Mephiles the Dark

### Personality/DereType

Mephiles is a cold, calculated, and villainous demon, who uses lies and threats to turn people against each other. He is shown to be extremely sadistic and destructive. He is cool, composed, manipulative, and determined, and rarely loses his temper. He is also arrogant and views others as inferior compared to him, due to his status as a god.

### Likes

Manipulating People
The pain and suffering of others
Watching People turn on eachother
Destroying stuff
Iblis

### Hates

Love
Humanity
Shadow

## Biographical Information

### Martial/Love Status

Single, not like he actually needs someone to love him

### Gender

Technically Genderless, referred to as male

### Age

10 and 210 years old at the same time due to time paradoxes.

## Physical Description

### Typically wears

A copy of Shadow's inhibitor rings and rocket shoes, at least in his Shadow Form.

### Species

Deity

Mephiles the Dark is the main antagonist of the 2006 platform game Sonic the Hedgehog, serving as the main antagonist of Shadow's Story, the secondary antagonist of Silver's Story and the overarching antagonist of Sonic's Story. He is a being of darkness who was accidentally created during the ill-fated Solaris Project. Mephiles took Shadow's form after being resurrected and never used anybody else's appearance. In reality, Mephiles is one of the two halves of the sun god Solaris, alongside Iblis. Mephiles is the mind and will of Solaris, while Iblis is the raw power. Together, they fuse to create the powerful sun god of Soleanna that seeks the destruction of all reality itself.

## Appearance

Mephiles has three main forms. His original form was an amorphous mass of darkness, which emitted an aura and behaved similarly to liquid. In his second form, Mephiles appeared almost identical to Shadow the Hedgehog, aside from having green eyes with snake-like pupils, a pale-skinned muzzle with no mouth (though his muzzle moves when he speaks, as if he does have one), and the fact that everything that is red on Shadow is a grayish-green on Mephiles. Just like Shadow, he had rings on his wrists and ankles. His third and most iconic form was a crystalline, anthropomorphic hedgehog appearance with no mouth, nose or even feet. Instead, his legs ended in a purple mist. His eyes also change color in this form, gaining reddish-pink sclera and lime green irises, while his quills were bushier and ended in white tips. Lastly, his hands, gloves and all, become crystalline like his arms, with the fingers now ending in white-tipped claws.

## Powers and Abilities

Mephiles is capable of taking various forms by absorbing an individual's shadow, which resulted in his gaining his common form. Subtle differences are applied, however, such as a far darker shade of various colors, a pale complexion, and bestial green eyes. Besides actually taking on a form with someone's shadow, he also can grow stronger by absorbing shadows, especially if it comes from the same type of shadow as the being whose shadow he absorbed earlier outside of time. This is especially evident with his second encounter, where he managed to effortlessly escape imprisonment from another Scepter of Darkness due to his present self having gone back in time absorbing Shadow's shadow while the latter was sealing away Mephiles' past self. Mephiles can manipulate and casually move through time, and is able to send others either to the past or into the future. Furthermore, he can alter his physical form to sink into the ground and merge with the shadow of another. He can also manipulate shadows to create "clones" of himself, although they are warped and imperfect without the power of the Chaos Emeralds. He can also merge the clones together to make large shadow monsters. With two Emeralds, he can create an army of perfect clones. Mephiles appears to be immortal, surviving every fight he takes part in, and whenever he is beaten he seems to just shift into his base form. Whether or not he is capable of feeling pain is unknown; although he reacts to taking damage. He has various energy based abilities, such as an energy blade, energy spears, energy beams and even energy spheres. Since he is the mind and will of Solaris, Mephiles also happens to be very intelligent. This is shown in his ability as a master manipulator, being able to easily trick Silver and Blaze into nearly getting his desired result. He is also shown to have adept knowledge on using modern technology, as evidence by knowing exactly which files in Dr. Eggman's computer to use when trying to persuade Silver to assassinate Sonic. This is most likely due to his apparently endless lifespan and time travel power allowing him to study the world around him for as long as he needs to.