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* Alignment: ChaoticEvil(TrueNeutral mostly, unless you bully him)
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* Allies: [[Pantheon/VillainousAppearances Jason Voorhees]], [[Pantheon/ObsceneActions Leatherface]],[[Pantheon/MonsterBehavior The Fabrication Machine]],[[Pantheon/FearInducers The Scarecrow]], [[Pantheon/MethodsOfKilling SCP-173]]
* Enemies: [[Pantheon/ExtrovertCharacterization Eustace Bagge]]
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* Allies: [[Pantheon/VillainousAppearances Jason Voorhees]], [[Pantheon/ObsceneActions Leatherface]],[[Pantheon/MonsterBehavior Leatherface]],[[Pantheon/FearsomeArchetypes Michael Myers]], [[Pantheon/MonsterBehavior The Fabrication Machine]],[[Pantheon/FearInducers The Scarecrow]], [[Pantheon/MethodsOfKilling SCP-173]]
SCP-173]], [[Pantheon/FearsomeArchetypes Fiddlesticks]], [[Pantheon/LivingObjects Robert The Tire, The Monster House]]
* Pities: [[Pantheon/{{Slaughter}} AM]], [[Pantheon/SpiritualAndMentalPowers Agatha Prendergast]], [[Pantheon/TheatricRetrospective Carrie White]].
* Of interest to: [[Pantheon/GameModes The Entity]]
* Enemies: [[Pantheon/ExtrovertCharacterization EustaceBagge]]Bagge]], [[Pantheon/{{Mentalism}} Mordecai and Rigby]], [[Pantheon/{{Birds}} The Birds]].
* Pities: [[Pantheon/{{Slaughter}} AM]], [[Pantheon/SpiritualAndMentalPowers Agatha Prendergast]], [[Pantheon/TheatricRetrospective Carrie White]].
* Of interest to: [[Pantheon/GameModes The Entity]]
* Enemies: [[Pantheon/ExtrovertCharacterization Eustace
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* Being a vessel of rage and revenge, Harold may seem mindless, but he can show a degree of cunning and adaptivity. He's also a little more sympathetic(as far as he can be) to abused souls who lash out with bloody results.
* Both Jason Voorhees and Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer see Harold as a kindred spirit, and he in turn is happy to show them his skin drying method. Pray, ''pray'' he's kept from getting the chance.
* Both Jason Voorhees and Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer see Harold as a kindred spirit, and he in turn is happy to show them his skin drying method. Pray, ''pray'' he's kept from getting the chance.
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* Being a vessel of rage and revenge, Harold may seem mindless, but he can show a degree of cunning and adaptivity. He's also a little more sympathetic(as far as he can be) to abused souls who lash out with bloody results. As such he nodded with approval hearing of how Carrie White massacred her tormentors at Prom, as well as Agatha Prendergast's punishment of her pilgrim murderers. However both are terrified of him and keep their distance.
* Both Jason Voorhees and Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer see Harold as a kindred spirit, and he in turn is happy to show them his skin drying method. Pray, ''pray'' he's kept from getting the chance. He's also amiable to Michael "The Shape" Myers, who like him is a merciless brutal force with an emotionless visage. Myers is obviously [[TheSociopath not the kind of person to make friends]] but he does relate to others who express themselves solely through brutal displays of carnage and playing tense mind games with their prey. Harold sometimes observes the Shape in action to study more ways to inspire fear in his human victims.
* The Entity, who currently employs both Michael and Bubba in its twisted "games" has offered Harold a spot in it's realm as a new killer. Harold declined, as just being around so many humans who ''always'' come back from death sounds like a nightmare to him. The Entity however offered to resurrect Thomas and Alfred as survivors so Harold has the joy of killing them as many times he likes. For a brief moment, the doll's scowl became a grin at the thought.
* He's sometimes sighted with fellow monster scarecrow Fiddlesticks, but the latter makes Harold look quite insignificant due to his demonic powers. Harold is okay with playing sidekick nonetheless. Harold was surprised to learn how ancient Fiddlesticks is and wonders if there's more of their kind. Fiddlesticks isn't as troubled as long as Harold serves as his muscle. Another associate is Dr. Jonathan Crane, a figurative evil scarecrow. Crane is amazed to see an actual living scarecrow inspire fear, and feels Harold's story parallels his own background as a meek boy who exacted nightmarish revenge on his bullies. Despite Harold being immune to the Scarecrow's fear toxin, Crane ponders if Harold still fears humans because of his treatment. If so, Harold refuses to answer.
