Samuel Akimitsu

This is an article about Samuel Akimitsu, a character created by HeroesSquad on 29/08/2022.
 is the main protagonist of Elemental Heroes. He is an anthropomorphic hedgehog, the son of King Solar Akimitsu and Queen Sapphire Kiyomiru, and the middle brother of Viral Akimitsu and Samaria Akimitsu. He was born with the ability to control, utilize and master all elements, with Light being his primary element. He and Zamelu comment each other as the "copycat".
He comes from another universe, in a planet called Gaia, also known as Earth-013. He travels across the lands, searching far and wide in hopes of finding the Elemental Crystal Orb Gems: Thirteen crystallizing, spherical, baseball-sized gemstones, with each of them containing extraordinary powers and abilities of one element, that were crafted eons ago by the Elemental Beasts.
==Concept and creation ==
Around the mid-2010s, HeroesSquad was enjoying imagining stories about himself in Sonic's world. Originally, he would've self-insert himself. Around the late 2010s, he decided to make an original character for himself. HeroesSquad went online and picked some base images to draw above from the Paint app. Sam originally wore a shirt, but as time went on, HeroesSquad decided to change it for a tanktop since he thought it looked way better on him. Additionally, he changed the the form of the wristbands so that it doesn't simply look like a recolored wrist part of a glove.
Prior the release of the first Sonic the Hedgehog live-action film, Samuel's shoes were originally similar to Tails' shoes. When the first movie came out in 2020, he decided to change the shoes to look slightly identical to the Puma sneakers that Movie Sonic wears in the film series. The reasoning for this is that he thought that it looked cooler. In July 2020, HeroesSquad submitted his character to a Youtuber named Phantom to make a "movie" version of his OC. In the video, Phantom miscolored the front part of the shoes grey instead of red. HeroesSquad actually found that interesting and decided to implement it to Sam's shoes. Additionally, he changed the golden yellow tag to be a golden yellow strip instead. Originally, Samuel didn't wore a gray belt with a golden buckle. It was implemented later due to him having some ideas, when making a Gacha version of his OC, that he wants to transfer to the design. On August 2023, HeroesSquad slightly updated Sam's design, such as putting pockets on his pants. Additionally, he updated the design of the shoes. He was inspired by the Grind Shoes, which their design are based on the real-world Scorcher shoes from Soap. He decided to mix the Puma sneakers along with the Soap shoes to design it.
Originally, HeroesSquad only named him as "Samuel the Hedgehog". The name "Samuel" comes from HeroesSquad's real name. When making Gacha versions of his characters, he decided to try and give them lastnames if he ever wants to make a series unrelated to the Sonic franchise, but still honors it. When making his characters, HeroesSquad would've give the traits and abilities to them. For Samuel, while he gave him the ability to control all elements, he gave him "light" as his main attribute. To reflect Sam's attribute, he wanted a lastname that matches his ability to control light. He searched on Behind the Name for some ideas and found the Japanese name; "Akimitsu". The name comes from two kanjis: 昭 (aki, meaning "bright") and 光 (mitsu, meaning "light"). Despite the lastname being exclusive to the Gacha version, being the "human" version, he decided to make it the main version's lastname as well for consistency.
==Appearance==
He's a slim anthropomorphic hedgehog with brown eyes, black fur that covers most of his body, and peach skin that covers his mouth, muzzle, inside of his ears and front torso. He has small, triangular ears on top of his head, six long quills on the back of his head, two spines protruding from his back behind his shoulders, and a short tail.
Years after the Amaterasu Village incident and before Jestar's returning awakening, he used to wear a blue T-shirt with blue sleeves, with dark blue stripes at the end of each sleeve. He wore green fingerless gloves with braclets, one side being half orange and the other half green. He wore grey pants, with blue flames on them. He also wears a grey belt, with a golden buckle, with that pants. He wore brown shoes with a white strip, going over a vertically-centered black line, cuffs, black semi circles on each side of the shoe and greyish-cyan soles.
