Josh the Hedgehog

*This page is about Josh the Hedgehog, the 2nd Lesser Deific King of Parallel Ventilus. You might be looking for Joshua the Hedgehog, the young founder of Jkirk Federations.*

—Josh during Imperium x Jkirk Federations Chapter 1

**Josh the Hedgehog** is the Sonic Fanon alter-ego of Joshua Zephyrius. He exists in a Mobian version of Planet Antiquus called Parallel Antiquus, wherein he is the second Lesser Deific King of Ventilus and its current ruler. He is also the fursona of Yoshiya Fukami.

## Basic Info

### Other Titles

Josh, King Josh, Ventilus King, Archon Emperor

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Zephyrus (father), Callia (mother), Severina (younger sister), Aero, Deific Wind (ancestor)

### Affiliations

Ventilus Royal Hierarchy, Imperium of Antiquian Science and Technology, Empyrean Conclave

## History

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.***
### Early Life, 2000-2229 ATS

He was born in Cryglen City, the capital city of Avalaera in Ventilus on October 4, 2000. His parents were Zephyrus the Zephyrian Hedgehog and Callia the Celerean Hedgehog. He is the eldest offspring among two children. His younger sister was named Severina the Zephyrian Hedgehog, the current Ventilus Princess. He was the crown prince of Ventilus Royal Hierarchy. When he was over 280 years old, his ancestor Aero the Deific Wind, granted him the authority to become the Ventilus King after his father.

When he was eight years old, he met Caitlineia the Hedgecat, the daughter of their hospitable neighbor, which was a Ventilusian couple living in a dainty shrine, symbolizing the Pagonian spirit. They lived together as childhood friends. However, three years later, Caitlineia was separated from him by a renegade Pyronian dragoon, turning her into a slave. He swore to bring his friend back by settling the situation with the man in a peaceful way.

## Personality

He is always calm and collected, even when at tense situations. However, when certain parts of his personality are negatively referred to, he becomes quick to anger to those who stain his name as a primordial being. He also displays this attitude against people who disrespects him in spite of his high level of authority. These are the only things that can provoke him, aside from his family being harmed.

He might display arrogance at times during battle, but he displays incredible prowess in using his innate abilities to back it up. Since he was in a royal bloodline, he grew up in a transcendent way.

When he was 757 years old, he lived at the thought of the tragic incident 749 years ago when Caitlineia was separated from him by a Pyronian dragoon. He felt a deep sense of regret since he failed to save his childhood friend at the cost of his own life. This incident also caused him to be more melancholy than he was before. On the flip side, it also helped him to live as a noble gentleman, doing his best to give great value for women and to protect them from evil. Despite his melancholy, he kept his cool during battles involving damsels in distress.

As the Archon Emperor of the Imperium of Antiquian Science & Technology, he is a very analytical leader. Before proceeding to war, he organizes all of his troops according to the situation at hand. However, he easily gets disappointed when any of his officers are not knowledgeable enough of his explanations, especially when these officers are newly promoted in the army. That is why he always trains them on how to use their mind well in battle.

He is a compassionate person, always helping those in need. As a father, he has indomitable willpower, willing to sacrifice himself to protect his family, especially her wife Caitlineia. As much as possible, when his wife is about to enter a battle by herself, he takes the stead to prevent her from taking too much harm, even though she cannot die. It is because he values his wife a great deal despite her current situation.

One of his hidden characteristics is his frankness and perfectionism. As a person born with the Melancholic temperament, he values perfection, which also reflects his efficiency in most activities. When he observes that a person that he knows well repeats the same mistake, he will rebuke that person. He also dislikes the attitude of people that dodge conversations by playing dumb, taking things too literally, and jump to conclusions while the perceived problem has not been completely solved yet.

## Abilities

**Ancient Aerokinesis (Zephyrian Style)**

Josh has fully mastered Ancient Aerokinesis when he was 280 years of age. He was taught by his ancestor to be a master practitioner of this magic in order to prove that his powers speak of his authority as the second Lesser Deific King of Ventilus. He possesses free control over wind, allowing him to utilize the air around him in any form at will. He is able to release a large amount of energy in few seconds to cast devastating spells associated with the latter magic. Moreover, this type of magic is highly complex; only the prophesied Ancient Kings of Ventilus are able to learn it through their predecessors.
Since he is of Zephyrian birth, he utilizes Ancient Aerokinesis in Zephyrian Style. As an example, he often incorporates his use of Ancient Aerokinesis with physical attacks and further enhances his proficiency in close combat through inherently high motor skills to compensate for his slight weakness against physical attacks.
His primary spells associated with Ancient Aerokinesis are:
* Primeval Tempest - Joshua kneads wind energy in his palms and releases it with full force, creating a strong twister on the field, but not as a big as a tornado. This attack has three variations:
	+ Primeval Tempest: Pursuit Secutor - This variant chases its target and obliterates it, unless countered with strong fire magic.
	+ Primeval Tempest: Demolitionary Archon - This variant can wreck multiple buildings on fierce contact.
	+ Primeval Tempest: Ring Nexus - This variant takes on the form of a huge tornado lunging at a line of targets.

