Jak Sandrow
"Nobody cares for the woods anymore."
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Name: [none, specifically]
Homeworld: Wherever there are plants
Development Thread: None
Average Measurements: Incredibly varied
Cultivation Requirements: Whatever requirements are necessary for the base plant that Jak is changing.
Strengths: Increased agility, strength, speed
Weaknesses: Decreased resilience, especially to fire, changing the plant can hurt the plant itself
Distinctions: While any plant matter can become altered by Jak, unless he is just accelerating growth of a plant, they will all grow distinctive traits: Becoming a uniform, smooth shade of green (PMS 369 if you're curious), and taking the shape of a cylindrical vine, they are slightly malleable, having the feel of muscle under skin. Each vine has strength proportional to its size; a thin stem will only be able to lift small objects, whereas a massive trunk-like vine could potentially restrain a spaceship from taking off. Each vine can merge with the next to form a larger vine, giving the appearance of the vines 'melting' together. The vines can form objects on their surfaces, creating thorns, fruits, or just swirly patterns. They can also recolor themselves, but this taxes the vines, and Jak also prefers not to do it.
Average Growth Cycle: Any plant will only take a split second to change, usually. Obviously, the larger the plant, the slower it will take, but to fully transform, will take no longer than a few seconds, tops. Of course, this can be limited, depending on Jak's concentration.
The plants grow at a maximum speed of 0.5 m3 (of plant matter)/second. This translates to: a cylindrical vine with a diameter of 10 centimeters, travelling at a speed of 10 meters per second - which is the maximum possible speed the vines can grow. A thicker vine will travel proportionately slower, but a thinner vine will only grow at a maximum speed of 10 m/s. And it doesn't have to travel that fast - it can grow slower.
This is all entirely based on available nutrients: if the plant is isolated in a box, then it has limited resources available to it, till it contacts and roots in the ground.
Average Life: Jak's power suspends the plants' life span indefinitely - so long as he is alive. If the power no longer flows from him into the plant, the plant returns COMPLETELY to normal.
Nutritional Value: The plant can grow fruit at Jak's will; the flavor of which can be whatever is requested. Yes, that includes chocolate oranges.
History: When Jak was first transformed into a Vinithi-human hybrid, he immediately stumbled upon the side effect of being able to control plant life, to a point. This ability has refined itself from simply accelerating growth of plants, to actually changing them to a more consistent vine-like shape. Through years upon years of practice, as well as a 10-year exile dedicated to this, Jak has become very skilled with the manipulation of plant matter, and the plants mirror that.
Intent: This whole submission is to provide a tangible base for Jak's alterations that he makes to plants. I (the author) thought that it needed to be quantified, so as not to be constantly one-upping other people - even by accident. By actually defining what the plants can and cannot do, this should hopefully limit Jak's abilities to a (slightly) more realistic scale.
