#fern_bio

[jingleeljester]

HAPPY FERN BIRTHDAY!!!!

and finn too i guess yep ok

Here it is. the awaited post.

For my reweite, ferns full adult design

(jewlery can be changed for whatever it doesnt have to look like that but note that he never wears any when biking [getting to that] + his hair can change also he has a lot of different hair styles he learned to do for fun but braids are the most common because theyre the least hazardous)

anyway. so much stuff under cut. TW: smoking is shown

ok so you know what time it is. going to explain EVERYTHING. Firstly, why did i give him That outfit. Well, it basically stemmed from the fact that the first thing Fern EVER did as himself with the intent of figuring himself out was Biking. Specifically, motorbiking. I honestly think hed really enjoy picking that back up as he gets older (and would also improve at it. also, given his body coposition, its genrally safer for him than most other pepole lol). Plus i actually grew up around like bikers and stuff so i thought it was cool. All of his clothes are composed of grass still by the way because it makes the most sense. I dont care what fionna and cake made fern do his clothes are GRASS his biology litrally REQUIRES it. Youre telling me this guy made of grass who has an insanly high body mass only needs a tiny part of himself exposed to the sun in order to get adequate sun exposure. youre kidding me. wrong. no. NOT even how that works you wanna try covering grass with a tarp and see how long it lasts because ive seen that a thousand times and let me tell you it does NOT work. Anyway so yes his clothes are grass hence why everything is a shade of green to yellow but mostly green. Getting to the pieces themselves here, starting with his jacket. I took the design for this from classic 50's leather jackets and then simplified it some. Because fern can just "stitch" the opening back up when he wants to close it by weaving the grass back together, he doesnt need zippers or buttons or anything. he does mostly keep it open, however it is zipped up when biking (the jackets grass is much denser than the rest of his cothes and also his outermost layer of skin, thus providing more protectin from wind-caused discomfort than nothing would). he also doesnt have any pockets on it because he just stuffs his stuff inside of himself wherever lol. On the sides of the jacket, you can see that they are capable of opening up below the sleves (along with the shirt which is a sleeveless shirt). This is ACTUALLY so he can more comfortably do this:

yeah the drawings are gonna get lower in quality from here

ive had the idea for a while now that since in my rewrite the GD doesnt get killed off (it did. nothing wrong) that fern learns to become more, i suppose, aquainted with his own body and learns to get a better hold of his powers. One of those biggest ones being: having a much easier time bending, contorting, and just changing his body overall. he could ALWAYS do this even when he was younger, but as he became an adult and his body got used to itself and he got used to it, it became much easier for him and thus became more owerful overall. Oh and uh yes also as pictured directly above: that yellow fluff that was shown on FC fern is much more prevelent here because. i like it. also because it makes him look more like a taranrula (an animal i heavily associate both him and the GD with). Also also because when i draw kid fern he is already like sorta fluffy so here it sort of just changes color as he ages to become more clear. These "fluff" clusters are: on his wrists and around his ancles, on his major joints (elbows and knees), and on his chest. Theyre also in less dense spots are are most spread around in places any human would normally get hair, like on the shoulders or upper arms, however this isnt obvious enough for me to both even drawing in. Also worth noting, those patches to sort of faintly trail into one another, giving him a cool pattern i Dont really feel like showing that much

anyway off that tangent back to the jacket. So his jacket sides open up for tha purpose yep. he'll also just leave them open normally when not biking or something (so basicaly by default) just because he thinks its more comfortable lol he liked the air exposure. plant behavior

Secondly: his hat. Yyyyes i did just take huge inspo from that one concept art for FC fern. Why? because the idea of fern without his hat is weird. It has nothing to do with him trying to "mimic" finn because fern at his DEFAULT isnt trying to mimic finn thats just. what he looks like. Thats HIS hat. In fact i think his hat perfectly shows ferns character: it shows a resemblence to finn, but it is undoubtly NOT the same. It is very different. It is undoubtly FERNS when you look at it, not finns. Thus, he keeps his hat. its an iconic part of FERNS character and im keeping it that way. he doesnt have to drop every part of his younger self just because its a little similar to finn in order to be more "himself" thats stupid. sorry yes rant ive just seen this a lot. anyway. So with this hat i decided that changing it a bit would be a good idea so like i said i went with that concept art design. i thought this was fitting because with the way I draw younger ferns hat normally, i give his hat 2 little ties on the bottom in order to make it more like a bonnett. With this older design, its sort of fun to think of these ties as just bigger versions of those ties. They grew up with him lol. Because of that, his hat no longer compleatly wraps around his chin and instead just sorta sits on top of his head. Now, you can also prpbably see from my little Thing there that his hat changes shape. It true! It does do that ! This was actually done because even more biker!fern reasons. See, ive noticed that fern is just as susceptable to blunt force trauma to the head as any other being and so i figured that if he were to crash (...not unlikely, at least at first) that hed probably get knocked out. Now, the chances are low, but if he were to get knocked out while, say, his engine catched fire, hed Probably Die! While I do think that he is FOR THE MOST PART functionally immortal, fire and acid can 100% kill him so. him being knocked out while that happens isnt very good for his survival odds. Inorder to fix this, I decided that he should just be able to change for form of his hat. in doing so, he would: make it more angular, close the opening up (protects his face), and also make it much more padded (similar to his jacket). Also fun tidbit: looks like the GK when his mask it open just slightly . you cant really see it i didnt really draw it but trust me it does (and it.. heh..... looks a little like the roaring knight.. if youre awesome........)

