Shelly Thorne

Created by, RedX Power.  Inspired by a good friend's concept of a never used character for Sonic: City-Fight'N project, Shelly Thorne is a mix breed of Hedgehog and Echidna, a Hedgechidna.  She has gone thru multiple changes in design over the course of her lifespan in the Sonic: "Animated" story.  Starting out as head leader of the Freedom Fighters, than demotion, leading to her short crush over Sonic the Hedgehog, followed by her untimely end.
==Story==
Shelly Thorne had a very short time together with her family of Hedgechidnas right before Lord Robotnik's troops started the invasion of late Mobtropolis.  Many lives were taken that day, very few survived to tell the story about it to the next generation of children.  Shelly was discovered unconscious by Sir. Charles Hedgehog while excorting survivors outta the city before it was completely flooded with the machines.  Sadly, her parents and brother were never found; and are presumed dead with the fallout of the invasion.  Fast forwarding a few years later after Project: Freedom Fighters had gone into commission, Shelly was elected by Charles to become head leader of the team of young bloods; but right after his sudden disappearance, Shelly was demoted due to constrictions; and King Acorn saw it best that his young daughter, Princess Sally Acorn take her former position, she gladly accepted the role.  Once things started to turn around for the better with the assistance of Sonic the Hedgehog, Shelly had spent multiple times tagging alongside him during reconnaissance runs, lead by Sally's father.  One night, while returning back to Knothole for debriefing, the team was discovered by Robotnik's attack drones; and they were arrested by ambush.  Sonic, Shelly and a few others had manage to escape Lord Robotnik's prision in his metal fortress; but the king was not so lucky.  Returning home to spread the sorrow news to Sally about her father's disappearance, perhaps doom, Shelly took the preasure off of Sonic's shoulders by accepting responsibility for their capture.  No punishment was ever taken into action against her.  A few years later after the aftermath of the Sixth month war (the Fall of Lord Robotnik) had come and gone, Sonic had discovered a small village of non-deformed humans living undermeath them for centuries by accident.   The cause was a chaos warp malfunction that landed Sonic and his friends smack in the center of Station Square.  Neglected and feared by the humans at first, they would soon grow a strong bond amongst them; but the happiness between both lands was short lived, as one lifeform saw the "invaders" as a threat to society.  A reward was placed on the Mobians' capture by Captain: Jullian Stengleburg, of the S.S.P.D.; and during the crossfire between him, his swat team, and the Freedom Fighters, Shelly was gunned down right after protecting the princess from a few shots made by the trigger happy hands of Stengleburg.  After Stengleburg was placed under arrest by his own squad, Sonic held the poor dying girl in his arms as she said her goodbyes to her friends to which she called, her family; but as she came to the attention of exploiting her bottled up feelings for Sonic, she bled out and passed on.  All Sonic could do was mourn a little as he watched medical attention arrived too little, too late. 
Shelly Thorne died during her last few months to be considered a young blood in the Freedom Fighters, she was 12.5 years old going on 13.
==Revival?==
Originally, Shelly's story was to continue on explaining that her death was part of a strategy plan formed by Sally to intercept secret information pertaining to Captain: Stengleburg's origin.  It was believed that Stengleburg may had been related to, if not, was Doctor Kintobor - The true mastermind behind the creation of the Swat Bot army, whom would eventually be overthrown by one of his early prototypes that was rejected by him, General SpikeZ aka. Lord Robotnik.  The concept to this story became a struggle and was later left for dead in a pile of rejected plots.  However, a character model of Shelly was tossed into the Sonic: End / Dark Tomorrow gallery on STEhq's (my) DeviantArt page, a story that takes place in the same "Animated" universe several years later...
==Hobbies==
Shelly was more than just a fighter for good, and a very skillful one at that... she also had her fair share of hobbies, such as weapons interest (knives), and a stock of old time musical collections she found in a scrap yard.  Unfortunately she never had a chance to play any of them, as record players were so obsolete way before the fall of Earth One's occurrence.  Pity.
==Team Enforcers: Zero/Strike-Force==
She's Back! Listed under the recurring/original characters list, Shelly Thorne shall take on a new life and aid her comrades against the nightmare, in RedX's first ever "draw away" series.
==Concept Design==
Shelly's new design for RedX's "Draw Away" series will take some drastic changes to fit the concept. For instance, she will now be a teenager, have one "human" arm, with a brand new attire to go with her look; plus Shelly's color pallet will now be a more lighter blue with a metallic scheme to give her sorta an "alien" approach. This new style is what will separate her concept from Neverlenn and many other characters to come. This is the first step in showing for this genre, not all alien/human-like animals are created to look "equal".  At the last moment, the color pallet was returned to her Animated scheme.  With the presented concept (on the right side), Shelly now sports big ear rings, a pierce lip, separate eye balls rather than conjoined; and half a robotic left arm with her human hand still presently attached.  Her ears are now positioned a bit lower than where "normal" Sonic genre characters would have them present.  This decision came in her origin, where her mother is a classified alien; and her father is a normal human being, resulting in her ears being positioned in an actual humanoid placement.