Mushroom

"You've all laughed at me for years! Well, now I'm the one with the power! I'm going to own my own village soon, wait and see! Everyone will do everything for me, like they do for the dragonmancers!"

— Mushroom to Thyme, Rowan, Leaf and Cranberry

Mushroom is a male scavenger who appeared in Dragonslayer. He is Thyme's twin brother.

Appearance

In Dragonslayer, Mushroom was described as more square-jawed, taller, and a lot gloomier than Thyme.

In The Dragonet Prophecy, Mushroom was described as short and pale with a furry head. He was also described as having two long, thin legs and two dangling arms that ended in "floppy, clawless talons". He reached barely as high as Clay's shoulder. In the The Dragonet Prophecy (graphic novel), he has dark 'fur' with a red tunic and blue-grey pants, with buck teeth.

Personality

Mushroom was described as gloomy and is prone to complaining a lot. He was very greedy, and his want for physical wealth and power accumulates in other flaws, like jealousy, laziness, and selfishness. Mushroom was especially jealous of the dragonmancers and of Thyme, and had no problem endangering others to save himself.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Dragonet Prophecy

The scavenger Clay saw shortly after escaping the mountains was likely Mushroom. The scavenger ran off after seeing Clay and Tsunami, but Scarlet caught him and bit his head off. Mushroom was the scavenger stealing Queen Scarlet's treasure.

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Legends

Dragonslayer

Mushroom is shown to be training with other scavengers hoping to become dragonslayers, including Leaf. Later, he steals their map and goes to the mountain dragon palace and steals treasure, but is then found out by the SkyWings, who chase after him. He escapes, endangering his brother, Thyme, by throwing a piece of the treasure at him.

Relationships

Thyme

Although Thyme was his brother, Mushroom wasn't overly attached to him. He decided to get away from a dragon about to attack by throwing Thyme in the way, to save himself and his treasure.

Cranberry

It is mentioned that Mushroom looked angry whenever Cranberry paid a lot of attention to Thyme. However, he didn't seem to actually care for her, and didn't acknowledge her concerns for Grove, or give over some treasure to help when she begged him to, so this was probably just more of his envy towards Thyme.

Leaf

Mushroom thought of Leaf as a little kid, and spoke derisively of him and his talents. This could be because he was envious of Leaf or he just didn't respect people younger than him.

Family Tree

Unknown

Unknown

Mushroom

Thyme

Quotes

"This is really the mountain dragons' palace? [...] How do we know?  What the heck is this? [...] And over here... 'prison'? That doesn't look like a prison. It looks like a bunch of columns."

― to Leaf, while looking at the map of the mountain dragon palace

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"Great. [...] So we're going to sneak into a palace full of dragons based on a kid's scribbled copy of an ancient, unreliable drawing that might be a total fantasy."

― about the plan to steal mountain dragon treasure

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"Ha! [...] There was plenty of gold in that palace! Go get your own!"

― to Rowan

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"You've all laughed at me for years! Well, now I'm the one with the power! I'm going to own my own village soon, wait and see! Everyone will do everything for me, like they do for the dragonmancers!"

― when the others ask him for help

Trivia

• Mushroom was the first scavenger to ever appear in the series as well as the graphic novels.
• Scarlet described him as tasting stringy and like fish when she bit his head off.

Gallery

• Mushroom in the Dragonet Prophecy graphic novel
  Mushroom in the Dragonet Prophecy graphic novel
• by Mike Holmes
  by Mike Holmes