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2024-10-12
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Ruin Cities Plant Almanac

Summary:

A summary of the many Plants which reside in the Ruin Cities and with over almanac 100 plants species who all share the clustered, overgrown Region that is The Ruined Cites, considered to the home of ambush predators, you’ll find that these many plants have developed defences and tactics that can range from your standard defences while others took more creative liberties.

Notes:

I did this quite a while ago and is still continuing as I’m about over half way done. These are mainly to give me a reference of these Plant’s appearance and what they can do if I decide to add them my comic ( Long story short, I’m working on an AU PVZ comic that takes place in the region of the Ruined Cities, an original location. )

So these shouldn’t be taken as absolute fact but as a reference. Many small details may change in both appearance and features, but at the core, they’ll remain the same, though very few exceptions may be made.

Also quick warning, some Plants do get creative with their killing methods. While nothing is shown, they are written down. Most people probably couldn’t give a rats ass, but those who may be sensitive to gore, there’s your warning.

Another thing, I’m not good with names, in fact, it will be very obvious to tell apart the names I made up and the ones from the game. If you have any suggestions for renaming of the Plants, feel free to drop them in the comments.

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Absorption Solar Flower

Absorption Solar Flower

Size And Weight- 1.5m, 23kg

Age- 50

Gender Ratio: 40( Male )/60( Female )

Body Type- Flower

Litter Count- 3-5

Build- Small flower, 4 short leafy legs, round and short petals, big head ( Relative to body size )

Speed- 17kmph

Diet- Photosymphisis

Environment- Shallow Forest, Crumbling Towns, Outskirts

Behaviour- Chirpy, Dense

Titles- Solar Plant

Offensives/Defences- Can fire small energy pulses that sting a little

Prey-

Predators- Jaguars, Caiman, Bird Eating Spiders, Birds Of Prey

Summary

Absorption Solar Flowers are special in that they absorb particles around them, typically microscopic beings, and convert them into sunlight.

Like many other Solar Flowers, the Absorption Solar Flower is weak, however can provide plants with energy stored from basking in the sun, effectively feeding plants half the energy they would've gotten from basking themselves, making them a popular plant, and therefore, a plant that is commonly protected, especially in an environment such as the Ruined Cities.

Enlighten-Mint

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Acid Lemon Cannon

Size And Weight- 1

Size And Weight- 1.5m long, 430kg

Age- 100

Body Type- Wide lemon on a cart

Litter Count- 2-4

Build- Bumpy Lemon, covered in thorny vines, bright patterned twin tails at the end of head, large eyes, lemon wheels, leaf tails

Speed- 17kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis

Environment - Outskirts, Shallow Forests

Titles-

Offensives/Defenses- Acid Explosions, can run over creatures, can use its twin tails as a whip.

Prey-

Predators- Jaguars, Black Jaguars, Giant Ground Cyclops

Summary

A lemon shaped cannon originating from Acid Lemons from Big Wave Beach, these artillery units are more fierce in appearance and have far more deadlier firepower.

Though, unlike Coconut Cannons, these fruity tanks don't have that hard of an exterior, making easy targets to a select few animals of the Ruined Cities, though they don't clash very often as their predators live in the deeper parts of the forest.

Ali-Mint

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Agave

Size And Weight- 167cm, 53kg

Size And Weight- 167cm, 53kg

Age- 90

Gender Ratio: 60/40

Body Type- Stem with agave hair and blades.

Litter Count- 3-5

Build- A thin blue stem, red lined spikes, thorny body, 6 large blades at the back all decreasing on each side.

Speed- 12kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis

Environment- Shallow Forest, Crumbled Towns, Deep Forests

Titles-

Offensives/Defences- Extensive blades ( Able to extent up to 25-30 m at swift paces ), Thorny Body

Prey-

Predators- Coordinated Army Ants, Giant Ground Cyclops,

Summary

Usually, because of limited speed or mobility, rooted plants don't do too well in the deep parts of the Ruined Cities, Agave, however, is a completely different beast.

They themselves can't run fast however their blades are incredibly swift at around 730kmph, and their reflexes are on point, meaning if something like a Jaguar goes for the kill, they need both perfect timing and precise movement.


Spear-Mint

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Agent Pea

Size And Weight- 175cm, 55kg

Size And Weight- 175cm, 55kg

Age- 100

Gender Ratio: 50/50

Body Type- Peashooter

Litter Count- 1-2

Build- Slick back short head leaves, a long leaf tie hanging from their neck darker in colouration, cog shaped silencer protruding out their bill

Speed- 440kmph-900kmph

Diet- Photoshympathis

Environment- Deep Forest, Crumbled Cities

Titles- 

Offensives/Defences- Spear shaped projectile, throwing hands at literal hyper speeds

Prey-

Predators-

Summary

What you're looking at here is the highest middle finger to the natural order. If this isn't proof nature has favourites, then I don't know what is.

This fuck you to absolutely everyone else is basically the love child of a Peashooter and a Cactus, 2 plants already in the high tier in the natural hierarchy.

A Peashooter is stupidly op for obvious reasons, shotgun go brr, however their inbuilt weapon is a close range to mid range weapon, which doesn't mean much when they run so fast but you get the point.

A Cactus on the other hand can snipe anyone and anything safely as long as they're on a mountain. It's only when you press them up close do they struggle.

Now you brew the 2 together and you get Agent Pea, an actual menace to the Ruined Cities. They work well in both long range and close range, because unlike you, who has to lift a long awkward weapon to carry, or a Cactus who doesn't possess great mobility, an Agent Pea can just turn their head in a direction and shit out an oversized bullet.

