Thicket

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Created
4 years, 8 months ago
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DirtyPoodle
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Basic Info


Name:

Thicket

Gender:

Gender Neutral (He / They / It)

Sexuality:

Undecided

Species:

Caniform + Thornbush

Profile


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Aloof โ€ข Erratic โ€ข Deceptive

Existing in most minds as rumor and superstition, Thicket is an enigma.
Anyone who claims to have actually met him all walk away with different impressions of his character. Some say he is charismatic, others insist he's tricky and conniving, and still others claim encounters to be devilish and cruel.
Where you may meet him conflicts in many stories as well: Deep in the bracken of a forest, among the skeletal tumbleweeds of a desert at nightfall, or in any of the dwindling number of truly wild areas far from the reach of civilization - places that, either literally or figuratively, are tangled, obscured, or lost.

Those that stumble across Thicket often do so accidentally and in a daze, though some have deliberately set out to find him. What entails when they do, varies as much as every other part of the stories. Sometimes - it is claimed - if the person is in need, Thicket will offer a trade - granted they have anything of interest to give. What it is he fancies is as ever-changing as the wind, and he never accepts the same trade twice.
In other encounters, Thicket may play the part of a Sphinx, taunting its "guests" with riddles and questions.
If he simply isn't in the mood for company, he may even just disappear without a word.
In the darkest of tales, scorned visitors talk of being mislead by Thicket, left abandoned in a maze of thorny brambles too dark and dense to see, forced to painfully fight their way out.

Aside from their cryptic behavior and enigmatic reputation, Thicket appears to have one thing the stories all agree on - their ability to control the rapid growth of briers at will. Tangles of thornbushes can sprout spontaneously from their body - usually from the legs and horns, and it is able to navigate its own mazes with uncanny swiftness and ease. Huge swaths of dense, barbed underbrush indicates that Thicket's lair may be nearby, signaling to passerby that they may take their chances and venture within, or choose to safely turn back while they can.
Notes:
- Brambles are very strong and can grow rapidly, but once grown they are just brambles (not.. tentacles that can move independently or anything outside the normal scope of a plant).
- Spines, spikes, and horns can also grow erratically and break off from their body.