Beruli Tei

Beruli Tei is a Mineral Winds adept Flydevin with a happy-go-lucky attitude. She is best friends with Duster Zhantom and Trida Kyrjan. She seems to mainly focus on cheering up other Flydevins, and seems to have a strong dislike for wars and similar conflicts. She is a supporting character in Kicking Dust.
==Appearance==
Beruli is a 20-year old woman with dark skin and blue hair tied into two long, pointy pigtails. It is rather straight, with tufts around her forehead and the top of her head. She is rather muscular, albeit not as much as the likes of Duster or Fractus. She has a few scars as a result of sparring with other Mineral Winds adepts. At 5’4 feet, she is shorter than average for a Flydevin, though not to the extent of Duster.
Beruli wears traditional attire for Mineral Winds adept, which includes a grey sleeveless shirt, and in her case, shorts with a rock-themed pattern on it. She’s also generally seen wearing grey gloves and shoes, which are useful when it comes to manipulating rock without accidentally cutting or damaging her skin.
==Personality==
Beruli is a very cheerful person. She is very extroverted and tends to be friendly, even towards strangers. She can keep petty grudges towards her enemies, though she’s generally quick to forgive them. When her friends are sad, she will attempt to cheer them up. She is also very curious and loves to learn new things. However, it goes without saying Beruli is not a flawless person - she's shown to not be great at seeing boundaries and generally assumes everyone to be as extroverted as her by default.
==Powers and Abilities==
Beruli is an athletic martial artist who uses her powers to fight at a mix of close and long range, being able to quickly swap positions depending on which one is more advantageous. She generally prefers to use weapons, particularly a set of dual “Spire Spears” made from stone.
Beruli, being a Flydevin, is capable of manipulating winds through Wind Arts, and can create rocks from mineral dust in the air as she specializes in the Mineral Winds subdivision. This gives her a variety of rock and wind-themed powers:
*Spire Spears: Beruli generally uses her powers to create two lance-shaped rocks called the “Spire Spears”. Aside from being able to hit hard with them at close range or perform stabs, she can also launch them at foes, and can use the winds to perform a variety of fancy advanced maneuvers.
*Menhir: Beruli can alternatively create a larger, two-handed version of the Spire Spears, though she generally only uses it if she needs to hit really hard seeing as it can’t be launched nearly as easily.
*Terra Shield: Beruli can create rocks in order to block attacks coming towards her, which is especially useful when she needs to approach foes that fight from a distance.
*Flight: Beruli can use her winds to fly. She’s slightly better on land than on the air, however, though she can comfortably fight in both environments.
*Wind Agility: Beruli can also use her winds to increase her mobility in general. She can run faster with them, perform high jumps, slow down her falls, or even just throw herself directly at or away from foes.
*Dirty Tricks: Although she generally prefers to not use these, especially during more friendly spars and competition, Beruli’s mineral winds enable her to pull off plenty of cheap moves. She can create and throw dust at people’s eyes to blind them, for example, or she can create rocks around their joints to weight them down and making it harder for them to move.
==Relationships==
===Duster Zhantom===
Duster Zhantom is one of Beruli's best friends, often hanging out with her and Trida as well as occasionally sparring during matches. When Duster went unconscious after witnessing a war, Beruli watched over her and was concerned for her. She is also aware of Duster's liking of marshmallows. She also came to assist Duster during her final fight with Fractus.
===Trida Kyrjan===
Trida is Beruli's other best friend, though the two have not been seen interacting with eachother very much seeing as Duster is the main character of Kicking Dust. Beruli is aware that Trida has to take care of Erifa and has wondered how the latter's been doing.
===Teliru Tei and Coarbel Lignate===
Beruli's parents are Flydevin Warriors and therefore often have to fight in wars, which have had heavily negative effects on their health and attitude. This encouraged Beruli to take on her happy-go-lucky attitude to cheer them up as well as other Flydevins affected by the war. While they have not been seen interacting very much, it can be assumed she gets along well with her parents and that said parents treat her well.
==Development==
Beruli was originally created as a roleplaying character, precisely to flesh out the cast of characters surrounding Duster, being made alongside Trida. She, Duster and Trida form a trio of characters that exploit Mineral Winds in different ways, with Beruli being the "medium-range" one, hence why she has the middle height out of the trio and why she uses weapons like spears to fight. She was always happy-go-lucky and her design saw little to no changes during development, although she was originally a "Valkyrie" rather than a "Flydevin" - Valkyries being an earlier version of Flydevins.
Beruli's exact relation to Duster and Trida, however, had changed quite a few times. Initially, the three were friends and sparring partners, like they are right now, but during Kicking Dust's development, it was considered to turn the three into a polygamy. Later on in development, however, Beruli was reverted to a mere friend, with only Trida being Duster's girlfriend, before they were reverted to "just friends". However, during the writing of Kicking Dust, it was at one point considered to make Beruli and Duster become girlfriends, although this was cut as it would distract from Duster's development and derail the current plans for the series. The possibility of Duster, Beruli, and/or Trida becoming girlfriends in a later instalment has not been ruled out yet, however.
==Trivia==
*Beruli’s name is taken from Iberulites, one type of mineral dust that forms in the air, referencing her powers. Her family name, Tei, does not have an origin and was simply made on the spot.
**Beruli's nickname was originally going to be Carrot, after the shape of her pigtails, but it was changed to Broccoli due to the vegetable's name being similar to her own name.
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