Shadow Erika is pretty sure that the single best and most efficient way to get anything done is through intimidation and sheer force - whether that’s force of personality or straight-up violence. As such, her approach to just about everything will be a lot like that of a goddamn freight train, but if freight trains carried knives on them at all times. Pushback will just result in her pushing harder, and there’s a good chance of things getting violent fast.
Light Erika is… honestly a surprisingly chill person to be around? She can still be pretty irreverent and sort of bossy, but she’s a lot less inclined to aggressively escalate conflicts, and is a lot more openly invested in just hanging out with people she likes and having a good time and making sure they know they’re appreciated. She doesn’t really feel much of a need to use aggression unless it becomes necessary, which… original Erika will probably not appreciate.
GINKO
So, fun thing about Ginko: When he was a kid, he was, at various points, taken in by various con artists who used him as a tool to con more people and make more money. As such, he was taught at an early age that self-preservation is all that matters, and ended up with an intensely nihilistic and cynical worldview paired with some pretty severe depression. Since then, he has worked through to a point where he has a rather more charitable view of people and the world around him (still depressed and kind of nihilistic, though it’s a pretty chill form of nihilism now?), but those early lessons are still a part of him, albeit a part that he has done his best to leave behind.
Shadow Ginko absolutely fucking refuses to leave any of that behind. If you ever for some reason wanted to meet Ginko, but without any of the abiding faith in humanity(/other sapient beings) or concern for others or like… any sense of ethics, but all of the manipulative or selfish impulses that he generally does his best to stamp down, uh. Here he is.
Shadow Ginko is a manipulative, rude, potentially self-destructive asshole who figures that that’s basically fine, because everyone is out for themself anyway and none of it matters. It’s not good.
Light Ginko, on the other hand, mostly poses the risk of being really fucking embarrassing to interact with because holy shit did you know Ginko has a lot of feelings about a lot of people and concepts that he’s just been sitting on all this time? Because he sure does, and his light half has no interest in hiding them.
Basically, while it will probably come up the most in interactions with people he’s got CR with to begin with, Light Ginko will be pretty quick to comment on whatever good qualities he notices in people, without so much of the measuring and filtering of his responses that he usually goes through. Still a little bit probably, but, you know. Less.
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Shadow Erika is pretty sure that the single best and most efficient way to get anything done is through intimidation and sheer force - whether that’s force of personality or straight-up violence. As such, her approach to just about everything will be a lot like that of a goddamn freight train, but if freight trains carried knives on them at all times. Pushback will just result in her pushing harder, and there’s a good chance of things getting violent fast.
Light Erika is… honestly a surprisingly chill person to be around? She can still be pretty irreverent and sort of bossy, but she’s a lot less inclined to aggressively escalate conflicts, and is a lot more openly invested in just hanging out with people she likes and having a good time and making sure they know they’re appreciated. She doesn’t really feel much of a need to use aggression unless it becomes necessary, which… original Erika will probably not appreciate.
GINKO
So, fun thing about Ginko: When he was a kid, he was, at various points, taken in by various con artists who used him as a tool to con more people and make more money. As such, he was taught at an early age that self-preservation is all that matters, and ended up with an intensely nihilistic and cynical worldview paired with some pretty severe depression. Since then, he has worked through to a point where he has a rather more charitable view of people and the world around him (still depressed and kind of nihilistic, though it’s a pretty chill form of nihilism now?), but those early lessons are still a part of him, albeit a part that he has done his best to leave behind.
Shadow Ginko absolutely fucking refuses to leave any of that behind. If you ever for some reason wanted to meet Ginko, but without any of the abiding faith in humanity(/other sapient beings) or concern for others or like… any sense of ethics, but all of the manipulative or selfish impulses that he generally does his best to stamp down, uh. Here he is.
Shadow Ginko is a manipulative, rude, potentially self-destructive asshole who figures that that’s basically fine, because everyone is out for themself anyway and none of it matters. It’s not good.
Light Ginko, on the other hand, mostly poses the risk of being really fucking embarrassing to interact with because holy shit did you know Ginko has a lot of feelings about a lot of people and concepts that he’s just been sitting on all this time? Because he sure does, and his light half has no interest in hiding them.
Basically, while it will probably come up the most in interactions with people he’s got CR with to begin with, Light Ginko will be pretty quick to comment on whatever good qualities he notices in people, without so much of the measuring and filtering of his responses that he usually goes through. Still a little bit probably, but, you know. Less.