* Both Jason Voorhees and Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer see Harold as a kindred spirit, and he in turn is happy to show them his skin drying method. Pray, ''pray'' he's kept from getting the chance. He's also amiable to Michael "The Shape" Myers, who like him is a merciless brutal force with an emotionless visage. Myers is obviously [[TheSociopath not the kind of person to make friends]] but he does relate to others who express themselves solely through brutal displays of carnage and playing tense mind games with their prey. Harold sometimes observes the Shape in action to study more ways to inspire fear in his human victims.
* The Entity, who currently employs both Michael and Bubba in its twisted "games" has offered Harold a spot in it's realm as a new killer. Harold declined, as just being around so many humans who ''always'' come back from death sounds like a nightmare to him. The Entity however offered to resurrect Thomas and Alfred as survivors so Harold has the joy of killing them as many times he likes. For a brief moment, the doll's scowl became a grin at the thought.
* He's sometimes sighted with fellow monster scarecrow Fiddlesticks, but the latter makes Harold look quite insignificant due to his demonic powers. Harold is okay with playing sidekick nonetheless. Harold was surprised to learn how ancient Fiddlesticks is and wonders if there's more of their kind. Fiddlesticks isn't as troubled as long as Harold serves as his muscle. Another associate is Dr. Jonathan Crane, a figurative evil scarecrow. Crane is amazed to see an actual living scarecrow inspire fear, and feels Harold's story parallels his own background as a meek boy who exacted nightmarish revenge on his bullies. Despite Harold being immune to the Scarecrow's fear toxin, Crane ponders if Harold still fears humans because of his treatment. If so, Harold refuses to answer.
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* Despite sometimes being compared to fellow homicidal doll-men like Slappy and Chucky, Harold [[EvenEvilHasStandards wants nothing to do with them]], particularly because they're [[JerkAss huge bullies in and of themselves.]]
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* He steers as clear of fire as possible, very justifiably so. Also, don't quote [[MemeticMutation "Let's throw him in the fire"]] around Harold, [[BerserkButton what'll happen next won't be pretty.]] In particular if you're a pyromaniac Harold won't hesitate to make you suffer. He even pops up now and then around the Pyro's storming ground waiting for an opportunity to kill the masked fiend, that is if he can avoid Pyro's flamethrower. The Scarecrow from Oz noted the similar phobia, but he's horrified by Harold because while he does have a brain, it's a warped and evil one.
* Despite sometimes being compared to fellow homicidal doll-men like Slappy and Chucky, Harold [[EvenEvilHasStandards wants nothing to do with them]], particularly because they're [[JerkAss huge bullies in and of themselves.]]
]] Chucky doesn't care what anybody thinks of him, though he has complimented the Scarecrow's style. He also thinks Harold would make a great sidekick, as long as he doesn't turn on him like his doll "family." Slappy, who's less hands on, regards Harold as a dumb witless brute, and brags he'd never allow himself to be tossed around by dumb human yokels. Of course, he'd never say that to Harold's face.
* The infamous park worker duo Mordecai and Rigby aren't happy with Harold around. They've dealt with plenty of evil animate objects, as well as heard a creepy story about a scarecrow who turns victims into Pumpkins. Harold is glad, as Thomas and Alfred were also a pair of menial workers who played tricks for fun. Rigby is especially scared of Harold turning him into a fur hat.
* He's not fond of Birds in general, since they remind him of the indignity he suffered while owned by said idiot farmers. A certain group of birds has it out for humanity similar to him, but Harold just sees them as aggressive pests and will attack any who perch on him. Pokemon trainers who bump into Harold are advised to keep bird-based Mon on hand. He's especially anxious around Murkrow.
