Grape Prime

* Fully Corrupted
* Post-Showtime
* Sacrifice Robes
* Post-ARG
* Season 7
* Season 3-6

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## Background

Grape Prime is a humanoid-plant who originally worked for Juniper and by extension The Radiant Council. She was once a field researcher known as Rai but she was brutally mangled by Juniper after she tried to rescue her sister Vesta. What remained of her body was put through The Archway and came back as a weird plant like goop being created. This started the beginnings of Project Prime, made to create a potential entity with a body that was both organic material and magic. After months of the project seemingly going no where, Juniper had placed one of the leaves from her body onto this pile of goop where it then slowly transformed into Grape Prime. When Prime first awoke, she was questioned by Iris extensively but all of these memories (and any previous memories of being Rai) were removed from her mind. She was then introduced to The Radiant Council where it was framed as a job interview. She accepted the job, none the wiser of what the organization truly is.

After a year had passed, Prime traveled to Farcombe with Juniper to investigate The Meteor, and eventually became a permanent resident of the town. She slowly mitosised all of the Grape Clones over the course of Seasons 3 and 4. During this time Prime also forged meteor armor and tools, which she would use against Xal'gyron's Essence of Chaos at the end of Season 4. She helped Juniper out with a ton of projects during Seasons 5 and 6, but as their relationship soured (with the final straw being when Juniper forced her to fight her friends in Finale Part II), she quit McEco, along with all the other grape clones.

During Season 7, Prime was kidnapped by The Watcher and tortured mentally for several months during The Watcher ARG, but was brought back to the overworld by Clementine. She was also kidnapped several more times within the next few weeks, the last of which was by Juniper during Forgotten Memories. During her escape, Prime discovered the truth about her existence and had a complete mental breakdown. Prime would reappear one final time in Season 7 for Anathema, where she fought alongside Slimey, Choo and Courier, but was forced to stay within the crumbling body of Xal'gyron, as she had lost all control over her body upon its death. She was promptly captured by The Watcher, but before it could fully corrupt her, she mitosised Pea into existence and allowed her to escape.

As of Season 8, Prime was kept in an unknown location in The Void, and was released by Champion Slimey during the All Dreams Come True event. After she had successfully defeated him, she emerged from the portal that she was summoned from and is currently roaming The Overworld.

## Appearance

When she first arrived in Farcombe, Grape Prime had a fairly average build, and stood at 5'4. She has a leaf coming out from the top of her head which looks like a slightly elongated heart. She wore a green hoodie with baggy pants and a pair of brown boots. On her right shoulder, there's a roman numeral mark that reads VII, which was inscribed onto her by Juniper.

Shortly after The Meadow Event, Prime begun to show signs of being infected by The Meteor after she stabbed herself with her Meteorite Greatsword out of guilt. Instead of the infection being black and purple, it is a light washed out lavender color since Prime is made of plant matter.

After her defeat in Finale Part II, Prime's corruption had worsened significantly. Upon reforming, the areas of infected skin had spread and she had grown 6 inches taller than she was previously. The sleeves no longer covered the lower half of her arms and her leaf on the back of her head also grew longer.

Post Watcher ARG all of her symptoms have grown worse, with the areas of corrupted skin becoming darker in color. The infection had also spread to Prime's face, which caused her right eye to become a yellowish hue. She had grown a pair of two very small grey horns. She also grew an entire foot while she was gone, due to longer exposure to the infection. Shel tried her best to cover up most of the infected areas of skin with bandages, and put a patch over Prime's corrupted eye.

The four deaths she suffered in SHOWTIME!!! made all of her symptoms worse. All areas of infection became darker, and the ends of Prime's fingers became sharpened. Her horns grew a significant amount, and both eyes became yellow. She also got another height boost.

After the events of ANATHEMA, Prime became completely mutated by the infection. Her body and limbs are extremely long and are completely made up of blackened vines. Her hair is now a fluffy cloud like texture, and her face only has two small eyes. Her leaf has become so long that it now functions as a tail. She also got a long purple cloak, and a small watcher charm that rests on the collar on it. The VII on her shoulder (and all of her blood) now glows a purplish-pink hue.

## Personality

Grape Prime is known for being abnormally apathetic to most situations, even to those that are of extreme danger to her and Farcombe. She’s also known to be snarky and sarcastic to most of the residents, as a way to deflect most emotion out of her life. She's seems perpetually tired since she doesn't get that much sleep, but really doesn't seem to care about being tired at all. Despite being the one who created all the Grape Clones, she doesn't really see herself as their main caretaker, and more of an annoyed older sibling who is done with life.

