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it's amaryllis season! which flower dryad are you taking home?
the ferrari
the apple blossom
the curious Christmas
the shy Christmas
the climbing Christmas
the protective amoritaesus
the nervous amoritaesus
both amoritaesus
So @befuddled-calico-whump's PBU (pot boy universe) still lives rent free in my brain and all I'm thinking about is a multi-whumpee situation with a bonsai gardener and an old Juniper tree, twisted and mangled from years of being forced to grow in absurd ways. Juniper's lived like this for years and stays silent, resigned to his fate. Until one day, a new seedling comes screaming into the garden with wire wrapped around his limbs and forced into a beautiful stress position. And Juniper just decides then and there,
"No. No they don't do this to you too. I'm too far gone, but not you."
Novels and Nails FB Group Custom for November 2019 - “Beloved” by Pretty Beautiful Unlimited, inspired by The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike
𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔡
Was talking about grafting with some people and it made me think of your dryads. Do they all see grafting as body horror or do some see it as cool? Is it painful? Invasive?
ooooooh!
I think it'd be similar to body modifications in humans. There are varying levels of intensity, and getting it done consensually can be really cool and validating
But having it forced/performed non-consensually would be scary and violating. Not to mention the procedures done by humans are probably different (and more painful) than the ones performed by other dryads
riot kings characters as "pet dryads"?
Jin and Nabi are apple tree dryads; Melchior is an oak :D
this would shake up the story a bit: Melchior is a dryad "rebel" who's taking violent measures to try and get equal footing for his species
Jin and Nabi are still with the Fleet, which has taken a stance on "equal opportunity" and hired a few token dryads. Nabi has a rare strain of nature magic that makes her useful, and Jin is a foot soldier instead of being allowed on the spec ops team
Mercury would be a dryad who wants to escalate the violence against humans, and Wes would be a naiad (seen as more feral and dangerous)
Dryad Whump Ideas
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- Keep them in a dark cell/basement to deprive them of sunlight and weaken them
- Prune and shape their tree form into something more symmetrical and appealing, despite the pain it causes them
- Cut off limbs and study the regrowing process
- Bend their body into an unnatural shape and tie it in place, to encourage their tree to grow a certain way
- Body horror? Splice the limbs from other trees onto their bodies. Graft branches from different fruit trees onto a fruit tree Dryad to give yourself a more diverse harvest
- Keep a flower Dryad in a tiny windowbox, with hardly any room to move
- Leave a Dryad outside through the winter, forcing them into dormancy in order to stay alive
- Their regenerative abilities makes them perfect for experiments that would kill a human
- Masters with sadistic tendencies get away with practically everything---they're plants, not people
A Darker side of Dryad Husbandry
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While their status as household pets and decoration is widely known, there are far more gruesome uses for a Dryad; things not discussed in polite company, if at all.
Many human scientists have taken to researching the species' regenerative properties, often subjecting Dryads to brutal experiments in order to test and document their limits.
Other researchers try for innovation: experimenting with Dryads' limbs and organs in an effort to create something that would be compatible with a human in need of a transplant, or testing new agricultural formulas and methods.
Not every research project is legal, but most governments are willing to turn a blind eye to the science guilds' work on Dryads in the name of progress.
Darker still are the underground circles frequented by those who are rich and depraved enough to access them. Here, Dryads (and Naiads) may be forced to fight, experimented on by inexperienced lords, or even eaten as a delicacy.
(art under the cut. cw for vivisection/gore)
