#mirador the echidna

[caffeine-clouds]

Some Fun Facts!

Chapter 27 of The Butterfly Effect got released last night (hope you enjoyed!) , and I wanna dump some thoughts about it! Specifically when it comes to the naming of the echidnas within the chapter. I followed the guidelines set by Pachacamac and Tikal. The former of which was named after a pre-Inca/Inca deity - and the latter named after one of the Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Viracocha - In Inca mythology, he was considered to be the creator deity - God of Everything. I wanted his name to link to how Viracocha is the start of the line of echidna guardians, in a sense - creating the line of guardians that would come after him. Kon - Said to be the God of the wind and rain - hm, making parrallels to wind? Which character was I frequently comparing Kon to again? Trolling aside, I was definitely trying to form a little link between he and Sonic through his name. Koka - Mama Koka is known as the Goddess of happiness and health. The happiness part is a bit ironic since she was grouchy old lady, but she did have the position of healer with in the clan. Mirador and Yaxha - Both named after Mayan ruins in Guatemala! Thought it would be neat to name them both simalarly as they ae twins. Solimana - the Pre-Inca God of volcanoes and earthquakes for his intimadating presensce. He didn't get to do much, but his character was there to show how Knuckles continued to make parralels between this clan and his friends (compaing Solimana to Shadow) Huari - The main God of Chavin culture, known to mainly be the God of war but among other things such as rain and lightning. Wanted to the guy named after the war God to be confrontational pfft, and show the brutish side of the echidnas. Wayra - Mama Wayra was the purifying Goddess of the air and winds, and was cosidered the protectress of birds. Viracocha tends to get close to those associated with wind - huh? Her name reflects her gentle but loving nature.

[surge-the-tenrec]

welcome to my saw trap where i ramble at you abt my silver hcsanyways, meet his family! theyre all kids (except for mama izu) born with special chaos powers, all from different ruined/deleted timelines.

many years ago a teenage izu, who has the power to weave "fate webs", originally used pieces of a shattered master emerald to build her own safe haven semi outside of the main timeline stream with her plan being to use her powers to travel to different ruined or doomed futures and prevent them. a few years later, she found two echidna children and a dying master emerald that were in a timeline beyond repair and took them back with her. over time she just kept... collecting kids, to the point she just has a lil family now. the healed master emerald just adds a new room onto their haven whenever she finds a new child. after a while, the kids start growing up and they wanna help her out in saving the future - which is how silver keeps coming back, and also where he goes once he saves the world

izu the spider is based on a juro spider. theyre a real cool lookin spider and ive wanted to make an oc of one for a while! in terms of personality izu is quite,,, spacey. she's spent a lot of time alone and a lot more in desolute timelines and its left her a lil traumatized - but she loves her kids so much, and would do anything for them. shes very fun and playful and has an odd habit of thinking out loud.

reutov the raccoon dog (ignore how i mispelt raccoon it is so late). the youngest member of the family at 8, and an absolute little shit. they have "kid on fortnite" energy. literally the cringest little baby i love them so much. reutov's chaos power is they can sorta teleport by breaking themself down on a molecular level and reassemble somewhere else. they also got lightning powers that they get by vibrating their atoms really quick. since they were a baby when their future was destroyed they dont really remember it or where they came from.

mirador the echidna is the older of the echinda sibs, and i designed her before but heres a quick redesign. same personality: deadpan, duty driven, big ole strong girl. she can control shadows. both mirador and her brother lucea were raised by a spirit inside the emerald (tikal) who kept them safe as she could and taught them what they needed to know before izu found them. being the first to be adopted by izu and coming as a pair, mira originally clung to her brother and didn't want them forming bonds with the other kids. this softened over time, but still she tries to keep the others a little at arms length - lucea may have forgotten how the world fell to ruin, but mirador didn't.

lucea the echidna is the younger echidna sib. he hates everything about being stuck at home guarding the master emerald for a lotta reasons, the big one being she cant use her chaos power - the ability to manipulate solar energy into a physical shape - since their home is outside of time and thus no sun. he's pretty mean, but in a sibling sorta way and usually doesnt go too far. lucea is massively insecure and covers it up by pretending shes the coolest kid in the world. gets on great with reutov

venice the hedgehog. yeah, turns out silver is a nickname! most of his family call him silver, the exception being izu or if hes in trouble or about to get pranked. almost got wiped outta existence due to the stable timeloop in 06, but blaze managed to get him sent as a baby to izu.

florence the tenrec is gold the tenrec from archie. she probably started the same as archie gold, kinda meek and shy but her time with her family made her a lot bolder - she and lucea can be nightmarish together. originally i had her telepathy active and she was encouraging silver to fight lucea but since this is a ref photo i decided against it. also a slightly different outfit - she probably still has her canon outfit, this is just,, easier for me to draw tbh