Deformed infection (AU S.onic)

🦝. Gabriel the Raccoon:

Status: killed by tulip.
Stage: Stage 5.
Body changes: disfigured face, grotesque body, elongated limbs, lack of hair.

🎸 Daniela the Hedgehog

Species: Anthropomorphic white-bellied porcupine
Gender: Female.
Appearance:

• Caramel-colored fur and spines
  Light skin on the muzzle, ears, arms, legs, and belly.
  Vibrant pink eyes
• Fringe made of thorns, short and pointed tail

Style:

• Band t-shirt with a print of a hot dog on fire: "Hellish Hot Dogs"
  Ripped denim shorts, dark fishnet tights
  Dark blue sneakers, black rocker-style gloves
  Thorn bracelets (one rose), thorn choker
  Earrings in the left ear, piercing in the right ear.
  Blue headphones
• Low grayish-blue frame with skull stickers, a flaming heart, and a blue hedgehog with a ring in its mouth (a reference to Sonic).

Personality:
Strong, spirited, protective.

• A bit noisy (in true rock'n'roll style)
  But now I'm more introspective because of the trauma.

Gabriel the guardian:

Name: Gabriel.
Species: anthropomorphic street raccoon
Gender: male.
Age: 12
Appearance: grayish-brown fur, characteristic raccoon-like markings.
clothing:
Clothes in the teenage style of 2006.

🦔 Glitty the Hedgehog

Species: Anthropomorphic African pygmy hedgehog
Gender: Female
Appearance:

• Thorns and burgundy-colored fur
  Lightly tanned skin on the muzzle and ears.
  Black nose, bright cyan eyes.
  Two thorns fell on either side of his face.
  She is wearing a white jumpsuit-skirt, a light blue-gray sweater, white gloves, cute bracelets, and a colorful ribbon around her ankle.
• She wears an engagement ring on her finger (a gift from Silver).
• Bandages on his legs because of his clumsy accidents.

Personality:
Shy, kind, friendly
Very obedient and dedicated.
A bit clumsy, but always well-intentioned.
She has a huge heart and quiet courage.

Origin:

• Artificially created by Dr. Robotnik, as Shadow

• He considers Shadow his older brother.
  Despite his background, he chose good and allied himself with GUN.

• Ability:

• Partial Ability Absorption: Glitty can temporarily absorb a fraction of the abilities of anyone she touches — but this requires physical and emotional effort, and can leave her exhausted.
  This ability could be the key to replicating antibodies or resistance, making it a possible living cure for the virus.

🦦 Tulip the Giant Otter

Species: Anthropomorphic giant otter
Gender: Female
Appearance:

• Brown coat with white spots on the belly and neck.

• He is wearing a black shirt with a print of a piranha fried on a skewer.

• ripped denim shorts, sandals.

• Personality:

• the personality of any Brazilian.

🐟 Big the Cat
Status: Infected
Stage: Stage 5.
Location: Swampy area (isolated and flooded region, difficult access)
Who is he with: Alone (Froggy is missing)
Emotional state: Completely lost — no trace of consciousness remains.
Physical changes:

• Grotesquely elongated body, with disproportionate limbs.
• Almost hairless, with dark purple and moist skin.
  Pupils dilated to the extreme, eyes shining in the dark.
• Dislocated jaw, with exposed teeth and dark fluid constantly oozing from it.
• Large, sharp claws, used for digging and attacking.
  Narrative notes:
  One of the most dangerous infected due to its natural strength and size.
  The swampy area has become an area of ​​extreme risk due to its presence.
  Froggy, his companion, is missing — there are rumors that he may have been the first to be devoured by Big, which would have driven him completely insane.

🦔🌀. Sonic the Hedgehog

Status: Infected
Stage: Stage 3-4 (trying to resist infection.)
Location: Wilderness area, near Green Hill
Who he/she is with: Alone.
Emotional state: Confused, fighting violent impulses, trying to maintain sanity.
Physical changes:

• Intensely red eyes
  Hair loss on the back and arms.
• Limbs beginning to lengthen
  Violent coughing and dark sores on the side of the body.
  Narrative notes:
  He still tries to avoid hurting others, but he's becoming increasingly unstable.
• It could be one of the first to reach stage 5.

🦔🌹. Amy Rose

Status: Infected - stage 2.
Location: Tails' refuge, in the containment room.
Who's with: Tails, Cream, Vanilla
Emotional state: Oscillating between lucidity and outbursts of anger.
Physical changes:
Pupils beginning to dilate.

• Hair loss on the arms
  Frequent vomiting, muscle weakness
  Narrative notes:
  He still recognizes his friends, but he has dangerous episodes.
  She may be one of the first to test Tails' cure.

