Forrest

Basic Information:

Name: Forrest Clawthrone

Nicknames: MintChoc, Wolfie, Minty (by Sabrina)

Gender: Male

Age: Over 600, in which around 400 years was spent as a Minical and the rest as a Sweetical (Looks 21) 

Birthday/Creation Date: 29th April

Species: Sweetical (CLOSED SPECIES), Mincal (formerly, also CLOSED SPECIES)

Occupation: Healer, carer for Minicals, Magical Boy

Nationality: Decoratean, from Arcanum Sucreum (Planet Sugar)

Residence: South Confisea on Arcanum Sucreum

Relationship status: Single

Powers: 

• Healing others with his sugar magic
• Attacking and Defensing through his Sweetical Movesets (details listed below)

Personality: Protective, caring, loyal, easily-startled, paranoid (at times)

Likes: 

• Minicals

Dislikes: 

• Laboratories and experiments and scientists in general
• Minicals getting hurt or sick

General appearance:

Hair: Mint green with chocolate brown tips with a small ponytail at the back

Eyes: Lime green with silt pupils

Skin: Fair with exposed engraved Sucre Core over his chest

Outfit: Mint green and chocolate brown lieutenant uniform worn over a shirt with green tie, and wrapped at the waist with a green-and-brown ribbon. Gold chains worn over his left shoulder and chest, and a silver paw print pin worn over his right jacket flap. Wolf paw gloves and boots worn at all times.

Other: Has chocolate-tipped wolf ears and tail, the latter framed by mint leaves at the base. Has sharp teeth. Carries a whisk-like staff called a Sweeticalware with him at all times

Sweetical traitlist:

Sweet / Dessert type: Mint Chocolate Minical

Rarity: Mythical

Alignment: Rein 

Traits: Silt pupils (Uncommon), exposed Core (Legendary)

Mutations: Kemonomimi (minor), tail (minor), sharp teeth (minor)

Sweeticalware: Whisk (Legendary) (Formerly a Syringe)

Sweeticalware Traits: Oval gems (Common), heart gem (Rare), diamond gem (Common), crescent gem (Mythical), chocolate ring (Rare), leaf-like wings (Mythical)

Sweeticalware Sub-weapon: A rifle

Sweetical Movesets:

• Jade Blades: Creates flying leaf-like daggers that he can control to slice through objects, the intensity increases with how much magic he's using.
• Chilled to the Core: Creates chocolate which when drank or splashed onto enemies, creates a freezing chill which immobilizes them. Effects are increased if the chocolate is directly injected or ingested (this was used more often when he had a Syringe Sweeticalware)
• MintChoc Fury: Summons mint chocolate ice cream to fall from the skies and pelt down on enemies.
• Frozen Solid: Creates a block of ice which encases the target, said ice cannot be thawed naturally and only when Forrest wants it to. The longer the target is in the ice, the more harm is done on their magic and body.
• Send out the Pack: Creates wolves made of mint chocolate ice cream which he can direct and control. The wolves have sharp teeth and claws, and can be used to bite and slice on enemies. The paws and the tails are dipped in chocolate, which can be used to create the effect from the Moveset Chilled to the Core. Said wolves are non-sentient, and will disperse if Forrest needs it to.
• Tiny Disguise: Able to transform back into his Minical form that he was created from. Cannot hold it for long though and if it exceeds the time limit his disguise will break by first growing back to his normal size and then his human features reappearing one by one.
• I'm one of you: Able to catch glimpses of memories or feelings of a Minical upon touching its Core. Forrest can feed a portion of mint chocolate before the procedure to get clearer results. (This Moveset was not found during his training, but rather he found out on his own after he escaped)
• A Flash of Green and Brown: Creates a glowing ball of mint chocolate which quickly increases in size while drawing magic from its surroundings, growing to an enormous size before it explodes in a loud thuderclap, releasing a wave of mint chocolate ice cream in deadly freezing temperatures. Those caught in the radius of the blast are instantly frozen and are unable to be thawed, and as the wave spreads those who are caught in it are also trapped as well. (Ultimate Move, Forrest wishes never to use it again)

Connections:

Sabrina Ames: Forrest's former battle ally before she left the Ames family out of disgust. He served as her medic in battles, carrying a first aid kit and wearing a golden coat to symbolize his connection to her. Even though he has worked with two other Sweeticals before being taken into the Project, Forrest still finds Sabrina to be the best partner he's served and sees her as a true friend. 

Tanya Hathaway: Sabrina's sister by bond. They met a few times before, usually when Sabrina comes to visit him and takes Tanya with her. The two bonded over their shared history of being Sweeticals for a relatively short period of time, and Forrest really enjoys every time they talk together. They are close friends, and although they are unable to click enough to be a couple (they tried dating once, but it didn't work out) they very enjoy each other's company.

