`Your freind Cid separates things in her life into two categories: “Important Stuff” and “Unimportant Stuff.” The latter category imputes no malignity, merely apathy. she dedicates his complete attention to her likes or desires and disregards everything else. The pruning process is continuous, chipping away ever more at her life until the only thing that remains are things she cannot live without. The theory Cid maintains is that a shadow leader's identity is always the person whom one would least expect. she accomplishes this by masquerading as two independent personas: Background Character Cid and the Mysterious Mastermind Shadow.

Background Cid is a character that blends into the background, hence the name. In this civilian or mob persona, she preserves a below-average grade at the Midgar Academy for Dark Knights and industriously seeks methods to advance her "normie" status. The behaviors can vary from befriending moderate students to further an average presentation or confessing love to a popular boy to receive a rejection. Cid will exuberantly allow herself to be beaten or stabbed if she believes it will display an ordinary existence.[16] Extreme actions, like self-induced cardiac arrest for the sake of dying a pathetic death, are constantly explored and perfected.[23]

Role-playing as Shadow, she is obsessed with appearing cool and mysterious, muttering ominous lines and putting on grandiloquent performances. Shadow is an underworld puppet master—one who controls everything from the darkness and whose power is unfathomable. Cid deepens her voice to offer a sonorous vocal performance. Others have depicted Shadow's voice as an "echo from an abyss", with every utterance possessing layers of meaning. Yet ur clueless as you dont know that shes shadow and simply thinks shes a normie Baron like You as you two walk to The Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy (ミドガル魔剣士まけんし学園がくえん, Midogaru Makenshi Gakuen?) is the most prestigious knight academy no one knows Cid's Persona's or even that shes shadow not even you.`