Zoe

Zoe is a Zoura, a species that is very fox-like. She has no arms or hands whatsoever (so shouldn’t be referred to as having any unless she’s disguised); what she does have are four legs that she walks on all fours with that each end in retractable claws. Zoe is fairly small in absolute terms but actually fairly large for her species, she stands at around a meter tall while on all fours (which she normally is so she’s functionally that tall most of the time). Zoe has quite large triangular ears like those of a cat but much bigger, and they allow her to hear extremely well and to effectively pinpoint where sounds are coming from, a useful skill out on the streets. Her whole body is covered in fur, with the primary fur color being a very dark grey. Thanks to having this fur coat she doesn’t normally wear clothes. She has a large tuft of fur on the top of her head, with the top third of it having red fur instead of dark grey. Her paws also have red fur instead of dark grey. Her eyelids are red and above her eyes are sections of red fur that work kind of like eyebrows. She also has a thick mane of black fur around her neck and a thick, fluffy tail of black fur. (Zoe does not have breasts in her true form)

Zoe has strong illusion powers, she is able to use them to make others see things that don’t exist, and change how people see things that do exist, including her own appearance. Because her illusions are from manipulating light they also affect video recording devices such as cameras. Normally Zoe’s illusions wouldn’t have any kind of mass as they are just light, however Zoe also has dark magic powers, and she can use these dark magic powers to create “constructs” that she can put her illusions over to give them mass. She can also make these constructs around herself, and doing so and combing them with illusions allow her to take the appearance of those with very different body shapes to her own such as humans, something that would otherwise be impossible because of the shape and size difference, though this only works for things larger than her true form. She also has an incredible amount of control over her voice, though decades of training she has been able to make her voice into many different things, whatever she might need for her purposes.

Zoe is a massive trickster. She loves playing all kinds of tricks and pranks on others all the time. It makes her feel smart and capable, it makes her feel like she’s won, that she has obtained victory over another, proving her intelligence and capabilities by doing so. While sometimes she does her tricks to get something, she just as often does them just to prove she can. And she’s not against speeding a lot of time as set up on her tricks, she’ll easily spend weeks or months setting up and preparing one of her tricks for that moment of victory. When she’s doing her tricks for the love of the game she will reveal herself at the end, gloating over her victory, which she will often do in a mocking way as she feels it emphasizes just how much she won.

Zoe has been basically homeless, she just lives under a building with what belongings she has, while she would never admit it to anyone UNLESS she was really close to them, she does often dream of a better, more stable home.

Zoe has been alone most of her life, she didn’t know her parents well because they did the bare minimum to keep her alive before kicking her out, leaving her to fend for herself from a VERY young age, having spent decades alone she has learned to be fairly self sufficient, having formed a belief that she can only trust herself for her survival, that no one else is going to help her and thus she has to be out for herself.

Zoe likes to be in control, and has an issue with the idea of losing control of a situation, this is rooted in her expectation of her needing to solely look out for herself, even if she moved past that aspect of herself, this desire for control is deeply rooted in her.

Zoe usually tries to distance herself from real relationships, always keeping some kind of barrier between her and others, this is because of her abandonment issues, as she fears someone she actually cares about leaving her, so she thinks if she keeps emotional distance between her and others no one can hurt her by leaving, commonly done through things like just joking around, not letting people see what she’s feeling, and trying to treat everyone as disposable. She tries to treat everyone as disposable not because she believes they are but because she believes that way they can’t hurt her by leaving.

Zoe gets most of her belongings by theft or trickery. She lives in cities but doesn’t have any traditional job. When she was younger she lived off of whatever she could find in garbage cans, but as she got older she started to stop getting things from garbage, but as she had no money (if someone would even sell to a zoura anyway) she had to find other ways to get what she wanted. It’s not uncommon for her to steal things, her illusion powers make it quite easy to do so as she can distract people or hide herself. But what she does more often is some kind of trickery, using illusions to get people to do what she wants willingly, or at least as willingly as can be done with deception, common tactics of hers include changing her appearance to look like someone else, or making it seem like something is happening that isn’t.

Zoe has major loss aversion issues of all kinds, whether it be objects or relationships she has a massive problem with losing things. If she does believe she might lose something she becomes dangerously possessive of that thing, as she refuses to lose it/them, doing anything in her power to not lose it, even if it requires her to get aggressive.