Name: Vassi Melfor
Known Aliases: Fluffy
Age: 16
Date of Birth: Dec 10, 1995
Hometown: Ardatov, Mordovia, Russia
Height: Humanoid: 7' SND: 6' 1" Animal: 4' at the shoulder, body length is 8', tail 2' 5" long.
Weight: 350
Hair Color: Natural: Sea blue-green w/tan suckers. SND: Dark brown with an iridescent green shine.
Eye Color: Natural: Lime green outside, light blue inner ring of the iris. SND: Sea blue-green.
Nationality/Race: Russian
Occupation: Student, henchman for hire
Criminal Record: A garden variety of misdemeanors: physical assault, battery, disorderly conduct among others. It reads like a violent teenager that has a penchant for drinking.
Motivation: Troublemaker, punch clock villain
On the clock: he'll do whatever his boss tells him to and will faithfully carry out every order.
Off the clock: he's an easygoing guy that only occasionally gets rowdy, mainly at bars, especially if sports or booze is involved.
Personality Profile:
On the job: young and cocky, he's a force of nature and knows it. Few can rival him in a straight fight, mainly from his size and the sizable claws that tip his fingers. The swagger can cost him a successful job, making him fumble or succumb to stupid mistakes. Maturity will surely iron this out but until then, he's best suited for things that are less than vitally important.
Off the job: while at home or out somewhere, his stoic nature totally breaks. More often than not, he's cheery at best and indifferent at worst. He's not only willing to give someone else a hand but often does, sometimes paying for someone else's coffee or doing other charitable work. This is not an attempt to make up for his job, its just the way his mother raised him.
Physical Description: While in any form, he's quite strong as he spends a fair amount of his free time in the gym. Able to easily lift half his weight (175), work hard to lift it (375) or strain himself (and risk physical trauma) to lift 2x it (700).
Natural: He looks like the result of a mad scientist's attempts to cross-breed a lion and a squid. The body is that of a muscular blue-green lion whose mane has been replaced by tentacles. There are gills located behind his head, normally hidden by his tentacles. The tentacles in both natural and humanoid form can change color depending on mood or at will. This is mostly for show or to his irritation. It has no practical usage and his fur cannot shift colors.
Character Picture:
Humanoid: The difference between this form and the four-footed one is that his hips are rotated so that he can stand on two legs and the proportions are altered, much for the same reason. While his head remains the same as the four-footed one, the rest of his proportions are that of a human bodybuilder. This form retains his retractable black claws, both on his hands and feet.
The clothing he wears in both humanoid and SND'd form is basically the same: always black and varies between: a loose-fitting button-up shirt, form-fitting t-shirt, slacks or cargo pants. A constant are his immaculately shined black combat boots and a leather belt that sports a silver rectangular buckle. In the fall he wears a light leather coat and in the winter he switches to a heavy woolen one similar to what is army issued.
SND/holowatch (Human): He's an attractive man in his mid teens, steeled by a life on the streets. Despite this, a pleasant smile is generally donned whenever off work. The grin would be much more friendly if not for his carnivorous set of chompers, human-like in appearance. But the front shearing teeth are too small, canines too large and sharp, to be truly human. His brown hair has an odd greenish iridescent shine to it, easy to not notice indoors but hard to ignore while outside. Clothing description is in the paragraph right before this one.
Mutation/Powers:
Primary:
Sonic blast: in any of the forms, he has the ability to emit a high-energy roar that is capable of deafening (temporarily for those outside a close range but has a chance for permanent damage for those at arms' length) those nearby. This attack could be detrimental to those with sensitive hearing, even pushing such a person into passing out. This can also be used to communicate with his teammates, if working with any, or shatter windows and otherwise affect materials that have sensitivity to sound waves.
Secondary:
Form shift: This allows him to go between his four-footed and humanoid forms. Can be done at will and does not take long to complete, approx 2 turns to complete. In the shift, his hips rotate and his physiology turns more humanoid, allowing him to interact normally with his surroundings and make his holowatch convincing.
Tertiary:
Physical mutations:
*Like those in his semi-heritage, he can sense when an opponent/victim is weakened and play off those weaknesses. He can also predict attacks to an extent and respond quickly with the cat-like reflexes.
*His claws are fully retractable and four inches long when fully extended.
*Behind his jaw bone, tucked under the lower tier of tentacles, are a couple sets of gills. They enable him to breathe underwater but can be used at will, enabling him to breathe like a normal person with his lungs. When not in use, the gills clamp firmly shut to prevent them from being irritated by allergens, toxins, other unpleasant things in the air and from drying out.
Drawbacks/Weaknesses:
Sonic blast:
*This can only be used when an opponent is actually making the attack as it is not precognition. The rate of success with a feigning/faint attack isn't affected, especially when done so by a trained or skilled person.
*Can only be used a limited number of times and cannot be used consecutively. Each time he uses the attack, a small amount of damage is dealt to his throat and vocal cords and it can snowball in effect the more its used in a small time frame. A couple of blasts take a day to recover from but pushing himself to the limit will need a longer recovery time: about a week if he stays silent for it or longer if he runs his mouth or has to use the attack again.
Form shift:
*This causes him a bit of stress to change so it can be detrimental if he's in an exhausted or weakened state. It takes a couple of turns to complete and is painful to complete. Nowhere near as terrible as going from either quad or humanoid shape to human but still not something he finds very comfortable.
Physical mutation:
*With the body of a lion and squiddish head, it leaves him able to walk around on land with ease. Quite a bit of time can be spent away from the water but he's happiest when damp. His head, the tentacles especially, are prone to drying out and need to be misted, in the very least, every hour or two.
*Fleas, mites, ticks and other parasites can be an issue with his fur, the problem doubled if they gain access to his sensitive gills due to the high amount of blood flowing through them.
*The claws are retractable but not perfect, leaving him quite capable of harming another person if care is not taken. It also tends to make finding footwear quite difficult, making him resort to a larger boot size than necessary or simply go barefoot.
*The gills are especially sensitive to toxins and foul things in the air and water. The surface of his tentacles and face are quite absorbent and irritants can cause him quite a bit of discomfort, especially of the: electrical, poisonous, allergenic, chemical and too high or low of a pH variety.
*To become fully human, he must be fully dampened and enabling that is quite uncomfortable to him, forcing his body to shrink by a foot and quite a bit of alien physiology to change and shift. Gills to seal, tentacles to turn into hair, claws to retract, tail to meld with his body.
Background: Up until he defected from Russia, he lead a stereotypical life of a bored young teenage boy in a low-income area. His idea of fun was setting abandoned buildings on fire, getting wasted and into fights and causing general chaos. But once his mutation expressed itself and his body violently shifted into the abomination it is today, he was ostracized by his family and friends and defected to a circus. That didn't last long and he got it in his head to defect to the land of the brave and free.
It took some time and observation, hanging around the docks until he saw a chance. Onto a boat he went and hid there, hungry and thirsty, waiting for the long trip overseas. Once upon land, mystified by the grand city of New York, he tried his best to change and live a good life. But his status as an illegal alien made finding work near impossible, save for corrupt jobs. Running mystery packages from here to there, roughing up people that owe guys money.
And then one day he heard about Cobalt, mentioned by one of his fellow co-workers. A place that could help him, provide a residence and a future...
Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts: Vassi's favorite snack is cotton candy although it can get stuck in his fur.