Ssoupcup / WebSMP

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ssoupcup is a player character on the WebSMP.

### Appearance

Soup is a pale human with green eyes, and black hair with white streaks. She wears a dark grey blouse and skirt and a lab coat over the top. It wears white stockings, black boots and black fingerless gloves. A burn scar covers the upper left side of her body and arm.

In artwork, Soup is depicted as wearing rectangular framed glasses, a belt chain with an attached pocket watch, and assorted jewellery including a cross earring, multiple studs and a choker with a cross, which is used to cover a knife scar on her neck. The origins of this scar are not initially made clear. The burn scar is depicted as covering the whole left side of her body from her neck to her knee, which is visible above her collar in the Minecraft skin. The burn is most severe on her lower arm and hand/fingers. Additionally in artwork Soup wears a burnt green ribbon, sourced from her previous outfit, and stocking garters with a holster for a knife on her right thigh. Her lab coat is most commonly depicted as being covered in ink and chemical stains which also appear across her hands.

### Personality

#### Season 2

A secretive, self-centred and somewhat pretentious individual, whose relief at beginning a new life became short-lived as she spiralled into paranoia. Her intensely obsessive nature became increasingly apparent as she isolated herself from others, using them only for information or for what benefited her in the moment or aided her research. Her research seemed to be all that mattered to her, and while she sought safety and security, she was willing to abandon that and just about anything else in return for more knowledge. Any friendliness that she appeared to have was merely a façade, there to disguise her distaste towards each individual in the world, upon whom she kept extensive notes. Towards the end of the world, she appeared to show increased concern over being a good person.

**Season 3**

Whilst initially seeming normal, Soup quickly fell apart into what appeared to be two distinct states. One was much like the others knew her in the previous world - mostly friendly and concerned for the others, but rather isolated. The other state was distinctly more malicious and overtly threatening, holding little regard for the wellbeing of anything but her research. Both sides seemed disturbingly obsessive over said research, and were far more secretive and deliberately manipulative of others. Following the murder of the 'Good', the 'Evil' side of the personality remained, growing increasingly reckless and disturbed with time.

### Story

#### Backstory

This backstory is yet to be mentioned in lore, but is canonical. The only other individual canonically with any of this knowledge is Dave.

Soup originates from a world lacking magic and a good deal of technologies - whilst the server's world does not seem to have a year system of any kind, she claims to have come from a world in the year '1943', having been born in '1925'. She grew up in a wealthy family as a child actor in the film industry, but quit at 16 to pursue academics. She applied under a false name to colleges and once she got in, she began to study the sciences. She had a particular interest in biology and psychology, and performed very well in her first year. With time, she grew increasingly ambitious and began to formulate plans for her own experiments or projects. One which she would later dub 'Project 0' (See also: Project 2), was an experiment which would explore the human mind and its limits.

She began to make arrangements to conduct this experiment in her second and final year, which would involve testing on other people. One evening when she stayed late in the building to continue working on the plans, her professor stopped by to chat. During the conversation he read her notes and was appalled at the idea of her using other people to experiment on, and so threatened to inform the school to get her expelled before she could go through with it. In response to the threats towards her scientific pursuits, Soup grabbed the scalpel on the desk she was using and murdered him in a fit of rage. Once she realised what she had done, she quickly attempted to cover up what had happened by using various chemicals to generate an explosion which she would blame the professors death on, and allowed herself to sustain injuries in order to make it more convincing.

The police however, were not convinced - it is hard to attribute a number of stab wounds and a blood stained scalpel found tossed outside the window to an accidental chemical explosion. Thus, Soup used her father's influence and wealth in order to get out of the charges and clear her name. Despite the official ruling being now in her favour however, word quickly spread and she began to experience social repercussions of her actions.

