Just randomly felt like drawing Chara looking completly insane and unwell for some reason.
I mean, If you don't draw your favourite character looking completely off their rocker at least once, are you truly a fan?
Its based of the stronger than you chara response.
finally got round to doing one digitally [mspaint my beloved]
still getting the hang of it, bit rough
+some other ones i liked
Here is the finished drawing, it was fun to work on their design (though i went a little too dark on the eyes with the shading...ill correct it next time i draw them i suppose) but, enough of that. Now to talk about the au:
Basically it's Undertale, but instead of a normal war between humans and monsters here was a massive gang war between the human and monster mafias. The humans beat out the monsters so badly they were forced to retreat into the shadows and its also taking place in like the 1920s or 30s or somthing like that, around that time period.
Chara was severly mistreated by their human caretakers, a particularly harsh instance of abuse caused them to run away into enemy territory. Hoping to be killed so they wouldn't have to live like they were anymore. They were spotted almost immediately. They were captured and brought to the mafia don asgore, where they were supposed to executed and made and example of...but Asgore couldn't do it. He puts up the front of a hardened criminal (which he is at times) but he couldn't bring himself to murder an innocent child for the sins of their forefathers, so he took them in as his own.
From then, they were raised along side Asriel under the Dreemurr name. They were made to fight, to learn how to use weapons, how to lead operations and how to execute orders. They grew up under strict decipline and in a harsh, cutthroat environment but they were loved.
Now, currently they are 33 years old (As depicted in the drawing) they are basically the one in control of everything, as Asgore and Toriel are preparing to retire and Asriel has no interest in doing his job as the true heir. But Chara doesn't mind. They see this work as their purpose in life, that if their not managing, comanding, threatening...that their wasting time and resources being alive. (Which obviously isn't true, but Chara dosen't value themself much)
Chara struggles with their gender identity here, as well as some pretty bad dysphoria. Due to a lack of exposure around the topic, Chara dosen't know what they want to identify as. They know they would rather not be a man, the idea of being a woman sounds more apealing, but is ultimately not the right fit either. They can't go public with these feelings as its the 1900s queer people weren't looked upon too fondly (especially not in organized crime spaces). And if they did, they would most likely be made a target. (It was hard enough to earn respect as a human much less one who is shorter and scrawnier than all their peers, they would rather not have to fight for respect again). So as a result, they present as male to the public, and uses it/its pronouns in private (they haven't discovered the singular "they" as yet, when they do they'll use that too) essentially only Asriel knows about Chara’s it/its pronoun usage, not even Asgore or Toriel know.
The way Chara dresses factors into this as well, the outfit they are wearing in the drawing is something they only wear on their own property. In public they wear a full pinstriped suit and a hat so that they can hide their long hair. (The fur coat stays though)
Speaking of the fur coat, Funfact: it's made out of the pelt of a monster. This monster in particular betrayed the family and Chara found out. They degloved him with their own hands and wears his pelt as some kind of sick trophy. The guy they skinned is kept alive in the lower levels of the property being tended to by medical staff around the clock so that he dosen’t die and cause Chara’s coat to dust. (The rest of the family is rather...disturbed by the coat's existence and the fact that Chara wears it everywhere, non family members are pretty much terrified of them for the most part, it turns out wearing monster flesh discourages people from messing with you)
Their pretty sadistic, ruthless and more than a little off their rocker, they show these traits most often to those who have wronged them or if they are interrogating a rival gang member. They show no mercy to those who disobey their orders (unless that person is a woman, or Asriel. Their a bit sexist, its the 1900s after all). Though generally they are overly polite, formal and calm to an eerie degree.
They care for their family in their own weird way and will do anything to secure their peace...Even if they do joke about skining Asriel from time to time. Much to his displeasure. (They would never actually do that to him though.)
Thats about all I've written for them so far, feel free to ask any questions you may have about this Chara or the AU in general.
We got their obsession with number 9, Chara because they obsessed with power, and it represent the highest possible number. Flowey outright set up his stats into the highest possible number.
Then there's their self-deprecation, putting Chara suicidal tendencies aside, Flowery manage to call himself useless within a minute of his dying breath TWICE!!! (it's definitely not help that he's dying because he failed to save Asgore).