This is an original character I've had in my brain folders for over a year. But this is really the first time I've actually fully drawn him out.
I don't fully have his backstory written out yet, but here's some facts about him anyway.

- He is, in a way, 50% rock. (No, I'm not going to elaborate further right now)

- He's got this giant scorpion-esque tail that he can use to suck people up and absorb them.

- He doesn’t need to eat, drink, or even breathe to survive, but he still does so out of habit.

- He wasn’t born with these abilities. Rather, he obtained them in an event. (Which I haven’t fully planned out yet.)

- He likes to present himself as a suave, mysterious, and all-knowing figure, but in reality, he's a bit of a coward with sub-par social skills. (That is unless he has absorbed someone)

Some rules for his absorption ability:
- When he absorbs someone, he gains their memories, intelligence, strength, some of their appearance and characteristic traits.

- He can, likewise, eject people he has absorbed through his tail, after which he will return to his original form.

- While someone is absorbed, they enter into a dream like state. This causes them to not fully process the passing of time.

- He can maintain the merge for as long as he likes. But the longer he has someone absorbed, the more he gains their personality and thereby loses control. So, he prefers to only stay merged for a max of 1-2 days.

- He can technically absorb multiple people, but this comes with some adverse side-effects, so he tries to avoid it.

- Absorption is kind of an addiction for him. If he hasn't been merged with someone for a while, he will start to crave it.

- He also has the ability to inject other people with the person that he has absorbed, causing the injected to absorb them. This absorption follows many of the same rules but does have disadvantages from the person not being as used to being merged with other people as he is. Furthermore, only he can split them apart again. By poking them, and sucking the injected person back out. Altogether, he doesn’t really like using this ability unless he has to.