Meet Yume (They/He/Any)! They're a shape shifting fox spirit that used to live in the remote mountain regions outside Salt City. I love them
More info about them under the cut!
Personality wise, Yume is generally warm hearted but very mischievous. They enjoy being around Reigen because it's endlessly entertaining to them how much people like him when he's obviously such a liar. They really like Mob too, due to his gullible nature and his pure heart. They're not a fan of Ekubo however, he's too genuinely mean and they're not a fan of how he talks about Mob sometimes.
Yume's favorite forms include a 14yr old that hangs out around Mob's school, a ~30yr old office worker who tags along with Reigen on occasion, and a scraggly long legged fox. They've been around for ~120 years, but they're fairly anti-social, having been mostly in the company of animals. That said, in human form they tend to have the psychology of a mid to late 20's person, though with not that much social experience. They tend to be a bit physically standoffish and they laugh too loudly at jokes. They love puns especially.
They have some spiritual powers, though they mostly extend to themselves. They can shape shift and they have very mild "brainwashing" powers. When in human form, they can influence the minds around them to accept that strangers have known them for a while with minimal prompting.
This helps them blend in with crowds and they use this power to occasionally take classes with Mob to learn whatever is interesting to them, particularly music, math and history. Instead of a stranger, people will fill in the blanks of who they are and accept them as having "always" been there.
They can't do something as complicated as integrate themselves into a family fully- like they can't make a family believe they're related by blood- but they could convince a family they've been friend for a while. The more complicated the history, the harder it is to maintain.
They meet Reigen and Mob when they get called out to a logging site where their equipment keeps malfunctioning due to an alleged haunting. At the site they meet a high schooler who is recording themselves exploring the "haunted" site, though they don't seem to really know how to work the camera.
Eventually Mob, who can tell there is definitely a spiritual presence at the site, leads them to a small shrine that seems to have been abandoned for some time. Mob senses a lot of very sad energy and surmises that the spirit is sad their forest is being destroyed.
Reigen suggests a small ritual to cleanse the shrine, and he and Mob take the small fox statue out of the shrine to make sure it's not destroyed. On their way out they find the camera left behind by the supposed teen. The footage the teen shot earlier of them turns out to only show Mob and Reigen... as obviously the teen was the fox spirit.
Yume eventually shows up at Reigen's office as that's where their statue now resides, and they provide hijinx by both enabling Reigen and messing with him and Mob through the show. I would guess that their "growth/change" moment would end up at a particular prank from Yume being especially mean spirited, and when pressed about it they just say "Well, it's in my nature. That's just how I am." which is challenged by Mob. After they take on a more protective role over Salt City, watching over the citizens and protecting them from mishaps.
Commission thru my website for a pokemon DnD game, thank you!!
[Image ID: Six pokemon on a light green background with a white border. From left to right, the top row of pokemon are floating above the bottom row and are a Fire/Ghost type phantump with a small flame on its head. The log on its head is white and charred. Next to it is a dark/psychic type Abra, with a red chestplate and shoulder plates, with shadowy whisps coming off the extremities. Last in the top row is a shiny dreepy. On the bottom row from left to right is a Steel/Electric type Whismur, whose body appears made of metal, a psychic/water type poliwag with no eyes and a golden aura, and a super, super fluffy swinub. End id.]
[Image ID: Three pokemon on a dark grey background with stylized flames. They stand in front of their trainer, who is tall, white, and wearing a leather biker outfit with red shoulders. He has light blue hair in a fohawk. The pokemon from left to right are a dragon type Plusle, with light purple belly scales and darker purple ears, a litleo with a burn scar on its left cheek, and a darumaka that is half fire-half-ice type. End image ID.]
Day 7 of this journey and here are more neopets! I’m really happy with how Faerie turned out, I’ve always wanted to have a faerie paint brush but I never had the neopoints for one hahahaha
Standard - Faerie - Halloween - Christmas
Descriptions under the cut :D
[Image ID: There are 4 images. All images depict depict a cartoony cat with a large, gloopy tail that appears to be made of paint. On the shoulder and the haunch are more paint splotches. The cat has little circles for eyebrows, and two streaks under the eyes. The cat is floating and is smiling at the viewer. Each image shows the cat in different colors, as if they’ve been painted with a Paint Brush from Neopets. Each cat is on a light blue background.
Standard - The first cat has all light pink fur with red ears. The inside of the ears, the eyes, the nose, and the inside of the mouth are neon green. The tail, face markings and fur markings are red.
Faerie - This cat is in a different pose. It is still floating but it is upright. It has a pair of wings like a lunar moth. The fur is light purple. The tips of the fur are darker purple. The tail is furry instead of goopy. On its haunch and shoulder are circular markings, the top 1/3 is dark grey and the rest is pale yellow. The eyes are dark purple. It has purple speckles under the eyes. It also has a pair of pale yellow antennae like a moth's.
Halloween - This cat has light pink fur with red markings. The eyes are half closed. The upped lid has dark red makeup. The tail and ears are red. The cat is wearing a dark red-brown shoulder cape and witches hat. It is also wearing elbow and knee high socks of the same color. There are spider webs on the shoulders, and a red spider on the haunches. The paw pads, inside of the ears, eyes, nose and mouth are neon green.
Christmas - This cat has light blue fur. It has a large orange bow on its chest that wraps around its neck and stomach. It has knee and elbow high white socks that end in ruffles. There are bustles of blue bells on its shoulder and haunch. The tail, paw pads, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose and mouth are blue. There are white speckles under the eyes. /End Image ID]