Fionic

Fionic is the femslash ship between Fiona and Nic from the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom.

Canon
In the side story of Knuckles the Echdina issues 26 and 27, Nic asks Mighty to help her locate gemstones in exchange for locating his friend Ray the Squirrel. Along the way, Fiona appears, the armadillo shocked about her presuming dead. The fox replies that she was able to get out herself without Sonic’s or Mighty’s help. Nic breaks up the argument, and tells them to settle their differences another time. She then scolds Fiona over her edginess, and the fox apologizes immediately. Once they reached an abandoned Robotnik labor camp, Mighty thought that they were reunited with Sonic, Tails, and Sally. Fiona replies that they are replica created by Robotnik. Nic then asks the armadillo to open a vault door.

In the next issue, Mighty opens said door, telling Nic to get her treasure. As he was going to say on his end of the bargain, Ray runs out of the vault with the Power Stone in tow. Nic asks what is the squirrel doing with “[her] treasure”, and Fiona correcting the weasel to “our treasure”. It is revealed that the fox had a past with Sonic, Ray, and Mighty while they were busy fighting Dr. Robotnik, then escaped from the clutches of the doctor after he created Auto Fiona. Two years later, she found Nic scavenging somewhere in Mobotropolis. They eventually became partners, as Fiona said that the weasel listened to her “at once” and they have been “existing on the fringes ever since”. Back to the present, Nic neutralizes the Power Gem with her gun, freeing its hold from Ray.

Since then, Fiona and Nic have teamed up for different heists, though most of the treasure they find has already been taken by Rouge. The one panel in the main Sonic the Hedgehog comics, issue 165, references to one of their incidents. Rouge was being interrogated by Knuckles and the Chaotix. Vector presents the bat with information about beating Fiona “in every treasure ancient and illegal”. In one of the panels, Rouge is seen taking a crown from a pedestal, to the dismay of the fox and Nic.

It can be interpreted that Fiona and Nic parted ways between the events of Knuckles #28 and Sonic #91 (Nic’s debut in the main comic), as they had no other meetings together even when the Super Genesis Wave wiped out the timeline and both characters have been erased. They may not have later appearances, as Nic was a character created by Ken Penders and Fiona not having a Post-Super Genesis Wave counterpart.

They also appear on the The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia. Nic is found on the “Mobius Underworld” entry, while Fiona listed along with the other members of “the Destructix” two-three pages later and her own entry on the next. It can be implied that as the weasel “vanished from Mobius” according to her part of the entry, the same can go to the fox when she escaped the Zone Jail to Moebius (Anti-Mobius) in Sonic Universe by use of a warp ring.

Fanon


It is not as popular as other ships in the Sonic fandom. Ships involving Nic were initially rare or non-existent, aside from with her brother Nack. Those who do ship them believe this had a lot of potential. The only known same-gender rival ship currently, Saliona (Sally×Fiona), exceeds this in terms of popularity.

Currently, there is one fan art of Fiona kissing Nic’s nose by PidgeonsPen on the right. The artist says that this ship is their one true pairing, while a comment by Yak-A-Lot reads that Fionic is “one of [his] favorite ships”. This ship has no fan-fictions as of August 2021, but a comment by Rrfyggyyhyyhuythh says that he might have an opportunity to create one.

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