Ebony the Jackal (Pre reboot)

**Ebony the Jackal** is OC made by Pokemon Mercenary#7110 on discord. She is an anthropomorphic jackal and a member of Infinity as well as a former member of the Eggman Empire

## Ebony the Jackal

* Current (Infinity)
* Debut (Eggman Empire)

### Relatives

Endless (Found sister)
Rain the jackal (mother)

Eggman (Creator)

### Affiliation

Eggman Empire (formerly)Team Infinity (currently)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Unknown (original) Eggman Empire Base (current)

## Appearance

Ebony is an anthropomorphic jackal with black fur. She has a bushy tail with four silvery blue tips, silvery blue, stiff dreadlocks and silvery blue stripes on her back resembling a ribcage with two stripes on each of her arms.She has a silvery blue, messy fringe that she obscures part of her right eye. Formerly, she dyed the silver-blue coloured fur white, something she has since stopped doing. Cybernetics have replaced her eyes, ears, muzzle and hands. Her eyes are angular black screens with teal lights that can mimic eyelids and pupils. Her ears are metallic with teal glowing circuit lines and teal studs on the back. Her muzzle is metallic with a small x shaped scar in the lip, cheek tufts and purple screws.

While a part of the Eggman Empire, Ebony wore an Eggman Empire styled uniform, consisting of slate coloured fingerless gloves with visible lining and silver bands, a violet, long sleeve shirt, with a dark vest with Eggman style "white square strip" running down the centre and four white strips with yellow buttons over it and silver buttons, above dark grey pants with zips down the legs, and black boots with silver soles and a white strip running down. She also kept her fringe clipped up and her dreadlocks tied with a scrunchy.

Currently, she wears dark, fingerless gloves, exposing sharp metal claws, with visible lining, metal plating and a control panel on the palm of the right glove, black platform boots styled after Infinite’s high tops, burgundy spiked braces on her wrists and ankles, a purple shirt with torn off sleeves, dark grey shorts with zips on the legs, a studded belt with Infinity’s logo on it, which she uses to holster her knives and aerosol canisters, and a tattered white scarf.

## Personality

A mischievous child at heart, Ebony is cheerful more often than not. She is vocal, easily excited, impulsive and overconfident, often talking down to enemies and thinking very little of her peers in the empire. She is also rather fickle and untrustworthy to those outside of her faction and even within the empire, thinking nothing of harming those outside her factions that she has grown close to and sneaking out and going on personal missions behind the doctor’s back. Although she is eager to fight, she does have some morals, being unable to kill. However, once she began talking with Endless, she became more friendly and cared deeply for those of her faction that she’s close to, something that was amplified upon joining Infinity.

Despite her overly positive and confident nature, when placed in a dire situation that she can’t fight her way out of, this positive shell can crack, exposing her more timid and vulnerable side, something that can be seen when, upon realising that trying to battle or capture Vanguard would be a death sentence, she began trembling and practically begs the mercenary not to hurt her. Despite this, she is fiercely loyal and protective towards Infinity, Endless in particular, wanting to help emotionally and mentally, while willing to lay down her life to defend them. Despite this childish demeanour, she harbours a darker desire for anarchy and destruction, relishing in the idea of crushing her enemies under foot and thinking nothing of harming an innocent stranger to get her way. She can also be manipulative, using her cute looks and words to trick others into doing things in her favour. She is also rather morbid, growing excited at the idea of gruesomely dismembering her enemies. She’s rather fond of her cybernetics, due to them being the reason she’s healthy and capable of battle and is excited at the idea of getting further modifications. She’s also determined to prove herself, being deeply frustrated because of her illness and her small stature. She often prefers to keep the details of her illness to herself, believing it isn’t important enough for anyone to know, due to it being managed by her cybernetics, and also not wanting others to know, not wanting to be pitied or seen as weak. As of now, the only ones who know the full details of her conditions are Eggman and Endless, the former so he could treat her, the latter due to feeling comfortable enough to talk about it with. However, she can also be heavily in denial regarding her own well-being if her friends are in danger, often doing her best to convince them not to be concerned, even if she’s halfway to breaking down. In addition, her positivity is often toxic to herself, to the point that she will deny any form of negativity or even an emotional breakdown, chalking it all up to being nothing more than a glitch in her cybernetics causing her to act irrationally. The thought of being abandoned or rejected is one of the few things that can break down her positivity, to the point of her having mild separation anxiety, which can send her into a panic if shes separated from those she care about for too long. Due to having undergone months of complete sensory deprivation, Ebony fears being locked away again. This overprotectiveness and fear of being alone can result in Ebony resorting to drastic and bloody measures to ensure her team is safe. Should anyone in her team get hurt, she will not stop until she inflicts her terrible vengeance on them. Not knowing anything about her past, she is somewhat unsure of her own memories. Having no friends before Endless and having little to no memory of her life before the war, at her core, Ebony is, a lonely child who will do anything to cling onto her family.

