Demir: average height, black hair, black eyes, lithe build, wears all black (and a little red), carries two small daggers (and knows how to use them)

Demir is a man full of secrets. His biggest one: he's a werecat. (Don't tell him I told you!) He didn't know his parents, but was raised by a mix of cats and humans on the streets of the capitol city, and he's never really left. The city is like his own little realm: he knows of everything that happens, both legal and illegal. Often, he's the one making it happen- on both ends He runs a kind of underground network- and by that I mean he and his "agents" literally use the underground passages in the city that no one else knows of. He isn't close to anyone, at least not enough to tell anyone his secret. He never gets flustered but is excellent at thinking on the spot and deflecting questions. Most would say he has a sketchy moral compass, but he has a few very strong convictions and sees himself as a kind of guardian of the city. He puts himself on the line for others very often.

He's cat-like in many ways. He despises rain, loves warmth, acts very aloof/condescending, extremely sarcastic and flirty at the same time, is a control freak, and loves driving other people out of their minds (especially my main character...)

What is his basis for selflessness?

Does he ever use his abilities as a werecat?

Is he afraid of someone finding out he is a werecat without him meaning them to? Does he have any ideas of what might happen if someone does find out?

What is the makeup of his set of morals?

To what lengths would he go to uphold them?

Does he have any hopes?

His basis for selflessness would probably lie in his past, with the people who raised him or were kind to him when he was just a child on the streets.

He certainly does use his abilities. Beyond even shapeshifting, he can converse with other cats and they act as his eyes and ears around the city.

I wouldn't say he was afraid of it. He thinks of it more as a big joke that only he is in on. He relies mainly on the fact that humans have nearly forgotten that other races even exist and his strictly enforced privacy to maintain his secret. If someone found out... well his connections are so good he could blackmail pretty much anyone in the city if he chose to, so he would just make sure they kept their mouth shut. (This is how things stand at the beginning of the story; at one point circumstances force him to tell my main character... but they work it out in their normal love/hate friendship.)

He is very much against slavery. Helping escaping slaves is a major part of his underground network. He is a little bit of a Robin Hood character, helping out the poor, taking the homeless children under his wing, etc. He may be the biggest flirt ever, but if he caught someone assaulting a woman... it would not be pretty.
He goes to great lengths to uphold these- its a matter of pride to him.

I don't know that he has any hopes for the future... he lives very much in the moment, and is actually rather content. If he wants something to happen, he makes it happen.

Who are his agents? What are his friends like, if he has some? Has he been outside his city?

Haha, "agents" may not be the best word. There's a variety of people involved in his network, ranging from the street and house cats all across the city to his most involved men. There are some people who know what he does (though not what he is) and who pass along information, like shopowners and innkeepers. There are the street children (a bit like Holmes' Baker Street irregulars). His closest men may be some of the street kids who've grown up working for him, or escaped slaves who chose to stay and work for him.

I'd say those men are the closest thing he has to friends. They work together, trust each other, take risks for each other, and share common convictions. That being said, none of them know he's a werecat, and they still operate under a kind of militaristic hierarchy- with Demir as the general. None of them would say they actually understand him, and they don't try to decipher his secrets.

As for going outside the city... once or twice. He's been to the other large city in that country, and traveled a little in the countryside, but the city is his domain, his home.

Does he wish he'd known his parents?

What would make him depressed?

Does he have any goal that he's trying to meet with his underground work, or is he just trying to stay alive?

There have been moments when he wished he'd known his parents, because it was a long time before he met any other werecats (or any "fantasy" creatures for that matter). But he is a loner at heart, preferring emotional distance.

He would say nothing. In reality, however, that's not quite true. His depression just doesn't look like others' does- he gets sullen, bitterly sarcastic, and short-tempered. Being offended, or failing at something he determined to do would cause that.

I guess you could say he has a little bit of a hero complex, helping the poor and such, and he'd admit it in a heartbeat with a smile. It's also a kind of territorial thing, but in the end, he simply knows what's right and what's wrong, and is trying to act on that. Not that he'd ever admit to such noble motivations...