Sandstorm

### **Description**

This quirk gives the user allows the user to transform their entire body into sand, providing a remarkable defensive ability. The user can also manipulate the sand they generate freely, shaping it into various forms and using it to attack, defend, or restrain their opponents.

Due to its transformation nature, the user can quickly avoid attacks by turning into sand and reforming elsewhere. The user can also create sand clones or extend their limbs with sand, making it a versatile quirk in battle.

The quirk's sand manipulation ability also allows the user to control any sand in their vicinity, even if they didn't generate it themselves. This feature gives the user a great advantage, as they can manipulate the sand in their environment to their advantage, like creating sandstorms or increasing their defense.

The emitter version of Sandstorm is Sand Manipulation, which allows the user to generate sand from their body without transforming. The Sandstorm user, however, can generate more sand, but they must be careful not to overuse it and weaken their body.

### **Weaknesses**

If the sand becomes wet, it crumbles away and the user will not be able to properly control the element. The sand can also become glass if heated enough, but this can be used as an advantage.

The transformation nature of the quirk means that if the user generates too much sand, it can weaken their physical body. The user must take time to regenerate the lost body parts.

### **Quirk Moves:**

* **Sand Zoom** Users use their Sand to propel the user to fly. The user can use this to attack faster, block and dodge.

* **Gathering Assault** This move increases the hardness of the users sand, creating a gigantic weapon in an instant. The weight and size of these shapes are so great, they can easily shatter bedrock and break through most defences with a single hit. Because the weapon is made out of Dreamsand, the shape can be whatever the user wants, and can even be changed during the fight. This allows the user to create the best weapon for the fight, by taking into account the opponent's abilities and the surrounding environment.

* **Gathering Assault: Drizzle** It is a gunshot-like attack which uses sand hardened into minuscule grains to attack simultaneously across a vast range. The bullets are so fast that they are difficult to see. The moment the user has finished preparing the attack, evading it becomes extremely difficult. Furthermore, the user can also use an attack pattern where the Dreamsand bullets are shaped into sharp needles, increasing their ability to wound or kill the opponent.

* **Imperial Funeral** The user causes a considerable quantity of sand to erupt from beneath the surface, by placing both of their palms onto the ground directly in front of them, before manipulating the resulting substance into a wave of tidal proportions.

* **Imperial Funeral: Quicksand Waterfall** Using sand, the quirk user grinds up rocks and minerals underground into a huge volume of sand that they then bring above ground. The earth shakes as the sand surfaces, which the user then manipulates like a tsunami. This then crashes against targets. Targets are battered multiple times by the waves of sand as it spreads throughout the area. When the sand settles, the landscape is dramatically altered, taking on the appearance of a barren desert.

* **Air Wall** The user creates a thick barricade around an area in order to block incoming aerial attacks, whilst using hand gestures to dictate the shape that the barrier adopts.