ohhh i love the idea of the roots for connection asldfkjh and also to ground him bc at his canon point, he's been forcibly removed from an environment he's been in for his whole life and is floundering a bit

THANK YOU also i love those visual refs!! i'm probably gonna go with something quite subtle for lasting changes but maybe for the duration of the event ACTUAL TREE PERSON who knows

(i should know, but i don't yet)