Shii

Shii (born: August 4, 2003 [20]), formerly known as Meister, is a veteran in Attorney Online, particularly in the Official vanilla server.
Shii would frequent vanilla much in the early parts of 2018, before eventually moving to the Super Danganronpa Server (SDRS), which is now shut down. Eventually, in March 2019, Shii would return to vanilla, and obtain their modpass (which Shii famously managed to accidentally leak not long afterwards) around the end of May 2019. 
== History ==
=== 2018 ===
==== Early beginnings ====
Shii would originally find out about Attorney Online in the beginning of 2018, after having borrowed some Ace Attorney games from a family member, and they stumbled across AO while going through Ace Attorney content during this period.
When Shii first logged in to vanilla, they saw it was infested with spammers and shitposters in the entrance area, known as "Basement (TOXIC)". Shii, who by that point did not go by any particular name or had any signature feature, used Gavin to portray themselves in AO. Shii would end up developing a small reputation for being an unfunny shitposter who no one paid much attention to. This is where Shii would spend a lot of time for the next few months, until June of 2018.
==== Escape to SDRS ====
After a couple of months in vanilla, Shii started getting tired of the constant shitposting and spam that was going on in the entrance area of vanilla (Basement). They went through alot of servers, and dropped by servers such as Virtual Lawyer Simulator (VLS), Slightly Better than Vanilla (SBTV), and Public Vanilla Server (PVS), until finally coming across Super Danganronpa Server.
When Shii first joined, there was little to no activity, and the people to greet them there were very kind, understanding that a noobie had just stumbled across their obscure community. It was here that Shii would start going by the name of Meister (originally AWP-ofMeister, but the SDRS members found it too long, so it was shortened to Meister). It was also here that Meister would start using his signature Yellow text, as AO did not have shownames at the time, and SDRS members used text colors to identify its members.
After having forged their new identity, Meister would hang around with the SDRS community for the next 9 or so months, from June 2018 until March 2019. SDRS was a roleplaying server based in the US, and Meister being located in Europe, could very rarely participate in RPs. It was during this time that Meister met one of their good friends, who went by Tulip who they would hang out with on some other servers while SDRS was inactive, who recommended to Meister that they go back to vanilla, seeing as though SDRS hardly had any activity outside of roleplaying times.
=== 2019 ===
==== Return to vanilla ====
In March 2019, Meister would return to vanilla, this time with an identity, more experience on AO overall, and was starting to develop skills on character creation, ini-editing, and other behind-the-scenes modifying of AO, outside of the coding itself. Meister would start using Yuuki Terumi, a BlazBlue character that Tulip (known in vanilla as Hun) had shown them, and they immediately fell in love with him. Meister would start creating additional sprites for Terumi, to further express themselves.
In the 9 months that Meister had been absent from vanilla, little had changed, and spammers and shitposters were still rampant and flooding the chat of Basement. Meister went to longbyte (the server owner) to ask for permission to be given moderator powers to try and subdue and regulate the spam. This would not happen until late May, by which point, a whole "Meister for mod" campaign had ramped up, and when one day the spam was especially excessive, longbyte finally relented and gave them the mod powers they had desired.
Meister immediately put their powers to use and cracked down on excessive spam, along with other mod colleagues. 
Looking away from the internal infighting in the mod team and mild drama in early-mid 2019, Meister did their job, and stayed in Basement (which by this point had been moved down to being Area 1, as Area 0 was renamed to Newbie Trap, later to Newbie Hole) with their friends, notably Neptune, Dusk, Hun, NeoWolfsBane, Manfred/Manny, ARel, and several others.
==== Involvement in drama and the Basement split ====
As the months went by and late summer came, Meister and the rest of Basement would be thrown into a cesspit of drama, spawned by accusations made towards Neptune impersonating one of her friends. The Basement discord server at the time had effectively turned against her, and Meister was among the handful of people who defended Neptune from the allegations, and stood by her side. This would domino-effect into Dusk, Hun, and some other members of Basement severing ties with the rest of Basement, and moving to the Meme Cases area.
After a few more months of infighting in the mod team and barking between Basement and Meme Cases, Meister would eventually resign as moderator in vanilla due to the harassment they were getting from the members of Meme Cases, and the rest of the mod team. Meister did not feel that it was worth holding the title at the cost of their mental health being drained, while their friends were mocked every other day they were in vanilla.
