Dawn the Hedgehog



"Nobody is perfect. That's why you can always become better." Her response when being accused of training too much.

Dawn was a hedgehog who's starting life was similar to Midnight's. She grew up to be a reliable member of the Freedom Fighters, though she never officially joined. She plans to train with Midnight until she can TRULY rival him in power.

Profile
Occupation: Vigilante

Family: Parents (deceased) Diane (sister, currently unknown location)

Theme music: Justice is Done (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZHxLL9s1c)(I do not own this song) This was chosen based off the fact that she has shown herself in the grimmest and of all dire times, she can still stand on her own.

Appearance
Dawn has black fur and long black pigtails. She has light blue irises, and is very small for her age. Due to being in an enhancement experiment, one could look carefully and notice that she has muscles, but not to a great extent.

When using prime tiers, she starts off with a very thin and faint blue aura around her, which increases in intensity and size depending on the tier.

Childhood
Dawn was part of an average family. Average neighborhood, average school, average friends. Her craving for sweets always made her sneak her way throughout the house in attempt to grab some. Other than that, her life was easy... until the age of 12.

Dawn snuck into the kitchen to get some sweets to eat in the middle of the night, when she heard her parents. They were chatting with another person in the room. Since the door was creaked open, she tried to listen. This is what she heard:

"...too long, we can't give her to you now," her father said.

"This is sickening, why did we even think of this in the first place?" Her mother said, possibly to her father.

"You signed the contract, you will obey," from the unknown man. His voice was distorted, so his real voice was unknown."

"And what if we don't agree with this bull? What then?!" her father demanded, sounding as if he stood up from a seat.

Dawn slowly opened the door more, to her regret. There, she saw a blade through her dad's throat. Before her mom could react, she was shot in the chest. This Everything seemed to happen in slow motion, Dawn frozen in place out of shock and fear. When snapping out of it, it was too late. The attacker had came over to Dawn a=with a baseball bat. Dawn turned and ran, screaming to the top of her lungs before being knocked out, a heavy bruise on the back of her head.

She woke up, imprisoned in a cell with other kids. For years, she stayed, fearful, confused, angry, but showed little to no emotion as the memory of her parents death haunted her. Once pulled up to the experiment, they claimed her to be a low level person, because tests showed under average enhancement. They were deciding on brainwashing her to work for them instead, but ultimately they decided to kill her and mark her as a dud.

Once releasing her from the room, she walked out to an empty room alone to be executed. A metahuman launched a chaos attack at her, and Dawn instinctively reacted via covering her face with her palms. The chaos attack hit her palms, and she absorbed it. The metahuman, confused, fired at her again, and Dawn absorbed it once more, and she began charging at the enemy. Caught of guard, the amateur executioner tried to draw his pistol, only to be overcome by Dawn's tremendous increase in strength and speed due to the absorbed energy. He passed out, and Dawn took the gun in her hand. The gun then became purple in color to her surprise, and she held it like she saw in movies, hoping she knows how to use a gun enough for her to escape.

The first group of enemies rounded a corner, unsuspecting of Dawn walking free and alive. She shot once at them, and the bullet had exploded on impact, knocking out all of the enemies and blasting them through the wall. Then the warnings shot off. After rounding corner after corner, freeing imprisoned children and taking down enemies, Dawn escaped. However, the enemies knew of her through cameras, and she was a hunted target.

On the Run
Once escaping, she ran to a police station and told them what happened. They brought her in a safe room, only for the station to be attacked by more Omega members. Backup was called, but Dawn was able to escape. She decided to live out on the streets to keep innocent lives safe. A search by police forces went out for her, not finding anyone.

Eventually, she accidentally ran into another faction known as the Dark Side. This faction heard Dawn's pleads, and agreed to bring her in for safety, since the Omega Organization was their enemy. There, the Dark Side had trained her on marksmanship and professionally trained her in multiple forms of martial arts. She ended up being a fighter who utilizes a bunch of kicks into her combat. Because of this, the Dark Side gave her armored boots to increase the damage she could do. There, she found out that even armor can become chaos enhanced, and kept these "chaos boots."

During this time, Dawn learned a new chaos ability she had. By concentrating all of her adrenaline, she can become immensely stronger than before, the form showing via the thin and faint blue aura around her.

After six years of hiding, Dawn finally thanked the faction for their protection over her, and decided to get vengeance on her enemies. She became a vigilante in the surrounding area with her work: finding, beating and questioning members of the Omega League for information.