* Being a living construct animated [[ThePowerOfHate by rage and spite]] he gravitates toward similar beings. Constance the Monster House lets him perch on her lawn as deterrent to nosy kids, and he's also accompanied Robert the Tire on a few killing sprees. Notably AM, perhaps the most hateful of such an entity, sees Harold as kin, as they both unleashed hideous revenge on their human creators for using them as helpless tools. He also congratulated Harold for [[Film/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark2019 the terrifying fate he gave a bully in one reality.]] Harold isn't as depraved as Allied Mastercomputer and generally avoids him but he has expressed sympathy for the evil Machine.
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'''[[Literature/TheMidnightLibrary Tim Barnett and Old Bill Cole]], Duel Gods of [[TheTreesHaveFaces Trees with Faces]]'''
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* Quasideity(Tim) Demigod (Bill Cole)
* Symbol: A seemingly ordinary apple
* Alignment: NeutralGood(Tim) NeutralEvil(Cole)
* Portfolio:
** Tim: [[NiceGuy Being a genuinely kind]] [[CheerfulChild and sweet kid]] [[BreakTheCutie who met an awful fate]], [[BullyHunter wanted to Payback a bully]] [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild for picking on his grandma]], [[{{Transflormation}} transformed into a tree]] [[BodyHorror in a slow unpleasant way]] [[AndIMustScream and still conscious]], a total {{Keet}} doomed [[FatalFlaw by his recklessness]], [[TheTreesHaveFaces face still visible in his tree form]], total {{Downer Ending}}s
** Bill Cole: CrankyNeighbour [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who turns out to be far worse]], [[GardenOfEvil owns an orchard of human trees]], [[EvilOldFolks very old and very evil]], ChildHater, [[SchmuckBait tries to scare people from his orchard]] [[{{Sadist}} yet derives cruel pleasure watching them mutate into trees]], [[CompleteMonster Totally Depraved]] [[HateSink as well as just plain unlikable]], [[KarmaHoudini Getting off scot free]] [[TheBadGuyWins and making a new tree out of Tim.]]
* Allies:
** Tim: [[Pantheon/LivingObjects Alphonse Elric]], [[Pantheon/{{Ghosts}} Reimi Sugimoto]], [[Pantheon/{{Shape}} Gregor Samsa]], [[Pantheon/TreesAndFlowers Wirt and Greg]], [[Pantheon/{{Students}} Koichi Hirose]], [[Pantheon/HeroicAppearances Swamp Thing]], [[Pantheon/DreadAndValor Courage]], [[Pantheon/RomanticInterest Muriel Bagge]], [[Pantheon/HeroicActions Kevin Levin]] [[Pantheon/HeroicAppearances Finn Mertens]], [[Pantheon/{{Canines}} Jake The Dog]]
** Bill Cole: [[Pantheon/OtherworldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations The Coachman]], [[Pantheon/{{Toxicity}} Derek Powers]], [[Pantheon/PowerMentalities Cioccolata]], [[Pantheon/{{Felines}} Katz]], [[Pantheon/BusinessesAndCorporations Conal Cochran]]
* Enemies:
** Tim: '''Bill Cole''', [[Pantheon/{{Executions}} The Thing]], [[Pantheon/MiscellaneousFlora Audrey II]], [[Pantheon/HealthAndDiseases Anton Arcane]], [[Pantheon/{{Slaughter}} AM]], [[Pantheon/OtherWorldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations The Coachman]], [[Pantheon/TheatricVisuals The Beast]], [[Pantheon/{{Explosives}} Yoshikage Kira]],[[Pantheon/VillainousReputation Shou Tucker]], Any other god who specializes in [[BodyHorror horribly mutating others]](especially if the victims are children), any ally to Bill Cole
** Cole: [[Pantheon/OrganizedCrime Team Bucciaratti(Especially Narancia)]], [[Pantheon/TechnologicalExperts Sector V]], [[Pantheon/HybridBeings Biollante]], [[Pantheon/GreenlandsAndGuardians Poison Ivy]], [[Pantheon/{{Twins}} Dipper and Mabel Pines]], [[Pantheon/{{Mentalities}} Mystery Inc (mainly Shaggy and Scooby)]]
* Opposes:
** Tim: All evil plant deities
** Bill Cole: all Child deities
* Pitied by: (Tim) [[Pantheon/TortureAndMutilation The Five Survivors(especially Ted)]], [[Pantheon/CharacterActions Chirin]].
