"Hey!
Yeaaah, you there!
I’m watchin’ you…”
An alley cat in constant need of distraction, this creature may pop up anywhere around cities, in the garages or trash cans of the suburbs, or seemingly out of the aether. And once he does, that’s the rest of the day shot to hell.
Hijack is a curious cat. Very curious. The slightest thing can catch his attention, especially if it’s moving. Or stops moving. Or smells funny. Or a whole host of justifications you might get the sense he’s making up, especially once he starts talking. And if he’s talking fast, the list might come fast and furious, forever.
See, the zeraora’s a bit of a juice fiend. Cities keep his interest longer, but he’s easily found around any copious supplies of electricity that aren’t nailed down. The more he takes in, the faster he’ll get - and faster, and faster, until it looks like his brain and body are both playing out like a sped-up recording. Take it away, and he’ll get slow and laggard, prone to lying out in the sun for a day straight. And if he goes back and forth too often…
Well, only one of these is good for hapless passersby. Anyone who catches him north of ‘awake’ will find themselves with a rather insistent companion, hanging on their every word and deed until the complex (indeed, impenetrable) mental model he’s building to explain their behavior clicks into place. Funny thing; it has a bad habit of reaching the conclusion that he’s found a thug or a ne’er-do-well that needs neutralizing.
And he’s got a holding cell in mind.
More than simply drinking up all the free juice in sight, Hijack’s habits have instilled in him a certain sensitivity to electrical flow. He can detect aberrations, inefficiencies and corruptions in electrical devices, even if he doesn’t understand what the devices are or how they work.
With as much practice as he’s put into it, Hijack has stumbled into some detective tricks, even if he chooses intuition on a whim most of the time. Sensing electro-magnetic field disturbances through a door (and maybe giving those fields a little goose to get a clearer picture), listening in on phone conversations over the air, or of course sensing way too much juice in one apartment to be anything savory, he holds a wide variety of tools in his twitchy paws.
Having gotten into more than a few scraps on account of his pestilent behavior, the cat is a capable fighter, with a scrappy brawler style. Not inherently violent, but looking for an excuse to use force, maybe…?
Right, and he can eat people.
Hijack is sometimes PRED and sometimes PREY. His energy level has a lot to do with which.
Tends to go the ORAL route for detentions, although if he's in an altered state...
His guts are a SAFE holding cell, for the most part...
He might just DRAIN your energy if you let him though, and that could get dangerous.
The cat fancies himself a DETECTIVE; one way of getting him off you might be playing along with the tropes.
Doesn't seem SEXUALLY motivated, especially considering he's rather hiding the parts if they're there...
No notable pattern in terms of PARTNERS, though he tends to avoid kids.
He's known to make his money in UNDERGROUND RINGS, though it's anyone's guess whether he shows up to a match.
Of course, he's not above SCROUNGING in back alleys or other places one might find alley cats.
Not a fan of LOUD NOISES, to put it lightly.
Easily distracted by MOVEMENT when he's hyper.
Going too fast between HIGHS and LOWS has a tendency to leave him CATNIPPED.
