Well, Shade was dissolved by acid, then forced to live eternity *as* the acid, forever in pain, and never able to touch anything living, lest they get stuck in the acid hive mind with him. Though, I’m not sure you’d call it a hive mind, as each mind trapped in the acid can think freely, they just communicate with each other, and swap control every now and then. There’s about 3 minds in Shade so far. Anomaly, on the other hand, became that through painful experiments she did on h.erself, trying to gain power, to gain fame. She has parasites attached to her hands, eating away at her skin, as well as slowly creeping up her arms. She thought she could alter the parasites too, rather than eat her skin, to clean it. She was wrong though, and is steadily being eaten away by bugs. She’s on a quest to try and make those around her be like her. And as the cherry on top, they are SIBLINGS! At least, Anomaly and the main, original mind of Shade are.

Hope you enjoyed this massive lore dump