Nia

Nia is Antcruz and Sarah’s pet and most prized possession. She’s a sector cat, a subspecies of the sector family, alien lifeforms that resemble animals on Earth that inhabit the planet Cyansector. The only sector cat and generally the only life form from Cyansector, or any other foreign planet for that matter, living on Planet Earth, she is filled to the brim with strange quirks, but is still understood by those who know and come across her. While she has no way of returning to her home planet, she is still very optimistic and energetic, loving Earth and most of the people around her. Since there’s nobody to look after her while Antcruz and Sarah are at school, she usually is hidden inside of Sarah’s backpack, or generally is usually seen beside Sarah.

Backstory
Nia’s exact date of birth is unknown, but it is known that she was born sometime in 4036 (or 2018, if using the Gregorian calendar rather than the Cyansector calendar.) As does every sector’s birth, Nia’s birth took place in the heart of the Cyansector Goddess’s sanctuary. Each sector is born there so they can be given blessings by the goddess to contain powers, allowing them to hover and spread auras. However, one of the goddess’s disciples went rogue while Nia was being blessed, an emergency which caused the goddess to lose concentration and accidentally grant Nia too much power to the point where she transformed into a shooting star, erupting into a burst of blue flames and rocketing into outer space, spiraling around the solar system continuously until she would finally hit the surface of the Earth; Coincidentally enough, during a meteor shower. Nia’s crash landing on Earth would cause her to lose most of her explosive powers; However, Nia still had enough power to the point where she could function like an average sector, and also being able to travel at higher speeds and having higher knowledge about life. She also previously had the power to be durable enough to survive such a crash, though this would wear off afterwards. That being said, Nia would still be heavily damaged from the crash. Luckily, Nia had crashed on the same hills that Antcruz and Sarah were hanging out on, watching the meteor shower and previously shaking soda bottles and spraying them all over each other. Antcruz and Sarah would immediately notice the fallen little creature and quickly take her home so they could nurse her back to health. The two were successful at nursing Nia and she would eventually feel completely better; However, although they had knowledge about sectors, they could not send her home since they had no association with the MISCC at the time. Likely, Nia didn't even have any knowledge about sectors either, since her crash landing took place when she was a newborn and she would not be able to remember her very brief time on Cyansector before her purification. Regardless, they agreed to take care of her for the time being, naming her “Nia," although they also decided to be careful with letting her around other humans since aliens on Earth were still something very uncommon and they didn't want her to be taken to be studied and possibly dissected. As the years went by, Nia grew to understand and love the world around her more, and Antcruz and Sarah would be more open to revealing her to their friends, seeing them as trustworthy enough. As for the Cyansector Goddess’s reaction, while she cannot bring Nia back due to her abilities being locked towards her home planet, she is still able to look down on Nia. Despite the dangers of her coming into contact with more untrustworthy humans and her parents missing her, both her parents and the goddess decided to not do anything about the situation, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Nia was happier and more familiar with Earth and that she was under good care of Antcruz and Sarah.

Personality
Despite being an alien creature, Nia notably behaves extremely similar to a normal cat from Earth (despite her form of communication being through sounds more reminiscent of squeaking rather than meows.) She is very cuddly, sweet, curious about human behavior and the world around her in general, and is dependent on and very loyal to her caretakers. Other cat-like qualities include her intense fear of dogs and her liking towards yarn and fabric (despite her dislike of cat food.) More quirks include her easy attachments to things that she likes, such as ice cream or objects with the color blue or cyan, no matter how safe or dangerous it might be. She also has a habit of shaking or making strange sounds at very inappropriate times, such as when she’s hiding inside of Sarah’s backpack (a time where she’s supposed to be in hiding from the rest of the Miracle Academy students.)

Appearance
Nia has a small, hovering, spherical “body” that is completely covered in black fur, a characteristic of all sectors that is used for warmth since Cyansector is the coldest planet in the solar system. Nia has long, flexible ears located on the back of her head that resemble spikes; These ears usually change position depending on her emotions, most notably being perked down more if she is upset. She has glowing, cyan eyes, a blue mouth with a cyan tongue, and a cyan bow, all of which change color depending on her emotions, although her emotions must be stronger than how she feels when her ears change position in this regard. She also emits a trail of glowing mist when she exceeds very fast speeds or gets overly excited.

Antcruz
Nia is one of the main things Antcruz looks forward to when coming home from school. Since he and Sarah found her and nursed her to health after her mysterious crash to Earth, Antcruz has always had a soft spot for his pet sector kitten and loves playing and relaxing with her, especially on long and stressful days.

Sarah
Sarah loves Nia just as much as Antcruz does, though Nia seems to have a stronger bond with Sarah than Antcruz, as when leaving the apartment, she is usually seen hovering right beside Sarah’s head or laying on one of her shoulders. She is also hidden inside Sarah’s backpack during school and usually sleeps in the same bed as her. This could be because Sarah had a stronger role in nursing Nia back to health when she crash landed on Earth.

Dash
Similar to Antcruz and Sarah, Dash had negative impressions of Nia at first, though this time, rather than annoyance, it was more of a feeling of fear. Dash was scared to death of Nia during his first few encounters with her, although Sarah was eventually able to reassure him. Though Dash now likes Nia for the most part, he still looks noticeably uncomfortable around her sometimes, not used to being close to an alien, and especially finds it annoying whenever Sarah brings her on dates.

Natalie
Aside from getting to see Antcruz, Nia is one of Natalie’s favorite parts of her sleepovers with Sarah. While she has a cat herself, she finds it much more interesting to see an actual alien in real life, and respects Sarah even more knowing that she’s able to raise and take care of one. Natalie’s bond with Nia is almost just as good as Sarah’s, though Nia, of course, sticks with Sarah instead, knowing that she’s her caretaker.

Nico
Meeting Nia during a get-together with the rest of Antcruz’s main five allies, Nico was able to quickly bond with Nia, with Nia sometimes accompanying him while exploring the northern side of the island (with Antcruz and Sarah’s permission, of course.) Nico finds her to be a useful ally, with her glowing eyes and aura making it more easy to see in the dark forest or generally any area during the nighttime, her being significantly better at looking for food, and her generally providing Nico with a sense of comfort whenever she can while he’s living in the wilderness.

Andre
Nia’s weirdest relationship is with Andre, with her notably unintentionally bringing out the worst in him on most occasions. Andre is among Nia’s favorites of the main six and is easy to attract attention from her due to his cyan skin tone, however, he chooses to use this to his advantage, attempting to kidnap her behind Antcruz and Sarah’s backs, seeing capturing an alien as a good opportunity to impress girls, though this usually doesn’t end up working out. (This is worsened by the fact that this would break his promise to Antcruz to keep her as a secret.) Andre can also prove to be a bad influence on Nia by demonstrating his drinking habits in front of her.



Trivia
- Nia is voiced by @MM_Solaris.

- Nia’s design is loosely based on a GIF (most commonly seen as a profile picture on Scratch) that depicts a creature licking the screen. Her original Scratch sprite, which was her first ever appearance, was just fully traced from this profile picture, but all depictions since then have shown her in a much more unique light, especially more recent ones.

- Nia is my first non-humanoid/anthropomorphic OC ever, including OCs preceding the current universe (2013-2018.)

- Although it’s been established that Nia’s a sector cat who originated from the planet Cyansector, this idea didn’t originate until around mid-to-late 2020, though the planet idea in general originated a lot earlier, around the conception of Antcruz Adventures to be specific, which was to be the debut of Planet Blossom and its royalty.