Chapter 1: Introduction and Table of Contents
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Me telling you about my roleswap ideas:
Now that we've established I'm a crazy person, let me tell you how this is going to work. I'll be talking about so many different roleswaps that I'm going to give them all names. More than that, however, I realize that maybe you, the reader, only want to read about one kind of roleswap. That's where this table of contents comes in. I'll be writing telling you which chapters go with which roleswap in this chapter that way you can skip around to exactly what you want! By the way, the table of contents is chapter 1
As for what you're getting... honestly, I'll be yapping about so many different things. Character analysis in their new roles, mostly, but I might write short little oneshots/drabbles or adding some fanart (don't expect too much; I'm not actually good at art). This is also an open discussion, so share ideas or ask questions in the comments at your leisure. I'm well-aware this story probably isn't going to get too much traction, but those of who love roleswaps can unite.
This is also a focus group of sorts. If I see that there's an interest in one specific swap idea, I'll hop on that. Or maybe I'll discover that I love one of these ideas more than the others, and I'll start writing it anyway. I'll link the story if I do it, dw
Sonic - Shadow --> Liberation --> Chapter 2, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17
Sonic - Tails --> Entrusting the Future to You --> Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 21
Sonic - Blaze --> Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17
Sonic - Surge --> Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 17
Sonic - Eggman --> Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17
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As a prelude, this is who’s who: Sonic - Shadow, Tails - Maria, Amy - Rouge, Knuckles - Omega, Abraham - Gerald/Topaz, Eggman/Aleena - Black Doom (also Silver - Blaze, Chaotix - Vanilla’s family unit, Metal Sonic - Biolizard, but I didn’t talk about them here)
Abraham Tower - G.U.N. Commander. Lives and works on the ARK, a military base that protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats. Abraham was the one who decided to recruit aliens they found. He later became the only one who defended Tails and Sonic. He was called down to Earth to meet with G.U.N.’s council, but he was instead trapped. They tortured him and eventually executed him, erasing almost all proof of his existence except for a few records Topaz preserved
Tails - A two-tailed kit was found on a broken spaceship, floating aimlessly through space. Abraham thought he was harmless enough to interrogate, but the kit proved his intelligence. Abraham brought him in as Project Tails, but still learning human languages, the kit thought Tails was his name. It stuck. Tails made the Eclipse Cannon to help protect Earth. When the ARK was raided in Abraham’s absence, Tails pushed Sonic into an escape pod and stayed behind, getting shot in the process. Tails died the day of the raid
Sonic - The military personnel on the ARK discovered a strange sound frequency coming from an asteroid. They brought it onboard and found Project Sonic. Tails, still confused, called the alien Sonic, and that, too, stuck. Sonic was Earth’s main protector, but this took a toll on him. He didn’t talk around anyone except Tails and Abraham (he generally doesn’t talk to any humans except a select few). He also, as IRL hedgehogs do, self-mutilated by biting his arms. Abraham got him a set of bracers before he left for Earth. Because of his immense power, G.U.N.’s council wanted him executed, and the raid was meant to kill Sonic. It killed nearly everyone but him. When he awakened fifty years later after the raid on Prison Island, he was found by Black Doom who showed him a video where Abraham told him to complete Operation Liberation, a plan Abraham made to protect Tails and Sonic from the council where they would destroy a planet for Earth to mine/colonize (and letting Tails and Sonic live on that planet instead of the ARK). Driven by Tails’ last words (or what Sonic remembered of it) and Abraham’s video, Sonic decided to destroy Earth
Shadow - A seemingly regular Mobian on Earth who stumbled upon a sickly Maria one day. The two became quick friends, and Shadow was later adopted into the Robotnik family. He takes care of Maria and Gerald, and since Maria puts herself in danger a lot, Shadow has unintentionally saved the planet more than a few times
Maria Robotnik - An extremely smart but sickly teenage girl. She has to wear a metal exoskeleton that lowers the gravity on her body. She can also use it to fly and pseudo telekinesis. Her main area of scientific expertise is bio-robotics
Gerald Robotnik - A kid born on the ARK and one of the few survivors. Since he saw G.U.N.’s corruption firsthand, he decided to become a scientist within G.U.N. to reform it. He lives with his granddaughter, Maria, and his pseudo-adopted grandson, Shadow
Amy Rose - A private investigator who was contracted by G.U.N. to join Sonic and Black Doom, relaying information to G.U.N. and (upon Topaz’s request) convince Sonic not to destroy the planet. She has her hammer, but she can also use her tarot cards as a weapon. Additionally, her mastery over chaos energy helps her know details about the past and future (for chaos is timeless)
Rouge - Honestly, just a regular bat lmao. She became friends with Shadow and Maria, and helps them save the world from time to time
Knuckles - A former slave of Black Doom after his tribe was killed by the Black Arms. He broke free from the mind control and instantly rebelled. While he does have the goal of destroying Black Doom, he also wants to collect relics of his tribe
Omega - One of the many races Black Doom destroyed were the Badniks. Omega is the last among them. He protects the Phantom Ruby as its guardian. He also hates Black Doom and wants to destroy him
Topaz - Abraham’s apprentice. She was left behind on Earth when he went to the ARK. Per his final wishes, she convinced the council to imprison Sonic instead of executing him. She also became the commander after him
Black Doom - An alien warlord who needs to conquer Earth because it’s filled with untapped chaos energy that will really help Black Doom destroy all his enemies
Aleena - On Mobius the planet, Aleena rallied the scattered tribes together to create a unified kingdom. It was foretold that she would have twins, but instead, three babies were born. The third was revealed to be a connection to Gaia. Aleena’s scryers told her that she needed to abandon her children to save them. Sonia and Manic went to their canon places, but Sonic was lost to space in an asteroid. When Aleena found Sonia and Manic again, she decided to spread her kingdom to all corners of the universe. She wanted to retrieve all Mobians from Earth, even forcibly kidnapping them if that’s what it took, not only to expand her army but also because she believed Mobians were the pinnacle of evolution
Notes:
I might not talk about Liberation too much since I already have an entire fic for it, but this fic is literally called 'yapping,' so ask, ye shall receive a whole letter's worth of information
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We’re talking about an Eggman and Sonic swap. I don’t have a name for it yet. I might think of something later.
In this AU, Ivo Robotnik was abandoned in the woods. He built rudimentary robots to help him survive. In his later years, he made Belle (the Tails of this AU) Together, they found a place in Mobian society as Mr. Tinker and his daughter, Belle. They built tools and robots to help people.
Some of the people they helped includes Sage, the Knuckles of this AU. She was an AI program built by the Ancients to protect the Starfall Islands and all the tech on it. They also helped Metal Sonic, but I don’t really have a backstory for him yet. I mean, both he and Amy have mysterious/boring pasts
As for Sonic in this AU, he’s a hedgehog with incredible speed, supernatural even by Mobian standards. He also strongly believes that you shouldn’t help others for free. He philosophically stands opposed to Mr. Tinker because the inventor and his machines just help people with no strings attached. He destroys the machines for this reason
To further elaborate on Sonic's philosophy, he believes in the ultimate freedom and self-actualization. He thinks that people need to do as much they can by themselves, and the really important things in life must be done/achieved alone. He might do some favors for people from time to time, but there's a limit to what he will do to help.
