Kayshoe (Willow SMP)

All characters described are fictional.This page refers to the Willow SMP character. For the creator who plays this character, see Kayshoe.

## Kayshoe (Willow SMP)

* Sculk 2
* Sculk 1
* Formal Attire
* Normal

## General Info

### Aliases

Kayshoe, Kay, Shoe, Lady, Mario (while invisible)

## Affiliations

### Builds

Kayshoe's Cottage, Community Kitchen, Kayshoe's Village

## Other Info

### Date joined

September 16, 2022

 —kayshoe

Kayshoe is the founder of the Willow SMP, as well as the server's owner. She joined on September 16, 2022, spawning under the Willow Tree with little memories about who she was, where she came from, or how she ended up there.

She is portrayed by the content creator of the same name.

## Physiology

### Appearance

Kayshoe's appearance is apparently human-like, though her species is unknown. Her in-game appearance shows gray hair tied into two buns, blue eyes, and pale skin. She wears a lavender hoodie, gold earrings, black pants, and black shoes. Parts of her face, head, and torso have begun turning a bluish-black, the colors associated Wardens and sculk.

### Biology

Kayshoe appears to have human biology. However, she has begun losing her vision[1] and her ability to read[2], seeing mostly darkness around her. This is likely a consequence of her involvement in the Sculk Empire and transformation to a Warden hybrid. These don't seem to affect the thoughts, though. She also does not anger Wardens as a normal human would and feels protected by the Warden who is the master of the Sculk Empire.

## Personality

Kayshoe was previously fairly timid, preferring peace and comfort to taking action in many cases. Even if this personality is dwindling, though, she still enjoys building and decorating cozy spaces, picking flowers, cooking, and helping others in any way she can. She has a habit of picking a few of any flowers she comes across.

Though she is a capable fighter, Kayshoe dislikes violence unless necessary or in retaliation, and she mainly believes that resolving conflict peacefully is a preferable option. Her peaceful nature shows even in mundane acts. On her first day of the Willow SMP she accidentally provokes a mother bear. She returns later and settles their score by offering a flower, stating that it would work since everyone loves flowers.[3]

However, Kayshoe finds strength in others, often able to be coaxed into a more risky or unfamiliar situation by the courage of her allies. For example, Stark was able to convince her to explore the Spaceship and the Temple shortly after they met.

As she has spent more time in the Willow SMP, however, her habits are seemingly becoming more violent, her passive, caring self diminishing with the rise of the Sculk Empire. Notably, she complains of thoughts that urge her to do violent acts, and she makes regular sacrifices, including of other players, to spread the Sculk. These actions, however, are out of her control and go far against her typical, gentle personality.

She has very much distanced herself from the rest of the server after the burning of the Sculk Cave, moving further away and interacting less frequently with other members. She is very passionate about her involvement with the Sculk Empire, to the point where she interacts far less with other server members than she used to, but she also feels upset by being excluded from Lanayru's map[4], showing that she does still wish to be accepted by the other members. She also seems to still fear the Warden, stating that it would sometimes go after her or getting anxious that it would be mad at her when she showed up to the deep dark. She fears the Warden eventually plans to kill her, especially if she were to step out of line.

## History

On September 16, 2022, Kayshoe spawned underneath the Willow Tree at spawn, not knowing who she was or how she got there. On that same day, she met Stark, who convinced her to explore, loot, and take over the temple that would become the Donghouse. He nearly convinced her to explore the Spaceship near spawn as well, but she did not go with him there due to the danger of just getting up. She showed her reserved, peaceful tendencies, mainly staying out of danger and offering flowers instead of fighting.

One week later, Pink and Lue spawned near the Willow Tree as well, also recalling little about their past. Kayshoe empathized with their situation and helped them get settled, despite Stark's protests. Due to the new players in the area, Kayshoe began constructing the Community Kitchen. Later that day, Stark crashed his plane into Kayshoe's Cottage while trying to pick up Lue, damaging it. This resulted in a loss of Kayshoe's trust toward him.

Shortly after that, Kayshoe, Lue, and Pink discovered and provoked a Warden while mining. Kayshoe obtained a sculk catalyst from defeating the warden, which she placed in a small cave on the side of a mountain across the river from her house. She began using the setup for regular sacrifices of mobs, players, and even herself to a "Sculk Empire," which aimed to spread the sculk blocks across the mountainside. After being sacrificed themself, Jade described her actions as "witchcraft."

On October 7, 2022, four new people (Decked, Enoch, Bob, and Shlook) arrived at the SMP, and Kayshoe witnessed most of their arrivals. She felt incredibly overwhelmed by the sudden influx of new people and the confusion that came with it, hiding for parts of the day and occasionally snapping at people. She sacrificed more players to the Sculk Empire that day due to the amount of new people and explained what the purpose of the Sculk was to a very confused Shlook. Later that day, Kayshoe's Cottage was again blown up by Stark crashing his plane, killing two of her pets. She mourned their deaths, making graves for them and performing a funeral.

It was suggested that Kayshoe's actions for the Sculk Empire are not fully voluntary. Several times, she has stated that she is a minion of something below the surface and that the sacrifices are not fully of her own volition. On several occasions, she has gotten carried away after a large sacrifice and killed others who were in the area, again suggesting that she is not fully in control during these experiences. Large chunks of her streams will often be missing, and she gets very defensive about sculk-related accusations, sometimes seeming to have forgotten or have been unaware of them in the first place.

