Nimbus Zhantom

Nimbus Zhantom is a young teenage Flydevin girl. She is an artist who uses the Powder Winds division of the Wind Arts to create ice sculptures and other interesting effects with ice and snow. She is Duster Zhantom’s younger sister and one of Fractus Zhantom’s two daughters. She is a major character in Kicking Dust, and can even be considered a main character due to her constant appearance or influence on every episode.
During the events of Kicking Dust, it is revealed that while Nimbus wants to make ice sculptures of cute, cartoony characters, her school forces her to sculpt "Flydevin Warriors". Upon being told by her sister that these "Flydevin Warriors" are committing senseless bloodshed, she chooses to renounce this task entirely. Later on, after Duster gets exiled, she returns to her hometown to sneak out with her, meeting Gampa Pararain shortly afterwards. During this time, Duster and Gampa comfort Nimbus about the radical changes that occur in her life, and reassure her that she can still sculpt and that she should make whatever art she wants. It was eventually revealed in the final episode that the reason Fractus cares so much about Nimbus is that she reminds her heavily of her father Diamond Hallion and the time she spent with him.
==Appearance==
Nimbus is a 14 year old light-skinned Flydevin teenager with a slim build. She has poofy white hair that is often compared to a cloud. She is 5’1, which makes her slightly shorter than average for a teenager of her species. She generally wears fluffy dresses and similarly comfortable clothes, which often feature cloud and wind-themed imagery, being a Powder Winds adept.
==Personality==
Nimbus is a cheerful and creative girl who enjoys making all sorts of art, whether it be drawn, sculpted, or made using any other medium. She is generally considered by most to be a good artist for her age with great potential. However, she feels forced to sculpt more realistic figures of heroic figures by her school, whereas she'd rather sculpt cartoony creatures, such as cartoony depictions of Kotomo. She is generally friendly to others, but Nimbus is very naive and dimwitted as a result of her sheltered upbringing. She has also inherited some of her mother’s more entitled attitude. She sometimes feels that she acts too childish, but she generally bottles these feelings up. Following the events of Kicking Dust, it's likely she'll mature quicker than she would've otherwise, considering all she was thrown though and the essential loss of her mother.
Nimbus is shown to greatly worry about those she cares about when they are hurt, and while she will usually panic in danger, she has on at least one occasion attempted to step up to protect her friends. Nimbus is also very used to her comfortable lifestyle, so while she was hiding away from her hometown, she had much more trouble adapting than Duster or Gampa. 
==Powers and Abilities==
Nimbus, being a Flydevin, can harness the power of the Wind Arts. It has multiple sub-divisions, including Powder Winds, which are the ones Nimbus mainly uses. They allow her to cool down winds in order to create snow or even ice. Nimbus can use this to create snow and ice sculptures. Nimbus also uses Wind Arts to enhance her mobility, allowing her to jump higher, float, run faster and even fly. However, Nimbus is generally a pacifist and she has little to no combat experience, not to mention she is frail and weak physically.
Nimbus, being a Zhantom, knows how to use Smoke Winds along with her Powder Winds, allowing her to create dark poisonous clouds in the rare cases she actually needs to fight. These clouds can quickly knock out a person if injested, though Nimbus is not very experienced with them at all. Fortunately, she's mostly immune to her own Smoke Winds, making it hard for her to breath at most.
Nimbus's creativity does give her a small advantage in certain battles, in that she can easily come up with unique and creative ways of using her powers. For example, Nimbus was the one who came up with the technique Duster uses for her Smoke Wind Bombs (albeit with ice instead of stone).
==Relationships==
===Duster Zhantom===
Nimbus has an extremely close bond with her sister Duster. She has been shown to be concerned for her. When Duster asked her to sneak out of her hometown, she accepted with no hesitation. She has also been shown to trust Duster very much. Despite this, she has occasionally questioned herself as to why Duster focuses so much on fighting when she always gets frustrated after her repeated losses. She's also questioned what Duster plans to do after toppling Fractus.
===Fractus Zhantom===
Nimbus actually used to respect Fractus very much and trusted what she told her to do. Nimbus is, in fact, perhaps the only contemporary person Fractus has treated with respect. Fractus effectively sees her dead husband, Diamond - who was also an ice sculptor, in Nimbus, despite Duster's existence. Effectively, whereas Duster was mainly conceived in order to create a powerful Flydevin soldier, Nimbus was conceived out of genuine love in Fractus's eyes. Fractus has gone to great lengths to ensure Nimbus's safety and happiness, though said lengths are unfortunately quite shortsighted, shown with her failing to recognize Nimbus wants Duster to receive the same care she gets.