Since his return, from being trapped for a second time by Sapphire years ago, he now wears a blue tanktop, dark blue pants and orange wristbands. He still had the same belt, but now wears red and gray shoes with white stripes and cuffs, light gray soles and yellow stripes.
==Personality==
Samuel is a heroic, sweet-hearted, optimistic hedgehog. Despite being brave and tough in some situations, he has a huge fear of spiders after what have happened during the Amaterasu Village incident. He also has a fear of deep bodies of water that are extremely dark, unknowing what lies below. Another fear he has is the fear of darkness. While in small dark areas he is less afraid, his fear intensifies if he is located in a dark area that is extremely vast. Due to his slight naivety, he can be, at times, fooled due to his gullibleness. Despite being naive and slightly distracted at times, Samuel possess a huge amount of IQ when it comes to combats.
==Powers and abilities==
Despite being heavily injured and wounded many times at multiple occassions by Jestar and the others, Samuel has endured many of the hits over the years, leaving him with huge stamina. He is a skilled, swift and powerful fighter.
Samuel's greatest skill that stands out is his elemental mastering. While some only use one or two elements, he has used all thirteen elements. He can use each one of them to his advantage in many situations. He can also use his quills are projectiles.
Sam has the power of using Corruption Absorption, an ability that allows him to remove the unwilling controlled corruption from people. By doing so, he absorbs the energy himself in turn.
Aside from his powers, one of his many strengths are his speed and strength.
===Transformations ===
====Golden Samuel====
By harnessing Chaos energy, Sam can enter his Super State, transforming him into Golden Samuel. In this glowing yellow godlike form, he is able to fly and is nearly invulnerable. He also glows ominous yellow glowing aura. However, this transformation consumes a lot of energy, meaning it cannot be maintained for long, otherwise he would faint.
=====Hyper Samuel=====
By harnessing more Chaos energy while being calm in his Super State, he can advance further into his Hyper State, thus transforming into Hyper Samuel. Unlike his previous form, his aura is now multicolor and has become much larger. His powers get doubly-increased. He can also fly much faster. While he gains more power in this form, the form itself consumes twice of his energy, causing him to faint even quicker.
====Werehog Samuel====
By being extremely angry, Sam can transform into his Werehog form. He can also turn into that form if he thinks of something that could make him extremely pissed. If he transforms with his freewill, he can easily control it with no problem. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said if his anger is extreme. He'll become an uncontrollable blood-thirsty beast. While this form doesn't consume his energy, it does make Sam more hungry at times.
=====Kaiju-Werehog Samuel=====
One of Samuel's dangerous forms, he can only transform into it if he's gets even more pissed in his Werehog form. By being filled with fury and rage in the Werehog form, Sam gains astounding heights and strength, turning into a kaiju-like beast. However, the chances of him being able to control this form are very low. The only thing he'll think of is his main target. Once the target is defeated, he'll revert back to normal to his base form. Sadly, he can go on a rampage, causing extreme havocs. Very rarely, it could cause Samuel to slightly have nausea and headaches.
====Elemental Forms====
==Weaknesses==
Although Samuel is very powerful, as well as versatile, and has quite a variety of skills and tactics, Samuel is unable to be in a transformation or use a power without being tired and exhausted. Immense overuse of transformations, such as Super Samuel, as well as elemental powers, could cause Samuel to blackout, with a huge lack of energy greatly appearent. This could cause Samuel to be unconscious, leaving him as a vunerable and weak target for foes.
Although absorbing unwillingly controlled corruption from people has been proven to be very useful and is helpful for others to break them out of their evil state, giving them their freedom back again, its only setback is that overdoing it, nor releasing it, could cause the negative energy itself to emerge and outburst from him. Too much negative energu will overwhelm him, which in turn risks him to be more dangerously violent and recklessly wild.
==Relationships==
===Zamelu Kuragari===
Samuel and Zamelu Kuragari are both rivals, friends and allies. They are equal to one another. While they do respect each other, they do cause mischief to one another.
===Samaria Akimitsu ===
Being his younger sister, he cares a lot about her. He doesn't want something real bad happen to her. He is also a bit overprotective for her. He won't hesitate to hurt someone that dares to hurt her, like when the mind-controlled Phantomus was going to kill Samaria, Sam was extremely mad that he knocked the life out of him.
