Mort

## Backstory

### ***Childhood days***

Born from an average family, Mortimer was the only son of a loving couple, his father being human while his mother was also a monkey hybrid. In his early years, the boy seemed to look like a human, but as years started to pass by, Mortimer started to notice the abundance of hair growth around his body and his tail also growing in size, his mother upon hearing his son asking why was his body changing explained him being a hybrid. While his parents were supportive of him with his change and taught him as best as they could, the male wasn’t content throughout such, everyday seeing his own appearance changing to look different from what he was used to, he ended up becoming more reclusive and even withdrawn throughout his childhood, comparing himself with humans like his father or some of his classmates, had made him feel abnormal and became a daily routine to wear large clothing to hide his hybrid appearance and such thing continued towards his adulthood.

### ***The Starting of His Low Life***

Within his teenage life he started to notice and even hear conversations between his parents about getting low on money, understanding the situation quickly and wishing to help them in some form. Mort started to look for and take part-time jobs, from being a cashier of a fast food chain store, to being someone who guided drivers from the supermarket's parking lot. All giving the same low amount of cash to help his family live comfortably as they were used to, feeling frustrated that his efforts weren’t doing much, Mortimer started to look for an easier way to get money, and upon hearing from the streets of a finance business, he went there to ask for a loan, unaware of the consequences that comes from so later on, but regardless of it, he was satisfied as her saw his family happy, lying to them that his new work was fetching good money and little by little he started to work harder, this as to hide the fact that he took a loan, and also to pay up the debt.

Sadly because of his debt taking long to pay, the Loan Sharks that Mort made business with started to be verbal about his debt, not wishing for his parents to get involved on the trouble he was and thinking that it was the best decision at the time, he ended up fleeing his house and running away from the city he used to live in with little pocket money and some few clothes.

Ever since that day, he has been moving around town, avoiding the loan sharks (which at times, being successful at so) as he tried to fend himself on his new lifestyle, due to finding it difficult to find a job as he hoped due to being chased and followed, he resorted to thievery, slowly collecting enough money to pay up the debt.

### ***Roxy & Present Time***

While he hoped around town, he soon ended up at a particular city, hoping to steal and soon after leave, but to his surprise, on a seemingly normal night, he ended up spotting a girl running towards an alleyway, at first he ignored such thing even as he noticed a suspicious person stalking her, until while passing by another alleyway, the same female bumped into him and ended up being in the middle of the crossfire, defending her from the person whom was chasing after her.

After pretty much beating the man and leaving him unconscious in a trashbox. The girl started to follow him much to his dismay, and after being explained that she had nowhere to go and that she was lost, Mort begrudgingly ended up letting her follow around, suspicious of her until he discovered that she ran away from an facility (as he rummaged the unconscious person’s clothing and stealing his wallet.) Feeling pity for the girl’s predicament, he ended up letting her tag along and live with him. Currently with the help of the girl, who's called Roxane (Roxy for short) they were able to acquire a small apartment in the city, staying there as he continued to rob while trying his best to fetch a job (or a side job), aside from paying the debt, to be able to live well with his new friend & roomate.

## Skills

Because of his simian genes, Mort shares similar traits and abilities as the animal itself, this includes using his feets as extra set of hands for more maneuverability, and also being able to climb certain surfaces, walls with much ease thanks to so, he also has an enhanced smell, giving him the opportunity to detect anything that can be considered odd to him (Like poison or even Awful smelling people). Mort also has a prehensile tail (In which he often hides it as a belt) in which he uses it as an extra limb to hold objects, surfaces to hang on and help on climbing. But even without the use of them, Mort is shown to be physically strong and has a strong bite (and also having fangs).

## Weaknesses

Since he *dislikes* his mixed genes, Mort is not able to use some of his animalistic traits due to his very clothes, hiding his tail and also wearing sneakers as to trick everyone into thinking he is a ‘human’, It proves for him to be difficult to climb on certain surfaces, also due to his enhanced scent, his sense of smell has become sensitive and stronger odors can be **intolerable** to him to the point of causing migraines, while technically Mort has some form of improved agility, he is still rather slow to react when it comes into fights and combats, often ending up having to endure a few hits at first.

## Facts

* ***No, he does NOT like bananas**.*
* *...And neither of you telling him monkey puns.*
* He actually does not like sweet things, he would often avoid eating any kind of desserts.
* He always carries a pack of Tylenol or medicines with the same effect for his headaches due to his enhanced scent.
* His wardrobe mostly consists of either big or baggy clothes so that he can be able to hide hints of his hybrid traits, thankfully he has grown more accepting of his appearance as to sometimes wear average shirts or at rare times, sleeveless shirts inside of his home, whenever he is alone (or with Roxy).
* He prefers to be referred to as “Mort” pls.
* His dream job is to become a barber.

Full body reference of his alternate and main look (Face & Neck shaved).Mort’s appearance (Without jacket and Not shaved)