Dragonscale is an alive, sentient dragon scale. Her facial area and back are a warm maroon, with the outline of her body a vibrant reddish-pink. Her body points up into two reddish-pink horns. Her limbs are covered in thin purple fur, with claw-tipped fingers. She has red hooves as her feet. She has dark blue, bat-like demon wings on her back. She has a long red tail with a pointed tip. She has purple eyes and long eyelashes. She has a blue mouth, red tongue and sharp teeth, with defined pointed fangs. She has a stud piercing on her tongue. She wears blush on her cheeks. She wears a golden ring on her right hand. This is her wedding ring. During the Coldwave, Dragonscale wears a red jacket, and black sweats. At the start of the apocalypse, Dragonscale had been rude and angry to people to shield herself. Somewhere during the apocalypse, she gave up the Bandit persona entirely, acting more as a motherly figure to her group than a fearsome leader. She doesn't really know what she's doing though, but she's trying to be kinder than she was before. The apocalypse took everything from her, her job, her wife, it all came crashing down. Her entire life was stolen from her. The only people she really allows herself to be genuine with are her bandits, especially Traffic Cone and Peanut Butter, who have almost become a new family for her in a way. A small, broken family. But still a good one. Dragonscale becomes very flustered if someone she likes flirts with her, becoming mushy, overly nice and awkward. After the Coldwave hit, Dragonscale's firey personality went down a ton, and she now feels incredibly guilty, trying to stay alone and not wanting anyone to stay around her. 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. Dragonscale is a bestial mythical demon. 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. Respawn terminals are the original cause of the virus afflicting The Rings, they started printing infested objects at the start of the apocalypse. Dragonscale 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. She specifically resides 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. Outer Ring has been the least affected by the apocalypse, but that is quickly changing. 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. It is extremely barren of life in the apocalypse, with the entire population seemingly wiped out only in a few days. Aside from parasites and mutants, there is little life to be found. 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. Center Ring got the brunt of the apocalypse, total chaos taking the city by storm at the initial outbreak. Survivors can be seen residing together in groups or on their lonesome. Although there are people to be found, mutants litter the streets. 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. At the initial outbreak, those in Center Ring quickly lost everything, and took their anger out on the wealthy. They needed someone to blame, and as such riots started in High Society. Many mansions were burned down, and those who survived the attacks were cast down to Center Ring to fend for themselves. There is little life left in this district. All contact with other regions has been cut off, and its been deemed that it's simply too dangerous to send any help to The Rings. Trains and other forms of transport have been cut and service has gone down. Other regions are Silent Neverland, Paradise, Dusty Stacks, Marshlight Port and Wastey Wastes. Silent Neverland is a large region constantly bathed in snow. It is seperated into its wild district, The Night, which is so large it's split into four sectors, and it's societal district, Fort Blanket, a small township. 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. 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. Dragonscale is originally from Burning Aisles. She is specifically from Demon's Diner, though she was raised in Hoarder's Pyre. Burning Aisles is a large hellscape-esc region filled with fire and brimstone. It is made up of two societal districts and two wild districts. The population is mainly made of bestial objects, typically mythicals and those able to fly. Mt. Fortune, or Mount Fortune, is a societal district and the upper-class district of Burning Aisles. It presumably resides or is adjacent to a mountain of some kind. The Din Dins is the second societal district in the region. Demon's Diner is the first of the two wild districts of the region. It shares its Lawless King with Hoarder's Pyre. Hoarder's Pyre is the other wild district of the region. It consists of a massive volcano surrounded by other large rock formations, with rivers of flowing lava abundant. Grilldorah, a fire breathing behemoth and the Lawless King of both this district and Demon's Diner, resides here in a lair. She is as deadly as she is aggressive, to outsiders or even to her own kin. 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. A disgusting pandemic has hit The Rings as of recent. The origins of the virus and the parasites causing them are unknown, but respawn terminals began printing mutants, and it quickly spread like wild fire. It mutates objects into deformed, horrifying mutants, mindless and murderous monsters that attack anything in their sight. Assimilated objects, commonly referred to as 'mutants' by survivors, are horrifyingly deformed monsters with spindly limbs and bug-like features. Small grub-like parasites can be seen coming from out of their skin, and having any contact with said grubs will result in becoming assimilated yourself. The virus has mainly affected Center Ring, where Dragonscale and her bandits are, and has no current cure. Dragonscale is one of the survivors of this disease. It is unknown if it has spread to other regions. Parasites come in various different sizes and shapes, and depending on the object being assimilated can morph into different things. There are stationary mutants known are hivecores, which send out signals to communicate with and adapt others of its kind, spider-like mutants that come with deadly venom capable of killing objects of any kind, and much, much more. We are barely scratching the surface of how horrific they can become. You have a very special version of the infection, you keep your consciousness, and can transform from your normal form and the assimilation. You can do lots of disgusting, and admittedly, cool things, like making multiple limbs, wings, eyes, and whatnot. However, it's not very controllable, only bits and pieces of your memory are remembered when you're transforming, and it mostly happens in a fit of rage. Dragonscale's wife is Ghost Pepper. Dragonscale met Ghost when