Focus on Fur-Side - Farnsworth, actor

(temp info on the backstory about this guy, including my notes re: images I have for them)
Two shows have had a few guest appearances by this snake-morph by the name of Farnsworth.
The Rumblecats (set in the 50s-60s about a group of feline 'gang' members dealing with then-current (and still current) social issues) [black panther m, lion m, domestic tabby m, domestic angora f, tiger f]
and
Helion's Malt Shop (a spinoff of the Rumblecats, about a specific location where many of their antics took place but many more could be written about, this notably is a show that fans participate in and are able to have writing and creative credits when their fan-fic is used) [lorna giraffe, zebra m, springbok f, a cast of cooks and waiters, also Farnsworth the whip snake as the Asshole, also Hiram Ratty and his girlfriends?!]
Image Credits: art by and adopted from VimeraCreations on deviantart

Name: 'Farnsworth'

Gender: Male, straight if you don't count the adult films

Age/DOB: 30 / 1992?

Origin: Twoarth, originally from Fur-Side Thailand but has lived in a wide variety of locales both fur and skin-side since childhood

Family: Doesn't talk about his family; alternately he will talk your mammal ear off about 'a' family, but whether it's his is entirely debatable

Other: he has probably sired offspring here and there, but again he doesn't really talk about them - he does pay child support though...

Height: at shoulders 5'3" as shown, but head is often set around 6' eye level with a strong curve to his neck. Can 'stand upright' to nearly 10' with only his tail still on the ground or flat; nose to tail, he is upwards of 20 feet long

Weight: around 160 lbs, build is as shown very slender and narrow from shoulders to 'foot' area (where body begins to be flat on the ground)

Hair: none, but... he does have eyebrows and no one knows why that is

Eyes: yellow, with elongated somewhat teardrop shaped pupils, and while they're often narrowed as shown, he sometimes can widen them to look almost like billiard balls

Appearance: a whip snake, typical of the Thai breed; pale green belly that is almost white with a hint of mint; mottled and slightly pixelated striping on entire body and head, and when he 'flattens' he has a darker stripe between belly and back scales visible. Farnsworth loves tank tops, loud print shirts, and bling, as if that wasn't obvious. He speaks with a high and reedy voice but isn't screechy. He can hear, as all morphs, along with having arms and hands, and being warm blooded... yet still being a snake

Abilities: More of a physical skill brought from his biology, Farnsworth is able to contort himself in incredibly complicated ways, while maintaining both balance and strength. He is equally strong with grip in motionless 'freeze frame' moments as he is while he's getting into those postures and positions, and that means 'hands and the entire rest of him'. While he is not a constrictor snake his breed is fully capable of remaining in a stiff, somewhat stick-like posture for an hour without tiring, and he leverages this ability in his early career... Slightly venomous bite, his snake anatomy still works like a snake, and he prefers live small prey; his bite won't harm a human or humanoid around 100 lbs but less than that you might want to lay down a while and let it run its course, as the venom he produces is a mild paralytic and numbing agent (meaning his prey will stop moving, and is less likely to cry out because it won't respond to biting).

