Shrinebird / WebSMP

***NOTICE:** This article may contain spoilers for the lore of WebSMP.*

* Classic skin
* Scint. skin
* S3 skin

*This article is regarding the WebSMP character. For the CC playing them, see Shrinebird.*

Shrinebird is a player character on the WebSMP.

### Appearance

Shrinebird's classic skin is a pale humanoid wearing a black hoodie with a black-and-white striped shirt beneath, and black trackpants with a white stripe down each side. It's shoes are black and white trainers. It has black-and-white messy split dyed hair, and pointed ears, one of which has a purple earring. It's eyes are purple.

It's Scintillation skin is similar in physical form, but it's eyes are bright blue, and it has purple antennae with blue tips, purple and blue small wings, and purple taloned feet. It wears a long lilac tunic with a lilac capelet, with a lilac-and-white striped shirt beneath. It's earring is also blue.

In Season 3, it's skin became light blueish-purple and it's eyes returned to purple. It wears a purple shirt with long tails with blue gems attached, dark purple shorts with lighter stripes and brown turn-ups with plum bows, black 3/4 leggings, a purple hooded capelet with small flower patterning and a string of blue gems with gold buttons and plum ties, and brown corset belt with plum trim and gold chains. It has dark purple flared gloves and a leather strap choker with blue gems. It also wears a poppy earring alongside it's regular earrings. It also has 6 purple-toned dragonfly-style wings.

### Personality

#### Season 1

Shrine was concerned about the issues going on in the SMP, but seemed reluctant to act on it's concerns, waving away it's own apprehension around Magichemist and dismissing it's dreams as 'just normal'. It was protective over those it considered particularly vulnerable (it's adopted piglin son Alby, for example, even going so far as to build a whole bunker underground for him and it's pets Allium and Scoop).

#### Season 2

Shrine seemed to be more proactive in dealing with percieved issues. It seemed more nervous and distrusting, unwilling to give people information even if it seems like 'useless' information or that nothing bad would happen if it shared it. It expressed a desire to gather other people's SOULs and protect them, stating that it doesn't think people can take care of their own - likely residual feelings from the previous season.

Later in the season, it became more stressed, and when it felt it's allies had betrayed it by siding with Magichemist's idea to save the world, it became more irrational and seperated itself from it's prior allies. It began seeing dreams again, and was spoken to by something calling itself The Scintillation. Shrine elected to join with The Scintillation following it's feelings of being betrayed. It behaved much more illogically overall.

### Story

#### Season 0

*(Season 0 was not streamed or played but was stated as canon)*

0-TheodoreHelle's book revealed that 0-Shrine had asked 0-Theo to look after it's SOUL whilst 0-Magichemist was killing everyone. 0-Shrine's SOUL had 'died' on it's own sometime after this. It gave coordinates where it wanted to be buried. These coordinates led the Season 1 group to a grave at this location, which, when an allium was thrown on it, opened to reveal a staircase leading down into an enormous chamber with eye designs on the walls. The book inside revealed that 0-Shrine knew how to reset the timeline, but wasn't able to access the Dragon Egg without being killed by 0-Magichemist. It is implied that somebody else had found the information about resetting the timeline first, before either dying or being killed by 0-Chemist ('Before //// was gone, we knew that much'). 0-Shrine was the one who had realised the Egg was the source of power needed to fully reset time, from it's dreams. Without the Egg to power the clock, it instead ripped it's wings off (being a phantom) and assumedly fed them to the pool under the Hub, killing it's SOUL but leading time to partially reset and leading to Season 1.

0-Shrine's gravestone read 'all will end eventually'. It's unclear who this was written by.

#### Season 1

Shrine started the server and joined with Team 1, working together with them to build the Team 1 Base. It later built a house for itself on the lake behind the base.

Along with others, it went to the Research Station over the obsidian heart pit, and was the one to take the sword in there (Plague's Wings). After this, obsidian veins began to grow from the pit.

Shrine experienced strange dreams, with confusing messages and symbology that it didn't seem to understand, but hinted towards events happening on the server. Shrinebird described these dreams as 'prophetic'.

Some time after this, it began to build a seperate home, Fort Featherfall, very near to the location of the Pit. It adopted Alby, a piglin child, and built him a room and play area. Later, it began to construct a large, white concrete bunker under the fort, with various tools and rooms for survival there including an automatic farm and a garden.

It became more uncomfortable with Magichemist's actions over time, but continually brushed them off. Likewise, it seemed to disregard the continually growing obsidian veins from the research station hole, even as they got closer and closer to the fort. This behaviour continued until nearly the end of the season. This was up until nearly the final episode. It began gathering materials to craft potions, and gathered both it's pets Allium and Scoop plus it's son Alby into the bunker below the fort, sealing it closed and stating it would at least protect them for a while. At one point, it seemed to briefly consider connecting the veins with the obsidian chunk it had saved in a room of the fort, but reconsidered.