A New Dawn
Around the same time of her work, Dawn ran into the infamous assassin. He was targeting the same person she was going to interrogate. A brief battle between them allowed the Omega member to escape, and when Midnight pinned her down, questioning her, she revealed her history, surprising the assassin that they have the same history.

Eventually, Midnight took her under her wing,and began training her. She showed him that she could become stronger through the use of 'Prime Tier', as she dubbed it, and showed him her true power. However, the form left her breathless, and it caused Midnight to find it a useless ability if she couldn't handle the power. Ever since, she tried to train on par with Midnight, almost always nearly passing out in the process. Even though Midnight warned her that she was hurting yourself more than helping herself, she pressed on. Eventually, Midnight kicked it up a notch, and Dawn was able to keep up. She soon could activate her Prime Tier with less than half the energy she needed before, and then she realized that she can go beyond that, becoming 'Prime Tier II'.

Mech and TECH
When Midnight told her that he would invade TECH to steal some equipment, she immediately rebelled against this and stood in his way. Eventually, Midnight gave in, and she was pleased. As she went out on night, she took on a dragon foe, able to spew acid, and his tail appendage was very flexible, giving her a run for her life. She eventually overcame the dragon, only to hear on the news that Midnight had invaded the base, going back on what he had said. Furious at him, she waited in the base to scold him when he returned. As she left, she ran into TECH's mascot, Mech. Mech had apparently known who the Dawn was, and was surprised to see her here. A talk cleared things up, and Mech ended up leaving. He said he enjoys how the hedgehogs are working for the greater good without all of the paparazzi.

Personality
Because Midnight was such a powerful person to face, and Dawn wanted to prove that she could last on her own, she constantly strives to get stronger. While she does wield a Chaos Blaster, she rarely uses it because of the fact that she doesn't like guns, and her abilities are usually more helpful anyways.

Dawn usually is the gentle version of a tough chick, allowing her to be good friends with several kind-hearted people such as Amy, while still being able to hang around people like Shadow. Surprisingly, you can distract her from a not-too-serious situation with sweet foods, like cake and ice cream. When really relaxed and calm, she becomes girly, loving to try on new outfits.

Dawn hates being pointed out that she is short, regardless of the fact that it is true. Because of that, Dawn will rather not see something than stand on her toes to see it.

She secretly admires Midnight because of the same past they went through, and he understands her because of it, just like she understands him. She gets jealous when things don't go by her way in favor of someone else's, but when she really wants it to, it shows.

Chaos Blaster
Being an embodiment of Chaos, the pistol that she uses becomes a very powerful weapon. Unlike Midnight's pistol, which focuses on fire rate, the pistol Dawn uses is based more on the damage it can do. As a result, the damage her blaster does is powerful enough to incinerate large walls. Her blaster can charge its power, with the maximum potential being able to wipe out an acre of land. Surprisingly, the gun sounds like there is a suppressor on it.

However, Dawn is more of a stealth person, and she had eventually got the gun modified to have a second mode. This mode doesn't explode violently, and uses custom made bullets to do the job:
 * tranquilizer bullets ("night night" is printed on this)
 * EMP bullets (Mainly used to take out generators)
 * voltage bullets (Mainly use to power up or overcharge something)
 * tracking bullets (they send out a unique frequency that can be tracked down once fired)
 * frost-explosive bullets (they explode in a 3 foot radius, freezing the area around them)
 * jamming bullets (jams into technology, even mechanical things, such as guns)
 * decoy bullets (these bullets usually have a custom sound, but the most common one is a glass shattering sound)

Chaos Armored Boots
Being a kicking fighter, Dawn wears boots that are as hard as the Chaos Emeralds themselves. These boots also, on command, can launch chaos spears at the sole of her boots by kicking in midair.

Stealth Contacts
Her eyes really are blue, but she has contacts that allow her to see multiple different types of vision... She wasn't as lucky as Midnight to get soul sight, but being able to see through x-ray, infrared, thermal, ultraviolet, and even anti-thermal vision (anti-thermal searches for objects cooler than the environment, and the cooler objects light up sky blue.

Martial Arts Professional
Dawn is skilled in over a fifty forms of combat, but she mainly throws her blitzing punches to stun the enemy while her feet do the real work.

Her main styles is a combination of: tae kwon do, sikaran, Kung Fu, kickboxing, and karate.

