Shade the Echidna (Sonic Sol)

Shade the Echidna is the last surviving Echidna from Blaze the Cat's dimension, and reoccurring character throughout the Sonic Sol Trilogy. While a reoccurring yet minor threat throughout Sonic Sol: Rise of the Tiger King, she becomes the main antagonist in Sonic Sol II: Starlight's Mask.
=Appearance=
Shade is a light orange Echidna, about the same size as Knuckles the Echidna in terms of height, with hot pink eyes. Her quills are ringed in a cream coloration, with eye markings and a muzzle matching the same color. She is one of the few characters who's appearance has changed throughout different appearances:
*In Sonic Sol: Rise of the Tiger King, her body is more properly proportioned with a smaller tail and head. Her wrist rings are darker gray with a purple light wrapping the center of it. This same hue can also be seen on her boots, which are high heels much like those of Rouge the Bat. She wears a one piece black jumpsuit and a black headband with an unknown symbol.
*In Sonic Sol II: Starlight's Mask, her appearance has been altered with a much smaller torso, and two eyelashes as opposed to just one. Her markings and rings are much more prominent in color, a much lighter cream color to contrast the peach-orange color of her fur. Her headband turned into a helmet-like covering, and her wrist bands are now a much lighter blue. Her boots are now more metallic in appearance with light blue marks on them, and her one piece suit is now split in different layers of clothing, similar to armor. The symbol on her head is also turned a different direction. Throughout the game, she also commonly wears a mask covering that makes her resemble a goat or ram.
= History=
==GAMES==
Throughout much of her life, Shade had grown up alone as the last surviving Echidna. According to her, no one in her world was willing to help her as she grew older, leaving her without a home or a family. During this, she eventually found a place to live with Fang the Tiger King, and through this became one of his most loyal subjects even if most of the "love" she is given is mostly one-sided.
===Sonic Sol: Rise of the Tiger King===
Shade plays a more re-occurring side role throughout the first game. As Sonic the Hedgehog starts to venture closer towards his empire, Fang sends out Shade in order to stop him from reaching him and stopping his advances towards the Sol Empire. She eventually finds him with Marine the Raccoon and Miles "Tails" Prower, revealing to have overheard Blaze's plans with "the wind warrior". She attempts to stop them, using the power of her given Sol Emeralds to finish the job before Comet the Hedgehog intervenes, forcing her to flee.
Since this encounter she has tried numerous other times to stop them, but fails each time she does so, forced into staying out of the final fight. There, she witnesses the fall of Fang in both Sonic and Eggman Nega's hands.
====Boss Fight Description====
Shade encounters the player multiple times throughout the first game, in efforts to defeat Sonic and stop him from defeating Fang. While most of these fights are sub-par to the levels she's apart of, she technically only has one official boss fight within the game:
*With the Sol Emeralds in her possession during this boss fight, she has numerous specialized attacks against Sonic, Tails, and Marine. Her main attacks include a pulse attack - sending purple rings of energy at the player, and using her martial arts for close combat attacks. If the player gets too close at the wrong time, she'll grab the player and blast them across the battle zone. As the fight allows you to use three characters at once, the methods to attack her depend on the aura around her wrists and head symbol:
*the blue symbol signifies using Sonic to hone in on her; a yellow symbol indicates Tails to be used, tail spinning her; a red symbol requires Marine to use her special aura to shoot at her.
===Sonic Sol II: Starlight's Mask===
Thanks to the events of the previous game, Shade's role has become far more active, her being the main antagonist within the game's story.
After the fall of Fang, Shade becomes convinced that the entire world simply will not give her the chance to be happy with her life. With vengeance in mind, she works out a plan to destroy Sonic's world, as she blames Sonic for taking away her final chance to have a better life.
Her first act on her plan was stealing the Sol Emeralds from the Sol Empire, using their combined power to transport into Sonic's world. She gives Blaze one final warning to stay out of her way, as she originally didn't intend to include Blaze's world in destruction, but she changes her mind when Blaze becomes involved in stopping her. While in Sonic's world, her goal became to obtain all the known Chaos Emeralds from Sonic's world. During this, she finds and teams up with Doctor Eggman in order to obtain the Chaos Emeralds easier. During this endeavor, she also obtains pieces of the Master Emerald, but mostly keeps these for herself. During one confrontation, she appears at the last second inside Griffin Canyon while Sonic and Shadow were fighting, and steals away the Chaos Emeralds while they were distracted. Once collecting them all, she meets up with Sonic at the edge of his hometown to get her revenge on him. During their fight, she is also confronted by Knuckles and Blaze, and is finally defeated thanks to their combined efforts.