## History

### Past

As a young child, Ebony heard tales of the Jackal squad, shaping her desire to become a mercenary and join them, looking upon them and Infinite with awe. However, due to faulty genes, Ebony developed an illness that caused caused her body to be more frail than usual. Due to this, her dreams were more or less dashed. When she heard of Jackal Squad’s destruction, her hope had reached an all time low. Eventually, her illness had grown more severe, to the point where it appeared that, even with treatment, her condition continued to degrade. Due to this, her mother left, leaving her alone with her father.

During the war, which would claim her father’s life, Ebony sought aid from the Resistance after getting seriously injured. Upon recovering enough, she partook in the war but was captured by Eggman. After some time, she was executed. Her remains, combined with the scrapped shadow androids, were used to create a cybernetic replica. However, the new “Ebony” was later on scrapped and recycled to make another copy after it attempted to betray Eggman. This would repeat numerous times, with the memories and personality of each Ebony being passed down to the latest version, eventually arriving to the current Ebony, who would eventually succeed in betraying Eggman after the doctor himself admitted he made her too self aware. In order to keep the cybernetic jackal under control, Eggman had her memories of her past extracted and replaced with false memories, so she remembered seeking aid from the resistance and getting turned away and joining Eggman willingly to gain cybernetics for a lethal condition which caused internal necrosis which, in reality, was caused by her organic parts being from a long deceased body that was reanimated with cybernetics

Although she worked now on the same side as her hero, the two never interacted much, something that slightly saddened Ebony. After the end of the war, Ebony was heartbroken at Infinite’s disappearance, not knowing where he was. Due to failing during the war, Ebony was punished by having her cybernetics locked up, resulting in total sensory deprivation, and was locked away inside of a storeroom.

### Aftermath

Months of solitude later, Eggman let Ebony out in order to fight in the new war. Despite wanting to be useful and to be noticed, Ebony was only ever sent out as support for other members, rarely getting a chance to be used. Due to this, Ebony viewed less and less of her faction, sometime trying to run away or sneak off on her own “missions”. As a result, multiple times, the doctor has had to punish her through locking up her cybernetics and storing her away, experiences that would continue to affect her. Any interactions with her fellow soldiers were limited to work talk during missions. As a result, she never made any friends in the Empire.

During another day, she eventually caught Endless, while training. She interrupted the clone and the two began talking and bonding through their experiences running the course. Upon learning more about her collar, Ebony was sympathetic and considered running away with Endless. When Endless shot down the idea due to her collar, she agreed to stay with Endless and make the best of their situation.

Days later, the two received a mission together to get details regarding the zombots’ status, during which, the two got to know eachother together, talking more in depth about their pasts and insecurities, growing closer as a result. However, their peaceful time together would be interrupted by the arrival of Maple within his APC. Upon the destruction of multiple egg pawns, the two jackals ambushed Maple. However, the wolf was hardly phased by the two. Instead of fighting however, two three elected to resolve things diplomatically, unfortunately allowing Maple to download the necessary files. Despite this, Ebony wasn’t bothered. However, Eggman wasn’t happy. Despite the doctor’s displeasure, Ebony and Endless were not punished.

During her free time, Ebony began talking with one of the guards in the empire, Roffy. The two got along alright, despite Roffy’s concerns over her age and her job. Eventually, their discussion turned to Roffy’s sister and his concern about her in the virus. Due to this, Ebony decided to go and find his sister, Rosie, and bring her somewhere safe. However, during the rescue, Ebony failed and Rosie got infected. Feeling guilty, Ebony ensured Rosie was locked in a comfortable room and lied to Roffy about her condition.

