Name: Varies, current primary form goes by 'Jacob Filcher'
Gender: Currently male.
Age: 23, by his own estimate.
Appearance: As a Shapeshifter, Jake's form is not set in stone. His current primary is a four foot tall anthropomorphic raccoon. Fur coloration and patterns are typical of the species, primarily gray with black and white highlights, including black rings around his gray tail and a black 'bandit mask' around his blue eyes. His feet are digitigrade - he stands on is toes - and his hands and feet both display paw pads. His body is otherwise human-like, bipedal with articulate fingers including opposable thumbs. His frame is thin and wiry. This shapeshifter prefers anthropomorphic forms as a stylistic choice, but is not limited to them.
In all his forms, Jake likes to expose fur, and this one is no exception. He wears a brown hooded cloak that only extends to his elbows, his torso is otherwise bare. He has a preference for brown fingerless gloves, as well, though his feet are bare. He also wears three quarter pants, black in color, that extend roughly halfway down his shins. These pants have a cut in the back for his tail, but are otherwise unremarkable.
Powers/Abilities:
- Shapeshifting: Jake is a shapeshifter, capable of completely altering his appearance and voice to perfectly mimic anyone, and a vast selection of living organisms. There are some restrictions, however, Jake can only take the form of vertebrates, his forms are all complex and multi-cellular, and all feature endoskeletons. As stated, he has a preference towards furred mammals, particularly those of the order carnivora, but this is a style choice.
- Eidetic Memory: Jake is able to, with near-perfect clarity, recall the details of specific forms, those he takes the most often. This is not true photographic memory, and should he not use a form for a time he can forget the details, requiring a visual aid, usually a photograph, to perfectly assume that form again. It requires practice to keep sharp, and at most he can remember three or four forms at a time.
- Regeneration: Though it requires some time to focus, Jake is capable of generating or regrowing limbs by sacrificing some of his current excess mass. This is how he originally grew his animalistic features - his tail, for example. He can also remove these limbs by bringing the mass back into himself. It requires too much focus and time to be useful in the heat of battle, he requires a quiet moment to himself.
Strength/Skills: Despite his preference for eye catching forms, Jake is capable of using his powers to perfectly blend into almost any surrounding. This makes him good at tasks relating to subterfuge - stealth, infiltration, espionage. He's also good with words, capable of talking himself into and out of most situations, so long as he doesn't draw too much attention to himself.
Weaknesses:
- Conservation of Mass: Jake is incapable of creating or removing mass from his body through his shapeshifting. This puts an upper limit on his size, and he tends to get quite dense as he gets smaller. Despite his short size and thin frame, Jake weighs roughly 200lbs, about enough to give him another two feet in height and some decent lean muscle should he stretch it to its limit. This also means that, though he can take the form of birds, he is completely unable to fly. In his current form, he'd also sink like a stone in water, but this is less threatening thanks to his ability to control his surface area and buoyancy. And also turn into fish. That helps too.
- Loss of Self: Simply put, Jake cultivates his identity based on his current form, and has a distinct identity for each current form. When Jake forgets a form, he abandons that identity. He has been shapeshifting from a very young age, and no longer remembers his 'true' form, what it looked like, what his name was, if he was even a he. Even his age is little more than a best guess on his part. He is a nomad, with no connections to any kind of past and no family or support structure that he knows of, or would even recognize him.
- Physically Unskilled: Jake is not a fighter. Though he can take some large, powerful-looking forms, these mostly rely on intimidation factor to get him by. He is not weak, he has some weight to throw around, but he is clumsy in a fight and easily overpowered by anyone who knows what they're doing.
Backstory: He remembers that Jake was a sudden, impulsive decision. The raccoon form quickly grew to be one of his favorites, and has been his primary form for a number of months. The form that he had been before turning into Jake has long since been forgotten. His primary form back then had been a weasel, one he still retains, though it hasn't gotten much love lately. He has largely played into the stereotypes of the species, living on the streets and providing for himself with theft: pickpocketing, shoplifting, grab and go, those sorts of things. No one gets hurt, and he uses his small size to go unnoticed as much as possible.
Association with other characters: None.
Other: N/A