Trip the Sungazer

Personality: While Trip initially seems rather sinister in appearance with her armor, she is quickly shown to be very non-threatening, worrisome, and clumsy, as well as being the most under-credited of the trio, with all the credit going either to Fang or Eggman even in her few moments of success under their lead. Despite being depicted as an antagonist at first, it is made clear that there is a degree of good intent in her from the start, as evidenced by her expressions of sadness whenever she sees nature being mistreated before her eyes, like when Eggman steps on some flowers or when Fang captures a giant Flicky. In truth, Trip is a docile and empathetic sungazer girl, that gets easily shy by the simple gaze of anyone to her face if not using her characteristic helmet, and has a sensible side, bursting into tears when in desperation and also being innocently friendly to anyone who approaches her without malice. As seen with her interactions with Amy, and later the rest of Team Sonic, Trip is willing to open up to anyone who shows kindness to her. Although sensible and with a heart of gold, even Trip has her limits on tolerating villains. After being hurt by Fang one last time, Trip finally lost her patience and revealed her face in front of everyone, finally deciding to fend for herself after being encouraged by Amy's kind actions. Past this point, Trip braves up and is more willing to fight for what is right, as shown when she willingly uses the Chaos Emeralds to turn into her Dragon Form to stop Fang and later in her own story where she sets out on her own to protect her home when she notices Eggman's robots are still around. She also seems to have knowledge on ancient magic powers, as seen when she impulsively uses the Chaos Emeralds' power without question and later uses the Black Onyx to seal the Black Dragon. When Trip isn't wearing her helmet, she seems to be significantly less clumsy and much more capable, implying that the helmet might be impeding her abilities when she wears it. Though she sides with the heroes in the end and gets braver, Trip is still very shy, still putting her helmet on in fear when noticing strangers and generally leaving her helmet on most of the time, only taking it off when she's either around her friends or when she goes off to stop wrongdoers on her own. She also seems to put on her helmet to hide strong emotions, such as when she puts on her helmet after blushing when her friends celebrate her return after defeating Fang in her story. Despite this, Trip is easily overjoyed over having her new friends. Trip is shown to be cheerful, whimsical, and energetic when around familiar faces. She is also shown to feel bad and belittle herself for failing to do her job as a guardian. It is shown that Trip dislikes wearing her armor, as she does not like how heavy and clunky it is, and only wears it because it is ceremonial to do so. While her age is not confirmed, the IDW comics reveal that she is younger than Knuckles and is often referred to as a kid, likewise acting child-like in her actions

Physical Appearance: Trip is a curvy orange-scaled anthropomorphic sungazer with black eyes and peach skin covering her muzzle and arms. She has two eyelashes on each side of her eyes, a small brown-pointed horn on her muzzle, three yellow spikes across her brown scales area, which rounds from her forehead above to her "hair" back, and a brown and orange zigzag-striped tail. She also has two ear-like bumps on both sides of her head For attire, she wears a brown and yellow zigzag-layered dress-like sleeveless shirt with a gold patch on the chest, white gloves with gold cuffs that possess two studs, black tights, and orange shoes with gold toes that possess two studs and brown cuffs and heel-squared regions. As for Trip's armor, it consists of blocky bronze pieces attached to her cuffs, a bronze bucket-like helmet with black circular eye lenses that has gold frames, a darker row of three gold spikes on its front and studs, a bulky bronze armor with studs on the waist front covering her torso, and brown shoes with circular bronze pieces attached to her cuffs and blocky bronze soles with studs on the toes

Abilities: reach heights that some others cannot. Despite her clumsiness she can be quite agile. She also has the ability to stick to both walls and ceilings with her spiky exterior, allowing her to roll up a wall, scale different surfaces or climb on a ceiling. Trip is also capable of breathing out a small fireball on her own without a super form (as shown with her extra Emerald ability). Weapons and equipment In Fang's Big Break, Trip is seen provoking Fang with a spear before tripping on a vine and dropping it, causing the jerboa to snap it with his foot. In the main game, Trip is seen with multiple triggers for different traps and a trap door. It is likely these traps were provided by Eggman or Fang and that Fang forced Trip to activate them for him, as Trip struggles with activating them properly and generally doesn't seem to have much technological knowledge, leading to them all backfiring. Dragon Form By using the seven Chaos Emeralds, Trip can enter a Super State, transforming her into her Dragon Form. In this state, all of Trip's abilities far surpass her normal ones. She is also able to fly, breathe streams of fire, and is invincible.