#knuckles-centric

Knuckles

Guardian of the Master Emerald. The Controler and the Balancer. Beloved child of Chaos/Order.

He/him or title.

The Guardian does not have a name; Knuckles was a nickname given to him by Sonic & Co., who either think that to be his birth name or forgot that it was a nickname.

Knuckles never says that "Knuckles" is his name-- he introduces himself as 'the Guardian of the master Emerald'. Then Sonic or Co. eater introduces him as Knuckles or he says he is called Knuckles when asked for a name.

Sonic and Co. are not the first people to nickname him "Knuckles" he was called "Knuckles" in language equivalents many times during his time outside the island. He was also called worse so "knuckles" is acceptable.

An echidna hatched by the M.E by chaos energy to be its guardian. It Loves them very much.

The last Echidna, the rest went extinct 2000-3500 years ago.

Immortal and unageing after his physical maturity reaches age 25, currently he is 17 physically and thought to be 17 chronologically.

Knuckles is unaware of this. He physically matures at the rate that the M.E. wants him to, and his aging has sped up to match Sonic & Co. kinda.

He does not know how long he was on the F.I., and everyone assumed he was older than Sonic but not a teenager when he was found by Eggman. Argo, he was thought to be around 12- early 13.

Before Sonic & Co. arrived, the flow of time was very hard for Knuckles to keep track of long-term. All he knows is that he is the only living echidna and sapient thing on Angel Island, and everyone was dead before he was hatched.

Knuckles does not know much about the life, culture, customs, and technology of the surface. Others either forget this, underestimate how little he knows, or don't know about this lack of information.

A list of people who know a lot about mobian/human culture to the ones who know almost nothing. a list

Sonic & Tails: they traveled so much that they picked up general cultural knowledge from everywhere they went, whether they use this knowledge is irrelevant, they know it.

Amy, Ms. Vinnila, the Chaotixs, or the avrege person.: knows the general rules for whichever culture they reside in, may or may not know another culture's.

Shadow, Blaze, and Sliver: have a culture or cultural knowledge like the current one, and friends know that there may be a cultural disconnect, but they may or may not know any do's or dots of the current culture, but they do know the basic rules and customs for modern society.

Knuckles. Working off of a 35,000-year-old culture that he never experienced with another person due to being raised by the M.E alone on an island with a lot of old books and a duty. The challenges he faces include having a different language to translate everything into, primarily because he does not know English well. Besides, People tend to expect him to understand the context of sayings and phrases, as well as how modern society and its structures work since Knuckles is very skilled at observing and making educated guesses of what to do in the moment. This assumption makes it difficult for him to grasp modern culture and common phrases.

Badass who's extremely Overpowered when not holding back due to his role. A Cryptid to the rest of the world.

English is not his first language, he is still learning the English vocabulary (most people don't release this.)

He was born knowing the ancient echidna language (Mam- is the language in Google Translate) he calls the M.E "Txub'l" or mother when speaking his mother tongue.

Why Mam? It originated from the ancient "Proto-Mayan" language, spoken by the Maya people thousands of years ago during the Mayan Empire. So it has ancient language roots that do not sound too much like Spanish or have -to me at least- any closely sounding words to any common language.

Also understands the M.E and chaos emeralds, they speak with projections of emotion and imagery. And speaking to them in this way can be called a second fluent language to him.

He can understand the written form of most ancient languages due to their being a dictionary of words, and phrases for each language or a "how to learn (...)"/ "a merchants guide to (...) culture" book for any of the ancient echidnas' trading partners.

He can speak ancient Babylonian though for a different reason. When the children of Babylon an alien civilization got stranded on Earth they explored and eventually found Angel Island, thankfully these people did not find the M.E. but they did kidnap knuckles off Angel Island to study and use him (gladiator pits, slave labor, testing his immortality when they found out about it,), this lasted until Knuckles broke out thankfully the Babylonians at that point did not truly care if he left or not. So Knuckles was stuck on the surface until he figured out a way back to Angel Island.

Lots of stuff happened during this time but the main points can be summarized into.

