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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Jack's Puppet]]
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4	->''"I think, therefore I am."''
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6	''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/289951/lupine-tree Lupine Tree]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFiction by {{Tropers/wille179}}. It is the story of [[PunnyName Lumber Jack]], a [[{{Planimal}} timberwolf]] who gains the intelligence of a human to become [[PlantPerson something more]].
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8	It shares continuity with ''FanFic/SplitSecond,'' while the human's soul comes from the dying universe of ''FanFic/BlackQueenRedKing,'' as the author writes all his stories in a [[SharedUniverse Shared Multiverse]].
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10	Has since been unofficially canceled as {{Tropers/wille179}} has left the fandom.
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13	!! This story provides examples of:
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15	* AndIMustScream: Twilight's tree. Despite having been hollowed out and filled with sources of [[PrimalFear fire]], the tree is still very much alive. Only Jack can hear its mad screaming.
16	* BizarreAlienBiology: The Flowing Stone Deer are a race of [[TheBlank faceless,]] deer-shaped, liquid animals, akin to a SlimeGirl. [[http://wille179.deviantart.com/art/Muzen-Black-and-White-569100579 This is Muzen,]] one of the flowing stone deer.
17	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Very downplayed. Jack is the only sapient individual who reproduces by flowering and fruiting, rather than the more traditional mammalian/reptilian ways.
18	* BlobMonster: Cheif Hiram of Eezdraug. He's an entire ''lake'' of slime, and has boats and such sailing his surface.
19	* BloodLust: Jack drinks blood as a part of his normal diet, but since he gained is intelligence, he's occasionally fantasized about drinking the blood of those around them. Or, in the case of the Flowing Stone Deer, how he would even make them bleed in the first place.
20	* BloodMagic: Jack can become more powerful by drinking blood. Tirek's blood, in particular, made him grow much bigger and gave him a new puppet with Tirek's form.
21	* BodyHorror: Twilight's tree. See AndIMustScream above.
22	* BrandishmentBluff: Downplayed. Jack's Taur puppet draws a functional but crudely made bow and aims it at Clear Glass, but knows that the bow is likely to break if he draws it to full strength. His aim is terrible as well, according to his [[FirstPersonPerspective narration.]]
23	* DireBeast: Monsters inside the Everfree Exclusion Zone are big. ''Very Big.'' The orochi, as Jack refers to the eight-headed snake, has eyes large enough to fit two of his puppets inside a single socket.
24	* FantasticFlora: Timberwolf trees, poison joke, leaves with healing properties, zap apples… this world is full of strange plants.
25	* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Jack, like all flowering plants. He also doesn't identify by any animal gender type, but never bothered to correct anyone when they assumed he was male.
26	* GlowingEyes: Slightly deconstructed. As a timberwolf, every single one of Jack's puppets has glowing eye sockets. Jack wishes for real eyes just so he can roll them.
27	* HiveMind: Jack's puppets. Every timberwolf tree's puppet collection acts like a HiveMind, but Jack's collection is by far the largest.
28	* FirstPersonPerspective: The story is written in strict first person. Jack narrates as if he knew there was an audience, but he never acknowledges them.
29	* IgnoranceIsBliss: Twilight never suspected that her home, the library in the oak tree, was conscious, let alone fully aware of the fact that it had been hollowed out and filled with fire sources. Jack forcefully corrects this ignorance.
30	* {{Invisibility}}: Clear Glass is a unicorn who can do this with magic. It turns out that his ability is useless against Jack, who could smell him and see his ''hoofprints in the grass.''
31	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The "Other" was a human soul that was brought to Equestria by Discord and would eventually fuse with a timberwolf to create Jack. However, the transition destroyed their identity completely beyond any hope of recovery (type 1 LaserGuidedAmnesia).
32	* MarionetteMaster: This is how all timberwolves hunt. Their wolves are nothing but puppets for the tree.
33	* TheOrder: Celestia mentions having the [[ThePaladin Paladin]] Order observe Jack because he is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon.]]
34	* OrderVersusChaos: Jack bats for team Chaos. Part of his soul was saved by Discord, and Jack ''is'' a chaos demon. [[spoiler:And, as it turns out, the Tree of Harmony was willing to attack Jack to fix the "chaotic hole in his heart," whatever it meant by that.]]
35	* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Jack makes a wooden wolf-centaur using the blood of Tirek.
36	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Discord reveals that Jack is ''technically'' a demon by Equestria's definition. What this actually means is unclear, but it was enough to make Princess Celestia nervous.[[note]]A fan pointed out, and then was later confirmed by the author, that Lumber Jack takes inspiration from a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubokko Jubokko.]][[/note]]
37	* ThePaladin: Clear Glass, who was assigned by Celestia to observe Lumber Jack.
38	* PervertedDrooling: In a [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/572915/how-lewd-bonus-semi-nsfw-short-story bonus side story entitled ''How Lewd,'']] Jack reacts this way to Fluttershy in a bee costume. When Applejack ask him why he's staring at her like that, he answers:
39	-->"Ok, imagine both the literal and the innuendo-filled meaning of what I'm about to say: A bee flies towards my flower. It lands, and its head descends into the depths of my flower. The pollen it's carrying gets deposited. That pollen makes my flower grow a fruit with seeds that sprout into more trees. Now, if you imagined a stallion and a mare doing it, congratulations; you got the point. See, for me, a bee landing in in a flower is exactly like you saying a [redacted] landing in a [redacted]. Fluttershy is a giant, flying bee; Fluttershy is a giant, flying di-"
40	%%* {{Planimal}}: Timberwolves.
41	* PlantPerson: Lumber Jack, after his awakening. Physically, aside from higer intelligence and larger size compared to others members of his species, he is indistinguishable[[note]] at first[[/note]] from them. He just refers to himself as a person instead of an animal.
42	* PrimalFear: Fire. Jack, being a tree, is ''terrified'' of fire. As Applejack puts it, "Trees can't run away." It's hinted that all trees are scared of fire... for obvious enough reasons.
43	* PunnyName: Lumber Jack chose his own name ''for the sake of the pun.''
44	* PunBasedTitle: ''Lupine Tree'' is a pun on "Pine Tree," "Lupine" (a flowering plant whose blooms grow in long strands), and "Lupine" (relating to wolves).
45	* RageBreakingPoint: When Jack has to apologize to Twilight and Spike, he's already upset. When he sees the horrible state her library is in (it's a [[BodyHorror hollowed out]] but [[AndIMustScream still 'living' tree]]), he stomps out. But when Twilight tries to confront him about it, he loses his temper.
46	* SharedUniverse: A shared ''multiverse'', to be specific. ''Lupine Tree'' is more closely related to ''FanFic/SplitSecond'' than ''FanFic/BlackQueenRedKing,'' however.
47	* UpliftedAnimal: Unintentionally triggered by Discord, Lumber Jack's new intelligence is the driving plot point of the story
48	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Cheif Hiram. When he wished to talk to Muzen and Jack, he created a minotaur-like body out of his slime.[[note]]This was just a tiny portion of his total mass.[[/note]]
49	* WhenTreesAttack: Jack turns downright murderous if an intelligent creature enters his grove. He managed to control himself and not hurt Rarity, but Tirek was not so lucky.

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