=== 2020 ===
==== Abandoning vanilla indefinitely ====
Around October 2019, Meister, Neo, Manny, Neptune and some others would abandon vanilla to create their own AO server, known as Detective Boys. This server would not go unnoticed for very long, as some of the members from Meme Cases in vanilla would occasionally drop by and effectively ruin the mood for the people in the server. In late November, Neptune died, which caused devastation and grief to the members of the QT (Meister, Neo, Manny, Jackie).
Meister took it especially hard and fell into a state of depression, as the two were extremely close, closer than most people in AO probably ever were. Meister would be in this state of depression for a long time, but would eventually come to terms with the loss in 2020, when they would return to vanilla briefly, but after a few months, abandoning it indefinitely.
=== 2020-2023 | The next 3 years ===
Despite abandoning vanilla, Meister would still stick around on AO on other servers, namely H.E.L.L., Studio Legale Wright and Co. [ITA] (one of the servers Meister and Tulip[Hun] had frequented back in the SDRS days), and a server named Stryquill and Co. Law Firm.
The QT would jump between these servers in case one of their old associates would discover them, with Stryquill seeming to be the most secure, as it took advantage of using different hubs to hide its areas from those who are not familiar with the hub system.
In early 2021, Meister would abandon QT (and subsequently AO) for personal reasons, and Meister's grudge against the morals of the rest of QT, seeing that they were a somewhat harmful influence to them as a person. Meister would be on his own for the next 6 months, until returning to QT in June 2021, surprising everyone in QT at the time. They were welcomed back into QT with open arms, and they would spend the next few months playing together and having a good time together. Towards the end of 2021, however, Meister would start to be less and less active in QT, eventually taking on the name 'NorShii' (or just 'Shii') in 2022. 
By the time 2023 rolled around, Shii would abandon QT yet again, after their Discord server got raided. Determined to put their past behind them, despite the good times they may have had, Shii bid them farewell, and didn't look back.
In October 2023, Shii would come back to AO, and vanilla, for the third time. Here they would stumble upon the newer generation of AO players, seeing that most of the veterans they were once acquainted with was no longer there.
In February 2024, Shii announced that they would be leaving Vanilla yet again on April 1st. However, this date was pushed forward to March 15th for numerous reasons;
* Crimson's increased activity in vanilla
* The banning of Psyra and Dedsu, caused by Carlos using an Argentinian VPN, making vanilla staff ban all Argentinian IPs
* Iniswap being disabled all across the vanilla server that same day.
Ever since March, Shii has moved on to Court of Attrition, and as of writing this, works as Content Control for CoA.
== Personality ==
Shii is a pretty laid back individual, who takes things on the chin and is described as a fun person to be around a lot of the time. Shii is a very sarcastic individual who generally shouldn't be taken very seriously, by default.
Shii notably has some anger issues and they may sometimes blow up in a fit of rage if they get overwhelmed by things that may embarrass or annoy them, pushing Shii beyond their limits. This can be attributed to Shii's ADHD, which has been a constant issue for them, both in the past and in the present.
Despite the laid back and somewhat tough exterior, Shii has a very soft side as well, which can fall to exploitation. They are generally sympathetic and is willing to give people second chances. 
Shii is very much a cat person, and will make it clear that cats are the best household pet if the debate of Cats vs. Dogs ever shows itself.
== Beyond AO ==
Outside of Attorney Online, not very much is known about Shii. They are from Norway (hence the 'Nor' in their username 'NorShii'), they have ADHD, and they work in IT, and that's pretty much as far as they are willing to talk about themselves. Shii is sometimes assumed to be a female due to their name and overall demeanor. This has since become an inside joke in their inner circle, since people still get confused on whether Shii really is a female or not.
When Shii is not on AO, they are likely playing a game on Steam, or doing something in real life, like work.
Some games Shii plays are:
* Team Fortress 2
* Honkai: Star Rail
* Hearts of Iron IV
* Ace Attorney (Investigations)
* Astroneer
* Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
* Mario Party Superstars
== Trivia ==
* The name Meister, and by extension, AWP-ofMeister was originally inspired by the professional CS:GO player 'olofmeister', who played for Fnatic and later FaZe Clan in CS:GO professional tournaments.
** 'AWP-of' was a play on words, connecting the 'of' from 'olof' and AWP, the most powerful weapon in CS:GO, together.
* After resigning as mod in August 2019, they have on numerous occasions tried to ask longbyte to make them a moderator again, to no avail.
* Even though Shii was big into character creation and using custom characters until their return to vanilla in 2023, they have stopped using custom characters to accommodate webAO users who would be unable to see them if they used a non-webAO character.
* Despite being a veteran AO member, Shii is not very familiar with a lot of features and changes that has happened to AO after they left vanilla in 2020.