#i'll draw it with lawrence at some point and be all cringe with it lmao

[sinfulforrest]

This has been in the works for a while, but this is Maple! It'll be an oc I'll doodle either being nasty, or getting nasty stuff done to it (by a certain gross plant man). More info about it is under the cut~! It's quite a lot, so be warned xD

Maple is essentially a walking talking plant creature (I like to call it a Flytrap hehe) and it's been alive for quite some time! It can't die by normal means, because it will regrow parts of its body that are damaged or removed, but doing so will drain a lot of its energy, which...is bad. The only way to kill it is to burn it alive, as leaving even a single cell of its body will cause it to grow back and at that point it would be craving food. It typically eats by consuming a lot of water and sunlight, which is why it's so tanned, but every month or so it needs something a little more...nutritious...

It needs flesh.

If it doesn't eat any kind of flesh for a while, it becomes feral and loses itself, turning into a monster. Its sclera turns black, the flowers on its vines fully bloom to reveal two extra mouths, covered in thorny teeth, and its face will disfigure as its skin rips to reveal layers of shark-like teeth. It will consume any meat it can find- human or animal alike. it hates the idea of hurting humans like the rest of its kind, however, and does its best to indulge in big chunks of animal meat every now and again. It's prone to being rather gluttonous, and holds food as a very important thing to it, and is an easy way to win Maple over.

Maple gradually moved from a settlement of its people and closer to human towns and cities because of its curiosity about humans, and a part of it loves interacting with humans that it meets! However, it is often prone to extreme pangs of nervousness and anxiety as it fears being discovered as a monster. Most people think that Maple is some kind of peppy cosplayer though, so it rolls with that and is able to hide in plain sight.

If somebody were to find out Maple's secret it would stay with whoever found it out, not daring to leave them out of fear of the person telling to world that creatures like it exist, even though Maple could easily kill them due to it's size and stature. Depending on the person, it would either be submissive and would do whatever it took to get on the person's good side, or it would steal away the person to it's forest to take care of them and keep them away from others. It wouldn't want to eat them, but it is certainly not gonna let them go.

It wouldn't want to hurt the person, but if it came to that nightmare scenario, Maple would begrudgingly hurt a captive in order to keep the person under it's control, though it would feel extreme guilt over it. Due to not understanding human love, it would eventually start thinking that (depending on the situation that it's in) its loyalty to a person, or it's willingness to keep a person with it is out of the human concept of "love", and not knowing any better, would stay with that person until they died, or it ended up being killed for good, claiming that it's doing that out of love.

This is all the info I have for Maple so far, and if you read this far I hope you found this interesting, and thank you very very much! >u<