Body Supremacy
Her healing is extremely quick, and can help her from things as intense as radioactive poisoning, but she needs to be conscious in order to heal. She can also stop feeling pain in certain areas at will, and move all energy in her body to do a specific function, such as keeping a stable heartbeat, changing her voice, healing a wound, faking death, augmenting herself, deafening her ears, etc. This manual body control also keeps her immune to electrical attacks. If placed on a lie detector test, as long as it doesn't scan the brain regions, she can lie her way out of any situation. Her true outstanding ability with this is that she can control when her adrenaline activates, which is one of her chaos abilities.

Strength
Dawn is a foe that uses speed to blitz her opponents into submission. As a result, her strength wasn't much... at all... in fact, even with the experiment, Dawn couldn't even lift a 250 lb weight, which was the average every other "results" were.

Speed
In a speed test, Dawn was shown to just barely surpass the speed of sound at maximum potential, and her adrenaline was going off as well, due to her being able to activate it at will.

Durability
Dawn had taken two hits from a being house busting meta-human, and this was when she was caught off guard.

Chaos Absorption
any energy projectile based of the powers of Chaos can be absorbed in the palm of her hands. Depending on the power, it can either barely or greatly heal her and grant her a large dose of stamina, which is extremely important to her as shown in her greatest ability of all... Prime Tiers.

Prime Tiers
The amount of powers that this tier allows Dawn is the reason why she is actually a powerful member of the team. In base, she doesn't seem strong enough to take on cosmic level enemies, but become Prime will allow her to become on par with even Midnight on some occasions. The tiers can rise up infinitely, so if the tiers didn't cost her so much stamina, she could technically become infinitely powerful. Use of the Chaos emeralds increase her stamina. Prime Tiers work via the adrenaline in her body. She has tons of it stored, a lot more than any other normal Mobian.

On November 10th, 2016, a new saga of the Night Crew Series made Dawn had reached Prime Tier 6th, a new form. As a result, all stamina levels of prior tiers have greatly lowered from prior to this day. I am currently trying my hardest to post the entire Night Crew series up here so you can see it for yourself.

Prime Tier I
This starting tier noticeably increases her abilities to another level. She is ten times more powerful than before in all aspects. After some intense training with Midnight, it now only costs her 0.4% of her stamina.

Dawn's Base Form times 10

Prime Tier II
Tier II costs her 8% of her stamina, but it doubles her Tier I abilities.

Dawn's Base Form times 20

Prime Tier III
Tier III, costing her 16% of her energy, has her abilities from Tier II are tripled.

Dawn's Base Form times 60

Prime Tier IV
Tier IV is five times that of Tier III, at the cost of 24% of her stamina.

Dawn's Base Form times 300

Prime Tier V
Prime Tier V multiplies Tier IV by TEN. Even from a complete drainage of stamina, all seven chaos emeralds helped her achieve this form. Because of this, Dawn almost never goes into Super Dawn, as Prime Tier V is three times better than her Super form, minus the stamina flaw. It takes her 60% of her stamina to use.

Dawn's Base Form times 3,000

Prime Tier VI
On November the 10th, Dawn had reached this new power via chaos emeralds. This is her current highest peak. Her form is 20 times that of Prime Tier V, and requires 180% of her stamina... which is impossible on her own.

Dawn's Base Form times 60,000

Prime Tier X
Tails and Mech proposed a hypothesis that the use of the Master Emerald along with the Chaos Emeralds could make her reach Prime Tier X from zero stamina. So far, its potential is unknown, as Dawn never attempted this.

Dawn's Base Form times unknown

Flaws
Chaos absorption works only with her hands, and even then, the palm of her hands. If not taken in by the palm of her hands, she can still be hurt by the Chaos energy.

As repeatedly stated, Prime Tiers are excessive on her stamina. Until she trains more, she will be stuck at the lower levels.

Reaching Tier V and VI naturally revealed a dilemma. The amount of power needed to get to it can be overcome, but it slowly kills her in the process. As a result, Dawn is temporarily straying away from these tiers until it can be solved.

While her gun and boots allow ranged combat, her reliance at close quarters put her at a disadvantage against characters whose main combat are ranged.

Trivia

 * Midnight dubs her 'Prime Tiers' as 'Grades', such as Grade 1, Grade 2, etc.
 * Dawn has a crush on Midnight... I guess if they should have a child, I should name the child Afternoon.
 * Dawn is the first character to be drawn by someone who isn't me.