AME: Merril Himura

ALIAS: Portal

MUTATION (POWERS): Merril’s body is a shell that contains a portal to another dimension. In that dimension, small impish creatures exist by the millions in a sunless void. They are chirping, childish beings, completely loyal to Merril’s will. Encountering a few of these beings is not dangerous, but a small swarm can quickly become deadly in a flurry of claws and teeth. They are largely comprised of dark energy and are therefore very difficult to fend off.

These beings can be seen crawling behind his transparent corneas and sometimes peaking out of his throat. They can’t enter our world unless Merril extends the portal inside of him. It transforms a radius around him into this purplish Alterworld. The longer an outsider exists in the Alterworld, the weaker and more disoriented they grow.

Merril is both powerful and vulnerable in the Alterworld. He becomes ethereal, elusive, and quick. However if he is hit, he is incredibly weak. He will easily become injured and the Alterworld will recede. With the endless impish swarm, getting a whack at him is difficult.

From the outside, the Alterworld is an impenetrable orb. Not even powers like telepathy can get inside.

AGE: 15

DESCRIPTION OF BODY (BUILD, HEIGHT, UNIQUE FEATURES, ETC.): Merril is the son of a Japanese American couple. He is very meek, small featured and looks much younger than he actually is. His high voice, excitable personality and wide, shifting purple eyes don’t help with the matter. Merril has a small pointy nose, a square-ish face and a tiny mouth that becomes oddly wide when he grins.

Merril’s body is oddly shell like. As the portal grew inside him, his skin and hair bleached out into an alabaster white. It is slightly transparent and vague shifting can be seen underneath, even tiny handprints at times. When he extends the portal, his skin seems to break into jagged pieces, like a broken hollow statue, and falls in as the portal shoots out. He then reappears, though in a rather ethereal manner.

HAIR COLOR AND STYLE: Merril has very fluffy white hair that is pageboy length.

EYE COLOR: He’s got tons of purple, swirling energy beings behind his eyes so no corneas, irises or pupils.

RELATIVES: Mom, dad, little brother.

ETHNICITY: Merril is Japanese.

HISTORY: Merril was born a healthy, happy little boy. Everything about him was normal, even his peculiar imaginary friends who he claimed lived in his eyes. His parents would find him in the hall at night, laughing in front of their full-length mirror. It wasn’t until his mother saw one of his friends smiling at her through his left eye that his parents started to take him seriously. They decided to hide his mutation, which was… difficult. It was clear he was changing. Not only that, he was a small troublesome boy and he didn’t understand the issue. His parent’s anxiety weighed heavily on him and when his perfectly normal baby brother was born he felt neglected. Merril ran away into the nearby woods where he would have died had he not discovered how to extend the portal inside of him. Within the portal, things like food and water were unnecessary. He could play with his friends and be free. Still, he would miss his family and spy on them, sometimes sneaking in for a snack. Eventually his parents would leave food out for him, but the most they ever saw was a fleeting white face in the shadows. This went on for a year until a burglar invaded their property. Merril enveloped the criminal in his portal, gave him a good thrashing and let him run away screaming. This gave his parents enough time to reason with their child. Merril agreed to live with them at the house and receive home schooling as long as he could disappear into the woods to play. After that, Merril had a very happy childhood, playing with his imps and his younger brother. Considering everything, he turned out rather well adjusted.

ANY SERIOUS PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITIONS: Not really. He’s silly?

HOBBIES: Merril enjoys card games and board games of all types. He also has a rock collection, though he had to leave it at home since it was, well, rather heavey.

PERSONALITY: Merril is rather impish himself. He’s always been eccentric, inquisitive, troublesome, hyper, and has developed an odd sense of humor. One thing that utterly fascinates him is girls. To protect Merril’s secret, only very close family friends were allowed to meet him after his mutations became overly apparent. Of them, there were no girls his age. He has no idea how to approach females, though he isn’t shy. Merril is annoyingly nosey in his want to be involved with everything. He’s quite immature, not knowing where to draw the line and he doesn’t take criticism lightly. When upset, he runs away, or at least disappears into his Alterworld. He can hold a grudge and is very obvious when he doesn’t like someone. He never resorts to violence, however. He is a lover of pranks.

ANY PETS: His head imps?

OTHER: Merril hates wearing shoes.

WEAKNESSES: Outside of the Atlerworld he isn’t very strong, fast or anything. Inside, his swarms of imps are devastating and the effects of the alterworld are debilitating, but, like I said, he can’t take a hit there.