Early in his life, Sonic accidentally helped Tails unintentionally. When Tails wanted to repay the favor, Sonic let him. He didn’t think Tails would stick around so long. On the outside, they look like they have a cordial relationship, but Sonic will get violent if he thinks Tails has helped others or even Sonic himself (Sonic does not like it when people help him.)
Knuckles and Amy are some of Sonic’s other associates. They exchange favors, but don’t ever think they’re friends or aren’t willing to backstab each other. This goes deeper into Sonic's philosophy where there's a limit to what he will do for Amy and Knuckles, and there's an even stricter limit to what he'll let them do for him
I haven’t really thought about the others, BUT it could be that instead of Mr. Tinker’s cousin, Maria is his (insert however many greats) granddaughter, and she travels back in time to help deal with apocalyptic threats.
If I did that, Shadow would probably be the one that comes from the Doom Dimension where he’s the crown prince of the Doom Empire (and Eclipse could be like his Marine)
Now that leaves who replaces Shadow (and this will help dictate the Maria and the rest of Team Dark). It could be Blaze and Marine, but I think that’d be better for a different roleswap line-up. We need someone who connects with Eggman. I guess we could have Nega. We could have Starline, and that one might be the most interesting. We could— and hear me out—have Stone. Just saying!
Anyway! That’s my ideas for this particular roleswap. I might expand on it more. I might talk about another one. Who knows? Let me have this
Chapter 4
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Trigger Warning: Child abuse, suicidal ideation (kind of)
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I was thinking about the Sonic-Eggman swap today, specifically Sonic and Tails' relationship. I had an idea for a drabble that would go something along the lines of:
Tw: Child abuse, suicidal ideation (kind of)
Tails stands alone in the room, terrified. Sonic marches inside. Tails tenses. He knows it's coming, but he's still surprised when Sonic grabs his throat. Sonic squeezes tightly. "If you ever pull that shit again, fox, I really will end your life."
Sonic drops Tails. On his knees, Tails raggedly tries to breathe. He looks up at Sonic, croaking out, "But you were going to die if I didn't do anything."
Sonic backhands him hard enough to send Tails sprawling onto the ground. Sonic grabs Tails' chin to maintain eye contact again, "Then let me. I would rather die than accept yours or anyone else's help."
Sonic drops Tails, leaving the room. Tails lies there, trying to regain his breath since he fails at not crying.
Anyway, from there, I was thinking some more. I eventually thought up another scene where Sonic is doing something. When he turns around, he realizes Tails has a gun aimed at him. Sonic only smiles at Tails, realizing what's happening. He commands Tails to pull the trigger. Tails shakily promises that he really will do it. Sonic puts his chest right against the muzzle. He keeps goading Tails. He eventually loses his smiles and swears that if Tails makes Sonic help him kill Sonic, Sonic will kill him. At this, Tails pulls the trigger. As Sonic is bleeding out, he congratulates Tails on his first step to self-actualization but also promises that he'll always be there. Tails thinks this means the guilt will haunt him or his trauma will last until he dies, but no, Sonic means it. Even as Tails turns himself into Mr. Tinker and the others (who accept him because all they've wanted was to save him from his abusive situation), Sonic doesn't leave him because Sonic is now a chaos energy ghost. Tails killed the body, but he didn't destroy the soul. Now, Tails and the heroes have to find a way to end Sonic permanently as his mere presence can corrupt any chaos-based entity (Mobians, their powers, equipment using chaos energy, the chaos emeralds themselves)
Anyway, that's all I have for everyone today. I think I'll work on whichever AU makes Maria or Blaze into Shadow next (the one where Maria is in Shadow's place is actually the Tails-Sonic swap. I don't know how we'll get Blaze into Shadow's spot. That might be one where Silver is Sonic.) Then again, I also need to find which of these AU will let me put Vanilla in Gerald's spot, Cream in Maria's spot, and Gemerl in Shadow's spot.
I dare any of you to look me in the eyes and tell me I don't love roleswap AUs
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I’ve got ideas for Maria in the Sonic-Tails swap. She switches places with Shadow in this AU, and just—I was thinking so much last night. I’m -thisclose- to drawing what I think she’d look like in the AU, but that’s for another time. Here’s my idea:
G.U.N. orders Gerald (or his equivalent? I’m not sure who he swaps with yet, if he does swap) to return to Earth, so he does. His absences causes Maria to worry so much that her illness flares. She gets sicker and sicker until eventually, the G.U.N. are certain she’s going to die. Shadow, obviously, doesn’t want this to happen, so he convinces one of the scientists to use him to heal Maria. This scientist reminds Shadow that the most likely conclusion is that Maria and Shadow will both die. Shadow doesn’t care. He was made to help Maria, and he doesn’t want to live in a world she’s not in. The scientist doesn’t care about Shadow, so they agree to do the procedure. They use Shadow’s blood and heart to replace Maria’s weakened cells. The Black Arms DNA is particularly receptive to merging with other kinds of DNA. Maria survives, but Shadow dies. When she wakes up and finds out, Maria’s anger and grief cause Doom powers to awaken inside of her. The scientists put her in cryistasis to protect themselves. Before they can free her, the ARK gets raided. Maria is frozen for fifty years.
If I’m keeping Eggman in his original role, Maria probably works with him because he’s family and she has an extreme loyalty to that (born from her own personality and because she’s part Blacks Arms and they value unity).
It doesn’t matter. Just know that she has Shadow’s Doom powers. Doom Wing is her most commonly used one, but she also has access to Doom Spears/Blast/Surf/Morph. It looks exactly as it does for Shadow except her eyes turn Black Arms-yellow when she uses them. Like Shadow, overusing her powers makes her more aggressive while also hurting her body (because Shadow’s Doom Wings takes his rings which is basically the health bar). Maria doesn’t have Shadow’s chaos abilities—including his speed—but she does have his air-shoes so she can pick up some speed with that (even though she usually flies)
Maria is also extremely intelligent. Her fields of study are archeology, like her father, and biology, like her grandfather. She isn’t particularly skilled with technology.
I have so much more I want to say about her, but I’ll leave that for when I’ve fleshed out this AU and figured out everyone’s placements and possibly draw that fanart of her
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I drew Maria in my Sonic-Tails roleswap AU! If it wasn’t clear, she’s swapping places with Shadow. In this AU, Maria got extremely sick to the point that she really was on death’s door. Shadow sacrificed parts of himself including his blood and heart to save Maria. When the procedure was over, Maria was filled with anger and grief and guilt over Shadow’s death. This activated the Doom powers inside her. The scientists put her in cryostasis to stop her rampage. The raid happened before they could free her, so Maria awakens to the world fifty years later
She wears a mostly black body suit with red accents including those weird side things on her hips that Eggman has. She wears white gloves like Mobians. A piece of her dress hangs from her belt as a reminder of who she once was.
Other reminders include Shadow’s air-shoes and his inhibitor rings, though they’ve been repurposed to suppress doom power rather than chaos energy.
Her body itself underwent changes, too. The tips of her hair are red. Shadow’s symbol appeared on her chest. Her eyes have also changed.