===Viral Akimitsu ===
While Sam is younger than Viral, he is more sympathetic than him. He does hate when his big brother mocks him.
===Jestar Stroyer ===
Being the cause of all his misery, from his traumatic seperation from his family, to his other family being captured, to the enpoisonment of his grandfather, to the deaths of his master and his friend, Sam have began to grew hatred against the vile heartless extraterrestrial being.
===Friends/allies===
*Bianka Taikanima
*Blade Ning
*Cylindra Honobris (love-interest)
*Darkion Stroyer
* Darkios Obscur Tenebris
*Drew Stroyer
*Elana Stroyannd
*Elemental Warriors
**Ace Wingarius Hayato
**Leo Haidar
** Sai Jin
*Fiery Ganbold †
*Flesher Cailean
*Grayson Metallux †
*Ian Black Hoshi
*Iris Pannd
*Kari Ganbold
*Luna Honobris
*Lyra Starlight
*Marsha Akari
*Mynorka Stroyer
*North-Artikan Tribe
**Igloo Yuki
**Jewel Yuki
**Samui Yuki
*Pyro Kazuki
*Rin Tsuguara
*Slasher Ganbold
*Teka Hono
*Ultimate Starian Life Forms
**Belle Calypso
**Grant Ember
**Hurst Ardeen
**Shell Obi Sayo
*Volca Hono
*Zamelu Kuragari (rival)
===Enemies===
*Quartz Yuki
*Satan
*Eclipse Syndicate
**Jestar Stroyer (archnemesis)
**Mohanjot Rajbir
**Nocturinus Kuragari
**Obscurita Tenebris
**Ultimate Starian Life Forms
***Zunaid Rajbir
***Sally Cordelia
**Windego Ardeen
==Quotes==
==Trivia ==
*Samuel is HeroesSquad's main OC, as well as "mascot".
==Gallery==
===Sprites===
SamuelAkimitsu(PixelatedArt01).png|Standing
SamuelAkimitsu(PixelatedArt02).png|Doing a peace sign in the air
===Artwork===
Samuel Akimitsu (2018).png|2018-2019: Original design concept
Samuel Akimitsu (Late 2019).png|2019: Old artwork #1 (Slightly-refined design, with original shoes)
Samuel Akimitsu (Glove error).png|2019-2020: Old artwork #2 (White hands error)
Samuel Akimitsu (Early-ish 2020).png|2020: Old artwork #3
Samuel Akimitsu (Early 2020-DeviantArt-Digital Art with mouse).png|2020: Old artwork #4 (First attemption to draw via mouse)
Samuel Akimitsu (Gloveless fix).png|2020: Old artwork #5 (White hands fixed)
Samuel Akimitsu (Nov 2020).png|2020: First artwork officially drawn by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (Nov 2020 -2).png|2020: Artwork, by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (Christmas 2020).png|2020: Christmas artwork, by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (Early 2021).png|2021: Artwork, by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (2021).png|2021: Artwork, by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (Aug 2023).png|2023: Artwork, by HeroesSquad
Samuel Akimitsu (2024, Art Request - Silvia the Lynx).png|2024: Sketch artwork, by Silvia the Lynx
===Miscellaneous===
SamAkimitsuCharacterBuilder(2020).png|Character Builder (2020), by HeroesSquad.
Phantom - Redesigning Sonic Forces N.2 - Final Results (HeroesSquad jumpscare).png|Live-action "recreation", by Phantom.
SamAkimitsuCharacterBuilder(2022).png|Character Builder (2022), by HeroesSquad.
==References==
Category:Protagonists
Category:Males
Category:Mammals
Category:Heroes
Category:Heterosexuals
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Category:Speed Types
Category:Hedgehogs
Category:Characters
Category:Teenagers
Category:Weapon Users: Melee
Category:Brawlers
Category:Arachnophobes
Category:Royalty
Category:Nyctophobes
Category:Thalassophobes
Category:HeroesSquad's characters