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[shadeswift99]

hi I have minesona questions for you :) What's Shade's personality? Are her eyes intense ('mean') or more open ('nicer')? Who is she closest to? Does your previous minesona and shade exist in the same universe? What was your previous minesona?

Woohoo! Minesona questions! I'll answer those any day.

I...do not blame you at all if you don't read all of this. I answered each question individually and I ended up with a lot of words.

Shade's personality is...hard to pin down, because it's essentially just bits and pieces of mine and I have a hard time composing an image of myself. :) I can tell you a few scraps of characterization that come to mind, though. Shade is introverted, left-brain oriented, and just generally feels kind of disconnected from other people because of being undead, so she worries a lot about coming off as cold. She tries to make up for that by showing kindness to people in ways that come naturally to her, usually by giving gifts or doing tasks for people, like building redstone farms for friends who are mostly builders. She is very curious about the world around her, and definitely puts the need for knowledge above caution in a lot of her experiments. She tends to treat most mobs as being more conscious than most people think, especially villagers. She is unlikely to start a serious fight but very likely to start a friendly one, loving competition (she doesn't have near the pvp skills to back that up, but she doesn't care if she wins or loses, it's about the journey!) If she enters a serious fight it will probably be because she was provoked, or defending someone else (which she is a little too quick to do sometimes; she needs to remember that not everyone wants or needs a bodyguard)

Shade's eyes are not naturally very expressive. She often has to make a conscious effort to make them read as nice, engaged, annoyed, etc. when talking to someone. When she's not experiencing an emotion strongly or consciously controlling her expression, her eyes tend to slip into this eery thousand yard stare type of look. She knows that freaks people out (it freaks her out a little bit, too), so she tries to make her face look more "alive" in the presence of others.

Shade is closest to the people she shares a world (Ecocraft) with at the moment, as well as a few other friends she's met along the way (Twelve, Dawn, essentially my friends' personas). She has an easy time connecting with people on a surface level, but a hard time trusting them, partially due to a bad first experience with other players. These people are patient with her though, and she's gotten to the point where she doesn't feel the need to set elaborate security systems or look out for traps wherever she steps anymore.

My previous minesona and Shade...kind of exist in the same universe, but not the same timeline. They never met. This is because Shade technically is my previous minesona: same player data, same code but with parts of it deleted and replaced by the Void, same body but modified. She has the memories of the previous player, in a disconnected type of way, but the first person's personality was essentially deleted and left to develop again from scratch, like a newly spawned player. Shade picked up a few of the same traits from undergoing similar things in a similar environment to the original, but she considers herself seperate. She thinks of my previous minesona as a sister she never met, who she is trying to honour and escape the shadow of at the same time. She stayed in Vera's world for the first few months of her life, but moved to a new one because she wanted to stop feeling like she was working around someone else's legacy.

My previous minesona's name was Vera. She had a bit more of a medieval fantasy-ish tilt to her characterization, being an adventurer/fighter type who lived in a floating castle and defended the village below with her life. She considered the villagers to be her friends, equal to her in all but the abilities she had as a player. She was very hesitant around even simple magic like enchanting tables and nether portals, believing it to be cursed, yet she was also fascinated by it. In general, she had a lot more of a survival oriented mindset, since she only ever lived in one world and she didn't last to the stage of the game where safety and excess of materials is common. She didn't even know that other players existed. I probably won't do much more with her now that she's dead, but I still like the idea of her a lot... Also I'm pretty sure that there's a link to a more in depth explanation about Shade and Vera on my minesona ref post somewhere.

#also somewhere between Shade and Vera I had a bit of a gender crisis sooo #Shade's relationship to gender is as complicated as the rest of her relationship to being kinda-still-human-ish #Void took my gender; can't have shit in Minecraft #djdhfhhfdj #ask #shade lore