User blog:Flyinpenguin117/Spike the Hedgehog profile

I've had this guy for awhile, but he's gone through several iterations. This is the one I feel most comfortable with. I might do a full page for him (the name Spike is already taken 3 times, so I'll probably put one of his nicknames in the title), but here's a brief profile:

Spike the Hedgehog (also known as Sergeant Spike to most soldiers, or "King of Spades," his current codename), is a hedgehog who works for GUN. He was formerly a special forces soldier and team leader, but he retired after the Black Arms invasion, when he lost several members of his team. He was later recruited back into GUN to run Task Force Spades, an elite black operations team.

Spike is 28 years old (a 10-year veteran, but rather young for his position), has bright orange fur, blue eyes, and stands just shy of 6 feet tall. He almost always wears clothes. His typical outfit is black combat boots, desert-digital camoflage combat pants and jacket (stripped of accouterments when on assignment, to avoid personal identification), a tan undershirt (exposed when off-duty, as he leaves his jacket open), dogtags with a King of Spades card also hung on the chain, and a pair of blue goggles. When in combat situations, he wears a utility vest and body armor, and rarely, a helmet and facemask. He has several other uniforms for different situations (green/brown for forest ops, blue/white for arctic, black/grey for urban, and various undercover assignment outfits).

He typically carries 3 handguns: An old Holoskan Regime sidearm, which he bought underground when he was young, and a pair of GUN service-issue sidearms. His preferred main weapon is a Designated Marksman Rifle, which he had for the majority of his military career, and personally recquisitioned after becoming a black ops agent. He's extensively modified it and shows it a great deal of care. He holds automatic weapons and heavy sniper rifles in disdain, preferring to hit fast, hard, and quietly while staying mobile.

As a soldier and a non-comissioned officer, Spike possesses a great deal of personal discipline and a strong moral center, and holds those under him to that standard. He still shows compassion for his underlings, and even though he's their leader, he doesn't truly consider himself above them. His empathy can sometimes be a flaw, though. Despite the known danger of military work, he doesn't take death well. When he lost several soldiers under his command during the Black Arms invasion, he was grief-stricken enough to retire from the military, despite the fact that they died on a high-risk mission to disarm WMDs, and saved possibly millions of lives. His morals also occasionally conflict with his covert operations, much to the disdain of his handlers- though he often acknowledges that his actions are (usually) for the greater good.