You read correctly! Maria has inherited all of Shadow’s Doom powers (but not his chaos abilities). If she overuses them, she becomes aggressive. It also wears down her body, eventually becoming painful
Her most used power are the Doom wings. Although she has Shadow’s air-shoes, she doesn’t have his speed, so the wings are her form of transportation (puts her in conflict with the flying Tails as well)
I think I’ll draw Maria using the Doom powers, but don’t hold your breath. It was hard enough drawing this lmao
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QuestX2 asked for more about Sage in the Eggman-Sonic swap AU, so I am here to deliver! In case you have forgotten, Sage switches places with Knuckles in this AU
Before we got to Sage, though, we have to establish the Ancients. They more or less have the same backstory in this AU that they did in canon. They were from one planet. The End destroyed it, but one tribe managed to get to Earth. They built a civilization, weapons, machines, and Cyber Space, among other stuff. The End followed them, however, and killed many. The Titans went up against the End. The pilots sacrificed themselves to seal the End in Cyber Space.
This is where the story diverges, however. The back-up plan was never enacted. Some Ancients did escape to Angel Island to become chao (and maybe Chaos, I don't know if he's still in this AU), but they didn't take the chaos emeralds with them. The reason is because there was a slightly different back-up plan. You see, when the Ancients were making Cyber Space, they created a program to monitor it. This program started to gain sentience and sapience as it processed more and more of the Ancients' hopes, dreams, memories, etc. that Cyber Space is made of. Eventually, it became aware enough to gain an identity as Sage. The Ancients saw value in her. She would remain as Cyber Space's guardian to develop even more into a being capable of emotion and compassion. If something went wrong with the Titans or their pilots, Sage would intervene.
In the end, she never had to take control. She was left all alone on the Starfall Islands. Her main objective is to guard Cyber Space/keep the End trapped and protect the chaos emeralds. A less important task but still one she undertakes is protecting the Koco and all traces of the Ancient's civilization. She has access to all the robots, so she uses them to keep thieves and archeologists away.
Centuries later, Sonic arrives on the Starfall Islands to check it out. Sage tries to put a stop to his adventuring, but Sonic only leaves when he wants to. As he does, he makes an offhand remark about Mr. Tinker loving this place and its robots. Seeing that Sage is interested, Sonic spins her a tale about the horrible Mr. Tinker and his thieving ways. Sonic leaves without clarifying anything. When Mr. Tinker and Belle do arrive on the islands, Sage is extremely violent and unwilling to compromise. While Sage is distracted with those two, Sonic keeps messing around with things with Tails trailing after him. Sage eventually realizes her mistake. She joins forces with Mr. Tinker and Belle to stop Sonic, but they are too late. He's unleashed the End. Sage takes control of Supreme. I'd say that Mr. Tinker, Belle, and Tails pilot the other Titans. They defeat the End in conjunction with the chaos emeralds.
(Sonic doesn't punish Tails too harshly because the kit explains that the End would have destroyed the entire world, and he didn't trust the other three to save the planet. They were helping him; he wasn't helping them. Sonic accepts this answer, though he's unclear if he believes it)
After this adventure, Sage lets Mr. Tinker and Belle come to the islands whenever they want. Sage doesn't expect them to show up often, but they do. Through their familial bond and kindness towards Sage, she finally reaches the depths of existence the Ancients wanted her to find. She becomes part of the family.
3/4 of the family down, whoooo!
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More of Maria from the Tails-Sonic swap. I was thinking about it, and I think this roleswap should be called something like the Sidekick Swap because that's what it is. Sonic-Tails, Shadow-Maria, Amy-Cream, Knuckles-Trip, Silver-Gold, Blaze-Marine, either Eggman-Sage or Eggman-Belle/I'm undecided
(Her wings are meant to look like Shadow’s, but that’s a lot of vine-things lmao)
Maria most commonly uses Doom Wings. While she has Shadow’s air-shoes, she doesn’t have his speed, so her wings are her main mode of transportation. She also really loves flying. It’s one of her favorite pastimes.
Despite this, over-using her wings starts to wear down her body. It eventually causes physical pain, so she must take frequent breaks
Her wings extend from an opening in her back
(That piece of fabric hanging off of her is supposed to be blue, not red. I'm so sorry. Also, forgive me for not coloring the spears. They have a fire-like quality that I was just not going to be able to replicate)
Maria’s main offensive weapon is the Doom Spears. She can conjure one, two, or three of them at varying sizes. She can also regulate the power in them so she doesn’t kill someone
(The way it curves—or doesn’t—around Shadow is so odd, but I faithfully recreated it)
Maria doesn’t use Doom Blast more than Doom Spears mainly because she can’t teleport, but it has its uses. Maria uses it to enhance her regular attacks or as a concussive blast around her body to push her surroundings away from
(I’m so sorry for the way the manta ray look—)
Maria doesn’t use Doom Surf often since she isn’t around water much or simply flies over it, but there are times when it’s beneficial. Her manta ray also has some sentience, so Maria treats them like a pet.
What should Maria name them?
As for Doom Morph, Maria has that, too, but she literally just looks like Shadow’s Morphed form. There’s no differences, so I decided not to draw it.
Anyway, that’s all from me for now! Stick around for more Doom¡Maria content because I’ll probably yap about her soon
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Quick question, might delete this later, but would you guys rather I pick a character and tell you their role and backstory in each AU (for instance, Sonic - in this AU, he's Shadow... In this AU, he's Blaze... In this AU, he's Tails... etc.) or I pick a role and tell you which character has it in their AU and how they fit into it (for instance, Sonic - in this AU, Shadow replaces him... In this AU, Blaze replaces him... In this AU, Tails replaces him... etc.)?
Chapter 10
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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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Back on it with the Sonic-Tails swap (I really gotta name it. I was thinking Sidekick Swap, but I don’t know. Doesn’t that sound like characters are swapping sidekicks instead of swapping with their sidekicks?)
I’ve lightly touched on how Sonic-Tails are swapped, and I’ve drawn fanart of Doom!Maria (she swaps with Shadow), but I wanted to talk about our enemies today!
In this AU, Ivo Robotnik/Eggman is still an inventor. He makes a ton of robots. However, his motivations are slightly flipped. Instead of wanting to replace humanity/nature with robots, he just wants to outdo himself. He does not care about the robots that much. He’s more of a factory than anything else.
Sage, instead, is our main antagonist and Tails’ primary villain. She uses her Father’s robots plus her own abilities to spread the technology supremacy agenda.
As for Metal Sonic, he’s switching places with Tails Doll. Not because Tails Doll is Metal Sonic’s sidekick, but because it was to mirror Tails and Sonic swapping. Now, I don’t think this is an entirely bad swap when we’re just talking about their base forms.
It’s when we think about Metal Sonic’s other forms (Neo, Overlord, etc.) that things get trickier. Tails Doll is, after all, only fabric for the most part (he gets supernatural powers elsewhere), so what could his greater form be? I have a few ideas.
The first is Tails Puppeteer. Basically, a giant mechanical hand appears above him that puppets his actions. This hand is able to use itself and the strings to attack people. But I wasn’t sure about this idea because it didn’t match the grandeur of Metal Overlord.
Then, I was thinking about a kitsune form. Now, this could work. He basically becomes larger and gets the nine tails. Unfortunately, I decided against it because a) Tails’ super form already gives him the nine tails and b) Tails’ “werehog” form will also turn him into a kitsune.
