Zalika the Jackal

Classy, outgoing, and sometimes a little bit too flirtatious, Zalika the Jackal, or Zalika Anubi, is the daughter of a wealthy real estate and travel mogul. Originally hailing from the sandy deserts of Shamar, Zalika has lived all around the world to accommodate her father's business dealings, which has formed Zalika's outgoing personality. Now residing in the Chun-nan countryside, Zalika has found that her new friends have inadvertently trust her right in to their heroic adventures... and Zalika loves it (so long as they can wear awesome outfits while doing it!)
==Character==
===Personality===
WIP
*talkative
*appearance-conscious, sometimes to the point of extreme vanity
*confident (and overconfident), outgoing and popular, yet lonely due to relocating often.
*open with her own emotions and feelings. Can be overly emotional, and becomes exasperated easily.
*Selfish—comes from being doted on and being an only child. Has difficulty putting other's feelings and needs before her own. .
*Excellent at people-reading and is an excellent communicator. She can jump in with any conversation.
*Observant
*Enthusiastic and energetic
*Independent to a fault
*Spontaneous-difficulty focusing
*Poor practical skills
*Curious- loves to experience new things
===Appearance===
Zalika is a tall and slender jackal who takes great pride in her appearance. Her clothes are always in style, her makeup fierce, and a bad hair day has never dared confront her. Zalika's colouring is a dusty tan colour, with her fingers, toes and her fluffy tail tipped in black. She also has a black patch on her back, with dusty white colouring on her underbelly and on her long pointed muzzle. Due to her desert-dwelling heritage, nearly a quarter of her height is made up by her tall black-tipped pointed ears Her eyes are icy blue and rimmed in black, the points extending down onto her muzzle and under her hairline. She tends to keep her inky black hair cut into a short bob, as to make it easier when she has to wear a wig in her modeling career, with long puffy bangs curling down to her nose. Her claws are always neatly filed down and painted.
Zalika's style is whatever fits with the latest fashions, or whatever her modeling agency is being paid to have her wear. She tends to gravitate towards dresses for all occasions: the more bling, the better. Black and gold are her favourite colours to wear (black never goes out of fashion, and gold is classy and attention-getting) but she has no trouble wearing any colour combo, so long as they compliment her well. However, no matter what she's wearing, she tends to accessorize with various Egyptian-styled trinkets that she's collected over the years, whether it be a scarab necklace or an eye-of-Horus earring set. When she's helping her friends with an adventure, her magical Egyptian talismans take a much larger station in her fashions, just in case she needs to release an ancient curse for the occasion.
==History==
===Backstory===
Zalika spent her early years growing up in the most densely populated desert city in Shamar, spending nearly every day with her Grandfather Alim, whom she simply knew as Grandpa Dusty, while her father was working night and day to advance his budding real estate and travel business. A former archaeologist and current scholar and antiquities shop owner, Alim would regale his granddaughter with stories of his adventures and greatest finds in Shamar and around the world, and telling her the stories behind the small treasures he displayed in his shop. Alim was the first to recognize the magic spark inside Zalika when she accidentally mispronounced a spell written on a scroll in his shop and set the curtains ablaze, and took it upon himself to copy out spells he had come across and coach his granddaughter to use her magic properly. Zalika still recalls these early days of stories and magic as some of the happiest in her life.
Zalika was six when her father's company really took off, and this started her almost nomadic life as she and her family were forced to move from one extravagant rented villa to another all around the world as her father established office after office in almost every major city. Though the family's quickly-accumulating wealth afforded Zalika every luxury she could imagine and found herself mingling with the children of the rich and famous at lavish parties and events, being constantly uprooted made it difficult for Zalika to form long-term friendships. Her parents long hours at the office left Zalika feeling lonely, and she would spend much of her time alone penning letters back home to her grandfather, as he had no patience for new texting technology, and practicing the spells he wrote back to her about.
At nine, Zalika was first exposed to the world of modeling, when she was photographed for advertisement posters and pamphlets for her father's company. Though initially she was simply happy to get to spend time with her father at the office as he flipped through the photos with her to decide which ones to use, the experience sparked her interest in modeling and fashion. She thoroughly enjoyed dressing up and taking photos both in the studio and out on location, and, of course, certainly didn't mind all the extra attention it afforded her. Zalika continued modeling all throughout her later childhood, through her teens and into early adulthood. She never considered it as work, but more as a well-paying hobby that afforded her early access to all the latest fashions and looks. Being the center of attention for so many years, and always being thrust into new situations and locations led to Zalika being able to develop strong people-reading and communication skills, but this did little to ease her loneliness from a lack of true friends and access to her family. She has become somewhat conceited and selfish, as she has become used to putting herself first in her daily life.
