Sonic the Hedgehog

Rodent (by enemies, especially Eggman)

Sonikku (by Amy, archaic)

Dishonorable little gerbil (by Eggman)

Nikki (undercover alias used in STOLEN)

My little needlemouse (by Amy)

Chaotix Detective Agency (honorary)

Freedom Fighters (when there's something in it for him)

Deadly Seven (honorary)

Robotnik's Suppression Squad Special Unit (formerly)

Owner of a chili-dog stand (yielded meager results, while living in Iron Dominion)

## Appearances

### Appears in

Sonic Runaways 1: WANTEDSonic Runaways Misfits: SCORNED

Sonic Runaways 2: SHACKLED

Sonic Runaways 3: RESTRAINED

Sonic Runaways Misfits: HUNTED

Sonic Runaways 4: HEXED

Sonic Runaways 5: STOLEN

Sonic Runaways 6: MANIPULATED

### Debut

Sonic Runaways 1: WANTED

Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic for short, is the eponymous protagonist of Sonic Runaways. He is the fastest thing alive, and lives a life of freedom.

## Personality

Sonic is upbeat, cocky and cool. He lives every day to the fullest, and loves adventure. Sonic used to be heavily depressed and spiteful due to the many tragedies plaguing his childhood. He found some semblance of happiness after the events of Sonic Runaways: RESTRAINED, and continued to heal during the following arcs. With a lot of help from Amy of the Roses and her kind-hearted, positive, passionate nature being a constant reminder that there is some good left in the world. Sonic cares for his friends very much, even if his impulsive and nomadic nature can often drive him to bail on them after the fight is done. Despite this, he always comes back in time to save the day.

## Appearance

### Current

#### Normal/Base

Sonic is a short, blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with tan skin. He is very athletic in appearance. One eye of his is bright green while the other is electric blue. He has a tuft of tan hair on his torso, the top almost resembling the shape of his head. His spines are long, messy and sharp. He has easy-to-miss yet still visible eyelashes. His arm color is up to interpretation, and are based on the reader's preference between blue and tan. They can even be covered by white arm-length gloves. However, blue is usually how they are depicted in artwork, and they used to be definitively blue in Sonic's other design. When in a Hyper state, both of his eyes become electric blue and crystalized.

Sonic's red shoes have white straps and soles, with golden buckles. They also have a golden ring shape on the heel stretching to the undersides of his shoes. The undersides of his shoes are dotted with triangles similar to the Paramount design.

#### Nikki Alter-Ego

In his Nikki disguise, he has fluffy, neater brown hair and glasses. His back spines are styled to stretch up. He wears turquoise contact lenses, and the Tails Electric is sometimes worn inside his glasses as a computer chip. He has a baggy dark red shirt with a small "N" on it. His white gloves are actually the same ones he would start to wear all the time a few weeks after his Nikki persona was introduced. His shoes have been swapped for blue boots with yellow tips. His white socks are a bit longer. This design is a combination of Nicky's design from the Shogakukan comics, and his early design from the 90's Sonic Bible.

#### Persona

Sonic's Persona form is essentially a simpler, purely blue version of himself. It doesn't feature the accessories from his old design, and remains consistent across both. It is based on Paramount's storyboard sketches for the Sonic the Hedgehog film series.

#### Super Sonic

Super Sonic has brilliant golden hair that flows upwards and shines pure white. His eyes are both red, his eyelashes are more pronounced, and his red shoes are tinted pink.

### Pre-MANIPULATED

Sonic's spines used to be a lot softer and tidy. His chest was less pronounced and had a smaller tuft of white hair. Most of his hair was a darker shade of blue.

As for his attire, he used to have a decorative golden mask that sparkles brightly. He also wore a red fabric cloak with yellow metal lining. Although it isn't visible in any art from the time, there was a golden ring around his chest that locked the cloak to him. He used to wear black arm-length gloves. His shoes were dark red metal with black elastic straps, yellow buckles, and gray soles. Underneath were black wool socks.

Along with his first transformation into Super Sonic, he swapped his glittery plastic mask for a shiny, more angular golden mask. Sometimes, you can see geometric shapes that resemble rings, soda bubbles, or even motifs from the Japanese Classic Sonic box arts on the mask. When his original cloak was destroyed by Iron Queen, Amy made an unintentionally more restrictive, baggy replica out of unknown Little Planet plant fibers. Although this replica was too long to be comfortable and was overall restrictive to his running, Sonic still keeps it around on a coat rack inside Professor Pickle's lab in Spagonia University out of a sense of nostalgia.

His clothes and mask were based on Joker from Persona 5, albeit with red and yellow instead of black and white to fit his shoes' established color scheme. His cloak was also very similar to Len Alwenia Foska's cloak. Especially in Nat Quin's interpretation of the Super Mario series.

