#amaryllis killer

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Flowers of the main skeles of Flowers In Bloom (because you have no fucking idea how long it takes to draw a skeleton covered in flowers ok. If I drew them all I would throw my phone across the room. Yes I draw from my phone.)

More about some of them!

Daisy (Dream) fights with an overwhelming force of positivity. Like being punched in the face with sunshine and rainbows. Mainly because that's the best way to combat his twin's negativity "infection" spreading through the multiverse.

Like @forgettingcrowbin 's Plumagetale!Ink, Camellia (Ink) has to actually paint on his flowers, generally sticking to rainbow camellias (which are a bitch to draw btw.)

Other than Reaper and Life, Stargazer (Error) is the oldest of the guardians. His abilities to use floral magic were lost as a natural consequence of fucking up his own balance, and his flowers are red and blue stargazer lilies. (Reaper is Solist Gladiolus btw)

Bluebell (Blue) and Tiger (Red) have lost their AUs and are living out of the Omega Timeline.

Belladonna/Bella (Nightmare) is in a constant hellish existence due to the way his immortality, corruption, and soulflowers mix. He's good at hiding it though.

Out of all of the "bad Sanses," Amaryllis/Amy (Killer) suffers some of the worst mental issues from the combination of LV and soulflowers. He suffers from significant dysmorphia from the way things have changed, second only to Belladonna.

Strangely enough, Dark Eyes/Dark (Dust) doesn't appear to be as distressed by the changes his own LV has done to his flowers. Perhaps he has accepted his fate, or sees it as part of his "punishment."

Cornflower/Corn (Horror)'s biggest changes to his flowers are that they are wilted and dead due to lack of magic. That may change with better circumstances.

Still debating on whether or not to include Dark Knight/Knight (Cross), but if I do, these would be his flowers. (You wanna know how friggin hard it was to find just the right flower for this guy?!)

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Amaryllis (floral!Killer)

Its the boooooy

Minerva amaryllis is a pretty big flower compared to things like, belladonna or daisies, so his flowers are naturally more sparse (he misses his blue roses he used to have).

Which also doesn't help that he tends to overpreen...

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The next chapter of Flowers In Bloom (floralverse fic) is now up!

Summary: Belladonna needs help, and protection. So he goes to find someone.

Preview:

It was hard, doing his job. Not maintaining the balance. While that was technically his duty, he didn't particularly ever care about that. The extreme negativity of the multiverse was a testament to that. No, his "job" was "showing people the truth."

Bringing out the negativity they hid, amplifying it to the point it could no longer be hidden. Proving to his brother, to everyone, how horrible people truly were. Especially to his brother.

His "work" had already forever altered their multiverse. Due to his and his brother's fights, all monsters now sprouted flowers all over their bodies. They even existed in new AUs, when they rarely appeared. It was an intrinsic part of the multiverse now.

It didn't impact his job, though. Now his corruption changed their flowers to his new namesake, and Daisy changed it back.

But his job was difficult... He wanted to show people their true natures. But their true natures were often violent. Many times that violence turned on him.

Belladonna rarely fought back though. He had no LV, had never killed, and despite what most people thought, he had no desire to. His corruption would make an excellent weapon, sure, but it always felt wrong even feeling it in his body, let alone using it, so his tentacles usually remained limp behind him. He used his floral magic instead, but only when he had to.

Still... It was unlikely the violent nature of mortals would change, and getting injured so often was irritating. He needed to look into other methods of handling things. A bodyguard, perhaps? It would also be useful when Ink, Error, or Daisy fought him (or all three). But where to find one? Not one of the many Underfells or Flowerfells, their Sanses and Papyri would be too difficult to work with. And there wasn't a lot of variety in the multiverse.

Then... He found it. Something different. Something New.

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Hey I found your flower post about the skeletons being flowers. Can you tell me more about it and all? Like a little bit about all the characters?

Sure! (Minor confession: what spiraled into floralverse was a one-off line in sibverse about a Dream covered in flowers.) Your important floral skeletons exist teeeechnically in two main timelines- sibverse (how many multiverses can I shove into a single storyline) and Flowers In Bloom that focuses on the floral characters specifically and is technically its own timeline.

