Sticks the Badger

"You can doubt me, but I'll protect you anyway because I'm a good friend and because it distracts me from the government agents that're replacing my plants with violins."

- Sticks

Sticks is one of the main characters that appears in the upcoming Sonic Boom series. She is a jungle badger who has spent most of her life living alone in the wilderness and is as such new to friends in general. After meeting Sonic and his circle of friends, however, she forms a strong bond with the group, particularly with Amy.

Concept and Creation
According to Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Chief Content Officer for the Sonic Brand, SEGA of America, "Sticks is a significant addition to the Sonic Boom universe and the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise" and is meant to form the core ensemble featured throughout the Sonic Boom franchise alongside Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles. She is meant to bring a quirky personality and perspective to the team dynamic and her character adds an endless amount of humor and surprise to the Sonic Team.

Personality
Sticks is basically primal and a force of nature in every way. She is energetic and wilder than the other members of Sonic’s team, like a wild animal, with sharp animal instincts and is fearsome in combat and tenacious when hunting. Because of her isolated life though, she has become a little quirky, eccentric and thinks others are living in an alternate world. In spite of her background, she is intelligent, though her manner of speaking comes off as strange to other people.

Sticks loves spending time in her burrow which is where she feels safe. Whenever things gets too bizarre for her, she always goes back to her burrow.

Because of her wildness, Sticks' social skills need plenty of work. She is not the most trusting individual and is full of outrageous suspicions. While the concepts of sharing, compassion and friendship are foreign to her, Sticks has a good heart and a genuine desire to get closer to Sonic and his friends, proving herself fiercely loyal to them. However, this also creates an internal struggle for her; on one hand she is not sure she can handle the life outside her burrow, but on the other hand she loves her friends and wants to hang out with them.

Powers and Abilities
Sticks possesses unparalleled animal instincts, which are often proven to be accurate. She has extremely sharp survival skills and is also a good hunter. She also has fiercely great combat skills, as it is noted no one has to worry about her in battle, and is well-versed in the usage of boomerangs.

Weapons
Sticks is armed with handmade weapons at all times, most notably a handmade boomerang that she keeps in tow.

Amy Rose
Of all her new friends, Sticks' best friend is Amy Rose, who is the one Sticks wants to get closer to the most. Amy helps Sticks adapt to civilization and in turn Sticks is willing to go to extremes to protect Amy.

Sonic Boom (game)
Sticks is set to appear in the Sonic Boom video game for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS which serves as a prequel to the TV series.

Trivia

 * Sticks bears a very strong resemblance to Marine the Raccoon.
 * Hence this, many initially mistook Sticks as the Sonic Boom incarnation of Marine before she was revealed to be a new character.
 * Sticks also bears a strong resemblance to Aika from Skies of Arcadia. Both have similar hairstyles and both wield boomerangs as their main weapons.