Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan
| Sonichu character | |
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| Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan | |
| Date of birth | N/A |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | N/A |
| Weight | N/A |
| Parents | N/A |
| Species | Human |
According to Christian Weston Chandler, he has at least one Cherokee ancestor, about which he assuredly knows nothing.[1] When Chris was making the early issues of the Sonichu comic, he decided to establish a backstory for why he had the power to transform into a super powered furfag. He hit the wigwam, and eventually came up with "ancient Native American prophecy" as his explanation. This gave him the opportunity to talk about his alleged cultural background in the comic. Being that he knew nothing about real Cherokee however, (and even less about his ancestor specifically), he instead decided to just make up his own version of the Cherokee and his ancestor, and assumed it was true to life.
This lead to the creation of the bizarre "Cherokian Clan" that featured in the Sonichu comic, and since Chris was making up the entire thing, he also decided to make his fictional ancient ancestor the leader of the entire Cherokee nation whilst doing so.
Character
It is explained that the Cherokee and Wasabi clans were at war in the ancient past over both the Cherokian Crown and the Queen of the Cherokian Clan, the Ancestor's wife. However, the two clans would later ally to fight off Count Graduon, a new evil who first came to power around that time. They sealed him away, but their power of prophecy told them that he would come back one day. They then set up safeguards, such as the transformation powers, so that the three of them (the Leader, the Queen and the Wasabi Rival) could eventually destroy him in present day CWCville. The Ancestor was apparently the leader of the Cherokian Clan at this time. Hundreds of years later, he would be reincarnated as Christian Weston Chandler. His present day self would go on to fulfill the prophecy with the other two, guided by an avatar of his ancient alter ego.
The character is never given a name, and so Chris only ever refers to him as "Ancestor".
Role in the comics
Sonichu in "Anchuent Prophecy"
The Ancient leader appeared only very briefly in Episode 7 of Sonichu #2. His only purpose here is to explain to Chris that he is his reincarnation, tell him the evil Count Graduon is coming back, and asking if he's a bad enough dude to stop him. Chris gets his powers then and there and pisses off to go train with Sonichu.
Christian Chandler in "McAttack Part 2"
The Ancestor appears one more time in the series after that, acting as the resident Deus Ex Machina of Sub-Episode 5 of Sonichu #4. He randomly pops into Chris's head as he's getting the shit kicked out of him by W-M-Manajerk, and tells Chris that he can use the Heart Torch of Fail to bring his imaginary twin sister, Crystal Weston Chandler into being. Chris does so, and the Ancestor disappears into the aethers once more, never to be seen or talked about ever again.
Appearance
According to the Anchuent Prophecy, Christian is in fact the reincarnation of this figure, which apparently explains the many dreams and visions in which the ancestor reveals new anchuent powers for Christian to use to fight mall security. But being the genius he is, Chris apparently misunderstood the whole reincarnation idea, thus depicting the leader as a white, blue-eyed, brown-haired, pudgy, child-like man. You know, just like Chris himself. Either Chris is just totally ignorant about Native Americans, or he is a racist who prefers envisioning all positive characters as having the same appearance as himself. Or maybe both. Judging by the size of his head, he appears to be encephalitic.
Befitting his status as a Native American chieftain, he is always depicted wearing a gold and purple, vaguely Roman-looking breastplate, yellow sandals and the coveted Cherokian crown. The Cherokian crown looks a little like Hermes or Mercury's helmet. All this supports the theory that Chris just knows jack shit about actual Cherokees and their culture.
Chris?
Although Chris is said to be the reincarnation of the Ancient leader,[2] and several references are made to "previous lives",[3] several factors seem to contradict the idea. For one thing, none of the supposed reincarnations of the ancient Native Americans seem to have any memory of their previous lives after the prophecy is fulfilled, and none of them really seem to think of their ancient alter egos as being iterations of themselves. Sarah refers to the Ancient leader when told about him by the Queen of the Cherokian Clan as "your husband",[4] even though he should technically be her husband too if she were a reincarnation in the true sense of the word. Also note that Chris and friends seem to hold actual conversations with the ancient Native Americans, even though they were supposed to be long dead. Unless some kind of time travel bullshit is involved, it also contradicts the reincarnation story if the characters are seen to be talking to what appear to be the spirits of people they are the reincarnations of.
TLDR; Chris probably doesn't know what "reincarnation" means.
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