The Mimic

**The Mimic**, formerly known as **Stan Moon**, is the primary antagonist throughout the 5 worlds series. It is an evil force with mysterious origins who terrorizes the Felid Gods and wants to watch the five worlds be destroyed.

## History

Its origin, gender, and whether it was ever really a sentient creature is unknown. It seemed to exist back during Felid times, and at some point possessed Aurinko, a Felid king, and attempted to get the humans in the newly created five worlds to worship it. When the other Felids objected, it lashed out and scars the young Prince Neko, traumatizing him, and wages a war against the Felids. However, it is caught by the Great Queen and, in sacrificing herself, the Queen defeats the Mimic and rips its heart from its body, with it her own arm, and sends both heart and arm down to the world. The Mimic itself is able to function without a heart and is imprisoned in the 5 worlds themselves.

In the course of multiple years the Mimic spends time planning, and also visibly growing angrier due to not seeing anyone on the worlds as an equal and thus being very lonely. Eventually the Mimic possesses The Prince of Toki, which is noted to be relatively easy because the Prince had lots of pent up anger inside him. The Mimic brings to its side Jessa Lee (a young Toki woman genetically altered to resemble a normal human), giving her the Toki name Jessa Zayd, and enlisting her, and many other Toki warriors, to harm the other worlds through terrorist-like attacks, while convincing them that if they allow the beacons to be lit, which shall happen, the world Mon Domani will become a sun and burn all the worlds around it, when in reality the sun will still have a world inside it and not harm the other worlds at all. However, Jessa is unable to kill the girl trying to light the beacon on Mon Domani because the girl is her sister, Oona. When Oona overpowers Jessa and lights the beacon, the Mimic requests to speak to Jessa, and in doing so Jessa finds out what it really is and that it has possessed the Prince.

When Oona arrives at Toki to light their beacon, the Mimic captures her and, pretending to be the Prince, informs Oona she is actually Toki and transforms her back to her true self. Jessa, however, informs Oona of what the Prince really is, and after a battle in which Jessa sacrifices herself to let Oona light the Toki beacon. The Mimic after this seems to die, although it promises that it will follow Oona wherever she and her companions go.

Stan Moon, a business owner and entrepreneur from Salassandra, is possessed by the Mimic around this time, however it is unknown if Stan was a real person or if he was always simply a vessel. In order to spread his influence even further, under the vessel of Stan Moon, the Mimic runs for Head Citizen of Salassandra.

When a reincarnation of Prince Neko, An Tzu, along with Oona and Jax Amboy, arrive at Salassandra, An Tzu is first to realize that Stan is actually the Mimic while watching one of his and campaigns. And at first, the coach of Jax’s all-star Starball team and other entrepreneurs seek to use Stan Moon and give him none of his rightful earnings. However, when one of his advisors attempts to leave, openly disagreeing with his ideals, he turns his legs into tentacles and incapacitates her, controlling her with his influence. Through a mix of his control over others, lack of better competition, and the chaos that was happening on Salassandra at the time, Stan Moon was elected Head Citizen, much to the joy of most people there and the horror of Oona and her friends. During his first broadcast, his eyes are shown to slightly glow as he is threatening Oona and her friends, saying they would not light the Salassandran beacon on his watch.

## Personality

The Mimic originally is characterized as an unfeeling evil with the goal of ruling all five worlds, but actually can feel emotions. It (or he) despises the Felids and views them as hypocrites, frauds and undeserving of their position as gods, and grows visibly angry whenever they are mentioned. However, it used to have a more favorable opinion of them, and seemed to be in love with Queen Iona, feeling betrayed when she left it on the five worlds, and viewing her son Prince Neko as its own son. It may also have possessed Aurinko to begin with in order to become closer to her (although it did become interested in making the humans, which it thinks are primitive, worship it for fun, exploiting the Felid’s position).

Due to its driving factor being hate, it sees no issue with manipulating and using the humans around it, and seems to somewhat enjoy it. It often berates and insults the humans around it, especially those who oppose it. It particularly loves being in positions of power where people have to do what it wants, and wants to be feared and respected not just by humans but also by the Felids. It can easily control people based on the amount of hate in their hearts, and cannot mimic the living fire (which it is shown to be somewhat afraid of and intimidated by). Although it wants to be feared and seen as above all else, it wonders if there are other creatures like it and is shown breaking a vase in its Stan Moon form, angered because there isn’t “an equal to talk to anywhere”. During the ending battle, after desperately saying “mine” about the Felid realm, it breaks down and with great emotion tells Oona “I am so alone”.