Knuckles got kidnapped into slavery and the gladiator pits again-- but for a shorter time.

Knuckles became an outlaw with bounty hunters after him.

During this time knuckles got his first foray into treasure hunting.

Knuckles lives on Angel Island.

A mythical floating island that can move, unknown to the world it can also teleport, and fade out of physical reality at either the M.E.'s will or Knuckles' request.

Also called the Floating Isle/island.

The island hangs out in the lower stratosphere to upper-middle troposphere normally.

The M.E. prevents the island from feeling the effects of such a high altitude.

Populated by chaos, common, rare, and extinct plants and animals including knuckles.

Wisps started to live on Angel Island too, after Sonic colors.

After the initial near extinction of the echidnas by CHAOS the water spirit, the echidnas lived on Angel Island guarding the master emerald. An unknown amount of time later these echidnae released that their species was going to die, so they set traps and wrote everything down -from children's books to medical texts to personal memoirs- with no regard for whether they were repeating others, then Organized this cultural library into subgroups and separate libraries for them to hide and lockup everywhere along with the M.E in places only an echidna could open.

There is a map on which each library, trap, and structure on Angel Island is located, along with books on everything upkeep, creation, and maintenance as well as a compendium and index for every topic. This is in the most secured library, trapped so only the guardian of the M.E can enter. This library contains sacred information regarding how to care for, use, and protect, the M.E and Angel Island, along with how to use chaos energy and the chaos emeralds, perform miracles, balance chaos and order, and the true origin of everything and the beginning of the universe.

Angel Island needs to go into stasis once every decade or so.

This removes the negative effect of prolonged exposure to the M.E. and converts it to a boost to everything on the island instead. This repairs and revitalizes everything on the island, including previously destroyed parts.

Yes, this would repair Sky Sanctuary.

This is a vacation for the guardian of the M.E. that lasts 6-ish months.

The M.E. does this by bringing the island into the lower thermosphere where any aurora Borealis is happening, pulling the island and whatever on it out of reality and essentially making it a mirage to the rest of the world.

Nothing can interact with the island during this time.

Knuckles has been putting this off since he befriended Sonic and Co. and the island started to need it.

biological and personality quirks

Biology

Echidnas are spiny monotremes... that I am adding Platypus/Chao traits too.

Can sense chaos energy and electricity with great precision around 1 mile wide for electricity and 5 miles wide for chaos energy with his electrosensors.

Range only applies to the surface world, on Angel Island distance is irrelevant. Knuckles will know the minute you approach even 5 miles of his island.

The electricity senses also count toward muscle movement and electric currents.

This sense is boosted by the M.E. beyond what a normal echidna can sense.

Has spurs on his index and pinky knuckle.

They move with his hand and also contain venom.

Both the venom and spurs are why echidnas (with spurs) wear gloves, it is so that they can punch people without killing them or causing chronic pain.

Gloves have padding and blocks so that the spurs don't inject venom or draw blood.

The venom is like a platypus-- extreme pain but nonlethal.

Has large claws great for digging and climbing.

His quills are sharper than hedgehogs (ex. Sonic, Amy, Sliver) but not as sharp as Shadows (alien).

86.4-91.4F average body temperature.

Can stand extreme temperature fluctuations without dying.

Very strong swimmer.

Can do a purr equlivent.

He can glide.

Why? How? idk the M.E. made it so.

It's a combination of his quills, the M.E., and the wind.

This is a knuckles-only trait.

tail

The bend is a joint that is in its relaxed state when bent (exe: sloth hands) the tail will straighten when Knuckles is shocked or electrocuted.

Can wag.

Omnivore, but with intimidatingly sharp teeth.

Has a normal diet of ants, termites, worms, insect larvae, and sometimes meat, with a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Has a long and thin tongue that can spike out a needle to skewer bugs.

Personality

The more nervous Knuckles gets without becoming frustrated or angry, the more formal his speech becomes until he starts speaking the ancient echidna language.

He can do handcrafts like, pottery making, weaving, metalworking (basic), woodworking (carpentry), stone carving, leatherworking, beading, and jewelry making.