Backstory:

A young baby boy woke up surrounded by curious faces, his wolfish ears twitching as they said stuff like 'It finally worked!' and "He's gonna do a lot of good to the world." He understood none of it, but he was soon whisked away by a bunch of people, all dressed in white lab coats. He was not given a name, but rather a number: #45, which he later learnt was the same number engraved on the Sucre Core located on his chest. Despite this, the boy found himself being raised well by the same people, being fed with nice food, given his own bedroom, and given fun things to play with. He sometimes toyed with the Syringe that appeared alongside him, but despite it being familiar, did not know how to use it. The boy took to his nice surroundings, but deep down...he always had a nagging feeling that things were not as they seemed.

The boy grew up under lavished conditions and was treated well. He was given training on how to home in his Sweetical Movesets, excelling quickly and earning praise. He was trained with other youths, but for some reason everyone's focus was on him, watching him closely during his training and taking notes down on their pads. When he questioned them why they were doing so, the people merely brushed it off by saying it was none of his business, and he only had to keep on with his training. Though the boy stopped asking, this question was on the back of his mind, and he thought about it every now and then on why he was singled out.

One night, the boy woke up in his sleep, clutching his head as bits and pieces of imagery, flashes of it, speeding across his mind. They seemed to be parts of a memory, but too fragmented to be pieced together. They were strange scenes too: scenes of a battlefield, scenes of a dark-skinned Sweetical clothed in gold and brown talking to him, scenes where the ground was uncomfortably close and everything else seemed to be towering over him. These flashes made no sense, but they started appearing more and more frequently, unexpectedly, during different parts of the day, and they somehow added to the nagging feeling that things were not as they seemed. The boy didn't know what they are, but he decided to keep to himself, keeping his head down when those bits and pieces came. 

The memories came year after year, tormenting him and one day, the boy decided to get to the bottom of this. He had prepared for this day, planning out a route and observing when the people would not be paying the most attention to him. He wandered down a narrow path in the facility, where after a mere push of the door, the grand interior that surrounded his room and training areas fell away, replaced by sterile white walls and hallways. The boy peered in the rooms, some containing equipment of some sort, one with a desk full of papers, some containing things he didn't even know the name of. He was about to turn back when he heard sounds coming from one of the rooms. The entire atmosphere gave him an uneasy feeling but he felt he had to investigate. Carefully, he crept towards the room and pushed the door open.

And that's when he saw them.

Cages. Rows upon rows of cages, stacked into three neat rows. And within them, Minicals. The boy had never seem them around the area where he lived in, but he had been briefly been taught about them. He walked among the cages, the Minicals curious at his arrival as he realized they were sorted by their alignments, with the Rein on one side, Fallen on the other, and some in between. Each one of them, however, had a connection: a number engraved on their Sucre Core. The boy saw another door, hidden from view by the cages and he peered inside, and instantly regretted it. For there were also Minicals inside, but all of them looked lifeless and unmoving. He caught a glimpse of one of them, he couldn't tell what it was, but he saw the number engraved on it.

The number 44.

As the boy gasped at this revelation, his memories came shooting back, memories of another life. He was a Minical himself, training in the Ames household alongside their Sweeticals. He was paired with a healer called Sabrina, whom gave him the name 'Minty'. The two bonded pretty well and on the battlefield he helped by carrying a bag full of medical supplies, where Sabrina would use to those who fell in battle. When Sabrina withdrew from the army, since 'Minty' was a property of the Ames family, he had to stay and was paired with another Sweetical. He was paired with a further three more Sweeticals until one day, he himself got very injured in battle. He couldn't find the Sweetical he was paired with, but he was soon found and picked up by a bunch of officials, officials who wore the Decoratea symbol on their suits. They picked him along with a handful of Minicals, separating those who are Fallen from Rein, and placed them in cages before taking them away. A bunch of people then greeted them, the same people who raised 'Minty' as a Sweetical, where they engraved numbers on the Minicals' Cores, while whispering something about 'The Super Solider Project'. "You're gonna do a lot of good to the world." That was the final sentence 'Minty' heard before he was placed into a large oven and he passed out.

The boy gasped. He was an experiment, created from a Minical by the officials for...something. They obviously wanted to do something with him, no wonder they treated him like royalty! He didn't know what it was, but he knew he couldn't stay. In a fit of desperation, he summoned flying mint leaf-like daggers and broke the cages, just as alarms started blaring through the facility. He grabbed all the Minicals he could, regardless of rarity, and broke out of the room. The people in white coats started shouting, chasing him but the boy pulled everything he had learnt and tried shielding himself and the Minicals from danger. Some of the Minicals weren't as lucky, but most of them managed to follow him as he broke through the facility. The boy was hurt, bleeding, but he managed with all his might to fight the pain as he unleashed his Ultimate Move, blasting him and the Minicals out of the facility. 

