>>142597764>Q:Are you gonna add more Female hedgehog characters?Ian: I don't know if we can because Surge in her original pitch was also a hedgehog to be full on theme of the anti-Sonic type of thing and ultimately it was asked not to do that. Kit was also supposed to be a fox as well and we were asked not to do that. So we got tenrec and fennec. Fennec is a type of fox and tenrecs are false hedgehogs so it all works out in the end. Sega seems to be disinclined to have repeating species like the original Tangle was a rabbit and they said we already have one with Cream. "But she's going to be very different." "No, something else." Okay well, that's where we got the lemur from.
Kyle: Big stretchy ears instead of a tail?
Ian: Yep. The original pitch that I had was a nod back to the prototype rabbit design pre-Sonic so that she have boxing ears that they kind of fold up at the ends. She would have kind of a four-way fist pummeling thing going on. She was always going to be kind of a a bruiser, a scrapper, and when the whole rabbit thing got tossed out it's like how do we keep the core idea there? I think it was Tyson who came up with the ringtail lemur and the stretchy punchy tail thing. I was like, okay that's cool. That's arguably better. And that's what we got and she's great, people love her.