Emerl the Gizoid

"If they're really trying to trick everyone here, I'm on it too!"

**Emerl the Gizoid** is a minor protagonist from **Sonic the Hedgehog**. He made his series debut in *It's So Wonderful*.

## Canon

### Past

Emerl is a Gizoid created by the Nocturnus Clan, rival of the Knuckles Clan, to be the ultimate war machine. Possibly due to his existence, the Nocturnus Clan were taken away from reality due to causing great imbalance on the world, with the only one saved from such fate being Emerl himself, who remained deactivated for a long period of time after the event. Eventually, he was discovered by Dr. Gerald Robotnik and brought to the Ark for research purposes. After studying the Gizoid's capabilities and features, the doctor accidentaly triggered his "Berserk" state, causing half of the space station to be destroyed. Seeing how much damage the Gizoid has and could possibly cause due to his battle data, Gerald installed a new programming inside of Emerl's data, giving him a "Soul" similar to the one of his granddaughter, Maria, and a safe word used to return the Gizoid to a docile state if destruction were to be imminent. Afterwards, Emerl was once again abandoned.

### *Sonic Battle*

After many years, Dr. Eggman rediscovers the lost Gizoid, taking him in with the hopes of using his technology and power for his favor, even showing his power to him for a Link to be established between both of them. However, due to his lack of memory of any previous battle data and refusal to copy new ones, Emerl proved himself useless to the doctor, causing him to be thrown into the ocean. This caused him to wash away into Emerald Beach, where he was found by and stablished a Link with Sonic the Hedgehog. With a new Link made, Emerl continued to follow Sonic whenever he went, learning more and more things to fill in his empty data bank. After an accidental discovery on how the Gizoid became better depending on how many Chaos Emeralds he had currently absorbed, Team Sonic & Co. decided to search for them in hope of bringing Emerl to a more suitable level of knowledge and general behaviour, along with Sonic himself giving the Gizoid the name of "Emerl", due to the fact he had somewhat of a link of the Chaos Emeralds.

After a considerable amount of time spending time with many of Sonic's friends, and enemies, Emerl manages to reach a point where he had absorbed 6 Chaos Emeralds already, and with the help of Shadow the Hedgehog, he was not only given the last emerald, but also saved from a "Factory Reset" state by the usage of Gerald's safeword. With that, Emerl managed to retain his newfound personality and memories, now happily living with Sonic and friends. But only for so long.

After Dr. Eggman revealed his plan to attack the planet with a giant deadly laser cannon called the Final Egg Blaster, Team Sonic decide to establish a teleport towards Eggman's Death Egg, with the only exception being that only person could pass per energy charge. Emerl decides to selflessly go first, ready to fight and defeat the doctor to save the world from his plan. After a decent fight, Eggman seems to surrender, causing Emerl to lose his guard and accept the doctor's ask for forgiveness out of naiveness. With that, Eggman takes the chance to use the Final Egg Blaster on a nearby cluster of star, exploding each and every one of them in front of Emerl, with the aim to restablish his previous Link with the Gizoid by force. Alas, the plan didn't work as intended, while Emerl did have his link restablished, the amount of residual energy the Final Egg Blaster caused by exploding the stars overloaded Emerl's power sensors and, eventually, his systems too, causing his "Berserk" state to return.

Now with the intuition to use the Final Egg Blaster himself to blow up the planet, Emerl was out of control and with no apparent way to return to normal. Taking this into account, Sonic decides to jump into the Death Egg via teleporter, carrying with him the Master Emerald to try and nullify the power of the Chaos Emeralds present inside of Emerl. However, after seeing the bright light caused by the giant Emerald near him, Emerl gets irritated and manages to break the Master Emerald to pieces before it could do any sort of effect on him. Now, with no other options left to take, Sonic takes on Emerl in a 30 second fight to try and stop him and return the Gizoid to his senses. After this (physically and mentally) difficult fight, Emerl begins to lose conscience, but also returns to his original personality. While Sonic tries to reassure him everything would be alright, Emerl knew it was his time, due to a last programming made by Dr. Gerald, he was fated to self destruct in the critical state that he was. And so, after saying his final goodbyes to Sonic and all of his friends that were watching their fight, Emerl dissapears and dissipates in a bright explosion of light, leaving behind nothing more than a Chaos Emerald shard.

## Pre-ArcRift

Emerl was just defeated by Sonic during their last battle, setting off the final events of the game and exploding into pieces. However, his body was suddenly reconstructed and pulled into the Reapers' Game.

## Plot Involvement

### *It's So Wonderful*

*This information will be elaborated upon within further progress of the Arc.*

## Character Relationships

* *Jotaro Kujo* - A major character from the **JoJo's Bizarre Adventure** series who debuted in *It's So Wonderful*. Emerl's first ally. Their bond started after Jotaro exchanged information about the possible true nature of the Reapers' Game, leading to Emerl accepting his invitatation to take part of his current investigation group.

## Trivia

* Emerl, despite the need of Chaos Energy to remain active, has lost such weakness in It's So Wonderful. While not completely known why, it's most likely an effect of the game's nature.
* Emerl was the first Sonic the Hedgehog character to have been submitted to ArcRift.
	+ He is also the only Sonic the Hedgehog character present within the currently running arc: It's So Wonderful.
* As shown in-game, Emerl does possess a "third eye" of sorts that opens up occasionally. However, the only instances in which that happens seem to be whenever he is powered by the 7 Chaos Emeralds and either resets to his default personality or enters his "berserk" state. Nothing of note appear to come out of this and only appear to serve as an indicator that Emerl isn't acting as he usually does.