Editing Heart-Takers

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''"A grizzled coterie of gardeners care for this unusual orchard. The plants that grow here are Heart-Catchers, whose fruit looks - and speaks - like human heads."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Heart-Catcher_Gardens|Heart-Catcher Gardens|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
[[File:Sprout.png|thumb|St. John's Lily]]
'''Heart-Takers, '''also known as '''Heart-Catchers,''' are intelligent plants that grow fruit resembling human heads. The heads on each plant appear to have independent minds, which talk amongst themselves like a community.

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== St John's Lily ==
''"'Well, you didn't hear this from me, but you're not the only one in London with a St John's lily,' she says. 'They've been growing in cellars and parlours since the Fall. And you know how competitive gardeners are.'"''<ref name = "tournament">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Pay_her_a_visit,_and_take_a_bottle|Pay her a visit, and take a bottle|Fallen London|}}</ref>
[[File:Head.png|thumb|A Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist]]
'''The St John's Lily''' is a rather singular and aggressive Heart-Taker that gains nutrients from various thing ranging from wine and small animals to [[Sorrow-spiders|sorrow-spiders]] and vicars<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Feed_your_plant_a_sorrow-spider|Feed your plant a sorrow-spider|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Feed_a_vicar_to_your_plant|Feed a vicar to your plant|Fallen London|}}</ref>. Its mature fruit specifically resembles the Head of St John the Baptist.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Get_a_very_good_look_at_the_fruit|Get a very good look at the fruit|Fallen London|}}</ref> These so-called Counterfeit Heads are used in [[Knife-and-Candle]] as a protection charm of sorts.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Counterfeit_Head_of_John_the_Baptist|Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist|Fallen London|}}</ref>

Horticulturally inclined Londoners - members of neo-botanical society, so they say - grow their St John's Lilies to participate in the '''the Tournament of Lilies''', where they compete in various contests of beauty, cunning, and ferocity.<ref name = "tournament">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Pay_her_a_visit,_and_take_a_bottle|Pay her a visit, and take a bottle|Fallen London|}}</ref>

== Heart-Catcher Gardens ==
''"A series of finely-manicured indigo lawns cover this corner of Pan. Peculiar plants grow in the beds: tangled as rose-bushes, and budding with fruit. The fruit is lumpen: perfectly formed facial features are growing on it. This one has a frantic, staring eye. This one is growing an ear. This one keens pitiably through tiny, trembling lips."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Nurseries|The Nurseries|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>

There is a garden of mature Heart-Catchers near [[Pan]]. Unlike the plants in the Neath, these do not all bear fruits resembling the head of John the Baptist; some can even look like... one's aunt?<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Nepenthine_Ritual|The Nepenthine Ritual|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>

Heart-Catchers can become fatally ill in old age. One possible cure is temporarily grafting a healthy visitor's head onto the ailing plant, to revive the other heads.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Mimiricon|The Mimiricon|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>

== Real-Life Inspirations ==
The Biblical Saint John the Baptist was martyred via beheading, hence the inspiration for the plant and its name.

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