Toylucent

Toylucent's Minecraft Skin

Toylucent is an Inchling who spends the majority of their time digging underground. It is enigmatic at times, and more often than not ridiculous and confusing, but it's shown to be exceptionally focused on its goals as well.

## Appearance

Toylucent is a small, mostly plush toy, complete with big eyes and squishy body full of fluff. They do however have a hard glass cover on their stomach, and its hands are tough enough to dig through stone (seemingly without breaking it into cobblestone). It has a gem of some kind hanging off a single antenna, and 6 tentacle-like protrusions that frame its face on either side.

They are majority purple in colour, but glow gold from certain parts of their body- namely the swirl on their chest/stomach, the gem, and from the pads on their hands and feet. It is constantly expelling extremely fine Redstone Dust from its body as they move around, and along with the fact that they're rarely seen without large quantities of the powder on their person, this leads to it having a very distinct trail of redstone dust that rubs off on everything around it.

## Personality

Toylucent is a chaotic and energetic being with no concept whatsoever of most social constructs. Examples include having no volume control whatsoever, regularly crawling up to people's heads or shoulders to sit, taking items out of chests with little regard as to if they belong to someone, and more! None of these register as being rude or even remotely inappropriate to it, and they act impulsively and without hesitation at all times.

This lack of understanding also extends to how they talk about things and what they say. It has more or less two tones of voice; curiously confused and very excited, used when talking about anything at all. They happily give their perspective on anything from honey to murder, and will ask questions as it thinks of them.

This forces them to strike an odd balance between naive and uncanny. Their clear unawareness of themselves and everything around them makes it seem childish, but its cheerful retelling of violence and of times when things were completely different oppose the idea that it's any kind of young.

## History

What exactly happened to Toylucent is currently unknown. It remembers nothing of its past, nothing of the apocalypse at any point in time, and seems to have a lot of expectations about the world that aren't met. Given there's no one left from before the apocalypse, it's unlikely this information will ever be discovered, save for through potential legends or stories at best.

The truth is that Toylucent is a kind of being known as a Vein Tender, part of a subset of beings known as Heartstone Constructs. These creatures are not water based, unlike most life in The Overworld, but redstone based, created using materials of many kinds and sustained by the life giving energy of redstone itself. When The Apocalypse happened, Toylucent and all other Heartstone Constructs were immediately ""killed,"" or rendered immobile by the sudden lack of redstone in the world.

Toylucent specifically survived because of where it had been at the time of The Apocalypse. Its resting place was lucky enough to remain undisturbed for an impossibly long time, despite the world shifting and evolving and changing in many ways, until eventually the pull of redstone in the world was once again enough to rouse it from its inactive state- albeit not without damage from how much time had passed.

This nature of Toylucent's existence is easily observed by taking it out of The Overworld. While in a dimension like The Nether, where Redstone is scarce if it exists at all, Toylucent immediately falls inactive, unable to respond in any way to its surroundings- or any danger. It does not remember these moments whatsoever.

After being reactivated, it resumed the task it had originally and always had; working on upkeeping and spreading veins of redstone up from the heart into the world. It is singularly focused on this goal above all else, seeing this as an extremely important task for the health of the whole world around it. Who knows, maybe it's right.

## Relationships

#### Puffball (Friend)

While Toylucent considers itself to be friends with everyone, Puffball is a notable greater friend to them. They have both bonded over not understanding "flesh creatures" well, as Puffball has phrased it, and have spent a more notable amount of time interacting together than anyone else has with Toylucent. They may not understand things like boundaries and property, but Toylucent has started understanding that they are not supposed to talk about certain things about Puffball to anyone else.