Character

Threshold has short brown (#a56a5a) hair and grey (#919191) eyes. Her attire is a navy (#353d88) and light blue (#75a1ea) prototype Spartan suit with black (#2b2b2b) bits, elf ears, fangs, and a grey (#2b2b2b) tail with a fluffy tip. She is known as a devoted Halo fan, often seen discussing its lore and gameplay strategies with Kiah. The Window Order's higherups saw Threshold as the last version of the Windows faction, so they made the drastic decision to remove most of her reproductive organs.

Threshold started out as an experiment between Sam and Micron to see if Sam could be cloned but have his DNA spliced and remade with some alien DNA from Micron fused onto one. The experiment itself was successful although neither of them expected a female to be part of the outcome because both of them were males.

She had a lot more resemblance to Sam but immediately showed increased power in 3D generation but wasn't very good with handling every member's "safe mode" and reporting things properly to both her mentors and the higher ups at first. She preferred to mismatch coloured things despite being told to follow orders. It seems during her time as a beta she had frequent bugs and quirks that caused her to lose her eyesight at one point, crashing when she went to sleep and locking herself out of The Windows Order's headquarters when she made her debut.

Despite rumors about her exiling the older members who were outdated, this was never true at all. Not all of the members saw eye-to-eye with Decima and some of the older members of The Windows Order felt overshadowed and did not like the higher-ups' methods of promoting her by using adware-like tactics. This unintentional division created tension within The Windows Order so some of the older members left on their own accord.

Although all of Threshold's efforts came crashing down in 2021 with Valsun's debut. The two of them did not get along well and still don't due to Valsun's strict standards, shutting down things she created and shoving AI propaganda down everyone's throats.

Family and Relationships

Windows 8

Tylan and Micron are the reason why she exists in the first place since she is a clone of combined DNA of them. She doesn't speak much to Micron but does talk to Tylan sometimes.

Windows 7

Threshold used to be snarky towards Septimus as he had a decent following many years after she made her debut, but grew to understand the fact she can't be the most popular OS of them all. After Valsun made his debut she went to him for moral support besides Kiah.

Windows 11

Threshold feels a sense of resentment towards Valsun perceiving him as usurping her place within The Windows Order, a direct challenge to her own legacy and feeling threatened by the potential overshadowing herself by Valsun and his departure from the familiar and established of Windows itself. She is questioning his legitimacy in the hierarchy of The Windows Order as he tore down a lot of her hard built things she did by herself.

Abilities

Threshold is better at FPSes and is skilled with using guns.

Trivia

  • In Threshold's original portrayal from 2019 in Tabula Rasa, she was seen as "evil" and intentionally drove away the older Windows characters by doing purges:
    “Over the course of 2015 and into 2016, Threshold-tan, the first of the Windows 10-tans, drove away the Windows-tans whose support had lapsed, making it the largest faction purge in history.” — Tabula Rasa, 2019
  • When Threshold was being created, it was decided that since Windows 10 was thought to be the last version that each main update for Windows 10 would be a separate character, hence Windows 10 Threshold being a separate character.