Holland Trees

''This article is about the self-important blond bimbo herself. For the shitfic of the same name, see Holland Trees (story). For the discontinued sequel to the shitfic of the same name, see Holland Trees 2. For the ongoing spin-off of the shitfic, see Holland Trees, The College Years.''

"n there ar a lotr of rumores about wh0 im am nd what i be doin but no NOT listen to da haters liek fom that one taylor swist music. look i amy or may not be a reality warpin goddeess of bein fuckkin hot and badsially the best but im scawer to dos dat im jus ur evryaby averahe girl yep nothin to se her. i mean if i wer a god of the ancient ones i totally ouldnt have MCHKINF FRECKLES IN MY GODDAMN NOSE LIKE SOME KINDA STUPID FUCKKIN--"

- Holland Trees

Holland Trees is a character from ! (Exclamationpoint). Having been considered a non-canon joke character at her inception, she later became a canon character in Ms. Mull's homeroom class at Capital Junior High School in the country Exclamationpoint. Her participation in the school's drama club is incredibly fitting considering her uncanny ability to distort reality and make everything into a melodramatic, loud shitfic.

Description
Holland is a crude, mean character who almost constantly insults everyone around her (even if they're supposed to be her friends). Basically everyone in school tries to avoid her because she's annoying, but much like the Hotel California, once you're caught up in her orbit, you can never leave. This is because she is surrounded by what has colloquially been described as a "fuck-you-up" energy that changes your mannerisms and your speech patterns such that they suit Holland's twisted shitfic reality. The longer you're around her, the longer the effects last after you're out of her direct "fuck-you-up" field. This field also gives Holland some abilities similar to those exhibited by Mary-Sues and reality warpers. For instance, if someone is anything, then Holland instantly becomes that thing but better (for convenience's sake, I've dubbed this undubbable ability "you +1"). This can be seen when Gage Segovia was introduced as the best "prosecutor" in the school in Holland Trees, which "reminded" her that she was the greatest defense attorney ever. She also probably has the ability to make everyone around her like her unconditionally, but this only cropped up in later stories so who knows. Unlike Mary-Sues, Savvys, or most of the other ! characters who have very consistent rules and limitations going along with their powers which have been crafted by the many canon plans and stories featuring these abilities, Holland is a mercurial force of pure chaos who does whatever she wants whenever she wants.

Epona Amy
Epona is described as being Holland's best friend in Holland Trees, but in reality, Epona tries to use Holland for her nefarious plots. Because using Holland Trees is literally impossible, though, these plots always fail. Epona doesn't like Holland at all because Holland has a crush on Icey (and she's annoying), but since they're in drama club together, they're often seen together.

Icey Birdwell
Icey is the object of Holland's attraction. Meanwhile, Holland is the object of Icey's mortal fears. This is because Holland's weird shit is a match for Icey's reality warping abilities (both because of her "you +1" ability and because Icey is especially sensitive to her "fuck-you-up" field, which prevents him from using his powers) and there is not a single other character in all of Exclamationpoint or, perhaps, in the entire roleplay universe whose last name is not "Birdwell" who can say the same. Even Icey doesn't know how the hell Holland works and he has no desire to investigate further lest he "heehoo icey cooly similes and laffs ;)".

History
Not much is known about Holland's canonical origins or living situation, but in Holland Trees, she is described as living in "a big house a bit out of town and way far away from teh school and teh dumb nayborhood where teh bitch crew and the other miscelanos people who suck at school live", as well as being a fair distance away from "the dumb castle that epona lives in" (which she sees as being a good thing). She moved into the school district after Icey moved out, but because Icey has never moved out of the school district, it's unknown as to when she started attending the same school as the main cast. It is also unknown if that detail is even canon since it's only ever mentioned in Holland Trees, which takes place 1) in the future and 2) potentially in an alternate universe.

Appearance
Holland's "hare goes dawn too [her] thais and is lite bloned with grene bits". She doesn't think she is very pretty (purportedly because of the freckles on her nose), but according to her narration, everyone else does. Her favorite outfit consists of "[a] dark gern and silver swearter and [her] ripped black skinny jeans that can bee kinda uncofmrotable somethimes and a brown boots", with most all of her outfits carrying over this green theme color. Her eyes are bright green.

