White Knight

Personality: Aloof, prefers to keep others at arm's length,  individualist, black-sheep complex, sees things analytically, cares  about other people in the abstract but also has no qualms with killing  someone & eating their brains to sustain his life

Lasramok Thezkult was never a team player. He followed orders to the letter of the law but not the spirit, and was constantly resisting the psychic influence of his colony's hivemind. When he had a clutch of tadpoles (all mind flayers reproduce by parenthogenesis once or twice in their lives,) he foisted one away to raise individually instead of surrendering them all to the hivemind. This resulted in the very unique  circumstances of his child Svekt's upbringing: raised by a single parent, and never connected to the hivemind. While this resulted in Svekt having  more of a sense of individuality, it also makes him feel very alone. He isn't quite good at being a human, but he also doesn't feel like he does a good job of being a mind flayer.
Now that Lasramok has parted with his colony, bringing his son with him, the two have resorted to powerful magic to keep their identities hidden in order to assimilate with humanoid society.

(Mind Flayers are a species from Dungeons and Dragons, owned by Wizards of the Coast.)