poll What is Wormwood? (anonymous poll)

[CatDrKahl]

unsurprisingly, this has turned philosophical 

[Catteflyterpill]

28 minutes ago, CatDrKahl said:

unsurprisingly, this has turned philosophical 

This isn't philosophical? If anything the conversation has turned biological and kind of away from the first topic. Most philosophical thing is DinsdaleP asking why Wurt can't eat Wormwood if he's a plant.

[CatDrKahl]

24 minutes ago, Catteflyterpill said:

This isn't philosophical? If anything the conversation has turned biological and kind of away from the first topic. Most philosophical thing is DinsdaleP asking why Wurt can't eat Wormwood if he's a plant.

people are questioning what makes a plant a plant. 

 

at least votes are still going on, that's the entire reason I made the poll

there are quite a few people, me included, that think he's some biological hybrid of plant and animal (I have an idea on what the hybrid cells would look like)

[Cheggf]

25 minutes ago, CatDrKahl said:

I have an idea on what the hybrid cells would look like

What is your idea on what they would look like?

[Cr4zyFl4mes]

Fun Fact: Most plants can't survive without a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi. Generally, the plant can't get the nutrients from the soil itself. It has a deal with the fungus, which supplies the nutrients to the plant. In return, the fungus gets excess sugars from the plant (Fungi can't do photosynthesis afterall).

[DinsdaleP]

4 hours ago, gamehun20 said:

I mean have you tried eating a cow alive?

I tend to order my steaks in a way that a good vet could bring them back to life, so... kinda?

[Eughstein]

A wood shaped worm 

[Evelo]

1 hour ago, Eughstein said:

A wood shaped worm 

This is objective truth. Vines are indeed just planty worms are they not?

[BoysenSyrup]

freak

[CatDrKahl]

8 hours ago, Cheggf said:

What is your idea on what they would look like?

all the things of an animal cell, all the things of a plant cell, thinner wall, fewer chloroplasts (as there is no evidence Wormwood photosynthesises).

y'know, a mix of animal and plant cell organelles 

[CameoAppearance]

I think Wormwood's a plant that's developed animal-like characteristics, which is a different thing from being a combination of a plant and an animal since no actual animals were involved in his creation. Probably if you looked at his cells under a microscope they would also have similarities to both plant and animal cells, but he's a plant taxonomically.

He's not the only plant in the Constant that's like that; look at Snaptooth Flytraps, which have mobile meat-eating seedlings, and the aggressive hanging vines in Hamlet that eat everything that comes within reach and slap food out of your inventory (the latter might be his closest relative on the plant side of his family, come to think of it). And then there's carrats and saladmanders, which are also animal-like plants that either came from the moon originally or started out as normal Constant plants but were mutated by lunar energy after arriving on the lunar island.

As for the photosynthesis aspect, I don't think we can be certain he doesn't photosynthesize, just that it doesn't give him enough energy to affect his hunger or health meters. Which is understandable if he's running around all day, using more energy than staying in one spot (in real life, a Venus flytrap that snaps shut too often when it's not catching anything edible can die from overexertion) while absorbing little if any nutrition from the soil. Similarly I don't know how we could tell whether he breathes oxygen or carbon dioxide.

[Copyafriend]

I mean, to be frank, he could easily be a mycoheterotrophic plant

aka a plant that gains its energy partly or completely from its relationship from a fungus symbiote.

[Wardin25]

18 hours ago, DinsdaleP said:

...the bigger question is: if he is a plant, why can't Wurt eat him?!

[Catteflyterpill]

44 minutes ago, Copyafriend said:

I mean, to be frank, he could easily be a mycoheterotrophic plant

aka a plant that gains its energy partly or completely from its relationship from a fungus symbiote.

It'd be interesting if instead of a fungal symbiote breaking down food it's the green gem. Since they are used for deconstruction staves, maybe it could work to break down what Wormwood consumes into a form of energy that they can digest. 

[Wardin25]

29 minutes ago, Catteflyterpill said:

It'd be interesting if instead of a fungal symbiote breaking down food it's the green gem. Since they are used for deconstruction staves, maybe it could work to break down what Wormwood consumes into a form of energy that they can digest. 

We can't really know if it's a green gem. Sure, they both are gems that are green, but Wormwood's is a lighter tone of green and kinda looks like it emits a bit of light, the regular green gem is cut, and likely made from Nightmare fuel, whereas Wormwood's comes from the moon. Wormwood's actually seems to attract plants from what we see in their shortcut 

Edit: Thinking about it, if the Lunar rifts connect to the moon, then Wormwood could be a sort of Brightshade, and the gem is a variation of the ghost thingies that fell from the moon instead of traveling through the rift. Both are mode from vines too, though the Brightshade's seem corrupted from lunar influence

 

[Cr4zyFl4mes]

On 6/23/2023 at 3:28 PM, Copyafriend said:

I mean, to be frank, he could easily be a mycoheterotrophic plant

aka a plant that gains its energy partly or completely from its relationship from a fungus symbiote.

Not sure about wormwood, since a lot of his skins have green foliage. But coming to think of it, the sea weeds are definitely mycoheterotrophic plants. They look very similar to orchids.

Also, Wormwood considers mushrooms friends.

[Dragonboooorn]

A poop eater. 

Thats enough for me to never touch this character