Trevor's mother is a Dryad — a tree nymph — that lived inside a tree in a state park in California. Now, legends say that Dryads are women who are so beautiful that they can hypnotize men with their beauty… that they keep these men captive in or near their trees, fascinating them until they can no longer care for themselves, and then allowing them to die. This isn't really true for all of them, though.
The one who would give birth to Trevor merely disguised herself as someone who lived in the forests when she found someone she fancied, and then disappeared when she no longer found them fun. While Dryads may not ALL be man-eating monsters, it is true that Trevor's future mother has always impulsive, following her wants of the moment. When she found a handsome human male camping near her tree, well… she let nature take its course. It was just a fling, and the two parted on good terms when his camping trip was over. And several months later, a halfling baby boy resulted from it.
Being too capricious to care for a half-human baby, but not wanting the boy to die, she took the boy to a ranger station, claiming to have found the baby in the forest. Though she left before she could be questioned, leading the park rangers to believe that she WAS the child's mother. But no attempt to locate her was ever successful.
With nothing else to do, the child was given to the state, and placed in an orphanage. It didn't take him long to get adopted — babies tend to go quickly. But the odd greenish tinge of his skin and hair was always an oddity. And… didn't all babies have blue eyes? This one had green. His new parents, James and Laura Blomgren, decided that as long as he was healthy — and nothing seemed to indicate he wasn't — that it was all right. They named him Trevor.
Trevor was a weird kid growing up. He never ate much, and was always outside — talking to the plants, he claimed. He wasn't a stellar student in grade school, because he didn't pay attention very well. He was a dreamer, forever staring out windows in school. It frustrated his parents, but he made passing grades, so there wasn't too much to complain about.
By the time Trevor started high school, his adopted parents knew well that there was something weird about him. But they soldiered on, keeping him in his normal high school as long as they could. They didn't want him to grow up isolated and lacking social skills from homeschooling, or boarding school.
However, socially he was kind of isolated anyway, since when he wasn't talking to plants, he was being bullied because he didn't deal with his fellow students very much at all. when one of his classmates jokingly sprayed him with weed-killer — and actually made him violently ill for about a week — his parents knew they had to do something. Coral Springs had suffered losses, but that was the best place they could send him.
ACTION SKILLS
Mystic: Some of the flowers he can "magic up" can expel clouds of pollen that try to put those who breathe it in to sleep. He can also "magic up" mushrooms that can expel poisonous spores; these spores can cause coughing and illness, and if exposed long enough, lung infections. He is of course immune to his own pollen/spores. There must be places for these flowers/mushrooms to sprout.
Physical: Trevor can control plants in his area, to an impossible degree. He can cause plants to overgrow and form barriers, to grab and hold people/objects, or physically catch/carry people. He can also cause plants to attack, via lashing out vines at someone, whip-like for cutting damage, thrusting for piercing damage, or strikes with the sides of vines or branches for blunt damage. Like the Mystic application of this, there must be places for these plants to sprout before he can do this, however.
BACKGROUND SKILLS
Clay Working: Trevor started with mud and dirt, and once he discovered modeling clay, it was all over. These days he prefers to use natural clay, since it feels more… well, natural. But he will use modeling clay if he can't get anything else. His skill does not extend to poured substances like slip, or to wheel-throwing techniques — only to molding by hand via coil or natural shaping means.
Drawing: Keeping notes on different flowers has given Trevor some skill at capturing natural life on a page. He generally prefers pencils, since he prefers the feel of natural materials. He can use colored pencils or regular graphite pencils.
Floriography: This is the so called "language of flowers", and allows Trevor to know at least one of several flowers to give someone in a situation — red roses, jasmine, or aster for love; baby's breath, white carnations, or daisies for innocence; yellow roses or purple hyacinths for apology; etc.
Painting: Trevor mainly uses his hands and fingers for this rather than brushes, so he's likely to get quite messy while engaged in this hobby. Though it's not kids' fingerpainting. He uses his fingers to make shapes on a surface with paint, and joins the shapes into a larger picture.
Pheromones: Insect communication — and many other animal communication — is dependent on pheromones. Trevor can pick up these signals from insects and send his own, to be able to tell basically what's on their mind — 'food', 'danger', 'follow', 'quiet', 'here', 'there', etc. Pheromones are also the source of the claim that animals can "smell fear". Trevor's pheromones are strong enough to affect a couple dozen people standing in his immediate area; he is able to evoke feelings of fear, anger, or peace. Though these are, of course, instinctual feelings; humans and well-trained animals may resist the effects.
Plant Control: Trevor's control of plants is nothing short of miraculous. He is able to make plants that don't normally grow vines, flowers, or fungi to do so, though these growths are temporary, and quickly wither and disappear mere moments after Trevor is no longer concentrating on keeping them alive. As a less offensive use of this ability, he can give a dying plant enough energy to heal it, feed a healthy plant a steady supply of his energy to keep it healthy and strong, or he can temporarily preserve cut flowers so they don't wither, allowing them to stay fresh an additional week. Finally, as a passive side effect of his plant-related magics, any plant that grows in regular contact with Trevor's general presence tends to be an unusually beautiful, hardy, and/or robust example of its species.
Solar Absorption: Sunlight is one of the building blocks that Trevor requires to function. Even if he eats regular food, if he's not able to get an hour of sunlight a day, he will start to weaken. UV lights will offset this somewhat, but it isn't ideal. He need not bury himself in the ground or sit perfectly still while absorbing sunlight, but in the case of heavy activity, he will need to absorb more than an hour's worth, to offset the energy he's using.
Treant Form: Dryads are trees, and this definitely shows his heritage. In this form he is a seven-foot tall, muscular humanoid whose skin appears to have the consistency and texture of an ashen-gray tree bark and whose hair resembles thin, skinny holly leaves. His strength is much greater in this form, and he's much tougher, but he's also much slower — bark and wood does not move as easily and quickly as flesh and blood.
Yarnwork: Trevor has always liked playing with string, for whatever reason. When he found out strings could be woven together, it opened a whole new door of creativity for him. By now he can do crochet, knitting, weaving, macrame, and tatting, all with a good amount of skill. This does not include sewing, embroidering, patchwork, or anything of the sort.