Knuckles:The ghosts from Sonic Adventure 2, Chaos, and chao. Also spikes, like the werehog. He came out kinda creepier than I intented lol. I don't think he'd be affected mentally? If I drew him again I’d probably make the emerald shards into chains Rouge: I mean wing hands means she can hold double the jewels? Also some fangs, demon tail, glowy jewels, and a broken heart motif because it's appropriately edgy and it feels like it fits with Dark Gaia's minions and also the werehog! Shadow: Aesthetic inspired by robots, the Black Arms, and Dark Gaia's minions. And also spikes just 'cause. If he was mentally affected by Dark Gaia as well: while he cares strongly about his loved ones Dark Gaia blows it way out of proportion and he won't even let Knuckles fight Rouge. If Shadow was mentally affected by Dark Gaia I think he'd be overprotective of his loved ones to a fault (I mean he tried to destroy all of Earth when Maria died, so the tendency is there). Whereas Rouge would go after treasures even if it gets her killed (from the planet getting destroyed as a result of it). As for Knuckles, maybe he'd switch from believing that's good in everyone (to the point where he's easily tricked) to not being able to see good in anyone and thinking they're just trying to use him? The background and doing these characters in a lineartless style was... ambitious for me. Interesting challenge, but as fun as this was probably won't do another fully lineartless picture for a while! (Not till I get my skills up a bit anyway!) I have quite a few more picture ideas I wanna draw soon, so I'll hopefully be them soon!