Turnip Van Dalen

### Eye Colour

Dark brown with a crescent moon on left eye (S1)Dark brown with a shattered iris on left eye (S2)

### Species

Homovegetablis

**Turnip Van Dalen** is one of the main characters in the AardSMP Timeline, and the 11th newcomer in Australia. After his race and country were betrayed by a neighbouring and allied country, Turnip was the only one who survived this attack, which forced him perfect time leaping to prepare for a new life. He time-leaped centuries only to end up in the land of Australia, with the residents quickly welcoming him.

## Origin Story

[LORE CURRENTLY BEING REWRITTEN]

Turnip time-leaped centuries only to find himself outside of Australia, Preezin. He yelled for help as he was just stranded on an island that had absolutely nothing but stone pattern and water around him, he saw a city in the distance but he couldn't swim for that long. He kept on screaming until he finally had some hope, a boat with several people in the distance rapidly approaching him. Panicked, he started throwing rocks at them hoping to get them away from him.

## Appearance

### Season 1

Turnip sports a white hoodie with stuffed leaves sewn into the hood, along with a smile on it. Layered on top of the hoodie is a leather chestplate and a brown leather backpack where he stores his golden sword, diary and quill, and emergency bracelets incase one of them break. He wears black baggy shorts and uneven orange socks with green sneakers that have been worn out. His clothes change depending on the season, if it's winter he will cover up more but if it's summer he will wear clothes that won't make it too warm, these clothes have the same palette. He has four uniquely colored bracelets, one on each arm, and one on each ankle. These bracelets help him to time leap and shapeshift. He takes on the form of a teen with thick, puffy hair and tanned skin with a couple moles on the face.

## Personality

Turnip is a sweet and timid soul that enchants people with his subtle hints of kindness. Getting to know him is hard because of his introverted and quiet nature, but once someone gets to know him more, he opens up. His love language is giving people gifts, and uses that language because he is bad at talking to people. The gifts are usually bracelets, or something flower related. Turnip can be found writing in his diary through-out the day, and prefers spending his time outside to reconnect with nature.

## Abilities and Weaknesses

### Abilities (S1)

* **Time-Leaping/Linear-Time Relocation (LTR):** Turnip has the ability to time-leap back 14 days maximum. He cannot send other people time-leaping, and can move around to a different position during the time-leap. Due to the strength and complexity of this ability, abusing it will create butterfly effects and even overheat his bracelets.
* **Stasis:** Turnip can trap an object in time with a record of 2 seconds, but never uses it because of overheating and damaging his bracelets.
* **Longevity:** The ability to time-leap has slowed down Turnips aging process, making it take longer for physical stuff to change, such as height, age, hair growth etc.
* **Premonition:** Whenever a devastating event is about to occur, Turnip gets a premonition of said event. He cannot manually trigger it.
* **Fast Runner:** Turnip is able to outrun most of the residents with his high speed.
* **Blade Arts:** Turnip has sufficient knowledge of blade arts and its techniques, being able to wield both swords and daggers. He incorporates his time-leaping as a way to become more unpredictable during attacks.

### Plant-related abilities (S1)

* **Gardening:** Turnip is an expert on gardening and agriculture, being able to grow many different plants and even communicate with plants to know what they need. He can even "manipulate" the plants growing process, with some plants even having enhanced attributes such as more vitamins, protein and size.
* **Herbalism:** Turnip is able to concoct healing potions and drinks using herbs. The potions target different parts of a persons physical aspects such as sight and well-being.
* **Forestation:** Turnip is able to cover small areas of ground with grass and forest, an example being the area around his cabin in Black Mesa.

## SMP LOGS

> *"We have all your floral needs!"*
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Turnip has an SMP LOGS episode centered around him and his flower shop, while also detailing his traumatizing past. This episode was the pilot for the series.

## Trivia

* Aard was the first person Turnip made contact with in Australia, and Tyler was the second person.
* He adores flowers and dreamed of being a flower shop owner when he was younger.
	+ He commissioned Aard to build a flower shop for him.
	+ The flower shops slogan is *"We have all your floral needs!".*
* Turnip and Tyler moved to Zimbabwe after being harassed by DJ and Kyone.
* Tudenia had its own written language called "Tanim", which his diary is written in.
* "Van Dalen" is Dutch for "from the valley".
* He was the first one with a beetroot farm in Australia, which is ironic considering his past.
* After the events of Season 1, Turnip entered a state of depression after losing all his friends and ending up with Kyone.
* His blood is light-purple due to him being a turnip.
* Turnip identifies as queer.