Pumpkin Somnium's seed was grown in the belly of her mothers rind, almost an age ago. Their patch grew behind a barn.. forgotten. Her mother.. as everyday pumpkins could not speak.. would emit stories of grandeur.. prophecies and power. That perhaps her children would inherit the strength to become more than what they were. To even change their physical form! Such wild stories she would tell! The younglings loved them.
The weeks went by, and mother began to rot. As she decayed, she reminded them that the spirit of their loved ones, dead or alive, would always continue through them. Thus they would never be alone nor unloved.
Mother was now a brittle husk, caved in upon them. She was gone. The breezes and sun dried Pumpkin and her siblings seeds. One day a mighty storm blew down and set them all aloft. The winds were strong and continuous... the younglings were buffeted through the air for days... weeks.
At the end of it all, Pumpkin was the last seed left. The winds dropped her at an old abandoned quarry. It had become a grassy depression in a field. Nearby was a forest that few "Man" traveled. Fortunately, she landed in a slip of dirt, overturned by an unknown animal some hours earlier. The dew and the sun plumped out her dried seed-shell, her roots dug deep and she sprouted.
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Over time, a strange thing happened. She discovered she was able to separate her consciousness from her gourd shape. Eventually she was able to take the shape of a she-man Pumpkin had seen passing in the distance. Prophecy became reality.
She discovered she had the power to draw life from the fellow flora. When she did so, strange colors would appear.. colors that the flora never had before. And shortly after those colors appeared, the sun-warmth would retreat.. chilly winds would blow.. and strange little cold seeds would fall from the sky, then melt away into water. It became instinct to draw the life from the fauna once every twelve moons.
She eventually gathered enough energy from draining flora to keep her youth and vitality for countless years.
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1,568yrs
5'4 ft
140lbs
