Dr. Sunflower

## Doctor Sunflower

Dr. Sunflower is Clodsire's character on the Eldenburn SMP.

## Physiology

### Appearance

Dr. Sunflower is a Starleech inhabiting a sunflower. Standing tall at 5ft 10 in and weighing 90 lbs, donning a set of metal prosthetic arms. She also has black eyes with glowing pupils, and an apparent top petal with an odd tooth pattern on it. This pattern is in reference to her true form, an incredibly large horrid creature made up of willpower and sunlight, which, due to a lack of her homeland's magic in Eldenburn, she cannot unleash. Her small stature is caused by the weight of her prosthetics, and her unhealthy drinking habits.

## Character

Dr. Sunflower is, on the surface, a sassy, tired, and apathetic person. However, this is just a thin veil she puts over her true nature to protect herself. She has extreme compassion deep in her heart, and would do anything for those close to her. She's also very prone to extreme emotional outbursts when alone, only ever revealing herself when those she loves are in danger. She misses her family a lot, and curses the rift for separating her from them. In Eldenburn, she's formed bonds with Zerpy, who made her a quaint tropical villa, Caileen McMahill, who gave her shelter, and Gouley, who she lives with and who reminds her of someone from her past.

As in implied by her name, she is a doctor. Namingly, a surgeon, a nurse, a chemist, a bioengineer, and a veterinarian. Unfortunately, she doesn't have access to her medical equipment in Eldenburn, so she's taken to cooking, and using her mage book in order to heal others. She's also moderately obsessive with her immense amount of pets. She says she just thinks they're cute, but in truth, she's desperately trying to refill the hole left in her heart by her absent family and friends, to no avail.

## Alignment - Neutral good

Dr. Sunflower is naïve and trustworthy, she doesn't have many big goals other than protecting those she loves. Conflict between people secretly tears her up inside, and she'll do anything to prevent it from happening. She's, however, still prone to violent outbursts against mobs, and won't hesitate to defend herself or her loved ones if her hand is forced. On her homeland, Ovoid Island, she's gone so far as to spare the lives of her worst enemies just so she doesn't have to spill any more blood.

## Backstory

Dr. Sunflower was born on the sun as a Starleech. Starleeches are a strange, anomalous species native and exclusive to her home universe. Starleeches are formed when the magic energy of her universe collides with the radiation of stars, which live their long lives bringing materials to the stars they were formed on to continue their nuclear fusion and lifespan. They then feed off the radiation given off by the stars, making this relationship a symbiosis between gaseous bodies and living beings. An accident happened when Dr. Sunflower was 500 years old where she was blasted into a sunflower that had been planted in her first home. On her way down, she punctured and destroyed a young Cosmog, who'd been accidentally sent there via multi-universal ultra wormhole.

Eventually, Dr. Sunflower gained consciousness in the sunflower she now inhabited, and began screeching out for help. Eventually, the owner of the garden she found herself in came out to her aid. The man who came to her aid was a man known as Bunny, who was a brilliant scientist and wild inventor. He was obsessed with machines, and chemistry of all sorts to make life easier for him and those who lived near him. He, and Dr. Sunflower lived in a place known as "The Swamp," where several creatures from different universes were sent via ultra wormholes and prospered together, without much memory of their past lives (not much unlike Eldenburn!) She lived with Bunny, and learned his ways. Young Dr. Sunflower was extremely affectionate, and showered her peers in love, which helped Bunny's mental state immensely, keeping him from succumbing to being cramped up in his lab all day.

Eventually, after living with Bunny for awhile, she met a young plant from another world. Unlike her, this creature truly was a plant, and he was known as "Peashooter." He was a brazen young lad, with an extreme passion in his heart for fighting and protecting the masses. newly sentient Dr. Sunflower found herself falling in love with Peashooter, spending night and day playing with him and listening to all the crazy adventures he wanted to get up to when he was an adult. Peashooter never stopped training, and when playing, he would seek out other kids to befriend, and strike down any bullies with a swift shot from his mouth cannon.

20 years went by without all too much action. Occasionally there was terror that struck the swamp, but it wasn't anything that young Peashooter, his friends, and his girlfriend couldn't take on. Together, they fought strange otherworldly creatures called the "Smilers," who were spherical creatures that had a constant grin on their face, which would bash into anything obstructing their path. They lived happily under the guise of Bunny, who made the first iterations of their metal prosthetic arms. They met and befriended even more creatures from other worlds. More plants, regular animals, strange magical creatures known as "Pokémon," and things entirely unexplainable. Eventually, the two settled down, and proclaimed they were "married." They didn't really know what that meant, they just heard that was something they did to show their love in other universes. They had 7 children together, and lived as a happy family.