**Ascensions**

Josh is able to ascend to a stronger form by using the power of the seven Ancient Keystones or their enhanced versions called the Aeternal Keystones.
To ascend, he first casts a magical heptagon on his wake. From each vertex of the heptagon has a small magic circle with a line connecting them together. Each Ancient Keystone nearby will float above each circle. To harness their powers, Joshua casts a floating rune that floats before him. Afterwards, he will stretch his arms sideways and reach forth his palms towards the rune. To unlock the energy channel within the rune, he will swipe it in an upward motion with both index and middle fingers, causing the rune to dissipate. Eventually, the user will be surrounded in a beam of light and emerge from a surge of massive energy, resulting in an ascension of the user's current form.
**Tachyon Magic**

Tachyon Magic is a special type of magic within the bloodline of Celerean family. It allows Josh to control tachyon energy in his body, thus enabling him to outlast opponents with his unknown level of speed. He can deal damage to opponents by charging his feet with high-density tachyon energy as a form of finishing attack. However, he cannot pass tachyon energy to others who don't have the ability to harness tachyon energy internally and externally.
He can use these attacks using Tachyon Magic:
* Tachyon Kick - Josh charges his right foot with tachyon energy. After his foot is fully loaded, he focuses natural energy into his left foot, causing him to jump at a high level of altitude. While Joshua is suspended mid-air, he aims his right foot at the opponent. Using his Tachyon Magic, he jets off toward his opponent, leaving afterimages behind. When he reaches his opponent, he slams his charged foot with full force on him or her. The attack has very high momentum because of its tremendous velocity.
* Tachyon Edge - He can charge his Ancientcalibur with high-density tachyon energy to enhance its attack speed and to prevent enemies from escaping. After charging, he delivers a lethal slash that can defeat multiple enemies.
* Tachyon Multi-Edge - Another variation is to lock an opponent into a tachyon-powered series of slashes instead of one pooled slash. He uses this form of attack after restraining the opponent with swordplay. He can also use this to overwhelm a defending enemy.
* Tachyon System - Josh's finishing combo attack as opposed to Tachyon Kick. This attack is more effective inside barriers.

He can use five variants of the skill "Tachyon Kick":
**Enhanced Motor Skills**

He can easily dodge most slow attacks through his enhanced motor skills. To an extent, he can dodge most dense attacks and even manifold attacks. He can do backflips and cartwheels as methods of dodging. He can react to attacks at a slightly faster rate, allowing him to dodge the attacks involved. Moreover, this inherent skill acts as an auxiliary for Tachyon Magic.
**Ancient King Swordplay**

As an Ancient King, he is able to wield his Ancientcalibur skillfully. Moreover, he can overwhelm other opponents by combining the adamant strength of his great-sword and his very high attack speed. He is also adept in pinpointing blind spots and weak points of the enemy as long he is familiar with their characteristics. Strangely enough, he often unsheathes his Ancientcalibur in a samurai-like way but attacks in a similar way to his fellow Ancient Kings.
**Immense Intelligence**

For an entity that has lived for more than a thousand years, he has high-level intelligence, ranging from 280-300 IQ. He is able to organize a military faction by himself. He invented most of the Imperium's military weaponry and consolidated knowledge for his members to use. He even invented many notable contraptions that the Imperium has in store. He finished magic school earning a vast range of knowledge about magic.
**Electric Nullification**

He has the uncanny ability to nullify electricity. He earned this ability in his explorations in Electrochroma, in which former King Gamma rewarded him a special Chromasapien gene that gives him the ability to resist currents of electrons that may harm his body, because he helped fend off the Regimenians from the planet.
**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**

**Telepathy**

As a natural-born Ancient Mobian, he is able to telepathize with people having a telepathic connection with him. However, he cannot do this with people having no connection, unless they agreed to establish one. Simple physical contact after agreement can make the establishment successful. This connection cannot be broken unless one or two people involved pass away.
## Weaknesses

**Fire Magic Vulnerability**

Compared to his Ancient Aerokinesis, he is greatly vulnerable against fire magic. Due to this uncanny weakness, he cannot tolerate high-temperature areas such as Pyronia, which he tries his best not to go there, due to the volcanic heat emitting from Mount Calderius and from the rest of volcanoes on the said continent. The heat there can only be tolerated by its own natural-born citizens. This drawback causes his battle parameters to decrease dramatically to the extent of suffering from heatstroke with a higher chance than others when in a high-temperature area. Due to this limitation, he will have a hard time fighting fire-elementals such as Louisius Salamandra, the King of Pyronia. Strangely, sunny areas do not pose a problem to Josh, because the temperature in these areas are within his tolerable range.
**Physical Attack Vulnerability**

Due to his physiology affected by Tachyon Magic, he is slightly vulnerable to physical attacks. As shown in Everburning Battle of the Shadow Revenant—Part 2, he struggled to regain his ground because of the strong force of Brian's punch and the collateral damage due to gravity when he crashed on the ground. He compensates for his weakness by his own extreme movement speed and is also training with his fellow king Thomas the Echidna to reduce this weakness.
## Forms

* Static State
* Ascensions
* Guardian States

* Ancient Archon
* Aeternum Archon

* Elementals
* Specials

* Shielphean
* Gishilian
* Frigulacian
* Colossian
* Lumineadharian
* Abisnyctian
* Zephyrian

Josh gains access to this state by harnessing the power of a Frigulacian Stone from his person. This stone is imbued with the elemental energy of Frigulac, the Ice Elemental Guardian.

