Trip the Sungazer

* Armored
* Regular

## Bio

**Trip the Sungazer,** also known simply as **Trip**, is a character that appears in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series. She is an anthropomorphic sungazer lizard that inhabits the Northstar Islands. She was once hired by Dr. Eggman and Fang the Hunter to guide them through the archipelago's areas before defecting from them and joining Sonic and his friends.

## Appearance

Trip is a brown and orange-furred anthropomorphic lizard with black eyes and peach skin covering her muzzle and arms. She has a brown pointed nose, a brown and orange-striped tail, and three yellow spikes on her forehead. Trip's ears are orange and shaped like the yellow spikes on her forehead. She wears a brown, orange and yellow dress, white gloves with gold cuffs, black tights, and orange shoes with gold toes and brown cuffs.

As for Trip's armor, blocky metallic bronze-colored pieces are attached to her cuffs, and she also wears a bronze-colored bucket-like helmet with black circular eye lenses and a row of three spikes on its front, bulky bronze-colored armor covering her torso, and a pair of brown shoes with blocky edges.

## History

### *Sonic Superstars: Fang's Big Break*

Trip first appears wearing her armor after Fang the Hunter runs afoul of a Giant Flicky and captures it in retribution, causing her to try and fight him with a spear, though she trips and drops the weapon, causing Fang to strong-arm her into working for him and Dr. Eggman in discovering the Northstar Islands' secrets.

### *Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble*

After Fang jolted awake from his nightmare, he continued to escort Eggman and Trip through an unnamed temple. However, while Fang and Eggman were trying to locate the hidden message, Trip crawled through a crevice to find a flower, which, to her dismay, got crushed by Eggman. Eggman also was trying to decode the message while Fang and Trip were busy fighting a giant snake. In the final scenes of the fight, Trip throws Tails' battery at Fang, of which he used to recharge his Marvelous Queen. That said, both Fang and Trip defeated the snake. When Fang was rejoicing however, it appears as if he took all the credit for himself, and left nothing for Trip, leaving her seemingly distraught. Worse still, by the end of the animation, she proceeded to walk up to and touch the snake of whom Fang "defeated", with some connotations of her feeling seemingly regretful.

### *Sonic Superstars*

#### Main Story

During the game's intro, Trip oversaw the conversion of the giant Animals of the Northstar Islands into Badniks with Eggman and Fang.

Some time later, Fang accidentally runs into Trip during his pursuit of Sonic at the end of the hedgehog's personalized act in Speed Jungle Zone. This causes Fang to be very angry at Trip for standing in his way. At the end of Speed Jungle Zone Act 2, Trip would follow the four protagonists (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy) with Fang in hot pursuit, still furious. This caused Trip to trip and drop her remote control, accidentally activating a trap which captured Fang. This prompted Trip to panic. At the end of Lagoon City Zone Act 1, Trip presses a button on her remote control, to activate a trap door that the protagonists run over, but the trap door doesn't open up, which causes Trip to worry. Later, Trip steps onto the trap door and presses the button again, but still nothing happens. Fang gets a bit impatient from all this, causing Trip to repeatedly press the button in panic before realizing she made a big mistake before the trap door opens and she falls down. Upon getting back up and looking around, Trip finds herself all alone and cries. Amy comes across Trip during the pink hedgehog's personalized act in Lagoon City Zone and calms down the armored lizard. Amy then carries Trip through the remainder of the former's personalized act until they reach the end, where Amy gives Trip an apple that she picked up earlier, making the lizard very happy. Trip happily waves goodbye to Amy as the pink hedgehog continues on her journey with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. At the end of Golden Capital Zone Act 1 and near the beginning of Knuckles' personalized act in the said zone, Trip is seen getting kidnapped by Fang. At the end of Golden Captial Zone Act 2, Trip arrives to keep Fang from using the Chaos Emeralds that Sonic and his friends collected throughout the game, but that only results in Fang kicking Trip away. Trip gets back up on her feet, which shocks Fang, right before she takes off her armor. Trip then uses the Chaos Emeralds to transform into her Golden Dragon form. But that doesn't stop Fang as the four protagonists and Trip watch Fang getting inside his colossal mech. Trip then breaks inside the mech and destroys it, taking Fang with it. Trip changes back into her normal form as the Chaos Emeralds return to Sonic and company. Feeling very happy to see each other again, Amy and Trip both run up to each other. Then, Amy introduces her new friend to Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, but Trip gets a bit shy and puts on her helmet. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles laugh a bit before Trip peeks a bit from under her helmet and smiles.

