Border Collie

**Debut** | TBA

**Border Collie** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Northumbelle from the planet Anuhæsit.

## Appearance

Border Collie is a dog-like humanoid alien, with fluffy black and white spotted fur covering his entire body, small floppy ears, a diamond-shaped nose with a small mouth containing a long pink tongue underneath, long arms with stocky legs, hook-shaped nails, and a large bushy tail. Border Collie wears a tan collar around his neck, patterned with brown stripes with a brown tag extending from the center of the front of his collar.

Border Collie wears the Simplicitrix on his collar tag.

## Powers

* Border Collie can manipulate any kind of barrier, whether they may be physical ones, such as shields, barricades, or force-fields namely used for defensive purposes, or conceptual ones, like mental barriers, emotional barriers, or dimensional barriers, able to strengthen or weaken them through influencing their vulnerability or penetrability, making it so he can phase straight through inescapable ones like they weren't even there, or make a barrier as a mundane as a wooden door capable of stopping bullets with ease.
	+ Border Collie can create his own barriers, although not by ordinary means, such as encasing himself in energy or telekinetically manipulating his surroundings, but instead transmuting whatever his paw pads make contact with into a barrier, causing them to extend outwards into a flattened shape into whatever sort of configuration that he desires. Border Collie can exaggerate and amplify the preporties of whatever he turns into a barrier in order to make them more defensive, such as making a barrier made out of lead able to outright reflect any and all radiation that comes close.
	+ Border Collie can manipulate armor using his barrier abilities, as armor technically serves as a barrier for the wearer underneath, but he must multitask in order to do so should the armor in question be too complex in nature, as he cannot manipulate too many separate pieces at a time.
* Border Collie has enhanced durability, endurance, speed, agility, stamina, senses, specifically hearing and smell, and tracking.

## Weaknesses

* Border Collie has more primitive instincts, meaning he must chase and run after any balls, sticks, and small creatures that come his way.
* Border Collie has less than average levels of strength compared to other species, relying on the defenses his abilities can provide.
* Border Collie's barrier manipulation requires more and more concentration the larger the barrier is in question, and the more conceptually integral they are, such as dimensional barriers, requiring Border Collie to train himself in order to fine-tune his control over them.
* Border Collie's barrier transmutation not only requires hand-to-hand contact in order to activate, but the fact that he can amplify the preporties of them in order to enhance their defensiveness means he can unintentionally amplify disadvantageous preporties too, such as flammability.
* Border Collie's armor manipulation is nowhere near as naturally proficient as Clothurnixes and Xenarthrapods.

## Etymology

* Border Collie's name is a play on "border," referring to his abilities, and "border collie," a breed of herding dog.
* Border Collie's species name is a play on "Northumbrian," as border collies are a Northumbrian breed, and "Belle," the name of Blake's former border collie.

## Trivia

* Border Collie comes from the same planet as Paws Button.
* Border Collie was drawn and suggested by Shark, with his base made using one of Blitzwulf's concept art designs.