Editing Citrine

{{Template: Worm Wiki: Character Template 
| name = Citrine
| gender = Female 
| Image = [[File:Ambassadors citrine.jpg]]
| imagecaption = ''<center>Image by [https://lonsheep.deviantart.com Lonsheep]</center>''
| alignment= [[Villain]]
| occupation = Secretary
| team = [[Ambassadors]]
| previous team =
| base of operations = [[Brockton Bay]], formerly [[Boston]]
| classification = [[Shaker]] ([[Trump]]) (speculative)
| web serial = [[19.x (Donation Interlude 1; Blasto)|Interlude 19.x]]
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'''Citrine '''is a member of the [[Ambassadors]].

==Appearance==
Citrine is a young, blonde woman. She wears a goldenrod yellow evening gown with a gemstone studded masquerade ball mask, showcasing her lower face with matching yellow lipstick.<ref name="I20 e1">[[Accord|He]] stopped partway up the stair case and faced her, saw her unharmed and unhurt.  His Citrine, young, blond, wearing a goldenrod yellow evening gown and a gemstone studded mask.  Her hair was immaculately styled, her makeup flawless, with a yellow lipstick that matched her outfit without being garish. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20]]</ref> Her mask was yellow as well, and [[Taylor]] recognized the gems studding it as her namesake gemstone - citrines.<ref name="21.4">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/imago-21-4/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.4]]</ref><ref name="Cast2">'''Citrine''' – One of Accord’s ambassadors, Citrine wears a yellow evening gown with gemstones on her mask and earrings – her namesake. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref>

Multiple characters have noted that she is physically attractive, including Accord and Skitter.<ref name="21.4" /><ref name="I20"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20]]</ref> She dedicated an hour every morning to caring for her skin, another hour to her hair, which was "immaculately styled".

When deployed to New Delhi she is explicitly referenced as having thrown off her elaborate gown costume for a more practical bodysuit. Implicitly for ease of movement.<ref name="24.4e1">“Citrine?  Woman in yellow dress.”<br><br>“Yellow bodysuit now,” Golem said.  “She stripped out of the dress when he pushed past the command center.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/crushed-24-3/ Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref>

==Personality & Relationships==
[[Accord]] referred to her as his "best Ambassador".<ref name="I20" /> [[Taylor]] suspected that she had a similar personality to [[Grue]] - they were both "professionals".<ref name="21.4" /> Citrine led the Ambassadors in battle, even when her power was ineffectual.<ref name="21.6">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/imago-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.6]]</ref>

She assessed the [[Undersiders]] as a threat based on their track record, disagreeing - politely - with [[Othello]].<ref name="I20" />

[[Taylor]] believed that she wasn't [[Grue]]'s "type". Nevertheless, it bothered her that she didn't feel jealous of the time he spent with her.<ref name="21.4" /> It was implied in his interlude that she was attracted to Accord.<ref name="I20" />

==Abilities and Powers==
Citrine's power allows her to "attune areas to particular functions"<ref name="21.4" />, altering specific properties within an relatively small area.<ref name="R12">The area of effect is smallish, so it creates a problem where the power is very subtle up unless she can actually target someone who won't just walk out of range of it, or if she can keep a fight going long enough to figure out a power's frequency. - [https://redd.it/45h74d Comment by WildBow on Reddit]</ref>

She can interfere with gravity, temperature variation, friction, light intensity, and the progression of time, among others.<ref name="List" /> She claimed that there were "more possibilities than I could count, many so minor you wouldn't notice."<ref name="21.4" /> She could use her power to make everything within a her abilities range effectively waterproof as an example.<ref name="21.6 e1">I could sense the Ambassadors.  Citrine and Othello were there.  So were four new recruits: Jacklight, Ligeia, Lizardtail and Codex.  The fifth potential recruit hadn’t been so lucky.  The four of them stood off to one side, in the shelter of Citrine’s power, listening as she gave instructions.  The area around them was somehow faded in terms of the colors there, the area she was affecting looked as though I were viewing it through colorblind eyes that were capable of only seeing yellow.  Water wicked off of them as though they were waterproof, leaving them utterly dry even in the wind and rain. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/imago-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.6]]</ref>

