Rikai the Hedgehog

Rikai the Hedgehog, also known as the Dark One, is a Mobian hedgehog that hails from the infamous Snowbound Zone. He is the primary antagonist of Dimitri Chronicles, a series created by Chamesthehero. Introduced as a powerless, troubled hedgehog in Reign of Darkness, the first installment of the the series, he eventually consumes the ultimate power of the Twilight Shard, leading to a series of horrifying conflicts.



Rikai the Hedgehog is the illegitimate son of Madam Weiss and an unnamed parent. Introduced within Twilight Whispers, he is the one responsible for triggering most of the conflicts found within the series and actively seeks to plunge the world into darkness.

Cunning and maleficent, Rikai resides within his center of operations, Mount Aurora. From that location, he scattered his malevolent minions across the planet in an attempt to ensure destruction for him to become stronger.

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Physical Description
Rikai is a slim Mobian hedgehog that stands at above-average height. He retains the signature features of his village of hedgehogs: turquoise-colored coloration, luminous white chest-fur, and standing quills that contain white pigments on their tips.

Living inside a snowy area, he has peach-colored skin and debuted with deep blue-colored eyes. He wears white gloves and has a small tail behind his waist. During the course of the series, he gains an eternal, large red scar that once blinded his left eye. Alternatively, he does not wear shoes.

After embracing his true connections to the negative spectrum of the astral embodiment of all Chaos energy, he wore hooded black robes. In addition, upon harnessing the ultimate darkness, his right sclera gained a fuchsia coloration and circular patterns, while his left sclera lost its color and his once-blind left eye became dark-red. He also gained indigo-colored triangular marking all over his person.

Personality
Rikai the Hedgehog is a misunderstood, determined, and power-hungry hedgehog that craves for the reduction of Mobius back to nothingness so he can create his own perfect reign of darkness: a world where no one would feel happiness since people always have denied his own. Believing in his belligerent, childish ideals, he is a cunning individual that is easily able to evoke others to create conflicts.

During his childhood, Rikai was a stoic child who barely showed emotion and kept his composure at all times. Since he had no resolves of his own, however, his psyche heavily depended on the comfort that his mother, Madam Weiss, gave him.

This hedgehog is incredibly apathetic to others and, after obtaining his powers, became massively overconfident and sees his amoral ideals and himself as greater than other people, whom he deems to be lesser creatures. Alternatively, he is prone to breaking down into laughter, as evidenced multiple times in the series.

Despite that, he is surprisingly calculating and patient. Much of his sadistic demeanor led him to become someone that toys with his foes, psychologically and physically tormenting those he seems worthy before sending them to their demise.

Seeking to get stronger by absorbing the negative emotions of others, he craves complete destruction. His cynical nature makes him unable to comprehend good altruistic behavior, and thus, leading him to enter a brief state of paralysis whenever witnessing one, doubting its authenticity. The same applies whenever empathizing with someone that is powerless, just like he himself was as a child within Snowbound.

Strengths and Powers
The strongest negative Chaos energy manipulator in the series, Rikai the Hedgehog was introduced as a troubled, powerless hedgehog that bore no affinity to his village's supernatural heritage: Snowbound's snowy abilities. Deemed as the weakest person inside his village during his childhood, he was easily pushed around.

However, his collected demeanor grants him an analytic prowess that far exceeds his peers. Using his environment to his advantage, he showed a surprising amount of strength by easily able to defeat enemies much larger than his own. It was only much later in the course of the fan-fiction that he discovers his powers.

Negative Chaos Energy Manipulation
Rikai the Hedgehog has a connection to the negative spectrum of the Chaos Force, the supernatural embodiment of all Chaos energy. Showing natural prowess to the malevolent forces since he is the Dark One, during his teenage years he became a powerful dark magician that was able to perform numerous techniques, ranging from shadow mimicry, elemental levitation, to projectile-creation.

With his abilities further boosted with the consumption of the Twilight Shard, the hedgehog's abilities achieved a level of greatness so high it was said to be exceed even the Ancient Walkers, the former Mobian gods and the founders of Chaos energy, themselves; his capabilities are far beyond regular mortals.

Shown to be invulnerable to harm, his powerful capabilities, now boosted by the Twilight Shard, stand at divine levels. Rikai effectively utilizes negative Chaos energy to their fullest potential, being capable of manipulating the time-space at will to create many refined darkness-oriented reality-warping offensive techniques. His powerful presence alone automatically summons strong indigo-colored blizzards.

