OLDish artwork

going to put this under 'Moderate' because blood and the story situation mentioned below, just to be safe

Note: Not sure what subcategory to use for this. Part of it is digital, but part of it is traditional. I'm saying traditional because that's what the characters are done in.

Sonic (c) Sega/Archie/Dic
Serenity and other characters (C) VioletWhirlwind

Colored pencil and digitally done background and blood. Much blood...

Poor Reni really got the brunt of my creativity in this one! XD;

This is basically all of MY characters plus Sonic from a RP I created. (Don't go looking for it though. The RP, and the site it was on both no longer exist.) Sadly I forgot who other peoples' characters were. (I am a bad GM. ;_; )

The basic story revolved around the premise that most of the protagonists were trying to escape an animal testing lab run by Robotnik.

I ended up actually KILLING Reni for a short time near the end of the RP, and after she came back to life (via her RP-specific older sister's self-sacrifice), her lower legs were permanently paralyzed, as the price she had to pay for a second chance at life.

Anyway, the characters are, from top-left to right...

Peace (flying): The book she's holding symbolizes the actual RP.

Project Banshee: Albino vixen who can't speak as a result of the chemical injected into her brain. The most she can communicate by is whines, growls, and yowls. She was intended to be a secret weapon who would go berserk at the slightest glimpse of the Blue Blur. That's why Peace has the book positioned the way it is, to block Banshee's sight. Banshee is also the mother of one of the other chars in this pic.

Reshta Meritai (Last name questionable) : My original starting character in the RP. She's a coatimundi who lost one eye to the robo-scientists. She has a tumor-like club on the end of her tail that she learned how to use to her advantage. She has an antenna sprouting from the back of her neck, and two crumpled, useless, bat-like wings that she keeps hidden under that cloak she's wearing. She became the temporary guardian of...

Hope: Albino kitsune, daughter of Project Banshee. She was injected with a "doubling agent" and ended up with 64 tails from the original two. (only eight of these are visible in the pic) The left half of her face is hairless and blistered, as a result of a chemical being spilled on her. Also, she has a large chevron-shaped green mark across her eye, which was turned a cloudy green by the same chemical that caused her hair to fall out on that side.

TJ: is his normal impulsive self. He and Peace entered the LAB to save Reni, thus were not experiments. Here, he's showing his worry for Reni's predicament.

Rizzario (aka. Patches): A very battered collie with strange mental kinesis powers brought on by the experimentation. No one know's much about him, he was in the same solitary room with Reni, separated from the other experiments, but no-one knows why. He has various patches of metal embedded in his skin, hence his nickname, a tattered left ear, and virtually no right ear. His left eye was completely replaced by a patch of metal. (ie, no robotic eye, just a patch of metal where his eye should be) He eventually fell in love with Reni, as a result of feeling sorry for her.

Reni (duh!) : Being the daughter of Sonic, she was got the brunt of the villain's maliciousness when she had the extreme misfortune of twisting her ankle when a Robotropolis raid went awry. She was taken to the LAB and hooked up via wires to a hideous machine that parasitically drained the energy from her body, turning her into a biological battery to power the LAB itself. She was also being used as bait to lure "Daddy" into a deathtrap. Which brings me to the next character...

Everbody knows who this is, right? You should. :P Anyway, he took the bait and tried to save his daughter, getting himself caught in the process. He was attached to the same machine that was draining his daughter, and the tyrant spent a goodly amount of the time gloating. Sonic was supposed to have wires in him after the story ended, but I just couldn't bring myself to draw him that way, especially when it was the first time I have ever drawn him. Next character...

Lacey: RP specific hybrid older sister of Reni. Escaped the LAB several years before the main action takes place. Bitter about the fact that her sister always got all the attention, she was hesitant to help TJ and Peace when they came asking for her help to free Reni and her father. Lacey is blueish-grey, and has one green eye, and one blue. She has remnant scars and wires from her own time in the LAB, and a tattered red vest similar to her mother's. Her teeth are snaggly, and give her a permanent sneer. (except that I can't seem to draw a sneer for some reason.) She was an extremely bitter and cynical anti-hero-esqe character, before events caused her to agree to help free her sister. She ended up trading her life for Reni's freedom from death, and saved the world by blowing herself, and Robotnik, up in the midst of the LAB after everyone escaped with a bomb she had been wearing concealed the entire time.

Above everybody is the disembodied head and hand of a bony, white fox called Lady Death. She is the mobian equivalent of the Grim Reaper, and caused Reni's family a great amount of anguish when she came for the purple hedgehog princess after Serenity was rescued by her father from the LAB and rushed home to Knothole, at which point she was severely weakened by the machine and already on the verge of death. In the story, Lady Death had grey, misty pupil-less eyes, but I now think they would look better red. This is my first attempt at drawing a scary character. She's not evil, she's just Death.

That thing Reni is sitting in...that's her Racechair. After she was brought back to life and found herself paralyzed from the knees down, her father and Rotor secretly designed this special wheelchair to give her back her mobility and allow her to again go at speeds close to what she used to be capable of, before her capture.

That's basically where I ended it. And if you've had the patience to read this far, give yourselves a cookie.