Like an Oak, You Must Stand Firm

(Featuring an 18 year-old Bill)

Billy bears the element of Earth! It manifests itself as chlorokinesis. He was rather late discovering his element (17yo) and had already been training for years without it, so it was rather difficult for him to suddenly integrate it into his routine. His uncle Jora was ecstatic when the lad discovered he was an Earth elemental and graciously agreed to guide him through his new magic-weilding journey. At first, Billy was disappointed; Faedin, being a mushroom forest, didn't have a large variety of surface plantlife, which rendered his abilities practically useless. But being an Earth elemental himself, Jora familiarized himself with the incredibly intricate and plentiful root systems of Faedin and taught Billy how to use these root systems to his advantage. By enforcing his legs and arms with the roots, Billy learns to "plant" himself (haha) and is able to empower his swings and reduce knockback taken from opponents. (Basically a plant exoskeleton as perfectly summarized by seepran )

Venturing outside of Faedin, however, Billy struggles to adapt to the copious amounts of new vegetation now available to him. He just may find some help from a rather eager pink florist studying botany... Who's to say though!

Whoophsoidhaois okay this is done, it's been in the works for a while but I could never get out of the sketch phase. can I just say how proud I am of that tricep???? like holy crap that took a lot of reference photos of shirtless bodybuilders to figure that out. I tried going with a cooler palette this time since I always seem to work with warmer tones. Not sure if I like it... but I do think the background is half decent??

The floaty blobs are sweat flying off of him by the way, ik they look a lil out of place XDD