Duster

:Lucky redirects here. For one of the members of the Runaway Five, see Runaway Five.
Duster is one of the main playable characters in Mother 3, first appearing in Chapter 1. He is an amateur thief residing in Tazmily Village.
==In Mother 3==
===History===
In his childhood, he studied various thief techniques from his father, Wess. It is hinted at that his crippled leg was a result of Wess pushing him too hard in his training. He is also mostly nocturnal, being active during the night and sleeping during the daytime.
Duster first appears in Chapter 1, when Flint needs assistance in scaling a cliff. Wess suggests that his son should be able to help him out with his thief techniques, and sends Boney out to search for him. When Boney gets to his house, he is fast asleep, and Boney resorts to dragging him across the ground to the scene. Halfway there, Duster wakes up and follows Boney to where Flint and Wess are. He uses his Wall Staples to climb up the cliff, and Flint proceeds with his search. Duster is also present in his party for a short time. After leaving the party, he is the first person to see Flint outside of the prison and consoles him about Hinawa's death.
He later appears in Chapter 2 as the main playable character, and has been sent out to Osohe Castle by his father to retrieve the Egg of Light. Wess gives him the remaining five techniques to use, as the situation is very urgent. Wess does not tell him the specific item he needs to steal, however, and Duster ends up retrieving the Noble Spittoon at first. On the second trip to Osohe Castle, Wess accompanies him, and they also meet Kumatora inside. As soon as they successfully retrieve the Egg of Light, the traps set up in the castle activate, and Duster and the egg go missing.
Three years later, a mysterious bassist known as Lucky started performing with DCMC. Various villagers who have visited Club Titiboo comment that Lucky very closely resembles Duster, who had gone missing without a trace three years ago. Kumatora starts working there to find out for herself if it really is him, and she learns that Lucky apparently had no recollection of anything before three years ago, causing her to suspect that he is an amnesic Duster. Lucas visits the club and meets up with Kumatora there, and she asks him if he could speak with Lucky and somehow jog his memory to see if he really was Duster. Even after speaking with Lucas, he does not remember anything, but decides to join him anyway, leaving the club to search for the lost Egg of Light that might contain his memories. In Chapter 5, Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, and Boney end up finding the Egg of Light hidden away inside an old Clayman, and upon recovering it, he regains all of his memories.
After getting separated from the rest of the party at the end of Chapter 5, Duster ends up in Saturn Valley, where the Mr. Saturns there look after him until they are all caught and interrogated by Pigmasks. By beating the Pigmasks in the valley and their Frightbots, Lucas is able to reunite with Duster, who continues to be a party member for the rest of the game.
In Chapter 8, in the MT Apartments, it is revealed in Leder's speech that Duster's role in Tazmily Village's "story" was to retrieve the Egg of Light in case an emergency occurred, and to act as Kumatora's retainer. He gets the chance to perform as Lucky with the DCMC one last time at the 24th floor of the Empire Porky Building, but is knocked out of participating in the game's final boss against the Masked Man. He afterwards witnesses the pulling of the final Needle, and is implied to be among the crowd of people surrounding the player in the darkness after the end of the game.
===Special abilities===
:Main article: Thief Tools
In battle, Duster can use these infinitely-reusable items related to his thief skills that cause negative effects to enemies:
*Wall Staples: Pin an enemy down, making it unable to move for a few turns if successful. Outside of battle, he can place wall staples to be used as ladders to climb certain cliffs and walls.
*Smoke Bomb: Makes one enemy cry uncontrollably.
*Hypno-Pendulum: Puts one enemy to sleep.
*Siren Beetle: Makes one enemy turn around and make them waste one turn.
*Scary Mask: Lowers one enemy's offense.
*Tickle Stick: Lowers one enemy's defense.
He also owns a Rope Snake that he purchased in Chapter 2 from a ghost in Osohe Castle. He uses it to latch onto various objects, such as swinging from a mounted candlestick, or holding onto flying objects, until he loses it during the events of Chapter 7.
Duster has a small chance of performing random actions at the start of battles before the turn starts, such as attacking a random enemy or flipping behind an enemy, if he was snuck up from behind.
=== Gallery ===
Duster M3 Sprite.png|Duster|Normal Duster
Duster wall staples.png|30px|Duster with his Wall Staples.
Lucky.png|Lucky|Duster when he lost his memory under the alias Lucky.
File:DUSTER RAIN.png|Duster (middle right), as he would have appeared in EarthBound 64.
==Trivia==
*Duster is a part of the set of characters who love cheese, and recover more HP from Peculiar Cheese.
*If the player gives Duster the name "Lucky", he will instead be named "Gorgeous" when playing for the DCMC (both of these names are reference to the two of the members Runaway Five.
*As Lucky, he wears a black wig when performing at the Empire Porky Building, instead of the brown one he left behind. An older man NPC at the show can be seen wearing his old wig.
*Duster only has a single Sound Battle hit sound, but there are others in the sound data for the game which are not correctly applied to him. This was restored through hacking in the version 1.2 patch of the Mother 3 fan translation.
*Duster's combo attack sound being a bass guitar is a reference to the fact that when a member of the DCMC, he played the bass. 
*In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Lucas has an alternate costume with a color palette that resembles Duster's.
*Additionally, in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the alternate costume returns, and Duster is also featured as a Spirit with an associated Spirit Battle. In it, you fight an alternate costume of Luigi who has a preference towards kicking moves and is fought in a foggy arena, resembling Duster's Smoke Bomb.
*In an unused set of dialogue intended for the elevator ride leading to the New Pork City underground, Duster notes aloud that neither he, Lucas, or Kumatora have a living mother. He mentions that his mother, who is not mentioned at all in the final game, died long before the events of the game. He also concludes that although his memories are fabricated, Wess must truly be his real father.https://tcrf.net/Mother_3/Unused_Text#Block_807_-_Elevator_to_Beneath_the_Empire_Porky_Building_.28Map_326.29
==References==