Sigma the American Mink

Sigma the American Mink is a cheery, friendly, 16 year-old yellow American mink who lives in the capitol of Gaiagon, the city of Belventia.

Sigma gladly embraces every new thing she tries and new person she meets rather than timidly slink away. She is, at times, too trusting of strangers too soon, and this can tend to lead her into trouble. Despite these past experiences, Sigma remains fearless and unafraid of what life throws at her, whether it be good or bad, because she knows in the end that she can only learn from her mistakes.

With a strange ability coming from her father's side and due in part by her practice, Sigma has brute strength despite her small frame and stature. She can lift almost two hundred times her weight and throw whatever object she's carrying at an enemy, or get close and sucker punch her opponent unconscious. She's also pretty good with a sword or knife, but she prefers to stick to her method of fighting with hand-to-hand combat. When actually serious, she's been shown to have some terrakinesis.

Sigma the American Mink is the 2015 reboot of Sigma the Mink, whose page has been deleted. She is a Sonic fan character created by SigmaAlphaThree (or SA3).

Concept and Creation
In addition to both Theta and Upsilon, Sigma's very first concept was that of being a human in a universe completely separated from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, titled under Hyperion, which was created in January of 2013. The original series was set to have four characters: Upsilon, Omega, Theta, and Sigma. However, the idea was later scrapped to work on Sonic fan characters. The ideas for Hyperion were revisited during Sigma's creation process, thus giving her name.

The Sigma from the Hyperion series was far different from the Sigma the Mink today. Not only was there a species difference between human and mink, but the pair's personalities are exact opposites. The human Sigma was a militant and quite serious woman, while Sigma the Mink is cheerful and laid back most of the time. It was Omega's character personality which was taken and used for Sigma the Mink; the only thing taken from the human version of Sigma in Hyperion was the name, to replace Sigma's original name: Genne the Hedgehog.

Sigma went through a total of six redesigns, although some redesigns only had slight tweaks and a back-story change. The main two designs before the current one are shown here. The first design (with the red and orange outfit) was created in June of 2013. Version 2 was created in July of 2013, and the current design (only with the straps inverted) was made in late August of 2013. The straps were inverted once again by September. In total, her design process took six months (on and off), although ideas for her character were being thought about in February/March of 2013 prior to actual designing.

Her design was pulled from many inspirations: her overalls were inspired by Mario, and her color scheme was inspired by Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Akita Neru from the "Kasane Territory" PV. Her current design was made to look like she would belong in an actual Sonic the Hedgehog game, even though she has no actual relationship with Sonic at all.

Sigma's original storyline would've made her the reincarnate of Maria (due to Version 2 looking extremely similar to Maria's design; however, the way in which Maria became reincarnated was never thought out). She was also supposed to be a love interest to Shadow the Hedgehog. It should be noted that at the time, she was a hedgehog, not a mink.

This version of Sigma, now specifying her as an American mink, was created towards the end of 2014. Her overall dress was changed to an overall bodysuit to fit the appearance a common female boxer would wear. In addition, her normal gloves were switched to boxing gloves, similar to Knuckles the Echidna's.

Different Beginnings
Sigma grew up in the capitol city of Olde Ashton of the country of Tolace to her mother, Sestiva, and her father, Graham. Since she did not have her nickname at the time, she went by her given name, Selena. Maglect, a strange, cancerous chemical in certain areas of the countrt, ran rampant. She was thankfully spared from maglect exposure and was healthy, as was the rest of her family due to their elevated income level. Life was good despite the harsh conditions of the toxic country.

The Selena of the past was far different than the Sigma of the present. She had brown hair and gray eyes, and was quite intelligent. As her parents were scientists working at Tolab Inc., Selena was able to encounter the world of science at a young age. Growing up, she would fiddle with the laboratory equipment and became pretty well-versed in the language of chemistry. Her parents worked on experimenting with maglect-stricken children, and Selena was able to communicate with some of their patients, including Waverly the Weasel. She was interested in finding a cure for maglect infection and had aspirations of doing great things as a field scientist collecting samples from the areas with high levels of maglect.

The Meltdown
However, some weeks into Waverly's treatment, all systems in the laboratory crashed due to a corrupted power board, forcing Waverly to undergo excrutiating pain as her monitors, life support machine, and even her IV managed to shock her and send strange energy coursing through her veins, giving her powers. She was the only of the maglect patients to survive the freak accident; all the others died. At the time of the meltdown, Sestiva and Graham were overseeing Waverly's recovery by operating her machines. Waverly blamed the two scientists, when it was another person who shut down the mainframe all along.

Thus, she went on her rampage. First, Waverly took out the other scientists and finally channeled her anger on Sestiva and Graham. To hurt them the most, Waverly decided to attack one of their children, the one who was in the laboratory at the time: Selena. The two took Stryker and Selena and managed to flee the country without Waverly finding out. They moved to the country of Gaiagon and its capitol city, Belventia.

The New Identity
There, fearing her own safety, Sigma took extreme precautions. She died her hair blonde, put in blue color eye contacts, and even went under a very unique pseudonym, Sigma, to protect her identity. She even decided to act dumb to completely separate herself from her past persona of Selena, abandoning her love of science and cleverness. Her parents and Stryker did not do the same as they thought they would be fine in a country separated by water. Gaiagon, being a country full of witches and wizards, did not have many open positions for scientists. Sestiva and Graham could bake well, however, and they managed to open and run their own business: a bakery named Indulge-Eats.

