robo-cryptid

They’re dry and tired sounding and mopey, but there’s wry humor there and they are more than willing to read a bitch. They're full of fun contradictions. They're a self-proclaimed pacifist in a ritual where they have to murder people, and they've clearly practiced with that gun. They're supposed to be secretive and in hiding, but they're one of the flashiest characters in the game. They're carrying what might very well be a full on biblical plague in a suitcase and laboring under the belief that they're the only possible person who can responsibly wield this power.

They’re a clever little weirdo whose entire play style reinforces that. You have to be a clever little weirdo yourself to make it work, or else you’ll either do fuckall or you'll get caught out by the enemy and punished pretty brutally.

Not to mention the Daddy Issues and the ambitious streak and the delightful way they try to justify their goals and the ritual to themself, or the way they go from concern they'll need forgiveness to outright gloating if you get enough kills. If you go on a kill streak, their corruption arc is happening in the game! That’s fun! (And implies that it wasn't that hard to get there, which brings us to how often they lie to themself, out loud where you can hear it, which is my very favorite thing about Pocket.)

Anyway, I can only assume the way to conclude that Pocket has no personality is by either a) not paying attention or b) only paying attention in the context of ships, because they do tend to be shipped with larger personalities than their own*. But this is of course the classic fandom mistake of thinking a character has less going on by virtue of them being quieter than another. (Or the classic fandom creator mistake of letting only one character hold the personality ball at a time, I guess, but I've seen plenty of people get them right.)