Player Name: Pan Contact: diremuta@plurk, pan#2663@discord Invited by: TF Other Characters: Hunter
Character Name: Fern Canon: OU Canon Point: During the finale, after Gumbald abandons him in the nightmare. History:Wiki.
Personality:
Fern is the culmination of a really bizarre set of circumstances, and unfortunately for the poor kid his personality reflects that. While he began as a Finn, his transformation into a sword and subsequent merging/possession by the Grass Sword Demon left him emotionally unstable and stuck with a severe identity crisis.
Fern as Finn and Finn Sword was like most other Ooo!Finns: a morally charged Good Boy who tries his best to be a hero and can sometimes go overboard. Even as a sword he hates being used for evil rather than good, yelling at Bandit Princess when she uses him to steal, assault and kill innocent people. He also retains the same Finn consciousness, speaking the same words as the Finn wielding him in the flashback of Two Swords. He doesn't mind being a sword, though he does have misgivings about how Finn uses him. That, however, is due to Finn being extremely careless with him rather than any morality issues.
The Grass Demon's personality is also worth discussing, given the influence it has on Fern's final personality. It is, to be short, a violent creep. As the Grass Sword it had a tendency to manifest and attack people, whether Finn wanted it to or not. Its short conversation with Finn Sword is unsettling - it's totally relaxed as it dismisses Finn Sword's question about what it is as it takes over Finn Sword's space, and as it cocoons him. Its violent side comes out more in Fern than its chill side, which is unfortunate because oh boy does Fern have emotional problems. He resembles the Grass Demon when happy, in that he's calm and smiling, but in an unsettling sort of way.
Fern starts his new life by identifying as Finn in Two Swords and into Do No Harm, but by the end of Do No Harm he's referring to Finn in the third person and identifying as the Grass Sword. Into the next few episodes he's clearly having problems understanding who he is, and where he fits in the world. He tries to be Finn, but he isn't Finn, and pretty much everyone constantly reminds him of that. He tries to be Fern, but he doesn't really know what that means and when trying to do good things as Fern he simply copies Finn. Not helping matters is his tendency to get extremely upset and wreck everything around him, or at least go overboard in trying to make himself feel better and solve his problems. By Three Buckets his identity crisis has hit a low point; he becomes desperate to solidify his identity by underhanded means which leads to his 'death'.
Compassion isn't really language Fern is good with, preferring to solve his problems with violence. He slices up the tardigrade monster instead of making the barest effort to solve its riddle, and suggests slicing Sweet P's tendons to stop him from running. Worse yet, in dealing with Sweet P it is blatantly obvious that his understanding of compassion is stunted. Sure, he has Finn's memories, but he notes in Islands that they're fuzzy and only half there. He cares about Susan and Jake, but his attempts to be good after often met with rejection that cuts deeply and reinforces his deeper issues of his own identity.
Despite all that Fern still shares some similarities with Finn. Fern represses traumatic memories into a memory vault like Finn, and he's also sensitive to being abandoned. Unlike Finn, however, Fern didn't get the luxury of having a support system remain in place once he becomes grassy. Jake and Finn reject him initially, and Jake never really feels comfortable around Fern. Finn gets over his rejection and is far more supportive, but more in a brotherly sense and never does a great job at validating Fern's Finn-ness until the very end of the show. Nearly every other interaction Fern has (until the very end of the show) is negative - he steals Starchy's motorcycle, punches the crap out of Grassy Wizard and makes Sweet P cry. It's no wonder that he feels like he falls short of Finn in everything. Perhaps the greatest example of that is when Finn entrusts him to protect Ooo while he's away in the Islands miniseries, but Fern feels like he screws that up by becoming a candy person (though that was likely way out of his hands) and drinking root beer, leaving Finn to fix everything. He's a severely unhappy person, grinding his teeth at night compared to Finn's adorable happy dreams of punching and kissing, and outright stating he's tormented in the series finale.
There are points where he's happy. Early on when Finn gives him a Finn cake (a cupcake for Finns only); in giving it Finn gives Fern some reassurance in his uncertainty over his identity. He's happy to fight evil until Jake tells him he's doing it wrong by going overboard. Related to that, he's shown to enjoy winning, calling it the "thrill of victory" and enjoying winning against Finn as the Green Knight in Seventeen. Losing, unsurprisingly, makes him very upset.
Lastly, he's a piss poor liar. Throughout Three Buckets his attempt at deceiving Finn still shows him with a short temper and unable to even pretend to be bonding with his not-brother-self. His plan isn't half bad - it would have actually worked if not for Princess Bubblegum giving Finn a multitool for a robot arm - but when faced with true, genuine emotion Fern can only stare back blankly and then proceed to completely ignore it.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: May 2022 Items: -Clothes -Grass bear hat -Grass backpack
Retained Ability: The ability to make one grass sword at a time from a blade of grass in his body. The sword will be as strong and durable as a normal sword.
