Jon The Hedgehog

Jon the Hedgehog (nicknamed Jonic) is a hedgehog version of ProtonJon.

Creation
Jon the hedgehog had originally started out as a simple "turn Jon into X" scenario whenever Jon would play a Sonic game, and then became the center piece of a Sonic Mania mod, worked on by his creator Aelita1234.

Appearance
Jon the hedgehog retains the clothes & glasses he had on back in his world, but for some odd reason regained possession of his classic toque upon appearing from the portal. Reasons for this are unclear but may have something to do with tapping into the early days of the content creators career.

Abilities
When sent to Sonic's world, Jon seems to possess the same abilities as the blue hedgehog.

-Fast Running Speed

-Spin Jumps

-Drop Dash

-Spin Dash

Sonic Mania Mod Lore (Spoilers!)
Jon was doing his typical Fortune Cookie Stream when all of a sudden a mysterious looking wire appeared on one of his arcade machines. Since his cat Bagel was near it, he bit it which in return caused a giant portal to appear in the office. Bagel escapes but Jon got sucked in, sending him to another world and turning him into a hedgehog. He would shortly after meet Miles "Tails" Prower who explains to the human-turned hedgehog that some strange things have been going on in his world involving portals. It's all due to the power of the gem called "The Phantom Ruby", which has gotten to the point it began affecting other worlds including Jon's, and the evil Dr. Eggman wants the gem for his own evil purposes. Jon proposed he would give Tails a hand since Sonic was missing, and in return he'd have to come up with a plan to get Jon home. The two took off to find and defeat Dr. Eggman before he causes any damage. Along the way, he seems to have taken a liking of Orbs.

With all 7 chaos emeralds in hand, Jon was able to defeat Eggman in the Titanic Monarch, but the phantom ruby sent the two of them in some distorted space. There he encountered Rosajon, who seemed to not be in control of her own body & will. Using the emeralds, Jon was able to defeat both Rosajon & Eggman and he gets sent into another area of distorted space. He finds Tails there, showing concern after that last battle. Not long after, Rosajon appears in front of the two, having regained control of her body again. She gets right down to business in telling the boys about what had happened. She had traveled to Sonic's world for a vacation, and not long after she got there was when Eggman's troops found the phantom ruby. When the gems powers went off, it collided with her space magic: which was what caused her body & mind to be out of control, and the chaos emeralds helped neutralize her. As a reward for helping, Rosajon uses the phantom ruby to send Jon back to his world, with the latter bidding a "farewell friends". She then would take Tails back home & restart her vacation.

Jon appears safely back in his office, relieved to be back home. But not long after arriving he realizes something, "What happened to my stream while I was gone?" He turns to his desk, and he finds Sonic playing games on stream! Jon then exclaims "Hey! Wait a minute!", with the screen turning black: ending the mod. What happens after that is left up to the players imagination.

Trivia

 * Aelita's two inspirations for her Proton Jonic Mania mod were the Hatsune Miku Mod for Sonic Mania, & Avi_Miller's Jon mod for Crypt of the NecroDancer.
 * The download link for the mod (Steam) can be found here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/336714
 * Players must have the Mania Plus DLC installed otherwise the mod won't work.
 * The mod took around 4 months to create, due to the high number of sprites Aelita had to edit.
 * 582 sprites for regular Jon were edited, with an additional 285 sprites for Super Jon: bringing the grand total of 867 sprites just for Jon alone.
 * Putting Jon & the background easter egg sprites together would add up to just under 900 total edited.