However, all good things must come to an end, and calamity struck. The swamp flooded, the crashing murky waters made it unsafe to inhabit, and thus they had to leave. Fortunately, there was a group of people willing to help! A rag-tag team of Pokémon, who'd been on the swamp longer than anyone else, arose to help. The group consisted of 3 (now 4) Pokémon, Mew, Old man Pikachu, and Rayquaza. Mew transformed into Rayquaza, and together they evacuated who they could in the time they had. Unfortunately, only a few survived. Peashooter's brothers had gotten caught and were killed in the swamp, along with Bunny himself. Nonetheless, the survivors eventually found new land to live on. This would be the first of a chain of events that would harden the newly weds as they went on in life.

When they got to their new land, they thought of it as paradise. Long gone were the days of icky humidity in the swamp, this time, it was actually rather pleasant, but a bit cold. They named their new home "Hope Island," and began to settle in. Dr. Sunflower took what knowledge she gotten from Bunny, and started her career as a doctor. She began to obsess over protecting her friends, and most importantly, her family. More people were sent to the new island as well, and it turned out that the swamp wasn't the only place where people were being sent from other universes. Peashooter also started to take his training more seriously, not wanting to let down the people he loved if further calamity arose. They lived a good year in peace, anxious about what would come next, but what did come they could have never expected.

One cold night, a flash of light cracked the sky from the heavens above, and landed on a lone, mountain faring Charizard. The Charizard began roaring into the night sky, and its boyfriend, a Venusaur, was terrified of it. The Charizard rampaged their home, tearing it apart and burning it down, forcing Venusaur to have to flee and warn the town set up below. Charizard began circling the sky above, roaring into the night and continuing its mindless rampage. Venusaur made it down to the town in time, his roar awoke the citizens that weren't already awake. Charizard inevitably made it to the town, and the townspeople were terrified. This wasn't the same Charizard they knew... literally! His eyes were milky white, and he was covered in a clear plastic-like film, not only this, but his body had seemingly morphed. His body turned black, his underbelly and the flames emanating from his tail turned blue, and he loomed overhead with a terrifying presence. The townspeople launched a full onslaught, including Peashooter. This battle had many causalities, even further thinning out the population on Hope Island, barely having been won with the help of the Ancient Guardians.

Peashooter and Dr. Sunflower survived. Dr. Sunflower was unscathed, but was racked with survivor's guilt. Peashooter survived, but half of his face was burnt clean off. This forced Dr. Sunflower to make him a prosthetic face half, which she had never done before, but with her knowledge from Bunny she pulled it off. This drove her to make her own metal arm prosthetics, and similar ones for the rest of the plants.

After the incident with Charizard, the same thing happened again, this time with the curse afflicting Charizard happening to even more people. This time they were a lot more coordinated, but so was the defending townspeople. Dr. Sunflower gathered data about the curse, and concluded that it made the victim stronger, and taken in as part of a larger hivemind. She also concluded that they should GET the FUCK out while they still could.

Peashooter was much more stoic after these incidents. He caught 2 Pokémon, Pidgeot and Corviknight, who he trained rigorously. Distraught from watching so many die, and failing to save them twice in a row, Dr. Sunflower became obsessive. She became overprotective to her children, taking over their lives, until they had enough. Their dad being absent, and their mom being overbearing, they fled from home, never to be seen again. This further drove Dr. Sunflower down her dark mental state, increasingly becoming more and more secluded by the day. Eventually, Corviknight, Pidgeot, and the Ancient Guardians were able to bring the townsfolk over to a new island, where they hoped to escape what they named the "Lunar Curse."

Their new island had no name, but they found a large egg on the beach. This egg hatched, and out popped a baby Kyogre! It flooded the spaces in between the sky islands, making them regular islands. This gave the island inhabitants the idea to name it after the oceanic void that surrounded them, and so they named the island "Ovoid Island."

But what was Dr. Sunflower doing during all this? Why, obsessively cramped up in a lab, just like how Bunny used to do! She toiled away at enhancements to her husband's face prosthetic, turning him into a sort of cyborg battle machine. She eventually learned that, because of the wormholes that kept bringing new people to the islands, she could harness that power and communicate with other universes entirely. She did just that, and made a computer that could gain information from other universes entirely. She relished in all the new ideas, all the amazing things she learned to make, one of them being the classic Pokeball. She was like this for about a year, with everyone around her getting more and more concerned for her health, but she didn't care. She was just trying to make life better for everyone, who cared about what it did to her?

One day, however, this all would change. She heard rustling in her basement, and went to go investigate. She found the source of the noise, a little Rattata. It seemed really hungry, and barely even noticed Dr. Sunflower come down to it, as it was too busy feasting on grapes that Dr. Sunflower was making into homemade wine. Dr. Sunflower threw one of her Pokeballs at Rattata, having learned that's what people did in Rattata's home universe, and caught him!

