Thoth

**Thoth** (Minecraft IGN: Toth\_1), is a member of 852 Resurgence. He is a member of the MRT Diaspora. As his former username suggested, he likes cats and has one in real life. He is currently enrolled in college, in which he is studying to be a librarian.

## History

Thoth came from the MRT, where he was and still is a long-time and fairly active member. He is friends with many people in the MRT Diaspora, including but not limited to Aqua (known to him as mi), Frogggggg (known to him as frog), even becoming friends with the 852r Founder on the MRT, Card0 (known to him as Harbor). Eventually, after being curious about 852r for months from hearing his fellow MRT-ians talking about it, he finally asked Card0 for the invite link to the server near the start of 2022.

Once he joined, he wasn't active on the server except to play counting and interact largely only with the people he knew from the MRT. This changed with the rise of 852rSMP, in which he got to know a select portion of the rest of the community some more through Minecraft. Though he died many times initially, he managed to stabilize after joining the Mutualist Republic of New Estonia with Card0. He founded the United Infrastructure Guild in order to serve the server better through infrastructure and to organize like-minded people into a united front to build infrastructure. He also wrote the first contribution to the server library and archives at Spawn, which was his idea. When New Estonia got blown up during the Embassy crisis, he left his house and moved over 4,000 blocks away from Spawn, both as a temporary living arrangement as well as work on the United Infrastructure Guild HQ among other . However, it should be noted that he still considered himself a part of New Estonia during this time. As of the start of May 2022, he moved back and extensively renovated his house. While he was doing this, he formed partnerships with kup and noodles. The latter of which joined the United Infrastructure Guild and that both people connected their relatively close houses together.

He is also active on the 852r WIki, making regular edits to it even when he otherwise isn't active anywhere else in the community.

Towards the end of October, Thoth was nominated by Card0 for Mediator. He succeeded in getting the rank, with all but one of the people who voted in his poll voting for him being promoted.

Due to getting older and increasing dissatisfaction with how things are run on the MRT, Thoth has become more active on 852 Resurgence, even if it's only a little. Also because of increased maturity, he has largely disassociated with Ruffism.

## Personality

Thoth is very kind and optimistic. Though in the community, he readily interacts (especially after 852rSMP went live) with people. In real life, on account of his Autism (he is nevertheless very high-functioning, even indistinguishable from normal people), he is somewhat introverted, generally interacting with few people outside his family and his circle of friends. Even with these people, he has amicable relations with them. Though he enjoys having fun, he is capable of being serious and has a work-ethic to boot.

His ideals are, in no particular order, community, compassion, equality, justice, mercy, generosity, honesty, integrity, and tolerance. These stem from his political beliefs as a leftist and his religious beliefs as a moderate non-denominational Christian and vice-versa.

His interests (outside of 852r and Minecraft) include science (especially astronomy), history, comparative religion and philosophy, politics, writing (he is an aspiring author as his Discord profile description says), reading (would read anything that is not horror), art, TV and film (would not watch horror. anything too violent, or depressing). He is happy to talk about all of these things casually.

According to the prestigious 16 Personalities online quiz, his personality is an assertive advocate (Code: INFJ-A).

## Beliefs

Thoth's beliefs are summarized here. While he usually feels free to discuss his views, he almost never reveals his views about right to life issues and the Israel/Palestine confilct because regardless of his views, people on the other side, at least some of them, will think he is a jerk to say the least.

As said under personality, Thoth religious-wise is a moderate and non-denominational Christian. Heritage-wise, he connects with Catholicism the best, having a generally favorable view of the Pope, but not feeling beholden to him. Instead respecting him as a great leader and person in general. In matters of theology and church governance, he is Protestant, specifically Congregationalist. He also finds meaning in Buddhism.

For political views, Thoth sees himself as a democratic socialist, supporting a move away from capitalism, but feeling strongly that it can be done "within the system" and not with autocratic and/or revolutionary means. He feels that democracy is the best way to run things. That said, he is neutral on the republic vs. monarchy debate, feeling that both are good as long as the people have a say and aren't oppressed. He largely votes for and supports, but isn't officially a part of, the Democratic Party is his home country the United States, but thinks that the country on a federal level should adopt a multi-party system with ranked choice voting. He has intense dislike for the anarcho-communist and other stereotypes of the left made by the right in his country. He feels that his country should "export" democracy to countries in need of it or are struggling as long as it is done peacefully.

As for Hong Kong, he feels that China should stop oppressing and actually listen to the protesters, up to and including repealing the National Security Law and letting Hong Kong secede if the people want that. To summarize, he supports the pro-democracy bloc in Hong Kong politics.

## Trivia

-He wears glasses in real life.

-Thoth is asexual, specifically heteroromantic.

-Thoth is from Maine.

-His favorite TV show is *The Simpsons*. His favorite cartoon (which he personally defines as an animated TV show directed at children) is *Amphibia*.

-His favorite foreign country is Japan. Purrcat also unironically likes India, France, Romania, and Spain.

-He reads travel guidebooks for fun.

-Thoth is the only Staff member to have not lived in Hong Kong at some point in his life.