Floral monsters are my own creation. The flowers cover a monster's body but are an extension of the SOUL. I think of it as the nervous system (soulflowers) connected to the brain (SOUL). The flowers "breathe" the ambient magic of the "air" around them, and need to be largely exposed or the monster will "suffocate."

This poses a unique problem for Belladonna, the multiverse's Nightmare, as the corruption is covering his flowers. However he cannot die (literally) so he just suffers. A brief introduction to the Guardians can be found in Flowers In Bloom.

Amy (Killer), Dark (Dust), and Corn (Horror/Axe) have unique situations because of their stories combined with being floral. LV has a tendency to warp soulflowers, so both Amy and Dark handle this different ways. Amy especially suffers from significant dysmorphia from the changes to his SOUL and flowers and issues because of it.

Tiger (Red) and Bluebell (Blue) are survivors of their AUs collapsing and live in the Omega Timeline and help Daisy (Dream) and are a part of the Star Sanses.

As for Knight (Cross)... That is to be decided

FAQ

- Floralverse Basics (1 2)

- Floral Monster biology (1 2)

-Soulflowers and LV (1)

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Amaryllis Looks So Cool! You Said They Had Blue Roses Before. How Did They React To Them Changing?

Absolutely horribly. Its something that will probably be mentioned repeatedly in Flowers in Bloom, but "flower changes" due to LV gain is a known thing in the floralverse, and most who deal with a dysphoria type response to the flowers can respond in a few different ways. A few common ones are -refusing to look at or touch one's own flowers, which can lead to poor health as they do need to be groomed and maintained often; and then over grooming/plucking. Amaryllis has the second response, which can lead to further SOUL damage (think of plucking flowers or petals like repeatedly damaging nerve endings).

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Floralverse nicknaming process: You've got the scientific name (ex atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade)- Belladonna/Bella (Nightmare)), the common name (ex, Daisy (Dream), Bluebell (Blue/Swap), Cornflower/Corn (Axe/Horror)), or specific color of that flower (ex dark eyes fuscia- Dark Eyes/Dark (Dust), black knight hollyhock- Knight (Cross)). I literally pick what feels best of those options. I could have for example named Bella "Nightshade/Night" for example, or Amy/Amaryllis (Killer) "Minerva" (he's a Minerva Amaryllis), but it gave me the best "vibes"

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Floralverse and LV

Okay since I have Killer and Dust on the brain, let's talk about LV in floralverse.

So! The key thing about floralverse is all monsters have flowers growing all over their bodies that represents/is a part of the SOUL. If the SOUL changes enough (like from high LV or other SOUL changes), the flowers themselves can actually change, anywhere from changing color to completely changing species.

(and while technically a floral Dusttale and Something New technically shouldn't exist and there's no floral themed (or even hanahaki) AUs of them, for purposes of getting the characters essentially their AUs are an alternate timeline of an AU of my own creation that acts as a "base" AU in place of classic Undertale)

So. Floral Killer. He's a double exposed SOUL, in that he both has flowers all over and the normal Killer SOUL. His original flowers were known as "broken ice blue roses" but became a flower known as "Minerva amaryllis." (Keeping in with the tendency in the floralverse to nickname after flowers, his nickname is Amaryllis or Amy.)

It's a massive change tbh. And such changes are incredibly uncomfortable on the person as they experience all of their old flowers dying and falling off to make room for the new ones (usually one's flowers are in essentially an eternal bloom and would not die unless the monster is in extremely poor state.) Amaryllis suffers from significant dysmorphia due to this that he cope with. Sort of.

Dust's original flowers were forget-me-nots, and shifted into "dark eyes fuschia." (As such his nickname is generally Dark/Dark Eyes.)

He obviously has his own issues from such a change, but doesn't handle it quite as bad as Amy does.

(I haven't drawn either of them because as much as I adore the floralverse concept drawing that many flowers is a pain...)