Sweet Hibiscus Tea

* Teapot Bird
* Chained Bird
* Strings

## Stand Stats

> "Caw!" - Sweet Hibiscus Tea
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### **Appearance**

[Sweet Hibiscus Tea] is a small colony stand of fifty birds ranging from a pale pinkish grey color to a solid black bird. The color designates how much positive or negative emotion each one contains from their user. The bird's body shifts with the color as well. The closer to the pale pink the more the bird resembles a mourning dove. The closer to black the closer the bird resembles a raven or crow.

### **Personality**

[Sweet Hibiscus Tea] has the personality of a very affectionate bird. It's also very protective of Mallory.

### **Background**

[Sweet Hibiscus Tea] manifested at first when Mallory was first stabbed by the arrow by accident when talking to Edwin in his office. At first it could only absorb positive emotions until Mallory was pricked the second time when the arrow was planted in her desk by Edwin to see what would happen to her. [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] then gained the ability to absorb negative emotions and as the negative ones began to pile up [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] wanted to get rid of them to make Mallory feel better. It did this by implanting the emotions into other people and beginning the black tears phenomenon.

### **Abilities**

**Lukewarm Herbal Mango Sweet Hibiscus Tea**: Tea can effect liquids with emotions that Mallory has experienced in the past. As those emotions that Mallory has had and hasn't dealt with are built up Tea creates more of itself to a limit of fifty. Good emotions are easier to dissolve in water and thus are dispersed through the teabag. Negative emotions are more bulky and can be dissolved but can also be directly implanted into others by the birds flying into other people and placing the emotions into their blood stream. Any emotion can also be shot as a burst by [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] as hot tea. All birds have a range of 2 miles from Mallory unless within a person.

**85 degrees:** Mallory extends the duration of stand stat increases gifted by [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] by directly linking them to individual parts of herself as well as imbuing her current mentality into the strings. The string also allows the person Mallory's connected to to change the stat increase chosen as well as bring stats above A. Abilities last 24 hours after the string is broken.

**Disintegrating Trees:** Negative emotions given by Tea create toxins within the person's bloodstream and begin rotting them from the inside out as the infection develops. [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] has four phases of infection.

Stage 1: First infection

Stage 2: Duplication over time (Black tears appear in this phase)

Stage 3: Emotional Take Over

Stage 4: death

If another person is close to an infected person and [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] has hit stage 3, [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] can duplicate itself and jump into another person. It also causes hallucinations while within infected stand users for the infected person and any stand users around them.

**Tea Cleanse:** The bird can pour a tea like liquid to dissolve any and all stand effects including its own.

**I'm Not Your Protagonist:** SHT is as sentient as a pet bird and wants to help Mallory be happy in any way that it can. The stand wishes to hide itself at any point from people who know Mallory because it knows that showing itself will make Mallory sad.

**Bagging It Up**: Mallory can take specific emotions and create physical tea bags that give the effect of 85 degrees for 24 hours or until midnight. It washes over the person consuming the tea with whatever emotion is imbued into the tea bag for the duration as well

### **Trivia**

* [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] went through many names changes throughout the start of development all the way up to Episode 2 of *The Quiet Decay.* The original name was *Sarcasm* after the Get Scared song.
* Kat did and still doesn't know how to make actual bird noises so [Sweet Hibiscus Tea] makes an iconic baby bird-esque sounds.
* During Arc 1 of *The Quiet Decay* Kat actually rewrote the entirety of Arc 2 and at the time Arc 3 because of how Mallory's character didn't make sense to be actually malicious and evil.
* As a fun way to involve the fans Kat implemented a very large bizarre field that the fans were allowed to monologue against once per episode that came out until Episode 7.