Zerebe is a being of mystery, a creature with no known source of origin that he can recall of and no idea what he even is. He sort of drifts around aimlessly from place to place, planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy. He has no ship of his own to travel with so he merely slips onto those of other beings to get around, somehow managing to keep his presence unknown. The alien never stays around too long, barely any time at all to make a lasting impression on anyone since he seems keen on keeping himself under the radar. Which is a difficult task at times when sometimes people can be too nosey for their own good and tend to try to sate their curiosity about him. Those few who try don't seem to last very long after they start attempting to learn anything about him, appearing just a few days later as dried up husks...

You see, Zerebe is in fact a predatory creature despite his harmless appearance and quiet nature. He's vampiric in a way, sucking the nutrients and blood from victims to the point they start to dry out and shrivel a bit, leaving them looking mummified. It's not a pretty process but it is how he gains sustenance, this draining carried out through the use of two retractable tendrils located along the undersides of his wrists. They are a couple feet in length outside the body while the rest of their lengths run directly to the stomach. Prehensile, they are about half an inch thick and taper towards the end into pointed tips, shooting out with surprising force to puncture flesh. Because of this unusual form of a feeding, he lacks a mouth since it seems pointless to have one, though he seems capable of emitting sounds of humming, growling, hissing, and surprisingly sounds similar to the calls of whales only softer and with a flanging effect. These noises are far from communicating quality with those who actually speak a language and don't communicate with animalistic noises, which often leaves him at a disadvantage with trying to express ideas and so on with others.

However, it seems his body had been made with a solution to communication troubles in the form of contact telepathy. Through touch with his hands, the alien is capable of transmitting his thoughts and feelings to others and can even share memories if he wanted. He can turn this ability on and off like a switch, which can be really useful when he wants to keep things on his end private. The contact telepathy is two-sided as well, allowing Zerebe to extract the same information if he wanted but rarely will he do so. He may be a creature who drains the life out of people, but he's not a violator of people's privacy. The most he'll do is at least read their emotions and nothing more. It's an unusual form of morality, but what else would you expect from a faceless extraterrestrial vampire thing?

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