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Here is Sunev, Poison Ivy’s SugarGlider counterpart.
Like Poison Ivy, he can control plants, and has some sentient plants as companions, as well as commits crimes with the plants.
However, there isnt much else similar between him and Poison Ivy, or at least, nothing exactly the same.
Apart from the obvious, where Poison Ivy is a female, and Sunev is a male, Sunev isnt as much of a “murder anyone who steps and kills a blade of grass”, as many versions of Poison Ivy seems to be written.
If you pick a flower for your friend, I’m sure he wont mind, and if you put weed killer on weeds, he certainly wouldn't kill you for that.
Mindlessly or intentionally doing horrendous things to the environment tho? (Dumping toxic waste into the river/water supply, you know the kinds, weirdos torching forests and stupidly causing forest fires... but in an evil way... not like a firefighter). Yeah, he’d definitely be mad at you.
So, his story is this, in the beginning of his first appearance, he is shown as an aging old man, well in maybe 60s or 70s, maybe even early 80s.
He moves into the city as the florist, and gives/sells very “special” plants to the younger people. Younger, meaning, adult, but young adult, and not children. You’ll see why soon.
However, oddly enough, as his appearance progresses, he seems to be getting younger, and the people that he sells the flowers to, get sick.
What is happening?
Well, he is draining them of their youth, and is absorbing it, making him young again! Of course, this is not good for the victim.
It turns them into human/plants, which Sunev then eats. (Not whole, if eating them directly, but like, well, they are made out of plant matter now, so he can like, just, like how one would prepare lettuce or something. If he wanted to digest someone whole, i guess he could do it in one of those giant pitcher plants or something, but that's not whats going on in the background specifically).
(Also note, that he doesn't always EAT the plant people, sometimes he just uses them as decoration. Its usually when he is snacking, that he eats them, not usually as a full meal.)
Yes, he is a plant man who eats other plants, just like how fish eat other fish all the time. He doesn't think its weird.
The plants that he is giving them is doing the deed of draining the youth from the victims and then “importing” it into his body.
The plant that seems to be growing out of him is actually a part of him, and is although basically an extension of himself, it has its own personality, meaning if it were acting all curious and messing with a victim, it wouldn't be him being weirdly touchy.
(If anyone wants to do fan art of him, just a note to say, its face is that of a Venus flytrap, and its gullet is a pitcher plant).
He has Venus flytrap “spike” teeth, and his saliva, if given enough time, can digest through anything. Or, ALMOST anything, as i am sure there is something he can’t digest through...
In the background, well, I am not entirely sure of the story of what the big pitcher plants are doing to the victims inside, but i will figure it out as i am writing this episode.
His name? Why is it so exotic?
Well, Sunev is Venus backwards, and a Venus flytrap is a kind of insect eating plant. Well, although technically an insect cannot be really called a meat, still, if you think about it, it could be called a carnivorous plant, so...
Its a perfect plant name, as well as exotic sounding, just like how i see the Venus flytrap as an exotic plant, its a great fit!
Not only that, with his job as a florist? Perfect!
By the way, his eye color at the moment may show to be green, but i don't have a set eye color right now, so if anyone has any other better ideas for his eye color, let me know.
Personality wise?
Disney’s Ursula, especially when she was fake flirting in Poor Unfortunate Souls, (but in his case, its less fake, and less to just prove a point), (and you can say that Kriggs is also slightly inspired off the same thing, but the main difference is that Kriggs only does it AT ALL with SugarGlider, and Sunev does it on a minor level pretty much with everyone. Its just exaggerated with SG).
Poison Ivy - obviously, but to a point
The Riddler - from The Batman specifically
Disney’s Cruella Deville - As, for some ironicness, he probably smokes that kind of cigar/cigarette... ironic.... not good for anyone... (He refuses to not have it in that fancy holder thing tho...)
A similarity between Poison Ivy and Sunev is that, they both use a form of pheromone to attract people. Of course, with Sunev, although it isn't UNCOMMON for him to use it, it isn't something that defines his character.
He originally used it to attract customers to his shop, but after being found out and arrested for the fist time, he uses it like how Poison Ivy uses hers.
Again, usually mostly for distractions or to get information out of people, and not for a genuine romantic relationship. At least not all the time. He is known to get lonely from the lack of human company and will force victims to stay with him, hence his whininess and clinginess during these phases. Like a child with a doll, but the doll is a living human. Definitely was a fussy child when he was a kid.
Other character notes:
He is very whiney, like SUPER whiney. It is unknown if he does it to make his victims uncomfortable, like a conscious effort, or a subconscious thing that he has always had. It could even be a mix of both.
Rather Nerdy, when it comes to plants, not video games. (Not that he doesn't like video games, but the video game nerd character is reserved for the Gamemaster)
He is a human, meaning not an alien, or alien experiment, or a plant that somehow got human intelligence. I will most likely not being wracking my brain trying to find an origin story for him however, as it probably wont be brought up, nor asked why he is doing what he is doing at any point, as it is sometimes made somewhat clear during his crimes anyway.
Very proud of this drawing by the way.
Sunev and I
I wanted to do a close up of him, since i didn't feel like the further away shot did him justice. My only thing I’d change is maybe shrink his mouth down a bit... as it is making his cheeks look a bit chubby.
Or, that's what i would fix that i know how to fix, the closest hand is ok, but still needs some light tweaking. It is still really good for the fact that i didn't use reference.
And yes, he does still smoke cigarettes. But only in that holder thing. Not that it helps... at all... its his plant powers that regen his health, but still... not good.
Hey, I just wanted to know, in your sugarglider comics, when TUO is terrorising the city, who and how did the other villains team up? Did they meet you and start a temporary truce or did you do it on your own?
Hmmm.... Well, each villain kinda has their own reason for it. Kriggs has been victim to TUO before, used as a temporary vessel, and its because of TUO that his uncle, the only person in his childhood who actually understood him, died, so its a mix of fear and rage.
Old man Naga thought that TUO's fortress' ruins was the ruins of the old NAGA kingdom, so there's that. He doesn't want to give this place back to TUO. (Old Man Naga does have a name, or WILL have one, but i don't know it yet).
William is naturally protective of what he thinks is his, (AKA SugarGlider)
Bogeyman... can't do anything if he is dead or enslaved
Sunev is mad because TUO is a danger to his plants. (And because of his obsession with SugarGlider. [He is like Catwoman is to Batman, but instead its "Poison Ivy" with SugarGlider])
Most of the villains have some kind of connection with SugarGlider, kind of like, "the only person, or people, who can cause her problems, is me," kind of deal. So... there's that.
Thanks for asking!