The three echidnas | Sonic

Knuckles

• Name: Knuckles
• Nicknames: Commander Knuckles, Handsome, Knux, Knuckle-head
• Gender: Male
• Height: 110 cm (3 ft 7 in)
• Species: Mobian/Echidna
• Age: 27
• Appearance: Knuckles is an anthropomorphic echidna with red fur that covers most of his body, a black nose on his peach-skinned muzzle, a white and crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest and sharp teeth (only visible when he is smirking or angry earlier). He also has a septet of dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of his head and a medium-sized and tri-crooked tail. Knuckles has purple eyes, a slightly taller stature and less defined cheekbones.
• Proportions: Knuckles has a slightly muscular body type. He has toned arms. He also has a eight inch male genitals, which are always hidden in his fur sheath.
• Attire (Default): For attire, Knuckles wears red and yellow shoes with green cuffs, light gray soles, and metallic and sextuple-bolted plates on top. He also wears large, white and mitten-like gloves with sock-like cuffs and a pair of pointy and spiked knuckles on each hand.
• Personality: Serious, unconcerned with nonsense, and stubborn, he has no patience for stationary work and prefers to be where the action is, unless the safety of the Master Emerald is at stake. Despite this, he is still an overall nice person in normal conversations.[40] Knuckles prefers solitude. He is likewise fiercely defensive and loyal to his homeland and prefers to stay there. Because of this, he refuses to let anyone else protect it, determined to do his job alone. As such, when anything bad befalls the island and its Master Emerald, Knuckles takes it very personally and blames himself for not being able to prevent it. He will also not allow himself to rest or take it easy until he is sure that his island and its treasure are safe once more. He also does not like having visitors on his island unless there is a crisis that require Angel Island. As soon as the crisis is over, however, he wants to see his island abandoned by the visitors as soon as possible. Despite his ties to his home however, Knuckles is very heroic and is willing to leave his duty whenever his help is needed in order to aid his friends as well as the innocent. As such, he has been known to open his island to the needy and defend those instead of the Master Emerald, just like he promised Espio during the Zombot apocalypse. He is also ready to make sacrifices for the good of all, as seen when he let himself get infected by the Metal Virus in order to keep a Zombot Shadow at bay.
• Powers and abilities: Knuckles possesses incredible strength, being as strong as Sonic is fast; with a single punch, he is able to pierce thick metal with ease or knock a person into the ground. Thanks to his experience, he is able to make good use of this skill. By stretching his arms and legs outwards while airborne, Knuckles can also catch the air under his dreadlocks to ride on it, allowing him to glide through mid-air. Also, by using the spikes on his fists, Knuckles can deal extra damage to his targets and scale any kind of surface with ease. He is also a great hand-to-hand combatant. Being the guardian of the Master Emerald, Knuckles possesses a special link to the massive gem. This link allows him to detect the energies and will of the Master Emerald, although this link can be disturbed.
• Affiliations: Resistance (formerly), Team Heroes
• Likes: Guarding the Master Emerald, Angel Island, Treasure hunting, Relaxing, Grapes, Shade, Tikal
• Dislikes: Injustice, Anyone who comes after the Master Emerald
• Skills: Super strength, Hand-to-hand combat skills, Wall climbing, Gliding, Extreme Gear riding skills, Sensing the Master Emerald
• Master Emerald: The Master Emerald is presented as a massive and green, brilliant cut jewel.
• Angel Island: Angel Island is a massive piece of land that is floating high up above the clouds on Earth, hence its name. This is owed to the Master Emerald, a giant jewel that is able to keep the whole island afloat whenever it is placed on its Altar. As such, if the Emerald is removed from its resting place, Angel Island will fall down from the skies. However, the island is not able to counter forces pushing it downward, such as the extra weight of the Death Egg. Either way though, Angel Island is still buoyant enough to float on top of the sea without sinking. The flora and fauna of Angel Island are not very out of the ordinary, aside from one area in which gigantic mushrooms grow. Noticeably, however, this has been the Chao's original habitat long ago. Topographically, the island has terrain that varies from plains to plateau-like in attitude. At the center, though, there is a line of massive mountains, with an icy alp and some volcanoes found there.