Later on, feeling frustrated by not being used in battle and wanting to try and better things for Endless, Ebony went on a solo mission, without Eggman’s knowledge, to the abandoned Resistance HQ and retrieving information off their computers. She broke into the HQ via forcing a hole into the roof. Although she managed to get the information required, the hole in the roof allowed zombots to break into the HQ, forcing Ebony to flee deeper into the base, eventually forcing her into locking herself into a storeroom.

Luckily, for the cyborg, her break in attempt has alerted Infinity, prompting Vanguard to go and investigate. Mere moments away from being discovered by a zombot, he managed to intervene and destroy the zombot. After briefly scolding her for her recklessness, Vanguard lead Ebony out of the HQ, answering some of her questions and offering a place in Infinity, due to her stealth and confidence. Upon breaking out of the HQ, Ebony took a moment to reply to Endless, who had been calling her out of concern for her safety. Ebony reassured Endless that she was safe after being saved but asked that she didn’t join them, out of fear that fighting Vanguard would only result in the two jackals getting hurt. Still suspicious of the wolf, Ebony questioned his motives and what was stopping her from calling reinforcements, which Vanguard answered that he would have already captured or scrapped her if that’s was his intention, ending with a nonverbal warning with his shotgun to not attempt to capture him with reinforcements and a reassurance that he wasn’t going to harm her after the warning managed to scare the jackal into submission.

As the two waited for a little more time, the Akhundelar, which Vanguard had called up prior, rolled up near the building the two were hiding on top of. Noticing this, Vanguard told her to climb up on to his back, allowing him to get the two into the tank safely. Ebony was quickly impressed by the tank, even more so after hearing that it was stolen from the resistance and modified even more so. After telling Vanguard who she was talking to earlier, he said that they could bring Endless,

## Powers and abilities

Due to being enhance with cybernetics, Ebony is physically resilient and is capable of taking attacks that would usually result in lethal damage without serious damage. Having her respiratory tract, along with multiple organs replaced and the rest of her body reinforced, Ebony is immune to toxic substances, inhaled or otherwise. However, there are no further benefits for combat at this moment in time, something that may change after further upgrades. She also has experience in combat and infiltration, being able to break into locked down buildings and sneak away or towards enemies for surprise attacks. Her battle style specialises in incapacitation, allowing her to quickly end a battle against an average soldier quickly.

### Weapons and equipment

Ebony also wields a pair of knives, which she nicknamed Shock and Awe, which she utilises in combat. Her proficiency with them seems to be rather good, being able to defend and attack confidently. In order to gain the upper hand in battle, her left knife, Awe, holds a canister, which can be removed or dispensed. This canister is interchangeable but is usually filled with smoke dispenser or pepper spray, allowing Ebony to spray her opponents in order to escape a bad situation. Similarly, the left knife, Shock, has electrodes hidden in the bottom of the hilt, which can be used to stun her enemies or, when paired with certain aerosols from Awe, can create an explosion.

## Weaknesses

Ebony’s main weakness is her own frail body. Despite her immense durability, her organic side was heavily dependent on her cybernetics to stay alive. The reverse was also true, as her cybernetics were dependent on the heat and kinetic energy her organic body supplied. As such, she still suffered from some weaknesses of an organic being. Should her cybernetics get too badly damaged, she would be unable to keep alive. Furthermore, if her organic body was badly damaged, depending on severity, some of her less vital cybernetics, such as eyes, ears and more or less all joints that grant her mobility, may temporarily deactivate, putting her in a vulnerable, sleep like state, in order to focus energy in healing her injuries.

Furthermore, most of her strength is dependent on momentum. If Ebony was restrained and unable to move, she will most likely be unable to break free. However, it is for this reason which she carries pepper spray and other aerosols with her, along with having electrodes in her knife, serving as a short range taser.

## Relationships

### Endless the jackal

Ever since the two met, Endless has become Ebony’s closest friend, with their bond becoming sisterly. Upon their first meeting, Ebony attempted to cheer Endless up after a training session had left her frustrated by showing her some of her old training footage and giving Endless encouraging words, being impressed by her abilities, something that Ebony felt were more real than her own, due to them being a result of Endless’ own power, while the young jackal’s abilities were a merely a product of her cyberization. Before long, the two jackals fully trusted eachother, being able to talk openly about their insecurities and comfort eachother, being one of the few people Endless felt did not look down at her due to her collar and Endless being one of the few people Ebony felt comfortable discussing her insecurities regarding her illness and her desire to be noticed by Infinite.

