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The Shadow-Man

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You might call him a sprite, fairy, gremlin, or a familiar, but annoying foul mouthed perverted pest would be the most accurate, he calls himself Dan the shadow-man.

Dan is a creature of shadow with next to little physical substance or form, able to hide within your shadow on the ground, or more likely, within the darkness of your clothes. He can even travel across surfaces in the light with out shade, his body wile flat can take any shape Dan wants, but isn't much bigger then a mouse in this form. In a shadow however his body will increases to fill the shadow, but this is not a strength but a weakness, the bigger the shadow the longer it takes him to pull himself out of it.

Another limitation is that he can not travel on skin, dead skin is no problem, he could even hide in your hair but when he touches skin he gets absorbed into it's surface leaving a dark shadowy marks across the surface like a odd looking tat. There is a now old lady with a dark mark across her foot from where Dan learned this the hard way. He can heal him self and regain missing mass by spending days resting in an unmoving shadow.

He can not move anything bigger then a dust bunny so the real threat he presents is as a spy or maybe he will just make you think you're going crazy hearing voices in your head, perhaps he will tell your kid to play with matches, or whisper in your wife's ear that you are cheating on her.
The best way to deal with this pest is to trap him in a air tight container, or if you don't mind having a weird looking tattoo touch him with some skin, but it's harder then it sounds.

Dan doesn't know what he is or if there are anymore of him out there, and he couldn't care less.

'This is a intre into Atomic-Chinchilla's create a villan contest' [link]
Basically he is a mix between the shadow people (native american I believe) and the living tattoos (from Japan)
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This is a really cool idea! He'd be a very effective spy. But honestly, I'd wish he was more powerful. With just a little tweaking he could be a very menacing villain all on his own. Perhaps in addition to gaining mass and size by spreading into larger shadows it makes him stronger while he's in that shadow? Or if he enters a living person's shadow maybe he can control their movement like a puppet?

Sorry, not trying to control your idea, but it's such a neat concept that I just want to see a lot more of it! ^^;