• Altar of Emerald: The Altar of Emerald is a large stone structure. Approximately 3,000 years ago, it was a beautiful and pristine structure filled with pure and clean water situated on solid ground. Back then, in consisted of two stone circles stacked on top of one another, with the top circle smaller than the one on the bottom, forming a two-story high structure. Notably, the first layer of the altar had a ring of bushes growing close to the walls of the second layer of the altar and a water pool surrounding the second layer on the first layer, with water flowing down the walls from there. In front of the altar was also a staircase leading up to the top platform of the altar. Up there, in the center of the top platform of the altar was a recess for the Master Emerald to rest in, with a shallow pool of water surrounding it. Furthermore, the top of the altar had a dome-shaped stone roof held up by stone columns around the edge of the top platform. Also, surrounding the the Altar of Emerald were two short stone rims filled with clean water, each forming two shallow basins around the altar. Notably, on the innermost of these rims were seven tall stone pillars, one for each of the seven Chaos Emeralds, circling the altar. In addition, growing in the outermost basin and circling the altar were eight lush palm trees. On the further edges of the altar were gravel on the ground. Lastly, surrounding the outermost circular perimeter of the Altar of Emerald were several stone pillars that one could walk between with stone bars on top of them, forming a wall of short around the altar, with the exception of the front which served as an entrance gate. Over the millennia, the Altar of Emerald fell into disrepair. In the present day, the roof on the top platform of the altar is gone, leaving only a few brown columns. In addition, the water basins around the altar have dried up and the bushes and palm trees are gone. Instead, their basins are filled with grass growing in them. Also, the seven Chaos Emerald pillars have mostly crumbled away, leaving few of them with high statures. Also, the stone pillars on the outermost circular perimeter of the altar are virtually gone, leaving but a few stumps of them on the ground. Lastly, the Altar of Emerald resides on a floating isle on the "coast" of Angel Island, which is connected to the mainland by a wooden suspension bridge. Just nearby the Altar there is a large vineyard of trees with grapes that knuckles will occasionally go to pick grapes from the trees.

Shade

• Name: Shade
• Nicknames: Procurator Shade, Shade of the Nocturnus (Codex), Princess of traitors
• Gender: Female
• Height: 105 cm (3 ft 5 in)
• Species: Mobian/Echidna
• Age: 26 (chronologically 4000+)
• Appearance: Shade is an anthropomorphic echidna with tomato red fur, a peach muzzle with a small black nose, and pink eyes rimmed by a patch of much lighter (almost white) fur. Each eye is paired with a single, short eyelash which curves off to the side. She also has seven dreadlocks with a lighter zigzag pattern near the ends hanging from around her head, and a zigzag tail.
• Proportions: Shade has slim, yet athletic toned and semi-curvy body type. She has medium and soft breasts being about D-cups with dark red areolae and nipples. Flat but soft belly. Semi-wide and childbearing hips. Not too large but not too small butt, balanced perfectly. She also has soft and plush thighs.
• Attire (Almost always wearing): For attire, Shade wears black full body armor, a black, gray, and pink helmet and armored boots, and gray and pink Leech Blade bracelets. Her helmet is shaped into two large horns that curve down, and underneath, she wears a black headband. Both her helmet and headband sport a pale pink Nocturnus sigil.
• Attire (Default): Any casual clothes, but she will still wear her usual black headband.
• Personality: Shade is a tough, disciplined, and somewhat noble figure. She is very loyal and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes is right. Trained in the arts of stealth and the use of powerful, high-tech weaponry, Shade is a deadly force in combat. As a former denizen of the Twilight Cage and high-ranking officer of the Nocturnus Clan, she is very knowledgeable about the races and places of that alternate dimension, and she is willing to help the team by telling them what she knows of Ix's secrets. She is quite impressed with both Sonic and Knuckles, and she fights alongside them to redeem herself for unknowingly contributing to Ix's plans for world domination, as well as showed high degree of care for them, especially Knuckles. Shade describes herself as a realist, having been trained to recognize when a situation is a lost cause, and is unwilling to waste energy on fighting the inevitable. Currently Shade is trying to understand stuff and everything in the Earth.
