Lex The Hedgehog

""Lexia The Hedgehog, most commonly known by her nickname Lex, is the main character and protagonist in the Lex The Hedgehog series. She is an anthropomorphic brown hedgehog that is most known by her trademark incredible skill and acrobatics. She uses different techniques such as her famous pink tornado Twirl Dash to attack her enemies.

Ever since being introduced into the world by Dr. Eggman creating her and joining the hero side, Lex has gained popularity among her peers as the Heroine of Mobius for saving the planet plenty of times, along with her boyfriend Sonic The Hedgehog. Throughout her adventures, Lex has traveled far and wide all over the world to test her abilities, powers, and techniques against the tyranny of evil. Most well known of her sweet, friendly attitude, calm and collected demeanor, strong sense of compassion and loyalty towards her family and friends, Lex uses her abilities to protect her world from the many attempts of forces of evil, especially her arch-nemesis Dr. Eggman.

Concept and Creation
The creation of Lex started in the year of 2009/2010 when the creator/artist starts developing on a fan character that would highly benefit her own Sonic The Hedgehog fandom. Around this year is when the creator starts becoming a fan of the series and starts to play the games; her first personal game she has played is Sonic Adventure 2. The development of Lex begins shortly after, with her original design going to be a human with glasses and curly brown hair. The creator thinks that a hedgehog and a human together would not be an issue and in fact started loving the idea when beginning to develop Lex's backstory and bio.

However, around the year of 2017, when the creator is beginning to draw out her fandom, thanks to the watchers not agreeing on the idea of her fan character being human to pair up with Sonic in a romance, the development started to shift. The creator then officially changes Lex to be full Mobian, into a hedgehog with a similar design of Sonic but with a high difference to note: her brown curls that goes down the sides of her head. Now changing to hedgehog full time, along with the other characters change to full Mobian, now goes into more detail and development into the story of her fan character and what adventures Lex will go on.

From 2017 to 2019 is the development of Arc 1 in Lex's story, where Lex's design has changed slightly from her Classic form, with longer legs, aged by a year, and longer quills while keeping the similar trademark red heart dress and pink sneakers. Arc 1 of the story is solely based on Lex's role in the various modern Sonic games, starting with Sonic Adventure all the way till Sonic Forces. As of today, her first Arc adventures are being put to an end and on hiatus until the company of SEGA gives an announcement of the next Sonic game following the main storyline.

From 2020 up to now, the creator decided to redesign Lex as well as the other main characters, presumably Carla The Fox, Stephanie The Echidna, Karen The Fox, and Matthew The Hedgehog. With these redesigns, up to now, Lex's adventures are now based upon the creator's creativity on Lex's adventures and introducing brand new fan characters and bringing back some familiar faces from the canon cast from Sonic, for example bringing back Mighty The Armadillo and Ray The Flying Squirrel from the Archie comics. With that said, it also introduces new villains such as Lex's new arch-enemy Ice The Mongoose. Arc 3 is still in development, Lex's adventures will still continue to go on up until the beginning of the future chapter 15 Years Later.

Lex's birthday is on May 3rd, the same day as the creator's birthday. She decided to make Lex's birthday to same as hers because she has a "special place in her heart that makes Lex so special to her."

Appearance
Lex is a slim anthropomorphic hedgehog with brown fur that covers most of her body, and peach skin that covers her arms, muzzle, insides of ears, and front of her torso and belly, along with small pointy ears on top of her head. She has a round head and pretty short in the Classic era with black eyes. However, she has developed emerald green eyes as she becomes older, gaining some height and longer quills. She has five long quills on the back of her head, medium sized brown curls going down her sides, and a short tail.

For attire, Lex wears a red sleeveless top with her neck, underarms, and top portion of her back visible with dark red hearts, a pair of white gloves with sock-like cuffs, small red wristbands on her arms, a long pink skirt plastered with magenta flowers (each with four petals), long white socks, and light-weight friction pink sneakers with a tongue sticking out, a white stripe with laces, silver soles, and a sparkly white jewel on each foot.

In the Classic Era and Arc 1 of the Modern Era, Lex wore a short sleeved red dress with dark red hearts, a pair of white gloves with sock-like cuffs, gray athlete socks, and pink sneakers with a white stripe and a sparkly white jewel on each foot.

Personality
Lex is most well known to many people to have a very sweet, kind, and friendly personality when around others. She cares for nothing more than to have her followers, her family, and her friends safe from harm. She values of her life of being alive and being introduced to the world even though she is not like everyone else being a creation of Dr. Eggman. When around friends, she is innocent and friendly that always brings a smile to everyone's days. She is like a light in the darkness of somebody's dreary day and looks out for others if they have a problem.

Lex's demeanor is always kind, calm, and collected. She has a love for adventure and does not like to stop in the middle of one. She always thinks before she acts, which can either turn out good or bad for her in the end depending on the situation. She has a deep loyalty for her family and friends, especially towards her team consisting of Carla, Stephanie and Karen. Without them by her side, she would not be successful in her missions.

Lex dislikes anything that brings injustice and hates being told lies. When in times of crisis, she focuses hard on the task at hand and tries not to let anything get in her way. Thus, she will never pass by someone in trouble and will do anything she can to help her followers out. There are some times where she does missions like these on her own, but most of the time, she finds it more beneficial to have her friends helping her out and looking out for her. She enjoys defeating evil more with friends, especially those who she feels closest to. Her heart is always in the right place and never will she bring hate among the innocent.

