Tikal the Echidna

**Tikal the Echidna**, is both a fictional character and tritagonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She was an anthropomorphic peach-orange echidna sprit, from back 3,000 years ago.

She was also the only daughter of a power-hungry patriarch who was the last chieftain of her clan, which resided in what is now the Mystic Ruins. In her youth, she rejected her father's warmongering ways, though she was to ignored.

During this time in a period of war, she befriended the local Chao, Pokémon and their guardian, Chaos. Tikal tried to stop her father from taking both the Chaos Emeralds & the Master Emerald in ambitions to defeat their enemies.

In this process, she and several Pokémon and Chao were injured, which angered Chaos' wrath. When Chaos went on a destructive rampage after killing her father, Tikal stopped Chaos by trapping it and her inside the Master Emerald.

In the present era, Tikal's spirit was released when Dr. Eggman planned to use Chaos to take over the world, where she aided Sonic and co. After Chaos was defeated and calmed by Super Sonic, she left with Chaos to parts unknown.

"*I am Tikal, a spirit bound to the Master Emerald.*"

—Tikal, to Sonic.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Rebecca Honig (English), Kaori Asoh (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Bulgarian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dainish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (Finnish), Naïké Fauveau (French), Kathrin Gaube (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Tünde Törtei (Hungarian), Valentina Mari (Italian), Seong-hye Yun (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Anita Sajnóg (Polish), Sandra Castro (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Amparo Bravo (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Ukrainian), Lina Mendes (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Loreto Araya (Latin Spanish), Biwen Lei (Mandarin Chinese), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Taiwanese Mandarin)

### Physical Appearance

Tikal was once a peach-orange-furred anthropomorphic echidna girl with a peach muzzle, a small black nose, cobalt-blue eyes with two medium-length eyelashes on each one, dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of her head and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail. During those years, she wore a tank top-like garment which revealed her midriff and the traditional tribal skirt with beige, green, and red triangular patterns.

As a sign of her lineage, she wore a golden armlet on her right arm, a golden necklace and a tiara-like band atop her forehead, both of which were decorated with triangles and a light blue jewel in the center. Her white gloves were adorned with thick, cobalt-blue bracelets around her wrists, and she wore white-strapped sandals. Her dreadlocks and left arm were also wrapped with similar white bandages.

In her spiritual form, she appeared either as a bright pink orb of light which hovered in the air, or as a full-bodied apparition resembling her once-physical self.

* Hair Color: Peach-orange
* Skin Color: Peach
* Eye Color: Cobalt-blue
* Age: 3,000+ (physically 14)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 95 cm (3' 1")
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Tikal was a gentle, fair-minded and kindhearted pacifist with a peaceful temperament. She was very devout to her beliefs, rarely resorting to unnecessary roughness, and would try to resolve conflicts by trying to sway people away from their destructive paths peacefully. She severely opposed greed, violence, brutality and fighting, and wished for everything to be in peace, harmony and tranquility. As a result, she opposed the ways of her warmongering father.

While she abhorred fighting though, Tikal was also a strong defender of peace and was not above helping others fight to protect the world and its people. She would as well fight herself, when necessary, but only for the right reasons. Tikal was very caring, empathetic and compassionate about the people around her, being willing to put her own well-being on the line to keep needless harm from befalling the innocent.

She was similarly very non-discriminatory, never treating anyone with prejudice, and was good at making friends with peaceful creatures.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Chaos
* Baker Detective Agency
	+ Team Chaotix
		- Vector (teammate, close friend)
		- Charmy (teammate, close friend)
* Heavy
* Bomb (*Knuckles' Chaotix*)
* Mighty
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose
	+ Big
	+ Cream
		- Cheese
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ Knuckles
	+ "Tails"=
* Lindsey Thorndyke
* Nelson Thorndyke
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Ella
* Cosmo
* Vanilla

### Family

* Grandma (grandmother; deceased)
* Pachacamac (father; deceased)
* Unnamed mother (deceased)

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Decoe
	+ Bocoe
	+ Bokkun
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Sonic

## Abilities and Powers

Having been taught how to fight by her tribe's elders, Tikal knew how to defend herself and had as least passible skills in hand-to-hand combat. Tikal was one of the few known people who were able to access and utilize the powers of the Master Emerald on her own by using her mantra, allowing her to harness its various abilities. She was also the only known person to be able to understand Chaos' language.

Following her transcension into a spirit, Tikal gained a variety of mysterious spiritual powers. These powers included assuming the discorporate form of a floating and glowing orb, which could move very fast, and even spiritually assume her physical form if needed. She could also levitate and teleport herself and others, and demonstrated telekinentic abilities, like when she enveloped the X Tornado in a spiritual light and brought it down to the ground.

A prominent spiritual power of Tikal's was the ability to temporarily transport people's minds back in time through the Chaos Emeralds or the Master Emerald's shards, or by enveloping the recipient in a blinding light. During these "visions", people could physically interact with their surroundings in the past. Once these "visions" ended, the recipient was returned to their body.

## External links

* Tikal the Echidna *‎‎‎Heroes Wiki*
* Tikal the Echidna *Mobius Encyclopedia*
* Tikal the Echidna *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* In line with how Spike is modeled after Sonic, his species porcupine is as well closely similar to a hedgehog.
* His spinning attack is similar to Espio's spinning attack from *Knuckles' Chaotix*.