After this, I was thinking about how Metal Overlord, at least to me, resembles Leviathan. It’s a sea serpent usually associated with the sin of envy (this makes sense since I’m pretty sure Metal wants to replace Sonic). Okay, I thought, let’s get Tails Doll to resemble a demon or monster associated with a sin… but which one? Sloth, maybe, but I feel apathy is a better sin and I don’t know if there’s any demons/monsters associated with apathy because it isn’t one of the seven
Don’t worry, I’ll keep spit-balling ideas
Another thing I’ve been thinking about is Rouge and Omega. As far as I can tell, neither of them really have “sidekicks,” so I should probably just swap them. I mean, maybe I can switch Rouge with Topaz, but I already planned on swapping Topaz with Abraham Tower
My first draft is that Rouge was given to/found by Robotnik when she was super young. She grew up in his army, but she never liked it. She hated the way she was treated. She defected with the sole goal of getting revenge. Maybe she’s a cyborg, or at least cybernetically enhanced? I don’t know.
Omega, on the other hand, was a robot made by G.U.N. More specifically, made by Abraham. Omega gained sentience/sapience over time. That’s basically it for him (Rouge’s backstory—or lack thereof—doesn’t give me a lot to work with)
After I thought of these, tho, I had an idea to give Rouge the Phantom Ruby. But after that, I asked myself why I shouldn’t just swap Rouge and Infinite? I was already having ideas of swapping Belle and Omega (they do have similar backstories already; it wouldn’t be hard to swap them).
But there is an answer to why I can’t just do that: it’s not really swapping sidekicks, is it? Rouge and Infinite are enemies. I don’t think Belle and Omega have interacted much (if at all)
This leads me right back to swapping Rouge and Omega. I could stick with that, or I could go ahead with the Rouge-Infinite/Omega-Belle, or I could maybe still do Rouge-Topaz (but that leaves other problems. Who would Abraham swap with? Maybe Gerald, but I already did that. Maybe the president, but does that guy even have a name? There’s also the matter of Omega still not having anyone to swap with)
In any case, any scrapped ideas can be used in a different AU (I’ve got several. I love roleswaps), so it’s not like I’m losing anything. I just need to pick one for this AU b/c I really want to write Doom!Maria and Tails hanging out
Notes:
This is what happens when I have too much free time and an entire book called 'yapping.' I just keep doing it
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The vote was roughly six to two (don't ask about the math; it's complicated), so I'll be telling what Sonic's various roles are throughout the AUs. I'll be starting with Sonic since he's the easiest. Every AU's axis point is who Sonic switches with, so I know them all. This should be fun
Format:
AU Name - Role - Description
Liberation - Shadow - In this AU, Aleena united all the tribes on Mobius to form a centralized kingdom. One of the ways she did this was by using her scepter to take her people's chaos energy. With the energy, she made chimeras, fought alien invaders, and kept the peace. She continued doing this well into her pregnancy where she was prophesized to have twins. Imagine everyone's surprise when a third child was born. Her excess use of chaos energy created a conduit of chaos energy inside of her. Unfortunately, Aleena had to send her children away because of a prophecy. Sonia and Manic went to high society and the slums, respectively, but the third child (unnamed) was cast out into space in an asteroid. This asteroid released a sound frequency that Earth's military outpost in space, the ARK, discovered. They brought the asteroid on the ARK as Project Sonic. Tails was already there as Project Tails, so Sonic and Tails became like brothers, and they were Earth's protectors. They also grew close with Commander Abraham Tower (to the point of considering Abraham a father figure). I would explain it further, but I have an entire story where I've delved into L!Sonic's past, so check that out!
Entrusting the Future to You (Sonic-Tails swap) - Tails - Sonic was born in a village of hedgehogs, but his parents died when he was young, leaving him to be an orphan. He became a ward of the village. He did odd jobs for the village until the day his speed manifested. There were mixed reactions. Many saw him as a freak of nature. Some people were outright terrified of him. The village leaders, however, thought he could be exploited. The 'odd jobs' he had before were suddenly far more dangerous. Sonic did them, however, because he liked running and helping people even if the people he was helping weren't good to him. This all stopped when Tails crashed into his life by literally crashing into him. Tails and Sonic hit it off, especially when Tails started telling Sonic about all of his adventures. They would have parted ways if Tails didn't find out about Sonic's powers. Unlike the villagers, Tails thought it was both amazing and fascinating. The reason Tails adventured so much was to test his inventions, so he wanted to make some for Sonic to test out, too. Sonic followed Tails to his base of operations, and he sort of stayed forever. Sonic frequently adventures with Tails, but he's just as content to stay at home. This Sonic leans more into freedom than he does adventure or amusement. He considers being away from his village and being able to do whatever he wants as his only goal in life. I'm also thinking of making him a scientist who focuses on the study of chaos energy.
Unnamed (Sonic-Blaze swap) - Blaze - Sonic is the crown prince of the Mobian Empire. He was raised to be a dignified and just ruler. While he does succeed for the most part, he still has a sense of wanderlust that carries him to frequently skip his lessons to go adventuring. This attracted the attention of the chaos emeralds. Instead of being their guardian like Blaze is with the Sol emeralds, Sonic is merely their beneficiary. He gets his speed from them along with his adaptability to other forms of power. When Eggman steals an important relic that fractures the dimensions, Sonic goes after him. It is here that he encounters the hero, Blaze. They do fight because (how do I phrase this? Blaze thinks Sonic is too independent. He doesn't rely on anyone. He doesn't tell the people around him when he's running away or where he's going. Unlike canon Blaze who was too responsible, Sonic is too irresponsible, but they were both naturally lonely people that didn't want to admit it). After that, they worked together to stop Eggman and fix their realities. Somehow, some way, he ends up in the future with Shadow, protecting it from someone (I haven't decided yet. Maybe Chaos? And Tikal has Chaos sealed inside her, so she's our stand-in for Elise. Don't grow attached to this; I might change it). Sonic sacrifices himself to seal away this big bad. But then the timeline gets reset, so he's back in his dimension. Blaze and Marine come to the chaos/Mobian dimension. Sonic helps them, and this is where he meets Tails. Sonic is wary of Tails because he's an inventor like Eggman, but they grow close and become like brothers
Unnamed (Sonic-Surge swap) - Surge - His past is unknown. All Sonic knows is that he's been Eggman's captive for as long as he can remember. He believes he was once a regular Mobian, but he's now become a cyborg. Parts of his body have been turned into metal. His speed either came from Eggman or its natural. All Sonic knows is that he wants to be free. Eventually, he manages to escape Eggman, but even when the inventor dies, Sonic remains haunted by visions of him. Unsure what to do, Sonic takes it upon himself to free the world. Unfortunately, he thinks this means killing the villains (or really anyone who revokes the freedom of others), which puts him at odds with the heroes, including Surge. Sonic's programming wants him to kill her, but Sonic himself actually likes Surge so he's able to suppress his violent tendencies. He does not, however, want to be her friend because he views her as an enabler of villains. They have a complicated relationship, to say the least. Sonic's least complicated relationship is with Tails. Although Sonic can't remember if he and Tails were close before Eggman, he's decided Tails is his little brother. More than killing all villains, Sonic wants to protect Tails. He wants Tails to have a better life. He does everything in his power to get Tails to live with more stable people or follow his dreams of inventing machines for others, but Tails is rather unhealthily dependent on Sonic (and technically, Sonic is, too, but he's better at hiding it/pretending he isn't). Tails will stick it out for the kill all villains plan
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Eggman - Sonic is just a Mobian who's living life. In this AU, Eggman never found him and he never found Tails, so he didn't get properly introduced to people until way later in his life. It was too late for nature had already taught him survival of the fittest. Sonic believed that a person should do as much as they can by themselves and for themselves. Now, there is limit. You need nature's help to live, you need clothes, small favors are usually inconsequential. As Sonic learned from people, he came to add the caveat that if you are going to help someone, never do it for free. Do it for repayment in whatever way (monetary, an IOU, etc.) He also believes very strongly in self-actualization. If a person is about to become their truest self, you cannot help them. They have to do that alone or not at all. To this end, he hates Mr. Tinker and his robots. Mr. Tinker just helps people because he wants to- because he can help. Sonic goes out of his way to destroy the robots. He doesn't kill Mr. Tinker, though, because destroying those robots and foiling Mr. Tinker's plans is so amusing to him. So, when he's older, that's when he meets Tails. Sonic accidentally saves him without meaning to, so Sonic demands Tails repay that by doing some stuff for him. Tails stuck around, however, so now he and Sonic are considered a duo. Sonic is abusive, though. He hates when Tails helps him more than he should, and he's not afraid to hit Tails over it
Later in this AU, I was thinking that Tails finally killed Sonic, and Sonic let him because he knew this was Tails self-actualizing. This, unfortunately, only killed his body, so Sonic became a spirit made of chaos energy, and he started fucking up stuff even more lmao
That's it for now. We might have a Sonic-Amy swap soon. I don't know. I'm just throwing around ideas. If you're inspired by something, go ahead. Run with it. If you have ideas on how to add to these AUs, go ahead. Tell me about them. I know I called this story 'yapping,' but I'm good with conversations, too. I'm just getting stuff out there.
