SLICK

Slick is a sentient mass of tar, roughly 200kg in weight (enough to fill a steel drum 5/8ths of the way). He can deform and shape his mass by his own will, and prefers to embody the shape of a 6 foot tall and wiry human male, with the anthropomorphic features of a wolf. Slick wears a fedora and a typical business suit, his coat is unbuttoned and he doesn’t wear a shirt underneath as he likes to show off his upper body. Footwear generally doesn’t fit his footpaws. He really likes materials like latex or vinyl for his clothing because they match the black color and texture of his mass closely, so he doesn’t need to focus his energy into maintaining it. Slick is capable of ensconcing people, the act of pouring excess mass onto another person’s body and taking control of it once he’s covered sufficient surface area. The person underneath the rubbery material will remain conscious usually only for a few minutes, gradually succumbing to Slick’s will until they are nothing but bodies to carry it out. In this way, Slick has gathered a small army similar in structure to a mafia, with himself as the leader. His alignment is lawful evil, he won’t ensconce anyone for no reason but he never lets go of anyone who’s wronged him. Slick tends to his prisoner-soldiers as best he can, he views them as extensions of himself and calls them his dogs. He puts a lot of care into remolding a person’s body for his purposes, akin to sculpting. He’s named each one of them based on a pun having to do with tar or the method he used to ensconce them, including but not limited to Sticky, Stain, Smudge, Sink, Mud, Oil, Hosedown, etc. His dogs inherit smaller scale versions of Slick’s ability as well as take on a similar appearance to him, regardless of gender. Slick and his gang have remained mostly unbothered by the authorities, as it isn’t possible to physically injure him nor is it possible to resist the threat of being ensconced. He has a very subtle influence over the city he resides in, if he finds a disliking toward anybody in particular his dogs will kidnap them and bring them to Slick, or he’ll get over there to do it himself. Slick likes to belittle more dominant people, they make his process take a bit longer and they typically end up one of the more capable dogs in the aftermath. Every now and then Slick will choose to have sex with his favorite soldier (or soldiers), taking full advantage of his own shapeshifting and granting the victim small moments of autonomy and will to see how they would react.