🐾 Espio the Chameleon

Status: Missing
Stage: Unknown (possibly infected)
Location: Last seen in a forest near the city.
Who is he/she with: Unknown
Emotional state: Unknown
Physical changes: Unknown
Narrative notes:

• Containment mission failed after confrontation with Vector.
  It may be hidden, injured, or fighting off infection.
  If he's alive, he could be a valuable ally because of his stealth.

🧠 Dr. Eggman (Ivo Robotnik)

Status: Unknown (possibly alive)
Internship: Unknown
Location: Uncertain — rumors of an active underground laboratory.
Who is he with: Possibly with robots or alone.
Emotional state: Obsessed, paranoid, perhaps insane.
Physical changes: Unknown
Narrative notes:
He may be studying the virus.
Alternatively, they may be trying to create a cure for their own self-interest.

• It could become a temporary ally or the next big villain.

⚙️🦔. Metal Sonic

Status: Immune.
Internship: none.
Location: Last seen in a destroyed Eggman laboratory.
Who is he with: Unknown (possibly with Eggman)
Emotional state: unstable, damaged, and protective.
Physical changes:

• partially damaged after being attacked by an infected person while trying to protect Eggman.
  Narrative notes:
  If Eggman is alive, he might be trying to fix Metal Sonic.

🔮 Silver the Hedgehog

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Alternative future.
Who he/she is with: Alone.
Emotional state: Determined, pressured by time, feels the weight of impending failure.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:
He saw the future devastated by the infection and went back in time to try to prevent the outbreak.

• It is experiencing temporal distortions caused by virus mutation.
  It could be the key to discovering the origin of the virus or finding a cure in time.
  His return to the present could be dramatic—he might have to choose between saving the past or the future.

🔥 Blaze the Cat

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Parallel Dimension (Sol Dimension)
Who she's with: Alone.
Emotional state: Serene, but worried about what's to come.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:

• He sensed a dimensional rupture caused by the virus and is trying to open a portal to help.
• It can bring technology or magic from its dimension that interferes with the progression of the infection.
• Their connection to fire may be a natural weapon against the infected (purification?)

🦔 Glitty the Hedgehog

Status: not infected
Stage: Fully immune
Location: GUN facility
Who is it with: E-123 Omega
Current mission: Constant visits to the Containment Zone to bring food to Shadow.
Emotional state:

• Worried about Shadow
• Feels longing and anxiety for Silver
• Be cautious with anyone showing symptoms of the virus.
• Determined to help in her own way, even though she was afraid.

Physical changes: None.
Narrative notes:
Glitty may be the only one truly immune to the virus.
Tails' absorption ability can be used to synthesize a healing spell.

• Your relationship with Silver could be a strong emotional point—imagine their reunion!
• You might have a heroic moment protecting Shadow or sacrificing yourself for someone.
  Your kindness can be the light in the darkness of this infected world.

🦦 Tulipa the Giant Otter

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Angels Island
Who is he with: Knuckles.
Emotional state:

• In mourning, far away
• Only speaks when necessary.
• Helps when asked, but avoids emotional contact.
  Physical changes: None
  Narrative notes:
• You may have lost someone very close to you (sister, partner, or friend) to the infection.
  Her silent pain may connect her to Knuckles, who also carries the weight of responsibility.
• She could become a guardian of the island or have a moment of redemption by protecting the refugees.

🎸 Daniela the Hedgehog

Status: Alive, not infected
Internship: None
Location: Tails' Refuge
Who's with her: Tails, Vanilla, Amy, and Cream
Emotional state:
Quiet, but friendly.

• Determined to protect others
• Carries sadness over the loss of his friend Gabriel (infected)
  Physical changes: None
  Narrative notes:
  He plays his bass in silence, as a form of mourning and resistance.
• There may be moments of emotional outburst.

🦔🖤. Shadow the Hedgehog
Status: infected, one partially immune
Stage: only feels mild symptoms (feels fever, sensitivity to light)
Location: GUN Containment Zone
Who she's with: Sometimes she has visitors.
Emotional state: Cold, focused, but afraid of losing control.
Physical changes:

• Pupils slightly dilated
• Eyes sensitive to light
• Episodes of fever and headache
  Narrative notes:
• Acts as a hunter of infected people.
• It can help in understanding immunity.
• internal conflict between saving their friends or eliminating them.

🐝 Charmy Bee

Status: partially immune
Stage: experiencing symptoms of the virus.
Location: Unknown (last contact in the forest with Espio)
Who is he/she with: Unknown
Emotional state: Confused, frightened, alternating between lucidity and outbursts.
Physical changes:

• Slightly reddened eyes
  Tremors, vomiting, sensitivity to light.
• Minor flaws in the wings and loss of power.
  Narrative notes:
  It may be hiding or wandering aimlessly.
  Espio tried to protect him, but they both disappeared.
  If found in time, it can be saved with an experimental cure from Tails.

