… eventually revealing themself to be a dark-skinned elf, pointed features framed by a mass of deep brown curls, dressed monochromatically in a sleeveless tunic, simple skirt, and knee-high boots. The only hint of colour was a bright red swatch of fabric tied around the top of their crooked purple staff.
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…even as he spoke his face began to change. And not in the way a face usually changes, brow furrowing and the corners of the mouth dipping into a frown. Instead, or perhaps as well, his nose and chin became sharper, more severe; his dark skin fading and shifting into an icy blue; curls dropping and lengthening until his hair fell to his waist, now pin straight and perfectly white. Unaware, or perhaps uncaring, of the change, he pinned them with cloudy grey eyes that had previously been an earthy brown.
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His appearance began to change again, grey eyes turning golden as his skin shifted to a mid-brown dotted with a flurry of freckles; long hair shrinking into his scalp until a fiery-hued mohawk sat atop a much rounder face than before.
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His appearance had shifted yet again to someone unfamiliar; his hair, now black as a raven feather, let flat against his forehead, just long enough to drift when he blinked. His dark skin had faded to a dull grey whilst his eyes, downcast as they were, had turned a green so pale they were almost white. His features had sharpened, but there was something uneven about his new face, as if one side were struggling to catch up to the other.
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Writing a shapeshifting character is fun, but you know what isn’t fun? Keeping track of what they look like in each scene. So here’s a reference post, for myself, in an attempt to remember what Teek actually looks like.