Echidnas by MintStarMari on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Due to the many continuities and plot holes in the Sonic series, I have my take on these echidnas.

In real life, echidnas are unusual mammal animals that are hard to find. They resemble hedgehogs and are known for being the only known mammals able to lay eggs along with platypuses.

In my Sonic take, mobian echidnas are an endangered species as well. Most of them were either killed or imprisoned in the twilight cage. These are five of the few known remaining echidnas on Mobius.

*Tikal: The eldest of them chronologically but biologically 14. She comes from 4000 years in the past as she sealed herself inside the master emerald with Chaos turning her in a half spirit fairy echidna. She was released four millenniums later. Sees something on Knuckles.

*Julie-Su: A descendant of Tikal's tribe. Her arm and dreadlocks aren't roboticized but rather just wears mechanical accessories for help. Unlike in Archie, she doesn't have a crush on Knuckles and her past wasn't that tragic.

*Knuckles: The best well known echidna in the Sonic fandom. His family descends from the few survivors of Tikal's tribe and he is the last of his family (Locke died prior to Sonic Adventure and Lara-Le and others are currently sealed in the twilight cage). Guards the Master emerald at any cost and has a close bond with it.

*Shade: She is not a descendant of the Knuckles clan, she comes from the nocturnus clan. Is a good friend of Knuckles and a friend of Tikal and Julie-Su as well.

*Wechnia: This one is a glitch from Knuckles' Chaotix who has no backstory or personality in the official canon. In my headverse, he is an old wise echidna descendant of the Knuckles clan and the very first born mobidrian (Hence why his clothing resambles male seedrians' clothing). He raised Ashura (the last mobidrian born before the great galactic war) and trained him for the following years. I just gave him a little redesign.

(Note: Mobidrians are mobian-seedrian hybrids, it's a term I made).