Cassia the Pronghorn

Cassia the Pronghorn is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-off comic series published by Archie Comics. She is an anthropomorphic pronghorn, who has been subjugated to heavy Cyberization, and the sister of Clove the Pronghorn. Along with her sister, she is the regional Egg Boss of the Northamera Egg Army, although she does not hold the same amount of authority as Clove.

Concept and creation
Cassia's initial designs were created by Aleah Baker, which was then elaborated on by Evan Stanley. One color scheme she was given during the development was the colors based on a young Pronghorn.

Stanley also provided a backstory idea for Cassia, where she had a hypersensitivity disorder that gave her debilitating allergies. As such, her eyes and respiratory system were replaced with cybernetics, giving her super-vision and smell, as well as immunity to toxic gases. Additionally, her tonfas would also work as spray-like dispensers containing cinnamon extract in an aerosol form, allowing her to spray her opponents in battle. However, Ian Flynn has confirmed that this backstory is not canon.

Appearance
Cassia is an anthropomorphic pronghorn and slightly shorter than Clove. Unlike her sister, Cassia appears completely robotic. She has a round head in a green hue with slightly large and curved ears on top, a silver muzzle with a short snout and disks on her jaws, small black horns on her forehead, and a pompadour-hairstyle shaped like a cinnamon roll in a dark green hue. Her eyes have black sclera and yellow pupils which can mimic eyelids. She wears a grey Eggman Empire-styled uniform with black leggings. She also has gray gloves and boots, each with yellow collars around the cuffs.

Early life
At some point, Cassia received mechanical parts for her health. While they did make Cassia feel better, they not ease her sister's worries.

Shattered World Crisis
Cassia and Clove were in charge of the operations at Crystal Cave where they had discovered a Chaos Emerald hidden deep inside and tried to obtain it. However, the excavation was put on hold when the cave's terrain proved too dangerous. After taking a leave of absence however, Cassia and Clove returned to find the mine having been attacked and their Badnik workers destroyed. Annoyed over the badniks' ineffectiveness, Cassia wished she had been to stop the intruders while brushing off Clove's concerns for her well-being over that idea. Investing the heist to see if the thieves got away with the Emerald, Cassia and Clove checked the security system's footage and saw the thieves were Miles "Tails" Prower, Sally Acorn, Antoine D'Coolette.

Later, Sally, this time accompanied by Bunnie D'Coolette, intruded into Cassia and Clove's territory again in search of a Gaia Temple and the cyan Chaos Emerald - the only emerald Eggman had managed to capture and retain. Before Clove left to investigate, Cassia asked to come along, but Clove wanted her to stay at the base where it was safer. To add to Cassia's dismay, the Egg Soldier on monitoring duty was busy playing video games and thus had not noticed the Freedom Fighters' incursion when it happened. Seeing an opportunity, Cassia decided to defy Clove's orders and went to the Chaos Emerald's shrine to investigate herself. Upon arrival, she found herself face-to-face with Bunnie. Refusing to lose another emerald, Cassia challenged Bunnie and the two cyborgs engaged in combat. Cassia was eventually overpowered after angering Bunnie with her taunts, but just then, the floor underneath them collapsed and they fell into a cave. Cassia hurt her ankle in the fall and Bunnie got the emerald. She blamed the rabbit for her misfortune, only to be rebuked, leading to a brief, personal argument. Bunnie, whose own experiences as a cyborg were just as personal, offered to help Cassia out of the cave, and Cassia reluctantly agreed. They eventually reached an storehouse bunker, where the Egg Army was waiting for them. With their truce done, Cassia snatched the emerald from Bunnie and rejoined her troops.

Personality
Compared to Clove, Cassia is more vocal, hot-tempered, sarcastic, impulsive, and rather overconfident. Cassia also dislikes being under-equipped; she blamed the purple Chaos Emerald's loss on shoddy mining an security equipment and felt jealous of Bunnie's arm-laser.

Weapons
Cassia wields a pair of gray and thick tofans which she carries in a belt on her back. Her proficiency with them is unknown.

Clove
Clove is Cassia's sister. She has a very typical sister relationship with her. While she understands and appreciates Clove's concern for her, she is very annoyed about how she worries about her well-being, even after she received her cybernetics.

Trivia

 * Cassia is apparently good at video games, with her high score being "Triple S".