#### Super Sonic

Super Sonic used to have a large cloak lined with white wool. It was an upgraded version of Sonic's cloak from the time. It was secured by a Red Star Ring. All the black attire of his base form as well as his gray shoe soles were replaced with white, foreshadowing his eventual stylistic change.

### Survivor Sonic

During his time on Kronos Island, Sonic was trained by Big to become a fisherman. After Big's death, Sonic kept his fisherman clothes in order to protect him from the cold. This outfit is comprised of brown boots with dark brown stripes and ring buckles, along with a brown cape. The clothes are based on the Adventurer's Shoes and Gloves outfit from Sonic Frontiers, as well as Sonic's design from Sonic Boom.

## History

### Past

Sonic the Hedgehog was supposedly born in a campsite in Green Hill Zone to a single hedgehog mother. He was never given a name. His birth mother, shrouded in mystery to all, is believed to be one of the founders of Spring Yard. She abandoned him the day after he was born, fearing his Chaotic powers and believing she had brought a great darkness into the world.

The newborn Sonic was soon found by Longclaw the Owl, a Babylonian. Remembering a prophecy of the long-gone Babylon Garden, she took him under her wing and attempted to hone his Chaos Emerald powers. However, she was killed in a Flying Battery bombing by Lord Robotnik after two years of raising Sonic. Sonic escaped, and was adopted into the Robotnik family in order to get revenge at the Guardian Units of Nations, who he believed to be behind the attack. However, unbeknownst to Sonic, there were power-hungry ulterior motives at play in this decision.

## Powers and Abilities

### Physical

#### Super Speed

Sonic is the fastest thing in the universe, able to run at infinite speeds as long as he puts the effort in. His speed is innate, and is independent from his Chaos Emerald heart.

#### Homing Attack

Sonic is able to lock onto any given target within a certain range and quickly dash over to it in the air.

### Chaotic

#### Chaos Control

Sonic is able to harness his Chaos Emerald to teleport great distances, although this has a high chance of leaving him in a delirious state. It has also been shown that he doesn't have too much control over where he goes, and it is hard for him to even initiate Chaos Control in the first place.

#### Enerbeam

The Enerbeam is a whip of Chaos Energy/"lightning" that Sonic can summon at will to reach far-off enemies and objects. It can slice, stun, or just grab.

#### Chaos Dagger

The Chaos Dagger, or "Chaos Blade" is a small and sharp bolt of Chaos Energy that Sonic can summon. It is a sizzling, crackling melee weapon that can effortlessly cut through anything in its short range.

#### Chaos Blast

Sonic can initiate a weak Chaos Blast when under high amounts of stress. It is an explosion that travels huge distances, but is far less destructive than Shadow's version of the same move. It can only momentarily disable machinery, and can't directly destroy or harm much of anything. It is comparable to an electro-magnetic-pulse.

### Elemental

#### Lightning Manipulation

Sonic is able to channel lightning and attack enemies with it, this is because of his Chaos Energy being related to lightning.

### Transformations and Forms

#### Super Sonic (True)

After he collects the seven Chaos Emeralds, Sonic is able to transform into Super Sonic. In this form, all of his natural abilities are enhanced beyond imagination. He is completely invincible and capable of flight. The form can only be dismissed by the Master Emerald or Sonic himself.

##### False Super Sonic

False Super Sonic is activated by the power of the Master Emerald. Though this form has all the same abilities as Super Sonic True, it has a time limit and causes excruciating pain. Although False Super Sonic can be activated by just a shard of the Master Emerald, the form's duration is based on how whole the emerald is.

#### Sahnek-Q

Sahnek-Q is a form Sonic took on after prolonged exposure to outer space, Eternamy's Master Emerald and Chaos Lips card, and mutations in his own Chaos Emerald. It progressively grows more and more abstract, to the point where it can hardly be considered Sonic at all. This form would later make way for Breeze the Buggy to be born in the next Cycle.

#### Hyper Sonic Rose

Hyper Sonic Rose is a form that Sonic obtains after harnessing the power of the Passion Spinel, one of the three Memory Tokens. Powered by Cyber Energy, it is a less powerful version of False Super Sonic. Sonic's powers are greatly enhanced, but he can still feel pain.

### RED-CODE/Cybernetic

When RED-CODE was installed into Sonic's body, he was able to adapt to the Starfall Island's strange environment a bit more easily with a whole heaping of new abilities.

#### Cyloop

The Cyloop allows Sonic to manipulate and carry objects with ease. It can take the form of a lasso, a noose/guillotine, and even raging tornadoes. It is also capable of communing with plantlife in mysterious ways, similar to Vista and Charmy Bee.

