Dust the Jackal

Name: Dust
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 35
Species: Sand Elemental Jackal
Gender: Female
Occupation: Vigilante Crime Fighter

Appearance: Dust is a sand elemental who in her base, preferred form looks like a stocky female jackal that stands at 3'10"(116.8 cm) and weighs around 109 lbs.(49.2 Kg). Of course, this weight is a result of her body being composed entirely of sand instead of flesh. Her body has a fairly rough texture, yet her base form seems to mimic a carbon-based Mobian lifeform down to the detail of fur, and in general would be hard to tell apart from a normal Mobian unless you looked really close or until she started changing her forms. She has ocean blue eyes and a similarly colored lily in her "hair"(literally embedded in her head where her headfur technically is), and wears a dress that is a darker orange than the rest of her body, which is also made of sand and is this technically part of her body.
As a sand elemental, her weight and height vary greatly, and if she absorbs coloured sand into her form, so does her color. Though her spirit colors her base form through supernatural means to resemble her living self, she is unable to change her color without specifically absorbing sand that is colored differently.

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Personality traits

Likes:
-Helping people
-Sparring
-Beaches and deserts
-Sandcastles
-Cavern and ruins exploration
-Pranks
-Architecture and design

Dislikes:
-Snakes
-Feign Guardians and Nightmares
-The Chao in Space movies(especially the prequels, where the main character talks bad about sand)
-Water
-Criminals


Personality: Dust's most notable trait is her determination and strong willpower, being the very glue holding her body together in this sandy form she's taken on. If she puts her mind to something, she WILL succeed or die trying - and given past experiences, maybe that might not even be enough to stop her. Gladly she uses this for good rather than evil, to help others rather than for self-gain. Though kind to a fault and laid-back around others as she's rather extroverted and sociable, she's unsurprisingly very stubborn and, though not dumb, fairly simple with a one-track mind. She's the kinda person to follow the "when you've got a hammer, every problem becomes a nail" philosophy.



Combat traits

Powers: Dust is a sand elemental, meaning that she's a spirit tied to sand and thus can not only take advantage of this fact by using it to create a body for herself of which she can change the size and shape of in various ways, but she can manipulate any outside sources of sand she just so happens to be touching. Some of her favorite techniques are flying around as a small sandstorm, transferring her will through sand she's in contact with to effectively teleport, shooting her body at an opponent to do damage and get closer to them(also called pulling a Yellow Devil), and using coloured sand she can absorb to camoflauge herself or even make herself look completely different. Also, due to technically being undead, she naturally has the ability to see other spirits.

Strengths:
-She's very strong, capable of punching holes in most vehicles at her base size, and her strength scales up as she absorbs more sand into her body and grows
-Though it's not her favorite tactic, she is unsurprisingly really good at stealth
-She's immune to the effects of Nightmare and Feign-based powers
-Any sand-based attacks that don't involve direct manipulation of her are completely null and in fact only make her stronger
-She's really great with kids

Weaknesses:
-She's not very fast on foot, being at most slightly faster than the average human
-Her powers and entire being rely on will and determination, so if you break her will to live somehow, she might just simply give up and die, falling apart in front of you
-She's weak to most elemental-based powers, especially fire(which would, in the worst case scenario, likely kill her if she was entirely turned to glass), water(which at best will incapacitate her as she will turn to mud and temporarily fall apart until she dries out), and earth manipulation(anyone capable of manipulating sand could effectively paralyze her)
-Similarly, any method of destabilizing her form, like powerful vibrations or the aforementioned water, will make her likely fall apart


Social information

Positive relations
-Terro the Jackal
-Ocean Lily the Sea Turtle
-Heliosian Royalty

Negative relations
-Forces of Tiranus
-Slice(Nonesensemaker's character)

History
Dust was born to the chief, named Terro, of the Dust Jackal Tribe close to the ruins of the Sandcastle Kingdom alongside her younger sister. Her tribe was close to the Heliosian royalty, and after her mother's passing, the former empress of the Coral Colony, Ocean Lily, helped Terro raise his children like she was their mother. Around the age of 25, tragedy struck her tribe as a large, demonic, serpentine monster committed a massacre with its supernatural power to turn living things who witnessed its flashing eyes to sand…
For 10 years, Terro was believed to be the only survivor, only partially turned to sand from the legs down, resulting in him being stuck in a wheelchair. With not just his daughters but his entire people seemingly killed off, he fell into a deep depression, turned to drinking, and had to be taken care of by Ocean Lily. Terro wasn't the only one deeply effected, obviously, as these events kick-started Daybreak on Helios when King Sullivan got stuck in Feign, Nihilux was released from Feign and effectively replaced him, and Queen Celeste became corrupted by the power of Tiranus in her own grief. Ocean Lily herself began planting blue lilies around the Sandcastle Kingdom as grave markings in memoriam of those lost…
However, she had a seemingly delusional belief that spirits were stirring around the desert, and that they may eventually come back to life.
When Skylar and Alexander eventually came to Ocean Lily for help in their quest finding the Feignite Crystals, she took them to the Sandcastle Kingdom. And there, on that very day, the sand stirred, springing to life, pulling itself out of the desert and taking form…
Dust had been reborn.
She helped them get the Feignite Crystal out of the ruins(theorized to be partially responsible for her revival), though fighting the Feignite Guardian Sand Golem was rather traumatizing for her since it was fairly obvious the souls of her tribe were stuck in the sand making its body. As it turns out, she was the only person with the will to come back among her tribe, whose spirits weren't strong enough to pull themselves together like her. Also, with the help of Alexander, she also took her revenge on the serpent that killed her tribe.
It's decidedly not a creature of Feign - feral monsters are just attracted to Feign's power.
Since then, she's reunited with her father and has been traveling the world using her powers to help people and fight crime.