Most recently, Zalika's family has settled at a stately villa in the Chun-nan countryside, right next to a major city and a small-town orchard. It was at a photoshoot here where Zalika met her current closest friend Jade the Tiger when the tigress was catering the shoot with her mother. Realizing that they were practically neighbours, as Jade lived at that small-town orchard, Zalika did her best to try to quickly form a relationship with her, questioning her about "normal life" and her friends, and anything else she could think of (much to the tigress' hidden annoyance.) Zalika would make an effort to invite Jade to her photoshoots and parties in the cities, while all the while attempting to influence Jade's style to become... well... less frumpy. While completely unrealized to Zalika, Jade was somewhat annoyed by all of these attempts to meddle in her lifestyle, and the tigress decided to instead drag the jackal into her world. Zalika was introduced to Jade's friends who doubled as a sort of heroics team, and Zalika was pleased that she was finally given a real reason to practice and use her magic (much to Jade's surprise.) Though only a part-time member of the group, Zalika appreciates feeling like she belongs somewhere, and that she can do some good in the meantime, beyond spreading her fashionable know-how to the less fortunate.
==Powers and Abilities ==
===Magic ===
TBA
===Night Vision===
TBA
===Speed ===
TBA
===People-reading===
scary good. Some think she can read people's mind to figure out their thoughts.
==Interests==
===Fashion Design===
TBA
===Normality===
TBA
===Antiquities and Ancient History===
TBA
==Weaknesses==
===Vanity===
Zalika takes great care in her appearance, to the point of obsession. She has to be in full makeup and attire to simply walk down the front steps to pick up the newspaper. This can be very time consuming, and not exactly conducive to adventuring. If she's ever out and about without a less-than-stellar look, Zalika's confidence takes a huge hit.
=== Physical Weakness ===
Zalika is simply not very strong, and is in no way a trained fighter. If unable to use her magic to protect herself or as an offense, she has no useful role in a sticky situation (unless she manages to be able to talk her way out of it.)
===Magical Drainage ===
Zalika is still just a sorceress-in-training, and prolonged use of her magic or difficult spells can be a huge drain on her stamina. She will need to sit out for a while when she becomes depleted before she can jump back into the fray.
==Relationships ==
===Family ===
Zubaida Anubi (Mother): Zubaida was born to a high-bred family, carrying herself with all the grace and confidence of a queen. However, Zalika has always found her mother to be a bit distant, as she seems to show more interest in hosting dinner parties for the rich and famous than in her daughter's activities. Through Zubaida's teaching, Zalika was able to become very gracious and outgoing, easily carrying on a conversation with anyone, but disapproves of her daughter's wilder party-girl side.
Aamir Anubi (Father): Aamir is a self-made man (jackal), owning one of the largest travel and real estate businesses in the world, with offices in nearly every major city. Keeping tabs on his business means uprooting his family often to wherever he has a major deal occurring, or simply if a celebrity needs extra attention when deciding upon a new over-seas villa. Zalika loves her father dearly, and he her, but his schedule often keeps him away from home, and the fact that his work causes the family to move so often has caused some tension between the two. Zalika's modeling career started when she was but a pup as a poster-child for the company's advertisements, and when not busy with fashion contracts, continues to be the company's face to this day. She also sometimes accompanies her father to the office on less critical days, and Aamir takes pride in the fact that his daughter continues to show interest in the "family business."
Alim "Dusty" Anubi (Grandfather): Zalika has very fond memories of her grandfather from when she was a small pup. A former archaeologist in the Shamar region, and current scholar and antiquities shop owner, Zalika always enjoyed sitting on his lap in his shop, listening to his stories about the treasures he had uncovered. He copied down ancient spells and magic that he'd found in his study of papyrus scroll documents and passed them on to his granddaughter before she first left the country so she could start to harness their magic. Though she rarely sees him anymore due to her family's constant travels, Zalika enjoys exchanging letters with him back and forth (as Dusty has no patience for those new-fangled text messages) so she can relay her own adventures, and inquire as to the goings-on at his shop. Zalika often thinks that if she wasn't busy as a model, she would have liked to be an archaeologist so she could uncover the secrets of the past as he grandfather had.
===Friends===
OPEN FOR FRIENDS
* Jade the Tiger: TBA
===Acquaintances ===
* Unnamed multidimensional robot: A random multidimensional robot (resembling a Dalek) at one point teleported to Chun-nan, planning to meet Jade and her team and Zalika, where it will ask and dare them to do many things. WIP
===Romantic Interests ===
OPEN FOR SHIPS
===Enemies ===
OPEN FOR ENEMIES! (I'm sure she's annoyed someone to the point of being enemies.)
==Quotes==
*"Please don't tell me that that is what you're planning on wearing to the party?"
==Trivia==
*Zalika's birthday is November 30.
*Though her creator only tends to make one OC per fandom, Zalika is her second Sonic OC.
*Zalika's name means "wondrously beautiful" or "born into power" in Arabic.
*Zalika's surname, Anubi, is a play on the Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis. Anubis also has the possible meaning of "royal child."
Zalika the Jackal.jpg|Zalika's original digital drawing (2014)
How's the Weather Down There.jpg|Hilariously, this jackal is taller than the worlds largest cat
Makeover!.jpg|Zalika is finally given the chance to give her pal Jade a much-needed new look
Strike a Pose!.jpg|Jade the Tiger and Zalika can't even go to the beach without Zalika posing for a picture.
Chun-nan Dumplings.jpg