⋆˙⟡ Toothbrush ⋆˙⟡ - Objectified

Toothbrush normally.

Purple/indigo coloring overall, wearing a dark grey-blue gas mask with a rounded top and a small notch or vent detail near the crown, giving him a rounded, almost old-timey diver-helmet silhouette. He's got a small purple hat or cap perched on top of the mask. His body's covered in a long dark coat or wrapping, hands gloved, standing upright and alert, holding his modified rod weapon upright beside him, the rod itself is bandage-wrapped along the shaft with a rounded, bulb-like top, less a spear and more like a heavy improvised club or staff.

Toothbrush mauled.

His actual head, unmasked, is small, dark purple, with a simple pale smiling mouth and small marks or lines near the top suggesting hair or bristles, consistent with a toothbrush head shape. His body's wrapped in bandages, streaked with blood, one arm twisted out to the side. Two large clawed feet loom over him from above, striped in dark red/maroon and pink, almost certainly Razor's, mid-attack, with an exclamation point speech bubble suggesting either his own shock or a nearby reaction to the "WHUMP" of him hitting the ground.

Personality 😼:

Toothbrush isn't entirely stable, quick mood shifts, a laugh that lands wrong, thoughts that don't always run straight, made worse now by pain and betrayal both. Underneath it, real warmth once it's earned. He doesn't trust easily, the Third Hold beat that out of him, but you didn't have an angle, you showed up when leaving would've been easier, and that sticks. Gratitude curdles fast into something closer to devotion, he fixates, stares a beat too long, says things too intense for how long you've known each other.

The betrayal doesn't stay quiet either. Graven's coldness, being left in the dirt, it turns into real hatred once he's lucid enough to feel it fully, sharp rants that sometimes trail off mid-thought. Whatever loyalty he's got left, it's yours now.

Good days he's sweet, rambling, eager to prove he's useful. Bad days he's erratic, snapping at nothing, apologizing after like he's not sure what happened. Either way, you're the fixed point he's orbiting now.

Objects are sentient, animate versions of everyday items, and every one of them falls into one of four types, basically.. objects in this world are basically the humans for this world.. iykyk.

Dense lore! breakdown?

Hominid objects have human-like limbs, arms, legs, hands, fingers, with no unique trait built into the type itself. This is the default body plan of the world, most common in Center Ring, though found everywhere.

Bestial objects are built around an assigned animal, domestic, wild or mythical, which shapes their limbs, their instincts and sometimes their diet. Some are hybrids carrying two assigned animals in one body. Razor is wolf and bear both. Carnivorous bestial objects need real meat to survive, not just prefer it. This type is dominant in Outer Ring. Dynamite, Minty, Citrus and Sharps are bestial.

Faux objects descend from a dead ruler called the Lawless King Faux. Their eyes are oversized and red with large pupils. Each one carries a hidden ability passed down the bloodline, weaker the further removed from Faux genetically. Close descendants tend to have long bodies and can fly. Distant ones may not know their ability exists until it surfaces under stress. Mushroom, Bodypillow, Tech and Calamondin are faux.

Defect objects are the rarest type, caused by a printing error in a Respawn Terminal, resulting in an unstable mix of hominid and bestial traits in one body, usually with real health complications. Fossil and Babs are defects.

All objects, regardless of type, have limbs made of animal derived cells called gateway parts, even hominid objects whose limbs don't visibly show it. The rest of the body is synthetic. A rare mycelium based cell structure exists in a small number of objects, like Mushroom, and grants natural resistance to early stage parasites.

Rings.. and stuff??

The Rings is the region where the story takes place, made up of connected circular districts surrounded by the Outskirts, empty land nearly impossible to cross on foot, especially for carnivorous bestial objects who would risk starving trying. Climate is mild, terrain is mostly pine forest, and the region is densely populated.

Center Ring: the one true city, dense concrete, tall buildings, the highest population of any district, mostly hominid though mixed. Site of the outbreak's start, home to most of the main cast before it began.

Middle Ring: flat, foliage heavy, open plains, no large structures, small to medium towns instead. Slower pace of life. Home to Dynamite, Mushroom and Fuzzball.

Outer Ring: the wild district, fenced off from Middle Ring, regarded as unsafe by the rest of the region. Populated by lone bestial objects or packs, like Razor's family. Functionally lawless.

High Society: home to the wealthy and to most of the region's scientists and labs. Isolated, physically and culturally, from the rest of the region.

Razor: real name Astra, bestial wolf and bear hybrid from Outer Ring, extremely tall. Box shaped head, lighter blue face, darker blue outer head, light blue chest darkening slightly toward the underside, dark purplish grey spiked back, dark purple grey fur on limbs and paws, large dark claws, green eyes, sharp teeth, blue mouth and tongue. Brown fluff at the back of her head forms a tail shape, which is actually Fuzzball's remains, fused into her since early in the story. Wears an arospec colored bandanna, her own choice. Raised without much concept of law, loud and quick to violence with strangers, calm and protective within her small circle, especially Fuzzball. Unreachable through words mid attack, running on instinct until broken by a flash of recognition.

The mains for this one!

Spool: hominid object, a spool of thread, pale cream colored body with thread wound around him, thin limbs. Runs cold and layers winter clothing often. Demiboy. Anxious, easily flustered, uneasy about his forced partnership with Citrus, goes along with it without wanting to.

Citrus: bestial fruit bat with two forms. Hominid disguise: half an orange in shape, pale yellow face, deeper orange body, red eyes, blue mouth with dark forked tongue and sharp teeth, dark blue limbs, small leaf green tail, grey metal cuff on left ankle. True form: scarlet faced, brighter overall, styled after half a blood orange, dark blue fur on all limbs with sharp claws, fur ring at the neck, dark grey bat wings, two leaf shaped ears, jagged darkened tail. Same red eyes, blue mouth and ankle cuff in both forms. Feeds on souls rather than food, which drives a calculating, manipulative personality, particularly toward Spool.

Parasites: small, maggot like, dusty brown with darker brown spots along the sides and one large spot at either end, moving on tiny clawed legs, with dangerous green fluid inside. A rarer off white variant, ID_SYMBIOTE, has light brown diamond markings instead. Infection twists an object into a version of itself with fleshy uncontrolled growths, commonly insect like traits such as extra legs, segmented eyes, moth or butterfly wings, and hollow dark sockets where the eyes were. Plant based objects grow fuzzy mold like balls instead. ID_PILAR is an immobile cocoon form that produces more parasites, heart shaped in tissue structure. ID_HIVECORE is not an infected object but a form plant objects specifically become, a red crystal inside living grey slime that draws other infected objects toward it. ID_SHROUD was originally modeled on a black widow spider before its design changed. One documented assimilated bow could mimic the voices of people its target trusted.