In the last story, she flees them only to be found by Shadow, and during a conversation manages to convince him to retrieve the Sol and Chaos Emeralds for her, promising she'll keep the GUN agents away from him. After striking the deal, she goes to the Echidna Ruins, planning to use the power of both Chaos and Sol Emeralds to awaken Chaos, so it can destroy the world. Despite Knuckles trying to convince her not to, and Shadow turning against her, she commences the ritual and summons Chaos. When she finds the others ready to take down Chaos, she tries her hardest to stop them while being powered by the negative energy, but fails again. On her defeat, she readies to end it all but Sonic convinces her to keep trying, Shade accepting Sonic's friendhsip as she claims to have "a lot of fixing to do".
====Boss Fight Description====
Unlike the previous game, Shade has numerous official boss fights taking place throughout the game - her main fight being done four times:
=====MAIN FIGHT=====
Her main fight takes place at the end of each story, with each fight having the player use a different character in order to defeat.
*SONIC'S STORY: Unlike the other fights, Sonic's fight with her begins outside of town, leading up to Sonic's house. With the power of the Chaos Emeralds, Sol Emeralds, and the Master Emerald to keep it together, Shade's power has increased greatly compared to what she used to be. Sonic's fight in constantly on the move, as Shade launches various beams of aura at the player while giving chase: a purple beam that cuts straight across the arena, a green aura blade that slices side to side along the stage, and a light blue "chaos blast". After her health is cut to half way, she also gains a close combat attack that automatically damages the player if coming too close. The only main way for the player to attack is after a Chaos Blast is used, leaving her open to attack.
*TAILS' STORY: The main fight from Tails' Story is less complicated than the other three main fights. Tails fights Shade along the nearby treetops, Shade staying suspended up in the air through telekinetic means. Her main attacks mainly consist of vertical cuts, which will temporarily cut away any tree platforms Tails would have to reach her. The main method to attack her is to create a catapult out of one of four trees, and launching yourself at her.
*KNUCKLES' STORY: This fight is a tag-team between Knuckles and Sticks, and much of Shade's attacks are more force-based. She will use enhancements from the Emeralds to increase her strength and speed as she attacks the player with martial arts. At first the player controls Knuckles as he blocks and attacks directly with Shade. When her health is cut to 25% (this occurs three times), the characters turns to Sticks as Knuckles is grappling against her. Sticks' main goal is to attack Shade with her Boomerang, though she must collect it first as Shade will knock the Boomerang away at the start of the battle, and she will knock it further and further away after each instance. The final time, Shade simply breaks the boomerang.
*BLAZE'S STORY: Blaze's fight with Shade is more elemental based than the other fights. Shade's headband will change color depending on which element she will use against Blaze (red for fire, yellow for lightning, blue for water, and green for poison). Each attack comes in the form of a projectile that affects the arena fighting her in: fire will release a ring of flames across the arena, lightning will create a circling line of lightning bolts, water will engulf the arena in a rapid wave attempting to move the player into a ice wall, and poison covers the floor in suffocating gas. Blaze's fire projectiles are the main method of damaging Shade.
=====SUB FIGHTS=====
Outside of the main fight, Shade's boss fights vary depending on the level she appears in (fights placed in chronological order)
*The first fight takes place in the Sol Dimension with Blaze. As it is the first boss in Blaze's story, this is regarded as the easiest fight against Shade - her main attacks including close range punches and basic long-range projectiles. The main method to attack her is to shoot fireballs at her while she's charging up for a large orb hit.
*Her second fight is with Knuckles for the remaining emeralds. Shade's main method of attack is enhancing her abilities to face against Knuckles, giving her a forcefield around much of her body as a result. Knuckles must climb up one of the trees within the arena and divebomb her from above in order to deal any damage to her.
*The third (and final) fight is within Null Space, as Chaos is rampaging. These fights aren't too complicated compared to standard fights, as they're mainly there to hinder progress if not much else - Shade's health being half of what it was in the actual fights.
===Sonic Sol III: Traveler's Tales===
While not actually appearing within the story, she does make a playable appearance within the multiplayer mode. The way to unlock her character is by collecting all the hidden "emerald shards" throughout the game.
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