Hi again. Have a question.

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It's been a long time since we've posted, as Alexander was being nearly impossible to control (and he is not the nicest person in the world). I'd be very surprised if the people who were here then have forgotten us, for that reason. And we're all sorry. We've come back because Alex has calmed down significantly, preferring to vent internally or in the form of humor writing.

Anyway, we might have posted sooner if we'd had anything to say. But we didn't. And now we do.

In the time since we last posted, we found one last system member. This member, by hiding from us and getting defensive when we got too near his hiding place, caused us to spontaneously develop some odd phobias - fear of the dark, fear of strangers, paranoia - that we hadn't had before. Until that point, I'd never been afraid of the dark, even as a child. Quite the opposite. Anyway, all that's settled now. Pi has been acclimated to the group, and we're all good friends now.

Now, Pi is a shapeshifter and does not appear to have a true form. But there is a form that he prefers to take so often that it may as well be his true form. And none of us - even he - has no idea what that form IS. So we were hoping that you could help us identify it.

Here are its traits:

• Humanoid
• Green, smooth skin (like The Hulk)
• Orange eyes like a cat's eyes
• Sharp, pointed teeth (but NOT needle-like)
• Normal humanoid nose
• Short hair
• Retractable claws on his fingers
• Non-retractable, short claws on his toes
• VERY fit, has six-pack abs
• Slender, though.
• Taller than me, maybe 6 feet tall
• Arms are strong with *faintly* defined muscles
• Legs same way as arms
• Broad chest and shoulders
• Has incredibly distinctive ears. They are long and narrow, and can move around in any direction. There's a little fur in them, as well, like a cat might have. I'd guess these ears to be about 10 or 11 inches long at least, maybe even a foot long. He prefers to have them facing backwards at a slight downward angle. The ears are rounded off. It's like they are narrow ovals attached to his head, and they attach at some unseen place under his hair, an inch above and a centimeter forward from where my ears really are. Furless. The attachment point reminds me of Shrek's ears, only wider; but the attachment, the hairlessness, and the green color are where the similarities end. Also, the ears are attached at an angle, I think. They stick out of his hair at an angle, anyway.
• Brown hair on top of head and on eyebrows only. No other hair anywhere else on that form's body
• NO tail
• NO wings
• NO scales
• Normal humanoid tongue

I have tried drawing him before, and it never looks right. I always get the face and the ears wrong. He looks like a slender, much less muscled Hulk (more like The Series version of the Hulk than the comic version), but with brown hair, catlike eyes, claws, sharp teeth, and of course those potently distinctive ears. Molly thinks it's a very handsome form, which is probably why he likes it so much. He's taken a fancy to her.

But I still can't figure out, after all these months, if that form is something real or something he made up. After all, he can become anything he imagines himself to be, and it wouldn't be the first time he'd become some sort of amalgamation.

Any ideas on what this form might be would be greatly appreciated.

We did NOTHING!

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We had a horrible day... It was so hard to not loose every ounce of stability we have created over the past 10 years.  How do you come to the place where you are no longer responsible for those after you who were hurt because you did NOTHING?  How do you forgive yourself when you are haunted with the torment of potential victims? 

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