After a short amount of time, she no longer could take it and decided to run away. After gathering her documents, some research, money and some of her mother's jewellery- intending to sell it later on if need be - she left home in the middle of the night, meaning to walk to the next town's train station. Soon after she set off walking however, she began to get followed. Soup picked up her pace, and her pursuer began to run full speed, and in a moment of panic Soup took a wrong turning, running straight into a wall. When she came to, she found herself and all her belongings in the new world.

#### Season 2

After introducing herself to those around her, Soup headed off to find a place in which she could begin to research the unfamiliar world that she found herself in. After some scrutiny, she settled on a spot in the mountain range overlooking hub - somewhere she could observe, but still feel safe and secluded.

Progress remained slow until she found one day that her soul had been stolen, left alongside a ransom note requesting 32 diamonds for the return of her soul. Shortly after fulfilling the ransom but without yet receiving her soul back, Soup was visited by a stranger claiming to be a professional soul hunter. The individual stated that he did not need the diamonds, and would instead find Soup 'owing him' to be adequate. Soup agreed to this in haste, but once alone again, she regretted agreeing and decided to request help from Magichemist, who she deemed to be the most advantageous person to have some kind of an alliance with. In addition, she began to keep record of conversations and happenings in a diary, a habit she would keep up throughout the rest of her time in this world.

On the day of the meeting with Magichemist to discuss an alliance, Soup found her soul returned to her, which she promptly hid. In the midst of the discussion, Biscuit once again appeared, claiming that Soup's soul had gone missing, and that he would try to find it. She relayed this information to Magichemist once the other had left. After the meeting concluded, Soup decided to calm her unease by creating a secret room intended for people to find if they were searching through her home, inside which she left a fake diary and other items. Soup recorded every piece of evidence indicating snooping in her real diary, which she kept hidden elsewhere, and continued to grow more paranoid and aware that she was being constantly watched.

As time passed, anonymous messages and threats found their way into Soup's mailbox, ranging in specificity. She continued to isolate herself from the others, but despite this the threats kept being delivered. Out of concern for her own safety, Soup determined that moving into her ally - Narose's - base would allow her the most security.

Whilst her old home fell to ruin, Soup began to draft plans for a large library, which she intended to use to store not only her own books and notes, but those belonging to others. This would also be the site in which she could conduct her future research and projects.

One particular project which she had been conducting throughout the time in which she was receiving threats (which had now subsided with her relocation), intended to study the people in the world. Despite deliberately avoiding them, Soup found herself most intrigued by their reactions to threats and happenings in the world. In order to measure their response, she would send them and set up anonymous threats and notes in a similar style to which she had received. With time she became increasingly enraptured by this experiment - humanoid nature was always something she had been intrigued by - and her methods for conducting the experiment only continued to grow in their intricacy.

As the library neared completion, Soup felt that it housing only her own notes and those addressed to her was not enough. She began, with increasing frequency, to search the houses of others for more any information, no matter the level of importance. This, however, did still not satisfy her thirst for knowledge, and thus, she took it upon herself to make copies of all the significant books and notes in the world. They stashed the stolen books in a hidden area of her library, where she also stored her research. Now with more information than she could handle, Soup completely shut herself off from the others and began to focus only upon her self assigned task of researching the world and the people within.

As time progressed and the presence of the Gods became more prevalent, Soup found herself beginning to worry about the repercussions of her actions. She worried not only about what would happen if the others found out, but if the Gods were to know her intent, they may desire to harm her. With this worry playing on her mind, she began to feel guilt for her actions, and sought ways to negate what she had done. When giving up on habits of obsession and research proved too difficult, she decided to use this tendency to her advantage.

Soup spent some time creating a solution - Project 2 - which would split her soul into the two most prevalent halves - which for her, would be 'good', and 'evil'. The experiment was designed to split the two into separate entities, and if all went to plan, the good would kill the evil, leaving only the pure intent and personality behind. However, Soup had failed to account for the fact that her initial 'good', was far weaker than the 'evil'. Hence, when she conducted the experiment, the evil easily overpowered the good, threatening it with a knife to the neck before knocking it unconscious. When Soup woke, she found no body of the evil or the good, and with a foggy memory preventing her recalling exactly what had happened, she simply marked the experiment as a failure. Feeling too unwell to attempt a repeat, she decided to simply bide her time until the next world, which seemed to be drawing ever closer due to the actions of Magichemist.

