Had an absurd worldbuilding idea: basically a kind of rip-off of His Dark Materials where a person's soul manifests as plant familiar instead of an animal one.
And the Fandom discourse is people becoming very angry because there's a super mysterious character whose familiar is speculated to be something badass but in the final book it turns out to be like a daisy or something.
The whole thing is played completely straight, even though characters' deaths are always described as their familiar being "pruned".
There's an official quiz that reveals your plant familiar and like ninety percent of fans are outraged when they don't get a cactus or flytrap like their favorite characters. There's an extreme debate over whether you can have moss or algae, and mangroves are explicitly stated to be absurdly rare in-universe so of course most fan art depicts self-insert characters with mangrove sonas. The author is also extremely cagey about whether cannabis exists in this world because he's technically still writing middle-grade and doesn't want to explicitly describe Marijuana in a setting intended to be read by eleven-year olds.
Pollination is considered an extreme cultural taboo.
