Dash

Daniel Berrios Scott, more commonly known by his nickname, “Dash,” is a 16-year-old orange boy who is one of Antcruz’s most frequent allies. Having lived on Miracle Island his entire life, he has been one of Antcruz’s first friends since he moved to the island, and is also in a romantic relationship with Sarah. An aspiring athletic runner, having practiced for as far as time can tell, he is the fastest runner on the island and, rumor has it that he is one of the fastest humans in the world. Much like his girlfriend, he prefers to focus on his social life, school, as well as gymnastics, but supports and often aids Antcruz in battle, seeing it as a good opportunity to put his reflexes to the test and use his talents for the sake of justice. Generally being the most active among Antcruz’s friends, Dash is also a frequent player of basketball and loves energy drinks.

Backstory
Dash was born in Miracle Island on April 15, 2005, and since then has always grew up in the same home. Similar to Antcruz, his parents were a mixed-race couple; His mother was black while his father was Mexican. Even when Dash had just started watching television at an extremely young age, he was never able to watch cartoons or any children’s educational programs due to his mother’s impression that children’s entertainment would “rot his brain.” Instead, he would mostly watch sports programs and such, and ended up loving it, with the shows he watched becoming an inspiration for him to start running and playing basketball at age 4. Whenever the yearly olympics aired, it would be even more of a special event to him than even his birthday or Christmas. As Dash’s life went on, it began to take a bit of a left turn; His parents got divorced, with only his father left to raise him, and he would have a hard time making new friends during his first year at Miracle Academy, with his only friend at the time being Andre. To cope with the events, he joined Andre’s gang, the “88 Gang,” and was able to impress the other gang members and earn their respect with his fast running abilities, having practiced for about a decade now. Things would turn around yet again when Andre would accidentally cause major damage to a car and turn in the entire gang to the police, leading them to split up and part ways with each other. Even with his abilities still being well-respected, Dash would once again have trouble making friends until meeting Antcruz shortly after he had just moved to Miracle Island. Through his new friendship with Antcruz, he would also meet Sarah, who would soon end up becoming his girlfriend. After starting his relationship with Sarah, who was, at the time, the new girl of Miracle Academy who grew semi-popular and made many friends, he would find himself gaining more attention after it was announced that the two began dating, which caused him to gain more popularity and friends again. After finding out about Antcruz’s electrical abilities and watching him fight Ava for the first time, Dash decided to chime in by catching her off-guard with his speed, which would be the first moment he realized he could use his talents for the sake of justice. Since then, he has become one of the first and most frequent allies of Antcruz’s adventures.

Personality
While Dash is known for being fast, his attitude is rather slow, being perhaps even more laid-back and chill than Antcruz, with a hint of arrogance, although he has shown himself to be a bit more aggressive than Antcruz. He is clearly more judgemental, being easy to receive negative impressions on others, and doesn’t like being approached. However, he seems completely content with approaching others. He is arrogant in that he likes to brag about his speed and his accomplishments because of it sometimes, although this isn’t too frequent to the point where it irritates others. Although Dash has been perceived as hard to approach, he has been praised by his friends as being a nice person to have around and having a good sense of humor.

Appearance
Dash has an orange skin tone with brown, messy hair, with pieces of it obscuring his forehead and featuring a cowlick in the back. His eye color is forest green; His outfit includes a camouflage-patterned denim jacket which has a black 88 gang patch stuck to it; It is worn under a black tank top and grey sweatpants. He also wears grey and black sneakers. Although the 88 gang has long been separated, Dash still sports a custom jacket patch of the gang’s logo because, according to him, “despite our differences currently, that shit will always take me back, man.”

Antcruz
Antcruz and Dash’s friendship has had a somewhat rocky history; Antcruz has always had good will towards Dash despite the latter’s negative opinions on him at first, although the two would later fully settle their differences and become good friends, often going out on “Guy’s Nights” together (often used as a backup plan whenever Antcruz’s bed space is being occupied by Natalie during Sarah’s sleepovers.) The two are also often paired up for assignments at Miracle Academy and are often teammates when playing basketball together, their favorite sport. Dash is also a frequent ally in Antcruz’s battles, using his ability to run very fast to his advantage.

Sarah
Sarah and Dash have been romantically involved for a couple of years at this point. Similar to how his friendship with Antcruz started, Dash didn’t like her much at first, begrudgingly hanging out with her since both were friends with Antcruz, but Sarah’s charm and ability to bond with others would quickly get to him and their relationship would soon become stronger than ever before. The two care for each other more than anything else and go on dates very often, with dates being more common than Sarah’s sleepovers with Natalie. Sarah also has sleepovers with Dash occasionally.

Natalie
Dash has ounces of respect towards Natalie, finding her skills and reflexes in battle to be impressive, but gets a bit jealous of her due to the fact that Sarah hangs out with her so much. Although Dash generally likes Natalie, it’s because of this that he’ll jokingly make fun of her behind her back, with her playful and energetic personality, her crush on Antcruz, and her revealing outfit being subjects of ridicule. Dash has referred to her as “a badass with the body of a whore and the personality of a naive child.” Natalie’s attitude towards Dash is similar, liking to gossip about him occasionally, though this is usually just for shits and giggles rather than an act of jealousy.

Nia
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.

Trivia
- Dash is voiced by @d1scj4m___ from Twitter.

- Like Sarah, Dash debuted in 2018, but just shy of 2019. December 30, 2018 to be specific. This makes him the third (technically fourth, if counting Antlia) earliest character in the universe.

- A retired running gag involved Dash getting a cardiac arrest due to his energy drink addiction at the time. This joke even went as far as a scrapped video game.

- Said running gag originated from an early art trade with @parapadarappa33, specifically his half of the trade.

- The inspiration for Dash’s early obsession with energy drinks actually came from the official Pac-Man Twitter account. In mid-to-late 2018, the brand had a partnership deal with Red Bull, and for that time period, they would excessively promote this partnership on Twitter, tweeting about virtually nothing besides that.

- Dash’s real name was also originally “Danny” instead of “Daniel.” Huge change, I know.

- Dash’s original reveal was actually through his Scratch sprite that I had used at the time instead of a legitimate drawing. He is one of the only two characters to get this reveal treatment, the other being Nico (who was unnamed at the time.)

- Dash is the only one of the main four characters who does not have an official RP account on Twitter. He actually did have one for a relatively short period of time, but it has since been deleted. Interestingly, the account was also run by his voice actor, being the only Antcruz RP account to not be run by me.