Pretendo

**Debut** | TBA

**Pretendo** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Špatnýažnakost from the planet Utkrsta-Hāḍācēḍōkē.

## Appearance

Pretendo is a robotic humanoid alien with the appearance of a lanky skeleton made entirely out of segmented dark gray and glossy black metal with large red wires extending from his collar to the back of his hands, from the back of his pelvis to his ankles, and wrapping around the front of his neck and waist respectively. Pretendo has large aperture-like eyeballs, an exposed upper jaw of glowing red teeth with a square jaw underneath, rectangular ear-shaped protrusions extending from the sides of his head, five rounded fingers on each hand, three cubic toes on the front of each foot, and a spinal cord for an abdomen between his chest and pelvis.

Pretendo wears sixteen Simplicitrix symbols on the outermost sides of his head, shoulders, palms, and knees, and both sides of his elbows and hips.

## Personality

Pretendo is quite the oddball, always appearing in the most random of locations and not making a sound every time he shows up.

## Powers

* Pretendo has absorption armor, capable of passing straight through solid materials as if he were fully intangible and assimilating them around himself within an amalgamated exterior of whatever he has passed through that serves as improvised defense. Pretendo can pass through multiple surfaces in order to layer on more and more armor and gain the unique preporties of whatever he "wraps" over and around himself, in which he can consciously activate and deactivate them as if they were natural powers to him, such as generating magnetism from lodestone armor, releasing radiation from plutonium armor, and conducting and dispersing electricity from silver armor.
	+ Pretendo can absorb and assimilate different forms of matter through concentrating them into a solidified state once he passes through them, having the best efficiency against types of energies, such as kinetic force and hard-light constructs, in turn infusing him with their effects to bolster his physical capabilities.
	+ Pretendo can absorb the flesh of others through physically inserting himself into the bodies, either completely replacing their skeletons in order to puppeteer them from the inside and suppress their souls to prevent them from fighting back against him, or fatally converting them into a metallic form that resembles his appearance. Should anyone perish in the former case, as Pretendo keeps them alive, he can permanently keep their flesh between transformations unlike his other armored forms, and whatever special preporties that they yield.
* Pretendo can move much faster whenever he isn't being observed, enabling him to get the jump on others.
* Pretendo can regenerate physical injuries and sustain himself through absorbing bio-electricity.
* Pretendo has enhanced strength, durability, agility, reflexes, and flexibility.
* Pretendo has space survivability.

## Weaknesses

* Pretendo's absorption armor works the least efficiently against liquids and gases due to their non-solid states, as although he can assimilate them around himself too, they provide very little actual defense and ruin the risk of giving him negative preporties that can be exploited by his opponents, such as water armor directly conducting electricity and electrocuting him with the slightest jolt, and smoke armor choking any nearby allies with his proximity to him.
* Pretendo cannot possess the bodies of others that have amorphous forms and can easily eject him outwards should he enter through them, are entirely incorporeal and cannot be interacted with at all, or have more outlandish body structures that he would have trouble fusing with because of his humanoid proportions.
* Pretendo is a magnet for the supernatural.

## Etymology

* Pretendo's name is a play on "pretend" and "endo," as in endoskeleton.
* Pretendo's species name is the Marathi translation of "bad to the bone."
* Pretendo's planet name is the Marathi translation of "bone head."

## Trivia

* Pretendo was suggested by WTB amongst several other transformations inspired by characters from FNaF as a fun, semi-canon collaborative project between him and Shark.
* As with his species and planet names, Pretendo is primarily inspired by the Endoskeleton models from *Five Nights at Freddy's*, combining several features from their different variants from throughout the franchise, such as the first game's Endo-01's simplistic appearance and exposed wiring, the second game's Endo-02's ear-like extensions and pronounced jaws, and the ninth game's Glamrock Endoskeleton's glowing eyes and unobserved speed referencing the fact that they cease movement altogether whenever they are shined with the flashlight. Pretendo's enigmatic nature references most of the Endoskeletons' affiliation with being secret Easter eggs, while his darker coloration coincidentally resembles Yenndo's appearance from *Sister Location* and the Custom Night DLC.
* Pretendo comes from the same system as Bear Hug, Circalien Rhythm, and other transformations inspired by FNaF characters, explaining the shared prefix of their planet names.
* Pretendo holds the record for the most Simplicitrix symbols on a single transformation, triumphing over Reality Check who features five symbols in total. While one can argue that any transformation capable of self-duplication can theoretically have infinite amounts of symbols for as long as they can keep cloning themselves, they are only extensions of the original one and will cease to be whenever they transform back.