Oh... what the hell!
Character Name
Sonic the Hedgehog
Alignment
Chaotic Good
Character Speech Color and Font
Georgia, Blue
Powers and Abilities
Superhuman Speed – For many years Sonic has exhibited the ability to accelerate his movement beyond what is seen as physically possible. This is due to his attunement to the Speed Force through a scientific incident which allows him to well beyond the sound barrier and perhaps beyond if pushed to his limits.
Superhuman Reflexes – Sonic’s perception and physical reflex to incoming action is impeccable allow his instinctual reactions to be not only cohesive but second nature to him. This includes speed-propelled acrobatic skills, agility, and unorthodox fighting form that allows him effortless mobility in his environment.
Chaos Affinity – The magical energies of the chaos emeralds are not new to Sonic, though he is hardly the most knowledgeable in the science behind the mystical artifacts of Mobius. He however is capable enough to use this affinity for the chaos emeralds to transform into a higher being that allows him to move faster, levitate, and limited invulnerability. However prolonged use of this form is dangerous as well as entirely temporary.
Character Origin/Major Events
Origin
The origins of Sonic the Hedgehog date back to the arrival of a Human by the name of Doctor Robotnik, a career scientist and inventor who sought out new applications for his technological theories. Initially he came to Sonic’s childhood home on South Island when rumor had it that the remaining chaos emeralds had been uncovered in the area which the scientist had been seeking for a long period of time. It was here that Robotnik met Sonic as a child, who was an exceptionally adventurous and energetic aide to the scientist who most other Mobians found themselves distant from. Sonic found a kind-hearted man who wanted to discover the power of the emeralds not just for himself, but for everyone believing the possibilities were endless with such a clean and limitless energy. Sonic agreed to help the scientist in turn with helping him in his goal of becoming faster so he could find out what had happened to his family. Thus the duo traveled all across South Island from lead to lead until they gathered the remaining chaos emeralds and returned to Robotnik’s laboratory.
With the seven chaos emeralds gathered the test was prepared to begin in Robotnik’s laboratory. The true and mystical nature of the emeralds would prove too much for the laboratory as well as the two individuals within it as the test turned destructive and a volatile blast of mystical energy ruptured through time and space. This energy would be the one to grant Sonic his renowned superhuman speed and Robotnik a sort of intellect that the people of Mobius who declare “techno-sorcery”. However, Kintobor had been at the brunt of the negative energy exhibited by the emeralds and found himself not kindhearted and sane anymore— but quite the opposite. Remodeling himself as the deranged “Doctor Eggman”, Sonic would awaken to see the man he had called a friend turned into a being of pure evil. Even then he knew that protecting people from what he may have caused was his responsibility.
Eggman was equally as intelligent (perhaps moreso) as he was before, but it was here that he strived for the opposite of what he once did as he turned into a megalomaniacal psychopathic inventor who hated the society of Mobius. Sonic’s first adventure would be stopping his plots on South Island before Robotnik looked outward to the rest of the planet as he saw his prototype synthetics known as badniks that used base animals as a power source were not enough to create his army— he needed larger and more competent beings as a base and he knew where to find them.
Events
- Following the events on Kronos (aka Time’s “Little” Planet), a young Sonic is aided by a child prodigy named Miles “Tails” Prower who believes with the proper time and equipment could reverse engineer Dr. Robotnik’s technologies. However, this is brought to a pause when the scientist prepares to launch a new battle station that the mobians come to call the Death Egg. Sonic & Tails manage to delay the launch but not before the platform crashes on Angel Island, home to the Guardian known as Knuckles the Echidna.
- Dr. Robotnik tricks Knuckles the Echidna into believing that Sonic is after the “chaos emeralds”, mystical artifacts that hold great power and potential similar to the Stones of Time. After much conflict, Robotnik’s diversion is realized and the trio work together to destroy the Death Egg and all of Robotnik’s research with it or so they think.
- Robotnik resurfaces and begins using his newly designed organic roboticizer on adult mobians and doing damage to several nations amongst the land. Sonic & Tails join a resistance movement led by Jonny Lightfoot before Sonic’s old acquaintance Amy Rose joins them as well. Together they defeat Robotnik on his new base of operations, The Metallix.
- Sonic and his allies find themselves in a distraught scenario when it appears Robotnik has found the chaos emeralds during a Kronos-eclipsed moon. What would become next would bring them to a new world and vastly different problems…
Why this character?
First fandom, first comic book I read, and because I can.
What can you bring to the RPG?
I’m going to take a page out of Byrd’s book: you know, you don’t care, and deal with it.
Sample Post
The arrangement for the consul of “Freedom Fighters” as the group of mobians called it were to meet in the Mystic Ruins. The ruins—as old as they were happened to be a sort of ancient wilderness where it would be fairly easy to detect technological activity as the only settlements across the archaic jungles were small villages and hamlets originally hoping to live in peace away from the arm of aristocratic politics. In a way it was rather ingenious for Tails to set up shop in the Mystic Ruins though it did come with a danger as well. Isolating themselves as a base of operations made them an easier target for Dr. Robotnik’s raids if he had ever thought to attack them straight up if they become more trouble than they were worth. In addition to the Egghead himself the Mystic Ruins was home to a variety of creatures that the ancient civilizations call “obelisks of beasts” – but maybe all of that great monster stuff was a lot more story rather than reality? Sonic didn’t want to take his chances personally.