The business thrived and became well-loved by the city, as did the family. Sigma made it her best interest to act overly exuberant as if nothing were wrong in her life, when the fear of coming across Waverly almost haunted her daily. She took up boxing when she was not working at the bakery, and through an incredible amount of diligence, she learned to increase her strength to surreal proportions. She had to prepare to fight in case she one day ran across Waverly again. In their second meeting, she would not back down.

Currently
As of now, she still works at Indulge-Eats and is a trainee for Gaiagon's Imperial Guard under Upsilon the Mink 's guidance.

However, she is completely unaware that Waverly, having ravaged Tolace of its scientists in her fit of rage, discovered a land beyond her poor home country: Gaiagon. She also found that Tolace was once a part of Gaiagon before it was ignored by the past king and practically kicked to the side before it depreciated and became a weathless toxic wasteland. Now, Waverly has come to Gaiagon and plans to pay a personal visit to its king to demand retribution, stumbling across the Imperial Guard...

Personality
Again, later...

Powers and Abilities
Sigma is exceedingly strong, who definitely packs more power in her punches than most girls her age. A skilled, self-trained combatist, she possesses an uncanny amount of upper boddy strength, with a level of force only slightly lower than that of Knuckles the Echidna and E-123 Omega. However, she has extra parts to her abilities besides superior strength. A full list of her skills is below.

List of Abilities
Power Punch: Your basic punch, except it's probably about five times more powerful than a normal one, due to her increased arm strength and durability of her boxing gloves.

Catcher's Mitt: If any type of element or other sort of power makes contact with her, she can grab onto it and throw or use it against her opponent. This power comes from her structurally-enhanced gloves. (Example: If Upsilon, a shadow weilder, sent a blast of darkness towards her, Sigma can use her hands to hold onto the shadows and throw it back towards him. This works for all elements that cannot usually be held onto with someones bare hands [i.e. water, fire, shadows, energy beams, and even air.]) The only catch to this ability is that she cannot create said element herself. It must be thrown at Sigma in order for her to use it.

Punch Gun: If she twists a band on the wrist of her gloves, she can send an orange-colored hologram of a fist towards an opponent, almost like a gun. These artificial punches are not as strong as Sigma's normal ones, however.

Climbing: With her gloves, she can latch onto any surface (i.e. walls, floors, ceilings, mountain sides, etc.) and crawl or climb with them. This is especially helpful for covert missions, or for finding hiding spots in a small amount of time.

Earthquakes: Just one punch to the floor, and Sigma can send the earth shattering and crumbling underneath an enemy. Of course, this can't be done on surfaces that are anything other than an earthen material.

Wrist Blades: Two little blades made from a pink energy sword come out of the straps on her gloves at her will. Sigma doesn't use this often, however, as she prefers hand-to-hand combat methods compared to fights with knives and other sharp objects.

Grill Gloves: Sigma's gloves are able to remain intact under intense conditions of heat. But, they don't work as well in the cold.

Savvy swimmer: Like all minks, Sigma's pretty skilled in swimming, and can go down to pretty low levels under the ocean despite how intense the water pressure is.

Vigilance: Sigma's very alert. In the quiet, her large yet sensitive ears can hear from a pretty far distance away, and she has heightened senses to detect threats from behind her.

Upper Body Strength: Obviously, because of Sigma's extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, she has a a very strong and sturdy torso and arms.

Weaknesses
Sigma has some pretty big weaknesses to offset her immense amount of strength. A list of them is below.

List of Weaknesses
Weak Lower Body Strength: Sigma's pretty weak in her hips, legs, feet, etc. Because of this, she has a lesser amount of strength and agility in that region of her body than her torso. This is why she is not very fast or nimble on her feet. If one of her enemies happened to figure out this was her weak point, it's very likely that she would stay down for a long time.

Dependent on Gloves: Sigma's boxing gloves give her a lot of powers that she wouldn't normally have without them. If they happened to be torn, have broken wrist cuffs, burned, or destroyed, she'd be stuck with normal punches and earthquakes in order to fight off an opponent.

Susceptible to Dark Powers: She has a very strong disliking towards powers that are dark in appearance due to her achluophobia. As such, things like black magic, shadow powers, or even dark clouds can send her quickly fleeing from a flight. If she isn't running away from the battle, however, she's just plain weak against them.

Not the Sharpest: Sigma's not dumb… but she's not too smart either. Illusions or other intricate battle plans will easily make her confused and/or slightly dazed in the middle of a battle.

Wizard Digby
WIZARD DIGBY.

Haiden the Mink
Sigma was the first person that Haiden met upon arriving to Gaiagon. They easily became friends, but soon, for Haiden, it became something more. Sigma was oblivious to the signs of his feelings for the longest, and while she grew to love him, she repressed her feelings as she thought it was simply intense euphoria from having found a good friend. Once Haiden confessed his love through song, however, Sigma finally realized she felt the same. They are currently seeing each other and will have five kids in the future: Five, Penta, Tano, Go, and Cinco.

Trivia



 * Sigma is actually a brunette with gray eyes. However, she dyes her hair blonde and puts in color contacts for some unknown reason. This explains the exaggerated yellow tint to her fur.
 * Sigma can rap.
 * Her favorite type of cake is strawberry shortcake.
 * Her least favorite type of cake is pineapple upside-down cake.
 * Her creator tends to act as Sigma with a more cutesy voice, but Sigma would sound more like Cherami Leigh, who has voiced Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail and Yuuki Asuna from Sword Art Online.