If a careless alien eats a female parasitic Venusivorare fruit, they become a Bloater. Bloaters resemble overinflated and oversized blueberries when fully inflated with juice. This juice, although resembling blueberry juice, is actually parasitic venusivorare seeds in liquid form. The Bloaters usually remain sessile unless threatened or bored.

When a bloater senses danger or if they want to move. The bloater will begin to lactate the liquid from their bellybutton before spraying copious amounts of it onto enemies. If another organism accidentally ingests this liquid, they will frequently turn into a Sentinel (though in some rare case, they turn into another bloater). Eventually, the bloater will fully deflate and be able to walk normally again until inflation restarts in a few days. The reason how a bloater inflates is when a host turns into one, an extra organ resembling a blue heart will appear inside the host. This organ's sole purpose is to fill the body with liquid until it is nearly or fully rounded out.

Unlike their Sentinel counterparts, bloaters retain their sapience even after their transformation. In fact, even despite this, the host will show no signs that their mind and behavior have been altered in any way, except for the fact that they will then develop a blueberry inflation fetish (if they haven't already). In interviews with bloaters, those who are unaware of their infection will not express any knowledge that they have been turned into bloaters or what's happening to them is not normal.

When bloaters are made aware of their state, they will recount the time and date they consumed the fruit that caused their transformation and agree that a change has taken place. Strangley, bloaters do not express any ill-will towards their forced transformation or the alien plants that made them like this, and will often talk about the Venusivorare in a positive light, seeing them as guardian figures that cater to them when they're in their bloated state. This suggests that the transformation process for the bloaters is not just a physical one, but a mental one as well.

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