What character do you guys want to see next?
Notes:
I gotta name my AUs, guys
If anyone's got ideas, let me know
Chapter 12
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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Tails chapter!
Format:
AU Name - Role Being Swapped Into - Description
Liberation - Maria - When Tails was younger, he was ousted from his village for having twin tails. Tired of the abuses and negligence, Tails built a spaceship to take him far away. Unfortunately, his spaceship faced off against some turbulence. It was heavily damaged. Tails was set to drift through space. Eventually, Earth's military outpost, ARK, discovered the spaceship. They were surprised to find Tails onboard. Instead of killing him as they were meant to, Commander Abraham Tower thought they could interrogate Tails for more information about aliens. The language barrier initial made this plan impossible, but Tails proved his worth by building several of the ARK's advanced machinery. Abraham pitched Project Tails to G.U.N., allowing Tails to stay on the ARK as Earth's defender. Tails was fine with this, but he was very lonely until Sonic came around. Tails and Sonic instantly hit it off. Sonic was like Tails' older brother. Tails loved him so much that he built the Eclipse Cannon as a means to protect Sonic. Tails also became like Abraham's surrogate son, so it hit him pretty hard when Abraham was recalled back to Earth for a 'meeting'. When G.U.N. raided the ARK, Tails convinced Sonic to go to the escape pod with him instead of accepting his execution. Tails locked Sonic into the escape pod alone. In an attempt to stop Tails from sending Sonic to Earth, a G.U.N. agent shot him. Tails still managed to send Sonic to Earth, and he died shortly after.
Entrusting the Future to You - Sonic - Tails has a similar backstory to canon except Sonic never came to save him. Instead, Tails started building machines to defend himself. Eventually, he ran away from his village. He continued building, and he started testing out his inventions by going on adventures. Tails crashed into Sonic's life, and after a conversation, they became friends. It escalated to a brotherly bond. Sonic occasionally comes with Tails on his adventures, though sometimes Sonic sits them out. I'd say more, but Sonic has a long history lmao
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - Marine - Tails is an orphan from the Southern Mountains. It has always been his dream to pilot a plane. As Tails is building his first vessel, Blaze and Marine land near the mountain's base. Tails helps them out before taking his plane on a test run. He does pretty well until a storm comes to knock him down. Blaze and Marine rescue him. Seeing how saddened he is by the destruction of his plane; they help him make a new one. Before they can do another test run, they catch sight of Prince Sonic. He's looking for Eggman because the man stole something. Blaze offers her assistance, and she doesn't take 'no' for an answer. She, Marine, and Tails join Sonic on his pursuit. While they're adventuring, there's a clear distance between Sonic and Tails that accumulates into a fight because of Sonic's temper and Tails' stubbornness. When they both calm down, they regroup and apologize to one another. They finish the mission against Eggman together. Blaze and Marine return to their dimension, but Tails doesn't go back to the Southern Mountains. He becomes Sonic's adventuring partner, and soon, it becomes known throughout the empire that Tails is the prince's younger brother and shouldn't be messed with
Unnamed (Sonic-Surge swap) - Kit (Kitsunami) - His past is unknown. All he knows is that he's been with Eggman for as long as he can remember. He was personally being trained by the doctor as an inventor (because Eggman thinks every team needs a genius inventor on it to be successful, even if no one can come close to being more intelligent than him). He's also taught how to maintain Sonic's mechanical parts. While part of Tails knows he's been brainwashed, Sonic is kind to him, and for a kid who only remembers abuse, it is enough to make him eternally loyal. Tails would do anything for Sonic... except leave him. When Eggman dies, Sonic wants to give Tails away (for a better life, Sonic says, but Tails can't help but feel like he's being abandoned), the kit refuses to part with him. Tails doesn't care that Sonic wants to kill all the villains; Tails will help him if he could just stay with Sonic. The cyborg hedgehog relents. Tails actually has a good relationship with a lot of other people in his life, including Kit, even if Eggman has told Tails repeatedly to kill Kit. Tails is naturally kind. He's only cruel to anyone Sonic deems an enemy or a 'villain.'
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Belle (technically, it's almost all of Eggman's underlings) - Tails was neglected by his village for years and years, much longer than he is in canon. When Tails has nearly given up all hope, a blue hedgehog comes into his life to save him. The hedgehog-Sonic-says it was an accident, so Tails has to repay him. Tails follows Sonic, doing menial tasks without complaint. Even when his debt is paid, Tails remains. Sonic is mostly chill (even a little kind from time to time), but he's abusive when he's angered. Tails tries to ignore it. He tries to keep Sonic appeased and tells himself that he was rather be abused than neglected (because that means Sonic sees him and knows him and cares enough to smack him around a little for his misdeeds). This doesn't last forever. Everything comes to a boiling point, and Tails threatens to shoot Sonic with a gun he made. Sonic eggs Tails on until the trigger gets pulled. Sonic dies, and Tails is racked with guilt, regret, and intense anxiety. He makes his way to Mr. Tinker and Belle's house, hoping they'll punish him. They don't. They take him in and help take care of him. Tails thinks he's hallucinating Sonic, but he's actually being haunted by a manifestation of Sonic through chaos energy. Tails joins forces with the heroes to put an end to Sonic once and for all... but is that even possible?
Notes:
Sonic and Tails down. Who should we do next?