* Tim Barnett was once an ordinary young boy staying with his Grandmother during Summer vacation. While Biking around her farm, Tim discovered an orchard with the most beautiful apples he'd seen. He decided to steal a few, and was angrily chased away with a shotgun by the Orchard's owner, one Bill Cole. Later,as his Grandma warned him to stay away from Cole's property, the man himself barged in to reprimand the boy for trespassing and belittled His Grandmother, even tauntingly reminding her of Tim's late Grandfather. Furious, Tim vowed to get back at the old man for bullying his grandma and despite the warnings, broke into Cole's orchard to spell out "BULLY" with some plundered apples for Bill to see.
* Tim ate one of Bill's prized apples to complete his victory, and that's where the nightmare began. Over the next few days, Tim found something bizarre was happening to him. He coughed up apple seeds, found a leaf deep in his ear, and Grandma's beagle Banjo seemed scared of him. Then strange bumps appeared under his skin and his belly ''coughed up a fresh apple'' Desperate for answers, Tim ran back to the orchard where he now perceived something horrible about the trees. Every one had a face, all unlucky kids who ate Cole's apples, as well as his missing Grandfather. Bark then covered the child's body as he was rooted in place, and the evil Bill Cole himself stepped out to watch Tim become the newest apple tree.
* Rumors of Cole's dark secret soon spread with the many disappearances. He was eventually invited to ascend as representative of Trees with Human features due to the ghastly nature of his orchard. Cole was happy to take up business as long as his orchard was left alone. However, he wasn't alone. One of the trees , young Tim Barnett, was able to temporarily manifest a human avatar to interact with the physical world. Tim vowed to do whatever he could to thwart Cole and save others from suffering his fate. Bill was annoyed but smirked at the thought a sentient tree could do much of anything.
* The existence of Allied Mastercomputer naturally terrifies the poor kid, as it's a godlike machine that specializes in [[AndIMustScream inflicting eternal suffering through altering humans.]] By contrast, Bill Cole is intrigued, and although AM hates humans, it complimented Bill for having a level of [[CompleteMonster extreme, sadistic malevolence that matched its own.]] Tim dreads AM discovering [[Literature/TheMidnightLibrary his home universe]], especially with how many kids befell similar fates that AM could use to his advantage.
* Applies to Tim:
** Tim immediately gravitated toward Courage the Cowardly Dog and his elderly owner Muriel, largely because they remind him of his Grandma and Banjo. Courage was horrified by Tim's fate and sometimes visits his tree, while Muriel thinks Tim's "such a nice boy" even if she doesn't get that his true body is an apple tree. He has no liking for Eustace though, even if Eustace isn't as bad as Cole, and sometimes Eustace will find lines of apples spelling out taunting messages.
** Even sadder is when Tim was human, his grandma would bake great apple pie. Now he can't bare to even look at the fruit thanks to his condition. Snow White is unnerved as she also ate a cursed apple, but [[InnocentlyInsensitive she does say Tim makes a beautiful tree.]] Alphonse Elric also knows what it's like to lose your human body and realized that he got off lucky compared to poor Tim. The two sometimes discuss all the things they missed about being flesh and blood. With his current Alchemic research, Alphonse hopes maybe to cure his new friend's condition.
** Tim definitely relates to others who have suffered traumatizing transformations, even if the circumstances were different. Gregor Samsa appreciates the gesture, as he was transformed into a giant insect out of devotion to his family and is now helpless to protect his sister from the same fate. Tim remarked that at least Gregor could still move and talk after his metamorphosis. Kevin Levin, formerly Kevin 11, also admits that Tim's story reminded him of his monstrous alien mutation at 11 years old, the lowest point in his life. [[EnfantTerrible While Kevin wasn't a good kid at that age]], Tim feels not even he deserved that.
** Finn and Jake, the heroes of Ooo, were shocked to learn this new kid was avatar for a sentient tree, and just disturbed by his story. Especially since they encountered creatures called Fruit Witches with an MO similar to Bill Cole. Finn also described Tim as a "reverse Fern" being a boy who became a plant as Fern was a plant who became a boy. As a fellow dog loving youth, Tim warmed up to the duo and asked them to say hi to Sweet P Trunks for him(she sounds a lot like his grandma).
