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Every Sebsise individual has two forms they can use.
The first being a sickly, usually very pale nearing albino, human. This form is small and frail, usually around a good foot under expected height for someone of the same age. They are more often than not horrifically skinny and find it hard to put on and maintain weight. This light weight allows them to climb walls and ceilings with limited strain on their bodies.
Families can pass on pigmentation, such as darker colored hair or eyes. For the most part sebsise have blond to silver hair and blue or grey eyes. Green is also a common eye color. Brown hair is considered rare, and black hardly ever seen; this is the same with brown eyes. In modern continuities brown hair is less rare, but still uncommon.
The second form is a product of their corrupted ancestry. It is always an animal, but what animal and how badly mutated is determined by ancestry and the individuals corruption.
The more concentrated corruption in the individual, the more warped their animal form. Corruption is higher in those that are born in, or lived for a long time in, the Sebsise pocket realm.
The type of animal is usually passed down from parents, each parent giving an animal trait to the secondary form.
For example, if a mother had a deer based secondary form, and the father a cat, the child may end up having a secondary form that has the body of a deer, but head and tail of a cat. Most are not easy to discern. Decades of reproducing has made their forms difficult to tell exactly what animal it is based on. Most are categorized by size and over all shape/species. Deer like over true deer.
The secondary form may have too many legs, too many eyes, too large a mouth, no mouth, etc. But must be mutated in some way.
Usually Sebsise will only shift into their animal form while alone, wounded, or in imminent danger. It takes a great deal of effort out of them, and they do it as little as possible to conserve energy.
It’s considered a bad omen to see a Sebsise transform.
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