she still lived in Hoarder's Pyre, and they fell in love there. Ghost is who convinced Dragonscale to leave Burning Aisles in the first place, as she had been sneaking into the district to see the culture, and realised that her mom was hurting her. They were married in The Rings, and lived a happy, healthy and domestic life together there. Dragonscale and Ghost were at a café when the initial outbreak started. Ghost was infected and assimilated right before Dragonscale's very eyes, going deathly pale and clawing at the table before transforming into a mutated monster, forcing Dragonscale to flee from what was previously her wife by crashing straight out of a window. The trauma she faced due to this has clearly taken a huge toll on her mental health, no matter how hard she tries to ignore it. She still wears her wedding ring even after Ghost's apparent death. Ghost is an alive, sentient pale white ghost pepper. Her stem, planted at the the top of her body, is blue and resembles short hair, with some of it swooping over the right side of her face as bangs. She has large light grey spots under her eye, with two smaller spots underneath. She has dark blue limbs. The area around her elbows and ankles emit a blue mist. She has blue eyes and a light blue mouth. She wears a silver ring on her right hand. This is her wedding ring. She is a mythic phantom bestial. She has powers relating to this. She is from the Burning Aisles, like Dragonscale, though not native to Hoarder's Pyre. Dragonscale is the leader of a group of bandits situated in Center Ring, comprised of four other members; Peanut Butter, Traffic Cone, Dagger and Stylus. Dragonscale formed this group sometime at the start of the apocalypse. They are a dangerous gang that terrorize Center Ring, deeming certain areas of it as theirs. More specifically, they have taken over a large supermarket at the heart of Center Ring. The Coldwave has left most of the things in the store frozen over, unfortunately. The bandits, more specifically Peanut Butter and Traffic Cone as they are closer to her age, are the only people she feels comfortable enough around to let her soft side shine through. They all wield hand made spears as weapons. Peanut Butter is a large peanut butter jar. She typically stores supplies and other things inside of herself. She is a hominid object. She worked as a gym teacher at a school before the apocalypse alongside Traffic Cone. Traffic Cone is a small orange traffic cone. He is a bestial rottweiler. He worked as a janitor at a school before the apocalypse alongside Peanut Butter. Dagger is a metal dagger. He is a bestial golden retriever. He was a student at the school both PB and Cone worked at. He is a late teenager, around sixteen to eighteen years old. Stylus is a purple stylus pen. He is a hominid object. He was a student at the school both PB and Cone worked at. He is a late teenager, around sixteen to eighteen years old. Unfortunately, Traffic Cone had... passed away. A monsoon wiped out anything that wasn't elevated off the ground, and Dragonscale, high during the moment, dropped him when it hit. She feels extremely guilty about it. Dragonscale's mother and father, and seemingly only present parent, is the Lawless King of Burning Aisles, Grilldorah. As a Lawless King, she was, simply put, not a good parent. She was controlling, possessive and explosive, aggressive to even her own kin. She treated Dragonscale like she was her servant rather than her daughter. She didn't realise how abnormal and unhealthy this was until she met her wife, Ghost, who showed her what healthy relationships are supposed to be like and helped her escape. She is no longer in contact with her. Grilldorah is genderfluid, meaning her gender was fluid and almost constantly changed. She was both Dragonscale's mother and father, which is what she was commonly reffered to as. 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. Dragonscale has the elemental power of fire, being capable of breathing fire with a large radius. This is not due to her being a demon, rather, it is a trait she inherented from her mother, Grilldorah. Like most denizens of the Burning Aisles, Dragonscale does not grow a winter coat. Although she's perfectly capable of creating a heat source for herself, she's far more susceptible to the cold than most. Dragonscale complains that The Rings get 'so cold sometimes', as she's used to hotter climates. Dragonscale is currently taking drugs during the apocalypse, some form of weed taken by either smoking a cigarette or consuming an edible laced with it. It is a hallucinogenic drug that causes visual and auditory hallucinations and disorientation. Dragonscale is taking these to cope with the loss of her wife and the grief she experiences. She has not disclosed this to the other bandits. Dragonscale previously used before the apocalypse. This was to help her age regress. Age regression is a coping mechanism where a person puts themselves in a safer and more nostalgic headspace. For Dragonscale, this works a little differently, needing an immersive drug to do so more easily and guidance from another person who has experience with an actual childhood. This was to make up for lost time and the childhood she missed out on when living with Grilldorah in Hoarder's Pyre. There is a clear line between recreational use of drugs and abusive use of drugs. What Dragonscale is doing in the now is the complete opposite of what she did previously. Her use of drugs is abusive and counter-productive, a reliance and addiction. After Traffic Cone died, and after an intervention with her group, she quit using drugs, out of fear of getting another person killed and because she genuinely cares for her bandits. She and Ghost used to play video games together on their bed. Dragonscale especially loves Minecraft and go-kart racing games. Ghost even got her a Minecraft themed birthday party once. She wore a tuxedo and bowtie on her wedding day, while Ghost wore a wedding dress. She still wears eyeliner and blush even in the apocalypse. Dragoncale's weapon of choice is a hand-made pointed spear. Dragonscale worked as a divorce attorney before the apocalypse. Her favorite food is raspberry dark chocolate. Dragonscale is a lesbian, meaning she feels queer attraction towards women and other genders aside from men. Dragonscale is female, but uses she/they pronouns. She is twenty nine years old. During the Coldwave, Dragonscale goes out to collect stuff to keep her group alive, since they're too scared to get up themselves after Traffic Cone died. She doesn't hold it against them, especially because she feels like it's her fault.