Shroom

The 2nd weakest battler in the game.

Bio
Despite looking like wild growing mushrooms (for which it receives its name), it is believed that the shroom is actually a breed of faery that uses its appearance as a sort of camouflage from predators. It lives exclusively in cool, shaded areas like beneath trees and in the mouths of caves. Research has shown that this creature needs relaively little food and survives primarily off of water consumption. What food it does eat is limited to things like mosses, small insects, mushrooms (surprisingly), and various foliage. They have also been seen to eat minnows, too, but they seem to have a very hard time catching them and often give up. It is a quite awkward and sometimes humourous display that leaves the shroom often very irritated.

Female shrooms are a little bit larger than the male ones and tend to be more aggressive, while the males often flee if one stumbles across them in the woods. Whether aggressive or timid, shrooms will often release a poisonous spore attack if they feel they are in danger. The poison acts to paralyze normal physical functions. If the poison is not treated, it will continue to paralyze internal organs, eventually including the lungs--resulting in death.

Significance in the World

 * The oldest recorded Shroom on file was born in a research facility and lived for 250 years. It was a female shroom named Kinoko, closely followed in age by her brother Sopp, who lived to be 238 years old. However, shrooms in the wild have shorter life spans due to predators and elemental exposure. It is believed that a wild shroom has an average life span of about 150-200 years.
 * Because Shrooms tend to eat mushrooms, it is a fond bedtime tale for children that shrooms started as human beings who loved eating mushrooms so much that, one day, they became mushrooms themselves. The story is meant to illustrate that all things are good in moderation. If someone indulges too much in one thing "you become what you eat," so the old saying goes.

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