[@CorviDoggo] I have heard tales from the heavens above, and I am shaking in my seat with excitement for the boy to come

[@Crimson Flame] Alright
[img]https://media.tenor.com/jpaezSh0jWsAAAAM/crack-fingers-frostee-benson.gif[/img]

It's me. Hi. I'm the problem. It's me.

Let's have [i]a talk[/i] here about our friend Pine, shall we? He has a lot of potential, I really think he does, he just needs some refining, I think. If you don't mind some constructive input, I'd like to offer you some guidance in helping this man to be the best he can be!

I'd like to do this by asking you a few questions about Pine.

1. What about his behavior classed him as volatile? Is he uncooperative? Prone to violence? Is he attempting to escape? Think about his demeanor and how he presents. Hounds can be misclassed too! Often they are misclassed as volatile simply because they act out of fear or on instinct, but they can also be misclassed as safe if they play the role right! Maybe you could play with that concept! I could definitely see Dr. Pine putting on a kind face to come off as compliant and well-behaved so that his restrictions are lighter :D

2. How do his powers place him as a high risk in comparison to power sets such as Revenant and Wormhole?
[list][*] a. How does his chlorokinesis include molecular/genetic manipulation? I feel like this is straying away from "control over plants" and steering more into a flat out "molecular control" which can work! But if you want to have him be a [i]plant[/i] controlling [i]plants[/i] then maybe it should be limited to only controlling the plants themselves, rather than mutating them! Maybe the molecular fuckery comes from simple experimenting, and thus that ability is lost to him now that he's a Hound, since obviously, they aren't going to give him lab access.
[*] b. I actually feel like the plant physiology is very well-balanced! Very well done here, maybe in addition to needing sunlight, water, and CO2, he also needs a higher saturation of minerals and vitamins like Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium. Maybe look into some specific species of plants and what minerals they require for healthy growth and lean into that!
[*] c. Ok, the regeneration is where I feel we need the most tweaking. While I find it very clever that he can regenerate limbs, given plants literally grow back limbs when they're cut back, I don't know if it's a good idea to have it so he can just, reappear when he's killed. That doesn't make sense! Plants don't magically come back to life when they die. Maybe if you cut down a tree and didn't remove all the roots, the tree would grow back, but that's not [i]killing[/i] the tree, that's just cutting it back a heck of a lot, y'know? While this is set in a Marvel-esk universe, and Marvel has Deadpool who can regenerate from a drop of blood, I just don't know about the thought of a character being able to regenerate after being specifically [i]killed.[/i] Maybe tone this ability back a bit? Otherwise we have the problem of "What stops an event where every piece of him forms into a new version of him?" Like, if Pine lost his arm, what stops the arm from forming a second Pine while Pine-prime grows a new arm? Reason would say that the largest chunk of him is what regenerates to a new form, yes? But what if he was torn in half? What then? Which half forms a new Pine? Both? Or would he simply die because his vital organs were destroyed? This is a very tricky power that needs a lot of regulation. I love it! And I think with a bit of futzing we can get it to perform well!
[*] d. Perfect! No comment!
[*] e. Is it poison or venom? Poison is produced, usually, as oils that are secreted from the body, whereas venoms are produced, typically, in glands and can be administered at will. If it's poison, maybe he doesn't have control over it, and so physically can't kiss anyone without poisoning them. If it's venom, is it produced in glands located in his mouth? Maybe he has channels on his canines that the venom flows through. It's intended to be used with a bite, but he lets the venom coat his lips for that good ol kiss of death!
[*] f. Why is he immune to poisons? What about a plant, which is killed with poison when it is unwanted in an area, equates immunity to poison? I can see him being immune to his own poisons/venom for sure! But I feel like having him be immune to poisons outright is a little over the top. Plants wither and die when exposed to harsh poisons, and I feel like he should be especially weak to the poisons specifically used for killing weeds and other plants![/list]

Genuine question, why is his description so short? Why not describe his plant form? Where's the detail? Important physical attributes? Identifying marks? Things that would be recorded for informational purposes!

There's no need to state that he be kept in a secure facility! All the Hounds are kept in a high-security compound with a large communal space including a livingroom and dining room, and a private bedroom that doubles as a lockdown cell for each Hound complete with an en-suite bathroom. The procedure should focus more on how to handle him, in addition to what safety measures are taken to keep him under control. The idea of this cs is to write it as an observer, someone who is learning about Pine and his quirks. If you go with the idea of him playing the cooperative fellow, you could have the writer of this "file" be suspicious of Pine's motives and advise handlers and staff to be wary and alert, or they could be oblivious and say that Pine is well-behaved and needs only the standard safety procedures to keep his pheromone power suppressed to avoid accidental usage or something like that!

His history is really erratic and hard to follow. Maybe it could use some smoothing out? Parts that I feel could use some work would be:
[list][*] Who was around for Florian when his parents weren't? Nannies? Other family? Neighbors? How was that experience? Were the people who took care of him good to him?
[*] Did Pine try his work on any other living creature before trying it on himself? How hard did he fight to get his project funded? As it reads now, he was rejected and then went crazy. Maybe it should be less dramatic and more of a slow decline into desperation. Maybe the photosynthesis thing is the first work he's offered in years, and he's in danger of losing his job if he doesn't come up with something, then he presents that, and maybe instead of the Dean denying it, it gets laughed at as people refuse to believe that living creatures could survive on sunlight alone. So he goes behind the university leaders' backs and experiments on animals in secret. Successful after many failed attempts, he presents his photosynthesizing rat to the chairmen, but rather than being revered, he's accused of inhumane practices and misuse of university resources, and he not only loses his job, but he's being put on trial and possibly going to prison for animal cruelty. Desperate to show the world what his discovery can do, he breaks into the labs after hours and performs the experiment on himself. Now a plant-human hybrid, he prepares to make his grand display to the public, but the police show up to take him away and he panics. With no control over his new powers, he ends up killing the officers by mistake, but the word gets out, and instead of seeing his discovery as a revelation, people see it as an attack. The police are after him, and the DNCC are being called in now, and everything is looking bad. Pine is on the run now, hiding like an animal. He goes to the one person who always supported him, Evan, feeling that if anyone will help clear his name and explain his situation, it would be him. When he gets there, Evan seems as welcoming as ever, speaking lines about how he knows that Pine is innocent, and he'll happily help him, but it turns out to all be a ruse to keep Pine in place as Evan secretly alerts authorities of Pine's location, and Pine is forced to act in self-defense now to escape once more, now with the added pain that the one person he trusted in his life, betrayed him. He goes to his parents, but they too push him away, and now, a transmuted [i]freak[/i] in the eyes of the public, Pine is all alone. Betrayed by the people he tried to help. Betrayed by the people he loved most of all in his life. Pine snaps. If [i]people[/i] wont accept him, he'll align with nature instead. Nature never rejected him. Nature never hurt him. But people hurt nature. If the people of the world wouldn't accept him as their savior, surely the plants of the world would. And so he stopped running. It was time to fight. And so he did. Until the tragic day the DNCC finally brought him down.[/list]

I uh...got a little into it there...sorry, but maybe that will give you some ideas!
Hopefully, I'm not going too far! If I am, just say so, and I'm really sorry if I've offended you in any way! I just see a lot of potential for this character, but as he is, he feels more like a rough piece of raw mineral, and I wanna help him roll around and smooth out to be a pretty gemstone!!