Tikal the Echidna

**Tikal the Echidna**, is both a fictional character and tetartagonist of the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She was an anthropomorphic peach-orange echidna spirit from 3,000 years ago.

She was also the only daughter of a power-hungry patriarch who was the last chieftain of her tribe, which resided in what is now the Mystic Ruins in the Johto region. In her youth, Tikal rejected her father's warmongering ways.

And yet, she was ignored by him and his supporters because they were living in a period of war. During then, she befriended the Chao, Pokémon, and their guardian. However, Tikal tried to stop her father from his darker greedy plans.

When Chaos went on a destructive rampage after her father had attempted to steal the emeralds to defeat their war enemies, Tikal stopped Chaos by sealing it inside the Master Emerald and with her own spirit along with as well.

In the present era, Tikal was released when Dr. Eggman planned to use Chaos to take over the world, where she aided Sonic and his allies. After Super Sonic defeated Chaos and was calmed, Tikal left with it to finally live in peace.

"*But this plan of yours is foolish! It will bring nothing but grief to our land and cause needless pain and suffering to our neighbors! There must be another way. We should not try to help our own kind by bringing harm to someone else. It's wrong.*"

—Tikal, to her father.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Rebecca Honig (English), Kaori Asoh (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), Naïké Fauveau (French), Not Known (Galician), Kathrin Gaube (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Tünde Törtei (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Valentina Mari (Italian), Seong-hye Yun (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Anita Sajnóg (Polish), Sandra Castro (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Amparo Bravo (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Lina Mendes (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Loreto Araya (Latin Spanish), Biwen Lei (Mandarin Chinese)

### Biography

She is the daughter of the ancient Knuckles tribe's leader, Pachacamac, who was in *Sonic Pokémon: Gold and Silver Adventure*. She is a caring person, and everyone loves her, however, she sometimes opposes her father's ways. She moves very quickly and is a proud warrior of this tribe.

### Physical Appearance

Tikal was once a peach-orange-furred mobian echidna girl with a peach muzzle, a small black nose, cobalt-blue eyes with two medium-length eyelashes on each one, dreadlock-like spines around the sides and back of her head and a medium-sized, tri-crooked tail. During those years, she wore a tank top-like garment which revealed her midriff and the traditional tribal skirt with beige, green, and red triangular patterns.

As a sign of her lineage, she wore a golden armlet on her right arm, a golden necklace and a tiara-like band atop her forehead, both of which were decorated with triangles and a light blue jewel in the center. Her white gloves were adorned with thick, cobalt-blue bracelets around her wrists, and she wore white-strapped sandals. Her dreadlocks and left arm were also wrapped with similar white bandages.

In her spiritual form, she appeared either as a bright pink will-o-the-wisp-like orb of light which hovered in the air, or as a full-bodied apparition resembling her once-physical self.

* Hair Color: Peach-orange
* Skin Color: Peach
* Eye Color: Cobalt-blue
* Age: 3,000+ (physically 14)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 95 cm (3' 1")
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Being raised under her grandmother's teachings, and having inherited her mother's positive nature, Tikal is a gentle, fair-minded and kind-hearted pacifist with a peaceful temperament. She severely opposes greed, violence, brutality and fighting, and wishes for everything to be in peace, harmony and tranquility. She is very devout to her teaching, never once resorting to needless violence, and will try to resolve conflicts by trying to sway people away from their destructive paths peacefully. While she abhors fighting though, Tikal is also a strong defender of peace and is not above helping others fight to protect the world and its people. She is as well a proud warrior of her tribe, implying she will fight herself when necessary, but only for the right reasons.

Tikal is very caring, empathetic and compassionate about the people around her, being willing to put her own well-being on the line to keep needless harm from befalling the innocent, and is beloved by all. She is similarly very non-discriminatory, never treating anyone with prejudice, and is good at making friends with peaceful creatures; though she was frightened by Chaos at first, she found a way to befriend the foreign creature. Also, even when her entire warlike clan disapproved of her ideals, Tikal loved her people deeply and tried to talk them out of their violent ways and find a way for them to come to an agreement. When she failed to stop her clan's destruction, Tikal became determined to never let anyone relive such a tragedy. Also, despite Chaos' corruption and slaughtering of her clan, she still considered him her friend, showing a deep care and loyalty towards her friends.

While Tikal only wants everyone to live in peace, she tends to have moments of oversight while trying to achieve it. She often chooses the quickest path that will restore immediate peace, rather than what might restore harmony in the long run and be for the greater good of everyone involved. Still, Tikal is well-meaning in her intentions and she is quick to forgive and forget.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Chao
	+ Cheese
	+ Crusher
	+ Aquarius
* Chaos
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic
	+ "Tails"
	+ Knuckles
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose
	+ Cream
	+ Big
		- Froggy
* E-102 Gamma
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Mr. Tanaka
* Ella
* Captain Striker
* Coral
* Emerl
* Restoration Resistance
	+ Freedom Fighters
		- Rotor
* Chip
* King Puff
* Pearly
* Queen Angelica

### Family

* Tikal's Grandma (grandmother}} †
* Pachacamac (father; deceased)
* Unnamed mother (deceased)

### Neutral

* Knuckles Clan
	+ Pachacamac

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Decoe
	+ Bocoe
* Dark Gaia Creatures

## Pokémon

### On hand

Dratini → DragonairLaprasChikorita → Bayleef → MeganiumCaterpie → Metapod → Butterfree ↔ Gigantamax ButterfreeCleffa → Clefairy → ClefableEevee → Flareon

## Powers and Abilities

Despite her pacifism, Tikal is a trained warrior of the Knuckles Clan, meaning she possesses combat skills befitting her tribe. She is also noted to be very quick on her feet, surpassing the running speed of Knuckles and Rouge. In addition, she can climb, glide, and burrow.

