Huu Benjiski - profile revision

[Kitty O'Brien]

Name: Huu (it's pronounced "who") Benjiski
Age: 22
Gender: M
Species: Tanuki

Affiliation: None
Alignment: Neutral

Appearance: In his neutral form, Huu is slightly taller than Sonic. He has blue eyes and a devious smile. His primary fur color is a dark brown, and he has the same black markings on his face and chest that you'd expect to see on a raccoon, as well as black stripes running all the way down his tail. His hands and feet are also black, and his arms and legs are long and thin. He doesn't wear anything other than a red bandanna, as well as a pendant that looks like a brown leaf.
When Huu transforms, he is virtually indistinguishable from his subject, accessories and all. (Note that in this version of his profile, his voice no longer stays the same from form to form, and I removed the "a shade darker" bit as well.)

Personality: Huu is both a thief and a prankster. There's nothing he likes better than to make other people suffer; even when he's not performing a heist, his favorite pastime is ruining the lives of random people. He's just as willing to work with an accomplice than by himself, but there's nothing he hates more than having a heist ruined because of a lousy accomplice. He's also stubborn; once he sets his mind on a goal, you'll have a hard time changing it.
Interestingly enough, when he remains in a transformed state for extended periods of time, his personality changes slightly to match his subject's; for example, under Cream's skin, he loosens up and becomes a bit more friendly.

Family: Father in prison, mother deceased. No other living relatives. Single, doesn't have time to date.

Transport: Huu doesn't have a vehicle of his own; if he needs to travel a long distance, he'll swipe someone else's.

Weapons: Huu has no weapons of his own, but he's very good at improvising with whatever he can find. Almost anything can be used as a weapon if you know how.

Biography: Huu was born into a relatively poor family that lived just outside Radical City. Huu's father often resorted to thievery to acquire the assets necessary to keep the family afloat, as otherwise the bills were unpayable. In fact, Dad was a master thief, as was his father, and his father's father, and so on for several generations.
Soon Huu learned the basics of thievery from his father, who then took him along for difficult jobs. Their first heist together was targeted at the city museum, from which they stole an expensive pendant with a jewel shaped like a brown leaf. Huu's dad gifted this pendant to him as a sign of their bond, though he didn't say why he'd chosen this relic in particular.
Their life together was fine until Huu was a teenager, when the police finally got a legal warrant for his dad's arrest. When the police stormed the house, Huu's father was arrested and his mother was shot and killed trying to protect him. Huu himself was outside at the time, and the police missed him.
Now orphaned and on the lam, Huu fled his former residence and hid in the city. He'd barely been in hiding a week when he ran into a tough thug who demanded that Huu hand over his valuables. They quickly got into a fistfight, which was about to end badly as the thug had Huu in a headlock. Huu struggled but to no avail, when suddenly his body shifted and he became the thug's spitting image. The original thug, caught by surprise, was stunned just long enough for Huu to flee.
(The reason Huu's pendant had not acted up until that day was because he hadn't decided to wear it until after he lost his parents; until then, he just carried it in his pocket.)
Huu astounded himself with the new ability his pendant had given him. Anxious to know just what had happened and how, he checked some newspapers, and found an article about when he and his father had stolen it. The details revealed in the article made his jaw drop: Huu's great-grandfather, Arashi Benjiski, had been a mage as well as a thief, and he had created the pendant to improve his own ability to steal and hide. When the police finally apprehended Arashi, they confiscated the pendant and eventually put it on display at the museum.
Throughout the next several days, Huu practiced this new ability, which was a great boon to his stealth. This, he knew, would help him live up to the Benjiski family name.
As our story begins, he has just fled to Station Square.

Moves/Combat:
Mirror: (This ability has undergone a drastic change since the previous version of the profile, so pay attention!)
Huu's pendant gives him the ability to transform himself into an exact replica of any person he encounters. Even his voice changes to match the subject's. In order to copy someone, Huu must first touch and remain in constant physical contact with his subject for about 5-10 seconds (one full cycle of posts in RP time). It takes him another 5-10 seconds to transform. The length of time for which a subject can be "remembered" is indefinite, as is the length of time he can stay transformed. This is an excellent ability for stealth missions.
(Fallacy: When in the middle of transforming, Huu is an open target, and will be forced to cancel it if struck. He will also be forced to revert to his neutral state if he's severely injured or knocked out. He can only "remember" up to three subjects at a time; if he takes a fourth he'll lose the first, and he can't go from one straight to another without first returning to his neutral form. Also, he does not gain the more specialized abilities of his subjects; for example, he can forget about running at super-speed even if he copies Sonic successfully.)

Skills:
General thievery: Huu is moderately skilled with such basic thievery skills as picking basic locks, scaling rough walls, and hot-wiring vehicles.

Acting: Huu is a very good actor, and can play almost any persona convincingly. The ability to act is a must when your skill revolves around copying someone else's face.

Strengths and weaknesses:
+Huu's Mirror ability improves his stealth quite a bit
+His training as a thief is a great boon to his agility
-Huu is relatively weak in combat
-He doesn't gain his subjects' special abilities when he copies them

((Huu's abilities are now oriented much more towards stealth and much less towards combat. Apparently copying the abilities of others just doesn't fly around here, or maybe I just wasn't doing it right. Nevertheless I don't think I'll be able to try another, as my character roster is still full and I can't think of any character I can spare.))

[Yolanda Riona]

Approved by Nok and Jodie.