Void


 * For other uses of the term, see Void (disambiguation).

"Am I alone? I am not alone... My friends, my brothers, I want to be whole..."

- Void, Sonic Shuffle

Void (ヴォイド) is the main antagonist of Sonic Shuffle. He is half of Maginaryworld's ruler, Illumina, and the represents the feelings of anger, sadness, despair and emptiness which give people the ability to dream. Following his creation, Void sought the Precioustone to become whole, nearly dooming Maginaryworld in the process, but was stopped and rejoined with his other half, Lumina Flowlight, thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends.

History
Void came into existence when Illumina lost sight of herself and her dream which caused an internal turmoil that split her in two beings: Void, the representation of the negative aspects of dreams, and Lumina Flowlight, the representation of the positive aspects. Following his separation though, Void sought to make himself whole again. Reasoning that since he was a piece of a dream and thereby a piece of the Perfect Precioustone, the essence of dreams, Void sought out this crystal, believing it could help him become whole again. When he got to the Temple of Light and touched the Precioustone, however, his powers caused it to shatter and its pieces scattered to the various worlds in Maginaryworld.

After the Perfect Precioustone's destruction, Void moved onto the rest of Maginaryworld, his powers transforming the different dream worlds within it while sadness and loneliness over his inability to get close to anything enveloped him. Void then began tracking down the Precioustones, hoping that they could still make him whole. However, he met opposition from Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy who had been brought to Maginaryworld by Lumina to help her recover the Precioustones and restore the Perfect Precioustone. Each time, Void beat Sonic and his friends to the Precioustones, but every time he touched them, they would shatter further, forcing him to leave. Whenever Sonic and his friends recovered a Precioustone, Void appeared in a vision before them with Lumina where he expressed his depression and loneliness to them.

As the Perfect Precioustone neared its completion in the Temple of Light, Void decided to head there to seek out the crystal again. Inside the temple, he was confronted by Lumina, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, and he told them how he wanted to be whole again with the Perfect Precioustone, but was continuously rejected. Seeing that the group did not need him either, Void's loneliness and sadness reached its peak and he turned into a rampaging monster. In the ensuring fight, Void was defeated by Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, and was turned into a gem, where he continue to lament how both Illumina and Lumina refused him. However, Sonic and his friends got Lumina to accept Void after convincing her that the negative emotions he represented were needed alongside positive emotions to give people the ability to have dreams. Void's gem was then taken into the reformed Perfect Precioustone by Lumina where he returned to normal. There, he accepted Lumina's offer of acceptance and the two of them remerged and recreated Illumina.

Personality
Void is a unique villain among the rogues Sonic and his friends have encountered, as his motivations are only driven by his desire to fill out his own emptiness and not by a lust for power, control, revenge or destruction. On the front, Void is a boy with a far away look in his eyes and he shows no emotion at all. Following his separation from Lumina, Void only wished to make himself whole again and rejoin with the dreams around him. However, because he found everything rejecting him, Void always felt incredibly lonely, sad and depressed, which made him question his own reason for existing. At times he speaks as if talking to himself and expresses his deep feelings, which have a sense of sadness to them.

Because he embodies negative feelings, Void is naturally destructive towards dreams and causes mayhem wherever he goes. However, he does not intent to be evil and only commits such acts because it is a part of his nature to allow dreams to exist, and as such knows nothing else beyond it. As such, he does not view his actions as evil and denies causing any destruction, and can as well not comprehend why people shows dislike of him for his natural actions.

Powers and Abilities
Void commands the powers of darkness which gives him an unspecified level of dark powers. His dark powers alone can warp the fabric of Maginaryworld, transforming and corrupting its various worlds into radically different environments that are slowly destroying them and Maginaryworld. His touch has similar corruptive properties as the Perfect Precioustone and its fragments would be draped in darkness and shattered into several pieces whenever he touched them. He is also capable of flight through the air and can teleport at will.

When his sadness is at its peak, Void is able to transform into a monster completely different from his original form. In this form, Void has displayed physical attributes on a superhuman level such as enough durability to let him withstand giant boulders falling down on him, and super strength on such a level that he can create shockwaves by hammering into the ground. He is also able in this form to project energy, either firing wide energy blasts from his abdomen or concentrated dark lasers from his arms.

Archie Comics
Prototype story lines for the Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comics included a mention of Void as an upcoming antagonist, undoubtedly for a Sonic Shuffle adaptation that was never published.

Void eventually appeared in Archie Comics' Sonic Universe #29, along with Mephiles the Dark, as an inmate at the Zone Jail.

Trivia

 * Void's body shape, big eyes and being from a dream world makes him resemble NiGHTS.