===Diamond Hallion===
Nimbus was not informed of who her father was, having been merely told he was missing and later dead. This led to her shouting "Screw Diamond Hallion!" after being told by Duster that she did not have to complete homework research about him, unaware that he was actually her dad. While she's still confused as to what kind of person Diamond Hallion was exactly, however, she'd never have said that if she was aware of his link with her at the time. Both Diamond and Nimbus are ice sculptors, though it's quite likely Nimbus merely became an ice sculptor through Fractus's influence - and it was by chance that she happened to get a passion for it.
===Gampa Pararain===
While Nimbus was ultimately a little afraid of Gampa, she quickly began to see them as a reliable friend. She enjoys their humorous comments, and enjoys teasing them, finding their reactions humorous, much to their chagrin.
===Erifa Kyrjan===
Nimbus and Erifa have only met once, but they quickly bonded over the mutual disappearances of their parents in their life following Fractus's arrest. Duster and Trida thought it was likely Erifa would bully Nimbus if they were to meet, but Erifa instead offered Nimbus support.
==Development==
Nimbus Zhantom was actually designed earlier than her sister Duster, even though she is not the main character of Kicking Dust. She was designed along with two other characters not in Kicking Dust as "future generation" ColdR characters, ColdR being another project by her creator. In her case, Nimbus was the child of Coralde Clua. The first traces of her existence are from early March 2020, and many details about her were quickly established - such as her bubbly personality, the fact she was an ice sculptor and her usage of cold winds. However, she was a regular human at the time, and it was with the help of ColdR devices in her clothing that she was able to manipulate cold winds. Her first design, drawn in the same month, was in fact already very close to her current design, albeit with a less organized hairstyle (though still cloud-like) and a lack of the wind patterns on her current design.
While Nimbus was at one point a regular human, she was retconned to be a "Valkyrie" during a roleplay. Valkyries are a precursor to Flydevins that are very similar in many ways, including their powers and general culture - the biggest difference aside from the name was that they lived in cities in tall areas and floating islands rather than the planet of Silanex. Her design did not change, but her powers were retconned to be a natural ability rather than one accessed through devices. This roleplay is also the one who introduced Duster, although she was an alternate universe version of her at the time rather than her sister, and one that was jealous of her. This led to very different interactions, and while Duster was originally very rude to her, they eventually reconciled, and in order to cope with two of them being present in the same universe, they began to see each other as sisters.
A later roleplay had the Valkyries renamed into Flydevins, with otherwise the same characteristics. This roleplay, however, did some changes to Nimbus that persist today still. Nimbus's parents were changed, making Fractus her mother rather than Coralde. Her father was not designed yet. In addition, Duster was made into her sister. Nimbus's hair was redesigned into its current form and the wind patterns were added to her outfit, which became the standard outfit for Powder Wind adepts. In this roleplay, Nimbus had an alternate identity where she donned an oversized hat, wore the outfit now used by Twister Wind adepts and went by the name Stratus Zhantom, who was male and had a scarecrow them. Stratus was in fact a redesigned version of her original father, who went by the same name. This identity came from her fear of scarecrows, which Duster had given her after pranking her a tad too much. Nimbus's fear of scarecrows is a leftover of this alternate identity.
When Nimbus was brought to Kicking Dust, her backstory and personality were not changed much, but her alternate identity was cut in order to focus more about Nimbus herself and her development. Her design was left unchanged.
==Trivia==
*Nimbus has an irrational fear of scarecrows. Just posing like one can send a shiver down her spine.
*Nimbus’s name comes from her cloud-themed design. Nimbus clouds were chosen in particular because they have a tendency to produce snow, forming a connection with her snow-themed abilities.
*Nimbus’s family name, Zhantom, is a reference to her wind powers, specifically her Smoke Winds - said type of Winds often being mistaken for dark magic by other Flydevins. Originally, there was more emphasis on the family’s ability to attack unseen with their wind-themed abilities, and the name referred to that, but the element was largely removed from the current version of the characters seeing as every Flydevin can manipulate winds.
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