Dimitri Prinus the Echidna

Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is a sixteen-year old Prinus echidna who is gifted with the power of Telekinesis. He is the titular character of Dimitri Chronicles, a series created by Chamesthehero. Introduced within Reign of Darkness, the first installment of the series, he is among the few survivors of the Prinus Village Massacre. Dimitri Prinus is the grandson of Daiku and the younger brother of Lance Prinus the Echidna. Debuting in Rise of the Mystic, the series follows his adventures with his team, Team Prinus, in the search of the Chaos Emeralds to avert the world's destruction by stopping Rikai's plans of establishing his reign of darkness.

Widely-known for his collected, kind, and determined nature, Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is a compassionate fellow that seeks to better himself to cherish and protect those around him wherever he goes.

Character © to Chamesthehero/Lolcraft98/ProLuxray. In order of the usernames on Sonic Fanon Wiki, deviantART, and Youtube, respectively.

Physical Description
Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is a green-colored echidna who features visible ears on his head. Bearing his village's signature features such as the white lightning bold marked on his chest and golden ring on his forehead, he has two stripes on his two short, frontal dreadlocks that reach his shoulders.

The stunning, unwavering green hair that flows behind him is also notably quite long; due to this feminine trait taken from his mother, he is sometimes mistaken as a woman when looked at from behind. In addition, Dimitri has two long, straight bangs of hair above his golden ring on his forehead that stick out.

While Dimitri's entire body is covered with dark green-colored fur, he has fulvous-colored skin. His encounter with his friend Ramonna lead him to purchase snow-white gloves and blue-colored boots. Whenever he uses his telekinetic powers, sometimes his vivid lime-colored eyes flash turquoise.

Personality
Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is an independent, strong-willed, and determined echidna that uses the best of his abilities to protect those important to him. Considerably more serene and silent compared to the times when he was younger, Dimitri is determined to save the world from a certain hedgehog and his idealistic willpower to do so stands at supernatural levels, which often inspires other unmotivated people around him.

Retaining some of his village's relatively strange quirks compared to the etiquette of modern society, Dimitri is a curious, gentle fellow that thoroughly trusts his idealistic course of judgment and can be naive at times.

Standing with a strong sense of leadership and justice, Dimitri shows compassion to his friends and allies. While surprisingly innocent, he is not someone that will stand silent whenever bothered. Shown to greatly mourn over his former comrades, Dimitri feels haunted by their ghosts and curses himself for his inability to avert their fates. Thus, he sometimes subconsciously attempts to shoulder everyone's problems alone.

While mostly serene and mature among allies, this echidna does have a competitive side; his hot-blooded demeanor manifests itself in simple competitions and battles of both wit and strength. In addition, his diligence makes him constantly seek to better himself and thoroughly refuses to believe talent trumps hard-work. Dimitri, however, dislikes genuine conflict and actively seeks to protect life and the world he considers to be his home.

Dimitri Chronicles: Reign of Darkness
Strengths and Powers Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is, without a doubt, a fighter that cherishes peace. Training under many skilled mentors throughout the fanfiction, he is considered one of the strongest echidnas of his time to some Chaos gods. While has no interest in obtaining ultimate power, Dimitri seeks strength and guidance to protect those around him because of numerous promises he had made in his childhood years and terrible experiences.

While this echidna does not crave for senseless violence, he indeed has faced many fighting opponents in his life of which some were even much bigger and powerful than him. That said, these battles, victories or losses, still made him gain enough combat experience to improve his skills throughout his teenage years.

Dimitri believes that his ability to manipulate Chaos energy is attributed to his constant exposure to the Chaos Emeralds. Through training with his friend as she often enters his dreams, overtime, he has shown to control its unstable power to some extent and even gain a super-powered transformation. However, in order for him to use their energy for his benefit, he must have some sort of direct source of power near him.

Living inside a community that had great contact with nature, Dimitri has a deep connection with the botanic wildlife. This echidna has the practical skill of making medicinal pastes made from plants, a skill passed down from his childhood friend that used to plant herbs with him. He has since honed this ability even further.

Given the amount of the problems he had to face, one can infer his decision-making abilities under pressure are superior than others. Much like his genius brother and grandfather, he has the aptitude of learning things faster; this aptitude alone helped him adapt to his new surroundings with a bunch of mundane skills.

The result of his training throughout the entirety of the series and combining almost all of his acquired strengths to use them all at once, Dimitri has the ability to enter a powered-state known as his Mystic transformation. In it, he forcefully increases his existing strengths to awesome levels, leading his psychic energy to become much much more potent, his strength to hit much much harder, and speed to become much much faster.

While a deadly power-house in this form that granted him many victories against powerful foes, its main weakness is the short amount of time that Dimitri is able to sustain it. In addition to an accelerated stamina consumption and instability, he experiences terrible headaches after being forced out of the transformation.

Telekinesis
Dimitri Harmonia Prinus is able to manipulate and alter tangible and some intangible structures using his mind alone. Naturally, this echidna is capable of holding, moving, and levitating very large structures that are within his range of vision all at once, though energy is required for prolonged usage of this ability.

Furthermore, he has shown capable of ripping entire pieces of the ground and, later, moving entire aircraft armadas. Dimitri is easily able to stop and redirect projectiles thrown at him, such as colossal structures and both elemental and positive Chaos energy-based constructs, back towards his foes with enough force and speeds to crush metal, sending others flying, and stun enormous enemies.



