Taro Vinea

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Taro Vinea serves as Sage's Valet. He appears in Roots and Oxygen.

Appearance
Taro can shift between his human form and his plant form.

In his plant form, he is a Devil's Ivy plant, planted in a purple pot. The leaves are smooth with flecks of light green through the centre. The green in the leaves are also deep and strong in colour.

In his human form, he stood as tall as Sage. He wears green nail varnish that matches his bright green eyes. He has blond hair which is probably long as he often had to brush it out of his eyes. He is well-built with broad shoulders, fairly muscular legs, pretty big feet and a great posture. He has pale skin.

In his casual clothes, he wears blue jeans and a deep purple jumper that matches his pot. In his Valet uniform, he wears a white shirt, dark green waistcoat, golden blazer, dark green trousers and black shoes.

Personality
[to be added]

Background
???

Abilities
Shape-shifting: He has the ability to shift between his human form and plant form at will.

Rapid growth: In Mrs Beecham's words, the Devil's Ivy plant is able to grow "unnaturally fast", such that she told Sage not to be alarmed when the plant starts sprouting its leaves within the next few days. This is seen when compared between Taro's human appearance in chapter 4, 6 and 8. When Taro first appeared as a human in chapter 4, his purple jumper were a little baggy on him, and he "stood slowly, almost feebly". At that time, the Devil's Ivy plant was close to dying. In chapter 6, Sage noticed that he "carried more muscle than he did the night before". In chapter 8, Taro wore the same purple jumper, though now they weren't baggy on him at all, and Sage could see the outline of his muscles filling his sleeves.

Trivia

 * Prior to applying for a Valet position, he had had a few assistant jobs in shops, one was shadowing a tailor.
 * Taro Vinea is named after taro vine, another name for Devil's Ivy, which is a species of flowering plant in the arum family Araceae, native to Mo'orea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. (Epipremnum aureum)

To look after a Devil's Ivy plant:


 * no direct sunlight
 * water it every 4 hours
 * feed plant food every 8 hours
 * to be rotated each time it's watered