Christmas Crossover 2015
Holland plays a supporting role in Christmas Crossover 2015. After every story's second act concludes, the characters from that story are teleported into a space that Holland calls "the meadow" (presumably the same meadow from the original Christmas Crossover) and Holland (along with Epona, Makoto Naegi, Byakuya Togami, Kyouko Kirigiri, and Kiyotaka Ishimaru) gives them crude solutions to their problems before sending them back.

Christmas Crossover 2017: My Darling Crossover
While Holland herself doesn't make an appearance in this story, her signature style of writing is utilized when the characters are catapulted into satellite universes and Izuru Kamakura stars in a Holland Trees-esque adventure. This seemingly confirms that the events of Holland Trees take place in an alternate universe--an alternate universe within the roleplay universe, which is commonly presented as being fictional in the worlds of !/Marching Peregrines. Curious.

Gage Segovia: Ace Attorney
Holland appears briefly in Gage Segovia: Ace Attorney. She helps to clear Icey's name in Toru's "murder" trial because she stayed afterschool with the drama club, giving him an alibi. She takes the stand and briefly testifies, but because her presence in the courtroom begins to make everything turn shitty, she's made to leave so everything isn't ruined. It's also shown that she used her "fuck-you-up" energy to corrupt Icey, enough so that he's still out of it by the end of the fic.

Holland Trees
Obviously, Holland is the main character of Holland Trees. According to the story's narration, Holland and Epona are competing for Icey's romantic attention, a conflict which results in Noah Vogan's murder, a murder trial conducted by the debate team, a butt scooter race to the "pet cemetery pool" (and the violent deaths of "the bitch crew" and Jonah Blackwell), an audition for the school musical which gets crashed by a revived Noah Vogan with "girl boobs", a time travel sequence to prevent Noah's parents from conceiving him at a school dance, ANOTHER debate-team-sponsored murder trial discussing Noah's erasure from the timeline, a massive Danganronpa invasion, and a fight with the goddess of love and ends with Holland and Epona confessing their love for each other and getting married. "Canonically", this story is revealed to have been the result of a plot by Epona to use Holland to get Icey's attention which goes terribly wrong by a handful of epilogue letters written by Epona and addressed to her aunt. Epona's participation in Holland's story is said to have given her permanent brain damage, possibly along with Icey.

Holland Trees 2
Holland Trees 2 is an aborted sequel to the original story in which Holland, abusing the concept of alternate realities, puts together a reality populated by "characters" from !-adjacent stories (who are actually counterparts to the characters from !, ranging from genderbends to their "Danganronpa crossover counterparts"...who're just the original characters with Japanese names) and tries to romance Tate Stuart.

Holland Trees, The College Years
Holland Trees appears again in a total alternate universe separate from ! or any other roleplay universe in a college AU populated by OC's. This story is still ongoing, but so far the plot seeeeeems to be that Holland is attempting to start a relationship with all of the "main characters".

XTREME GRANDPA DANGLEHOPPERS
Holland makes an actual appearance without her shitfic aura in XTREME GRANDPA DANGLEHOPPERS (also known as the Exclamationpoint/Danganronpa crossover). She essentially inhabits the same role as Mukuro Ikusaba in the first Danganronpa game as she assists Momoko Higa in portraying the SHSL Princess (not Sonia) for the purpose of putting on the killing game, but she is (secretly) killed in Chapter 5 when Higa pushes her down the stairs. Shichirobei's real title is SHSL Drama Queen.

Trivia

 * At her inception, Holland was an unnamed author's self-insert Mary-Sue for their fanfiction set in the ! universe. However, as time has gone on, it seems as if Holland has become the author of her own fanfiction...despite the fact that Holland Trees and Holland Trees 2 both feature the narrator (who is Holland) speaking about the universe as if it is fictional (ex: crying out that they can't be the only one to ship Blythe Seeley and Gwendolyn Birdwell in an author's note and insulting other "fandom" ships).
 * Holland's birthday is the same day that Holland Trees was first written. Coincidentally, this day also happens to be Kitty Nolan's birthday.
 * Holland's "fuck-you-up" field was inspired by Anghel Higure's ability in Hatoful Boyfriend. Because he gives off hallucinogenic pheromones, he can drag anyone around him into his chuunibyou fantasies, much like Holland's abilities to drag everyone around her into shitty stories and make them into complete morons.
 * According to Holland Trees, the College Years, Holland was born with green streaks in her hair and tattoos on her arms.
 * Holland was the inspiration for Tit Ferns, a non-canon character from the Marching Peregrines universe.