His pants arent really that special tbh. Theyre just near black pants. Uhhhhhh... I mean i guess its worth noting that i made them long black pants because most bikers (SHOULD) wear longer pants when biking in order to protect their legs from high winds and also from burning themselves on their own bikes. I just decided to make them real dark green because trust me light green looked stupid

Few misc. design things, speed around:

The bumps on his main joints are from the fluff patches underneath pokeing out + making him look more skeletal AND arachnid like so thats cool

he doesnt actually have boobs hes just REALY fluffy on his chest and it makes him look like a figure (liked that idea because. yay fluffy but also because even though his chest only showed up a few times in FC because it was an animation error, i still liked the idea of him having a bigger chest because t matches will with his short torso. Like its make sense for that to be the concentrated spot for his shape language if that makes sense)

The flowers in his hair are dandilions and clover flowers. both edible weeds. Not only do i personally love both flowers very much but they also represent (in my mind) resilliance and being a flower despite their enviornment and what everyone else associates with them. Plus clover flowers tend to have a white tint to them and dandilions are yellow so theyre nods to his brothers. The forgetmenots in FC ferns hair were cute but i like these more

His glowy yellow eyes arent shown but theyre basically they same. He can also just use them whenever

I didnt feel like drawing it in too much detail but his feet are more pointy now. or like his digits are more pointy

his teeth:

he got his fangs! I was on the fence about hos FC fern had all his teeth in and were sharp but theyve grown on me. However ven before that I likved the idea of fern in my rewrite becomming more spider like or generally more animalistic in his own way because his GD melds more with him rather than dies. Because of that, fangs! They can remain stationary, or move, as shown. I really love fern with fangs also because theyre both spider AND snake like (another animal i heavily associate him with). All of his teeth are grown in naturall actually. he just started growing them back in at some point. it freaked him out

he has jewlery on because thats the only non-grassy sort of decor i could in good consiousness give him without going against my own rules. My fern design is supposed to be really, i guess you could say versitile, with what he looks like. His hair can change, his jacket (and this general torso look) can change, his hat can change, and you can change his jewlery. Its supposed to sort of be because of fern now being really good at self expression now. I mean this guy has been working at it for his entire life now so id HOPE hed be good at it. He wears al that jewlery because he cant wear clothes in colors other than green-yellow without either depriviing himself of sunlight or draining his own energy over time by forcefully changing his clothing color like how he mimiced finn (thats not his "default" looks and thus it will slowly drain him). He has bracelets and neclaces and earrings and what have you. Mostly arent pictured but really youre supposed to throw whatever you want on him thats the point

ok you might b wondering why his left arm is wooden thats because in my rewrite fern loses his left arm from perma-decay magic and cant regrow it normally until he DOES regrow it all wooden. he just keeps it that way though he doesnt get a metal replacement or anything he just keeps the wood. uuuuuuh i honestly dont reall yfeel like explaining all this again im just gonna like my kid fern ref here where its explained lmao. Should be known that this arm: cannot summon the grass sword, nor can it bend. That arm is fully disabled in terms of his "magic"

k and some current story stuff. so basically he ended up studying The Blade more professionally to become more proficient with it. Not only was this useful in general but also because it taught him how to think more before he attacked and how to control himself when he was doing more destructive suff etc etc. he is by no means a pacifist, hes just a now less violent opritunist with a bit of mischeif about him. He also picks up a lot of unviolent hobbies, such as pretty much most art forms you can think of. The guy has a lot of time on his hands to do whatever and he can go just about wherever he wants so its not surprising lol. Its generally good for him and his mental health but he does also find it fun. Plus, he can never be BAD at it, so thats a good thing. he does specifically pick up the bass though. Him and marci would hang out a LOT i mean a LOT (if you couldnt tell by his style at this point) and they ended up bonding over her teaching him to play and then playing together. He's been on stage with her quite a few times and has actually ended up doing a handful of his own things, thus accumulating the fan or two. good for him

