#a fic inspired by the lovely simplydm with a dash of my headcanon on how nature magic works vwv

[sammy-writes-sometimes]

Bloom

Note: This fic was inspired off of a fic written by the lovely @simplydm! ^w^

Word Count: 335

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'Maybe planting that seed wasn't a good idea.' Bdubs thought to himself one day as he forced his eyes away from the twisted tree. 'Maybe I should’ve listened.'

It had been rather stupid, and extremely obvious. The book that still stood on the pedestal in his basement, a harsh warning written into it but without a stated consequence. Just a warning on a page, nothing else.

He was sure that even normal people, those that didn't have ability tied to nature at least, could see and feel the wrongness that came from the Tree of Whimsey.

Its bark was stone-like, it spoke to him in hushed tones that contained many voices, and it always seemed to smell of death and rot.

Yet he still listened anyway. Or ignored warnings. Even as it drained him bit by bit, piece by piece, eating away at his soul.

'You let me in. You let me grow.' It whispered to him. 'You let me feast. You let me control you.'

The dryad had come to hate his magic, his ability to speak with flora herself, it only seemed to make the tree louder, hungrier, crueler.

He wanted it to stop, for the tree to leave him alone and let him rest and just do something other than staring at it with barely subdued rage. It controlled him, it wouldn’t let itself be burned or cut or injured in any way. That tree was more alive than any plant he’d ever dealt with

“What are you?” Bdubs asked aloud when no one watched him.

It fell silent in that way trees always do when they think, like the old dark oaks that created shade in the shopping district.

‘I am the Tree of Whimsey.’ It answered simply

Then it began again, the slow taunting as Bdubs turned to his monolith. That relentless taunting, going on and on, endless with it’s many voices that echoed in his ears and seemingly no one else's.

‘You are my puppet, I am a god.’