** Tim's plight caught the attention of Swamp Thing, Avatar of the Green. The beast can communicate with the souls of Cole's victims, including Tim, and has sworn to someday destroy Cole for the boy's sake. In return Tim agreed to help Swamp Thing against his nemesis Anton Arcane. Arcane is arguably ''even worse'' than Cole, but Tim feels he doesn't have much to lose.
** Tim also found a friend in Reimi Sugimoto, another kid who lost her life to a monstrous sociopath and is bound to an alley in Morioh as Tim is bound to Cole's evil orchard. Despite his limited movement, Tim has promised to help thwart Reimi's killer Yoshikage Kira as much as he can. However, it depresses him that at least Reimi has her beloved dog Arnold with her, while Tim can't go back to Banjo. Reimi introduced him to Koichi Hirose, one of her friends, who feels Tim could be a great Stand User because of his protective nature. Tim is wary of Josuke though, as the older kid can be downright scary with [[AndIMustScream what he does to villains who ''especially'' infuriate him.]]
* Applies To Bill:
** Bill naturally takes no responsibility for the lives his orchard claims [[NeverMyFault and has stated they brought it on themselves by stealing his apples.]] This may be true, but his lack of real precautions and the sadistic glee he shows when his victims become trees proves this excuse moot.
** Bill can sometimes seen with the Coachman, a fellow old ChildHater who also transforms irresponsible children. The two men will often look for "naughty" children they can turn into either a donkey or a tree. Tim does everything he can to sabotage their efforts, and when the Coachman visits the Orchard, he usually gets projectile apples shot by a certain young tree at him.
** Cioccolata, a sadistic assassin with a deadly fungi based stand, has admitted he's impressed with Cole's work. He finds morbid art in the expressions of terror engraved on the Trees. His enemies in Giorno Giovanna and his team are on the other hand horrified and infuriated. Narancia Ghirga particularly relates to Tim as a hot blooded kid who hates bullies, so he's eager to pump Cole full of lead. While Giorno wants to revert all the transformed victims, he sadly noted that since he didn't know what their human bodies looked like, Golden Experience wouldn't be able to fully cure them. Even worse, Cole smugly stated that if they did anything to him, the orchard would die.
** Although Pamela Isley isn't one to talk given she's dished out similar punishment, she's repulsed by Cole and his apples, in part because Cole uses his powers for selfish revenge on hapless children. As Ivy usually only targets people she deems enemies to Mother Nature and has shown a protective side to kids, she aches to turn Bill into fertilizer.
** Derek Powers, better known as the radioactive madman Blight, once paid Cole's farm a visit, though he couldn't enter the orchard due to his radiation endangering the trees. Since they share a hatred for self-righteous youth ruining their business, he offered to produce Cole's apples as bio-weapons. Similarly, Silver Shamrock Novelties CEO Conal Cochran was curious of Bill's secret, since he feels his trees are just the kind of product for Silver Shamrock to [[{{Pun}} branch out into agriculture.]] Cole declined to share his secrets but offered to do business if they could make sure his orchard is left in peace.
** Much to Bill's annoyance, some fools still mess with his orchard. One prankster named Woody loves setting booby traps around the trees and doesn't even eat the apples. He also once caught a certain beatnik and his great Dane about to chow on his beloved apples before chasing them away with a shotgun. Shaggy and Scooby were even more freaked out when they learned of the fate that almost befell them, and Mystery Inc is hoping for a way to catch the evil farmer.
* Despite sometimes being compared to fellow homicidal doll-men like Slappy and Chucky, Harold [[EvenEvilHasStandards wants nothing to do with them]], particularly because they're [[JerkAss huge bullies in and of themselves.
* The infamous park worker duo Mordecai and Rigby aren't happy with Harold around. They've dealt with plenty of evil animate objects, as well as heard a creepy story about a scarecrow who turns victims into Pumpkins. Harold is glad, as Thomas and Alfred were also a pair of menial workers who played tricks for fun. Rigby is especially scared of Harold turning him into a fur hat.
