Who: Sonic, Tails, Blaze, Marine
What: catch-all for new home and roommate shenanigans
Where: Windmill House
When: all through August
Format: Action

Once Sonic and his friends got adjusted to life on the big floating island they had all landed on, and started to realize that they weren't getting off of it anytime soon, long-term concerns started to arise... Like where they were going to live.

The apartments up north were an easy solution, but they didn't have the space that either Sonic or Tails wanted. A little scouting produced an old vacant wheat farm near the edge of town, covered in rusty silos and pastures and set with a crumbling farmhouse and a skeletal windmill.

If was perfect.

They mentioned it to Blaze and Marine, who were quickly offered to share the house (Well, actually Marine accepted the offer before either of the boys thought to offer it, but the intent was there anyway.) They moved in quickly, and set about making the place their own. However, living with other people, no matter how good of friends you are, means making adjustments...

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Eek
Contact: eeknsqueekn
Age: 33
Current Characters: Gordon Freeman (trustycrowbar)


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Sonic the Hedgehog
Age: 15 (He acts older than this, however. Emotionally he's closer to 17 or so.)
Canon: Sonic Game Series
Canon Point: Post-Sonic Rush Adventure

Background:

Here is a link to the Sonic games Wikia, as his actual background has too much content to write here. If you have any specific questions, please feel free to ask.

Personality:

Upbeat, honest, optimistic, and snarky, Sonic possesses an ironclad sense of personal justice and values personal freedom above all else. When the evil scientist Dr. Eggman began trapping his friends inside his robots as a power source, he couldn't just sit by, even though he was just a kid at the time, and he struck out across the island to put a stop to his operations, despite the dangers involved. The entrapment and coercion of good people are two things he can't stand; whether it be at the hands of evil goons, a magic curse or a set of cruel laws. He just can't sit by if there's someone in trouble--especially if that someone is a pretty girl. He's somewhat competitive, a major show-off, and basically everything you'd expect from a teenage male, no matter what the species.

His high-speed nature and overclocked neural network extends to his personality in a few ways: He's extremely hyperactive and impatient, prone to jump to conclusions, very disorganized, and hates to be kept waiting. He also hates enclosed spaces. While not technically claustrophobic, he'll always prefer to be outside in the open air, where he can run. It's not unusual to find him out on a run if there's a problem he has to think through: He'd say he thinks better on the move. In a way, this is true; he's a master of on-the-spot decision-making and making things up as he goes. In fact, the only time he can remember things really going wrong was when he had to make a plan beforehand! He puts a little too much stock into his own serendipity at times, and tends to jump into dangerous situations without fully knowing what's going on ON PURPOSE, and fully confident that it'll work out somehow. Many a time has he been berated by his friends for taking these leaps of faith, even though the world was at stake at the time, and it all worked out in the end.

The only thing he actually fears at this point--other than the loss of his friends--is deep water. Water saps his speed and kinetic energy, essentially rendering him powerless, and his unusually dense musculature means he sinks like a ROCK. When he was thirteen and chasing Dr. Eggman for the very first time and navigating the ancient Labyrinth Zone, the good Doctor decided to destroy the last supports and sink the whole thing with Sonic inside. It was a stroke of brilliance on Eggman's part, as Sonic barely made it out alive against the rising water and the traps of the ruins slowing him down. It was possibly the first time he's ever really felt fearful for his life, and it still bothers him to the point where he won't go in water any deeper than he is tall without a REALLY good reason.

In the end Sonic is an extremely personable critter, and it takes a lot to get on his bad side. Even those who are irrevocably evil are met not with anger but with joking trash-talk as he works to take them down a peg or two. The more someone seeks to get on his nerves, the more smart-ass comments he fires back. Life's too short to think negatively, if you ask him, and positivity has power. It bolsters the confidence of good people, and confuses the hell out of the bad ones. Even in the most dire of situations, he's still optimistic--actually moreso when things look bad, because that's when everyone needs it the most. After all, no one ever figured a way out of a bad situation if they gave up!

Abilities:

Super Speed: The first thing anyone notices when they see Sonic in action is his speed. A combination of natural talents and training have made him able to run incredibly fast, to the point of breaking the sound barrier.

Super-Sonic Boost: Even more than just punching through the sound barrier, he's learned to actually manipulate the shockwave to work in his favor. A boost is powerful, and the wake it leaves behind can leave windows shattered and people thrown aside.

Sonic Wind: Extending that manipulation further, he's figured out how to create small tornadoes that can confuse and stagger opponents.

Chaos Control: With the Green Chaos Emerald, Sonic is also capable of short-scale teleportation. This is a personal teleportation that is restricted to only a mile or so, although more Chaos Emeralds, or larger power sources of the right frequency, may make him capable of going further. This will be used extremely rarely, if at all, because Sonic doesn't want anyone to know that he even has a Chaos Emerald on him.

