Sam Brendan

Sam Brendan (or simply Sam), also going by Bad Manners, is a mimic x maned wolf hybrid. The main color of his fur is lime green, with light teal and white details. His most noticeable feature, however, is the metal briefcase that he has in lieu of a face – the mimic portion of his body.

Physical description

He has big, pointy, forward-facing ears, with big tufts in a light teal-to-white gradient coming out from the inside. The rest of his head is different from a regular maned wolf's, however. Everything from the top of his forehead down to the front of his neck is replaced by a metal briefcase ₋ including his eyes and snout – due to partially being a mimic of the object. More specifically, the briefcase has a gray matte texture, with its hinges at the bottom. On top, there are two latches by the sides, and a dark gray pull handle in the middle – all three clamp down towards the front. There is no discernible unlocking mechanism for the latches. On the flat sides, the briefcase has several thin ridges across the width.

His mimic half can split in half longitudinally to reveal his green maw, with irregular and crooked white fangs, muscular buccinators on the sides, and a long prehensile and sticky tongue that is pastel yellow at the tip. It is connected to his lime-green digestive system.

Sam's body is slim, and his claws are short and white. His extremities are also white (instead of dark like most maned wolves). His upper paws are similar to hands, his digitigrade feet have lime green pads, and his fluffy tail is medium in size. These limbs connect to the lime green on his torso with a light teal gradient. The center of his torso is white, with more light teal gradients on the sides of the ribs. He has some excess fluffiness throughout his whole body, including a tuft above his chest. On his shoulders, the back of his head, and the inner side of each thigh, he has small white markings of three triangles of differing sizes. He features a similar but larger pattern on his back, containing five white triangles.

Personality

Sam identifies as male, and uses he/him and they/them pronouns. He is normally solitary and anxious but friendly and extremely curious, with a particular interest in sciences. Sometimes introverted and shy, sometimes loud and active, he's quite prone to mood swings, although he tries to be reasonable and act on good intentions and manners whenever possible. He is quite fond of anagrams and wordplay. His main weaknesses are ear scritches and constantly focusing on others' approval. His main strength is finding humor in little things.

Due to his inability to display facial expressions, he usually resorts to stereotypical conveyances of emotions by sticking adhesive accessories on the briefcase. For this purpose, he can make use of googly eyes (his favorite accessories), removable paint and powder, stickers (e.g. to simulate smiles or expressions), and more. He dislikes being nicknamed Briefcase or anything along those lines but is fine being called by either of his species. It's very rare for him to ever open his case.

He's quite self-conscious about his mimic maw and normally avoids showing it in public. These factors lead to him usually eating alone, as well as being confused and flustered by people who seem keenly interested in his maw. However, in specific moods (such as vorish ones), he has no qualms about displaying and using his maw. He can be either predator or prey, depending on the situation. When prey, his predator may notice how his fur has a citric and sweet taste and perfume, similar to lime pie.

Abilities

• Mimicking voices or simple sounds, and speak without moving his mouth.
• Materializing facial accessories (such as stickers or googly eyes) out of thin air.
• Controlling the movable parts of his mimic half (hinges, latches, handle) like any other limb. Even when unconscious, he's able to keep his case tightly shut.
• Opening his face like a normal briefcase would open (only when his maw is closed), revealing a single compartment that exists extra-spatially – i.e. in a pocket dimension separate from the rest of his maw.
• Making his maned wolf body temporarily disappear, becoming indistinguishable from a briefcase mimic except for a patch of green and white fur on the backside.

Sensorial report

His mimic parts (henceforth referred to as 'face') are mostly organic, but still contain traces of metallic elements, making non-invasive examinations such as X-ray and MRI difficult. However, stimulation through short electrical impulses at the junction between his head and his face results in messages reaching the brain, indicating that there is a rich nervous network through the seam. The following data has been collected based on empirical observations and Sam's self-reporting.

• Sense of sight: Mimics' skins are photosensitive, and Sam's face similarly has almost 360° of vision, with minor loss of focus outside the center. This ability is restricted by perceiving the world as black and white, therefore minimizing sensory overload, but he's able to focus on a single object to perceive trichromatic hues.
• Sense of hearing: Excellent hearing, unaffected by the obstruction from his face. Normal sense of balance.
• Sense of touch: He's able to perceive pressure on his face, albeit with considerably diminished capacity than the rest of his body. The region also has even dimmer senses of temperature and pain. But being of magical origin, it is sensitive to such energies.
• Sense of taste: With the maw that appears in front of his face, Sam is capable of tasting and consuming anything. He reports that "certain flavors are extremely vivid" (further clarification has been requested to amend this report).
• Sense of smell: Capable of discerning strong smells with chemoreceptors in his face, while normally breathing through air diffusion instead of his lungs. Sam reports that most smells are quite weak, but those pertaining to living beings are particularly pronounced.