✺

✺

A render of ✺'s skin

*Not to be confused with ☆*.

**✺** is the antagonist of the first act of The Bottom of the Void. ✺ is one of the four characters to appear on the adminspace doors. The others are ⤫, ꕚ, and . ✺ opposes ⤫ and ꕚ, as evidenced by their different skin colors. ✺ and  have never interacted directly, as the latter's role in the story is unknown.

## Role

✺ planned to spread the void entities beyond the boundaries of Minecraft. In "The Beginning," Markus removes ✺ via an adminspace terminal. Afterward, the author archives Markus's consciousness into ✺'s body.

## Personality

✺ is very erratic. His typing is shown to be extremely frantic, with repeating words/sentences and weirdly spaced words and capitalized words. His movements are shown to be erratic too, looking around frantically, changing directions, pausing to stare at walls, etc. He is easily angered, and when angered, will become extremely threatening but calms down quickly.

## Appearance

The base of ✺'s skin is black but has white drawings. On his head, his white outlines resemble the symbol that represents his name. The rest of his white coverings are one-pixel straight lines; however, on his arms, they are diagonal instead.

## Coverage

* investigation (reference)
* the investigation part 2 (mentioned)
* the investigation part 4 (recording)
* instructed (likely)
* demo01 (recording)
* demo02 (reference)
* v=3VWJelB3Hmk
* Investigating a breach in Sky4; Sector 1 (mentioned)
* 00071
* The Beginning (death)
* Finality (mentioned)
* Nguyen's Footage - #10 Admins (mentioned)
* #15 (mentioned)
* tn12 (mentioned)
* aud02 (mentioned)
* aud03
* Jamie's Footage - #2 (mentioned)
* Nguyen's Footage - #29 Laketown Complex (mentioned)

### Act 1

✺ was one of the first characters introduced in TBOTV, acting as its main antagonist.

While ✺ never appeared directly in the beginning of Act 1, he was responsible for many of the anomalies that Markus witnessed.

The first direct reference to ✺ was in investigation, the items of a chest were arranged in the shape of a star.

In the investigation part 2, ✺ joined Markus' world, calling his name several times. It is this video when Markus first makes a connection between ✺ and the Void beings.

✺ recorded the first half of the investigation part 4 using Mark's account. In the video, he destroys half-door slabs and places iron doors in the tunnels. The final slide of the video are several stars. It's also possible that ✺ has instructed Markus to record the investigation part 4.

In demo01, ✺ is in the Sky4 sector and signs a book titled "mark101."

✺ does not directly appear in demo02, but a painting has a star. Additionally, the "mark101" book reappears.

✺ reappears in v=3VWJelB3Hmk, although he doesn't do anything.

In Investigating a breach in Sky4; Sector 1, ꕚ says that, according to ⤫, five entities were present during the breach: mark101, ⤫, ✺, Subjugate, and Integrity.

✺ appears in the first half of 00071 as part of a flashback. The video references the website, which has now been written by ✺.

✺ reappears in The Beginning. In the video, ✺ rants to Markus, saying the blocks are hard-coded. ✺ then accidentally confirms that he was responsible for the Void beings, correcting himself by saying, "my enemy." When Markus walks away, ✺ threatens Markus to return. When Markus refuses, ✺ increases the violence of his threats, and Markus returns to the terminal. ✺ demands that Markus doesn't touch the terminal, claiming it to be broken. Markus then says he will kill Jamie before ✺ does if the next command he types doesn't work. Suddenly, ✺ begs Markus to stop typing, promising him anything he wants. Markus doesn't care; he executes the command, removing ✺ in the process.

In Finality, the author archives Markus' consciousness into ✺'s body.

### Act 2

✺ was mentioned several times in Act 2:

* In Nguyen's Footage - #10 Admins, 𒄆 says the admins don't want ✺ to return.
* In #15, the author says he added event 00071 to the script because ✺ wouldn't comply. The second author says ✺ saw him prepare the first video in Sector 4, likely referencing a deleted video.
* In tn12, entry 9 of ⤫'s book reads, "✺ used to live here." In this context, "here" is near ⤫'s small house.
* In aud02, a rep act author re-iterates 00071 from #15.
* In Jamie's Footage - #2, the JamiePlayzMC clone says, "Author, star and Father are busy taking care of AUD" at 4:58, implying that ✺ was revived.
* In Nguyen's Footage - #29 Laketown Complex, the author says the Father and ✺ (referred to as "Star") have Nguyen's friends. Then, the author claims Nguyen would rather have the Father and ✺/Star die, calling Nguyen a "selfish prick."

✺ finally appears at the very end of aud03 alongside the author and mark101, as a character with ✺'s skin and name appears without glitches.

## Gallery

✺ spamming "markus" in the chat. (instructed)✺'s reappearance in aud03 @ 5:11