Lex Roscha

### Age

"I am 17 years old in human terms…my people quantify it using a different set of number "

### Monster Parent

"I am a Leshy…a descendant of the original Deity itself."

### Killer Style

"I love clothing that heavily involves nature and trees into my clothing design."

### Monster Quirk

"I shed very easily…it often spreads as moss or as fungi."

### Pet

"I have a cute little hawk as my pet and familiar.”

### Favorite Activity

"I just love going for long strolls in the park and in the forest…also scaring poachers!"

### Biggest Pet Peeve

"I hate it when people ask if I’m a hunter or a wendigo…i’m not either of those…please stop."

### Least Fav Subject

"I hate Mad Science, please stop using plants and animals for those experiments"

### Favorite Color

"I do love greens…but pinks and purples are clawsome for class."

### BFFs

"I got a lot of ghoul monsters to hand out with."

Lex Roscha is a 2023-introduced and all-around character. He is a Leshy, a forest entity with ties to the Original Leshy of Slavic Mythology. He attends Monster High to gain more perspective and learn about conser-scation laws at Monster High. He is a senior at Monster High.

## Character

### Background

Lex’s parents have known each other for a long time, their respective Leshy families having been the first one’s created by the original Leshy himself. His father accidentally stumbled upon his mother’s grove, accidentally letting his sheddings fall into her carefully grown flower beds, forcing weeds and daisies to grow in instead of her painstakingly delicate nightshade. His mother was less than pleased and kicked his dad out; in some strange and compassionate jest he defied natural order and created her a large tree that only grew nightshade. Despite getting in trouble by the elder Leshy, she saw it as a sweet gift. Several decades later they were finally married and Lex was born.
Lex was born within a large forest somewhere South of Russia. He grew up within his Leshy and woodland community, often taking initiative and helping up around the house or within the forest. One day he stumbled upon a trapped cub, the little one’s mother killed by poachers and its paw was trapped within steel. Calling upon a nasty plague curse, he had sneaked from his grandmothers. His parents were not impressed upon learning what he had done and he ended up being grounded. However they were proud of him and decided to set him up at Monster High, so that he could gain a bigger perspective of the world and try a new approach. Yet before he left, his grandmothers with his parent’s permission let him leave with a grimoire.

### Personality

Despite his wild and almost sinister appearance, he is a kind and loving guy. He has an outgoing personality, as one might find her talking to strangers as if they're acquaintances. Additionally he is passionate in everything he does, especially in conservation and animal rescuing. Two activities he has explicitly been told he needs to scale back due to his constant showing up to classes late. This passion additionally extends to his love of learning about magic from others, he loves learning from others and loves giving back to them. He is sometimes portrayed as naive, given his lack of concern for the things around him, as he was so focused on what he cared about in his youth he barely understands most other things. Yet he is not stupid by any level, having a great amount of knowledge in several areas.

### Appearance

Lex is a Leshy, a type of entity that is both spiritual and physical as such his true form is rather vague; being described as a chimeric beast covered in shrubbery. When in a humanoid form he has a more bear and deer like appearance, yet still possessing his shrubbery. His skin can only be described as white fuzzy tree bark, with wooden swirls along his face and his entire body; the “skin” underneath is a mossy green. He has a square shaped face with a pair of unique coloured eyes; his sclera is black and his iris is that of a pink flower with a green pupil. Lex’s hair is dark green with teal and pink tips resembling leaves and petals; it is very unkempt and shaggy reaching down past his neck.
Lex stands tall at 6 foot 1, and his body type is shaped like a solid ectomorph; this is due to his long healthy diet and hiking physique. His leshy features manifest as urine for him, having a black nose and a small nubbed tail. His ears are unique resting on the side of his head rather than at the top; this is presumed in order to make room for the 4 tree-like horns on top of his head.

## Monster Type, Abilities & Skills

### Monster Type

Lex is a Leshy, a special type of slavic forest spirit. Leshy’s are often depicted as a demonic-forest spirit in Slavic regions as the spirits over the forests and hunting. They are known by some to have a propensity to lead travelers astray and abduct children, which would lead some to believe there are evil entities, and are said to have extremely foul tempers.
The Leshy is masculine and humanoid in shape, is able to assume any likeness and can change in size and height. In some accounts, Leshy is described as having a wife such as another entity like a Leshy called the Leshachikha, Leezachka, Lesovikha and also, sometimes, the Kikimora of the swamp (In this generation, there are female Leshy’s. He is known by some to have a propensity to lead travelers astray and abduct children, which would lead some to believe he is an evil entity. He is, however, also known to have a more neutral disposition towards humans, dependent on the attitudes and behaviors of an individual person, or local population, towards the forest.

## Abilities & Skills

* Monster Abilities
* Personal Skills

Leshy possesses common abilities amongst other Leshy’s but due to his age he doesn’t have full control.

