Madam Weiss

Madam Weiss is a Mobian hedgehog that hails from the infamous Snowbound Zone. She is a supporting character within Dimitri Chronicles, a series created by Chamesthehero. Introduced as a mysterious woman in Reign of Darkness, the first installment of the series, she was the former leader of the Nightmare Seekers, an ominous religious cult that worshipped the embodiment of darkness, the Twilight Shard. Madam Weiss is the mother of Rikai the Hedgehog. Introduced in Twilight Whispers, she is the author of the Book of Shadows, and a stunning, masterful manipulator of negative Chaos energy that once lead the Nightmare Seekers with another agenda in mind.

This hedgehog was both admired and feared within her cult, and sought more power than she could manage on her own. While it is believed that Madam Weiss became deceased during the raid within Snowbound, as the series progresses, it is revealed that her fate is much sinister...

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

Physical Description
Madam Weiss was a female Mobian hedgehog that stood at above-average height. She had snow white-colored skin, short silver-colored hair that had a bang falling to her left, and cyan-colored eyes that resembled diamonds. In addition, she had a pair of eyelashes on each eye. Her bang's tip had a white pigment.

Living inside a snowy area, she had peach-colored skin. Boasting a rather slender, youthful figure, she always wore uncanny white-colored bandages on her limbs. Alternatively, Madam Weiss used blue lipstick, had two small ears visible on her head, and a featured a small tail behind her waist.

Her shadowy, black-colored long dress that covered her feet was composed of negative Chaos energy. Because of this, Madam Weiss had total control over its appearance and shape. From its bottom hem and back, this hedgehog was able to generate long, extended black-colored tentacles that granted her many uses.

Personality
Madam Weiss is a cunning, audacious, and mysterious hedgehog that was said to be masked in a perpetual blackness that obscured her true motives. With an intimidating, but comforting aura, this hedgehog had a presence so impacting within the Nightmare Seekers she was always referred to as madam. This hedgehog had an avid fascination for negative Chaos energy and took pleasure in mastering her abilities through questionable, obscure methods. Her occasional, devilish grin and soothing demeanor on her voice was enough to unnerve those who felt the true malice behind her motherly tendencies.

Madam Weiss once worshiped the Twilight Shard with blind devotion. This hedgehog showed enthrallment about the lost legends surrounding its origins, and even wrote a book based on her personal views and discoveries. She is not above the orchestration of ominous rituals and sacrifices for research purposes.

Eventually, this initial adoration for the embodiment of darkness then became a greedy obsession. Desiring for more than continental dominance, she sought its power and even went against the cult's foundations, mercilessly conspiring behind her fellow cultists using her impressive intelligence.

Background
Little is known about the occult history of Weiss. Using files found within the Guardian Units of Nations, she was evidently born inside Snowbound Zone within the continent of Soumerca, to the former leader of the Nightmare Seekers, a small religious cult that worshiped the embodiment of darkness: the Twilight Shard.

The secret files mention that this hedgehog had an impure connection to the negative spectrum of the Chaos Force, and thus was told that her heart was incompatible with the Twilight Shard itself. Despite being several times more powerful than her own parents even as a child, she was eventually abandoned because of this.

Soon after Weiss was abandoned, the leader of the Nightmare Seekers was mysteriously assassinated. It would be around this time that she would emerge and lead the cult under her wing. Contrary to former leader, Weiss was known to be incredibly interested and curious in the vague lore behind the Twilight Shard.

However, her methods for her lore research were known to be amoral and gruesome. She lead the Nightmare Seekers to become one of the most ominous and fearsome cults in the continent and was the one that made Snowbound infamous; her mere title of address, madam, made the entire village tremble.

Eventually, the secret files conclude their information by mentioning her only son, Rikai the Hedgehog. The identity of her partner is currently unknown. Interestingly enough, her timid, troubled infant also did not inherit their village's natural powers but, somehow, he was destined for something much greater...

Book of Shadows
Someone immersed in the lore behind the Ancient Walkers and the Twilight Shard, Madam Weiss published the Book of Shadows, a hidden, cursed journal that is said to react to only those worthy of leading the Nightmare Seekers and inheriting the power of the embodiment of darkness.

The Book of Shadows featured a brownish-black hard cover with the strange purple-colored insignia of the Nightmare Seekers. Many of its pages inside were torn and filled with mysterious reddish stains. It was believed to be originally finished and published around the time her own son was conceived.

Within such notebook, it featured hidden knowledge about the capabilities of negative Chaos energy, the expanded lore about the Twilight Shard, and the results of the experiments, rituals, and sacrifices done in by own cult's members for further research about the embodiment of darkness. It contained information about the true whereabouts of the Twilight Shard and numerous darkness-related spells.

The Book of Shadows debuted in Dimitri Chronicles: Reign of Darkness, and was used by Rikai the Hedgehog to find out about his mother's true identity, his true powers, and the location of the Twilight Shard.

Negative Chaos Energy Manipulation
Madam Weiss had an unnatural connection to negative spectrum of the Chaos Force, the supernatural embodiment of all Chaos energy. Boasting an incredible prowess within the use of malevolent chaotic forces ever since little, she was among the finest negative Chaos energy manipulators and a powerful spell-caster.

Due to this connection, Madam Weiss was granted many Chaos-related powers for offensive and defensive purposes whenever standing at the face of conflict. She was not above creating potent barriers, energy beams, and even short-range teleportation by directly tapping unto the Chaos Force's darkest aspect. Her long, black-colored dress was said to be composed entirely of negative Chaos energy. This granted her the ability of altering its shape and form at will and, as such, much of her combat abilities were based on that.

Madam Weiss could be frequently seen making extendable shadowy tentacles or arms for reaching faraway objects and as a method of intimidation; they both horrified and comforted others at the same time.

However, since her mastery over such malevolent forces was unnatural, she was not able to wield such power to its maximum potential like the others that, somehow, had a natural connection with the Chaos Force. This made her heart incompatible with the Twilight Shard; and thus, she was not the foretold Dark One.

Creation and Development
Madam Weiss is, undoubtedly, an important asset to Twilight Whispers and my series. She is a prominent creation that was developed in an attempt to flesh out her son's former history section. The Nightmare Seekers and her creation made an impact so great the story-arc was a bliss to write about!

Originally, Madam Weiss would only make a small cameo in a small flashback; she would serve no other purpose than deceasing and being a fragment of her son's memories that enabled him to see the good in others. The character herself did not have a proper personality and design of her own.

Eventually, Madam Weiss became an interesting character that gave me the opportunity to both foreshadow and introduce elements to Dimitri Chronicles that were originally impossible for me to develop. Along with her newest design, her role within the story became much more prominent. She is a character I am fond of.

Fun Facts

 * The character's surname, Weiss, is based on the nickname of a real-life friend of Chamesthehero.
 * Weiss translates to white in German. It was given to such character to reflect on her environment's snowy-white areas and her own pale-skin color.


 * Madam Weiss' likeness was based on Persephone and the Slender Man from the Pokemon Insurgence video-game and the numerous widely-acclaimed Slender Man Mythos, respectively.
 * The rituals orchestrated by her within the Nightmare Seekers alludes to the former.
 * Her "intimidating, but comforting" aura and shadowy tentacles are a reference to the latter.
 * The identity of the one behind her father's assassination is entirely up to the readers' interpretation...