Hmm, this veers dangerously close to the dreaded fursona question which I find bizarrely unanswerable. But I suppose a Sonic animal has a lot less to do with the real thing than a fursona animal... The other trouble here is that I generally like to make my OCs be related but opposed to the usual tropes of the form. Like how I'm a vtuber drawing on western comic aesthetics or my D&D Monk who got his martial artistry and rigid disciplined existence from learning capoeira in prison.

But fuck it this is a Sonic OC the rule of cool has to come before any of my usual subversive bullshit. I always thought Jet the Hawk and Wave the Swallow from Riders looked really badass so I guess put me down for Valence The Falcon!