Most notably, Citrine can "find the right attunement, as though I were searching a radio station" to neutralize a given [[parahuman]]'s abilities. Furthermore, she can specifically cancel out ''protective'' powers, or cause powers to go out of control. This latter effect never takes more than twenty or thirty seconds.<ref name="21.4" /> She risked striking the wrong atonement and accidentally killing her target.<ref name="List">Citrine	'''Altered reality in a small area, adjusting physics or natural laws. Could attune 'frequency' to diminish or disrupt a parahuman's powers, with perfect frequency killing them.'''	Ambassadors - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Parahuman List], bolded edit by Wildbow.</ref><ref name="21.6" /> Further some powers are too subtle to find out in time before she is retaliated against, or have the subject step out of her range.<ref name="R12"/>

Citrine's power gives everything in it's area of effect appeared washed out yellow effect, as if the observer was colorblind, only able to see yellow.<ref name="21.6 e1" /> Under the influence of the [[Yàngbǎn]] it appeared as a golden glow.<ref name="24.3">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/crushed-24-3/ Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> 

==History==
===Background===
When talking about the type of people who sought out accord, she implied she was the type that had power and sought more.{{Cite}}<!--“Power,” Citrine said.  She turned her back to the portal to meet my eyes, her dress flaring slightly with the rotation of her body.
“Power isn’t magical,” I said.  “It creates as many problems as it solves.”
“Power is less a thing unto itself than it is a journey.”
“To where?”
Her eyes were penetrating as she gazed at me.  “Not all journeys have destinations.  Power is the ability to effect change, and people who create change ride that tide, with far-reaching effects.  For some of us, that’s something we’re born into.  Our fathers or mothers instill us with a hunger for it from a very early point in time.  We’re raised on it, always striving to be the top, in academics, in sports, in our careers.  Then we either run into a dead-end, or we face diminishing returns.”
“Less and less results for the same amount of effort,” Grue said.
“Others of us are born with nothing.  It is hard to get something when you don’t have anything.  You can’t make money until you have money.  The same applies to contacts, to success, to status.  It’s a chasm, and where you start is often very close to where you finish.  The vast majority never even move from where they began.  Of the few that do make it, many are so exhausted by the time they meet some success that they stop there.  And others, a very small few, they make that drive for success, that need to climb becomes a part of themselves.  They keep climbing, and when someone like Accord recognizes them and offers them another road to climb, they accept without reservation.”
“Which are you?” Grue asked.  “Did you start with power, or did you fight for it?”
Citrine smiled a little, looking over her shoulder at the tower.  “I suspect Tattletale will tell you, if you’re curious enough to ask.”-->

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Under Accord, she helped to watch [[Blasto]] in his lab,<ref name="19.x">[[19.x (Donation Interlude 1; Blasto)|Interlude 19.x]]</ref> and was one of only two known ambassadors to survive the raid by the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]].

===Post-[[Echidna]]===
She accompanied [[Accord]] to a neutral meeting of all the villains in [[Brockton Bay]]<ref name="I20" />. Afterwards she agreed with [[Othello]]'s assessment that the Ambassadors could deal with any individual group but not more.

Accord sent her to inform the Undersiders leadership that the Ambassadors would be "recruiting" five new parahumans - by which she meant purchasing five vials from [[Cauldron]] for accords five highest unpowered lieutenants. She admitted that she was also a Cauldron cape.<ref name="21.4" />

She led the [[Ambassadors]] alongside the [[Undersiders]] against the [[Teeth]].<ref name="21.6" />

=== New Delhi ===
During [[Battle against Behemoth|the battle]] with [[Behemoth]], she helped suppress his sonic attack<ref name="24.3" />. This extended to several other effects the dynokinetic monster used against the defending forces. She was not able to counter all of the Endbringer's attacks however and eventually had to withdraw from the battle, due to exhaustion.

===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
Presumably still lead the ambassadors.


== Fanart Gallery ==
<gallery>
Citrine.jpg|<center> Image by [http://pabelandnine.tumblr.com Pabel and Nine] on tumblr</center>|link=http://pabelandnine.tumblr.com/post/142157219364/worm-compilation-8-the-requested-characters
Ambassadors Citrine Ligeia.jpg|<center> Citrine with Ligeia by [https://lonsheep.deviantart.com/art/The-Ambassadors-716527856 Lonsheep] </center>
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* It was initially planned for Citrine to meet with [[The Number Man]] after Accord's death and, recognizing that she had been in love with Accord, form a relationship with the former Harbinger instead as a way to move past her greif.<ref>[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/27981940/ Wildbow on IRC]</ref>

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