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Villager: Lazarus

"Oh, hello. Did you come to say hi, or did you need directions?"

"My name? I’m Lazarus, pleased to meet you."

"What’s this building for? Well, this is the warehouse where all of the materials and such obtained by the village are stored. Sora does fine work, as you can see. And it’s much easier to get to what you need when it’s all labeled and organized. Speaking of which, you can’t come in. Sorry, but there’s nothing to see and plenty to steal, and after the first time something happened we just barred access to outsiders. You know how it is, some idiot has to go and ruin it for the rest of us. But it is what it is. And it really is just a warehouse."

"What, you swear I was something else when you were walking around before? Probably. I’m a shifty at heart, you see. Who cares if I have to take morphing potions to get the same effect, I’m still going through shape after shape. I might be a zebra one day, a bat the next, and a lizard the next week...I may go through shapes like icicles dripping water, but it’s still me inside. What I look like doesn’t matter in the end."

"Unfortunately, I...because I go through forms so much, I got banned from using magical stickers, plushies, and stones to transform. And Imber and Ronan cut me off the regional species potions too. “It’s too expensive”, they say. Bah."

"Oh, and if you see a couple of brats running around with stolen morphing potions? Careful they don’t crack you over the head with one, they seem to love doing that, especially just after I’ve taken an expensive potion. Little brats, they think they’re funny..."

Lazarus crosses his arms and scowls, having trailed off into grumbling under his breath, clearly not happy about this. You don’t blame him - being surprise transformed into another species, and just after becoming something like a Dutch Angel Dragon or Wickerbeast? Yikes.

"Oh? Ahem, sorry. I’m just rather fed up with their shenanigans."

"You want to know what shape was I born as?"

Lazarus gives you a little smirk.

"That’s something nobody else will know."

"My hobbies? Well, if I’m being honest I’m a little bit of a pyromaniac, so if you see me playing with fire don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. Blaze and I aren’t going to burn the dang building down, Sora would wring my neck."

"Anyway, if you’re looking for something to do, why don’t you go stop by the Singing Tide? Kahjah and Brenna would be more than willing to show you around. If boats aren’t your thing, you could always go talk with Zale - I guarantee whatever he comes up with definitely won’t leave you bored anymore. That Manokit...how he’s managed to raise a daughter so well is beyond me. Oh wait..."

"Huh? You’re still here? Well, what are you standing around for? Go on, go have fun!"