Skills or Profession: Actor, including 'adult' as well as all-audiences work. Farnsworth is often asked to pose with fans and he manages to come up with some fun 'how did he get there' postures for such photo ops. Though he is skilled in picking up a role and runn...slithering with it, he's been typecast as 'the asshole' because he definitely does that type quite well. He enjoys being cast and directed in a variety of roles, however, so he's willing to challenge himself to be more than just 'some extremely squirmy porn star' and 'that guy that shows up and the live audience boos him until he redeems himself - or does he'. He is a quick study, and if he has questions about motivation or direction he won't hesitate to ask for more specifics. Unsurprisingly he is ... ridiculously good at those 'adult movie' roles. He is an opportunistic type, and has the ability to pick up simple skills and knowledge that helps keep him alive, quickly and thoroughly enough that you might mistake him for a local virtually anywhere.
Personality: You might also mistake his normal personality with any given 'the asshole' role. He isn't truly a bad person, he is generally looking out for number one - that's himself obviously - but he doesn't want to tread on others to get to that position. He can slither up to it himself! He is reliable, he won't abandon someone he considers his friend, but if you get ghosted you will want to rethink how he feels about you, as his abandonment issues stem from very early life and continued on until coming to Talon City as a teen. He doesn't exactly hoard bling, but he does enjoy having it, and you can bet that if he's seen a shiny he likes, he'll be wearing it by night's end - not stolen now, but certainly in times past he'd have waited for the right moment and yoinked it without anyone noticing. That too is a whip-snake feature, one he's proud to exploit.
Events or History: He will not talk about his early life because it was garbage, and he doesn't want to dump that kind of trauma on anyone but a trained psychologist okay? Yes he has one. No you can't have their info that's part of being a private person. He did travel extensively, but he did so under the cover of sneaking onto boats or planes and winding up somewhere entirely new. Being a small and slender snake morph had its advantages then, and now. He's been a thief, prostitute, courier, 'distributor', sign-holding advertiser, porn star, and now a more sedate actor (he does still appear in adult movies, as they aren't nearly the taboo they might be on other dimensions). He knows he'll never be a role-model but he can become whatever role you need, if he thinks you're going to pay well and give his career a boost.
Roles: Farnsworth showed up one day on a somewhat-skeevy adult show soundstage and though he wasn't exactly old enough to legally give that signature, he gave it anyway, explaining to the director later that he'd been 'doing this for years already I don't wanna talk about it but you pay better than --' So he's got pretty much all the sexy moves and then some. Since he can pause and hold a posture much longer than even a talented mime on the street, Farnsworth's value was obvious both on and off screen. He's got a very good eye for movement and plays spot-the-difference games like a demon, so eventually he started also working with the regular film department's visual continuity department across the street at a more reputable studio. He'd been strolling along admiring the sets of a then-new show and accidentally wandered into a shot, but his presence was immediately applauded as if he was supposed to be there... and he went with it. Thus, Farnsworth's first tv appearance was in the third episode of Rumble Cats, though he's made far more of his role in Helion's Malt Shop since it was actually catered to his style. He has appeared in a few other fur-side shows, but only as a background character. But he's been in dozens of commercials for things like scale care kits, 'workout routines' (where he sometimes plays the 'wimpy before picture' to a much larger boa's 'after', which everyone knows is fake but loves anyway), and beach-side surf shop gear. In virtually all of these roles the character's name and his are the same, and everyone also knows 'that's not his real name'. He prefers working for fur-side groups, but since there is a massive presence of them in Talon, Angeles, and Fresno, as well as south into Baja, he won't exclude himself from the opportunities that skin-side studios offer. He is currently filming a 'vampire' movie, as the right-hand-man to the main villain, and seems to be truly enjoying that role.
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Normally he would have popped an egg like this into his mouth and swallowed it whole, such was his instinct. But... Something made him pause. It was warm, and... it just didn't feel like he should chomp on it. A pretty color, too, that bright sunny yellow.

"Did somebody lose this?" He asked a little more quietly than he might if he didn't want it. He looked around, eyes almost the same color as this egg - and about the same size... He put the egg away before anyone really had time to look up. Shooting was finished for the day, this thing had just kind of rolled up and bumped part of his tail.

Weird things had been happening on this set though, like... weird, supernatural things.

Even if it was just a role, the guy playing his boss, the big vampire guy - he was a bit into it, if you know what he means? "bit into" hah, yeah... No, the guy's a vampire and most folks stayed well clear of him for that reason. He was actually a super nice dude, Human, casually handsome without even trying, had a small group of hangers-on and Farnsworth wasn't sure it was just because he was a well-paid actor. Farnsworth knew him from his 'other' acting era, and wasn't entirely sure if the guy had always been a vampire then too?

So there were other people noticing oddities too now and then. Things moved where they shouldn't have been even right after being put down, shadows moving up in the rafters but no one on set, lighting units turning themselves on or off. Even if someone saw 'something', it was usually only one person, each time a different 'thing'. But everyone believed each other, because pretty much everyone in the studio had, in fact, 'seen something weird'.

So was this 'his' weird thing? If it was, it was a bit odder than that, because no one else had a souvenir from their encounter. Oh well. Farnsworth pocketed it and headed out for the morning. Obviously with a vampire as the main villain they worked mostly overnight when he was involved, and since his own character was that right-hand to villainy...

Farnsworth grabbed a bite from the nearby Warm-n-Furry kiosk, and wondered if he should also grab something for whatever might come out of this egg? It was so small though, even his own two-fingers-and-a-thumb hand dwarfed it, skinny though those fingers were. Maybe some worms from that boardwalk bait shop would do. It would be a nice warm day, with a cool breeze brought in from the east. As he swayed through the morning commuters and headed on down to that boardwalk, he thought the timing of their movie would be perfect, since the full moon would be on Halloween, and that's just right for the theme. It never got too cold, never got too overcast here in Talon City, not even during winter. But fall? It was always nice, as reptile morphs like himself could claim 'I'm cold, can we snuggle?'

But he, like all snake and reptile morphs, was in fact warm-blooded, and knew that this egg wanted to be warm enough to hatch. He didn't even give half a moment's thought to 'then I will have to take care of it', because of course he'd have to. It was his egg. He muttered something about being a responsible parent and after grabbing a small cup of live worms, headed to his apartment.

Not the seediest of places, not the nicest. It was warm, had an actual view of the ocean. Before that skyscraper everyone contested was put up, there had been scaffolding and rebar already set into the foundation - but then the city decided it shouldn't stick a 12 story monolith in front of even a few 4 floor apartments and condos... He remembered the city putting effort into getting a campaign both for, and later against it. He chuckled to himself about beaurocracy and circle jerks and then the egg in his pocket started wobbling by itself.

