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{{Character Infobox
| name = Xavier
| image = WikiXavier.png
| gender = Male (he/him)
| author = Aaden
| lore = The Lore
| species = Cag
| pedality = Omnipedal; often quadrupedal or bipedal
| acquaintances = [[Chester]], [[Damian]], [[Sauce]], [[Glass]]
}}
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tja!! jag älskar stenar!! ''(heya!! i love rocks!!)'' ::3
:''— Xavier''
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'''Xavier''' is a white [[polypedal]] [[cag]]. He's best known for being taur-like, with multiple limbs. He also has four eyes and a fluffy tail.

== Personality ==
Xavier is a lighthearted and simple person, often silly in attitude. He's easy to get along with, and is comfortable in most places, with a much higher bar for what's threatening. He doesn't judge others nor mind being judged himself, often being whimsical. He absolutely loves being objectified, finding it prideful and hilarious, allowing others use him as they need. He'll also tend to lie on the floor a lot just for the sensation, often intentionally blocking the way so that others have to weave around or on top of him. While capable of complex thought and actually rather smart, he doesn't display it upfront and often doesn't learn from his mistakes.

Xavier is Swedish (bilingually English) and works at an IKEA, being a reliable home interior designer and assembly worker, though he tends to focus more on the form and physical use of arrangements rather than the aesthetics. It is an inside joke among his colleagues to pose him in a display room as if he were part of the furniture adorned there.

His favorite minerals are any with a high amount of silica content (like quartz), any with a high carbon content (like coal), and salt (often licked rather than eaten). He enjoys material with a more crunchy or gritty texture, especially if they have sharp or jagged edges. He usually keeps collections of more rare or less appetizing rocks, studying geology in his free time to categorize and sort them.

He tends to chat with [[Chester]] a lot, ecstatic about his omnilingualism, with him also serving as his Japanese language mentor. He commonly assists [[Damian]] with his carpentry projects, equally frequently turned down to become part of them. He tends to relate with [[Sauce]] and can comfort his doubt, and is always excited to meet [[Glass]] with her ideas.

== Characteristics ==
Xavier is a shapeshifter, in which he is able to control how many legs or arms he has at any given moment, thereby making him longer at the back or taller at the front. The lengthening and contracting process is akin to unfolding or refolding limbs from or into the body, and cannot be halted during the folding transition (however may be immediately reversed after). While Xavier has full autonomy over his body shape, he also tends to shift in response to emotion (much like body language), usually growing more limbs when excited or threatened or shrinking down when embarrassed, however it isn't the driving force. The body itself is composed of a rocky material, with rather thick fur surrounding the outside. Lacking any internal organs, the rocks he eat compose the majority of the body, however they usually become slightly pliable and cushion-like on the outside, while resistance exponentially increases the further in you go, becoming infinitely resistant at the torso. The mouth is the only way for new minerals to be assimilated into the mass, and any non-minerals must be spat out.

He is able to come into contact with and eat most rocks and minerals without any adverse effects, thereby also giving him supernatural bite force. Because of the composure of his body, he is also unable to feel pain, making anything which would damage his form feel nice or interesting. His tongue is able to stretch to as long as his body is total, with the surface being very rough and gritty like stone or sandpaper, however it remains squishy and bendable. He does not have prehensile control over it, being only able to bend and coil it in a general direction, and if overstretched it will be unable to retract fully, dangling while it settles back to normal.

Because his body is made of rock, using power tools allows one to reshape his body or remove and reattach limbs. While limbs go inert when removed and his body can easily be reset by shapeshifting, they can be reattached elsewhere by applying heat and can be used for other applications. At extremely high temperatures (determined by the materials he ingests), his body will start to slowly melt into mush, an exotically amazing feeling before bodily control is lost. His torso is the only part of him which cannot be segmented.

His [[speech bubble]] is a simple connector. His handwriting is neat and rounded, with visual similarity to Futura.

== Artwork ==
{{Artwork|Xavier}}