Simon 'Tails

Shapeshifter ferret

Description

Name: Simon “White” Tails
Age: 9 years
Race: Amorpher
Origin Form: Ferret
Weight and Length: 3 pounds and 26 inches including tail as ferret.

Sex: His Origin Form is male, and so is his personality.
Hair/Fur color: When in ferret form, white. When in other forms, the form decides, although he prefers to shift into while creatures.
Eyes: Black when in ferret form, else it depends on the form.

Simon has not very much control of his appearance as much is decided by the animal he is mimicking. But he can change the color of his fur, eye color and to small degree things like physical appearance to distinguish himself from the target animal.

Personality

Simon is almost a full grown Amorpher, but he is mature in his mind. He got a warm personality and is very caring and comforting and thinks everyone is at least somewhat good. He does not have any set gender when he is shifting, but he is considered a male as his Original Form is a male. The Amorphers have no family, and live mostly with the other species, mostly with Humans as pets. He is also very fond of chocolate and milk, and likes to play with everything, much like a regular pet.

History

Simon is an Amorpher, a species that have no specific shape, but takes upon the shape of other creatures the Amorpher sees. When they are born, they are born in the form their mother is in, and that is the only form they can be before they see another creature. This first creature is often referred to as an Origin Form as it is the form the Amorpher often returns back to. Simon can be in the desired form as long as he desire, but he gets a longing back to his original shape after a while, which is short if he is bored. That’s why he is sometimes are referred to as White, as he is most often in his white ferret form.

As an Amorpher grows, they become better in replicating the target animal; hence a young Amorpher cannot perfectly replicate any other animals other than the Origin Form, which is perfect. A Amorpher ages differently than humans, their lifespan being approximately thirty years old, so Simon is almost full grown and can shift to almost perfect replicas of their targets. Another limit of the shift is that a big animal cannot be replicated easily, and involves often much pain as their mass is stretched to shift to the shape of the creature. An older Amorpher is able to shift much easier to a bigger creature. Also, Amorphers that Original Form is a big animal don’t have this limitation, and to go from one big animal to another is also easy as the mass is already stretched. An Amorpher cannot obtain new shapes from seeing another Amorphers.

The Amorphers evolved this trait in the early Cretaceous period, as they were constantly being chased by bigger dinosaurs such as the Coelurosauria and needed a way of adapting. The first shifting was only as a camouflage, but it evolved over time as a means of surviving the rapid environment changes by shifting to a creature that could survive the current environment. They also have developed a pheromone that calms other animals, making them no threat. This pheromone works on humans in a way that they won’t reveal the Amorper to others.

Amorphers have three ways of communicating. By telepathy, the original language of the Amorphers, by the language of the form they are in, if the animal have a language, or by the human language, as they adapt to the language of the dominant species on the planet. They are intelligent, almost on the level of a human.

Simon has a set of favorite animals, which is a white Siberian tiger, a gray wolf and a falcon.