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[replicai]

WHO. He remembers washing ashore at night, when there wasn't anyone around to care. He wore a business suit, stripped of his shoes and tie. His hair and beard were groomed, sadly ruined by the saltwater, and his hands felt smooth. He walked around aimlessly, slept by the road, and was picked up by a charitable soul who mistook him for a drunk. He didn't put his life together, but he put a life together, adopting a temporary name until someone managed to track down anyone who knew his real one. The temporary name has been employed for a few years now, and no such person has been found. Not too late into his rescue, his caretaker witnessed Reza's future secret. It left him stripped of all but bone and an unsolvable mystery on the authorities' hands. Reza can't say it terrified him, he's not sure it was even that gruesome, but he figured no one would like to hear about how he'd done it. The truth is that he was quite helpless about it, and has been ever since. He's just a little more careful now, is all. WHAT. Whatever Reza is, it seems to change its mind frequently. He's an inadvertent shapeshifter, changing into no one, but many things, none of them specific. Sometimes they're bug-like, sometimes parts of his body grow into plants, and sometimes they evoke marine life. They're more likely to happen all at once than one at a time, starting nowhere in particular. He's never allowed the change to go all the way, seeing as it showed him the antidote immediately: the consumption of a mammal, human or otherwise, down to the bone. His body doesn't eat through any natural means, so. Don't ever ask to watch. Even when he's 'cured', a miscalculation in feeding/trying to feed may backfire — he grows an extra finger, an eye suddenly pops open on the back of his hand, the works. It's all very inconvenient, but nothing he hasn't been able to reverse. So far.