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Role Swap
I finished my other writing early, so let's keep on yapping! We're doing Knuckles today, then Amy, Shadow, Eggman, and Maria. After that, you guys can let me know what you want to see :D
Format:
AU Name - Role Being Swapped Into - Description
Liberation - Omega - Black Doom has been trying to conquer Earth for years in order to gain control of the chaos emeralds and absorb the power of Gaia (dark and light). In his pursuit, he found Angel Island. He slaughtered the Echidna tribe, but he kept a young echidna who had a high tolerance for chaos energy. This puggle was Knuckles. Black Doom erased his memories and integrated him into the hivemind. Black Doom didn't do anything with Knuckles, though. He sometimes let him fight some low-level enemies, but he mainly was left on the sidelines. When Knuckles broke free from the hivemind, he escaped. He had two missions: preserve everything from Angel Island/his tribe and genocide the Black Arms. After years of doing this alone, he teamed up with Amy and Sonic to take Black Doom and the Black Arms down (also Knuckles doesn't know anything about the Master Emerald in this AU. He vaguely remembers a green gemstone, but it's missing and he's uncertain if it came from the hivemind or his childhood)
Entrusting the Future to You - Trip (the sungazer) - The Echidna tribe never died out. They are still alive and well on Angel Island. Knuckles is one of the Master Emerald's guardians. He takes shifts with other echidnas. When he isn't guarding, he's training his mind and body to be the ultimate warrior. He gets tricked by Sage and (whoever Fang switches with. I haven't actually thought about it) into bringing them onto the island and showing them around. They tricked him in order to get the Master Emerald and any information left behind by the (I actually think this will be the AU where the chao evolve into Ancients... but I don't know), anything from them. Knuckles helps Tails and his team kick Sage and the other one off the island.
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - Amy - When Knuckles was a puggle, a nice but normal couple adopted him. He lived in Station Square for many years. Although he had incredible strength, he tried to live an average life like his adopted parents wanted for him. His attempts were thwarted by strange dreams that he was certain were being given to him by his ancestors. Knuckles followed these dreams, and he had a chance encounter with Blaze the Cat. Unfortunately, Blaze wasn’t sure what the dreams meant, either. While pondering it, Knuckles was kidnapped by Eggman Nega. Blaze helped rescue Knuckles. As Blaze was escorting him back to Station Square, Knuckles realized what the dreams could have meant: he needs to be more like Blaze, i.e. a hero. Knuckles admires Blaze a lot, especially her strength. He doesn’t have a romantic crush on her, but he does have something similar enough that most people assume he does like Blaze like that. She, of course, knows that isn’t what Knuckles means, so she lets him tag along on her adventures sometimes. I’d give more backstory, but Amy has a long history. She’s been in this franchise since forever.
Unnamed (Sonic-Surge swap) - (pending) - (pending)
Let me preface this by saying I’ve put a lot of thought into it. At first, I wasn’t thinking about who Knuckles could switch so much as who could be in Knuckles’ position, who could be Surge’s friend-rival-thing. From there, I would figure it out. But here’s the thing, Surge doesn’t have many connections right now. Of the connection she does have, though, she canonically has a whole thing where Whisper hates Surge and Surge might hate her back but she also respects Whisper for being distrustful/practical. I thought: well, that’s it. Knuckles and Whisper will swap. But then I remembered that I wanted to swap Whisper, Tangle, Lanolin, and Jewel with Shadow, Maria, Omega, and Rouge because it was four characters with four characters. Which, sure, the personalities do fit sort of well, but it a) isn’t as good as I would like it to be, b) still leaves Knuckles with no one, and c) I don’t think I want to swap groups. I just want to swap characters. I don’t want to be like, “Since I swapped A and B, I have to swap C and D so I can keep the relationships semi-intact.” I don’t want package deals (looking at you, Shadow and Maria). I think, to that end, I’m going to stick with Whisper.
But also—I feel like I’m limiting myself with the characters that I’m choosing. Sonic’s world is massive. I know there are characters I don’t know about. Archie comics, for instance, probably have so many characters I don’t know. But then again, I am mostly sticking to the games (except this one b/c it’s IDW), so I’ll only pull in Archie characters if I need to (for instance, I’ll be using Gold the Tenrec—mainly because I genuinely love her a lot but also because of her connection with Silver)
Anyway, what do you think? Whisper? Or someone else for Knuckles?
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Sage - Knuckles has a similar ideology to Sonic: survival of the fittest. In fact, he was originally inspired by Sonic. Knuckles saw Sonic’s strength and fighting prowess as something to admire and aspire to. A difference between them, however, is that Knuckles doesn’t trust people to accept this ‘might makes right’ philosophy without convincing. Knuckles, therefore, goes out of his way to convince people of this, usually by hurting them or putting them in perilous situations. He and Sonic sometimes exchange favors, but they also both know that they’d betray the other if it was necessary for their ultimate goal.
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Here we are with Amy Rose! Shadow is up next, then Eggman and Maria
AU Name - Role Being Swapped With - Description
Liberation - Rouge - Amy Rose seemingly came out of nowhere. She suddenly appeared in the public consciousness as a private investigator. Despite her unknown history, Amy quickly became a successful private investigator with a truly impressive solving rate. This can be attributed to many factors, but two of them include her ability to tap into chaos energy to perceive the past/future (often using the medium of tarot cards) and her Piko Piko hammer (she’s not above threatening information out of people). She got so famous that G.U.N. contracted her to infiltrate Black Doom and Sonic’s partnership to relay information back to them. Amy agreed. She pretended to be in love with Sonic to lower their guards and get them to let her join. This succeeded for a while, but Sonic soon caught her sending information to G.U.N. He suspected it for a little while (not since the beginning, though). Sonic let Amy stay with them, however, fully aware of her intentions because he liked hanging out with her (his only other option was Black Doom). Amy, too, began considering Sonic a friend, so she tried her hardest to convince him not to destroy the planet. This softened Sonic’s heart enough that Rouge, Maria, and Shadow were able to get Sonic to join them in stopping the planet’s destruction. When Shadow returned to the ARK without Sonic, Amy received Sonic’s glove. She kept it with her as she mourned an old friend. After some months, Amy’s card revealed that Sonic’s fate was still undecided—he wasn’t dead. Amy found Sonic with the Robotniks. Although he didn’t remember her, Amy befriended him all over again. She gathered Sonic and Knuckles to form Team Heroes, a group centered around stopping Black Doom for good (they also take contracts from G.U.N. and are often regarded as G.U.N. agents even if they’re allowed to take other contracts).
Entrusting the Future to You - Cream - Amy Rose owns a shop in Station Square. The shop sells mystical and arcane items. She also does readings for people who come into her shop. If anyone tries to steal from her shop or mess with her, they face the wrath of her hammer. Amy became acquainted with Vanilla first because the rabbit let Amy stay in her garage. Amy continues to live there now, so she often hears about Cream’s adventures. Amy wants to go on some, too, but she has her shop to worry about. If Amy gets the chance, though, she will accept Cream’s invitation to join her on an adventure.
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - Knuckles - Amy Rose is a half-hedgehog, half-echidna. She understands her hedgehog heritage, but she has no one to tell her about what traits she’s gotten from her other bloodline. In pursuit of the truth, Amy went to Angel Island. After figuring out a way to get onto the island, she discovered the Master Emerald. Amy was compelled by the emerald itself to guard over it. She also explored the island from time to time to discover more about her ancestors. Eggman Nega convinced Amy at some point that Blaze was trying to steal the Master Emerald. Amy defended the gemstone and Angel Island. When it was revealed that Eggman Nega was lying, Amy switched sides to help Blaze and Marine stop Eggman Nega. This event cemented Amy’s friendship with the duo (and later Knuckles, too). Although she doesn’t often leave Angel Island, she will occasionally join her friends on their adventures.
