Citrus| Objectified

In his disguise, or his hominid form, Citrus appears as an alive, sentient sliced in half orange, being a light orange and, in his facial area, a pale yellow. He has a short light green leaf tail. He has red eyes, aswell as sharp teeth and a blue forked tongue and mouth. However, this form is just a disguise to deceive others. In his bestial form, his true form, he's a blood orange. He's a much darker orange colour in this form, nearing red in certain places. His limbs are covered in thick dark purple-blue fur. He has claws in this form. He also has a ring of this same fur around the front and back of his 'neck' area. Dark grey wings with lighter grey lines on them are attached to the undersides of his arms, giving him the ability to fly. He has two decently sized dark green leaf ears on his head, and his short leaf tail is more jagged and darker. He retains his red eyes, sharp fangs, blue forked tongue and blue mouth.

Citrus is a charming and deceitful object. He puts on the facade of a kind face, successfully seducing his prey into trusting him. He's a master at acting innocent and sweet, and uses his manipulative ways to often lure his victims to their ends. He puts on a false face of charm and kindness around his prey, but takes on a much more cunning, vicious personality when left to his own devices. As soon as he's revealed himself in his true form, he'll drop the entire sweet and innocent act, becoming vicious and animalistic, not daring to let his prey have a chance at escaping. He's been doing it for his entire life, so he's uncomfortably good at tricking and killing people. Citrus seems to hate himself for what he has to do though, thinking of himself as an unlovable monster for having to kill and eat people to survive. He refuses to allow himself to get close to others for fear of rejection and an inevitable negative reaction to what he truly is. Even if he won't admit it to himself, he's lonely and extremely affection-starved. Living in his life of isolation and constant murder has clearly taken a toll on him, and made him cynical and clearly extremely unhappy. He has deep emotional issues and struggles to grow close to others due to his fear of rejection. He struggles to admit when he cares about someone. He has a cynical and blunt demeanour to him.

Citrus is a unique object, as his diet consists solely of souls, which he has to take from other objects to survive. He can't eat normal food, only the souls of other creatures. He can eat from animals, but their souls are so small that they can't sustain him. Souls appear as a blue mist, which is sucked out of the object's body by him. Citrus doesn't know what having your soul eaten feels like, though he assumes it may be like falling asleep, or having low blood sugar. He cannot eat from a dead object, as they will no longer have a soul at that point and will be useless to him. Objects that have their souls eaten cannot be respawned, ever.

Objects are the dominant species of this world. They are, well, objects, alive, sentient objects that can vary in size and type. They can essentially be anything, and differ wildly from object to object. The two main types of object are hominid and bestial. Citrus is a bestial fruit bat. He is not a faux object, in fact, he seems to actively dislike them. Hominid objects are just objects with normal limbs, your everyday object, nothing really all that special. They have no other unique features or traits to them. Bestial objects, reffered to as monster objects by many, are objects with animal features. They can be any type of animal, mammilian, aquatic, reptilian, aviary, anything. Some can even be mythical creatures, such as demons, phantoms, dragons, etcetera. Some are even hybrids of two species. Bestial objects have the same intellect as hominid objects, though they do have different needs, more specific diets, and have animal traits relating to their species. There can be prejudice against them by certain people. Defects are a special, rarer class of object. They are the classification for being both a hominid and bestial object. Defect objects occur due to errors in respawn terminals' programming, causing them to accidentally be spawned as a mix of hominid and bestial. Defects do not occur if an object is spawned using a spawning stone, only objects spawned by respawn terminals can be defect. Defect objects often suffer from health problems due to their mismatched bodies and the fact that they are technically not supposed to exist. Defects typically have half hominid limbs and half bestial limbs, though this can vary. Faux objects are a sub-class of object. Faux objects are descendants of the late Lawless King Faux, a large object that used to rule over Outskirts, or, as it was called back then, Old Expanse. She was described as a long, flowing mass of fur with many, piercing red eyes. Descendants of Faux have a signature trick to them, special abilities unique to them that vary in their significance and usefulness. The defining feature of faux objects are their wide red eyes, sometimes with black pupils. They typically have more than two eyes. Faux objects are typically bestial.