In addition, Dimitri is able fly for extended periods of time at near super-sonic speed. This, in combination with his strength, make him capable of piercing through hordes of enemies with considerably durable armor. That said, while his top speed is unknown, he can only fly fast for so long before running out of energy.

Dimitri is able to generate psychic energy at will. This mythical energy, that is manifested in the form of a turquoise-colored aura, can be used in many different ways and is with incredible skill for offensive and defensive purposes.

He is able to construct dense energy-based structures such as durable chains, extensions of himself, sharp blades around him, and deadly energy beams that detonate in contact, which result in large explosions that annihilate anything and everything around them.

While his psychic energy is not as destructive as positive Chaos energy, throughout the series, his turquoise-colored aura becomes strong enough to match some of its techniques in terms of power, counter them, and as well combine such energies together to perform Dimitri's signature technique later on.

Alternatively, the same kind of aura can be used to generate shields and barriers to protect himself from incoming attacks. Since it glows considerably, it can also be used as a temporary source of light. His sheer determination and personal training allow him to become resistant to superpowers that restrict his movement and immunity to opposing psychic techniques from both other illusionists and psionics.

Finally, although pushing himself to exceed his limitations ever since he was nine, having a massive pool of psychic energy and its regeneration automatic, it is not unlimited. Shown within the possession of organizations such the Robotnik Military Squadron and the Guardian Units of Nations, there is a kind of metal that negates his supernatural abilities completely; negative Chaos energy has the same effect.

Combat Knowledge
Dimitri Harmonia Prinus, although a skilled telekinetic, soon learned that his psychic powers alone, because of the numerous methods to render it useless, would not be able to make him win fights. This echidna, in turn, began to hone his body and train himself in the codified systems and traditions of combat throughout the series. Although he gained peak physical condition, signs of buffed muscles are barely apparent.

Disciplined, due to his training with the most powerful soldier of the Guardian Units of Nations in the continuity, this echidna was able to become proficient when it comes to close-range combat. Naturally, his fast momentum allows him to dish out powerful techniques that allow him to stand evenly against the more talented.

This echidna uses both his telekinetic powers with his strength to enhance his explosive power. He is able erase his weight by making himself float, increasing his flexibility and acrobatic ability in the battlefield. Furthermore, once targets are within a certain range, Dimitri has shown capable of slowing them down, as if they are stuck in bullet-time, for brief periods of time and strike them where they are vulnerable.

Given the amount of physical punishment he endures, one can infer he also has above-average endurance. However, this is because of his diligence that makes him recklessly refuse to back down. Should he suffer a mental block and become depressed, his good level of strength significantly decreases.

Using his enhanced senses of perception, Dimitri Prinus is capable of analyzing targets in short periods of time when presented offensive and defensive patterns to predict their movements and exploit apparent weaknesses. However, for him to gain this superior knowledge about the opponent, it is necessary for him to see their level of strength and experience, hence the reason he might not initially go full-power in fights.

As much as this echidna is skilled, should he become reckless his stamina can run out much faster than usual and render his skills useless. Additionally, while his reflexes are exceptionally honed due to a requested training with two master swordsmen, he is also naturally slow on the ground.

Creation and Development
The idea for the creation of this character dates back from the years when my former fan-fiction was still ongoing. During those peaceful days, many iconic fan characters with terrific designs emerged inside the web, and made me want to create an original Sonic fan character to call my own. Sadly enough, it was a recolor!

When notified about the infamy of recolors, my desire to keep the character was originally less-than-stellar. After some thought, I realized that it was the perfect opportunity for me to show the world that a recolor could also be a great character!

The echidna's original name was Trevis Vocunover, and he was a telekinetic that came from the future to warn the protagonist of my other series about a terrible foe named Rikai that shifted the world's temperature and destroyed the world within his time. Such concepts and arc were later scrapped, though!

Soon after the decision of making such character independent and the star of his own fan-fiction series, a role-playing account was made based on him inside Twitter that would be kept for about two years before its eventual termination.

During this time, Dimitri met countless other characters that helped him develop. According to some, his arrival and departure from Twitter both initiated and ended the Golden Age of Sonic role-playing in the site. While his personality was different from now, I thank everyone inside Twitter for making him be where he is now!

After entering this site, Dimitri's character also developed smoothly. The whole concept of making him a 'chosen one' kind of character was a mere attempt to make the main character actually sound like a main character! As of late, he even gained a slight redesign that would make him not be a recolor. Of course, he is still being developed, though he has gotten pretty far! I hope this character never ceases to exist.

Relationships with Other Characters
Family Members
 * Lance Prinus the Echidna (older brother)
 * Daiku Prinus the Echidna (grandfather)

Friends and Allies

 * Team Prinus
 * Ramonna the Hedgehog (more than just best friend)
 * Maxwell the Fox (best friend)
 * Concordia Prinus the Echidna
 * Cinnamon the Lynx
 * Salt and Pepper
 * Jasmine the Bat
 * Aurora

Enemies

 * Rikai the Hedgehog
 * Frost Beasts


 * Chimp Force
 * Various common thugs of Station Square

Fun Facts

 * Prinus is pronounced pry-nuhs, not pree-nuhs.
 * Dimitri's second name, Harmonia, follows trend of names meaning 'harmony' and 'peace' within the Prinus Clan, just like Concordia.
 * The name Harmonia was based on a character that had the same second name: Natural Harmonia Gropius from Pokémon.
 * Dimitri has been mistaken as a woman more than once because of his long hair because it is generally considered to be a feminine trait.
 * This sparks a sharp contrast with Ramonna's short hair.