Alignment: Thras. Sonic seems pathologically resistant to fear, and in fact his tendency to leap into situations makes one wonder if he's even capable of feeling it.

Other:


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Everyone has something to hide, Sonic. Even you.


Questions:

Name: Eek
Personal Journal: eeknsqueekn
Contact: Eek (eeknsqueekn)
Other Characters Played: None

Character: Sonic the Hedgehog
Series: Sonic game'verse
Age: 18
History:
Canon Point: Post-Colors

Personality:
Upbeat, honest, optimistic, and snarky, Sonic possesses an ironclad sense of personal justice and values freedom above all else. He just can't sit by if there's someone in trouble--especially if that someone is a pretty girl. He's somewhat competitive, a major show-off, and basically everything you'd expect a teenage male to be, no matter what the species.

His high-speed nature extends to his personality in a few ways: He's extremely hyperactive and impatient, prone to jump to conclusions, very disorganized, and hates to be kept waiting. He also hates enclosed spaces. While not technically claustrophobic, he'll always prefer to be outside in the open air, where he can run. It's not unusual to find him out on a run if there's a problem he has to think through: He'd say he thinks better on the move. Which is true, to be fair; he's a master of on-the-spot decision-making and making things up as he goes. In fact, the only time he can remember things really going wrong, was when he had to make a plan beforehand! He puts a little too much stock into his own serendipity at times, and tends to jump into dangerous situations without fully knowing what's going on ON PURPOSE, fully confident that it'll work out somehow. Many a time has he been berated by his friends for taking these leaps of faith, even if the world WAS at stake at the time.

The only thing he actually fears at this point--other than the loss of his friends--is deep water. Water saps his speed and kinetic energy, essentially rendering him powerless, and his unusually dense musculature means he sinks like a ROCK. Add to that a little trauma from that one time in the Labyrinth Zone when he was sixteen, and one can imagine why he doesn't go into the deep end at the pool much...

Sonic is an extremely personable critter, and it takes a lot to get on his bad side. Even those who are irrevocably evil are met not with anger but with joking trash-talk as he works to take them down a peg or two. Life's too short to think negatively, if you ask him, and positivity has power. Even in the most dire of situations, he's still optimistic--actually moreso when things look bad, because that's when everyone needs it the most. After all, no one ever figured a way out of a bad situation, if they gave up!

Skills and Abilities:
Sonic is capable of running at super-speed, and able to break the sound barrier easily. In fact he's learned to manipulate the resultant shockwave in a boost that can shatter windows and send enemies flying. He can peel out in a balled-up spin-dash as well. While spinning in the air he's capable of a homing attack that slams him into enemies and hardly ever misses. A string of rings can allow him to light dash along the line, appearing at the other side as though he'd traveled at the speed of light (although who just leaves rings out in rows like that? Seriously.) He can also fight; his own homebrew of kickboxing, gymnastics and homing attacks can easily fragment a well-designed robot in a few seconds. He's also remarkably resilient, though that may be more from determination than actual toughness.

Then there are the Chaos Emeralds. These seven gems from his world are said to be the source of ultimate power, but in reality very little is known about them. Sonic managed to find them the first time when he was sixteen, as a desperate measure to fight Ivo Robotnik and keep him from enslaving any more of his friends as robots. Since then, he's used them multiple times, serving as a temporary conduit to their power while his will guides the result. His run in with his "twin" Shadow on the space station ARK made him realize a deeper level of control of these gems. This "chaos control" was realized to him as a limited form of teleportation, that he's capable of performing if he has at least one of the emeralds, or an object that holds similar properties. He can warp to another location, possibly even a different time, but his lacks the accuracy of Shadow's. He's also capable of the Sonic Wind move, a chaos-infused tornado that spirals around his opponent and stuns them.

First Person Sample:

"Hey, Tails! Just wanted ta send you a quick message on a holocard, an' I know you're probably still asleep so you won't even get the alert... Actually I dunno if you're going to even get this at all. Well, you will someday. Looks like I've got a little something to take care of again! You're in charge 'till I get back.

"I know, I know, you don't think you've got what it takes. That's all right, 'cuz I do. Don't worry, I'll be back before you know it!"

Third Person Sample:

When was the first time he'd been to Soleana...?

He couldn't remember. Or rather, he wasn't sure if he remembered. It was a nice place to hang out, and he'd often sneak out in the early morning, or make a mostly-truthful excuse to Amy in the evening and take off there. It may have been hundreds of miles to the northeast, but what did that matter to a guy him?

...But he wasn't sure why he was going, exactly. Maybe it was because no one there knew him; sure, he liked being famous, but it's nice to take a snooze on a roof and not have a window cleaner wake him up and ask for his autograph--that's happened more times than one would guess. Yeah, if anyone were to ask him directly he'd probably say it was for the anonymity.