It told Hiyimi about it's plan to kill Magichemist, knowing they had been the one to throw Chemist's SOUL into the End void. It told Hiyimi that it was fine if they didn't help, but that Shrine had resolved to go through with it. In 0-Shrine's grave in the last session, it attacked and confronted Magichemist, stating "If you really wanted to stop being corrupted, you'd let me kill you here." Despite Chemist's protests, Shrine killed him with a diamond axe - the only permanent death on the server in Season 1.

It expressed remorse after finally killing him, stating to Chimera that it was mourning after she requested Shrine save Chemist's belongings for her. It asked repeatedly if it really had to do that, and said it didn't want to kill him, although after reading Chemist's journal it did say that it was probably a good idea that it killed him when it did.

It joined Hiyimi and Chimera in throwing the Egg into the fountain under the Hub, resetting time for season 2.

#### Season 2

Shrine rather quickly began building it's home base, an enormous tree just outside the mountain ring.

It was invited by NightUnfurled to aid in finding ABiscuit902's base and SOUL. It accepted, but stated it wasn't going to actually give the SOUL to Night as it was suspicious of her motives.

It teamed up with Hiyimi, Crimric and Harpthenoob in locating ABiscuit902's base, and continued to work with them in investigating the various events of the world. After locating and inserting one of the world shards, the group decided to keep it from the rest of the server until they had more information, leading to conflict between them and the rest of the server.

At one point, a stray ghast ball caused Shrine's tree to burn down. However, it appeared rebuilt, and after this a large clock appeared over the tree, alongside a yellow halo and a glitchy floating piece that read 'Anomaly Neutralised. Rollback Protocol Initiated. Disaster Protocol Initiated. Time Keeper Chosen. Rift Established And Stabilised. Chronostasis Achieved'. Fire then stopped spreading on the server.

Later, the text changed to read: 'Time Keeper Beware! The Harbinger Has Been Chosen. Beware The Ascension Project'.

One of the structures that appeared was a section of Fort Featherfall, from which Shrine obtained a pair of curse of binding and vanishing elytra that reduced it's health to extremely low. It immediately died to a piglin the next session and lost them.

As the season went on and more structures appeared, it became clear that Shrine, along with the other season 1 crew, did not remember the past season well. After re-learning what Magichemist had done the prior season, Shrine began warning others not to trust him and began actively acting against him.

After certain sculk-related events, Shrinebird began experiencing strange 'dreams' in which a being calling itself The Scintillation called out to it to summon them and join with them. They then appeared, as a blue light ball, in Shrine's basement. They promised Shrine protection and support, and Shrine eventually chose to join with them, giving them it's SOUL, which true to their word The Scintillation returned. Shrine also fed it ABiscuit902's SOUL after retriving it from Magichemist's vault. The Scintillation summoned vex to aid Shrine by protecting it's tree. Shrinebird began to develop vex-like features, and sculk spread over particular areas of it's tree.

It was later revealed in a 'dream' that The Scintillation was the one preventing Shrine remembering the previous season's events, to prevent Shrine questioning it's own actions back then (likely referring to killing Magichemist). This 'dream' was also the first time Shrine had spoken back (it's 'dream voice' is the sounds of amethyst), and also noted that it wasn't actually a dream, and was 'it's place'. Shrine requested them to stop blocking it's memories, and asserted that it was a neccesary component to The Scintillation as much as they were to it. The Scintillation apologised and allowed Shrine it's memories back, and promised to help it and it's allies escape the dying world.

Hiyimi approached Shrine asking for the destruction of their Soul due to ongoing end corruption, to which Shrine offered to bring them in to The Scintillation as well to avert this corruption, to which they agreed.

When Magichemist revealed his final plans, Shrine asserted that it had never trusted him, and encouraged the others to work against him. It requested aid from The Scintillation, who provided an item called Scintillation's Diffraction, which could be used to hijack Magichemist's portal. Shrine managed to convince the rest of the server to go with it and The Scintillation's plan, to allow them at least some control over the world they ended up in. It joined the others entering the portal to the next world.

It was not present for the pre-season 3 event in the inbetween world, as Shrinebird was running the event.

### Trivia

* Shrinebird sees in shifted colours (viewing green as purple etc). If viewed itself in these colours, it's eyes go from purple to the same green as phantom's eyes.
* The phrase 'dream other dreams, and better' from 0-Shrine's book is a quote from a version of the novel 'The Mysterious Stranger' by Mark Twain.
* According to a conversation during the construction of the colosseum in Season 1, Shrinebird canonically believes that fish are not animals.
* It's dialogue sound in it's dream world is amethyst block noises. It's dialogue is displayed in purple in the font 'Retro'.
* It has an adopted son named Alby, who it took in in Season 1. Alby is an undead baby piglin.

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1. ↑ https://twitter.com/shrinebird\_oto/status/1490762413939081225
2. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/973751-you-are-not-you--you-have-no-body-no-blood-no