Did I get sucked into the Darkwood community via Pyro? Yes
Did I get sucked back into making OCs cause of Darkwood's Tumblr fandom? Yes
Do I regret it?.. No
This was sitting in my head, and I needed to get it out somehow
The Gardener, known by most folks as Grzybek Balint, or "Gryz", used to regularly tend to the fields within the village before the being took hold of the area. Before that, he mostly tended to stick with his work, his blindness limiting him to what he knew best for the most part, besides the few that considered him a friend, guiding him along with his seeming unbreakable shovel.
Working close to nature, especially some of the being's closest plants of choice, he quickly ended up being one of the first to take on the infection. It slowly shifted his form, but not many know the full extent, as he first hid, before running off when it became too much. Most thought he'd either gone savage or died from the infection, but some people would find a figure similar to him tending to plants around The Silent Forest, slowing moving over to The Old Woods. His level of infection seems to make him invisible to most infected life, so his only concerns tend to be other folks, elk, or dogs.
Most are now scared of him, but for those who have spoken to him, he's still mostly himself, and even still makes deals with folks to keep his crops in the best condition possible. However, nobody has seen under the bucket, or, more likely, those who have never say what they saw...
Might not draw him a lot, don't draw as much as I used to, but I do plan on writing stuff, so ya might see him there lmao
