Mangrove

* **Overview**
* Gallery
* Abilities
* Relationships

> For the last time. I'm not a torturer, I'm an experimentalist.
> Mangrove
>

* Normal
* Formal

**Doctor Olivia "Mangrove" Lerevay** is a Floral-based being.

## Design

Mangrove is a short, slightly overweight tree person of 5 feet tall. Rather curvy and pear shaped, she's fully aware her unusual body type (at least for the norm of tree people) is alluring, and uses it to her advantage.

**Regular**: Mangrove is most often seen in a red sweater, high-waisted blue jeans with a black belt and a slightly dirtied labcoat. For footwear she wears black dress shoes with pointed ends. Additionally, she wears a digital mask which covers her face at all times. Using LEDs, she can display anything she wants on the mask, however, it mimics her actual facial expressions by default.

**Formal:** Mangrove rarely joins formal events, but when she does, she reluctantly gets in her dress. This strapless dress looks vaguely like a rose at the bottom, frilling out like petals. The same colour as her red sweater, this dress hugs her curves tightly. She also wears sequined golden high heels with this outfit, which she's quite bad at walking in.

## Personality

Mangrove appears harsh and emotionless to most, but she's quite troubled deep down. Mangrove - due to her upbringing - has never understood how to comprehend emotion or show it, either. Although capable of showing small amounts of emotion like a giggle or light tears, any more than slight emotion send her into violent fits, often leading to her breaking something, as she's not sure how to handle said emotions.

Mangrove also lacks the morals to be genuine with people. She was never taught to be kind, so (either intentional or not) manipulates the people around her to get what she wants. She's seen as self-centred, but only because she lacks the empathy to want anything but her own gain, whether that be knowledge or pleasure.

## Relationships

Mangrove - although she lacks emotion - "cares" about two people, being Princess Mahogany Redwood and her father/ mangrove's employer, King Traunt Redwood.

 **Traunt:** Mangrove's relationship with Traunt is quite simple. It's a professional friendship. Mangrove uses her hyper-intelligence to aid Traunt in his plans, while Traunt provides her with equipment, shelter and whatever else she needs.

 **Mahogany:** Mangrove doesn't have deep relationships, but she shares an almost intimate, difficult relationship with the Princess of the Tree People. Mahogany has a deep appreciation and romantic/sexual interest in Mangrove, while Mangrove doesn't reciprocate that feeling. Mahogany has made huge progress in helping Mangrove comprehend emotions and feelings, which - if she could feel it - she'd be infinitely grateful for. Mahogany sees Mangrove as simultaneously a project to fix and a friend to care for, providing for her in a more intimate way than Traunt. While Traunt provides shelter, food and equipment, Mahogany buys Mangrove clothes, makes her look after herself and brings her her favourite dishes to eat occasionally.

## Backstory

Mangrove Olivia Lerevay's childhood may be a mystery, but her current state is not.

Working directly under King Traunt Redwood, Professor Mangrove acts as the leading scientist and doctor for King Traunt's army, contributing a majority of the technology and knowledge of outer worlds, going as far as to delve into the existences of alternate planes of existence and how to reach them.

Almost completely incapable of emotions or empathy, Mangrove struggles to understand how others feel or think. Because of this - despite her intimate knowledge of almost every other subject - she has never gained the ability to empathise or sympathise...

## Storyline

**READ "DESCENT" (coming out soon!) FOR PLOT ON MANGROVE OLIVIA LEREVAY.**

## Power

*Mangrove is reluctant to use her power, preferring to use her technology and smarts to deal with problems instead. However, when pushed to her absolute limit, she resorts to her deadly abilities.*

**Organic Influence**

Mangrove possesses the ability to control any living organic matter to a point. However, this power is effected entirely by mental ability. Although she can fully control any plant matter with full control, any creature with sentience is not as badly effected, only being able to use her powers on a sphere of about 1 foot in diameter at once.

Usage

Mangrove is extremely crafty. Outside of purely trying to batter her foes with full control over plants, using her abilities, she can practically force your body to do things against your will. For example, if she were to focus her ability on your chest, she could make your lungs stop breathing by merely forcing your lungs to remain still. Alternatively, she could focus on your neck, and force your throat to twist around in your neck like a worm. Although not necessarily deadly, Mangrove's power at least possesses the ability to cause **extreme** pain.

Potential

**Organic Influence** is unthinkably powerful when paired with Mangrove's intellect. Her diverse knowledge of the humanoid body means she knows exactly how to cause the most pain possible with the 1 foot diameter sphere of pain she has.

When forced into a close quarters combat - which she would much rather not be in - she resorts to calling upon plants to batter her enemies and block attacks.

Counter

However, despite Mangrove's incredible magical ability, every single power in Mangrove's world comes with a drawback... Whilst using **Organic Influence**, Mangrove is almost completely paralysed. Although she possesses the ability to move, the amount of pure willpower and energy required to move an arm would make her faint. This means when using her ability, she cannot dodge attacks.

## Trivia

* Mangrove absolutely despises wearing shoes, and does so out of begrudging compliance.
* Mangrove has fits of random intense emotion - though she cannot decipher which emotion that might be - when under stress. Usually these result in her being exceedingly violent or malicious.
* Mangrove smells constantly of lavender.
* Almost all of her outfits excluding one or two were bought and selected by  Princess Mahogany, the closest thing to being Mangrove's friend. Mahogany has *also* bought almost all of Mangrove's underwear, as Mangrove lacks the motivation or understanding of why you would buy more clothes when you could just wash the one pair at the end of the day. Despite refusing to admit it's easier to buy multiple sets of clothing and undergarments, she secretly wears them for that exact reason.
* If you call her a shortstack, you'll be her next experiment.
* Her mysterious upbringing is the reason for her stunted growth and small stature. Were it not for that, she would most likely be tall and muscular - like almost every other tree person.

 **Mangrove** •  Traunt