Fern | Adventure Time | OU
Contact: diremuta@plurk, pan#2663@discord
Invited by: TF
Other Characters: Hunter
Character Name: Fern
Canon: OU
Canon Point: During the finale, after Gumbald abandons him in the nightmare.
History: Wiki.
Personality:
Fern is the culmination of a really bizarre set of circumstances, and unfortunately for the poor kid his personality reflects that. While he began as a Finn, his transformation into a sword and subsequent merging/possession by the Grass Sword Demon left him emotionally unstable and stuck with a severe identity crisis.
Fern as Finn and Finn Sword was like most other Ooo!Finns: a morally charged Good Boy who tries his best to be a hero and can sometimes go overboard. Even as a sword he hates being used for evil rather than good, yelling at Bandit Princess when she uses him to steal, assault and kill innocent people. He also retains the same Finn consciousness, speaking the same words as the Finn wielding him in the flashback of Two Swords. He doesn't mind being a sword, though he does have misgivings about how Finn uses him. That, however, is due to Finn being extremely careless with him rather than any morality issues.
The Grass Demon's personality is also worth discussing, given the influence it has on Fern's final personality. It is, to be short, a violent creep. As the Grass Sword it had a tendency to manifest and attack people, whether Finn wanted it to or not. Its short conversation with Finn Sword is unsettling - it's totally relaxed as it dismisses Finn Sword's question about what it is as it takes over Finn Sword's space, and as it cocoons him. Its violent side comes out more in Fern than its chill side, which is unfortunate because oh boy does Fern have emotional problems. He resembles the Grass Demon when happy, in that he's calm and smiling, but in an unsettling sort of way.
Fern starts his new life by identifying as Finn in Two Swords and into Do No Harm, but by the end of Do No Harm he's referring to Finn in the third person and identifying as the Grass Sword. Into the next few episodes he's clearly having problems understanding who he is, and where he fits in the world. He tries to be Finn, but he isn't Finn, and pretty much everyone constantly reminds him of that. He tries to be Fern, but he doesn't really know what that means and when trying to do good things as Fern he simply copies Finn. Not helping matters is his tendency to get extremely upset and wreck everything around him, or at least go overboard in trying to make himself feel better and solve his problems. By Three Buckets his identity crisis has hit a low point; he becomes desperate to solidify his identity by underhanded means which leads to his 'death'.
Compassion isn't really language Fern is good with, preferring to solve his problems with violence. He slices up the tardigrade monster instead of making the barest effort to solve its riddle, and suggests slicing Sweet P's tendons to stop him from running. Worse yet, in dealing with Sweet P it is blatantly obvious that his understanding of compassion is stunted. Sure, he has Finn's memories, but he notes in Islands that they're fuzzy and only half there. He cares about Susan and Jake, but his attempts to be good after often met with rejection that cuts deeply and reinforces his deeper issues of his own identity.
Despite all that Fern still shares some similarities with Finn. Fern represses traumatic memories into a memory vault like Finn, and he's also sensitive to being abandoned. Unlike Finn, however, Fern didn't get the luxury of having a support system remain in place once he becomes grassy. Jake and Finn reject him initially, and Jake never really feels comfortable around Fern. Finn gets over his rejection and is far more supportive, but more in a brotherly sense and never does a great job at validating Fern's Finn-ness until the very end of the show. Nearly every other interaction Fern has (until the very end of the show) is negative - he steals Starchy's motorcycle, punches the crap out of Grassy Wizard and makes Sweet P cry. It's no wonder that he feels like he falls short of Finn in everything. Perhaps the greatest example of that is when Finn entrusts him to protect Ooo while he's away in the Islands miniseries, but Fern feels like he screws that up by becoming a candy person (though that was likely way out of his hands) and drinking root beer, leaving Finn to fix everything. He's a severely unhappy person, grinding his teeth at night compared to Finn's adorable happy dreams of punching and kissing, and outright stating he's tormented in the series finale.
There are points where he's happy. Early on when Finn gives him a Finn cake (a cupcake for Finns only); in giving it Finn gives Fern some reassurance in his uncertainty over his identity. He's happy to fight evil until Jake tells him he's doing it wrong by going overboard. Related to that, he's shown to enjoy winning, calling it the "thrill of victory" and enjoying winning against Finn as the Green Knight in Seventeen. Losing, unsurprisingly, makes him very upset.
Lastly, he's a piss poor liar. Throughout Three Buckets his attempt at deceiving Finn still shows him with a short temper and unable to even pretend to be bonding with his not-brother-self. His plan isn't half bad - it would have actually worked if not for Princess Bubblegum giving Finn a multitool for a robot arm - but when faced with true, genuine emotion Fern can only stare back blankly and then proceed to completely ignore it.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: May 2022
Items:
-Clothes
-Grass bear hat
-Grass backpack
Retained Ability: The ability to make one grass sword at a time from a blade of grass in his body. The sword will be as strong and durable as a normal sword.