In this short space of time, she began to realise some off occurrences. She would frequently find notes written by herself which she had no recollection of creating, along with dangerous experiment plans, and of all things, Magichemist's soul.

It was upon observing her own soul that she realised her fatal mistake. The experiment, rather than failing completely, had culminated in both the good and evil re-fusing, but not as one like she had been before. Rather, they existed within her with a clear divide, represented by a crack which began to stretch down the centre of her soul - meaning that her moralities would begin to form their own persona, which would likely become more distinct over time as her soul attempted to split into two.

The realisation of this caused Soup to spiral. With the concern of such a lack of control over her own actions, she decided the only thing to do would be to attempt to destroy the evidence. Not thinking clearly and influenced heavily by the destructive tendencies of the evil, she gathered TNT, placing it around her library. She made sure to use extra long fuses, which once lit, would allow her enough time to escape safely with her cat, some research, then her and Chemist's souls. Before detonating the explosives, Soup shattered the remaining vials of the solution on the ground, causing the solution to spill beneath the fuses. She hoped that all evidence of the chemical would be evaporated and destroyed with the rest of the library. However, as the fuses burnt down to where the pool of solution was located, the chemical reacted incredibly explosively, causing an instant detonation of the TNT and catching Soup in the explosion before she had any chance to escape.

Now in extreme shock and heavily injured, Soup sat in her library and watched it burn down around her, able to save only the souls and the collar of her late cat from amongst the flames. She would later return to attempt to salvage what she could, but almost everything she had was lost.

As the end of the world drew closer, she found herself craving the opportunity for a new start. Another, one in which she would fix the problems she caused. One that could do right this time, and perhaps finally reach out to the others. One which, surely, would not end in disaster.

**Season 3**

The beginning of the world saw Soup make quick progress out of a desire to build up some form of security for herself in order to focus on fixing her soul as soon as possible. She began with Magichemist's soul in her possession due to stealing it towards the end of the previous world, which would later prove to be advantageous.

Whilst initially she believed that Project 2 had been resolved in the transfer between worlds, she came swiftly to realise that she was incorrect in this assumption. Not only had the 'evil' side remained, but it had seemed to become more prevalent and distinct from the 'good', further represented as the crack in her soul began to grow. Hence, Soup decided she needed a cover up to not only provide an excuse for the actions of the 'evil', but also to throw the others off from finding out about project 2, and to find time to figure out a resolution,

The cover up she decided on she name Project 4 - a project on demons and possession. She asked the others outwardly about this project, hoping that if they caught on to the seeming divide in her personality, they would be influenced into believing it was due to possession.

Later on, Magichemist began to speak of a powerful deal offered toward whoever possessed his soul. After consideration, Soup decided that she would hear him out and wrote to him anonymously requesting a meeting.

The deal seemed greatly advantageous to her, and any reservations she held initially about interacting with the demon were quickly ignored in favour of the temptation of knowledge offered by the deal. She decided to sign the contract, effectively binding her and Chemist's souls.

The creation of this deal appeared to encourage the 'evil' side of her to slowly begin taking over as she began to realise the pure potential for power and knowledge that this contract had unlocked. Over time, partially due to the new inability to lie to him, Soup revealed more information to Chemist, including that of Project 2. She expressed excitement over the project and how 'interesting' things were going to get, especially with the goings on of the others.

Shortly before the Sculk Ball and the mind-wipe of Chemist, Soup gave him a book detailing things she wanted to know before she would lose access to him as a source of information. One of the key topics was demons, as despite the initial project being merely a ruse, she had begun to take interest in the information.