* He's not fond of Birds in general, since they remind him of the indignity he suffered while owned by said idiot farmers. A certain group of birds has it out for humanity similar to him, but Harold just sees them as aggressive pests and will attack any who perch on him. Pokemon trainers who bump into Harold are advised to keep bird-based Mon on hand. He's especially anxious around Murkrow.
* Being a living construct animated [[ThePowerOfHate by rage and spite]] he gravitates toward similar beings. Constance the Monster House lets him perch on her lawn as deterrent to nosy kids, and he's also accompanied Robert the Tire on a few killing sprees. Notably AM, perhaps the most hateful of such an entity, sees Harold as kin, as they both unleashed hideous revenge on their human creators for using them as helpless tools. He also congratulated Harold for [[Film/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark2019 the terrifying fate he gave a bully in one reality.]] Harold isn't as depraved as Allied Mastercomputer and generally avoids him but he has expressed sympathy for the evil Machine.
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'''[[Literature/TheMidnightLibrary Tim Barnett and Old Bill Cole]], Duel Gods of [[TheTreesHaveFaces Trees with Faces]]'''
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* Quasideity(Tim) Demigod (Bill Cole)
* Symbol: A seemingly ordinary apple
* Alignment: NeutralGood(Tim) NeutralEvil(Cole)
* Portfolio:
** Tim: [[NiceGuy Being a genuinely kind]] [[CheerfulChild and sweet kid]] [[BreakTheCutie who met an awful fate]], [[BullyHunter wanted to Payback a bully]] [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild for picking on his grandma]], [[{{Transflormation}} transformed into a tree]] [[BodyHorror in a slow unpleasant way]] [[AndIMustScream and still conscious]], a total {{Keet}} doomed [[FatalFlaw by his recklessness]], [[TheTreesHaveFaces face still visible in his tree form]], total {{Downer Ending}}s
** Bill Cole: CrankyNeighbour [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who turns out to be far worse]], [[GardenOfEvil owns an orchard of human trees]], [[EvilOldFolks very old and very evil]], ChildHater, [[SchmuckBait tries to scare people from his orchard]] [[{{Sadist}} yet derives cruel pleasure watching them mutate into trees]], [[CompleteMonster Totally Depraved]] [[HateSink as well as just plain unlikable]], [[KarmaHoudini Getting off scot free]] [[TheBadGuyWins and making a new tree out of Tim.]]
* Allies:
** Tim: [[Pantheon/LivingObjects Alphonse Elric]], [[Pantheon/{{Ghosts}} Reimi Sugimoto]], [[Pantheon/{{Shape}} Gregor Samsa]], [[Pantheon/TreesAndFlowers Wirt and Greg]], [[Pantheon/{{Students}} Koichi Hirose]], [[Pantheon/HeroicAppearances Swamp Thing]], [[Pantheon/DreadAndValor Courage]], [[Pantheon/RomanticInterest Muriel Bagge]], [[Pantheon/HeroicActions Kevin Levin]] [[Pantheon/HeroicAppearances Finn Mertens]], [[Pantheon/{{Canines}} Jake The Dog]]
** Bill Cole: [[Pantheon/OtherworldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations The Coachman]], [[Pantheon/{{Toxicity}} Derek Powers]], [[Pantheon/PowerMentalities Cioccolata]], [[Pantheon/{{Felines}} Katz]], [[Pantheon/BusinessesAndCorporations Conal Cochran]]
* Enemies:
** Tim: '''Bill Cole''', [[Pantheon/{{Executions}} The Thing]], [[Pantheon/MiscellaneousFlora Audrey II]], [[Pantheon/HealthAndDiseases Anton Arcane]], [[Pantheon/{{Slaughter}} AM]], [[Pantheon/OtherWorldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations The Coachman]], [[Pantheon/TheatricVisuals The Beast]], [[Pantheon/{{Explosives}} Yoshikage Kira]],[[Pantheon/VillainousReputation Shou Tucker]], Any other god who specializes in [[BodyHorror horribly mutating others]](especially if the victims are children), any ally to Bill Cole
** Cole: [[Pantheon/OrganizedCrime Team Bucciaratti(Especially Narancia)]], [[Pantheon/TechnologicalExperts Sector V]], [[Pantheon/HybridBeings Biollante]], [[Pantheon/GreenlandsAndGuardians Poison Ivy]], [[Pantheon/{{Twins}} Dipper and Mabel Pines]], [[Pantheon/{{Mentalities}} Mystery Inc (mainly Shaggy and Scooby)]]
* Opposes:
** Tim: All evil plant deities
** Bill Cole: all Child deities
* Pitied by: (Tim) [[Pantheon/TortureAndMutilation The Five Survivors(especially Ted)]], [[Pantheon/CharacterActions Chirin]].