Tails believed the best course of action was to be quiet and careful about their approach; if they were going to do more damage to the good doctor then they couldn’t make mistakes or risk lives of other mobians by setting up shop in a severely populated settlement. As far as the other freedom fighters were concerned—it was an agreeable choice… to everyone but Johnny Lightfoot. Lightfoot never felt comfortable near anything that smelt of the abhorred technology that Robotnik created and Tails for the most part was the second coming of the man as he held several inventions he created to counteract Robotnik in addition to having a lot of Robotnik’s technology lying around to be studied by the two-tailed fox. Johnny was just too absorbed in his own emotional hatred, though Sonic understood his feelings given the circumstances. But sometimes you needed to chill out and take it in stride.
It is for the greater good. That’s something everybody could agree on. Sonic leaned back against an old pillar that came up from the tall jungle grass on a slight slant. It was pretty sturdy for its age and it gave some good support as Sonic looked over the rest of the freedom fighters that had gathered together. In addition to Johnny Lightfoot and Miles “Tails” Prower they also had a pretty good assortment of problem solvers. Amy Rose was a sort of odd one who devoted her time to two things: being Sonic’s “number one fan” and being the best expert they had on the Mystic Ruins and its folklore. He had pondered what threw him off about Amy but it definitely had to do with her interest in the weird sort of things—sorcery, evil spirits, soul reading… the girl was a bonified freak; but she was kind of cute.
Speaking of cute there was also one more lady of the group—but this one was more experienced in reconnaissance and combat. Definitely more on the Johnny Lightfoot side of personality problems and in a way she kind of scared Sonic personally. Sonic wasn’t sure if her real name was Honey or if she came up with it to push aside all of her past connections. Robotnik had ruined a lot of people’s lives and she happened to be one that was affected by that. Her skills were… pretty much in martial melee fighting and Sonic had once heard a story from Tails that she had taken down a tank-type badnik in one single punch. Scary stuff.
The meeting outside of Tails’ workshop was going pretty much how he had expected it to—Johnny and Honey wanted to physically hurt things right now, but Tails insisted on giving him more time as he scanned the island with what little power he had from the workshop, and Amy was studying some type of item that she believed had ties to the ancient people who lived in this valley for whichever reason. In a flash all of this impatience, study, and observations came to a sudden halt however when a loud noise cut through the nearby mountains with a sound that Sonic couldn’t quite describe—it was so loud and painful to hear it shook his very being. As the sound drew closer the rocks of the mountain in front of them by about a good mile or so was tore open from the inside by what Sonic immediately recognized as a new invention from Robotnik himself.
THWOOM!
“So he’s managed to rebuild his metal boat and make it fly, huh…” Sonic muttered under his breath.
“What is that?!” Tails said as he shot a glance toward this… thing.
“Whatever it is; it smells like Robotnik.” Sonic quipped before the rocks attached to parts of the emerging vessel began to drop—and drop hard they did.
“Look out!” Sonic yelled as he narrowed his brows—the rocks could crush his friends if they didn’t take cover now. It was a good thing he was the fastest thing alive.
At least everyone was okay.
The thought passed the blue hedgehog’s mind in as he looked down at the ground of friends in front of him—rocks smashed into the ground behind him. Looking back, Sonic’s green eyes caught the large hole that had been part of a mountain only moments prior. What a mess. Shaking his head, Sonic’s eyes moved to the gargantuan flying machine that was above them by who knows at what length and he knew there was only one thing that they could use to cut off Robotnik’s flying machine and he spoke a question without skipping a beat.
“Is your new invention ready, Tails?”
A wild grin became present on his face, “The Tornado? You bet.”
“Good.” Sonic switched gears to his other mobian friends,
“I’m going to need you guys to check the area for badniks, if I’m even thinking on the same wavelength as egghead up there he’s going to be dropping them—and there’s a few villages in this area.”
Johnny nodded, “Shouldn’t be too tough.”
After the group separated Tails led Sonic as fast as he could through the crevices of an old ruin that Tails had been using as a makeshift storage space which is where his newest invention was. Sonic knew Tails was a heck of an inventor and one who was obsessed with a lot of the old designs Kintobor brought with him to Mobius that honestly if it had not been for the one accident would’ve done Mobius a lot of good. Sonic remembered just sitting at the feet of Kintobor as he regaled him in rich imaginative stories that mobians only dreamed about. Tails was an obvious fan of Kintobor’s first meetings with mobians and the first technologies he built for them as a show of good faith that he was here as a well-meaning outlander and not a destroyer of worlds. If only… Kintobor could have stayed that way. With a wide grin Sonic tapped his foot whilst he looked at the young fox.
“Can it catch eggman?”
“It
should be able to.” Tails admitted, which inspired a long sigh from the hedgehog.
“Are you serious? It should? We need it can!” Sonic protested in a huff.
“I’ve never actually gotten the time to test it, Sonic! Everybody wants results on Robotnik so I don’t have a lot of time for my pet projects, jeeze!”
That was a fair point. Sonic nodded,
“Yeah, okay—let’s go. Start it up.” He said as he jumped on one of the long wings of the device.
“….okay then.”
