River the Echidna (old version)



Credit for the base used in the picture goes to MagicalPouchOfMagic on Deviantart because I love the bases she makes and I'm too lazy to draw it without a base.

River the Echinda belongs to me, Sonic belongs to SEGA, and the rest of that copyright crap.

Basic Info
Age: 14

Species: Echidna

Gender: Female

IQ: Somewhere in the 90-100s

Maritial Status: Single

Date of Birth: December 4th

Date of Death: N/A

Birthplace: Sandopolis, Angel Island

Dominant Hand: Right

Allergies: N/A

Status
Occupation: Jobless

Weapon(s): None

Economic Class: Inbetween Middle and Poor

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Personality: River, when you first meet her, is totally silent, skeptical, and a bit paranoid of you. Once she gets to know you a little bit better, she’ll show her more talkative and open side. She sort of has this reverse psychology thing going on where she mocks and condescends the people she likes and acts respectful to people she hates. The latter part is mostly due to her trying to keep her anger towards them contained. River is a bit stubborn and believes she can do just about anything on her own, although she is often proven wrong by others. Most of the time, she has no ounce of seriousness in her and usually does things without thinking first. She can also get easily frustrated when faced against a challenging task, but the anger is immediately blown out when she accomplishes her goal. Above all this, River has a fierce and undying loyalty to her allies, and would sacrifice herself for them in an instant.

Vehicle: None

Mental Condition(s): Does short-term memory loss count as a mental condition?

Ability Type: Power

Goal(s): Discover what happened to her biological family, find out why and how she has her powers, and find out why she has no tail and such an obscure fur color for her species.

Fears: River fears Snowboarding, Skiing, Skateboarding, Rollerskating, or anything that has the words board and skate in them. She also fears deserts, since she can’t use her Hydrokinesis ability when in a desert. And she hates being underground.

Current Residence: Angel Island

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Good Points: Isn't overly serious, Determined, Loyal, Humorous

Bad Points: Easily frustrated, doesn't learn from mistakes very well, does things without thinking, sarcastic

Attitudes
Attitude towards Life/Death: River prefers life over death, but still sees dying as a thing that's impossible to avoid

Attitude towards People: A bit awkward and paranoid at first, but she soon warms up to them

Attitude towards Money/Power: She doesn't care too much about it

Attitude towards Work: She almost never wants to do it, but will do work if she absolutely has to

Attitude towards Danger: River runs straight into it, or just bails

Attitude towards Fighting: Again, she runs into it, or runs from it

Interests
Favorite Drink: Iced Tea

Favorite Food: Ghost Pepper

Hobbies: Swimming, Singing, Wandering around

Likes: Oceans, Rock music, Classic Rock, Techno, random trivia, and spicy food

Dislikes: Deserts, Caves, Tunnels, Snow related sports, Skateboarding

Quote: "Am I the only one who questions logic around here?"

Stats
Strength: 16/20

Agility/Speed: 14/20

Intelligence: 10/20

Health/Defense: 8/20

Skills: She knows a lot of random trivia due to having a lot of free time

Abilities: She knows hand-to-hand combat, and she’s good at making hits, but horrible at taking hits. River hits fast and hard, but if you’re faster than her, then your chances of defeating her are very high.

Powers: River is a Hydrokinetic, meaning that she can control any substance that has water in it. She can use anything containing H2O as a weapon (except for living creatures). As long as she has a water source, she can use it. In desperation, River pulls water out from humid air or plants, but when none of those are present (like in deserts) her power is completely useless.

Weaknesses: River’s life is bound to the Chaos Emeralds, she literally relies on them to survive. If their powers are drained like in Sonic Unleashed, she’ll fall into a coma, and won’t awake until one of them is restored. The more that are restored, the more awake and lively she becomes. If the Chaos Energy keeping her alive is taken away from her, then she’ll have about an hour to live, and if she dies from it, she cannot be revived. Using Chaos-related abilities inflicts pain on her. If she uses something like Chaos Control, it stings a bit, and if she could go super-form, she’ll likely die due to having an overload of Chaos Energy.

Personal Info
Friends: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles (crush, but he’s oblivious), Amy Rose (close friend), Espio, Vector, Charmy, Silver (somewhat neutral), and Valerie (childhood friend, I'll make a page for her later)

Rivals: Rouge (more on the neutral side), Blaze (they have a love-hate relationship; mostly hate), and Ash (my sister's fan character)

Enemies: Doctor Eggman/Robotnik, Cross (which I will make a page for in the future), Chaos Negative/Zale (which I will also make a page for in the future)

Faction: Heroes

Relatives: Anna (mother) and Zale (father)

History: Anna and Zale lived in Sandopolis on Angel Island and they were expecting to have a child soon. They were unaware that a man named “Cross” was secretly conducting an experiment on them. He had affected their water supply with controlled Chaos Energy, and “poisoned” them with the radiation. It affected the two of them differently, causing Anna to physically deteriorate and Zale to mentally deteriorate. Before they were aware of what was happening to them, their child was laid (yes, Echidnas do come from eggs) and hatched months later. At their daughter’s birth, they knew something was wrong. She wasn’t a dark red or dark magenta like her parents; she was instead a bright cyan and lacked a tail due to being exposed to Chaos Energy prior to birth. Zale, with his sanity deteriorating, was enraged; because of his daughter’s strange colors, he had begun to believe that she was an illegitimate child. He thought Anna betrayed him by cheating and giving birth to another person’s daughter. In a moment of blind rage, he had mortally wounded her with a knife and she died quickly. Zale had realized what he had done and quickly fled the island with the child, abandoning her in Station Square. His fate was unknown for over a decade. The child was found and taken to a hospital a few hours later.

The child was given the name “River” and she lived in a Foster home up until she reached the age of 7, and then moved to a new foster home. This is where she met Valerie, a 17 year old human. When Valerie left on the year she turned 18, River rarely got the chance to see her and spent most of her days alone afterwards.

At the age of fourteen, River was mistaken for a hedgehog named Sonic by no one other than Amy Rose (she mistook Shadow and Silver for Sonic, I have an excuse). When Amy realized her mistake, she almost took off in embarrassment before she realized that River was an Echidna (which River herself was unaware of). Up till now, the only known Echidna alive was Knuckles, so she had to take her to Angel Island in order to meet up with him. Later on, she met everyone else in the Sonic team because of Amy.

Theme Song: Defying Gravity (Kerry Ellis cover) 

Inspirations for character: Alright, I just felt like making this extra section because River has gone through A LOT of different ideas as I was developing her. So I wanted to give credit to songs and characters whose traits were stolen- I mean- traits that affected River's development. Most of the personality was inspired by Elizabeth Comstock from the game Bioshock Infinite , Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Korra from The Legend of Korra.