Rikai's strengths, however, much like the Twilight Shard itself, are only further boosted with the automatic absorption of negative emotions around the world. He relies much on creating conflicts and sending out his minions to unleash destruction for him to get stronger. Should he gather enough energy, however, his fearsome level of strength could become limited to his own creative imagination.

His main and only uncanny weaknesses are the usage of the Chaos Emeralds and positive emotions. The ones who use them to transform into powered-up forms granted by them are able to negate his invulnerability and fight him on a more fair, equal standing. Positive emotions also make his powers significantly weaker.

Frost Beasts
Along with the invulnerability from normal methods of damage and age deceleration, inspired by the Vices, Rikai was given the abilities to create artificial life and create his own minions, the Frost Beasts, using the image of the young and powerful hero that once hailed from the fallen Razor Zone.

These minions, made out of ice crystals, were scattered across the planet. Each minion contained the strength of five regular Mobians and were able to cause serious damage. Coupled with the hero's signature appearance, they wield tridents that enable them to send out freezing beams of energy. A large horde of them were more than enough to decimate the powerful Prinus Clan on their own.

Being able to regenerate lost limbs despite their natural fragility and vulnerability to heat, they also share the uncanny ability to merge and transform into titanic versions of themselves, the Frost Nightmare. Their main weakness in that form is that despite being ten times stronger and sturdy, they are much slower.

Creation and Development
This character in particular had interesting origins; Rikai was intended to become a new antagonist for another series entirely. Designed for a Sonic-related arc that featured my other story's protagonist, this hedgehog himself might be one of my first fan characters. Both his original name and main design were slightly altered to make him look more threatening as a villain and fulfill his role with more ease.

Rikai's original signature abilities were his cold, snowy powers. In a sharp contrast to a certain main antagonist, his original history featured him somehow able to create a great massacre that wiped out most lifeforms in the future by heavily shifting the world's temperature. His main abilities were soon altered, though!

Personally, his former history sections were things that gave me headaches; they were unable to both explain the origins of his incredibly overpowered but necessary abilities. With the addition of Twilight Whispers, one of my milestones as a writer, the character began growing within me as he became fleshed out. This hedgehog's tendencies of evil laughs in the series certainly make him amusing to write about.

Madam Weiss
Rikai always had a close but, at the same time, somewhat distant relationship with his mother. It is shown that Madam Weiss was the single soft-spoken person that comforted him during his lone years within Snowbound, and Rikai strangely always felt safer and stronger within her eternal shadows.

On the other hand, as his mother was mysterious and his father was somehow absent, the hedgehog never knew much about Madam Weiss himself, though this shadowy obscurity did not bother him.



During the course of Twilight Whispers, Rikai becomes shocked at the revelation in the Book of Shadows that she was the leader of the Nightmare Seekers and he was supposed to lead it after her as the Dark One. He wondered if the reason she never told him was either to protect him or simple cold-hearted envy of him.

In the final episodes of the story-arc, as the Twilight Shard's Mobian incarnation Mamon the Bull reveals his mother's fate, his affections towards his mother are used against him in an attempt of intimidation. While Rikai breaks down in laughter, he mentions his disdain towards Madam Weiss since she abandoned him.

Having absorbed the Twilight Shard's essence, in the story-arc's finale, the spirit of Madam Weiss whispers to her son that Rikai was all hers and that she would never leave him again. In response, super-powered Rikai calmly assures her that he is going to show her a "new world".

Family Members

 * Madam Weiss

Friends and Allies

 * Twilight Shard
 * Frost Beasts

Enemies

 * Team Prinus
 * Dimitri Prinus the Echidna
 * Ramonna the Hedgehog
 * Maxwell the Fox


 * Aurora
 * Daiku Prinus the Echidna
 * Lance Prinus the Echidna
 * Nightmare Seekers
 * Vices

Fun Facts

 * Rikai was one of the first four Sonic fan-characters that Chamesthehero created that were initially meant to debut before Dimitri Chronicles in the creator's former fan-fiction.
 * The name Rikai is pronounced ree-kai, not rai-kai.
 * Rikai's original story involved him being possessed by the dark energy from the purple Chaos Emerald after making a deal with a witch to obtain the ultimate power. This was scrapped.
 * His fuchsia sclera coincidentally resembles the Rinnegan from Naruto, but it was based on the Fleetway Super Sonic.
 * This hedgehog's gloves were originally golden-colored and his shoes were both red and blue, resembling Nazo from Sonic: Nazo Unleashed. The reason these were scrapped is unknown.