TREANT, the Tree Pokégirl

TREANT, the Tree Pokégirl
Type: Semihuman Metamorph (tree)
Element: Plant
Frequency: Very Rare
Diet: Soil, water, sunlight, air, plant matter
Role: Forest wardens, Siege Pokégirls
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Electric, Ground, Plant, Rock, Water
Weak Vs: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison
Attacks: Razor Leaf, Regenerate, Wood Tower, Root, Root System, Lance, Syrup, Lure, Command Plants, Virus, Anti-Virus, all known Dust and Powder attacks, Grass Floor, Vine Whip, Solar Beam, Frenzy Plant
Enhancements: Enhanced Strength (x15), Enhanced Vision, Enhanced Lung Capacity, Morphic abilities, Enhanced Endurance (x6), Enhanced Durability (x9), Plant generation and control, Photosynthetic healing (in tree form), Root healing (in tree form), Can draw on surrounding plant-matter to increase size, Soil purification, Longevity
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Mileeboro (normal), Driad (Permanent physical bonding to a tree), Any other plant-type (Leaf Stone + Dawn Stone)

Treants are considered to be among the greatest of plant Pokégirls. Created naturally a Mileeboro evolving, it was recently discovered that they could evolve from exposing any plant-type to a Leaf Stone and a Dawn Stone at the same time. This is a rare occurrence, however, as Dawn Stones are quite rare and the process to create them is rather long and involved. In addition to this, when a Driad’s connection to the tree grows to the point where she becomes permanently bonded to it, unable to remove herself from it, she becomes the tree itself, evolving into a Treant.

Treants are powerful plant types. During the Revenge War, they would appear out of forests and ambush caravans passing through, devastating them. In one particular area of what became known as the Blue League, Treant ambush units were so effective at eliminating caravans that for years the forest they inhabited what thought to be haunted. The presence of Treants in that particular area was only discovered in the past 100 years. Another infamous incident during the war came when a group of Treants destroyed a dam, bracing themselves against the water while the security towers surrounding a human fortress were swept away. While slow in movement, they made up for it with sheer power and their ability to charge up Solar Beam faster than normal. Supplemented by other plant types, they made for devastating weapons in the Revenge War. But even then, it was noticed that they had a great distaste for open warfare.

Treants are tall Pokégirls, nine feet tall at the shortest. They have slightly rough , dark, bark-like skin, muscular frames, and long, slender hands. Their breed of tree (something which affects many aspects of their appearance) depends on what region of the world they are in. Their feet are more like thick stumps, their legs bulkier than their arms, allowing them greater balance in unstable environments. Treants that evolve from Mileeboros gain a more normal facial appearance, losing their six stalk eyes in favor of two eyes that are stronger than most. A Treant’s eyes glow bright green in moments of intense emotion, either good or bad. The breed’s hair is usually some shade of green, which in the fall turns to shades of brown, yellow, and red. Growing from the back of their head, neck, and shoulders is a criss-crossing mass of leafy branches. Depending on what tree the breed is based on, they also may bear flowers or even fruits. In addition to this, if the tree is a sap-bearing breed of tree, they can use any and all of the Syrup techniques.

Treants have several unique abilities. In addition to the usual plant-based powers of the breed, they also can temporarily absorb mass (via physical contact) from nearby plant-matter to increase their height up to five feet. This ability was first seen in 189 AS, when a Watcher witnessed a forest of Treants come alive to drive off a Giantess that had wandered into the area. The addition of height doesn’t add to their strength, however, and the amount they can grow is dependent on the amount of plant matter that is nearby. They can only absorb a certain amount of mass from a plant before doing irreparable damage to it.

They can grow roots into the ground to brace themselves against floods, and can shape-shift into a specimen of their breed of tree to speed up their healing rate and absorb food, usually adding ten feet to their height in tree form. This, in turn, makes them less effective in urban environments, their height also meaning that many of the breed tend to develop claustrophobia, making it difficult for them to function in caves and enclosed areas, although for some reason Pokéballs do not seem to trigger a claustrophobic reaction. In addition to this, while in tree form they can recover at a 15% faster rate than normal, the combination of photosynthesis and absorbing nutrients from the ground increasing their rate of healing while resting as a tree. Also, fruit-bearing Treants can use their Command Plants ability to will fruit to grow on their branches, which they can then consume for added health.

Treants, like Mileeboros, have the ability to purify soil by absorbing toxins. Because Treants are not poison types, this temporarily weakens them. This ability to purify soil has actually become more powerful, allowing them to purify Angel Stones into Dawn Stones, subsequently increasing their value. (And in turn causing some to start favoring research into synthetic lumber development, as there have been recorded incidents of a Treant accidentally being murdered by careless lumberjacks while in tree form.)

In battle, Treants are most effective in a forested environment, ideally surrounded by trees of a type similar to their own. This allows them to take full advantage of their plant-based abilities and sheer physical power, and have easy access to healing should things go bad. They are slow, clumsy fighters but they make up for it in sheer damage capacity.

Feral Treants tend to group in packs usually called ‘forests’ or ‘groves,’ frequently accompanied by Driads. They adopt an area of forest as their own and are fiercely protective of themselves, their home, and each other. They will not attack, however, unless directly provoked by outside interference. It is sometimes hard to even find Feral Treants as they tend to stay in tree form, soaking up the sunlight. When Tamed, Treants will let their Tamer and favored harem sisters climb up into their tree form’s branches to relax, usually using the produce of their branches to make a gift for their Tamer and harem sisters. Treants take it as a great compliment if a Tamer will rest high up in their branches.

Treants, in terms of taming habits, tend to prefer deep, meaningful, even soulful Taming sessions, usually with the Tamer on the bottom due to their back branches. They love to be Tamed deep within the forest, surrounded by plant-life, the feeling of nature around them arousing them greatly. A Tamer willing to get into the dirt with them and work with the soil will find their Treant to be very affectionate.

Threshold cases that result in a Treant are very rare. Usually the process is very painful, due to the sheer amount of physical changes. In all recorded cases the ‘girl, upon finishing her transformation, spends several days as a tree while recovering from the agony. This heavy also is part of the reason why Treants who evolved from Mileeboro are so rare. A Mileeboro doesn’t evolve to Treant without a very high level of experience, and in addition to that, due to how inhuman the Treant is, a great many Mileeboro are reluctant to evolve into them. Indeed, for some, the concept of needing to turn into a tree at times is frightening, so they prefer to stay in a more mobile, if less powerful, form.

Due to the breed’s longevity, a small handful of Treant veterans of the Revenge War are still around, living within the Amazon preserve under Cologne’s protection. The durability rating of these particular Treants has increased tremendously with age, to almost half a Damsel’s level. It’s assumed that if a Treant ages enough, their wood-like bodies will become ‘petrified,’ granting them a stone sub-type.

As a note on the creation of Dawn Stones, the process a Treant uses is similar to the process they use to purify the soil, although using the their hands instead of their root-like feet. The Treant grows roots from her fingers, digging them into the Angel Stone. She then absorbs and purifies any imperfections and flaws in the stone, altering the energy aura inside it until the transformation into a Dawn Stone is complete. The process to do this takes 3 months at least, as the Treant cannot perform the purification for more than five hours at a time before having to rest for another five hours as a tree, the weakness afflicting them too great. Attempting to force them to continue beyond five hours is considered abuse in many Leagues.