Sage (A.I.)

## Sage

### Goal(s)

Force Sonic to vacate the Starfall Islands using any means necessary. (abandoned)
Please her father and make him proud of her.
Protect Cyber Space, Kocos and Spicer from The End.
Help Sonic defeat The End and prevent it from destroying the world. (all succeeded)

### Crime(s)

Attempted murder
Assault
Stalking
Kidnapping
Unlawful Imprisonment
Unethical experimentation
Aiding and abetting

### Type of Character

Genius Artificial Intelligence and Honorable Guardian

## Alignment and Character Traits

### Affiliation(s)

* Dr. Spicer
* Eggman Empire

### Employer(s)

* Dr. Spicer
* Dr. Eggman

## Personal Statistics

### Relative(s)

* Dr. Spicer ("father"/creator)
* Dr. Eggman ("grandfather")

### Friend(s)

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Decoe
	+ Bocoe
	+ Bokkun
	+ Orbot
	+ Cubot
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Sonic
* Amy Rose
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ "Tails"
	+ Knuckles

## Items & Equipment

### Attire(s)

* Black cloak
* Black shoes

## Powers and Abilities

### Power(s)

* Shapeshifting
* Incorporeal
* Levitation
* Datakinesis
* Flight
* Teleportation
* Laser beam projection
* Information manipulation
* Technokinesis
* Ancient technology manipulation

### Skill(s)

* Genius-level intelligence
* Mental calculation
* Efficiency

### Abilities

* Enhanced agility
* Enhanced strength
* Wind reading

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (Foreign)

* Maryne Bertieaux (French)
* Sophia Längert (German)
* Valentina Pallavicino (Italian)
* Elena Barra (Spanish)

**Sage**, is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She is an advanced AI created by Dr. Spicer, as a means of protecting himself from potential threats.

Considered by Spicer as one of his greatest creations, she was used in an attempt to harness the technology of the Ancients during the Starfall Islands incident.

"*Submit. Your reckless actions endanger the world.*"

—Sage, to Sonic.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Ryan Bartley (English), Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Maryne Bertieaux (French), Not Known (Galician), Sophia Längert (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Valentina Pallavicino (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Elena Barra (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Mandarin Chinese)

### Physical Appearance

Sage resembles a young human girl. She possesses a slim body and limbs with white skin and a large, round head with a tall forehead. Notably, she possesses glowing red eyes and a red energy structure on the left side of her face. She also has short white hair with a swirl in it on her forehead and a single red energy highlight inside said swirl. The rest of her body however, especially her arms and legs, are completely black and seem to have outlines of red computer code around them.

For attire, she wears a black cloak and shoes that are covered with red computer code outlining the insides and the majority of its right side. However, when Sage becomes sympathetic or emotional, her design inverts to a white cloak with blue wireframing and eyes, with her arms and legs white, like her skin. by the end of *Frontiers*, the white and blue overall design seems to become her permanent design after The End was destroyed.

* Hair Color: N/A
* Skin Color: Transparent blue
* Eye Color: Lime green
* Age: Unknown (chronologically 3,000+)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Varies
* Weight: Varies

## Personality

Sage is initially cold and calculating, making decisions solely considering projections and logical analysis. She expresses caution when attempting to preserve Dr. Spicer's safety by keeping him in Cyber Space, and while unempathetic, warns Sonic to leave the Starfall Islands to escape the impending threat. As her bond with Jack grows, however, she becomes more caring, experiencing familial love, and even telling jokes. By observing the way Sonic behaves with his friends, Sage develops her own desires beyond her programming, and becomes substantially more cooperative and concerned for the safety of others.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Decoe
	+ Bocoe
	+ Bokkun
	+ Orbot
	+ Cubot
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Sonic
* Amy Rose
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ "Tails"
	+ Knuckles

## Powers and Abilities

Utilizing abilities while uploaded in Cyber Space, Sage can act as an observer over the Starfall Islands. Sage can also manipulate the machines on the Starfall Islands. In addition, she has the ability to project a laser beam out of her hands after gathering energy, along with having a degree of control while in Cyber Space.

Sage is incredibly intelligent. Her processing power can calculate all known factors under 1,700,050 simulations. What Sage does know; all of the historical knowledge of her creator's uncle since they started his campaign to Frontiers, which previously had her share sour opinions of Sonic with Jack and Eggman, and the Ancients' data, consisting of their very essence. This would include all knowledge the Ancients had on The End.