Objects are made up from three different types of cells, mainly. These are called the 'Major Cells'. These are animal cells, plant cells and 'synthetic' cells. Animal cells make up an object's arms, legs and faces, also known as their gateway parts. Plant cells are exclusive to plant-based objects. They typically make up a lot of a plant object's body. Both animal cells and plant cells mutate from synthetic cells, also known as 'printer materials' or 'RGB cells'. These cells either mutate into animal or plants cells or remain synthetic to make up an object's body. All three of cells have the ability to regenerate and heal, unless of course an object is so injured they simply die instead. An object's body is called a husk, and once their limbs and facial features eventually decay and rot away, the husk will be nothing more than the object body. Objects do not have any organs. Their major arteries and cognitive fuction suggest a heart and brain, their ability to consume and reject food implies the existence of a stomach and liver, but if you cut an object open, you won't find them. Objects have very little animals in their world, mainly fish, aquatic creatures and small rodents and birds, but they have enough to know that other creatures have organs, leaving them to speculate where exactly theirs are. They have little success treating internal injuries because of this. Many scientists speculate object organs exist in a different plane of reality altogether, dubbed as 'Organspace'. They hope that, if they eventually come to understand Organspace enough, it may help them eventually treat and cure those with internal problems. For now, Organspace remains a theory, and a heavily debated and doubted one at that.

Spawning stones are naturally occurring stone structures that appear in wild districts. They hold the ability to make objects. This is reffered to as an object being spawned. These structures consists of a large rock with many holes in it, aswell as an obelisk infront of it. When two or more objects touch this obelisk, if nature decides it so, they will spawn one or more children. Before respawn terminals were invented, spawning stones were the only method of reproduction. They are considered a more 'natural' birth as opposed to object-made respawn terminals. Respawn terminals are large machines that exist in The Rings, mostly in Center Ring and High Society. Respawn terminals hold two functions, making and respawning objects. Respawn terminals are capable of printing objects like spawning stones in the wild, meaning they can create children. Historically, a minimum of two objects is required to reproduce, however up to ten objects can mix data to spawn a child together. Polycules, queerplatonic relationships, and other unconventional relationships are commonplace in the world because of this. The parents' data, or their DNA, is mixed together to create a child between them, resulting in their child being a mix of the parents objects and their features. Respawn terminals' more interesting feature is their ability to respawn an object. When an object dies, they are capable of being respawned by a terminal if they are registered to its system. They will be printed again and come out the terminal healthy and alive. Objects typically need time to recover after being respawned. If an object isn't registered in the respawn terminals system, their data, a DNA sample, will need to be placed into the machine. Objects that are incredibly large are incapable of being respawned. In The Rings, access to terminals is typically reserved to the rich or those in the life assurance program.