#### Juice Absorption

Ever since RED-CODE was installed, Sonic became susceptible to the effects of the Red Seed of Power, as well as the Blue Seed of Defense. After he bathes in their juice and pulp, Sonic can become stronger or faster depending on which seed the juice comes from.

#### Eccolocation

Sonic can be granted directions and paths through the Starfall Islands by the Hermit Koco.

## Relationships

### Tails the Fox

Sonic and Tails are lifelong best friends. They share a special and extremely close bond despite their glaring differences and the occasional debate. This bond runs so deep that Tails didn't hesitate to run away from the Robotnik Empire with Sonic for no other reason than wanting to stay with his best friend.

When Sonic found out Tails had Neuro-Immune-Deficiency-Syndrome, and that he wished for nothing more than to go on adventures with Sonic until his death, Sonic vowed to travel the world with him. Though finding the World Instruments may have been a more obvious motive for the hedgehog, Sonic's main motivation was always to live up to this promise.

### Amy of the Roses

Sonic and Amy of the Roses share mutual romantic interest in each other, even if Amy shows it more. Sonic is still considering if he wants to take their relationship to that level.

### Knuckles the Echidna

Sonic and Knuckles share a mutual respect for each other, even though they butt heads and Sonic's carefree nature often gets under the uptight Knuckles' skin.

### Lord Robotnik

Sonic used to be the adoptive child of Lord Robotnik, living a life of riches and power over others. However, his upbringing after the age of 3 (around the time he was adopted) is often stated to be full of manipulation and even abuse from Lord Robotnik. When Sonic eventually betrayed and fled the Robotnik Empire, their relationship went from strained to purely hateful. They both would not hesitate to kill the other on sight. However, it has been shown multiple times the father-son bond they shared never died completely, no matter how troubled it was.

## In the Original Series

In the original Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic the Hedgehog is a cool and heroic hedgehog with a heart of gold and a love for running. He hates evil and dishonesty, but strives to make every battle against these two things an adventure to remember.

## Trivia

* Sonic finds guilty pleasure in unhealthy and gluttonous foods, his two favorite meals being chili dogs, and secondarily pizza.
	+ Although, he runs so much that he burns off lots of weight.
	+ His enjoyment of pizza is based on Nicky's love of pizza in the Sonic the Hedgehog Shogakukan manga.
* According to a tweet by Nat Quin, Sonic is pansexual.
* Sonic was born in the Robotnik Empire, which is based heavily on the real-life country of North Korea. This means Sonic is Asian.
* Sonic can sometimes appear socially awkward when alone with people who he doesn't know very well. This also applies to people he is attracted to.
* Sonic used to be nearly identical to his in-game counterpart when he was younger, being shorter and a lighter shade of blue, having an obnoxious yet endearing teenage edge, and wearing only white wrist-length gloves and his iconic shoes. The only glaring difference was his blue left eye.
	+ When he was a child, he was more similar to his Classic counterpart, being very short and a little pudgy.
* Sonic hates pickles and eggs.
* Sonic has a large in-universe following comprised of mostly young people who are inspired by his rebellious ways.
* Sonic's personality was at first meant to be a mixture of the "Dark Age" Sonic (such as in games like Unleashed or Black Knight) and Persona 5's protagonist to an extent. This is still alluded to sometimes in the book series.
	+ The reasoning for this and Sonic's prior attire is that he is a fan of Persona 5, and believes himself to be similar in many ways to Persona 5's protagonist. This is done to poke fun at a somewhat common yet no less bizarre internet phenomenon/meme where people believe that they "look like Joker from Persona 5". In the SHACKLED chapter "Blink and You Miss It/Don't Blink, Don't Think", it is alluded to by Sonic doing an impression of Persona 5's Yusuke Kitagawa.
		- Despite this, Sonic acts more similar to Ryuji Sakamoto from Persona 5 more often than not. Along with the fact his clothes' color scheme is more or less the same as Ryuji. Sonic's lightning-based Chaos powers are also a reference to Ryuji specializing in Electric skills in Persona 5.

* Sonic rolls faster than he runs, but loses momentum quicker.
* Sonic is afraid of non-anthropomorphic hedgehogs.
* Sonic used to be canonically 23 at the start of the series, and later 24. As of now, his age is ambiguous but he is somewhere in the young adult range.
	+ This is because Sonic in the Sonic the Hedgehog series used to canonically be 15, before all the characters' ages were removed and left ambiguous.
	+ Sonic's original age of 23 makes him even older than the Sonic from the creator's other works, with Sonic from the Sonic's Hourglass book only being 20.