Garris

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Sheriff

**Garris** is a character in **Sonic Forces: ARC Infinity** who after quitting teaching at a Technological Institution became Westopolis' Town Sheriff and Silver's right hand man for his led Resistance during the Silver Dimension Invasion. He serves as the deuteragonist during the Silver Dimension Arc and as a reoccurring character starting with the Shadow Dimension Arc.

Despite being a teacher at a Technological Institution, Garris is a simple minded individual who does not like doing complicated things and instead solve problems with minimal effort as possible. Garris used to teach at a Technological Institution where he met Voltar where the two had heated philisophical disputes. The disagreement ended in Voltar being expelled from the Institution and Garris quitting instruction there and instead taking up the job of Metropolis' Town Sheriff so he can, in his own words, "bring bad people like Voltar to justice".

## Appearance

Garris, even for his age, is an average build anthropomorphic hound with dark blue eyes, gloves and shoes, purple fur and tail, peach skin and a pair of large ears that extend to his shoulders. Garris wears a formal coat with buttons with a zipped jumpsuit worn underneath. During his initial appearance he is briefly shown wearing a police hat with sunglasses.

## Personality

After leaving the Technological Institute he used to teach at, Garris developed a bitter, cold and withdrawn personality. He resents the idea of making friends and prefers working alone and as a sheriff he shows outmost authority when confronting criminals and even some civilians. He sees all criminals he arrests as irredeemable crooks that would go nowhere in life and should stay incapacitated for the rest of their lives.

During the Silver Dimension Invasion, he gets attacked by a group of robots that broke into the prison he was guarding that contained Nero and Voltar. After being saved from the robots by Nero, he ignores his intents of saving him, believing it to be gratuitous as he forcefully takes back his Cube Wispon from Nero and re-incapacitates him using it, taking him to a hideout Silver established and later purposing it as the Resistance headquarters.

When Garris had to relieve Resistance leadership from an injured Silver and after enough conversations with Nero and Voltar, he sets aside his differences with both of them and befriends the two knowing they need to work together in order to defeat Metallix and his army as well as rescuing as many civilians as possible. Shortly after assuming Resistance leadership, Garris is given a shard of the Phantom Ruby by Silver who warns him not to let Nero get his hands on it at any cost. Despite forming an alliance with Nero and Voltar, he remains uneasy when interacting with either of them.

## Weapons and Abilities

Unlike others, Garris is not very agile. He cannot jump high distances and his speed is lackluster in comparison to Nero and Voltar. Because of this he adopts a slow and highly defensive fighting style that sees all of his combat being done at ground level. He never approaches enemies before they do and instead waits for the opposing side to strike first.

### Cube Wispon

Garris uses a Cube Wispon as enlisted when joining the Westopolis Police Force. With it Garris can summon bulks of cube objects that he can use as a shield, platforms or as projectiles. He can also use the Cube Wispon itself as a hammer that Garris can throw as if it were a boomerang or to simply swing and hit enemies and to launch cubes with.

When pursuing Nero and Voltar, Garris can use the shield characteristics of the Cube Wispon and summon a cube directly around a victim, trapping them inside the cube. Garris can also shrink the cube along with whatever is inside of it to hand size, freezing anything in it in time, which Garris conveniently uses when capturing suspects.