on anyway last little thing. smoking comes in here

my singular good panel. happy birthday fern

fern DOESNT SMOKE. he isnt a smoker. However i will state that smoking isnt nearly as harmful to him and it instead does this when he does do it. he just doesnt do it himself because it Smells bad to him (plants are very sensitive to smell), it Tastes really bad (same logic), and also it cloggs his throat up (uuh plant stuff yes theres a better way to explain this im not just just pulling stuff from nowhere i just havnt made my diagrams yet). Anyway so yes i really did just wanna redraw that one fish thing with fern BECAUSE ! his rhespitory system functions very similarly. In VERY short terms i came to the conclusion that he must breathe out in some way from this one like 2 second clip we saw so i decided that logically placing "reverse gil" like structures around the neck would be a good placement realistically. From there any air he breathes in gets filteres out from there so he only intakes whats needed. So in a sense he CAN breathe. only in though, because everything else just comes out through the gil things on their own. this isnt a new thing or adult fern btw ferns always been able to do this

ok im done now. happy birthday to my favorite character in all of fiction and his brother too i suppose

[jingleeljester]

some doodles

LOOK WHO FOUND THAT FERN WIGLY PAINT ART FROM A FEW MONTHS BACK IN HIS COMPUTER FILES PERFECTLY FINE AND ACTUALLY A GIF NOW???

i hate how un user friends wiggly paint is man

anyway

Ej with horns was actually a VERY early design idea when i was creature-ifying him… I’ve always loved characters with horns. OBVIOUSLY he doesn’t have them, because it wouldn’t make sense, but it’s still a fun idea (if he did have horns they’d get HUGE when he’s an adult like his ears lmao and he’s decorate those too assuming he got them from Mira… horn piercings and caps………… chains maybe…..)

And dog (i think fern would see Fig. do that to Ej and Ej not caring so he sort of let himself do the same thing [similar to that one scene with Finn Jake and Pb when Finn was crushing on PB still that phase. That one scene where Jake was laying on her lap so Finn did the same] except here it’s fine actually because Ej just treats fern like a cat anyway. They work so well together because Fern is unconventional with how he expresses and requires but the thing is Ej has literally no frame of reference nor a care for what’s considered weird so he just goes with it as long as it doesn’t bother himself)

Lastly

Fern and his very pickup-able friend (Ej weighs like literally nothing to him at all considering Ej weighs at the MOST EXTREME 100 lbs but averages maybe 84-93. That and also the fact that fern is just naturally incredibly strong [literally lacks the ability to get sore muscles and can extend/contract them to basically any extent needed due to his naturally shifty physical nature] lead to him being able to pick up ej like nothing. Hes basically weightless to him and i cannot exaggerate this enough. He very well could pick him up just as easily as pictured with one hand.)

[jingleeljester]

Trying to come up with a proper Species name for fern and kelp is so crazy. I wanna start with a scientific name BUT ITS NOT LIKE THESE FREAKS EVOLVED…. They were created…. And they aren’t even like species specific you can get a grass hybrid from any creature…… plus they’re magic based…….

I think I’ll need to make a SEPARATE classification system AT LEAST for the plant branch that is magic based just for these freaks 😭

maybe I’ll throw a sort of diverging branch from the plant kingdom?? Or like… maybe a fusion branch? Because plants ARE a huge part of this “species” like they are PRETTY MUCH normal plants aside from a few things. So i can’t take them away from their kingdom. However they’re not…. Normal………. And again like i said they sort of didn’t evolve that way…. It might be better to categorize them as a hybrid?? Maybe :/

planning on making a “grass” branch from the plant magic branch. That’s fine on its own, i just need to figure out where the PLANT magic branch is. Well, it’s in the magic branch. But where does the magic branch go. Also, it technically also in the plant branch. It’s 2 in one sort of thing. Euhfiifjsisnsisjsijsisjakakao

Maybe fern and kelp are definitely hybrids. But the GD itself if its own species. And thus I’d end up naming fern and kelp based on hybrid names and the GD with its own scientific name. If i can do that

[jingleeljester]

FERN DOING EXACTLY THIS THIS IS WHAT IM TALIKG ABOUT WHEN I SAY HE CHITTERS ITS LIKE THIS BUT SLIGHTLY MORE. STRING INSTRUMENT. HARD TO EXPLAIN BUT ITS ESSENTIALLY THIS

ITS ALSO DONE WHEN THE TARANTULA IS NERVOUS!!! HE DOES THAT!!!!!!!!! Now admittedly he does it from General Excitement, not specifically just being Nervous, but it’s the same vibe. It’s. This is exactly it….