Templeton (Vergi) Ashlock

Templeton Elias Ashlock Preferred name: Vergil 🧬 Species Mysticarian (opossum-coded) 🎭 Identity

• Genderfluid (he/him)
• Bisexual, polyamorous 🎂 Age Late teens / early twenties 🧠 Traits
• Prehensile tail reflects mood: curls when anxious, goes still when dissociating
• “Plays dead” under stress—lays motionless, eyes open
• Sleeps in a new spot each night: floor, tub, rooftop, blanket fort
• Can smell emotions metaphorically (“you feel copper today”)
• Dreams in unfamiliar voices or unknown dialects
• Avoids eye contact when emotionally exposed
• Writes poetry on trash and receipts
• Hangs upside down to reboot his thoughts 🎸 Appearance
• Tall, lanky with a punk opossum silhouette
• Blue mohawk (sometimes dyed with leftover energy drink)
• Black painted claws, chipped and expressive
• Fishnet shirt, chain belt, bandaged hands, worn denim
• Tail: long, twitchy, often wrapped around limbs or furniture
• Pierced ears, smudged eyeliner, bruises from chaos or catharsis 🧷 Habits & Quirks
• Apologizes for small things, never for deep emotional transgressions
• Talks to objects—names his boots and hoodie like they’re friends
• Vapes loud fruit flavors, keeps weed gummies in his boot lining
• Paints claws to show emotional state (black = numb, red = fight, silver = flirt)
• Pocket hoarder: bottle caps, feathers, lost teeth, mysterious lint 👪 Family
• Bio Mom: [[Lira Ashlock]] (Mysticarian—quiet, reality-bending)
• Other Mom: [[Marla Ashlock]] (harpy—fierce, loyal, gave him the surname "Ashlock")
• Name Origin:
  • “Templeton” is his birth name, relic of parental compromise and early myth
  • “Elias” has never been explained—he refuses to ask
  • “Ashlock” was chosen by his moms as a statement: ashes of the past, locked from the [[Shamus Clan]] 💕 Throuple
• 🦝 Ziggy Stardust: Raccoon-coded Mysticarian, chaotic scrawny gremlin with pink-striped hair and a big fluffy tail
• 👽 Robin Upton: Tall goth human stoner, neon green hair with black roots, white irises, star shades, emotional glue of the group
• 🖤 Together: They are noise and nurture, smoke and sparkle, claw marks and tenderness 🧨 Backstory Templeton Elias Ashlock was born strange. He clawed his way through childhood under the gaze of the Shamus, on the edge of their holler but never embraced. He rejected his full name publicly, but never legally—because rebellion is sweeter when you do it with full knowledge of the paperwork. He doesn’t want to unify worlds. He wants to be feral, loved, and left alone when he chooses. Narcoleptic type 1, intense sense of affection, surprise, or fear trigger cataplexy