Wormwood (Origin)

Wormwood

Hamlet

DST

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About the character

Full Name	Wormwood
Born	June 6.
Location	Constant (Hamlet Ruins)
Favorite Food
Curio Cabinet Bio	An amalgam of vines given sentience by lunar magic, Wormwood searches for friends so he can finally belong.
Motto	"Hello friend?"
Friends and Relatives	Friends (Associated with Maxwell Statue), Mother (Associated with Maxwell Lavae Tooth), Krampus (Friend),

Appearance

From Compedium:

Though the circumstances of his creation were unusual at best, Wormwood came into this world full of optimism and curiosity, ready to make new friends and see all that life had to offer. But as time wore on and he experienced the cold sting of rejection, he came to learn what the moon above had always known: Wormwood the Lonesome does not belong here.

Green Gem falls from the moon straight onto a structure that strongly resembles a grave. It looks like the gem was placed in this place because fragments of the moon can be seen around this structure. The roots that reach out to the gem suddenly envelop the gem and turn into Wormwood. Wormwood is trying to find his place in life and tries to make friends with different creatures, but it doesn’t work out. Eventually he finds a common language with the plants.

Trivia

• Wormwood, Wurt, and Wilba may be the first survivors to originate from the Constant and not the real world like the others.
• Wormwood's birthday is listed as June 6 in the Compendium. June 6, 2019 is the day Wormwood was added to DST.
• To the question on the forum "Is Wormwood a plant or an animal?" developer Nome replied: "While it certainly beats some alternatives, a cladistic categorization of life on earth already struggles with concepts like horizontal gene transfer - it's therefore ill-equipped to handle the effects of magic gemstones. I suggest either developing a rigorous framework for the categorization of Constant life which includes the effects of shadow and lunar influence, clockwork origins, etc, etc or just finding a way to be less hung up on labels. If you choose the former here's some starting reading https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62446-5 "
• Despite the fact that Wormwood is male, he has female reproductive organs in his full bloom design.