Raz Meierdorf

Appearance

Height

Around 5'10"

Body

Usually fair to tanned skin. Slender build. Distinguishing marks vary from day to day.

Face

Ears and mouth sometimes seem a little big for his head, but not unnaturally so.

Eyes

Heterochromia. Right eye dark blue. Left eye amber. Blind in left eye and it always has a yellow tint.

Hair

Usually dyed pink, shaggy, and covering their eyes.

Clothes

Whatever they wear, they almost always have their pink jacket, pink fingerless gloves, and pink running shoes. At least when he's not around his parents.

Other

Born mute. His flesh-shifter abilities mean he doesn't always have the exact same appearance from day to day, but it's normally too subtle for anyone to notice. They have no fingerprints and their skin is slightly clammy.

Berry - Raz's "disguise" for prom, and possibly other times. A more feminine figure, fair skin and curly brown chin length hair. Dark eyes, still heterochromatic. More likely to wear a dress.

Personality

Trying to Find Themself - Raz has never been settled in their identity, from the question of just what their gender is to what they actually want to do with their life. Sometimes he can come off as scatterbrained or fickle, with a new project each week. Nothing seems to quite fit.

Cheerful - Enthusiastic and bright. It's not that Raz never has negative emotions, but in public they do their best to never show them. The class clown - they want to make everyone smile. He's somewhat single-minded in his outward happiness, getting almost forceful with it the more upset he actually feels.

Afraid - Even before the event, Raz worried about being too weird, wearing a fake skin, never fitting in. And now they barely have a body of their own. The whispers that tell them they're not even human anymore are the same insecurities they've always had in different words.

Additional Information - They use sign language when they can or spend a lot of time writing and drawing stick figures to communicate. They know how to use a text-to-speech app, but hate the freaky robot voice. They don't identify fully as male, but don't know their own gender enough to be out about it. He dabbles in drawing and photography, making up for a complete lack of artistic talent with enthusiasm.

Abilities

Advantages

Enhanced Attributes (Strength, Stamina)

Apex Attribute (Regeneration)

Body Part Regeneration

Unliving

Disadvantages

Imminent

Constant Whispers

Restricted Diet (Carnivore)

Core Advantage

Flesh-Shifter - Can shift to any human appearance, including changing natural colouring of skin, eyes, hair and changing sex. They have no default form, and can appear to be any age or body type, but must stick close to the mass of their original form when shifting. Can't shift beyond human limits. Shifting their whole body takes a few minutes.

Core Disadvantage

Requires 2x as much calories as a regular human.

Bonus

Removed Disadvantage

Nerfs and Flavor

Unliving - still requires food and can die of starvation.

Current Situation

Occupation

11th Grade student at CSM

Housing

Lives with his dad in a small flat above his dad's bakery in the main part of town.

Wealth

Comfortable

History

Date of Birth

December 14th

Place of Birth

Polaris Pass

- Born and raised in Polaris Pass. Aside from being born mute, and the bullying that came from that, Raz had a fairly normal childhood. His parents co-owned a bakery and did fairly well for themselves. He used this to bribe the other children with cookies. And his mother was a volunteer firefighter, which was kind of impressive in elementary school at least. Between that and his cheerful demeanor he made a few friends. Though not as many as he might have made if he wasn't so odd.

- Raz joined many clubs in school, usually leaving them just as quickly, so of course he was all for teaming up with his friends to hunt cryptids, even if they never let him be the one filming more than once.

- The group accidentally awoke an eldritch being in the mines. As if that wasn't bad enough the thing started stalking them all, trying to eat them. Tragedy struck at the group of friends. Raz's mother was killed on the job in the same eldritch-started fire that killed his friend Roland's parents. Though Raz never knew if it was a genuine accident or she was another victim.

- Raz was also stalked. Whispers telling them they'd actually fit in if they let themselves be devoured. Disturbingly tempting, even though Raz did not actually want to be eaten by an eldritch monster. When the group found a ritual to get rid of the monster, they joined in.

- Unfortunately the whispers never left, they gained flesh-shifting abilities they only have loose control over, and they're seeing supernatural creatures all around town. And they're not even finished high school.