As a result of Endless being her first real friend, Ebony is fiercely protective over her, not wanting her to fight against the potential threat in Electric Egg Zone alone and being willing to reject her offer to join Infinity as to ensure that Endless wouldn’t face punishment from Eggman for insubordination alone. This fondness and protectiveness became the cause of Ebony’s hatred for Eggman due to his cruel treatment of her. Upon the destruction of Endless’ collar, Ebony felt joy and relief for her, happy that she wasn’t trapped anymore.

### Vanguard

Although the two met while in enemy factions, Ebony trusts Vanguard fully and looks up to him. After Ebony’s plan to break into the Resistance’s HQ lead to her getting cornered by zombots and Vanguard getting alerted to the security breach, the two formed an uneasy alliance after the latter destroyed the zombot that was closing in on the former, something which greatly unnerved Ebony. Although she feared and somewhat resented him, something that only grew upon learning of his faction, any hostility was soon replaced with pure fear when Vanguard non verbally warned her against trying to call for reinforcements against him after breaking out of HQ. However, this too also faded into trust and gratitude for saving her, trusting him enough to try and convince Endless that his intentions in helping them were good

After learning more about Vanguard, and the two talking somewhat about their motives for joining the Eggman Empire, Ebony finally felt like she could call him a friend. Upon the destruction of Endless’ collar, Ebony felt immense gratitude towards Vanguard and Infinite, now seeking to repay them in any way possible

### Infinite

Throughout her life, Ebony had always looked up to Infinite, wishing to join his squad as a young child. Upon hearing of Jackal Squad’s destruction, she was greatly saddened. During the war, while she still saw Infinite as her hero, this wasn’t enough to stop her from seeking help from the resistance, although, this is most likely due to desperation and the resistance being seen as the safer option, more than anything. Upon being killed and reanimated in the form of multiple copies, leading to the current version, she was excited at the prospect of fighting alongside Infinite. However, the two scarcely interacted, much to Ebony’s sadness. Upon the end of the war, the cybernetic jackal was heartbroken by Infinite’s disappearance and remained with the Empire. The lack of interaction and the unfulfilled desire of him seeing her as a valued teammate would later serve only to fuel her insecurity around being noticed.

When the two finally came head to head again, Ebony had a rather timid yet polite disposition, becoming nervous and referring to him as ‘sir.’ Upon not getting recognised, dashing her hope of him remembering her, Ebony felt slightly disheartened but didn’t let it show, instead hoping that she can be seen as important to him later on. Upon the destruction of Endless’ collar, she felt immense gratitude for both him and Vanguard.

### Banshee the canary

Upon first meeting Banshee, Ebony was rather wary and distant. However, this was due to the stress from the training simulation and being more focused on helping Endless recover from her breakdown. Despite this, she showed curiosity at Banshee’s claim that they were family.

### Eggman

Despite willingly joining Eggman, Ebony didn’t seem to like him all that much. She joined him out of necessity and, had it not been for her dire circumstances, would not have joined him at all. This has resulted in numerous failed escapes. In spite of this, she did ensure that, the few times she was sent out on a mission, she’d complete it as well as she could, knowing that failing or pushing her luck too far with the doctor would cause him to punish her, usually by disabling her cybernetics, rendering her completely paralysed, blinded and deafened, and having her stored away, a punishment that usually leaves her shaken when she’s finally reactivated. However, instead of this ensuring her obedience and loyalty as the doctor hoped, all it accomplished was ensuring Ebony was more careful during missions and working out how far she can push her luck. While she feared punishment, she never feared Eggman himself and only really showed fear when the possibility of punishment was brought up.

However, this dislike would later be replaced with hatred upon defecting to Infinity, due to the pain he inflicted upon her family, Endless especially. Due to this, she thinks little of betraying him and wishes to watch him and his empire burn once the war is done.

## Trivia

* Due to her cybernetics, Ebony is unable to taste food, something she is rather sad about.
* Ebony has been shown to be fluent in Russian. This fact was inspired by the real life fact that golden jackals are a LC species in Russia.
* Despite her tomboyish personality, Ebony seems to have a love for Romance, finding Banshee and Banshee’s relationship adorable and often spying on the two.