Not quite sure where to stick it, he grabbed a paper bowl (he didn't really need silverware or fancy dishes, right? He just ate things that fit in his gob! no prep needed!) and set the worm cup up next to it. And then he stared at it, for almost an hour, as the sun came up and lit the harbor from the east and all those cruise ships and tugs and that one aircraft carrier moved in and out... He didn't blink, and hadn't moved. Just. Waiting.

He spotted places where whatever was in it had scraped from the inside, then it turned and did the same on another portion. Testing where the weak point was, he guessed.

Until finally, the egg wasn't solid, a fine mesh of crossing lines and triangles and dust instead... and then a little tiny, tiny nose worked its way out. It was a nose, not a beak, which sort of surprised Farnsworth. It wasn't long before a face was visible, little bitty ears pressed down to the neck, and what would probably become a downy coat of fur looking a touch like stubble outlined on its body.

"You got wings?" Farnsworth asked this little creature, which was exhausted from its adventure breaking out - a feeling he knew. But as if to acknowledge that it did have wings, one of those bare, chicken-lookin' wings moved on its own, like the tail (a skinny nub, more stubble on the end), like the paws - they had little tiny-ass pads like a cat or something, and Farnsworth could not resist softly touching one with his finger. His finger was at least as big as this critter. He'd have to look into what they were.

***

"Little pocket pet here doesn't seem to know what species she is," Farnsworth said to the research librarian, at Talon's Agriculture campus. "It's not from here."

The goat lady behind the counter looked at him, at the little yellow creature, and back several times. Her floppy ears made Farnsworth smirk, but no one really could tell when he did that unless he was on camera and really exaggerated it. "Y'think?" She replied after a moment. Farnsworth liked her, immediately. Same snark.

"Is there a... dadabase thing?"

"A database," she corrected, but then her own horizontally-pupiled eyes blinked away a couple times and she shook her head, "no, no, dadabase I think I'll keep that. It's not a terrestrial creature so that kind of broadens the search..." She muttered to herself like he might, and Farnsworth played along with her twenty-questions. An egg, hungry on hatching, mammal and avian features mixed. Not a gryphon, since many of those were quite a bit bigger. She almost suggested 'Alis Gryph', but whoever alice was, it wasn't one of those, since it didn't have a bird head.

Eventually they had to tap C4 down in Crescent, since they had access to a much wider variety of non-earthly creatures and people. Turned out...

"There are a couple of these things on Twoarth," the goat, whose name was Hester, claimed while on hold with C4's 'department of draconic entities' head researcher.

"... Draconic?" Farnsworth whispered, and the small creature in his pocket popped her nose right back up at the word. If his posture was freaking Hester out, she didn't show it, but a few others wandering by the library's main help desk seemed to think that the loop-de-loop his neck was doing, in order to view his shirt pocket's contents at eye level, was a touch on the too-much side. Boy they would be in for a surprise if they ever looked him up on the movie dadabase.

Either way, after an hour of conferring and searching, being put on hold, and being told 'wait until the instructor has a break in classes', there was a guy on the vidphone that held up a similarly configured little 'Terigon'. That one was almost the same colors but swapped around, grey body, orange and yellow wings, very cute. It was Hester that noticed 'oh that is a different tail type, isn't he handsome'.

But on seeing this other on the screen, Farnsworth had to all but juggle and jostle himself around because his own little one had burst out from his pocket and tried ...

"She's trying to hug him," Hester gleefully laughed, a snorting baah came out and she laughed even harder while walking away to let Farnsworth and his tiny Terigon meet up with professor Vasalo and his own.

***

"Her name is 'mike'?" they all asked. But it wasn't mike, it was Maik, and Farnsworth let her correct them on it. Her tiny tiny little muzzle could speak English! And she definitely knew her own name. She'd told him her name.

She'd also told the snake actor that she was 'his forever and ever!' So he'd have to find ways to bring her to set and not worry about her getting lost or trampled - or just have costumes made with a pocket on the inside where no one would be the wiser.

Terigon
Maik

Name: Maik (mike)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: 2'9" at the shoulder
Colors: Yellow, Grey, Brown
Features: Terigon as shown
Genetic Code:
Ss (average 2' size)
E2E3 (short ears, carries long tuft)
Ww (single color wingtips)
TT (long tufted tail)
Y1Y6 (blue eyes, carries hazel)
C3C3 (body yellow) Ll (medium value)
X1X3 (brown furnishings with yellow carried) Uu (medium value)
I1I1 (grey wing color) NN (dark value)
P1P3 (no pattern carries ... no pattern?) R2R3 Aa (in brown carrying orange, medium value)
Powers: Winged Flight
Teleport (local, Nexus)
Verbal Speech and Telepathy
Parentage: None, progenitor
Mate/Offspring: none yet (possibly Vuchaishu)
Origin: Progen Giveaway, originally created a looong time ago
Art By: Phe
Other Info: is bonded to Farnsworth, he found her egg!

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