The Mushy Witch

"Spore rain!"

**The Mushy Witch** is a character created by La-Cocotua.

## Bio

Mushy the witch is a ladybug infected with a zombie mushroom; given that the latter has consumed her brain and it now controls her, she finds herself in a constant state of decay. If she wants to preserve herself from rotting tomorrow, she has to realize some enchantments to keep herself young and “healthy”.

Prior to her infection, she was a villager from a rural village close to Happy Tree Town. During one of her endeavors through the forest, she found a mushroom along the path; curious, she decided to eat it, as mushrooms were a delicacy amongst her people. The effects of the mushroom were slow, psychedelic...and notoriously painful; eventually, far too weak to resist the intensifying effects, she perished...the perfect catalyst for the fungus to spread and flourish on the husk of her body.

Since she's technically a corpse, her body has entered abnormally accelerated decomposition; given the harm this presents to the fungus, it decided to confront the problem through witchery, mending its vessel from crumbling apart. The decision to turn to witchery is mostly due to a proper witch, rumored to hide within the woods near her village. Eventually finding the shack of said witch, Mushy stole many grimoires and ingredients, bailing as soon as she could to find somewhere to settle as she would no longer be welcome at her village. She settled on a swamp where she built a cabin, aided by her darkened magic. Once settled, she quickly learnt witchery and began a tense rivalry with Madam Juicy, the neighboring witch.

Mushy's main priority is catching Tree Friends who are close to death and feeding on them to keep herself alive; since finding Tree Friends in this particular state is admittedly difficult, she has a special tool to make the hunt less tedious...it's her survival after all, it's fair game. Other than a brain-shattering parasite, the fungus that inhabits her head has another purpose: it has given Mushy the ability to blow mists of toxic spores wherever she pleases...naturally, this goes towards the unfortunate soul who happened to cross paths with her. Inhaling these spores leaves the victim in a state of shock, with a side of poisoning that softens the flesh for consumption, leaving them readily available for Mushy to feast. If she can't find any anthropomorphic beings, she settles for livestock whenever she raids her old village.

Aside from eating, Mushy's hobbies include reproducing...no, don't think of it THAT way, for Mushy's reproduction is asexual. She spreads the spores of her mushroom on the more damp, obscure and overlooked spots of her territory, making more of these mushrooms. She also likes collecting new mushrooms, eating them or planting them in repurposed flower pots.

She is mostly referred to as evil, since aside from eating Tree Friends in a salty, somewhat chewy soup, she also approaches more naïve or innocent Tree Friends, offering them hallucinogenic mushrooms, effectively drugging them to submission. Admittedly, the soup doesn't taste that bad...

She currently lives in a cottage with an enormous collection of potted mushrooms and a big cooking pot where she brews herself decent meals. She also owns some insects and a black cat as pets. To save up energy (Debatably to slow down her decomposition rate), she uses her clove baton whenever she walks and uses the hollow mushroom on her head as storage for her bottled magical infusions. She also has a broom...although she doesn't use it to fly, that's what she has her bug wings for.

## Personality

She is mischievous and playful and easy to make laugh. She has the nice (Or rather unfortunate in her case) habit of sharing, mainly shown whenever she shares her mushrooms, poisonous or not, with anyone she meets, even her friends.

She prefers more rustic ways, given that she lives a traditional life within her cabin, showing affection towards bugs and her cat.

She will however defend the mushrooms around the swamp; if you step in one and she notices, expect her to chase you while throwing glass flasks and spores at you.

## Appearance

Her skin tone is marroc, her cheeks taking a more reddish tone bathed in spores. Her hairstyle includes a straight fringe that covers her eyes. She has bug wings on her back and her iconic bug antennae protruding from her head.

### "Mushroom Infection" Outfit / Normal

She wears an oversized mushroom on her head, hollowed out, with an additional, smaller mushroom growing on the cap. More, thinner and longer mushrooms grow from the side opposite to the smaller mushroom, simulation a hairstyle.

She also wears a dress with a maroon sweater sporting a single button, beige sleeves and a skirt similar to her “headwear”. It has pockets sewn on it and she also wears beige stockings.

## Deaths

Her deaths are mostly related to being torn apart or incinerated.

Her survival rate is of 41%

* TBA

## Trivia

* It is theorized that the fungus that consumed Mushy is self-aware, which leads it to search for a way to preserve its current vessel.
* She’s based on Minecraft's witches.