Valentin & Mitch | 648/?? 😈 ~Put on your bad boy smile

My baby boy finally has a reference... Oughh took me a very long time but here he is. Copycat my beloved. My favorite little creature. As always more deets below.

Forgot to write it down in the ref itself, but CC is about 5'3-5'4. Appears a lot shorter since he's usually slouched or crouching down. Has a very bad balance and is not good at piloting the body so to speak, which is the reason for his wobbly and janky movement. While he isn't that good at moving around quickly or with grace, he is excellent at mimicking sounds. He can repeat anything he hears and copy it exactly how it sounded. This includes all kinds of sounds from humans to monsters to random things like the jester's music box or something falling on the floor. Though repeating things is easy, speaking sentences is not. CC often has to use multiple different voices to form a sentence he wants to say, and especially during his first few months didn't even understand most of the things he was repeating. He loves to mirror what others say back at them, with their own voice. Which can obviously lead to many awkward or even unintentionally unnerving situations. While he can't fully speak with his host's voice, he does still use it to make sounds and blabber about incoherently in an attempt to communicate sometimes. And boy does he have a lot to say! He isn't aggressive by nature but will get defensive if his items are touched or taken away from him. Despite trying to seem tough, the little masked is quite bad at actually fighting anything or anyone. He will likely start wailing and hold onto his mask tightly in an attempt to keep it safe. If anyone attempts to take it away, they will see what is underneath it. The tendrils will grab onto the mask and lash out at anything in near vicinity in an attempt to get it back on his face. Otherwise, they remain still and inactive under the mask. When distressed, they start to move about under it and Copycat can feel it. He's "adopted" both by the human medic Nathaniel and the Bracken Naava that dwells on Rend. While he isn't a child, he's still very much in a position where he needs a lot of support to survive and feels happy to have so many friends he can rely on. He's still trying to understand what it means to be masked, and what it means to be human. CC feels like he is a bit of both, even if his host is no longer alive. Thanks to his human guardian, his body doesn't decay like it usually would either so he has a lot more time to ponder his place in this world. Constantly learning and exploring, Copycat will keep going as long as he can-- even if his never-ending curiosity and eagerness do sometimes get him in trouble.