So since a lot of my friends really love my new Sonic "villain" OC, I thought I'd share him here.
Meet Atlas the Luna Moth, my newest sympathetic antagonist character.
Atlas got his name due to the nature of the backstory I gave him. Always fixing other people's problems. Holding up their skies. Bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders. Tireless, thankless work. And what did he ever get in return?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
And even the kindest people snap when they can't take it anymore.
Atlas was orphaned at a very young age, and his "adoptive family" treated him more as a means of free labor than as their child. He worked himself to the bone, and was told to be grateful he even had a place to stay. Questioning was seen as a lack of gratitude and wanting to be treated fairly was seen as asking for more than he'd worked for.
So Atlas was conditioned from an early age to believe he deserved nothing, and had no value if not to serve others.
This has led a lot of people to want to hold him and tell him everything will be okay.
Fluffy boy would break down upon being held though because nobody has ever given him physical affection. Nobody's ever shown him affection at all, in fact.
Due to the nature of his past, having grown up with nothing his whole life, Atlas decided he wanted everything. My friend and I, after creating a few jewels of our own, came up with something called the "OriGem" ("origin" + "gem") - an original fused state of the jewels in Sonic's world (minus things from other places or that we don't know the clear origins of like the Time Stones, Sol Emeralds, Warp Topaz, and another jewel I created called the Heart of Gaia.)
Being in contact with the OriGem for too long could actually kill you. But don't worry. Atlas isn't going to die. Just lose the most important thing he forgot he had.
His freedom.
Because the power of the OriGem disintegrates his wings. Effectively grounding him.
Anyways hope you adore him too.
(ft. my other two villain OCs who I'll talk about at a later date.)
