We got a new oc here, folks! This here is Zephyr the echidna, who was drawn by the lovely Darkfenicks on kofi. He's a pretty serious guy who studies magic and ancient echidna history
So, at one point a few weeks back, I had a dream where I was reading an omnibus comic thing of a bunch of IDW Sonic issues, focused on a particular arc with a new character. Evidently I liked the story and the character so much, I decided to draw her, lol
Not entirely sure when this arc takes place, but I'm assuming it probably fits in fine with where the comic currently is. Or at least, I don't remember anything that was particularly contradictory, y'know? Anyways, the rest of this is notes on the character and story from what I shared with friends on Discord, under the cut:
Okay so! Ribbon! She's an old lady and ends up being a villain in the story arc I read in my dream, lol
But before we get to that part!! The story starts out with Sonic and friends fighting Eggman in some ruins. They manage to chase him off, and discover Ribbon in an ancient sarcophagus. Once they confirm she's still alive (I.e. get freaked out when she first wakes up lol), they assume she must have been there for thousands of years. It also doesn't help that she has no memories besides her own name at first, and even besides that she isn't very talkative.
Over the course of the story arc, Ribbon regains her memories and starts plotting things in the background. Because it turns out, she's actually from the future!!
The sarcophagus is a time machine, and both it and her outfit were intentionally designed to look "ancient" to avoid suspicion. The main reason for doing this is that her mission is to destroy the past (literally): She's from An Incredibly Bad Timeline, and she was sent back in time to hopefully cause a big enough impact to change the timeline and avoid whatever happened that led to the future that she came from. The temporary memory loss was a side-effect of the time travel.
Logically, her appearing in the past could have been more than enough to change the timeline anyways. But Ribbon is taking her mission seriously, and she's not going to take any chances. She's going to destroy the planet as much as possible, thinking it will help prevent the bad future, maybe even killing some of the people whose descendants will be responsible for said bad future. Whatever it takes!
Also, she has natural hydrokinesis and electrokinesis, but she uses the gems on her tiara and gloves to greatly amplify her powers. Also also, those gems are what's left of the Master and Chaos Emeralds from her original timeline. Yep, it's that bad. No wonder she's hellbent on completing her mission!!
As the story arc is building up to the climax, she also takes Surge and Kit under her wing. She promises to help them strengthen their own powers so they can be "better heroes" than Sonic and friends, in exchange for helping her gain more power for her mission. Part of that is obtaining the Emeralds of this timeline (I can't remember if in the dream book it was both Master and Chaos Emeralds or just one or the other).
She of course omits what she's actually up to until the climactic battle, where she's basically Perfect Chaos levels of powerful thanks to the Emeralds amplifying her further. When Surge and Kit try to stop her by themselves, she grabs them using a huge water hand and tries to drown them.
At this point Sonic and friends manage to save Surge and Kit, and then stop Ribbon from destroying anymore of the planet! It's left ambiguous if they just managed to break her gems while taking back the Emeralds, or if she outright died during the final fight.
Either way, afterwards there was like two more chapters/issues of Sonic and friends starting to rebuild things after that battle. As well as a bit with Surge and Kit, with them arguing over how badly things turned out and Surge decides it's Kit's fault and abandons him. Presumably this would have lead into a character development arc for the two of them, if I had anymore Sonic comics to read in the dream.
The dream ended with me looking online for people discussing the story, only to mostly find people hating on Ribbon for causing Surge and Kit to separate/saying she was too OP even though there was a narrative reason for her powers spiking/etc. Which, I mean it wouldn't be surprised if that happened, if a story like this with a character like Ribbon was real. :u
That's it! Not sure if I'll do anything else with Ribbon, but hey, I still think she's cool. :D