Citrus currently lives in The Rings, a large region in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet above the equator, comprised of several circular districts encompassing one another. He specifically lives in Center Ring. The Rings are temperate and consist of mostly pine trees. Outer Ring is the region's wild district. Bestial objects reside here in packs or on their lonesome, and are observed hunting eachother for survival and defending their territory. Objects from inner rings are scared to tread there, as it is naturally extremely dangerous. Outer Ring objects will not hesitate to attack anyone treading on their territory. Objects are not protected by the law of societal districts if they so choose to venture into the wild district, and little action will be taken if they are injured or worse. Outer Ring objects typically don't hunt in inner societal districts, as it can hurt their pride and reputation, but any object that wanders into the ring willingly is fair game. A fence divides Outer and Middle Ring, though it would realistically do little to stop any monster from getting through. The Lawless King of this district is Warhammer, a large bestial warhammer object. He is almost constantly on the move in order to protect his territory, which he deems the entirety of Outer Ring. If you wish to find him, simply follow the trail of fallen pine trees imbedded with large claw marks that he leaves along his path. He has many children, most of which often wander Outer Ring in packs in search of him. Middle Ring is the ring between Center and Outer and a societal district. It's a more suburban area when compared to Center Ring, with towns and vast fields making up most of its space. Not wild like Outer Ring, yet not bustling like Center Ring, Middle Ring is an area rich in nature. Objects reside here with their families in houses and towns. It's arguable that Middle Ring is the most diverse in its population, with a good mix of bestial and hominid objects alike living there. Center Ring is at the heart of The Rings and the last middle-class societal district. It's a bustling city, with large buildings, apartment complexes and businesses lining the streets. The city is jam packed, to say the least, with a good chunk of the entire region's population residing there. Although a mix of bestial and hominid objects live there, objects that are born in Center Ring are typically hominid, with most of the bestial population coming from elsewhere before settling in The Rings. High Society is the last district of The Rings, and the only upper-class of the region. It is a district comprised of only The Ring's most wealthy citizens, aswell as many respected scientists. Huge mansions and labs are the main buildings that reside there.

Other regions are Paradise, Dusty Stacks, Marshlight Port, Burning Aisles and Wastey Wastes. Paradise is a collosal jungle located in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. It is comprised of three districts, one wild and two societal. Wet Wilds is the region's wild district, Onyx Marketplace is the basic societal district, and Reaching Gardens is the final societal and the upper-class district. Dusty Stacks is a vast desert, with one wild district and one societal district. Ankh is the basic societal district of the region, while Boiling Flats is the wild district of the region. Marshlight Port is a seaside region adjacent to The Rings. It is comprised of two districts, one wild and one societal. The Port is the region's societal district. It is a port. Dread Tides is the wild district of the region, and a district that resides in the sea. It is where most of the bestial objects are homed. Burning Aisles is a burning hellscape of a region, comprised of four districts, two societal and two wild. Mt. Fortune is the region's upper-class district, The Din Dins is the basic societal district of the region, Demon's Diner is one of the two wild districts of the region, and Hoarder's Pyre is the second wild district. Wastey Wastes is the final region. It is surrounded by a nuclear storm, and as such is heavily irradiated and extremely dangerous. It has two districts, one societal and one wild. Grimace is the basic societal district of the region. It is a dark, grungy city encircled in a nuclear storm. The Landfill is the wild district of the region. The area is heavily irradiated and filled with object husks.

Citrus was born in Silent Neverland. He was born in The Night, and raised for a time in Fort Blanket. Silent Neverland is a large snow-covered region comprised of one wild district, The Night, and one societal district, Fort Blanket. Silent Neverland is an extremely large region completely covered and buried in snow, an eternal winter. It is mainly comprised of its wild district, The Night, which is so expansive it's split into four different sectors. Fort Blanket, a small cobbled township hidden in the snow, is the region's only societal district. Fort Blanket isn't particularly welcoming to strangers that arrive without a guide, let alone monsters. Snow tunnels connect the inner city to the wilds of The Night. They especially are not welcoming to carnivorous objects. The Night is its wild district, so large and vast that it is split into four differing sectors. Objects that wander into the tunnels and off into The Night often do not return. If they do, they are more often than not accompanied by something dangerous. Bestial objects reside in The Night often on their lonesome, though they are observed living together in burrows and the like. Morrigan, a large object related to crows, is the Lawless King of the region, residing in The Night. She is incredibly intimidating and dangerous. She has many children, but she is far from a mother and has not raised any of them as her own. Even those outside of the region are cautioned to steer clear of large crows.

