Druid Pokeberry

**Non-humans.**

Umbu Cherry, Ringmaster Berry, Negative Berry, Bittercherry,

**Humans**

Sourcherry, Gypsy Cranberry

Resurrection.

Slowing down Demonic Possession.

Pudu.

### Sexual Orientation:

Not aware of it. To be frank, he can't understand any of it."Leave it how it is. Do not choose for me."

### Likes:

Honey, shoots, eggplants, tubers, bits of jerky.

## Marital Status

### Spouse:

Sourcherry, but had to leave. They get back together.

### Children:

**Son.** Negative Berry

Druid Pokeberry is the forgotten Demi-God of the Pokeberry Forest. Stories say that people who get lost there are taken away by Druid for his sacrifices if they cannot pay the price for their lives. In reality, those who are lost and get out alive are found by Druid who plays his ominous music to help them find their way out. Those who die are killed by wild beasts or die of starvation in the forest. Druid just finds their bodies and takes them to be burned. He has no idea that the people want the bodies of their loved ones to be buried or that they make up stories of him.

# Life Before.

Born on a warm October night, Druid was delivered in a painful and gory way. His mother died in the birthing process and Druid was stuck. One of the slaves had to cut through the canal to save him and sliced his one of his eyes and face by mistake. Druid's eye healed horribly and the scar across his face as well. Druid grew up on the plantation with a disfigured face and a bad eye. He was never taken to breed because it was believed that his face and eye was a birth defect and no one wanted to have slaves born with it. Druid knew it wasn't a birth defect but didn't argue. Druid worked hard in one the plantation and often thought about his father. His foster mother who took care of him told him that his father didn't want to leave when he knew that Druid's mother was pregnant. Like everyone else, Druid's father was sold away. Druid had felt a strong connection to his father since birth and wanted to find for him. But whenever slaves were sold, Druid was never with them and he watched sadly as his friends were sold if and never seen again. He told them to let his father know he is looking for him and they promised. Druid lived life in pain and worked hard, each day searching for his father among the new slaves.

Druid had been ignoring a tooth pain for a long time and only ate soft food and bugs. He began to lose weight rapidly and his owners noticed it. Druid would chew herbs to ease the pain, but it wouldn't stop. One night, the pain in his tooth became too much and he could not work. Druid held a rag to his mouth, spitting blood and crying in his bed. Some women came to help him, Druid couldn't open his mouth from the pain. Druid wept on his foster mother's lap. He cried from the pain and cried for his father. He prayed. Prayed to his father. Druid's foster mother prayed with him.

Late at night as Druid rocked himself and cried, he heard a voice. A voice whispering. Druid peeked out and saw nothing. He ran after the voice. The voice whispering to him to go into the forest. Druid obeyed and ran into the thick overgrown greenery. There, the pain in his tooth began to leave Druid as he ran. Druid found himself in an open space and was told to lie down. Druid laid on his side and felt the tooth pain leave him as he began to fall asleep. The lush greenery covered his body and kept him there for years. Druid's foster mother thanked the Deities until her dying day for taking back Druid from their suffering.

...

Years passed and Druid was awaken by the sound of the earth beating.

He has no clue of the outside world until he met Sourcherry. One morning, while whittling at a block of wood, Druid saw a woman walking by and stopping to rest. Druid watched her closely before patting his drums to help her escape the forest. The woman lifted her head when she heard the music. Druid watched her as she got up and began to walk to the bush he was hiding in. Druid jumped when the woman pushed the branches apart to see him. Druid looked up, stunned. No one has ever bothered to look *where* the music was coming from, they only ran from it. Sourcherry looked at Druid curiously and he stared back. *"You're the Cursed Druid, aren't you?"* Sourcherry asked. Druid was surprised. Cursed? How can he be cursed? Standing up, Druid asked her what did she mean. Sourcherry repeated her words, but Druid still had no idea what she was talking about. For the next hour, Druid and Sour talked and she told him about the stories. Druid listened in awe. As Sour prepared to leave, Druid asked her to visit him again soon. Sour said she would. Days turned into weeks as Druid and Sour met. She told him about the outside world he never got to see. Sour asked Druid why he couldn't come out to see the world but he always changed the subject. Soon their talks turned into facts about each other and turned into love and children. Druid was broken inside. Had he fallen in love with Sour or the world he longed to see? For the longest time, Sour and Druid avoided each other until they met one morning and Druid told her he must go. Sour agreed and ran away. Druid was heartbroken but he had to forget her. Years later, Druid saw Sourcherry again and ran to meet her, beside her was another wispy child. Druid was upset she found someone else and had kids but acted happy for her. As Druid got closer, he noticed how much the child looked like him. Sourcherry hugged Druid and asked him if he was all right, Druid was not a liar and said he was heartbroken that she moved on. Sourcherry was a bit confused before she realized what was wrong. Sour hugged Druid again and pulled the wispy child closer. *"He's ours, Druid... I brought him from my mind,"* Sour said as she pushed the child to him. The child looked up at Druid before hugging his legs. "I'm Negative," the child said.

Druid got down to his knees and embraced his son before crying. Druid had not fallen in love with the world, he fell in love with Sour and the life he wanted with her.