Unnamed (Surge-Sonic swap) - [pending] - [pending]
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Metal - On one of his various adventures, Sonic found the seven Time Stones. He meddled with them, and this accidentally fractured time on Little Planet. This brought Amy Rose from a potential future of the timeline. It was a future where the Metal Virus was spread across the land. No one was spared. Even Amy could not keep every part of her body intact. The time stones halted the progression, though, so Amy takes the opportunity to defeat the person she believes to be the culprit: Mr. Tinker and his lackeys. Since she didn’t want to be sent back, Sonic didn’t. He lets Amy do whatever she wants, and she really does whatever it takes to kill the heroes. She justifies this to herself as ensuring a different future gets chosen by the timeline. She can even be kind to those she doesn’t think are a threat to the future. This does anger Sonic and his no-helping-others policy, so they aren’t too close with one another despite both Sonic and Amy acknowledging that Amy owes him big-time for bringing her to the past.
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I just want to yap about some miscellaneous ideas I have across the different role swaps.
First, in Liberation (Sonic-Shadow swap), Mephiles and Elise/Iblis are swapped. It starts out relatively the same. The Duke is doing Project Solaris and Blaze (the time traveler) gets involved. Here’s where it changes. Mephiles is a regular hedgehog Mobian who lived in the kingdom. The duke and Blaze seal the Scepter of Darkness inside of him, and he’s given the command to never speak lest he sets the darkness free. Mephiles did as he was commanded.
Iblis was sealed in Elise, but it wasn’t a perfect seal. Iblis leaked out and began burning away at Elise’s personality. That, too, wasn’t perfect. It resulted in a fusion of Iblis and Elise because Iblis, like canon Mephiles, longs to exist. Iblis retains Elise’s appearance, name, etc. because Iblis wants to be her. And in some ways, Iblis kind of is because remnants of Elise exist in the ashes. Not enough to make her a hero, though. Elise is still the villain of this 06 story
I don’t know which AU it’ll be in, but there has to be one where Mephiles and Elise/Iblis swap with Infinite and Rookie/Gadget. I just think it’d be neat. I also have to figure out how those pairings swap in the Entrusting the Future to You story (technically, tho, I might not write 06 or Forces in that one, so—)
To be fair, Gold is replacing Silver in the Entrusting the Future to You story, so I could probably put him in Mephiles’ place, maybe? I’ll think about it
Speaking of Gold, she’ll take the place of Rouge or Omega in the Sonic-Blaze swap just because Silver is Shadow. Professor Von Schlemmer will join her to complete the triumvirate. I’ll talk more about that when we get a Silver chapter or maybe a chapter just dedicated to the Blaze-Sonic swap
I’ve discovered some things, tho. The first is that I kept conflating Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood with Sonic and the Black Knight. Those are two different stories. There are so many characters in SatDB that I can take and use. I have to thank one of you commenters for making me realize I was wrong the whole time
The second is that I completely forgot about Sam Speed from Sonic X. How could I do that? He’s literally so awesome. I’ve got to fit him in somewhere
With Sam Speed, tho, he’s obsessed with speed and a rival to Sonic. I was thinking about how I could have a crack roleswap where human characters take everything. Sam is Sonic. His nephew, Chris (is it Kris? I don’t think it is), is Tails. Tower as Shadow. Topaz as Rouge, I guess. The butler guy (Tanaka?) as Knuckles. It’d be so funny
There’s another matter with Entrusting the Future to You. In it, Sonic is Tails, right? Since Tails has a plane (he can fly, it can fly—irony), I figured Sonic needed a motorcycle. But wait a minute, Sonic needs to do flying stuff when canon Tails does. My solution? Give him Mavuika’s bike. In other words, a motorcycle that can fly, ride over water and up walls, etc. It would run on Sonic’s own chaos energy because he’s a chaos energy researcher in this AU (as opposed to inventor). I’m going to draw it, so prepare for that
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Shadow
Liberation - Sonic - A seemingly regular Mobian on Earth who stumbled upon a sickly Maria one day. The two became quick friends, and Shadow was later adopted into the Robotnik family. He takes care of Maria and Gerald, and since Maria puts herself in danger a lot, Shadow has unintentionally saved the planet more than a few times
Entrusting the Future to You - Maria - Like in canon, Shadow was created by combining Mobian and Black Arms DNA (though the DNA came from Eclipse instead of Black Doom; I’ll get into it later). He was made as a weapon against the Black Arms but also as a means of helping cure Maria. Shadow was more concerned with his latter responsibility. When Gerald was called down to Earth, Maria got so worried that she became even sicker than before. When the scientists caring for her determined that she was going to die, Shadow refused to accept that. He told them to use him to save Maria. The scientists told him that no matter if Maria survived the operation or not (and there was a chance she wouldn’t), Shadow wasn’t going to survive. Shadow didn’t care. He let them carry out the operation. They removed a lot of his organs, including his heart, and much of his blood. They transfused it into Maria. Shadow accepted his death when learned that Maria was going to pull through the operation, healthier than ever.
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - Silver - I’ll be honest with you; this is more because I want Silver in Shadow’s role than because I want Shadow in Silver’s role, but we’re going to roll with this. The ARK was a space station designed to improve and preserve life. To achieve this goal, they utilized the power of the Time Stones (as opposed to the chaos emeralds). Shadow was still made by combining Black Doom and Mobian DNA. His chaos control enabled him to travel through time. He was warned by Gerald only to preserve the future, not to drastically change it.
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Black Doom - (I’m talking about BD and Shadow in this because they’re heavily connected) Black Doom was the last of his kind. He made the Black Arms in an attempt to have a species to belong to once more, but he couldn’t create anything with an individual personality. They were stuck in a hivemind. In his pursuit to find a way around this, Black Doom encountered Gerald Robotnik on the space colony ARK. Gerald was able to combine Black Arms and Mobian DNA to create a hybrid that could separate itself from the hivemind. Black Doom was overjoyed until this hybrid, Shadow, took over the hivemind to become an actual alien overlord. Shadow left on the Black Comet, leaving Black Doom behind. Gerald let him stay on the ARK. Gerald was killed when G.U.N. raided the ARK. Black Doom was sealed away in one of his amulets, only to be accidentally awakened by Sonic fifty years later. After the various adventures, Shadow and the Black Comet return. Shadow tries inviting Black Doom back, but through the encouragement of his new/old (you know, amnesia stuff) friends, Black Doom defeats Shadow and joins G.U.N.
Something to note about the Sonic-Eggman swap is that I’ve decided that it’s more or less everyone switching with their ‘biggest’ enemy, so that’s why Shadow and Black Doom swapped. This led me to ask myself who Maria’s biggest enemy was because I was originally thinking of making her swap with either Silver or Eggman Nega. But her enemy is G.U.N., if anyone, so I’m thinking of making her the commander (as opposed to Abraham Tower).
Of course, it isn’t like I can do this for everyone. For instance, Omega’s biggest enemy is obviously Eggman, but Sonic has swapped with him. Rouge, as near as I can tell, doesn’t have a specific enemy, so she’s tricky, too. I suppose the Omega swap can be any character who just really hates Sonic. I’ll think about it.
