Lapis Lazuli

A two-tailed cat monster with a sensual, savage personality...

curious, stubborn, and as self-centered as a gyroscope, Lapis is definitely a cat. One minute he’ll be climbing on you and purring up a storm, the next minute you’ll think you’ve just run into a food processor that’s biting your ears off. However, this little monster has been spending too much time in human shape for it not to be affecting his mind. This is the cause of much inner conflict and frustration, which manifests in the form of rapid mood changes and occasionally unreasonable violence. He comes off as more intelligent than he really is most of the time and complicated insults usually go right over his head. Having been a solitary and private creature for most of his life, Lapis rarely thinks of people as anything more than things to be either used or feared. Rarely though, he will form a connection with someone strong enough to make him very vulnerable indeed...

Shape-shifting (taking on the form of anyone he sees through constant concentration. Also switching from humanoid to felinoid), feline agility, stealth, and senses, including excellent night vision. Also a skill at manipulating people akin to that of a sociopath and Fighting dirty with all available weapons (including claws and teeth) and complete lack of compunction or morality. In some stories he is capable of breathing 'ghost-fire' which is like fox-fire, but not from a fox. He also has an abnormally long lifespan- I generally put his RPs somewhere along his personal timeline (This may or may not effect his history) and his given age may vary anywhere between around 90 to around 500. His appearance is invariably that of a young man in his late teens-early 20s.

Lapis started life as a normal cat, a feral thing surviving in the desert wastes. As he grew older and more cunning, he grew in size, his fur turned white and his tail split in two. Hunting absolutely anything as a matter of survival, he devoured everything from mice, to poisonous snakes, to other monsters. After many decades of this, he developed a few new tricks; namely the ability to change his morphogenic field to that of a human, and eventually to match it to that of those around him. Primitive human nomads living between the mountains and the deserts had long incorporated the strange monsters to the west into their religion. These things somewhere between man and beast were gods to them- creatures to be worshiped and feared. For a time, Lapis would meet one which had sojourned deeper into the desert on a mission of spiritual gain. He would take semi-human form and grant favors in exchange for pieces of gold jewelry, which the nomad tribes hammered into beautiful shapes. These tribes are long extinct now, of course, consumed by the environment they lived in.

Notes: The details of his history vary depending on genre and setting.

This is my favorite character, so I use him quite a bit. This makes most of the details of his 'design' somewhat elastic, although his appearance does not change.
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