The first part of the game's ending cutscene shows Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, and their new buddy Trip escaping the exploding Egg Fortress Zone in Tails' renovated Eggmobile. The second part of the ending cutscene show the crew back on solid ground in the Northstar Islands as the newly freed animals celebrate Sonic and co.'s victory over Eggman, and Sonic gets Trip to shake his hand to celebrate their new friendship.

#### Trip's Story

Trip's story begins with the lizard having fun with the animals, before noticing one of Eggman's creations flying right by them. Trip then takes off her helmet and goes on her own journey to see what's going on. During Egg Fortress Zone Act 2, Trip has a one-on-one battle with Fang, first in his heavilly armored Marvelous Queen, then in his fully restored colossal mech. Trip destroys Fang's mech once and for all, casuing the purple weasel to fly right towards the screen and comically crashing into it. The first part of the ending cutscene is a shortened version of the main game's ending, where a renovated Eggmobile escapes the exploding Egg Fortress Zone. The second part of the ending cutscene shows the animals, Sonic and Tails, celebrating Trip's return to the Northstar Islands after her battle against Fang. The cutscene ends with Trip blushing a bit and putting on her helmet.

#### Last Story

This story's ending cutscene has Trip holding up the Dark Dragon Gem and using it to seal the Great Dark Dragon inside once and for all. Once the dark dragon is back inside its "egg", The animals celebrate Sonic and Trip's victory, and even Amy and Tails are happy about it. The cutscene ends with Eggman's crudely drawn picture of the dragon from Trio of Trouble floating back down towards the ground.

## Personality

Not much is given about Trip's personality. However, what can be pieced in *Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble*, the following can be drawn:

While Trip is rather sinister in appearance, she notably is seen to be collective and being the most under-credited of the trio, with all the credit going either to Fang or Eggman. She also has some degree of good intent in her, as evidenced by her expressions of sadness whenever any life in general is lost right before her eyes, like when Eggman steps on flowers or when Fang captures a giant Flicky.

In truth after all, Trip is a docile and empathetic sungazer lizard girl, that gets easily shy by the simple gaze of anyone to her face if not using her characteristic helmet, and has a sensible side, being prone to cry when in desperation and also being innocently friendly to anyone who approaches her without malice. Although sensible and with a heart of gold, even Trip has her limits on being tolerable with bad people, especially with Fang. After being hurt by Fang one last time, Trip finally lost her patience and revealed her face in front of everyone, and as much for Sonic and friends surprise (and as well, as much for Fang's disgrace), Trip does also have the ability on channeling the Chaos Emeralds power, transforming herself into a Golden Dragon. In serious moments, and as well at Golden Dragon form, Trip is brave and determined to finish things immediately. She also apparently has knowledge on ancient magic powers such as the ability on using the Chaos Emerald power and using the mysterious purple gem to seal the Great Dark Dragon.

Although being now at the side of the heroes, Trip still is very shy (or maybe, pretty much remorseful of everything she did despite being forced to do) always putting her helmet in fear of being seen for much time, but despite that, Trip is easily overjoy on having her new friends.

## Powers & Abilities

Trip seems to have knowledge in making traps and technology. Outside her armor, she can use the power of the Chaos Emeralds in order to protect her friends, using normally against normal enemies or reaching her maximum potential when fighting really bad beings, such as Fang.

### Equipment and weapons

At first, Trip uses her armor and a spear to stop intruders.

## Relationships

### Fang the Hunter

Initially, Trip was afraid of disobeying Fang the Hunter, as he was bossing with her, and treating Trip badly due to her clumsiness. Fang had zero care about Trip's safety, not even helping her to get out from her own trap at Lagoon City, a fact that caused Trip to cry in despair realizing that Fang was really evil. After such situation and befriending Amy Rose, Trip gains determination to stop Fang, and after he injuries her with a kick, Trip finally lost her composure and fought back the jerboa. It is easy to assume that Fang and Trip has a very antagonistic relationship from this point. Fang apparently wasn't aware that Trip was the exact same species as Dr. Eggman ordered him to find (the ancient lizards, and Trip is part of them).

### Amy Rose

At Lagoon City, Amy Rose found a distressful and crying Trip, who quickly becomes afraid of Amy, only to realize that Amy was trying to help her. After helping Trip on getting out from the trap, Amy and Trip built a friendship together, with Amy giving an apple to Trip, an act of kindness that causes Trip to be overjoyed. Amy seems to care a lot for Trip, even after the time of the Northstar Islands incident, Amy and Trip are close friends.

### Friends

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Amy Rose (Best friend)
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel

### Neutral

* Bean the Dynamite
* Bark the Polar Bear

### Enemies

* Dr. Robotnik
* Fang the Hunter