* Tim Barnett was once an ordinary young boy staying with his Grandmother during Summer vacation. While Biking around her farm, Tim discovered an orchard with the most beautiful apples he'd seen. He decided to steal a few, and was angrily chased away with a shotgun by the Orchard's owner, one Bill Cole. Later,as his Grandma warned him to stay away from Cole's property, the man himself barged in to reprimand the boy for trespassing and belittled His Grandmother, even tauntingly reminding her of Tim's late Grandfather. Furious, Tim vowed to get back at the old man for bullying his grandma and despite the warnings, broke into Cole's orchard to spell out "BULLY" with some plundered apples for Bill to see.
* Tim ate one of Bill's prized apples to complete his victory, and that's where the nightmare began. Over the next few days, Tim found something bizarre was happening to him. He coughed up apple seeds, found a leaf deep in his ear, and Grandma's beagle Banjo seemed scared of him. Then strange bumps appeared under his skin and his belly ''coughed up a fresh apple'' Desperate for answers, Tim ran back to the orchard where he now perceived something horrible about the trees. Every one had a face, all unlucky kids who ate Cole's apples, as well as his missing Grandfather. Bark then covered the child's body as he was rooted in place, and the evil Bill Cole himself stepped out to watch Tim become the newest apple tree.
* Rumors of Cole's dark secret soon spread with the many disappearances. He was eventually invited to ascend as representative of Trees with Human features due to the ghastly nature of his orchard. Cole was happy to take up business as long as his orchard was left alone. However, he wasn't alone. One of the trees , young Tim Barnett, was able to temporarily manifest a human avatar to interact with the physical world. Tim vowed to do whatever he could to thwart Cole and save others from suffering his fate. Bill was annoyed but smirked at the thought a sentient tree could do much of anything.
* The existence of Allied Mastercomputer naturally terrifies the poor kid, as it's a godlike machine that specializes in [[AndIMustScream inflicting eternal suffering through altering humans.]] By contrast, Bill Cole is intrigued, and although AM hates humans, it complimented Bill for having a level of [[CompleteMonster extreme, sadistic malevolence that matched its own.]] Tim dreads AM discovering [[Literature/TheMidnightLibrary his home universe]], especially with how many kids befell similar fates that AM could use to his advantage.
* Applies to Tim:
** Tim immediately gravitated toward Courage the Cowardly Dog and his elderly owner Muriel, largely because they remind him of his Grandma and Banjo. Courage was horrified by Tim's fate and sometimes visits his tree, while Muriel thinks Tim's "such a nice boy" even if she doesn't get that his true body is an apple tree. He has no liking for Eustace though, even if Eustace isn't as bad as Cole, and sometimes Eustace will find lines of apples spelling out taunting messages.
** Even sadder is when Tim was human, his grandma would bake great apple pie. Now he can't bare to even look at the fruit thanks to his condition. Snow White is unnerved as she also ate a cursed apple, but [[InnocentlyInsensitive she does say Tim makes a beautiful tree.]] Alphonse Elric also knows what it's like to lose your human body and realized that he got off lucky compared to poor Tim. The two sometimes discuss all the things they missed about being flesh and blood. With his current Alchemic research, Alphonse hopes maybe to cure his new friend's condition.
** Tim definitely relates to others who have suffered traumatizing transformations, even if the circumstances were different. Gregor Samsa appreciates the gesture, as he was transformed into a giant insect out of devotion to his family and is now helpless to protect his sister from the same fate. Tim remarked that at least Gregor could still move and talk after his metamorphosis. Kevin Levin, formerly Kevin 11, also admits that Tim's story reminded him of his monstrous alien mutation at 11 years old, the lowest point in his life. [[EnfantTerrible While Kevin wasn't a good kid at that age]], Tim feels not even he deserved that.