After The Watcher ARG, Prime had started to feel more connected with her own emotions (primarily fear) because of her essence's corruption. She also starts to unquestionably do stuff impulsively without really stopping to think about what she's doing because she's starting to lose control over herself. Her speech also has become slightly glitched because of the meteor infection. This only got worse as the infection consumed her.

Watcher Prime's is extremely violent to anyone who is not associated with The Watcher. All aspects of Prime's previous personality have been completely suppressed by The Watcher. Prime has essentially become a prisoner within her own body, and has no control over anything she does. That being said, she's physically incapable of speech in this state.

## Abilities

A grape's fundamental biology is a weird mix between physical and magical properties because of how Prime was brought to life. They have liquid chlorophyll blood (which is a dark purple color), most of their body is made up of plant cells, and their bones seem to be a wood-like material. They do not have brains but the leaves on the back of their heads serve the same purpose as one. Their skull is akin to a coconut, it has some grape juice inside of it, and the grape's essence. All grapes can regenerate by using photosynthesis, which allows them to not eat if they so pleased as long as they are in direct sunlight.

When a Grape takes too much damage physically, they will collapse into a pile of goo, and will either take a few hours to naturally revive or just skip the process entirely by talking to The Moon Rabbit.

However there is one ability that is specific to Prime, which is the ability to split her soul into clones of herself. This process can only happen when Prime is under extreme amounts of stress or emotional turmoil. The mitosis is also extremely painful for both Prime and the new grape, as it requires Prime to duplicate all of the cells in her body to create a new grape.

Watcher Prime specifically also has a few new powers that she gained after becoming fully consumed by corruption. She is capable of summoning a barrage of crystalline spears which are formed out of the newly modified chlorophyll blood. She can also warp the roots that make up her body to form a line of root spears that shoot out in a line. In addition, because the roots are reinforced by the infection, it allows Watcher Prime to be extremely durable even without armor. Finally, Watcher Prime possesses an aura around her that makes anyone that steps too close to become nauseous and generally fearful.

She may possess more abilities, but they are currently unknown at this time.

## Prime's Essence

* Torment
* Dread
* Apathy?
* Apathy

Prime is in the possession of a powerful Essence known as the Essence of Apathy. It was originally two separate essences, The Essence of Bravery and The Essence of Emptiness. These were combined together by Iris as part of the development of Project Prime.

This essence has allowed Prime to fearlessly charge into extremely dangerous situations and work for inhuman amounts of time, simply because she does not care for her own well being. This power is a double edged sword, and is the main reason why Prime has to deal with being corrupted. Ironically enough, the more the infection consumes the Essence of Apathy, the more fearful Prime becomes, and the more she realizes how fucked she actually is.

After SHOWTIME!!! the corruption in Prime's essence worsened, and transformed it into the Essence of Dread. The Essence of Dread has made Prime more aware of her own feelings, and therefore less fearless. This has made her mental state far more fragile, which was made apparent in Forgotten Memories and ANATHEMA.

After The Watcher fully corrupted Prime, her essence transformed once again into the Essence of Torment. Not much is known about what properties it possesses, and no one has even seen it before.

## Trivia

* 7 and 13 are associated with her, and they both happen to be prime numbers
* Prime has only existed for three years, two of which were spent in Farcombe
* Prime was originally Vitis Viniferaaa's persona but she morphed into her own entity over time.
* Post-Watcher ARG Prime tries to hunch herself over to appear shorter. This has only ended in a ton of back pain.
* No one has ever seen Prime cry (though she did have a mental breakdown off screen in Forgotten Memories)
* Prime started off being right handed, but became left handed after The Watcher ARG. This is similar to how Olivia became left-handed after becoming infected
* Watcher Prime's horns end in three points, following up Xal'gyrons nerves which ended in two points, and The Watchers tentacles which ended in one point.
* Watcher Prime is heavily inspired by The Hollow Knight (duh).
* Watcher Prime's cloaks colors are just the inverted version of Pea's cloak.
* Prime's Theme: https://youtu.be/cGuDpoJNImA
* Watcher Prime's Theme: https://youtu.be/ze0Rk-m0w2A

## Gallery

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