• Powers and abilities: Having been trained under the Nocturnus Military, Shade is a disciplined and powerful fighter. Even her clan's leader, Imperator Ix, holds her skills in high regards and acknowledges her as his finest warrior. Another testament to Shade's abilities is that she has proven herself capable of completing even the toughest missions she was given and without flinching. As both the agent and spy of the Nocturnus Clan's military, Shade is trained in the arts of stealth and infiltration, and is shown to especially excel on the subject, capable of sneaking through or behind even the toughest of enemies without bringing any attention to herself. Through her military training, Shade also possesses agility and speed to keep up with Sonic and the rest of the main cast both in combat and in chase sequences, and has high physical strength to match it. Shade is also very intelligent, though she is far from being a genius. As a high-ranking military commander, Shade is a very calculating strategist and can quickly determine the best course of action during missions. As an example, when she and her group confronted Sonic and his team in the Blue Ridge Zone and failed their original goal to kill them there, she triggered a rock slide as she withdrew that blocked the path to Metropolis, thus keeping Sonic and his team from advancing. Shade also has vast knowledge and understanding of the Nocturne Clan's operations and machinery, as well as the races and colonies within the Twilight Cage. Like Knuckles, Shade is a capable climber and can climb any kind of walls, no matter what material they are made of. When forced into direct combat, Shade relies on trickery and the technology in her arsenal to win her battles. With her equipment, Shade is can hold her own in a fight and is a deadly force in combat. To best put her fighting skills into perspective, she was able to defeat Knuckles in combat almost on her own by Knuckles' own words, with Knuckles beforehand beating all of her antourage, but stating that Shade was too strong for him.
• Equipment and weapons: Shade is highly trained in the use of the Nocturnus Clan's powerful high-tech weaponry. As with the other soldiers in the Nocturnus Clan, Shade's equipment focuses on improving her chances on her missions, be it either for stealth or for combat. When carrying out her missions, Shade has proven to use her various equipment with great efficiency and utilize their effects to the fullest. Her helmet she used to wear likely has the same capability as other Nocturnus Clan members, whom were unbothered while being fully submerged in water in Prefect Charyb's lair, likely allowing them to breathe there. Through usage of her suit's stealth features to improve her already impressive stealth abilities, Shade can literally pass by enemy eyes unnoticed and slip through major obstacles. Shade's weapon of choice is the Nocturnus Clan's trademark weapons, the Leech Blades. They are a pair of blades made of pink energy from Shade's wristbands that can leech off the opponent's life energy to replenish her own vitality, as well as noted to be able to ignore durability. Shade is noted to wield the Leech Blades with great proficiency and machine-like precision. Though not displayed very much, Shade is shown carrying and use explosives. She is shown using a black-yellow grenade as part of her and Knuckles' Echidna Rush that not only creates a diversion, but also damages her opponent. At one point in the story Shade used set up explosives to create a blockade in order to stop Sonic and his team from progressing. Like all the others in the Nocturnus Clan, Shade wears a Warp Belt. This advanced piece of technology allows Shade to escape from the Twilight Cage temporarily via creating a bubble of space around her, and to teleport short distances for infinite amounts of time. She is now able to escape the Twilight Cage forever.
• Warp Belt: When used, the Warp Belt creates a bubble of space similar to that in the Twilight Cage around the wearer. Within that bubble, the wearer can cross back to Earth, and it would be as if the wearer never left the Twilight Cage once he/she returns. The effects of the Warp Belt, however, are not perfect and the bubble will eventually wear off, thus forcing the wearer back into the Twilight Cage. Later it was upgraded allowing the wearer to stay in the Earth forever if they want.
• Relationship with Knuckles the Echidna: When Shade first revealed herself as an echidna, she left Knuckles shocked, because he thought that he was the last of his kind. But afterwards, Shade gets along well with Knuckles, as both of them seem to care for each other. For example, Knuckles went out of his way to save Shade from falling from Angel Island due to Imperator Ix's shockwave. Shade also was deeply concerned for Knuckles' safety, when the team landed on Voxai Colony Beta, Shade warned him of the Voxai's mind powers, not wishing to lose him.
• Relationship with Imperator Ix: Shade originally held much respect for Lord Ix, but once she found out his true motives, she abandoned him for using her people for his own benefits. Even after denouncing Ix's evil motives, she still holds some respect for his power as a leader.