** Finn and Jake, the heroes of Ooo, were shocked to learn this new kid was avatar for a sentient tree, and just disturbed by his story. Especially since they encountered creatures called Fruit Witches with an MO similar to Bill Cole. Finn also described Tim as a "reverse Fern" being a boy who became a plant as Fern was a plant who became a boy. As a fellow dog loving youth, Tim warmed up to the duo and asked them to say hi to Sweet P Trunks for him(she sounds a lot like his grandma).
** Tim's plight caught the attention of Swamp Thing, Avatar of the Green. The beast can communicate with the souls of Cole's victims, including Tim, and has sworn to someday destroy Cole for the boy's sake. In return Tim agreed to help Swamp Thing against his nemesis Anton Arcane. Arcane is arguably ''even worse'' than Cole, but Tim feels he doesn't have much to lose.
** Tim also found a friend in Reimi Sugimoto, another kid who lost her life to a monstrous sociopath and is bound to an alley in Morioh as Tim is bound to Cole's evil orchard. Despite his limited movement, Tim has promised to help thwart Reimi's killer Yoshikage Kira as much as he can. However, it depresses him that at least Reimi has her beloved dog Arnold with her, while Tim can't go back to Banjo. Reimi introduced him to Koichi Hirose, one of her friends, who feels Tim could be a great Stand User because of his protective nature. Tim is wary of Josuke though, as the older kid can be downright scary with [[AndIMustScream what he does to villains who ''especially'' infuriate him.]]
* Applies To Bill:
** Bill naturally takes no responsibility for the lives his orchard claims [[NeverMyFault and has stated they brought it on themselves by stealing his apples.]] This may be true, but his lack of real precautions and the sadistic glee he shows when his victims become trees proves this excuse moot.
** Bill can sometimes seen with the Coachman, a fellow old ChildHater who also transforms irresponsible children. The two men will often look for "naughty" children they can turn into either a donkey or a tree. Tim does everything he can to sabotage their efforts, and when the Coachman visits the Orchard, he usually gets projectile apples shot by a certain young tree at him.
** Cioccolata, a sadistic assassin with a deadly fungi based stand, has admitted he's impressed with Cole's work. He finds morbid art in the expressions of terror engraved on the Trees. His enemies in Giorno Giovanna and his team are on the other hand horrified and infuriated. Narancia Ghirga particularly relates to Tim as a hot blooded kid who hates bullies, so he's eager to pump Cole full of lead. While Giorno wants to revert all the transformed victims, he sadly noted that since he didn't know what their human bodies looked like, Golden Experience wouldn't be able to fully cure them. Even worse, Cole smugly stated that if they did anything to him, the orchard would die.
** Although Pamela Isley isn't one to talk given she's dished out similar punishment, she's repulsed by Cole and his apples, in part because Cole uses his powers for selfish revenge on hapless children. As Ivy usually only targets people she deems enemies to Mother Nature and has shown a protective side to kids, she aches to turn Bill into fertilizer.
** Derek Powers, better known as the radioactive madman Blight, once paid Cole's farm a visit, though he couldn't enter the orchard due to his radiation endangering the trees. Since they share a hatred for self-righteous youth ruining their business, he offered to produce Cole's apples as bio-weapons. Similarly, Silver Shamrock Novelties CEO Conal Cochran was curious of Bill's secret, since he feels his trees are just the kind of product for Silver Shamrock to [[{{Pun}} branch out into agriculture.]] Cole declined to share his secrets but offered to do business if they could make sure his orchard is left in peace.
** Much to Bill's annoyance, some fools still mess with his orchard. One prankster named Woody loves setting booby traps around the trees and doesn't even eat the apples. He also once caught a certain beatnik and his great Dane about to chow on his beloved apples before chasing them away with a shotgun. Shaggy and Scooby were even more freaked out when they learned of the fate that almost befell them, and Mystery Inc is hoping for a way to catch the evil farmer.