As time went on, Rattata helped her get out more, and as she caught more and more pokemon, she began to recover. Through trial and turbulation, she gathered together her team. Rattata, a rambunctious little pirate wannabe, who loved sailing and stealing things from other people, Oshawott, a troubled kid trying to be a cool samurai, but was too small to do it, Amaura, a shy Pokemon which loved to stay close to Dr. Sunflower and her team, never leaving her side, and finally, Celebi, a mythical Pokemon who lended her strength to Dr. Sunflower, and helped her with her duties as doctor, which may or may not be fueled by a huge crush on Dr. Sunflower.

Together, they all helped Dr. Sunflower come out of her shell, and finally they opened a proper hospital, where they helped islanders in need!

Dr. Sunflower, her husband, and her team faced many trials. The curse of the moon came back, and it turned out that the Cosmog Dr. Sunflower blasted through was behind it. The Cosmog was spiteful, and the sheer hatred in its heart allowed each scattered particle of it infect people as a part of a larger hivemind. They flew about, seeking to control each island member to kill Dr. Sunflower once and for all. However, the Cosmog was kept at bay due to the simple fact that the Islanders were so hardened by the previous attacks, and no longer wished to run from it.

Things got worse as a new member was sent to the island, a Scorbunny. The Scorbunny, miraculously, remembered the life it had before being sent to Ovoid, and wished to return. The Scorbunny also began rampaging the island, seeking every bit of power it could. It destroyed a nation that had formed on the Island, made up of people who were tired of how life worked on the mainland, by brutally kicking them until they stopped breathing.

Obviously enough, with these 2 forces of evil, Dr. Sunflower felt she had to do something before she was hurt again. She eventually came to a deal with the cunning Cosmog. Dr. Sunflower would let Cosmog have a body, as Cosmog tricked Dr. Sunflower into thinking that was all it wanted, and in trade, the Cosmog would gather itself into Scorbunny.

This deal worked for a few months, and the Cosmog lived amongst the islanders as one of them (although, nobody really liked them.) Until eventually, after secretly gaining power, the Cosmog evolved into a Cosmoem, and knew that if it kept going, it could take down Dr. Sunflower once and for all. One night, it had finally trained enough to evolve into Lunala. The Cosmoem began losing its current form, and shambled over to Dr. Sunflower's hospital. It awoke Dr. Sunflower with a high pitched cry into the night, which, when she naturally went down to investigate, she was stunned by what she saw.

Lunala began to hatch from Scorbunny's body in a grotesque, bloody mess. The wings pierced through the spine, and tore open the flesh until the rest could do the same. Soaked in blood, gaining power from the full moon above, Lunala cried out once more, and the worst day of every Islander's live began.

Lunala seperated herself into tiny bits while furiously fighting Dr. Sunflower. Dr. Sunflower and her team held out the best they could, but all fell to Lunala's wrath. She took over every islander, including Dr. Sunflower's husband and his Pokemon.

Every islander, except 4.

Old man Pikachu, Raichu, Rayquaza, and Mew arose to end the rampage of the moon, and thus the final battle began. Dr. Sunflower was unconscious for the battle, as her true form was unleashed, and was desperately repairing her body from the inside. The ancient guardians took on Lunala in a climactic battle that lasted for hours. All hope seemed to be lost, as 3 of the ancient guardians fell under the curse. However, in the final hour Mew had done something incredible. After watching her fiancé, Rayquaza fall, she was filled with pure rage and hatred. Her rage was so powerful it manifested itself into a brand new type of Ovoid Island exclusive magic. She took every moongeist beam that Lunala launched at her, but it didn't matter, the sheer hatred she felt fueled her to continue. She manifested the pure emotion she felt into one powerful blast, and with every inch of her soul being overtaken by emotion, she finally took Lunala down.

The sun began to rise, and Lunala lied on the ground. She wasn't dead, but was barely holding on. The sun gave Dr. Sunflower the energy to get up, and with Lunala downed, the Island all woke up from their curse as well. They celebrated all day after, while Dr. Sunflower began work on healing her team. Eventually, Lunala woke up, and found herself bound in the same basement Dr. Sunflower found Rattata in. She'd been imprisoned, and her power was constantly sucked from her to keep her too weak to do anything about it. Dr. Sunflower chose to spare her for now, but occasionally she'd gain back too much of her power, and opened up more wormholes to send more enemies to the island to free her. This never really worked, and most of who she sent through were actually really nice!

This brings us to now, a damaged Dr. Sunflower working hard every day to serve her island. Or well, she was, but if you read the writing contest entry I made, you know what happened.

## Quotes

"But from my body, something new emerged. No... something ancient emerged, for the first time in 534 years..."

"And with this new sourceberry wine, I give a toast... to my new home!"

"You really like grilled cheese, huh kid?"

"***FUCK!***"