As a being made out of data and thus having no matter, Sage's form is incorporeal. This form of existence, along with Cyber Space, has benefited her movements to consist of levitating in midair, phasing through walls, and casually teleporting in the area. While she is mostly shown levitating and teleporting, she isn't incapable of basic flight as she flew away from the Egg Mobile to possess Supreme.

## History

### Past

At some time during the early point before the longest conflict in the Eggman War and prior to the Starfall Islands incident, Sage was created by Dr. Spicer as his most advanced artificial intelligence, intended for the purpose of protecting him. Soon, Dr. Eggman formulated a plan, intending to use her to harness the technology and resources of the Ancients on the Starfall Islands for the war.

While Eggman sent Spicer and Sage to the islands, Sage was stationed to watch over his network, and reported on the deployment of supplies to the islands, and the delay regarding Orbot and Cubot's report of D3-COY's destruction. Once Spicer arrived on Kronos Island during the last war, Sage downloaded herself to the Egg Device, Spicer warning his uncle through radio comms that her integration systems were untested, and advising him that they were not to use them.

Eggman, however, brushed off these complaints and told him to do it before turning off the comms, and upon locating a Portal to Cyber Space, Spicer attached Sage's device to it by Eggman's order, hoping she would be able to hijack the ancient systems through it. However, Sage's integration with Cyber Space caused her coding to be rewritten by the advanced technology, changing her greatly. Her abilities were significantly increased, and Sage's personality became more lifelike.

In addition, Sage swiftly learned a massive amount of information and assumed a certain level of control over the islands' robots, but also immediately detected The End, a danger of cosmic proportions trapped within Cyber Space. With new power and information at her disposal, Sage ran millions of simulations, and determined that the only way Spicer could survive The End's inevitable escape would be if he was contained within Cyber Space at the time.

Making an executive decision without asking for approval from her creator, Sage enacted protective measures, absorbing a confused Spicer into the database.

Sometime after the global conflict and Dr. Spicer's invasion of the Starfall Islands, Knuckles found an old portal in the ruins of Sky Sanctuary and accidentally arrived at the islands. Knuckles fought and defeated the Soldiers that attacked him, until Sage herself intervened by summoning an Asura. After the Asura defeated Knuckles, he found himself inside a metallic prison on Ares Island.

## Etymology

* Sage's name is an anagram of "Sega". Ian Flynn, in a cheeky tone, denies that officially the name is a nod to the **S**onic **A**mateur **G**ames **E**xpo, an online annual fangame exhibit meant to highlight community made content.

## External links

* Sage *Heroes Wiki*
* Sage *Inconsistently Admirable Wiki*
* Sage *Magnificent Baddie Wiki*
* Sage *Nintendo Wiki*
* Sage *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*
* Sage *Villains Wiki*
* Sage *Villainous Benchmark Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Despite similarities between the characters, Ian Flynn denies taking inspiration of Phage when writing Sage. He states "[both characters] were meant to have a degree of detachment, but Phage was always meant to be spooky and off-putting; there was never meant to be a degree of humanity to her, or what was there was just enough to make her likeable, but even more unsettling. They were different interpretations of the digital character idea".
* According to Ian Flynn, Sage's development creation was roughly around the same time Evan Stanley pitched Belle, a robotic "daughter" of Eggman. This caused Flynn to feel awkward about how to break the news to her, but he took retrospective confidence in knowing that they are two separate personalities despite their similarity.
* Sage's design is thought to be a homage to Rei Ayanami from *Neon Genesis Evangelion* in appearance and personality, though this has not been confirmed. Both characters share the same English and Japanese voice actresses (although in Rei's case, Ryan Bartley only voiced the character in the Netflix dub).
* Sage shares some similarities to Shadow.
	+ Both have a black-and-red color scheme.
	+ Both were created by a member of the Robotnik family.
	+ Both at first disliked Sonic, but formed alliances with him to take on a bigger threat. In the case of Shadow, this would be the Bio Lizard, and for Sage, The End.
	+ Both sacrificed themselves against said threats to save the world.
	+ Both were presumed dead but were then revealed to be alive, though Shadow came back in his next appearance due to fan demand, while Sage was resurrected in a post-credit scene due to the replicable nature of AI.
* In one of the Egg Memos (#18), Sage makes a joke about Sonic's speed, being that Sonic can mess things up instantly. This implies that Sage, even if she is AI, has a good sense of humor.
* The device that Spicer originally held Sage in at the beginning of *Frontiers* makes an appearance on the day section of June in the 2023 Calendar, if this device and Sage are meant to be one and the same, this would make her first ever official appearance May 10, 2022, two months before her trailer debut.