Leif the Echidna

''“Deception is a delicate art; much like a rose. There’s the glory and beauty of its petals which attracts many. But one must remember not to be pricked by its thorns.”''

–Leif the Echidna

Leif Castor Sable is a green, 17 year-old anthropomorphic echidna from the Helix Dimension with a boisterous and occasionally devious personality. His defining traits include his ability to trick most people into nearly anything, his botanokinesis and the tilde (~) marking on his chest.

Concept and Creation
Leif was originally created by SoupyJellyfish to be an echidna version of Manic the Hedgehog from Sonic Underground. Other inspiration for him was Duncan from the Total Drama series, which gave him his original name of ‘Duncan’. He had a Mohawk, red vest, nose ring, was aged 11 and was a prince.

The first redesigned aged him by two years (to become 13), didn’t make him the echidna version of Manic, got rid of the vest and deleted the nose ring. Another redesign aged him by another two years (to become 15), changed his name to ‘Leith’, but didn’t change him much physically.

For a very short time, Leif was on the verge of extinction since making him a hedgehog would have turned him into Manic and that he was in the middle of the current redesign, where it seemed implausible for him to come from another dimension and therefore unable to exist (according to game canon, at least).

The most recent redesign in June 2015 was the biggest one since the ‘nose ring deletion’ redesign. His Mohawk was swapped for regular quills, a tuft of green fur was placed upon his head (an aspect from Vito the Echidna’s original design), his red vest returned, his name’s spelling changed to ‘Leif’ and his personality was made less dark. This biggest change of them all was his backstory being scrapped and his royalty ties were severed. The only thing that now connects him to Duncan or Manic is his ability to trick others into getting something; either by fear or acting, and his red vest.

Leif was one of the few characters to have never had their eye colour changed. Other traits that never changed include his fur colour, botanokinesis and his species.