Following the ball, Soup began to find pages left to her by Chemist detailing how demons are created. This knowledge began to work its way into her head and became a point of obsession, overwhelming and distracting her from being able to focus on solving Project 2. This led to her soul continuing to fracture, causing the good and evil sides to become increasingly more distinct from each other. She attempted to counteract this and stay as the 'good' by creating and consuming a toxic solution of almost identical composition (1B)  to the original solution (1A) that had split her in two. Consuming this would supress the evil and prevent further splitting of her and her soul, but with time the more she consumed the less effective it became, meaning she had to consume it increasingly frequently for the effects to take place. An unfortunate side effect of this solution was its acidic and addictive properties. The regular consumption of this chemical was causing her to actively poison herself in an attempt to slow the splitting of her soul and suppression of the evil.

Overwhelmed by everything and beginning to completely fall apart, she started to act more angrily and irrationally towards the others, going so far as to attack Shrinebird for attempting to help her. She pushed the others as far away as she could, not wanting them to find out about the deal with Chemist, the pages, or project 2. Her many hidden books detailed how out of control she felt, the dual 'personalities', and gave conflicting information where she contradicted herself in multiple ways. The books also detailed her increased amounts of nausea and the state she was in due to consuming the solution, describing how she was getting weaker and closer to dying, and coughing up the acidic solution which had completely overrun her blood. This was a property of the 1B solution which had only become apparent as she continued to abuse it; how it lingers, seemingly does not dissipate, and increases in acidity over time despite losing its intended effect.

Fully losing hope in her ability to fix her soul before it fully split in two and with multiple factors contending to be what ended her, Soup consumed a dangerous amount of 1B, allowing the 'good' to return completely for a few weeks. She attempted to be more open toward letting others know what was going on, and eventually ended up confessing all her actions to Magichemist, whom she had been forcing to help her solve the pages. She managed to make some preparations, giving Shrinebird some books to share with the others what had been happening.

The following week, she repeated the initial experiment before her soul could break in two. She successfully re-split into the two entities, the good and evil, but the good seemed hardly to put up a fight, willingly allowing the evil to stab her to death.

As the others turned up, the survivor hid, watching as they discovered the corpse of the good. She observed them for a while before showing herself, finding their reactions amusing - although she worried that Chemist mentioned he felt that something had happened to his soul.

Once alone again, Soup hid the corpse, and stored the books that she wanted to keep. After the others took the remainder of the notes, she blew up the old archive, office, and her old room at the hub base. Now able to progress with her research without the hinderance of solving project 2 and her soul no longer actively fracturing, she began to construct labs for future use. In the meantime, she conducted an autopsy on the body of the good before destroying it, and began to experiment more with both versions of the solution, 1A and 1B. During this time Dave begun to work for her under contract, and would assist with various experiments. She additionally locked away the pages, although they seemed always to be playing on her mind - reflected in her rather reckless, disturbed behaviour and bouts of delirium. After speaking to Chemist regarding her options, she realised that she needed to make a decision on how she was going to deal with them, whether that be ridding herself of the knowledge, or committing a sacrifice which would cause her to become a demon, and potentially be under the control of the individual who had created the pages.

### Trivia

* The library explosion was not planned and was an accident. It is most often referred to as 'The Piss Incident', due to the death of Soup's cat 'Piss' in the explosion.
* Due to the burn scarring acquired from the destruction of her library, in season 3 Soup is unable to use their off-hand properly.
* Soup is not actually Soup's name, but is an alias taken from their surname. They have referred to themself as 'S. J. Soupart' - standing for Sapphira Jean Soupart. In the world she came from, she typically went by her middle name, Jean.
* The good and evil arc was almost entirely inspired by Jekyll and Hyde, one of the content creator's favourite books. Soup's final book, 'A confession of guilt', is particularly inspired by the final chapter of the original novel, 'Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case'.

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