sighed. Asgore nodded sadly. Even if they reach the surface, the humans will explode but do everything to send them back underground.