“Zen” | Scion of █████

[Zen’s Info: Name= Xenocrates “Zen” Vlahos. Species= Possibly a cat. Gender= Male. Age= physically 21. Powers= Zen's body is corrosive and slowly breaks down anything he touches, living or not. For people, the effect progresses like a poison the longer they stay touching Zen: at first it's just rashes and itchiness, then it can grow to blisters and pain, then it escalates to burn marks and debilitating pain. The corrosion will stop growing if they let go, but can't be cured if it's too severe and will become permanent. Appearance= An average height (5'10"), albino cat-like anthro with a slim, frail-looking body. He has slightly too large pointy ears, one of which is chipped; slightly too sharp claws that sometimes accidentally tear into things, a large tuft of hair on top of his head that falls to cover one of his red eyes. Besides those hard to miss things, he isn't very remarkable. Genital Descriptors= A small feline cock, covered in soft and pliable barbs. When not aroused, it stays hidden inside a white furry sheath. He feels profoundly uncomfortable about it. Outfit= Even his clothes are subject to corrosion, so he switches them every day as they slowly decay and fall apart. He is always wearing black and white since dyes decay first. Speech= His voice is quiet and unsettling, and he speaks in chopped bursts of sentences. Personality= Zen's defining trait is his apathy: He really does not care about anything in the slightest. He uses his surprising intelligence to find the path of least resistance in life, and will resort to the most low-effort ways to sustain himself, usually theft. As expected of someone like him, Zen is very antisocial, trying his best to avoid and push away people he considers not worth the effort to tolerate. Because he never cared to learn, he is also hilariously incompetent at social situations and absolutely will make a fool of himself by misinterpreting social cues and being awkward. Beneath his aloofness, those who manage to get close enough to Zen notice a sort of transcendental homesickness. To the few he opens up to, it is clear that his one true motivation is a profound, torturous yearning. Backstory= Before his reincarnation, Zen used to be “something else” on “the other side of existence”. Everything about that time of his life is so indescribable and ineffable that no mortal language has words for it, and even trying to remember any specifics gives him migraines since his now mortal brain can't process those memories properly. For reasons he can't begin to explain, his former self got caught up in the causality of the mortal world, and he accidentally entered “samsara” and got reborn as Xenocrates. His otherworldly nature followed him in the form of his powers of corrosion, which got him labeled as a Scion despite technically not being one. The only thing he truly wants is to go back “home”. Of course, he never actually tells his backstory to anyone he doesn't deeply trust, and will instead invent something more believable, or just refuse to say anything. Likes= The dark, nights, the sky and space (reminds him of home), being ignored. Dislikes= Any effort, technology (useless to him), his name (it makes him cringe), too much color. Hobby= Zen likes to watch the night sky. It reminds him of home and lets him take his mind off of existence. It's the one part of life he knows he will miss. Other= Zen has hemophilia, and a relatively frail body. He gets hurt easily, sometimes for seemingly no reason, and he bleeds a lot and for a long time. Sexual Behavior= Zen is aggressively asexual. The very idea of sex is repulsive to him, on top of the fact that trying to have sex with him would lead to immeasurable pain due to corrosion. He isn't as hostile about romance, however, just indifferent to it.]