* **Fear Manipulation**: A common power amongst leshy’s is the ability to manipulate fear. As such he can manipulate the dread, fear, horror and terror, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling fear, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.
* **Forest Manipulation**: Les possesses a much more specific version of nature manipulation. His abilities focus on manipulating the elements which make up forests. This extends to most aspects of the forest such as the physical makeup of it as well as a reasonable control over the realistic entities within the forest.
	+ **Animal Manipulation**: Lex possesses the ability to telepathically manipulate animals from the smallest organisms to the largest beasts. This does not include mythical creatures, and there are limits to this; as it acts as more of a hive mind ability.
		- **Zoolingualism**: Additionally, he can comprehend both animal feelings and words. This talent is complex for him because he can communicate with animals using many methods such as telepathy, replicating their noises, or just speaking to them in a language.
	+ **Fertility Inducement**: Through abilities that are borderline more magical than biologically supernatural. Lex can bless someone with the “fertility of the forest” encouraging the natural desire and capabilities of growth and reproduction. At his age he can only use it in the soil or in plants, he is not capable yet to use it for animals.
	+ **Plant Manipulation**: Lex as an entity specifically related to plant life he is capable of manipulating it. He can make, shape, and control plants, which are mostly multicellular eukaryotes that are primarily photosynthetic, such as wood, vines, plants, moss, and their individual parts like leaves, seeds, roots, fruits, and flowers. The user has the ability to alter plants by changing their Genetic structure and resurrect wilted or dead plants. They can also make plants grow, move/attack, or even rise from the ground and "walk."
	+ **Weather Manipulation (Limited)**: To a limited degree Lex is capable of manipulating the weather, but only to a certain extent. He can create rain, snow and change temperature. Additionally he can create lightning and create strong gusts of wind.
* **Half-Forest Spirit Physiology**: Most modern Leshy’s are a perfect mix of biologically solid and spiritual, to the point they are not considered hybrids. Yet given his spiritual and demonic nature, Lex has a natural chimeric physiology that uniquely manifests in Bear and Stag like physiologies. This is along with his natural plant/forest physiology.
	+ **Enhanced Condition**: Given his biological/spiritual nature he has a physique that is proportionately larger than humans. As a result, his body benefits both mentally and physically. Moving at speeds comparable to rapid mechanical creatures, the capacity to lift weights and output strength that even the greatest weightlifters could not hope to reach.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: He has extremely accurate senses, allowing him to see, hear, smell, taste and feel better similar to that of werewolves. He has a speciality for sensing thousands of entities even within wide or closed locations such as forests.
	+ **Forest/Plant Physiology**: Lex is partly made up and generates plant-like materials. His plant-like body and its components are anatomically identical to full organic beings. This is very similar to others, such as the Plant Monster species and the Dryad group of the Nymphs.
		- **Boneless**: Given Lex’s physical form is primarily made from a mass of plants and biological material. He lacks what proper monsters and humans call bones and instead is supported by an inner mix of plant-like “muscles.” This means he can’t ever break a bone but can pull his “muscles.”
		- **Botanical Communication**: Lex can telepathically and non-verbally communicate with all forms of plant-life including flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, pollen. The level of information he receives is often vague as the intelligence of dormant plants is vague, at best he reviews their memories. But he can communicate with sentient plants such as Chewlian or enchanted trees.
		- **Photosynthesis/Self Sustenance**: Given his plant-like physiology. He is able to efficiently collect radiant energy and convert it into chemical energy stored in the bonds of organic molecules. Additionally he can produce other substances from his body such as oxygen and depending on the local environment water.
		- **Regeneration**: Lex possesses a form of regeneration based on his plant-like physiology, being able to rapidly heal and restore parts of their body as well. Provided that he is not doused in oil or other harmful based substances, he is able to continually maintain optimal health.
	+ **Natural Weaponry**: Lex features a combined number of features common amongst both his Ursine and Cervid features. These parts are made from a unique mix of plant materials and keratin features.
		- **Claw Retraction**: Through his nails he is able to project and retract razor-sharp claws made from keratin and wood.
		- **Fur Generation**: Lex is able to generate fur/moss from his body. Which gives him the ability to shield himself from chilling temperatures. This does cause him to shed randomly, which then creates a pseudo moss/fungi growth.
		- **Fang Retraction**: Given his ursine biology, he can retract and elongate his teeth. His bite force is said to be capable of ripping off metal and stone.
		- **Horn Protrusion**: Lex naturally grows a set of horns that are a mix of keratin and wood. He does have to continually shave them down or else they get too big.
* **Immortality**: As a Leshy he has an infinite lifetime as long as the notion of nature persists. He cannot perish due to old age or any lethal wounds. That is not to imply that certain artifacts, weapons, or divine illnesses cannot affect him.

Aside from his powers as a Monster, Lex has demonstrated a number of skills and talents outside of them.

* **Animal Training**: Through training rather than through his power, he is a master of animal training, the act of teaching animal's specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli. Training may be for purposes such as companionship, detection, protection, and entertainment.
* **Ecology**: Lex is highly knowledgeable about various species of both plants and animals, particularly flowers and mushrooms. Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeography, evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, and natural history. Ecology is a branch of biology, and it is not synonymous with environmentalism. His knowledge allows him to further his power to help balance the ecosystem.
* **Spellcasting (Vedmak)**: Lex is able to utilize magic, using certain actions such as gestures, rituals and thoughts as well as symbols, language and formulae to utilize mysterious and/or supernatural forces that don't abide by conventional science or laws of reality to achieve any effect or phenomenon imaginable. Lex has shown an interest in Vedmak Magic, which focuses on a combination of witchcraft and shamanism. Which they use to treat people and animals and, they are thought to be people connected to the devil, and are capable of bringing harm.

## Relationship

* Family & Pet
* Friends & Enemies
* Romance

Lex has a good relationship with both of his parents and his extended family. Lex and his dad get on great, they both have the same caring and tender personalities, but are still considered both overly naive. His relationship with his mother is her primarily telling him to follow up and actually do what he’s been asked to; multiple times. Despite this, he loves his mother deeply, admiring her greatly for her dedication and strict attitude.

His relationship with his two grandmothers is odd by normal standards. Both of them are older and thus have different viewpoints of raising children when compared to Lex’s parents; such as their views on what monsters can and can’t do. Aside from the more malevolent aspects, they have encouraged a love of magic within him.
The majority of Lex’s friends are the group members of the Magia Monstrum. He tends to get on with most of them, but he does have favorites.

Lex is asexual and has no current interest in having any form of romantic relationship with anyone.

## Doll Lines

***Doll Lines from Current Generation of Monster High***