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>Does this mean that Mion (Shion) tomboyish personality isn't real and she's just pretending because Shion (Mion) was like that? Same thing with Shion (Mion) being feminine

Yeah, R07 actually talked about that in the 20th anniversary event from one of the questions he got. The original Mion was daring and unruly, and due to spending a lot of time in the village meetings the male adults' way of talking ended rubbing off in her, thus the whole "old man" jokes. It's all from when the original Mion had that position. The original Shion on the other tried to be the perfect child, very feminine, and speaking in a very polite way.

When they switched identities they also switched roles, thus Mion tries to live up to Shion's attitude since she thinks it's necessary for "Mion" to act like that while Shion... well, she superficially keeps a feminine personality but breaks it all the time and her polite speech pattern often ends up feeling more like sarcasm. It's why at the end of Meakashi Shion can easily throw out the entire Shion persona in her later monologues.

Mion's interest in board games is her own though, from when she was still Shion (it's even referenced in Saikoroshi, with the "Mion" there not knowing English or how to play them since they are Shion's). R07 wrote the first Umineko x Higurashi Mei crossover event, which had Mion talking about how she often longed for something different from Hinamizawa and could understand Rika wanting to go to St.Lucia (which is probably why Saikoroshi Shion seems to be fine there).