The boy kept running, the Minicals following him as the facility fell behind and they soon found themselves in a forest. He was breathing hard and hurt, but he managed to pull enough information from his past memories to heal himself and the Minicals. As they sat there, the boy wondered what will happen to them, and thought it might be good to try and start anew, starting with giving them names. He gave names to the Minicals easily but when it came to himself he was at a loss. In his past life he was called 'Minty', but for some reason...it didn't feel right in his present life. One of the Minicals looked around the forest they were in, and seeing the boy also having green colors like the nature itself suggested the name Forrest; while another Minical rubbed his wolf ears and said something like 'claws'. The boy decided to name himself Forrest Clawthrone. No more numbers, just names from now on.

Forrest and the Minicals continued fleeing over lands and seas until they reached South Confisea, where after changing his Sweeticalware into something more fitting, Forrest used his magic to create a place for him and the Minicals to settle down in. It was then he started hearing news about the Project he was a part of as information was leaked out. Apparently 'The Super Solider Project' was launched to create perfect fighters from Minicals, thinking they'll be easier to sway and train and convince to become perfect weapons. However, the process was not a smooth one and many mistakes were made, more so when the Minicals were Fallen to begin with. The officials stated that they will hunt down the Minicals and the escaped Sweetical, but they had conveniently lost the tapes of that fateful day: apparently someone working there was also not happy with how the Project went and decided to rebel, thus giving Forrest the chance to escape. Forrest and the Minicals lay low, but eventually the Decoratean officials started a new project and left the old one forgotten, leaving them all in the clear.

Many years have passed since then, and Forrest continued to care for the Minicals, but every now and then he will visit the other continents to find more abandoned Minicals. He started running a foster system, helping some of the Minicals who longed to find another owners find new homes, though some of them, particularly ones that had escaped the lab with him, had stayed to this day. Forrest's days as a soldier had long passed, but he still tries to train every now and then and teach the Minicals how to fend for themselves. Still more years passed and one day, Forrest met Sabrina, the same Sweetical whom he worked with all those years ago; while they were both surprised upon first impressions, Sabrina more so seeing her Minical being transformed into a Sweetical like her, the two would meet every now and then to discuss their current lives, and also reflect on how much has passed since they last worked. Every now and then, Forrest still has bits and pieces of his past life floating up in his mind, and although he can't recall them completely, he still treasures them, as they were a firm reminder of how he started.

Trivia:

- Forrest is a Sweetical, which is a Closed Species by ScarletDestiney on DA. You are NOT allowed to make one without permission. Additionally, Forrest is formerly a Minical, a sub-Closed Species of Sweeticals also by ScarletDestiney and you're also NOT allowed to make one without permission.

- Forrest's name means 'woods'; initially I wanted to find a name meaning green since his color scheme has a lot of green hues but in his backstory it also serves as a line-of-sight naming by a fellow Minical as they were fleeing the facility. His surname Clawthrone was made since I felt it would match with a wolf-themed character and it rolls off the tongue well.

- In-universe, Forrest is the first Minical to be successfully changed into a Sweetical in the Project; this corresponds to the fact that out-of-universe, he's indeed the first approved Sweetical to be created from a Minical.

- His hair has 3 tufts jutting out from both sides, as a reference to his Minical form having 3 tufts of fur on both sides of his cheek.

- Originally he's supposed to have yellow eyes, going into the wolf theme but since as a Minical he had green eyes, I gave Forrest lime-green eyes so it looks yellow but still green at the same time.

- Since Forrest was technically 'reborn' from a Minical to a Sweetical, his cognition and speech development was much faster due to previous memories. He'll also recall some bits and pieces from his past as Minical, but a lot of it is hazy and may get jumbled up with other memories.

- Among my OCs, Forrest is the second character to be transformed (in-universe) from a plushie of some sort, the first one being Raphael. 

- Has the numbers (45) engraved on his Sucre Core since he's the 45th Minical to have entered the Project: this is a nod to his Minical MYO slot no. being 45 on the masterlist.

- HATES having his Core touched since it has been tampered before (having a number engraved prior to experimentation) Since it is exposed, Forrest will wear extra clothes around that area to prevent from feeling it though it is unavoidable at times.

- Has been taught and dabbled in magical forging of Sweeticalware along with his training.

- The lil' wolf figure at the top of his Sweeticalware is a nod to his original Minical form, reminding what he originally was. Initially he had a Syringe Sweeticalware (without the wolf figure) when he was created as a Sweetical, but shortly after fleeing the facility he, along with another Sweetical who was skilled in magical forging, broke down his original Sweeticalware and remade it into the Whisk he uses today.

- Tail is super thick and fluffy, he hugs it during his sleep. Doesn't mind kids or Minicals touching it, but don't overdo it.

- Disguises himself as a mere Mint Chocolate Sweetical or a Minical via sugar magic whenever he goes back to Decoratea; the Project had long shut down since he escaped but it's always better safe than sorry.

- Is able to understand Minicals better than a normal Sweetical since he is created from a Minical himself. 

- He's originally gonna have a stoic/grumpy personality, hence he's not smiling in the ref: however seeing the two arts I got for him had more playful/neutral expressions I changed his personality so he's not as stoic.