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Dorothea's plant form will take on a couple of different defining characteristics for visual effect. Her primary plants will be the belladonna plant (and its different types, for added color), which has toxic properties that, in moderation and with care, can actually be used in medicine! She will also havechrysanthemums. She will have exactly ONE rose (as a surprise tool to help later).

The strength of the flowers' toxicity/medicinal purposes, their vibrancy of color, and the strength and appearance of thorns will all be based on emotion: the stronger she feels one way or another, the stronger the reaction. Being in a better mood means brighter colors, less toxicity, easy growth. Being injured, depressed, or furious would lean in the other direction.

Due to October 2025 trauma and over-exposure to Katalyth, her normal-sized thorns (from the rose) have grown much larger. In addition, her vines will open up to form snapdragon heads with those thorns as teeth. (No properties from these additions will be used in terms of power: they are mostly for show...besides the thorns. Those are painful.)

With the addition of her Arthropoda soul (butterfly-themed), her vines will be able to temporarily become butterfly wings (which means she cannot use her spine-vines when the wings are in use). Like her flowers, the colors of the wings will change to reflect injury/mood/status, but they are naturally a reddish hue. (If you look closely, they will actually seem like hundreds of butterflies stitched together to make the membrane of the wings.)

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Dorothea will also have a few other notable changes:
• Prehensile vines coming out of her spine, which will initially be uncontrolled (at a great loss to bodily autonomy) but will eventually be mostly-controlled by her.
• Healing and toxicity in the form of her blood. This is dependent on mood: a good mood or focus leads to healing; feeling threatened leads to toxicity.
• Needing to go into 'rooted' form to heal herself, then 'shedding' these roots or flowers when she is finished.
• Corruption will be partially ever-shifting and more internal (changed organs, etc). While most things will remain the same, other things will change dependent on season, her emotional and physical wellness, etc. For instance: in the winter, her color being drained and some pieces of her withering. In autumn, some pieces potentially rotting, etc.
• With the addition of the Arthropoda soul, her Full Shift will fluctuate between being more plant-like and more butterfly-like. Vines will become wings (sometimes with eyes - thanks, Katalyth), she'll develop more plant-like 'armor' to cover her body, and her senses will be far more acute.
• Katalyth resiliency is now 'middling' due to the Terra soul being very weak to Katalyth and the Arthropod soul being very strong against its effects. Fun!

Visual refs:

imprints + hanahaki

[reprisings]

So I'm an awful person and I've never gotten to play out hanahaki, so we're doing it.

When Dorothea doesn't see her Imprints for some time, she'll start to get sick and will cough up leaves, flowers, etc. I want to really dig into the mechanic of being reliant on other people, much to her frustration. I also would love to use the opportunity for her to root into people, either by leaving flower/vine attachments or for this to be figurative in nature. That being said, if you want to be imprinted with her, I'd love to know what flower and color would represent them!


Imprints + Flowers
• HUBERT VON VESTRA (bloodypath) - Anemone
• FERDINAND VON AEGIR (beenoble)
• LUNE (whennotif) - Geranium
• ROWAN (ralliesprotests) - Daisy
• JAMIL (snizier) - Lotus
• LAURALAE (rakta)
• FOUR (sicklit)

timeline of changes.

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AUG 2025
• Patches of odd-colored skin (green, brown) begin to form on back at the spine area
• Shifting patches of greenery on other parts of body
• More perception of plants around her; what something is or what it does, even if she doesn't have a name for it
• Start to experiment with plant manipulation
• Smells nice(r)

SEPT 2025
• Bottoms of feet start to develop plant life 'cushion', either encouraging to go without shoes or to temporarily take them off to 'commune' with earth
• Roots start to 'grow' and become more obvious in her thighs, seemingly attached to major blood vessels
• Vines begin to 'grow' from spine, seem to have some independent movement and growth outside of Dorothea until she can control them
• Skin in places develop almost petal-like pieces
• Stronger plant manipulation

OCT 2025
• Growth of flowers in places (around ears, hair)
• Flesh starts to feel more malleable, easier to change
• Pieces of body can grow plant life independently (hands, arms, legs)
• Growth in ribcage? Where are we storing the flowers, leaves, berries?
• Skin color grows somewhat paler; patches of green on hips
• Spine vines under better control

NOV 2025
• Growth of plants in odder places (neck, hands when concentrated)
• Flesh can be cut off for regrowth. More difficult to grow back at this time because of colder weather
• Desire to 'root' somewhere or at least have more soil-time
• Want to root in/with people...?

DEC 2025