Swaying Petals
| Swaying Petals | |
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| Class | Cleric |
| Occupation | Healer and Entertainer (Singer) |
| Tier | Trainee |
| Ancestry | Leshy |
| Heritage | Fruit Leshy |
| Alias(es) | Petals |
| Pronouns | She/Her |
| Age | 25 |
| Height | 2'9’’ |
| Partner | none |
| Relatives | Dane the Insane, Unknown Leshies |
| Status | Alive |
| Player | Cloyster |
| Storyteller | Open |
Appearance
Swaying Petals is a 2’9’’ tall Leshy that takes the appearance of a sunflower, with bright yellow petals surrounding her freckled, smiling face covered in sunflower seeds. She has a lanky green body with stubby legs and large leaves that act as her hands. She wears white explorers clothing and leaves resembling a skirt cover her lower half.
The fruit that grows on Petals is a large sunflower seed that is retrieved by pinching her cheek. She doesn’t like to give the seed for people to eat, however, so she will only do so if pressed or in an emergency.
Background
Swaying Petals (or Petals for short) was created by a human Druid named Dane the Insane alongside many other leshies. Dane was a disheveled wild-man whose main fashion accessory was a pot that he used as a helmet. He lived alone in the woods and spoke in a babbling near gibberish that only plants could understand. Dane lived a peaceful life until one day his grove was beset by hordes of zombies. Dane beat back wave after wave, but as the hordes of undead never seemed to end, he used his druidic magic to slowly create a small Leshy army to help him protect his home. So one day, years into Dane’s war against this seemingly endless zombie horde, he created Swaying Petals. She felt an immediate connection to the sun and took to the tomes of the literature of Sarenrae, and joined the small platoon of plants that also followed the faith. She found her place supporting her allies not only with divine healing, but also through singing as she sang to others as she healed and fought in order to keep up morale in the long, grueling battles. She always tried to keep a smile on everyone’s face.
While she trained and studied hard to live up to the expectations of her creator and other Leshies, the relentless undead forces were eventually too much to deal with. She watched as day by day, more of her Leshy comrades were eaten by the undead masses. Ground continued to be lost until finally they were pushed back to the grove itself to make a last stand. Dane, sensing that the battle was lost, heroically dived headfirst into the undead horde, shouting to the remaining Leshies to escape with their lives. Fearing for her life and not wanting to join all the fallen Leshies, she turned and fled the grove along with the few other Leshies still agile enough to run. As Leshies had never left the grove, they quickly became lost and were ambushed by pursuing zombies. The Leshies scattered as it was every plant for themselves and Petals kept running, never looking back, until her legs gave out. It was deep into the night and Petals collapsed, safe, but alone. Over the next several years, she wandered the countryside, exploring the ruins of the world and meeting unfamiliar, but friendly, creatures. She used her singing talents to improve her reputation and earn enough coin to stay at inns. She holds onto hope in her heart that somehow her creator and mentor Dane the Insane is still alive and vows to return to the grove one day, to drive all of the undead out.
In the year 228, it has been around 5 years since Dane the Insane’s grove was overrun, and Petals has finally wandered into the largest metropolis she has ever seen: Onadbyr. She was amazed at the scale of the operation of the Round Table and signed up as an associate in order to put her skills to good use and make the world a better place. With any luck, she can find peers to travel with her to lost home, but she knows she needs to learn a lot more before she is strong enough to return.
Personality
Petals is a fun loving, bubbly airhead who always strives to bring smiles to people’s faces. This does not apply to any undead, zombies or otherwise. She hates undead and will light up a heal spell upon seeing any, but she can be convinced to not smite undead if a friend vouches for them. She loves to sing and to lighten everyone’s spirits. She is very naive and unfamiliar with the world. She is very excitable and uses the phrase “Oh my gosh” a bit too frequently.
She doesn’t think very highly of herself and single mindedly pursues being useful to others. She is a pushover and will buckle under any social pressure or coercion. She served her creator, Dane, and now Sarenrae and she feels the need to follow the path laid out by them because that is what she was “made” to do. She does have a passion in life for singing and daydreams about one day becoming a famous singer, but she has put those dreams aside to do more important work healing people and eradicating undead.
She tries to put on a brave face, but she is actually rather fearful. She impulsively attacks undead on sight because she saw countless of her peers be eaten alive by undead hordes. As such, she is deathly afraid of being eaten alive and doesn’t like to hand out her healing sunflower seed often as she does not want people to get used to eating a part of her.
Trivia
- Her name is a reference to the American rapper, singer, and songwriter Swae Lee, who wrote the song "Sunflower" which was released for the accompanying soundtrack to the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
- Swaying Flowers does not like zombies on our lawn.
Assignments Attended
Winter 228
- Rock on, Owlbears, 2/18/25
- A Warm and Fuzzy Feeling, 2/17/25
- A Lukewarm Reception, 2/9/25
Fall 228
- Holy Sweepers, 1/29/25
Gallery
Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 1
Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 2
