Phantom Slug

:"I am no ordinary slug... thingie... I am PHANTOM SLUG."
The Phantom Slug, formerly Namir Ramzan, is an Irazian vigilante, once a journalist investigating corruption in the military.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Phantom Slug is a black slug-shaped shadow with a translucent tail and horns. They have bright green eyes and a slightly paler underbelly, with a grey skull shape in the center. When their mouth and teeth are visible - usually only when delivering vicious melee attacks - their teeth are sharp and the same neon green as their eyes.
===Personality===
Jaded and stoic, the Phantom Slug is highly just but fiercely distrustful. Their ability to evaluate people's characters quickly leads them to make assumptions and mistrust others easily. They are a lone wolf through and through, largely out of self preservation, and can be stubborn when pressed to work with another. They also dislike accepting rewards or compensation.
===Skills & Abilities===
Aside from their observation and insight skills and their keen knowledge of technology, they have various shadow-based powers. Capable of melding with shadows, they can swim effortlessly through the dark, pull others into it to overpower them, slip through narrow cracks as a living shade, and expand their form when obscured by total darkness to become a devastating force. When melded with the shadows, they are extremely quick. They can also manipulate darkness and negate light in enclosed spaces.
Despite their valuable powers, they are doubly weak to salt, being both a slug and a ghost. Even as a shadow, they cannot cross a line of salt.
==History==
Once a journalist studying military corruption, they were captured and used as the test subject in a post-Bio Slime Incident experiment, with the Iraz military attempting to create their own Slug-Man. The result was an angry, brooding Phantom Slug who quickly escaped under cover of darkness and, mourning their lost humanity, vowed to help the good people of their country in another way - as a night-time vigilante who could keep them safe when the sun went down.
He is not wholly aware of what the original Slug-Man is, but is angry that they were mutilated in his image, and holds somewhat of a grudge.
==Relationships==
===Slug-Man===
:“Was your humanity stolen, too? I wonder how you fare like this.”
Holding a slight grudge against the original slug hero, they only know Slug-Man as the thing they were mutated in an attempt to emulate. Although they see him as the reason for their loss of self, this conflicts with their knowledge that he likely doesn't know they exist, and shouldn't be blamed.
==Trivia==
Category:Vigilantes
Category:Nonbinary Characters