Chara

## About

**Cherry** (also known as **Chara**) is a **Bagel Baron** in the **Shakey Bakery**.

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Joining the server in late July 2020, Cherry originally stayed out of conversations and instead lurked from time to time. Occasionally posting screenshots of her Hearts of Iron IV and Victoria II playthroughs (most notably her restoration of Gran Colombia in the former and her conquest of all of China as New England in the latter) in **#gaming**, she only started being active on a daily basis in mid-October 2020, especially in **#hoi4-modding** where she introduced her latest mod idea.

## Modding

Having been awarded **Markook Modder** on the 19th of October, Cherry has a history of creating dumb meme mods (none of which were ever completed or published), including scenarios such as "what if Haiti won WW1" or "what if the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic became the world's superpower".

Slowly gaining modding experience from the primitive mods she worked on since late 2017, she officially moved on to more ambitious projects in late 2019 when she started work on her largest project to date, Peace Always Prevails, in which the first World War never happened. Putting significantly more work into it than usual, the mod featured a 1922 start date in which the Austro-Hungarian Empire started collapsing and the Russian Civil War was still going strong. This mod, however, was never published due to lack of motivation.

She then started development on another mod named Italian Ambitions, based around the Kingdom of Italy being the major victor of the first World War. Originally thinking it would end up as another meme mod, she instead started putting even more work into it than she had done with her previous mod - so much so that on the 20th of April 2020, she published Italian Ambitions on the Steam Workshop, of which it managed to reach the front page for a day. Its page received over nine thousand unique visitors, and currently has just shy of 1,500 subscribers. It received regular updates until the 18th of May, which marked the mod's (current) last update. She kept working on an update for the next few months, which would have included a German Civil War, a reworked Russian Civil War, several bug fixes and a handful of focus trees - although work on the mod was cut short around October due to lack of motivation.

Her current project, The Fall of Reason, was started on the 18th of October, and looks to be her most ambitious project to date. Following a timeline in which the Great War ended in the early 20s on a stalemate, the mod sports a dismantled French nation à la The New Order's Russia, a disunited Great Britain with an Ultranationalist England, a German Empire barely staying afloat following a massive Polish rebellion, a weakened Soviet Union, a fascist Kingdom of Italy under Benito Mussolini and an Ottoman Empire that treated the return to the status quo as a massive victory. Still in very early development, Cherry often posts updates about her mod in **#hoi4-modding**.

Despite her long history of Hearts of Iron IV modding, she has never actually worked on a mod with other people.

## Personal Life

Cherry is currently studying Computer Science in an engineering school. She enjoys playing video games, and especially 2D, retro (or simply retro-looking) games: among her favorite games of all time are **Mother 3**, **Undertale**, **Cave Story**, **OneShot** and **Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky**. She also enjoys the **Danganronpa** series, the **Pokémon** series (up until 6G) and **Persona 4**, which she has recently completed. She's also read the entirety of **Homestuck**.

Despite never having actually watched an episode of **My Little Pony** in her life, she's always had a soft spot for the series's character and art style. Her Steam profile used to be themed after her favorite pony, **Twilight Sparkle**, and she often uses My Little Pony-themed profile pictures when playing games like Counter-Strike.