Spear-Mint

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Akee Cannon

Size And Weight- 2

Size And Weight- 2.2m long, 5.7m long wingspan, 103kg

Age- 150

Gender Ratio- 50/50

Body Type- Stingray-ish

Litter Count- 3-8

Build- Orange petals shaped as a tailless stingray, wooden textured cannon out the rear, relatively flat body, long whiskers

Speed- 80kmph

Diet- photosynthesis

Environment- Deep Forest, Crumbled Cities

Titles-

Offensives/Defenses- Flight, Acid bombs, Acid bombs airstrikes from the Canopies, highly poisonous

Prey-

Predators- Black Jaguar

Summary

The Ruin City variant of A.K.E.E. Akee Cannons, as their name suggests, blast their foes in the face with an explosion of acid, whether it be straight to your face or from the air.

They're highly poisonous, to the point where only a couple of animals can get away with consuming them, and just a fun little fact, they're airborne.

They also got a massive body upgrade, going from a walking fruit to a sea animal, not to be confused with the A.K.E.E. Whale, the actual sea variant.


Ali-Mint

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Alien Sunflower

Size And Weight- 1

Size And Weight- 1.8m ( Not counting the petals or tendrils ) 80kg

Age- 100

Gender Ratio- 45/55

Body Type- Uh... Alien

Litter Count- 1-3

Build- How the fuck do I even explain this thing, it looks it belongs to the other side right next to the zombies, hell it looks like it belongs to Lunar Landing and yet here it is the Ruined Cities. You know what, let's just say they earned their name for a reason.

Speed- 23kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis

Environment- Deep Forests, Crumbled Cities

Titles- Local Medic

Offensives/Defenses- Fires spores that mutilate their target.

Prey-

Predators- Black Jaguar

Summary

General rule of thumb, if an animal tries hard to be seen, it's probably poisonous. Alien Sunflower is this rule on steroids. In a thick forest of mostly lush green, these bugged eyed Sunflowers stand out like a sore thumb.

Now, what do these odd balls of fun bring to the world, one of the most painful but thankfully fastest deaths on this half-green earth. When I say these spores mutilate their target, that's a gross understatement, however their inbuilt weapon proved to be too effective, as this ended in their species being hunted into near extinction by Primal Plants out of fear. Because of this they are deathly afraid of others and isolate themselves in the deepest parts of the Ruined Cities.

In terms of appearance they're definitely unique, almost as unique as a Scythed Sunflower, almost.

Ali-Mint, Enlighten-Mint


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Anaconda Spring Grass

Anaconda Spring Grass

Size And Weight- 8.7m long ( Not including grass hair ), 2.3t

Age- 200

Gender Ratio- 0/100

Body Type- Lots of snakes

Litter Count- 3-5

Build- Medusa hair mimicking Green Anacondas mixed with a Reg Spring Grass, the main body is covered in moss, face is pitch black apart from the eyes, making it look like their face is shaded.

Speed- 60kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis, Carnivorous, Flooded Swamps, Rivers

Environment- Deep Forests, Ruined Cities

Titles-

Offensives/Defenses- 5 anaconda which can all strangle prey and crush their bones

Prey- Bird Eating Spider, Anacondas ( Not the big ones ), Caimans ( Not the snapping ones ) Monkies, Large Lizards, Ruined cement Cockroaches, Capybaras

Predators- Black Jaguars, Goblin Spiders, Wolf Piranha, Army Ants, Giant Ground Cyclops

Summary

This medusa cosplay can be found in the deep parts of the forest where their 5 anaconda pets strangle out prey. That's 20m ( Fully extended ) of pure muscle and they carry that on their head.

Much like anacondas, these gals are very good at swimming, because of course they are.

Enforce-Mint

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Armadillo Corn Dog

Size And Weight- 87cm long, 15kg

Size And Weight- 87cm long, 15kg

Age- 30

Gender Ratio- 50/50

Body Type- Corn Dog, literally

Litter Count- 3-8

Build- A dog with yellow segmented skin resembling a cob. They have armour on top of their head. Their ears are rounded and their body is covered in a leafy layer with an armadillo-like build. They have scale patterns and freckles of dots as their pattern.

Speed- 35kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis, Carnivorous

Environment- Shallow Forests, Crumbled Towns, Outskirts

Titles-

Offensives/Defenses- Dog things

Prey- Birds, Small Mammals, Lizards, Fish

Predators- Birds of Prey, Bird Eating Spiders, Caiman, Anacondas

Summary

This doggo, unlike its other cousins, is very shy and often hides in burrows they dig out. Because of this, you don't see too often unless they're hunting. Unlike its other counterparts, they mostly stick to ambush hunting instead of running down prey

Enforce-Mint

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Auto Shamrock

Size And Weight- 149cm tall, 42kg

Size And Weight- 149cm tall, 42kg

Age- 80

Gender Ratio- 50/50

Body Type- Clover

Litter Count- 4-9

Build- 4 leaf speckled clover, stem plant, curved hook-shaped legs, outlined clovers, very angry

Speed- 18kmph

Diet- Photosynthesis

Environment- Shallow Forests, Crumbled Towns, Outskirts

Titles-

Offensives/Defences- Can rapid fire energy pusles from basking in the sun

Prey-

Predators- Jaguars, Lobisomen Wolves, River Spectacled Bears, Mountain Lions, Harpy Eagles

Summary

The automatic variant of the Shamrock, while they have some high power on them, they are not exactly fit for life surrounded by ambush predators and typically live in the outskirts or shallow parts of the forests.

Enlighten-Mint