Sometime in January of 2023, Kayshoe's Sculk Cave was burned to ashes by an unknown party, and Kayshoe was outcast and forced to abandon her cottage and restaurant. She moved to the countryside, starting a village of her own. Around that time, she started to push everyone away even when some wished to visit her village, and her appearance changed to include bits of sculk, suggesting something more sinister was slowly taking over.

On January 28, 2023, Pink revealed to Kayshoe that she was a shiftling, citing that Bertha the Bounty Hunter seemed to be after hybrid species and warning Kayshoe as she seemed to be developing Warden-like traits. Kayshoe, defensive, denied the observation. Later, along with most of the server, she helped Pink and Shlook in their fight against Bertha and aided in their victory. The trust that Pink and Shlook put in her and the help that Kayshoe contributed seemed to solidify her place as their ally.

Kayshoe was invited to officiate Jade and Lue's Wedding on June 4, 2023 due to her experience with marrying Wardens and the renewed trust the server had in her after the Battle of Bertha. The wedding went very well, Kayshoe marrying the couple and hosting the reception afterward. Unfortunately, though, this new friendship and trust would be short-lived. Before the wedding, Kayshoe found a gift that contained a sculk catalyst with an ominous message, which she would later deliver as a wedding gift from her to Jade[5]. Kayshoe had no memory of putting the gift together and attempted to blame Shlook for it after Jade confronted her about it. This led to Shlook, Jade, Pink, and Lue gathering to theorize about the gift and about Kayshoe's odd behavior, which Kayshoe overheard and was not pleased with.

Shortly after, Kayshoe realized that her Warden transformation had made her become mostly blind. Despite the new disability, she began maintenance and upkeep on her village and base, including grocery lists, new pets, and more sacrifice in the cave beneath the village. While she did this, Pink prepared to spy on her and find vulnerabilities in the Sculk Empire. Kayshoe and Pink had a long conversation at Kayshoe's base, which culminated in Kayshoe attempting to show Pink the Warden. Pink seemed to sympathize slightly with Kayshoe as she spoke of how the Warden mistreated and used her with little benefit on her end.

Stark returned after some months of having disappeared, and Kayshoe made a deal with him that he would be allowed to build a town next to her village. She soon realized what a mistake it could have been due to his meme builds and the potential for more airplane accidents, but she could not reverse her end of the bargain so she put up with Stark's antics.

On August 13, 2023, Lue and Pink confronted Kayshoe after finding sculk spread throughout Lanayru. During this, Kayshoe sounded as if she had two voices, as if the Warden was speaking through her. Shlook arrived to the scene and also stood against Kayshoe, and eventually Kayshoe left. Kayshoe realized what she had done to Lanayru but did not remember doing it or being involved in the confrontation with Lue, Pink, and Shlook. She wrote a haphazard apology letter, promising to go on a long vacation so as not to hurt anyone, and left the note in Pink's mailbox. Pink caught Kayshoe and talked to her about joining the Sculk Empire because of her having met the Warden during their previous conversation.

After this conversation, Kayshoe ran up to Shlook, who had been about to go to bed, in a frenzy. She explained how Pink had asked to join the Sculk Empire and tried to express the same points she had written in her apology letter - that the Warden was taking over her body and she was not acting voluntarily in the name of the Sculk Empire. Shlook was surprised by this interaction but agreed that Pink was suddenly acting very strangely. Worried, Shlook elected to sleep on it and Kayshoe left.

On August 16, 2023, the Sculk Empire's plans to reach the surface began. Kayshoe and Pink went to visit the Warden in the Ancient City. Pink, having brought 30 levels with her, sacrificed herself to the Warden, officially becoming a member of the Sculk Empire. The pair then discussed a plan to spread the sculk across the server by killing all of the others. They began to prepare harming potions, bombs, and crossbows with fireworks. Kayshoe prepared invisibility potions, since part of the plan required trust in Pink and Kayshoe would have to remain undetected.

An invisible Kayshoe turned up to Shlook's training grounds while Shlook, Lue, Stark, and Pink were using the grounds. The four of them believed the invisible figure to be a ghost named Mario, and Pink suggested they visit a Sacred Garden to rid themselves of the ghost. The one catch, however, was that no armor, gear, or weapons were allowed inside of the garden. Shlook briefly went home to drop off some important items, but everyone then proceeded to the Sacred Garden, stripped of their gear at the entrance.

After everyone entered the circle, they began chanting "Mario, Mario, go away, don't come back another day" to get rid of the ghost. After a while of this, Lue, Shlook, and Stark sat on one of the benches in the garden. Kayshoe then revealed herself by blocking the entrance to the garden, and Pink shot all three of them, taking them out almost instantly due to their lack of gear. It was clear that the garden was rigged with sculk catalysts, as the group's deaths caused an enormous spreading of sculk throughout the garden and its surrounding area. As the trio bled out, Pink cackled, and Kayshoe gave a speech about the spread of the sculk and the imminent rise of the Sculk Empire. The pair then stole all of the discarded gear.

## Relationships

 Lue | Negative
 Pink | Neutral-Positive
 Shlook | Negative
 Jade | Negative

## Trivia

* Kayshoe often names new, and generally more expendable, pets "Stanley" as a reference to a clip[6] featuring a horse that content creator Kayshoe tamed and promptly lost while playing on another, older server.

## References

 6. 5trklive [kayshoeLive] () "Stanley's whole life" (Clip)