Post by peebles on May 28, 2014 2:51:24 GMT
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Name: Shadow
Nickname: Shads, "It"
Age: ???
Gender: Androgynous
Species: Shadow
Ethnicity: ???
Height: Varies
Weight: Varies, though usually weightless
Orientation: Pansexual
Occupation: Spy, Servant (to Dark), vessel for Dark's emotions
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Height and weight varies depending on his whims, as well as his figure. If he wants to be more intimidating, he exaggerates and distorts his features. If he wants to be more 'attractive', he'll sometimes morph into either a pretty woman, or a handsome man (it doesn't last long, though. He gets bored of it). He often uses a high-pitched voice that fluctuates wildly between lows and highs and often hisses. (Vocals from song linked are basically what he sounds like).
Though they don't always show, he does possess tendrils, which he uses mostly to perform dirty deeds.
During a period he calls the Hunger, he splits up into two variants of himself: "Tall" Shadow and "Little" Shadow. Tall Shadow then goes out to eat all that he can while Little Shadow takes care of the rest of his needs, such as sleep, entertainment, etc. When the Hunger ends, Little Shadow is usually devoured by Tall Shadow, and the two merge into Shadow once more.
Though he's usually in a solid form, Shadow has the ability to turn into a shadow and travel through shadows, as well as the ability to change his size and shape in order to fit into wherever he wants. Because of this, his body (or at least, part of it) is the landmass that makes up Maelstrom, where his master, Dark, and his creations all live. However because he is Maelstrom, he cannot expand indefinitely because most of his mass is contained there. And, because he is Maelstrom, as well as present in most shadows, he can hear and see things that would normally be out of sight and earshot for others. He only does this, however, if his master orders it. Otherwise, he could care less.
He can also take the appearance of others, and mostly uses this to dupe people into cruel tricks or even punishments his master, Dark, has him dole out. However, there is a limit to how long he can masquerade as someone, because although he can LOOK like them, he can't ACT like them forever, no matter how long he has been spying on them.
PERSONALITY
Lascivious, malicious, capricious and pernicious, Shadow is a force to be reckoned with. Depending on his wild whims, he can be as sly as a snake, or as blunt and as painful as a brick to the face. However, even when he seems 'mild', he never ever has good intents. He's extremely conniving, and though he may play stupid at times, he knows more than he should due to his excessive spying (by orders of Dark).
Shadow has an obsession with torturing everyone he meets, and has assaulted everyone he has met (with the exception of Jack) in every way possible. His favorite 'toy' is Clear, who, because of his incessant torture, has effectively been driven to a nervous wreck. His malicious ways have also left others, such as Nobody, with scars even after their memories were wiped.
Another of Shadow's obsessions is his master. He lives to serve Dark, and dreams of skinning him and wearing him in order to be as close to him as possible. He also partakes in weird fetishes that even HE doesn't understand, but thinks is fun.
He is gluttonous, avaricious, lustful, wrathful, and just about every other sin one can imagine, simply because Dark's emotions, which had been mild in the beginning, soon stewed and festered within him, blowing out of proportion until they reached extremes.
Shadow claims he once had parents, and has two preserved corpses shoved in a cave to show for it, but this has since been determined to be a lie. He is a parentless monster.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Initially created by Dark to serve as a vessel for his unwanted emotions, Shadow got his name from the fact that he was Dark's shadow incarnate, and nothing more. Since he IS Maelstrom, he has been there since its creation, and has tortured its inhabitants since they were either created or brought back. He was also made for the explicit purpose of torturing Clear, one of Dark's counterparts, just as Creator was made to torture Thing.
Ever since his creation, Shadow's job has been to round up new subjects for his master, to spy on everyone, to punish 'the wicked', and to generally be a nuisance.
He enjoys his job very much.