Badass Adorable: Being something of a Ness expy, this just follows. If the player decides to stick around and take the genocide route after the golden ending, they are subverting this trope. In this case, the trope is averted/defied Of course, if the player decides to start murdering absolutely everybody, then a cutesy child wouldn't cut it as an audience surrogate anymore. (The game wouldn't want you feel obligated to stick around.) This is the inverted version of the trope. 
There is a very good reason for the game to encourage the player to move on, and allowing the child (instead of the player, which is impossible) to stay with their friends lets the story end properly. This is to allow the player to decouple themselves from the game as it nears its conclusion, bringing closure to the mix.
However, the child's name is explicitly stated near the tail end of the Golden Ending. For the most part of the game, the child is not specifically referenced to, nor do they have much agency all this allows the player to play their role immersively. Audience Surrogate: Played straight, inverted, or averted depending on the route taken:. If you killed some monsters accidentally, out of frustration or without knowing the game's true nature and then decided to reset and fix your mistakes, it also counts. But if you actually complete a Genocide Run, then there's no going back. If you play a Pacifist run after an aborted Genocide Run. Anything That Moves: Regardless of whatever the Child's gender is, they're able to flirt with many characters and monsters of any gender, even sentient jello molds and airplanes. You can choose to be a pacifist but be a huge jerk while you're at it, or kill literally every monster but spare one so as avoid a No Mercy run and not be a bad guy technically. The Human can be any type of anti-hero depending on how you play them. 
While they just want to return to the surface and get away from monsters that want to kill them and take their soul, they are willing to use lethal force when it could be avoided. Toby Fox hasn't clarified one way or the other if it's for the player to choose, or the confirmation that they're non-binary.
Ambiguous Gender Identity: The use of gender-neutral they/them pronouns to describe the Human Child. This is understandable though, as not only does this allow the player to insert themselves in the role, but it preserves the ambiguity so the reveal that the child you named is the Fallen Child, not Frisk, is a complete surprise for first-time players. Ambiguous Gender: Their gender is deliberately left vague, and when characters refer to the child, the pronouns used are exclusively gender-neutral. This is probably for similar reasons as their other ambiguous traits. PACIFIST RUN AFTER GENOCIDE SKIN
Ambiguously Brown: Their skin tone isn't really what might be thought of as Caucasian, Hispanic, or Asian, being somewhat closer to orange than a human skin color. You will need to defeat the monsters' king, who is renowned as one of their greatest warriors alive, in single combat before you can become the monsters ambassador to the humans. In order to get the Golden Ending, youre not allowed to KILL anyone. Ambadassador: The Player Character can be this. Although, given the SNES-esque art style of the game, this could be an approximation for an actual skin color. Amazing Technicolor Population: The Player Character seems to have yellow skin. Then again, she did say to treat them like your worst enemy The other option is to pet the vegetables. When Undyne orders them to punch vegetables in order to make spaghetti sauce, the best they can manage is knocking over a tomato. This gets Played for Laughs in Undyne's hangout, which is only available on the Pacifist route. Despite the difficulty it brings to the journey, the protagonist's empathy refuses to let them kill a single monster. 
Theyve also survived a world where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, have faced down Photoshop Flowey and the Amalgamates, and can become the monsters ambassador to the humans. The human child is only a kid implied to be around 8.
Action Survivor: If the player does a Low-Level Run, they qualify. 100% Heroism Rating: In the Pacifist Route, they gradually gain this status with the monsters of the Underground, to the point where not only do all the monsters come to back the child up when they get attacked by the Big Bad, but the same Big Bad later comes to befriend Frisk in the Golden Ending.
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