Star Shield is my favourite armour in the game, it looks really cool on minecraft models and I love the colour scheme!
Since it’s called “Star Shield” I wanted to give it pointy details and made her silhouette represent a star (at least the top part)
I wouldn't say that I'm super happy how it turned out, arms and boots might need more work and she kind of looks like a circus performer, but I'll stick with it for now
God-denial, devil-death
Great leader
Prophesied reformer
We pray for your
triumphant soul's return
wip... i’ve thought way too much about star shield jesse
for full context: this post, (the first half of) this post, and also- light grey eyes indicate that an npc has been “adjusted” (so like, everyone in the keep and the ‘burg). freds’ friends’ genuine love for their leader mixed with romeo’s programmed-in veneration of the admins = cultish trivia contest that also serves to keep up the image of fred romeo wants to remember. kent exists for a) keeping an eye on the keep b) eternal self-flagellation by constantly reminding romeo that he killed his best friend and c) despite that remembering them as someone who would forgive him in a heartbeat and love him anyway (which might not necessarily be true, but).
so, star shield is kind of like a kick in the head to romeo ahgldhfglkhGLHDF
when it comes to the trivia thing they go around and talk to everyone but instead of asking for infromation about fred they accidentally just. chat like normal people, like old friends even some might say. the rest of the gang is too busy worrying about things and trying to get information themselves to however, when the time comes for the trivia contest jesse miraculously "guesses" all the right answers. the first time kent brushes it off as beginner’s luck, the second time he looks at them a little funny, the third time binta makes a joke about how jesse must be REALLY lucky, the fourth through seventh are met with increasing bewilderment, and it’s only the eighth question where they stumble
but the thing is... all the answers have been supplied by you-know-who to binta n theyre kind of flat take type answers bc he was intent on crafting a very specific image of fred. beyond perfect, but also kind of. stereotypical? one-dimensional? and when that question comes up kent waits to answer bc so far they've been terrifyingly on-the-nose with these answers and he's honestly a little afraid but instead of the “correct” answer, which is lapis blue, they go "red?" and everyones like . huh?? n they sort of shrug and go "that's the colour of roses! i've always liked roses, and look, there's one in their windowsill * points*" and when everyone looks at them they grin sheepishly and admit that fred mustve had really good taste because this entire time they’ve just been giving their own favourites haha
they dont win the point but thats when kent becomes convinced that theyre deadass some kind of reincarnated fred or something
anyway later jesse’s trying to undo the brainwashing which obviously won’t fly with kent and like... they obviously dont know what the funk he’s going on about but he’s CONVINCED that this is fred’s version of revenge- that letting him think they were dead this entire time, and now pretending not to even recognize him, is all some sick joke. and he’s going on this long-winded one-sided rant about how he can’t BELIEVE this and this is SO- how could they do this to him- and theyre like Dude I Legit Have No Clue What You’re Talking About. Do You Want Me To Make You Some Tea Or Something
and it SUCKS because this all seems to only be making him angrier? the genuinely (or apparently genuinely) confused reaction and like overall trying to de-escalate the situation- the more they try to calm ‘kent’ down the more hes convinced that theyre just fred playing a game, and he always knew fred was a good actor too its just that romeo nowadays uses being a good actor to basically jsut dick around and hurt people but fred would never do that- and yet here is fred, seemingly doing that
(also people who remind him of fred, who are diplomatic and try to avoid fighting where they think they can talk things out instead, rly set him off)
eventually star shield manages to defeat kent’s boss form with the help of everyone else in the keep n before they go back to the oasis binta stops them and asks if they dont maybe recognize this place-? she knows it sounds silly but it just, it feels like she's known them for way longer than just a few days and she sounds kind of... hopeful, and yes she knows its impossible yes she knows now that fred is dead for good and not just gone but... but if there were ever anyone to be able to do something impossible itd be an admin, right?
of course jesse doesnt get at All what shes talking about and probably just says they wish they'd known her sooner bc she seems like a rly cool person n she does get kind of bummed but like
right before leaving they say a very freddish sentence (might even be something fred actually said often?) n they didnt think it was all that cool a one-liner but as they leave the keep bintas staring at them like theyve just invented sliced cake
how did star shield jesse feel when they saw the fred hologram in terminal space or whatever that acid trip was called
in a word, Bad
in more than a word,
so my project changes or tosses a lot of story elements and the gauntlet is one of them bc like
the admins were not created equal in this verse and as far as fred/xara knew at the time the only one that could take/give administrative privileges would be the op(erator), which is romeo, and there also wasn’t (as far as they knew) any way to deop him/op someone else
given what the admins broke up over n how/when it happened here, fred wouldnt have had time in between learning that romeo might actually need to have his silence bought, Permanently and like. dying, to come up with anything
thooough even if they Had known, given their two biggest flaws- their hesitation to act and their determination to see and bring out the good in people- well…,, things couldnt have ended any other way than in their death (or that’s what romeo tells himself for a long time, anyway)
fred never stopped loving and believing in romeo. never. this has nothing to do with whether the gauntlet was made or not i just felt it important to share hhHGLKSHD (also if ur wondering why that last point sounds familiar its bc i ripped some of star shield’s ‘character points’ straight from my list for fred s o.)
HOWEVER to answer your, actual question,
there Is still a ‘hologram’ of fred in terminal space and while all jesses are like “Yikes…” star shield in particular suffers from a very big Oof bc not only is this “hologram” absolutely nothing like fred, but he does NOT want romeo to get better and does NOT want him to lose his powers and it’s not even like seeing a ghost, it’s like seeing a zombie, bc at least ghosts generally act vaguely like how the person did while alive but zombies are just totally fucked up, who the hell is this. oh god that’s someone i once was? ok! that’s cool! that’s sexy! this is Fine
he’s actually the very last boss battle in ng+- jesse fights him alongside romeo (bc u dont have to do things alone and esp not wrestling the personification of all your fuckups and emotional issues for control of the universe) (i kind of envisioned it like the pacifist final boss fight from undertale but tbh i havent rly thot abt this whole thing in a while BUT ANYWAY that is probably another post basically star shield is just feeling not very good about this whole business. it’s tough being a kinnie)
anyway to thank u for sitting thru all that. here are some of my first thots on that whole business
imagining the other admins having jiggle physicsfred solmenly telling ‘xara’ (jesse) how to use the gauntletbut every time they take a step they jiggle and likefred has to repeat the instructions likethree timesbc everyone is so entranced by the jiggle
