Tesla The Hedgehog

This is an article about Tesla The Hedgehog, a character created by Alphonse Uprising on 05/20/2005.Tesla Hunt is the main protagonist of Cybermania, residing in the 2097 metropolis of San Rosario.
Inspired by his childhood heroes, the Neo-Knights, Tesla becomes an athlete in the fictional sport of siegeball, and rapidly climbs up the ranks to become one of the best players in the country.
All of this changes when the agency shuts down, leaving Tesla with nothing to look up to. Ever since then, he spent his life figuring out what had exactly happened with them, gathering as much info as he could on its former members.
With no maturing powers of his own, Tesla was accidentally equipped with the experimental Arthur device, a collar that creates a cybernetic cast granting special abilities. This unexpectedly attracts the attention of former Neo-Knight and Tesla's biggest inspiration, Cloud, who believes the device can change the tide of an ongoing conflict with the terrorist group, Haven.
This character was created in 2005 by Alphonse Uprising, better known as Teslarossa.
==Personality==
Traumatised by his mother's unexpected death at a young age and witnessing his father's decline into cybermania1, Tes looked up to the Neo-Knights as his inspiration and guide in life.
Although a highly skilled athlete, Tesla's grasp on reality is waning, and he behaves almost like a character out of a superhero comic book.
He is very animated and his mannerisms are grand, but has a hard time recognising when he is at wrong. Overall, ambitious Tesla dreams big and never truly grew up despite being 19 years old.
==Backstory==
Tesla was born to cyberneticists Nikola and Cornelia Hunt. When he was five years old, his mother died shortly after conceiving his sister, Theresa. Since the event, Tesla bullied Theresa, pinning the blame on her for their mother's death. Oblivious to Tesla, Cornelia was aware of her health conditions and wanted another child anyways, knowing he would be alone and wanted to give him a sibling. Unable to cope with his wife's death, Nikola begins implanting himself with cybernetics, in an attempt to alleviate the trauma.
Witnessing his father's slow transformation into something less and less recognisable, both Tesla and Theresa would develop a fear of cyborgs. Inspired by his childhood heroes, the Neo-Knights, Tesla becomes an athlete in the sport of siegeball to strengthen his abilities and potentially impress them. In the meantime, in order to relieve problems in his home life, Tesla begins stealing mods and destroying them for fun. He also would convince Theresa to join him.
At this time, Tesla would finally forgive Theresa, but she would actively avoid him from now on. They rarely bond with each other, like the time Tesla takes her to the Santa Monica Pier, where he often threw rocks towards the ocean to see if he could reach the West Coast Protection Barrier.
Years would pass and the young Tesla Hunt would prove to be a siegeball firebrand. Just as then-16-year-old Tesla believed he was ready to become a Neo-Knight, news comes out that the agency had shut down from mysterious circumstances. Devastated by the revelation, Tesla quits siegeball.
After a 1-year-long hiatus, Tesla returns to siegeball with a new goal: playing for himself. He joins a relatively new team, Team Radical, where he meets the captain, Akio. Their similar family experiences brought them together, and they became close friends.
Tesla learns that Akio had a difficult childhood, having lived in the epicenter of the Tokyo Singularity, and moving to America when his family becomes involved in the criminal underworld to recover from the aftermath. He decides to help Akio in proving his worth to his family by becoming successful athletes.
The next year, Team Radical enters a game that would either make or break them. However, when Tesla becomes distracted after being reminded of the Neo-Knights, they were ultimately defeated, with a furious Akio putting the blame on Tesla.
Since then, Tesla has been haunted by frequent visions of the Tokyo Singularity, and began expressing desire to find out what exactly happened to the Neo-Knights.
==Powers==
Arthur suit: Tesla wears this AI-operated collar device. It generates a cybernetic suit out of nanomachines. In order to activate it, he must say the demand, "System On!"
Overclock: Tesla's ultimate ability in his Arthur suit. Normally his suit is limited to prevent overheating, but Overclock bypasses this. The vents in his cast open up, reducing the resulting overheating. Overall, Tesla's powers and speed is increased fivefold for a limited amount of time. At first, Tesla needs permission to overclock as it can cause long-term damage and must be used wisely, but eventually, Tesla is able to activate it by himself.
==Appearances==
*Cybermania
==Relationships==
===Nikola & Connie Hunt===
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===Theresa Hunt===
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===Akio Tsukuda===
Akio is Tesla's best friend. They met when Tesla joins his team, and they were able to relate with their similar childhood backstories. While Tesla and Akio can get very heated towards one another, their rivalry with each other is ironically the catalyst that strengthens their friendship. Overall, Akio is seen as Tesla's moral guide and his last tether to reality.
== Gallery==
Tesla 2020.png|2020 design
File:Tes Ref2022.png|2022 reference
==Trivia==
*Tesla went through more redesigns and reboots than any other character Alphonse Uprising owned.
* Tesla, back in his earliest designs, was originally a Shadow recolor.
*Tesla does not have a super, dark, or hyper form.
*Tesla was indirectly mentioned by a YouTuber named Mr. Metokur, who refers to him as "Ambiguous Sexuality the Hedgehog" during an episode of Deviants.
== Footnotes==
1Cybermania is a mental illness in the titular series. It is described as a masochistic addiction to self-amputation to replace missing limbs with cybernetics, often illegal ones.
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