The Lurcher

The Lurcher is a character created by @SmilerFurcifer. He was made to reuse an old character design from the Five Nights at Sonic's series in a more unique and less limiting way. He has now developed into their own thing completely.

Overview
The Lurcher is a shapeshifting creature that lives on earth among it's other species, his species the Night-Crawlers (Edax Noctis) are nocturnal Apex Predators that primarily feast upon forest animals and humans. His species had existed relatively around the same time as humans, their ancestors are unknown.

Biography
The Lurcher is a highly intelligent Night-Crawler that deviates from his species, ditching his animal like behaviour and choosing to instead be a smart and cunning hunter. He has the ability to shapeshift into anything he desires as long as he knows what it looks like, it is nearly perfect aside from a few Tell-tales such as the hair always being black, and his eyes always being black with green pupils, he also cannot help but smile unnaturally wide. While others of his species communicate with their own ways and language, Lurcher can speak fluent English that he has learnt over his many years of being alive, this helps him with his hunting.

Due to The Lurcher being nocturnal, his prey is either really hard, or really easy to catch, his favourite prey of them all, humans, are what he tries to go for. Depending on how the human acts, is how he approaches the hunt. If a human is sleeping, The Lurcher will sneak into the room they rest and sleep in close proximity to them, by doing this he taps into one of his abilities, the ability to enter peoples dreams. While in dreams he will toy with his victim however he wants, often ending with his victim waking up in fright, to then be captures and later consumed by The Lurcher. If a human is using a piece of technology, he can infect and mess with it, if the piece of technology is being used for video games, he can insert himself into the video game and mess around with it how ever he pleases, often tormenting the games player while The Lurcher stalks nearby.

Survivors of The Lurcher and his species spread their experiences around for years and years, by folklore some were dubbed as The Boogeyman, as their mean source of human feeding had seeming to be children who were awake. The Lurcher instead of consuming his prey raw, prefers to try and cook and enhance the flavour, as his tastebuds were a lot more developed and similar to a humans. If The Lurcher gets desperate for food, he will near enough will revert to his animal like instincts and lose his ability to think straight.

The Lurchers power does not come from being an immortal beast with limitless power, The Lurcher is moral and can be killed by normal means, but to truly stop his species is to make it extinct, there are an unknown amount of Night Crawlers, but due to their ability to adapt and hide, they are not endangered at all.

Abilities

 * Full Body Shapeshifting
 * Dream Manipulation
 * Digital Infection
 * Fast Regeneration
 * Multitasking
 * Highly Intelligent

Weaknesses

 * Mortality
 * Bright lights into his eyes
 * His Ailurophobia
 * Cocky Nature

Trivia

 * The Lurchers age is unknown, but he is multiple decades old, perhaps nearing the 100s.
 * By his species he is likely in early adult stages of his life. (18-20 human years)
 * His species life quality has to be great in order to survive, so to help with this they only reproduce once or twice in their entire lifetimes.
 * The parents of a Night-Crawler leave their child on their own after a few years of raising it, as they must learn to survive on their own.
 * The Lurcher has not has any offspring as of now.
 * On top of this The Lurcher is a lone child to his knowledge.
 * Night-Crawlers are mostly found alone or with a partner, this increases their chances of survival a lot due to them not relying on each other for food.
 * The Lurcher is alone.
 * The Lurcher takes a particular interest in Luigi as a design and character, forming his main look after him when he is not hunting.
 * He uses this form so much that it's practically his base form.
 * The Lurcher is a fantastic cook and loves to test out different foods, raw and cooked.
 * The Lurchers favourite style is Italian food.
 * The Lurchers favourite season is Winter.
 * By extension his favourite holiday is Christmas.
 * The Lurcher sees beauty in the world and can take time out of his night to appreciate the world he lives in.
 * He is naturally a carnivore, but he likes to eat Vegetables with his meals and has no troubles eating it, making him an Omnivore.
 * If he comes in contact with another EXE, he will attempt to be friendly to them to start a form of friendship, he is very social.
 * If the other EXE acts hostile he will respond with hostility.
 * Killing him in a videogame will not kill him in real life, it would just require him to infest the game again to try again.
 * The Lurcher has been harmed and hurt by humans, some near fatal, since then he's been a lot more careful and sneaky.
 * His cape serves a practical use other than fashion, it make's any silhouette and shadow distort his full body, making him appear less humanoid and bigger, making the ones who see it scared of what he truly looks like.
 * Most of his body fluids including his blood appear to be green, but it can change depending on form.
 * The Lurcher has an irrational fear of cats.
 * The reason why is unknown.
 * By his species standards The Lurcher is a freak due to him relying on his intelligence instead of his instincts.
 * The Lurchers believes he is the next step in his kind.
 * The Lurcher is not his real name, but he prefers to be called that.
 * His real name is unknown and is rarely shared.
 * If a Night Crawler lives in an environment that lacks any solid sources of food, under pressure they can resort to cannibalism.
 * Any limbs lost from them can be regrown in a few days, the source does not need to be dead for others to feed.
 * The Lurcher has not eaten any of his kind, he finds it somewhat repulsive and weak.
 * The Lurcher has pretended to be human for a few years of his life to see what it's like to be human.
 * Doing so can be very dangerous if there is another of his kind around.
 * To hide himself, he constantly wears sunglasses, even while in-doors.
 * It has failed and he has been caught, even shot before.
 * He loved his experience and often goes back to try again in different parts of the world.