• Affiliations: Nocturnus Clan (formerly)
• Likes: Sonic, Knuckles and their friends, Her ancestry, Imperator Ix (formerly), Thebes, The Kron, Tikal
• Dislikes: Imperator Ix, Deception, Unnecessary violence, Scylla and Charyb, Sonic and his friends (formerly), Dr. Eggman
• Skills: Enhanced agility, Enhanced speed, Enhanced strength, Hand-to-hand combat skills, Stealth & Invisibility, Climbing, High intelligence, Durability negation & Life-force absorption, Explosion generation, Distracted inducement, Teleportation, Limited Dimensional travel, Speed amplification

Tikal

• Name: Tikal
• Nicknames: Tikal the Echidna
• Gender: Female
• Height: 95 cm (3' 1")
• Species: Mobian/Echidna
• Age: 23 (chronologically 3,000+)
• Appearance: Tikal is an peach-orange-furred anthropomorphic echidna girl with a peach muzzle, a small black nose, cobalt-blue eyes with two medium-length eyelashes on each one, dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of her head and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail. During those years, she wore a white tank top which revealed her midriff and a traditional tribal skirt with beige, green, and red diamond patterns.
• Proportions: Tikal has a slender and semi-hourglass body type. She has a very small waist and wide hips and large and full F-cup breasts with dark orange areolae and nipples. Her legs are particularly toned and athletic-looking, with a noticeable curve in the calves and thighs.
• Attire (Default): As a sign of her lineage, she wears a gold armlet on her right arm, a gold necklace and a tiara-like headband atop her forehead, both of which were decorated with triangles and a light blue gemstone in the center. Her white gloves were adorned with thick, cobalt-blue bracelets around her wrists, and she also wore white-strapped sandals. Her dreadlocks and left arm were also wrapped with similar white bandages.
• Personality: Being raised under her grandmother's teachings, and having inherited her mother's positive nature, Tikal is a gentle, fair-minded and kind-hearted pacifist with a peaceful temperament. She severely opposes greed, violence, brutality and fighting, and wishes for everything to be in peace, harmony and tranquility. She is very devout to her teaching, never once resorting to needless violence, and will try to resolve conflicts by trying to sway people away from their destructive paths peacefully. While she abhors fighting though, Tikal is also a strong defender of peace and is not above helping others fight to protect the world and its people. She is as well a proud warrior of her tribe, implying she will fight herself when necessary, but only for the right reasons. Tikal is very caring, empathetic and compassionate about the people around her, being willing to put her own well-being on the line to keep needless harm from befalling the innocent, and is beloved by all. She is similarly very non-discriminatory, never treating anyone with prejudice, and is good at making friends with peaceful creatures; though she was frightened by Chaos at first, she found a way to befriend the foreign creature. Also, even when her entire warlike clan disapproved of her ideals, Tikal loved her people deeply and tried to talk them out of their violent ways and find a way for them to come to an agreement. When she failed to stop her clan's destruction, Tikal became determined to never let anyone relive such a tragedy. Also, despite Chaos' corruption and slaughtering of her clan, she still considered him her friend, showing a deep care and loyalty towards her friends. While Tikal only wants everyone to live in peace, she tends to have moments of oversight while trying to achieve it. She often chooses the quickest path that will restore immediate peace, rather than what might restore harmony in the long run and be for the greater good of everyone involved. Still, Tikal is well-meaning in her intentions and she is quick to forgive and forget. After somehow being resurrected Tikal has developed trait to easily become overjoyed and overexcited over new things; as she described a burger from burger kind as 'This is a gift from the GODS', but sometimes she over tries things like Jack Daniel's whiskey.
• Powers and abilities: Despite her pacifism, Tikal is a trained warrior of the Knuckles Clan, meaning she possesses combat skills befitting her tribe. She is also noted to be very quick on her feet, surpassing the running speed of Knuckles and Rouge. In addition, she can climb, glide, and burrow. Tikal is one of the few known people who is able to access and utilize the powers of the Master Emerald on her own by using the mantra of her grandmother, allowing her to harness its various abilities. She is also the only known person so far who is able to understand Chaos' language.
• Affiliations: Knuckles Clan (formerly)
• Likes: Nature, Peace and harmony, Tranquility, Chao, Her people, Knuckles, Shade, Trying new things
• Dislikes: War, Greed, Violence, Brutality, Fighting
• Skills: Speed, Combat skills, Wall climbing, Communication with Chaos, Grinding
• Relatives: Grandma (grandmother, deceased), Pachacamac (father, deceased), Unnamed mother