Kitsunami the Fennec is a cyborgnetical enhanced fennec fox created by Dr. Starline in the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comic universe, designed to support Surge in her pursuit of destroying Sonic the Hedgehog and designed after Tails.
Appearance[]
Kit is a tiny blue fennec fox who's hair and droops over his eyes. He is short in stature, even smaller than his counterpart, Tails. On his back he wears a yellow water pack with six nozzles allowing him to create 'water tails' that he can control at will. He wears matching black punk like cufflings to mimic Surge's punkish appearance.
When activating his powers his eyes glow bright purple.
Personality[]
His current personality is forged by Dr. Starline's consistent useage of hypnosis on him, enforcing that Surge is everything to him and he only lives to serve her in her goals.
He is meek, quiet, self doubting and apologetic, acting purely for the sake of Surge, likely due to how Dr. Starline views Tails. Kit's relationship with Surge the Tenrec is also a broken mirror version of Sonic's sibling like relationship with Tails, where instead of having each other's backs, Kit's entire role in their relationship is supporting Surge with it being an unequal relationship.
Over time Surge and Kit form a true bond together, and Kit begins to speak his mind a little more. He is also revealed to be far smarter than he lets on, doing most the thinking for Surge and may be even more dangerous than her when backed into a corner.
During the brief time Kit thought Surge was dead he became distraught, latching onto Sonic and Tails as a substitute who had saved his life and desperate to be helpful. Interestingly, unlike Surge with Sonic, Kit does not bare a strong hatred of Tails, and the two were even able to briefly become friends.
Kit becomes extremely aggressive when he believes someone is preventing him from being helpful, with his anxiety and trauma revealing itself.
History[]
Little is known about Kit's history pre kidnapping from Dr. Starline. During his time as Starline's test subject he and Surge were cybernetically modified using the power cores from Sonic Heroes, bio data of Sonic, Tails and Shadow, an altered Metal Virus strain to improve his overall durability and had his memories and personality altered via study of Dr. Eggman's wooden badnik creation, Belle, during his time as Mr. Tinker.
He was placed under repeated hypnosis sessions by Starline, implanting fake memories and a constant reminder than he only lives to serve Surge. Starline also performed rigorous testing and obstacle courses for Surge and Kit, which would inevitably end with the two becoming fed up at which point Starline would wipe their memories and start again, which led to the two's psyches becoming more and more fragmented.
Later Surge and Kit begin to question why they even want to destroy Sonic or help Surge respectively, with neither knowing exactly why, just that they have a desire to do so. Starline, sensing problems puts them back under hypnosis.
Trivia[]
- Kitsunami, like Surge and Dr. Starline is based off a graphical glitch. In Kit's case he is based off a glitch that would turn Tails into a blue Knuckles under the right conditions in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
- The powers of Surge and Kit being Sonic and Tails' reversed phobias (Sonic is afraid of water(Kit's ability), Tails is afraid of lightning (Surge's ability)) was an unintentional design addition.
- Kit is the second Sonic character to be shown able to manipulate liquid, after Chaos.
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