Member
HylianRoseClay McCog
Written Appearance
Clay is of average height and weight for his age, clocking in at five feet tall and weight just over a hundred pounds. He doesn't generally care much about his appearance, and so has a closet full of pretty much identical clothing. Whitish-pink shirts of both short and long sleeve varieties, and yellow sports shorts (he never wears long pants, even when it's cold). The only variation to this is his black tuxedo for very special occasions. His large, brown eyes are generally squinted in a look of suspicion, and his short fox tail always moves back and forth in jerky movements, even when the rest of him is perfectly still.
General Information
Race: Kitsune
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Archetype: Kirby
Store Position: Inventory Associate
Backstory
Clay was born without the ability to speak, or more specifically, without functioning vocal cords. With relationships being built mostly on communication between both parties, this was tough on him. Not many were willing to take the time to try to understand his charades-like way of speech on a regular basis, so he never became close friends with anyone. Instead, he spent his time following his older brother, Lyle, around. At first he was a bit of a nuisance, but he eventually learned enough by paying attention to assist with his brother's projects.
Once Lyle began working at the Lakewood Plaza Hero Supply Store, Clay began to hang out there after school. However, he wasn't the only one to hang around near the Hero Supply Store without actually working. This is how he met his rival, Mutt. She was a strategic prodigy when it came to games. Especially ones such as fetch or hide and seek. Even when he completely enclosed himself somewhere and stayed entirely quiet, she'd find him. Her senses were like that of a bloodhound. Clay vowed that one day, he'd find a hiding place somewhere in Lakewood Plaza where even she couldn't find him.
After a couple weeks of hanging around the store, Mr. Gar, not being a fan of people dwaddling around and doing nothing, began telling him to do things such as restock shelves, or count up inventory. Not one to disobey someone as mighty and powerful as Mr. Gar (he could probably squash Clay with his pinky toe), Clay became an employee of the Hero Supply Store.
Personality
Clay is a loner, at first by circumstance, but then by choice. Not wanting to feel the pain of being pushed aside again, he's become suspicious of others and doesn't put much effort into becoming friends with anyone. However, he's a very good listener (he's had a lot of practice), and people seem to enjoy telling him things. It supposedly relaxes them. Because of this, he knows a lot of things about a lot of people.
When coming across problems of his own, Clay doesn't like confronting them head on. He prefers to play intelligently, setting up every advantage he can against the threat like a game of chess. What he does may count as cheating to some, but when it comes to war, there is no law.
Abilities
Clay can swallow any object whole, even things larger than himself, by shrinking them down as he sucks them in. When he does this, he stores the objects in an alternate dimensional storage stomach rather than digesting them. He can cough these objects back up at any time, returning them to their usual size as good as new. He has obtained quite the collection of various objects over the years, from an uncountable amount of pennies to an entire house (the city was gonna demolish it to make room for the new supermarket, so he thought he'd do them a favor), and he's always looking to expand his collection even further.
Relationships
Lyle
Lyle is Clay's older brother. Clay looks up to him and likes to work as his assistant,
though might be sometimes seen as a bit of a nuisance.
Kokuro
Kokuro is Clay's older sister. They're not close, but not on bad terms, either.
Their relationship can only really be described as tolerant or neutral.
Mutt
Mutt is Clay's rival. She lives in the alleyways of Lakewood Plaza.
Other
The way I plan on having Clay communicate as a mute is by describing what actions he does in hopes of communicating, accompanied by a numberlike this. Then at the bottom of the post, I'll have the number again, along with what he was trying to say in dialogue form. This'll allow for those who don't really want to care about decoding his charades to just understand him fully, but it'd still be open so that fun miscommunication hyjinks can occur.