While in this state, Josh gains the ability to freely control ice at will, even overriding Adex the Hedgehog's.

Josh gains access to this state by harnessing the power of a Lumineadharian Stone from his person. This stone is imbued with the elemental energy of Lumineadhar, the Light Elemental Guardian.

While in this state, Josh gains the ability to use both Photokinesis and Electrokinesis, whilst the former on a lesser degree. He primarily shifts to this state when fighting water-elementals and even ice-elementals.

This state is not considered an elemental shift, rather an ascension. Josh gains access to this state by harnessing the power of a Zephyrian Stone from his person. This stone is imbued with the elemental energy of Zephyr, the Wind Elemental Guardian.

While in this state, Josh's Ancient Aerokinesis is further enhanced.

* Aethernovian
* Thelmegiddean

## Duels (Win/Lose/Draw)

#### First

Locations: Zephyeur Castle Gardens, Ventilus Grasslands, and Khelugm

Weapons Used: Ancientcalibur; 2 Dark Matter Swords, C-T57 Plasma Rifle Mk 1

Status: Finished

States Used: Zephyrian State; None

Victor: Josh the Hedgehog

Attack of Victory: Tachyon Kick

### VS Adex the Hedgehog

Locations: Aetheris Arena and Khelugm

Weapons Used: Ancientcalibur; Ice Sword, Ice Lance, Ice Daggers

Status: Ongoing

States Used: Lumineadharian State (2x in conjunction with Empyrean Armor), Frigulacian State, Empyrean Armor; Livid Form

## Games

### Cross-Dimensional Triumvirate Strike 1

He is one of the playable Commanding Officers in the game.

Description: The Archon Emperor of the Imperium. Highly formidable in both tactics and on the battlefield.

 80/120
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 Mob +1 mx/sec, Atk. rate +1 atk/sec: All fndly air units.
 Name
 Calamity Zephyr

## Miscellaneous Info

His hobbies are painting, drawing, writing antique novels, playing the violin, and traveling in Ventilus and Cryolus. The places he likes to go are windy and have low temperature. He prefers living within a boreal biome. The food he prefers eating are mostly savory, while some are mildly sweet. His favorite food is white sauce pasta. His favorite pastry is coconut buttermilk cookies. His favorite drink is minted green tea. His favorite colors are mostly within the hues of blue and green. He likes to wear trench coats and thick scarves. His favorite animals are birds and cats, while he somewhat dislikes dogs and abhors cockroaches. His favorite sport is kick volleyball. His favorite vacation venue is the Rink of Fractals in northeast Ventilus.

His temperament is Melancholic-Choleric. He is meticulous in many aspects, whether great or small. This can be inferred that Joshua is of the Lawful Good alignment.

He likes people with good discipline and adequate wisdom. However, he greatly dislikes flamboyant people. The men he likes to be friends with are bighearted, willful, and compassionate. In terms of women, he prefers the mysterious, demure, and shy ones. Regarding appearances, he generally likes women with long hair, as well as those with braids. This is evident of his wife Caitlineia, who has long hair. However, his greatest preference on choosing a woman is her personality.

He graduated after six years in Cryglen Magic Learning Center (now called Ventilus Basic Magic School), after six years in Cryglen Magic High, and after four years in Ventilus National Magic University as top-notch. He finished Aerokinetics Course and Masteral of High Primeval Magic.

His personal motto is "*Art is an endless possibility".*

## Trivia

* His first name **Josh** is shorthand for **Joshua**, a Hebrew name that means "Yahweh is my deliverance". Particularly, in the normal concept of "deliverance", it foreshadows his separation from Caitlineia many years ago and his resolve to save her from the clutches of evil and reunite with her. This led him to another resolve: to value the safety of women as one of his greatest priorities.
* His second name **Aelianos** foreshadows his trait of tolerating heat from the sun although he has a flaw in high-temperature areas.
* He has formerly five forms of ascension: Super, Hyper, Ultimate, Infinity, and the extension Infinity Energy. Now, he only has only two ascensions like his original counterpart: Ancient Archon and Aeternum Archon.
* When he returns in any public Sonic Fan Database, he can only use Tachyon Magic and Ancient Aerokinesis to avoid overpowering other characters. His fire and physical vulnerability will retain.