There's also Outskirts. Outskirts is a wide expanse of empty stretching valleys, it is the place between The Rings and other regions. There is very little life that exists in Outskirts, just plain grass fields. Not many objects live here, due to the barren nature of the land, and carnivorous objects are said to frequently die there because of the harsh climates and lack of food. Outskirts used to be it's very own wild district called 'Old Expanse'. It used to be a place brimming with the lives of objects and animals, but once the Lawless King of the district, Faux, perished, it was reduced to the Outskirts we all know, with only a handful of plant species residing there. Dreamer's Flower, namely, is a sub-species of buttercup that resides in Outskirts, with a special blue sedative pollen. One flower can't kill you, but an entire field can. It can put an object of any size to an eternal sleep they cannot wake up from. Clueless travellers often accidentally walk into fields of them and die among the husks of False Kings and others like them. Dreamer's Flower is used medicinally, often infused into tea and crushed into pills, to aid with sleep problems. Trains heading to other regions run through this district.

Lawless Kings are a phenomenon observed in wild districts. Lawless Kings are essentially the strongest object in any wild district - despite their names, they hardly function as monarchs, each Lawless King is left to their own devices and each of them operate extremely differently to one another. Lawless Kings are extremely large objects, titans if you will. Lawless Kings typically have many children and many partners or 'mates'. Lawless Kings include Warhammer in The Rings, Tigerlily in Paradise, Morrigan in Silent Neverland, Piper in Dusty Stacks, Grilldorah in Burning Aisles, and Pluto in Wastey Wastes. Little is known about the Lawless King comtrolling Marshlight Port. Previous Lawless Kings include Faux, the old ruler of Outskirts. False Kings are objects that are too large and occupy too much space to live comfortably in both wild and societal districts. They are expected to challenge the Lawless King in their region in order to take their place. False Kings are socially exiled until they prove themselves and become Lawless Kings, a phase reffered to as their 'inescapable trial'. Most obviously fail, due to either their lack of experience or the fact that most Lawless Kings are incredibly powerful and not willing to give up their throne. They either succumb to their injuries or flee to another region to try again. Most choose a third option, fleeing to Outskirts to commit suicide by Dreamer's Flower, a flower capable of killing a monster of any size when in large numbers. Fields of Dreamer's Flower are often littered with large object husks because of this.

Citrus has a unique regenerative ability. His body can heal injuries incredibly quickly, so much so that in a matter seconds he can regenerate a stab wound or serious injury. He is not an easy object to take down, and even harder to kill.

During colder winters, his bestial form sheds its peel, and his fur and pith turn white in his winter coat, with his fur becoming thicker, especially around his 'neck' area. His foliage, ears and tail, become dried out and frostbitten. He experiences cyanosis, which turns his face a bright rosy purple.

Citrus works a normal, unassuming desk-job in the day. He has his own apartment, although extremely barren, aswell as his own car. A specific room in his apartment holds numerous weapons, which he used to dismantle object husks after they died in order to dispose of their bodies more easily. He also claims this was his bedroom, and where he used to sleep.

Citrus is incapable of becoming sick.

If Citrus were to ever have a child, they would not share his peculiar diet.

Citrus has ornithophobia, the fear of birds. He is clearly nervous around birds of any kind, even bestial objects with bird traits. He is especially fearful of crows. This is because his birth mother, named Morrigan, was a crow Lawless King, who would vaporize her children on sight. Citrus is lucky to have gone unnoticed. Morrigan stalks everywhere to find her children, and kill them.

Calamondin, a tree hominid, had found him abandoned in a spawning stone. Despite knowing Citrus was dangerous, she was too attached to let go. Citrus was unknowingly take some of her soul everytime he got close, causing her death, and making his adoptive father abandon him and take him to The Rings. From there, he lived in an orphanage, and slowly got older.

Children born from Morrigan are called "Children of The Night."

Citrus is a "Child of The Night", by definition, Morrigan's son. This means she is actively hunting him.

Citrus sleeps like a bat, hanging upside down.

Citrus is gay, meaning he feels queer attraction to men and other genders aside from women.

He is twenty eight years old.

Citrus doesn't actually bite someone to eat their soul, he just gets close and sucks it out of their mouth. He also says he only goes after "attractive men" because of how close he has to get to them.