However, that didn't explain the weirdly expectant feeling he got when he always arrived at the Soleanna Fountain. Like, like something important was going to happen. Supposed to happen. Should have happened? He isn't sure. He gets vague images sometimes. A sea of fire. A shattered space. Silence, absolute, all-consuming, boring silence. The visceral surge of energy that comes from an oxygen-deprived frontal lobe as it wakes up and thrashes for life. Glowing wings. A white feather, floating on the wind. None of it made SENSE...

And now, as several times before, he shakes his head and turns around, headed for the square. Probably just his imagination. After all, he remembers all his adventures.

All of them.

Housing Unit Number: 502
Roommates: Miles "Tails" Prower, Victor Sullivan

Speed Level: 1
Current Abilities: Boost
Top Speed: Mach 3

Missions Completed: "Salt the Earth."

Useful Links:
Map of the Initiative Hold
Map of Exsilium
Changes to Exsilium

((This is also an IC comm post. If your character needs to contact Sonic, they can always do so here.))

General info: The setting is Earth in the year 3240. Over twelve hundred years a lot has changed; including the advent of mobian races and the appearance of the chaos emeralds, which occurred at nearly the same time just before the end of the second millennium. The term "Mobian" was first coined by exasperated biologists who were having trouble discerning where the animal traits ended and the human traits began in these new creatures. Some have hypothesized that Mobians are the result of accelerated evolution due to being near the Chaos Emeralds' power, others guess it was a response to the pressures put on the environment by mankind during the later part of the second millennium and that the Emeralds had nothing to do with it. No one can be sure, but those new creatures seemed to have a knack for integrating with human society. There were a few difficulties at first, but after nearly a thousand years extremely few prejudices remain.

Geography: The geography of Sonic's world is based loosely on Earth's, but the names and cultures of countries, the flora and fauna and the topography have changed considerably, to the point where very little remains of the twenty-first century that's identifiable. Major oceans and continents remain the same: the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Australian continent. Angel Island, the floating landmass that houses and protects the Master Emerald, used to be called Christmas Island and was located in the East Indian Ocean. Sonic himself grew up in what would be considered south Australia, but has since used the windfall from his adventures to build a kind of home base with Tails’ help, in the tropics further north. The Kingdom of Soleanna is what would have been parts of Thailand and the Malay Penninsula. The areas of the US, Canada, Japan and Mexico have, over centuries, assimilated into one country with new borders and affiliations.

Tech level: High. Holographic tech and solid light are commonplace, as well as fusion power, limited antigravity, and even teleportation (though the technology is still far too clumsy and expensive to implement widely). Oddly the aesthetics have "gone retro" in such a way that holographic supercomputers can play old games and antiquated OS's, and cars that run on fusion power look slightly boxy by today's standards.

Mobian Culture: Mobians mingle with humans perfectly, and there are only a handful of culture points that they don't share with humans. One is nicknames. They almost all have human-sounding given names but are quick to take up nicknames, at least amongst friends. Another is clothing... or lack thereof. Most, especially females, wear clothes to define their sense of style rather than for warmth or modesty. On a more intimate topic, it's not that unusual to find two Mobians of different species enter into a relationship together; It's CONSIDERABLY more unusual to find one between a Mobian and a human, and the idea is still highly controversial for Mobians and humans alike.

On the Echidnas: The Echidna nation was native to parts of old Indonesia and the Philippines. When Angel Island first took flight, the relative isolation allowed the Echidnas to quickly develop high civilization of their own, no doubt augmented by the power of the Master Emerald. They became prideful and sought to use the Master Emerald to take over the rest of the world, believing they were the one true masters of this planet. They stormed the shrine, trampling chao as they went. The god Chaos rose up and destroyed them in what's now called the Chaos Catastrophe, which eradicated most of the race. There are now very few left, and only one that lives on Angel Island, who is charged with protecting the Master Emerald for the duration of his lifetime. As a side note, even hundreds of years later the act of killing a chao is considered a horrible taboo, even if few people now know where the taboo came from.

Space Colony ARK: The Burnulli spherical orbital space station codenamed ARK was the brainchild of the Government collective, and was the cutting edge of technology at the time of its launch. At any one time it was home to just over a hundred residents. Several brilliant scientists did their best work in the variable-gravity environments the space station boasted, including biotech expert Dr. Gerald Robotnik. At first innocent, their collective research started to gain greater and greater destructive applications until the government took notice and seized the research. The colonists resisted and the colony was deactivated, killing most of them. The event was quickly covered up by the Government, and even after the events transpiring in the Sonic Adventure 2 storyline the space station still lies dark and dormant.

Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotinik: The “good doctor” is the latest in a long line of brilliant scientists with a sliding scale of morality and a gift for harnessing their discoveries to martial application. He’s best known for his terrorizing work in nanite robotization: tiny airbourne machines that rearrange living flesh into a mechanical counterpart; the affliction is painful and nearly unstoppable with the end-result robotic creature is programmed to be totally loyal to him. He’s made several other attempts to gambit for supreme power, using everything from captive god-creatures to giant lasers to sattelite-takeover of war-room computers. All while somehow avoiding capture from both private and military pursuers. Needless to say, he is by far more dangerous than the fat buffoon the games make him out to be.

(the rest are character bios that are mostly here to flesh out the world, and will be replaced by PC bios should the character be apped.)

Sir Charles Hedgehog: Sonic’s uncle, and the closest thing to a father figure in his life. He's a research scientist specializing in energy waveform conversion and power systems. He was quick to give up his research when it was confiscated and took to early retirement, and while Sonic did pick up a few things from him, he wasn't even aware of his uncle's work on the Chaos Emeralds until just before he himself gathered them all for the first time. Uncle Chuck is almost as mellow as Sonic is hyperactive, with a sense of humor about life that gives one the impression that already knows what's going to happen and just doesn't wanna spoil the ending.

Miles “Tails” Prower is a yellow fox-boy with two tails, whom Sonic took under his wing when he was nine and Sonic was fifteen. They'd met when Sonic found Tails in the middle of tinkering with an old biplane of Sonic's, that had nearly become a permanent fixture of the beach instead of any kind of air transportation. Apparantly the kit didn’t have much in the way of a home, either; Sonic saw him as the little brother he never had, and for the first time in his life it didn’t annoy him so much that he had someone with him that wasn’t quite able to keep up. Ironically by the time Tails was fourteen he was the one running metaphorical circles around Sonic with his gadgetry talk. Tails has already built several vehicles, security systems, advanced computer networks and synthetic power crystals, amongst others, and may well prove genius that rival's Eggman's... if he can handle the pains of growing up, that is.

Knuckles the Echidna is one of the few surviving members of the Echidna race, a great martial artist, and the one charged by his heritage to guard the massive gem known as the Master Emerald, on Angel Island. This sort of charge means that he hasn’t left the island very often; in fact the only time he had were to find and retrieve the above mentioned Really Big Gem to bring it back. His education only went as far as the stored memories and information contained in the antiquarian mainframe of the ruins, and while the Echidnas left him all the information he would ever need, his lack of worldly experience this means he can be astoundingly naive at times. He also has more of a temper than the other members of his team, possibly a defense mechanism from his embarrassing tendency to be tricked by just about anyone.

Amy Rose is a pink female Hedgehog who is about sixteen years old, and claims to be totally in love with Sonic and that they are destined to be together. She first met him, fittingly, when he saved her from an out-of-control mech that was rampaging in the City. She’s bright, cheerful, driven, and in some ways similar to Sonic in her determination and outlook on life. This drive is, however, misguided: her declaration that he WILL marry her one day actually repels him, as Sonic is currently in a phase of his life where he’s violently allergic to commitment. She also follows Sonic wherever he goes, sometimes literally to the ends of the Earth, and this only serves to make him more nervous and puts herself in danger. It might be that she does this on purpose to have him save her over and over again, in the misguided hopes that it will endear her to him more. Nevertheless, he will never let her come to harm and she knows this. It means he DOES care about her in some capacity...

Princess Elise III is the current ruler of the kingdom of Soleanna. People consider her a beacon of purity--as pure as the sunlight, they actually say. It’s a role that comes naturally to her, as she can’t abide suffering, but there are times where she wishes she were able to act on her own without the impending role of queen hanging over her head. Despite the events that played through in the game, Eggman never really attacked her country, Sonic never really saved her, they never actually got close by the side of that lake, she was never able to let down the royal facade around someone who had nothing to gain by protecting her, Sonic never lost her to catastrophe and went through hell things to get her back, and in the end she was never forced to reverse the course of events that led to the attack in the first place. None of this actually happened. Still, that doesn’t stop Sonic from occasionally stopping in Solaris Square... Because he can’t help but feel like the place reminds him of something, something REALLY important, but what it is he just can’t summon to mind. And probably never will. You can’t remember what never actually happened after all.

Planeocracy status: Enforcer.

Housing room: Enforcer dorms Building B room 104
Roommate: None
IRC Nick: BlueBlur0134

Items: Crystal of Protection
Gaia Crystal
Extreme Gear Capsule
Keyblade "Lightspeed" (available only in KH worlds)
Humanization Bracelet (able to work for eight hours before it needs recharging.)

Jobs: "Pokemon Breeder"
"Expect the Inquisition"
"Yakuza Decoy"
"Aenathia's Attack on CO"
"Aethr's Intigration"
"The Destruction of Aethr"