🦇 Rouge the Bat

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: On an infiltration mission (unknown area)
Who she's with: Alone.
Emotional state: Focused, cautious, but worried about Shadow and the progression of the infection.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:

• Spying on abandoned bases and possible Eggman hideouts
• You can discover crucial information about the origin of the virus.
• Conflict between his loyalty to GUN and his friends.

🐰 Cream the Rabbit

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Tails' Refuge
Who's with her: Tails, Vanilla, Amy
Emotional state: Scared, traumatized, but trying to be strong.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:

• Helps care for Amy and with tasks at the shelter.
  Her innocence contrasts sharply with the horror around her.
  It can play an important emotional role in keeping hope alive.

🐰 Vanilla the Rabbit

Status: Alive and not infected
Internship: None
Location: Tails' Refuge
Who's with her: Cream, Tails, Amy
Emotional state: Protective, concerned, but resilient.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:

• Acts as a mother figure for the survivors.
• knowledge of medicinal herbs.

Sticks the Badger

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Deep Forest (hidden in an improvised underground shelter)
Who she's with: Alone (but in contact with Tails via radio)
Emotional state: Paranoid, alert, but surprisingly lucid about the threat.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:
Because she lived in isolation, she escaped the initial infection.

• His conspiracy theories about a "mind-control virus" now seem frighteningly real.
• Uses traps and guerrilla tactics to protect its territory.
• She can be a valuable ally because she knows secret routes and survival techniques.

🦊🛠️. Miles "Tails" Prower

Status: not infected
Internship: None
Location: Secret underground base
Who is with: Amy (under monitoring), Cream, Vanilla
Emotional state: Exhausted, desperate, but determined.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:

• He works day and night to find a cure.
• He feels guilty for not being able to save Sonic.
• It can develop technology to contain or reverse the infection.
• Possible conflict with Shadow regarding extreme methods.

🔴🥊. Knuckles the Echidna

Status: Alive and not infected
Internship: None
Location: Angels Island
Who is it with: with tulip.
Emotional state: Determined, distrustful, feels the weight of responsibility.
Physical changes: None
Narrative notes:
The Master Emerald appears to repel the virus — a possible source of cure or protection.
It could become a refuge for survivors.

• Conflict with Shadow over whether or not to open the island to others.

First stage:
4-5 minutes, or less if bitten more than once.
Symptoms: Symptoms similar to fever, somewhat reddened eyes that become sensitive to bright lights, mood swings sometimes becoming aggressive for a few seconds or moments of confusion, and also a few lapses in reality.

Second stage:
3-7 days.
Symptoms: the same symptoms as a fever, only a little stronger, pupils starting to dilate, loss of appetite and weight, vomiting if trying to eat, the bite area starts to become infected, slight hair loss, scaling, etc., pain in the joints and muscles.

Third stage: 1-2 months.
Symptoms: the same symptoms as a fever, only stronger, redder eyes, hair loss, scaling, etc. in some areas of the body, loss of appetite, darkening of the bite area, strong coughs (one of the ways the virus spreads), stronger pain in the joints and muscles, onset of aggressive behavior and cannibalistic urges.

Fourth stage:
6-10 months.
Symptoms: The same symptoms, but stronger; beginning of limb elongation and beginning of transformation.

Fifth stage:
9-13 months.
Symptoms: Complete transformation, immense insatiable hunger, some areas without fur or scales, etc., extremely dilated pupils sensitive to light, grotesquely elongated body, rotten and dark bite areas, dark liquid oozing from the mouth, aggressive and savage.

Special infected:
Space infected are rare or legendary beings, but extremely dangerous. They are gods or beings with abilities that were infected and may still possess their abilities, only more enhanced and stronger.

Clubu: Clubu is a being made of a corrosive black goo that melts flesh except for the bones, which it uses as armor.
Beginning of the virus: the deforme infection is an infection that was passed through a club, one of these clubs found a corpse, and an unknown type of bacteria infected the club, which bit Lola, patient zero, who spread the virus.

The infection only affects anthropomorphic animals.

vulnerable to the virus:

• mammals.
• reptiles.
  Amphibians.
• birds.
• rodents.

partially immune to the virus:

• Fish.
• invertebrates.
• crustaceans.
• seabirds.
• aquatic mammals.
  (They may still experience symptoms of the virus.)

completely immune to the virus:

• humans.
• genetically created beings.
  (But they cannot escape being devoured alive by the infected.)