Tikal is one of the few known people who is able to access and utilize the powers of the Master Emerald on her own by using the mantra of her grandmother, allowing her to harness its various abilities. She is also the only known person so far who is able to understand Chaos' language.

After she transcended into a spirit, Tikal gained a variety of mysterious spiritual powers. These powers include assuming the discorporate form of a floating and glowing will-o-the-wisp-like orb, which can move very fast, and even spiritually assume her physical form if need be. She can also levitate and teleport herself and others, and harness her spiritual power for special attacks, such as creating earthquakes, lightning bolts, and flashes of light to blind opponents.

A prominent spiritual power of Tikal's is the ability to temporarily transport people's minds back in time. During these "visions", people can physically interact with their surroundings in the past and even bring things from there back to the present, such as when "Tails" brought back the Rhythm Badge. While people's minds are visiting the past, their bodies enter a trance-like state and can even move on their own accord until their minds return.

While Sonic's mind was transported into the past by Tikal on Angel Island, Sonic appeared sort of conked out in the present, according to Tails. Also, while E-102 Gamma was shown the past by Tikal, his body was taking Froggy from Emerald Coast to the Egg Carrier, as seen when Knuckles and Big were following the robot to the Egg Carrier in the period of time where E-102 Gamma was visiting the past himself.

### Transformations

#### Color Powers

*Main article:* *Color Powers*
By harnessing different variants of Hyper-go-on from Wisps, Tikal can use specific **Color Powers** to transform into a certain form, such as a drill, a laser or even a planet, each one possessing its own unique abilities. So far, Tikal has been able to transform into the Cyan Laser, Yellow Drill and Indigo Asteroid. However, these transformations require a steady supply of Hyper-go-on to be maintained.

### Weaknesses

Tikal's weakness is that she is not as physically strong as some of the characters, as shown in most media. In *Sonic Adventure 2* and *Sonic Adventure 2: Battle*, she throws short punches and cannot sense Emerald Shards as well as the other treasure hunters.

Tikal's pacifism also makes her reluctant to use violence, even when she is threatened. She made no attempt to defend herself against Pachacamac's men.

## History

### Past

Tikal was born over 3,000 years before the Perfect Chaos incident as the only daughter to Pachacamac, a member of the family leading the Knuckles Clan. With her mother passing away after her birth, Tikal was raised by her peace-loving grandmother, then the chief of her clan, who was knowledgeable in their clan's legends surrounding the Pokémon, Chao, Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds.

Under her tutorage, Grandma passed all her teachings, including an old mantra, and pacifistic beliefs onto Tikal. In turn, Tikal loved her grandmother dearly and cherished everything she was taught, making her a peace-loving pacifist, and she would often contemplate her teachings. After Grandma passed away, Tikal's father took over and directed their clan into a series of illegal, violent conquests of the neighboring countries.

Standing by her grandmother's ideology, Tikal opposed her father's ways. However, Tikal held onto the hope that they would one day understand each other. One day during the period of war, Tikal was at the Altar of Emerald where she discovered the Chao and Pokémon. While her presence frightened them at first, Tikal quickly gained their trust with her gentle nature. This garnered the attention of their guardian, Chaos, who revealed himself to Tikal.

Chaos initially startled and frightened Tikal, but she soon realized his gentle nature and his duty to watch over the Emeralds, the Chao and Pokémon at the altar. Over time, Tikal befriended Chaos, the Pokémon and Chao, as she would spend most of her time near the altar. Eventually, Tikal was allowed entrance to the inner altar by Chaos, having earned the guardian's trust.

There, she saw the Chaos Emeralds and discovered the Master Emerald, where she had the revelation about how the Master Emerald controlled the Chaos Emeralds after understanding her grandmother's mantra. Tikal soon after learned that her father planned to raid the altar and steal its Emeralds to gain the power to destroy the enemies threatening their survival. Appalled by the idea and the death it would cause, Tikal begged her father not to do this, insisting that plundering and killing was the wrong way to peace, but to no avail.

Tikal returned to the altar to warn Chaos and beseeched him to take the Chao and Pokémon to safety, but neither he, the Pokémon, nor the Chao could leave the altar. Tikal thus promised to talk to her father again and assured them she would not fail them. Despite Tikal's attempts, Pachacamac lead his warriors in a brutal attack on the altar. Amidst the attack, Tikal and the Chao blocked Pachacamac's path to the Emeralds, where Tikal refused to move and begged them to stop.

Knowing her people would never get enough, she tried to reason to them that greed was the enemy. However, Tikal's words were ignored, and she was knocked unconscious as Pachacamac and his men trampled over her to storm the altar.

When Tikal came to, she saw the horrible destruction that had befallen the area; when Pachacamac and his men attacked, they angered Chaos, who used the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds to become Perfect Chaos and start a rampage where he obliterated Pachacamac, his men and nearly the entire Knuckles Clan.

Realizing that Chaos was now blind with rage and would not stop his rampage until he had destroyed the world, Tikal turned to the Master Emerald's aid and recited her grandmother's mantra, pleading the gem to stop Chaos. Using her spirit as a catalyst, Tikal sacrificed her body to strip Chaos of his power and seal him away within Master Emerald with her own spirit.

## Etymology

Tikal was named after a ruined Mayan city in Guatemala whose name means "Place of Voices". Her attire is also derived from the Mayan civilization.

## External links

* Tikal the Echidna *‎‎‎Heroes Wiki*
* Tikal the Echidna *Mobius Encyclopedia*
* Tikal the Echidna *Sega Wiki*
* Tikal the Echidna *‎‎‎Sonic X Wiki*
* Tikal the Echidna *‎‎‎Sonic Wiki Zone*