Crow

Oddity shopkeeper

AGE
38

PRONOUNS
Do not refer to it. If you must, it doesn't care about pronouns, use whatever you'd like.

SPECIES
Djubetos

OCCUPATION
Curio collector

LOCATION
Pandora

BREEDINGS CANON?
Not available for breedings

A well known businessthing on the black market, Crow can commonly be found selling all sorts of odds and ends. It's a fan of mutation items specifically and rotates it's stock frequently to offer a wide variety. Where it acquires it all is a question best left unanswered. It's good at finding things, so if you need a pharmaceutical, weapon, illegal coding sequences, an organ... Crow's your creature... Just present the correct amount of shiny things and it can put the world in your hands.
Crow is also the one who forges microchips and IDs to cover most of the unregistered djubetos in Sanguine Touch. Its work is revered amongst the sketchier circles, as its microchips scan successfully and are nearly undetectable. It's rumored that it has access to the IAB djubetos database but this can neither be confirmed nor denied.
Earn its trust and Crow might invite you into a deeper level of its shop: a collection of mutagen solutions at various dilutions - at a premium price, of course. It's unknown where it gets its hands on these, but it's implied that it harvests, processes and dilutes it itself "straight from the tap".

Crow is not one to talk much. During conversations it would much rather sit, listen, and observe rather than say much itself. According to Zeta, Crow was fully mute when they first met, and it speaking to Zeta when they first encountered each other after a decade of separation was a surprise.
Just because it's quiet doesn't mean it doesn't have interests or personality, however. Crow is best described as eccentric. It navigates life with odd mannerisms and little care for what others think of it, often silently showing up to events like a ghost and going as far as turning and walking away from conversations that don't interest it - mid sentence. It also avoids eye contact at all costs and may become physically aggressive if it's forced on it, hence the mask. Very few individuals have the joy of seeing its bare face.
In terms of things that do interest it, however, it observes the situation with laser focus and may even offer a few sentences of opinion or advice. If Crow is talking beyond the usual business jargon, it means it's enamored with something involved in the conversation. In the end, though, Crow is happy to simply be left alone to do its weird little thing whenever possible.

While it appetite isn't the strongest, Crow isn't picky on food and will eat nearly anything when it does manage to feel hunger. While it subsists mostly on energy jelly and cheap convenient food, it's a big fan of coffee in any form
Shiny things often catch its eye and it avidly collects a variety of interesting curios and knicknacks
It's fond of kobbari and has recently been found to be keeping one as a pet in its room. It's named it Edgar and prefers a hands-off style of petkeeping
Zeta Four, despite being loud and obnoxious, seems to be the only person that Crow potentially likes the company of. It tolerates him surprisingly well and is more likely to talk to Zeta than anyone else
Crow is a big fan of macabre themes and has watched and read nearly every horror movie and book there is. It's particularly fond of werewolves

Alcoholic beverages. It's not a fan of how alcohol makes it feel, and how it makes others around it act
Despises setting foot in Vidi, Vici, Veni. It seems to have an aversion to sexual themes, and a loud nightclub filled with strippers and booze is the last place it wants to be
Scared of etheels, even the mini ones
Eye contact with this individual is not recommended
Fears being the center of attention and if it realizes it's in any sort of spotlight, it will leave
It is not a fan of its wings and periodically clips them so it cannot fly with them. They are heavy, so it struggles to levitate with its tail for long. Occasionally it will cut its wings off entirely, but they always grow back no matter what it does

Spends most of its time working on fake microchips and hunting down oddities for its business
Moderates big time streamer Momo's gild server under the username "Corvidae" but it finds the server members' avid curiosity over it irritating. Why do they want a face and voice reveal so bad??
Occasionally plays horror games on stream with Momo, but keeps its camera off and mic muted
While it dislikes alcohol, it's quite fond of dreamgrass and hallucinogenic feylight mushrooms. Crow loves using acid rain too, but cuts its usage of that one to about once per year to avoid the side effects
Occasionally joins Zeta on the platform above the fight club to watch. It will often request to keep any teeth or body parts that are lost from the combatants
Frequently recatalogues and reorganizes its collection. It collects some weird stuff, guys. Who even needs a two headed human fetus in a jar?? Apparently Crow, because it dropped a shit ton of money on it
Crow is secretly writing a horror novel, but this is for its enjoyment only and it has no plans to publish it or show it to anyone. It dreads the day that Zeta discovers this and asks to see it.

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