Special Trees

The **Special Trees** refer to a distinct variety of limbs that extend from the body of the Horned Serpent and manifest in the physical realm. These limbs primarily exist within the Horned Serpent Metastructure, where countless trees expand endlessly in all directions, transcending dimensions and bridging multiple universes.

## Overview

Special trees come in a variety of forms. Most are notable for being treelike in appearance, only with slight alterations to their physiology, including but not limited to: darker texture, lack of leaves, and/or three pointed appendages sitting atop the tree. The changes differ from tree to tree, as some special trees can gain humanoid features like legs, arms, and a torso. They appear to grow at a constant rate, rising up from the ground indefinitely. Special trees have an abnormally powerful physical constitution and potent regenerative abilities, making them immune to normal weaponry and granting them the ability to heal from any wound with ease. Only nuclear weapons, explosive devices that derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions, are guaranteed to kill a special tree.

Practically all special trees possess a murderous instinct to kill and devour humans, requiring a steady flow of sustenance to be appeased, most often in the form of immigrants, criminals, and political dissidents provided to them by the UZA Government.

Special trees are also known to open interdimensional gateways by curving downwards into an arch and producing large flashes of lightning. When an individual is struck by the electricity dispensed by a special tree, it will allow them to travel between different dimensions and universes, and cross over different planes of existence or travel across various forms of reality.

## Behavior

Special trees for the most part live in cooperative, interdependent relationships, choosing to stay stationary and communicating by spreading their psychic music through the winds. The sole exception of this is the 1934 Rockefeller Center Special Tree, a lone special tree forced to roam the Rockefeller Center. Nonetheless, special trees are all connected to the main body of the Horned Serpent.

## History

### Origin

George Washington became the Horned Serpent after hitting a special tree, who are nothing but extensions of the Horned Serpent themselves. The origin of the special trees seems to contradict itself, or seems to go against itself, but contains a basic or underlying truth when examined more closely.

### Status

Following an arduous operation carried out by the Department of Technology in which the Statue of Freedom was taken to the Babylon Forest to confront the Air Force One Angel, the vast majority of the special trees formed into myriads of Cornerworlds. The Horned Serpent was also successfully eliminated during a rip through reality, with the only remaining body part being its skull.

In the aftermath of the Great Division, the Angel divided itself until it became nothing but particles, which would trickle through the timestream and allow it to alter the past. The Angel does this, preventing the Great Division and the extermination of the Special Trees.

## Trivia

* The appearance of the special trees are an inspiration to a type of skin condition Alex Casanas had as a child, where hair would grow in clumps on his hands.

## References

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