#ember the solenodon

[cherbearsz]

TEAM ENDGAME, ALL IN ONE PLACE

[cherbearsz]

some new refs for artfight this year!! revisited the team endgame sketches i did a while back >:) ember, star, crystal, and more up on my account!! gonna try and do a lot more for this one!

[cherbearsz]

1) whoa were moots now!?!? Cool moot moment!?!?

2) 👀 I desire knowledge on Team Endgame, what's their team do and how do the characters go about doing their team things? :000

YES OMG HEYYY NEW MOOTIE🤠🤠

they're called team endgame because they operate in silver’s ruined future alongside my other character, promise the ermine (who is star's half-sibling). their inception is very much tied to sonic 06 lore because i adore sonic 06, which is kinda unfortunate given that the game was all but retconned out of existence lol. but in #MY canon, iblis/mephiles still remain but for whatever reason are unable to be united again to cause a world-ending apocalypse. the main gist is that promise is a mephiles-derived bioweapon intended to combat iblis (basically a project shadow ripoff), and the rest of the team operate like silver does, doing shenanigans to stop the future from being ruined however they can. ember was originally an iblis counterpart to promise, but i decided i didn't really like that idea so he's just a guy with very inconveniently-bestowed fire powers lol. he meets crystal and star, the latter of whom offers him a job as an anti-apocalypse agent (subject to change, but a future GUN-ish organization, just not as centralized due to um. the world being on fire). star was born and raised in the organization, having never known of her half-sister, and crystal is a childhood friend who decided to hang around for fun and to beat shit up!

as stated before, ember has fire powers and is the fastest of the group, making him the speed-type (i changed his species from a hedgehog to a solenodon for a more distinct silhouette, and because the 'sol' part is a nice nod to his fire powers, but he retains some of that classic hog speed since solenodons are closely related to hedgehogs irl!)

per her name, crystal can mineralize parts of her body or create diamond-esque armor to shield herself or dish out damage. she primarily uses crystal gauntlets to brawl, making her a perfect fit for the power-type. it was fun creating an updated design for her since whisper (and to a lesser extent, infinite) gave me a good idea for what canines in the sonic universe would look like! i really wanted to give her big ol' ears and a pointy snout like whisper has. her hair and tail are fluffier than a normal wolf though, sorta like snow as an homage to her OLDDDD design that was an elsa-type winter witch

star is an ermine-hedgehog hybrid but her hedgehog traits show more to the point where she was unaware of her heritage until meeting promise. i lovee the headcanon of amy being a hedgehog-echidna hybrid, so star's design is with that in mind. however, as you may have guessed, star isn't particularly speedy, and is primarily a flight-type hero who uses her specially-made hover boots to fly around!

(side note; promise doesn't really have a type mostly because they don't fit neatly into one thing and i find the sonic heroes categories annoyingly reductive despite what my avid use of them may lead u to believe.

i am a massive hypocrite<3, #AMYROSEISAPOWERTYPE2024

also THIS POST AIN'T ABOUT THEM)

here's them all together in an old drawing from 2019!

[cherbearsz]

Why is Ember a Solenodon?

Tbh I had to google what that was, I’m just curious how and why you picked that out?

i didn't start off the process knowing what a solenodon was either haha!!

when i initially designed ember back in 2018, he was a hedgehog, but there's obviously a lot of hedgehog ocs already out there (including a few of my own), and i wanted to work with a different species and shake things up a bit! i picked a solenodon because i was inspired by characters like surge and kit being different species than their counterparts (tenrec vs. hedgehog, fennec vs. fox), and solenodons are from the same evolutionary branch as hedgehogs.

this let me retain ember's essence while giving him a different silhouette - he's got hedgehog-adjacent qualities, but with a twist (quills became spiked-out fur, he has a cool tail with funky stripes meant to look a bit like a matchstick). idk if i'll implement this yet, but solenodons are also one of the few poisonous mammals, so i might give him venomous fangs as well which would be a fun trait to play with! plus, solenodon gave me an opportunity to use wordplay, with "sol" being a nod to ember's fire powers :]