Throughout her adventures, Lex also has developed a deep love for her love interest, the famous blue hedgehog Sonic. When they first met in the Prologue when he saves her from Dr. Robotnik. he has taken a deep care for her and wanted her to be different, to join his hero group of Freedom Fighters to fight against him. She was reluctant to the idea, but the leader of the team, Sally Acorn, insisted on changing her up to help her fight against her own creator. Sonic has began to develop a shy crush on Lex and enjoys spending time with her and talking. He even tries to claim how he feels with a kiss; however, Sally steps in and lets her jealousy take her over. Sonic was in fact dating Sally and he was caught supposedly cheating on her with Lex. Sally's anger and jealousy rips Lex apart and surprisingly, fires her from the Freedom Fighters. However, Lex is not affected by the decision and instead, claims she will go on her own adventures to figure out more about herself. This puts the relationship between Sonic and Lex on hold until the Modern Era.

As Arc 1 goes on through the games, most of Lex's adventures are mainly centered on helping Sonic throughout his own adventures and defeating Dr. Eggman. This begins the romance between the two hedgehogs start to develop as the games go on. After the ending of the beginning adventures, they usually hold hands on their way to new adventures to come, as can be seen in the ending of Sonic Adventure 2 when Sonic leaves the Space Colony ARK along with the others with Lex beside him. The two finally confess their feelings and seal the deal with a kiss in the end of Sonic The Hedgehog (2006), where all of the events that has happened between Princess Elise and Iblis was completely forgotten, as we see Sonic along with Lex watching the fireworks celebration in Soleanna. After that fateful event, almost all of the rest of the storylines in the games usually ends with Sonic and Lex sharing a kiss, even in the alternate universe in the Storybook Series, where Sonic shares a kiss with Lex's alternate forms in Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight. Sonic and Lex's romance continues to grow as the story goes on into Arc 2 and 3. Their romance can be defined as heroic and loyal, but also passionate and adorable. They would do anything to keep the other happy and they share a strong companionship. There may be times where Sonic can be overprotective of Lex and can get himself into trouble, like his jealousy taking him over the incident with Jackson The Mongoose. However, Lex's love for Sonic will never be taken away because of everything they have been through together.

Lex has been seen to enjoy performing and listening to music. She loves showing off her skills and dancing for a crowd, for example of her love of Gymnastics in the Summer Olympics (i.e. Rhythmic Ribbon) and Figure Skating in the Winter Olympics. She also twirls and dances when for a victory or when she's extremely happy.

Lex also has a tendency to be extremely adorable when around her friends, always giving an adorable smile with a red blush on her cheeks, especially when she is around her loved ones like Sonic and her best friend and big brother Mark The Mongoose. When she is really happy, her tail can start to wag and her ears start to twitch. Hence it causes her friends and family to call her cute, adorable, or naive. However, Lex hates it when people call her by those adjectives that it causes her to pout and be mad about it. It may last for a while, but eventually, it goes away and continues to be her normal happy self. She also has a love for any loved one to rub her ears; when doing that, she purrs like a happy little kitten. Most people say that she is adorable in everything she does, even when in serious times.

Powers and abilities
Despite being a creation of Dr. Eggman, she is not born a robot; she was born from flesh and blood with only the intelligence of the doctor. She was first going to be used as "the ultimate weapon" to destroy Sonic by being a hedgehog that shares the speed as Sonic and hold intense skill and technique to confuse him. However, after being rescued by the Freedom Fighters and gaining her trademark look, she undergoes some intense training with them. With support, she has become a well-rounded skillful fighter in combat; this will help when she goes on her own adventures to defeat giant robots from Snively as well as other monsters and creatures she will face. Though her strength in power is low, her agility, flexibility, and her size can give her a huge advantage.

Lex's greatest strength is her skill and technique. She can be considered the top number 1 character in the fandom to have the highest skill and flexibility. Skills include the ability to bounce off platforms and walls to produce a boost of pink wind and go decently fast. Though her running speed is nowhere near Sonic's, her ability to bounce off platforms can be an alternative to catch up to Sonic's running speed. Other skills she specializes in is getting out of tight spaces easily due to her small size, her amazing flexibility grants her to dodge easily, and can hurt her enemies from above by crouching and attacking with her long quills.

Another one of Lex's trademark abilities is her ability to spin around like a dancer and produce pink wind into a tornado called Twirl Dash. When performing Twirl Dash, she can bounce herself around like a projectile and attack enemies using Twirling Attack. Twirl Dash can be used in ground and aerial maneuvers, being both effective to ground and air enemies.

Lex also can harness the power of a jewel from the West Continent of Mobius called the Crystals. Crystals hold the same kind of energy as Chaos Emeralds do, and Lex can use powers from them very similar to Emeralds, such as traveling through time and space (Crystal Control) and creating a very powerful blast (Crystal Blast). Lex is unable to harness energy from Chaos Emeralds since she is not prone to being around them at any time in her lifetime.

Lex's fighting style is what can be described as "elegant dancing," using mostly her arms and legs in a flexible manner to attack her enemies while also using dance like moves. She's not skilled at using her fists, so she relies mostly on her legs while in battle, using air kicks, spinning kicks, and upper air kicking. Lex would also never use a weapon in battle, as she says that she would be "caught dead using them."