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Eggman
Liberation - Black Doom/Imperator IX/Chief Pachacamac - Look, Liberation’s villains are crazy because nobody is swapped so much as shuffled around. Basically, Eggman was an ancient inventor who created the Badniks, a species of inorganic life (including Omega). Eggman and the rest of the Badniks were wiped out by Black Doom and his forces. Omega survived and protects the Phantom Ruby. In this way, Black Doom takes Eggman’s place while Eggman technically takes Chief Pachacamac’s place (and Aleena takes Black Doom’s place, if you were curious about that).
I was content to leave it at this, but then I binge-read stuff about Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood, so here we are.
The world thinks Eggman and the Badniks were killed, but a small group of them—including Eggman himself—were saved by ‘Argus’ (at least, they think this is what saved them) bringing them into the Twilight Cage. While inside the Twilight Cage, Eggman mobilized the Badnik army he did have and started creating even better versions. He came to take control over the Twilight Cage, but he wasn’t content with this. Eggman wanted to return to Earth. More than that, he wanted to take it over, deciding that his machines were a better fit for being the prevailing species than the Black Arms/humans/mobians are.
I think Sage would take the place of Emerl, and I might write some stuff about how she ended up on the Ark (like Emerl did). Gamma would probably take the place of Shade.
Entrusting the Future to You - Sage - Dr. Ivo Robotnik was an inventor with one machine: make something greater today than he did yesterday. He is constantly tinkering and building, trying to achieve absolute mechanical perfection. He does not yet know what exactly he’s striving towards, but he refuses to stop moving in that direction. To this end, he’s managed to create machines with free will. Unfortunately, he cares very little for these machines. Some, like Belle, have defected in order to find companionship and recognition elsewhere. Others, like Metal Sonic, just continue working with him because he’s their creator. Sage is different. She was an AI, something different than Eggman’s usual machines. She was also one of the first because he made her when he was still studying ancient civilizations’ technology. Sage genuinely considers herself to be Eggman’s daughter. She also believes that he should be the leader of the planet. She is only his conqueror; she will not rule. Eggman is mostly oblivious to this. The only time he gets involved is during the Starfall Islands incident (but given me time to figure this one out exactly because I think this is the AU where the Ancients/chao evolve in reverse)
Also, we don’t talk about Tails Doll. Nobody knows what his deal is. They don’t know how Eggman created him. They don’t know how Sage controls him, and spoiler alert, she doesn’t entirely know either. Tails Doll is a creature unto himself.
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - Eggman Nega - A descendant of Eggman Nega. He’s an inventor in Sonic’s dimension. He’s stolen the chaos emeralds on occasion. You know, and I just thought of this, I don’t think Amy guards the Master Emerald in this AU. She would guard the jeweled scepter. He teamed up with his ancestor to steal, and if my earlier statement is true then they would be stealing the Master Emerald in Sonic’s dimension.
Unnamed (Surge-Sonic swap) - Starline - Eggman is certain he can do better than Dr. Starline. Eggman thinks he can actually get things done. He decides to prove this. He is going to turn organic life into robots. He subjects Sonic and Tails to horrific experiments. He manages to turn Sonic into a cyborg before his life is taken from him. He lingers on as hallucination in Sonic’s head.
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Sonic - Ivo Robotnik was abandoned in the woods at a semi-young age with no memory about how he ended up in this position. He built rudimentary machines to help him survive. After he found a stable position in life when he wasn’t on the verge of constantly dying, he felt extremely lonely. This led to his creation of Belle. He introduced himself as Mr. Tinker, but she ended up calling him ‘dad’ before long. They lived together in the woods with their machines until mobians started coming to Mr. Tinker for repairs, tools, or even permission to have his machines help them, too. Mr. Tinker and Belle were kind enough to permit this. Their kindness extended further to them starting to help other people more proactively, and this escalated into them saving the planet a few times. This also put them into opposition with Sonic the Hedgehog, Mr. Tinker’s greatest enemy (read: biggest hater).
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We're opening up a discussion with this one. I don't know if you guys know this, but Liberation is my favorite. It isn't just my favorite role-swap; it's my favorite of anything I've ever written. I want to write so much for it. To that end, I want to start writing Sonic Battle for it. And this is where I run into my problem. Who is Emerl in my AU (and by extension, who is Gemerl)?
It isn't as clear-cut as you might imagine. Emerl was a Gizoid created by an ancient civilization. In Liberation, this civilization would have been Eggman and the Robotniks.
Gemerl was a copy canon-Eggman made of Emerl (hence the similar names). In Liberation, this creator would be Black Doom (possibly Aleena just because of how I've swapped the villains, but let's stick with Black Doom)
Now, my original thought was for Sage to swap with Emerl, but this poses a few problems. For one, Sage doesn't have a physical form. In Sonic Battle, both Shadow and Sonic fight Emerl on numerous occasions AND Emerl tries getting the chaos emeralds (well, he succeeds, but semantics). Sage wouldn't be able to fight Shadow and Sonic or physically grab the chaos emeralds as she currently is. If we stick with Sage, though, we could have a miniature (as in, the size of the Mobians, not actualy mini) Supreme robot that she possesses for combat purposes. I'm not sure how much I like that just because I'm cooking up stuff with the End/Ancients in this AU
Another problem is that if Sage is Emerl, who would be her Gemerl? It would need to be another AI/robot like she is, but they would also need to be made by Black Doom. That poses some problems. Unless, maybe, Black Doom constructs a Black Arms body for her, or we separate her red/black self from her blue/white self. That could work, but I'm still unsure about this
We can't use Omega and Gamma because both of them are taken in other roles. I can't outright switch Emerl and Gemerl because Gemerl exists in this AU. He's a detective with Vanilla and Cream. He has a vaguely defined backstory because the Chaotix do, but we're not here to discuss them. I'm just stating that he's there. Which, to be clear, he switches with Espio, so if you want to use that information, we can. Maybe we do some business with Ninja Espio (his new skin in Speed Battle) and regular Espio. I don't know
I know Eggman has A LOT of robots. I went down so many lists; you don't understand how many I looked through. I just don't know a good pairing
This is, of course, if we say that whatever ended up on the ARK was created by Eggman. We don't strictly need to do that. In fact, I was trying to think of a way to incorporate Eclipse the Darkling, but I didn't have too much luck with it when I was bouncing ideas around in my head. Mainly because Eclipse also exists in an oddly nebulous zone of villains switching with each other because I made Metal Sonic and the Biolizard switch lmao
These are all my thoughts. I now put the ball in your court. Let's come up with something together :D
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Maria
Liberation - Tails - Maria was born with a rare disease. She and her parents were handling it until they died. Maria went to live with her grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Maria remained sickly. She was often confined to her bed. This frustrated her to the point that she ran away from the apartment into the city. She collapsed, however, and Shadow found her. Immediately, they hit it off. Shadow brought her back to her grandfather. Shadow began staying with them, being unofficially adopted. Gerald made Maria a metal exoskeleton that lessened the effects of gravity on her body. This allowed her to move around more without being in pain, and it also gave her the ability to fly and a form of pseudo-telekinesis. In this AU, she’s the one that made the chaos drives that allowed her to use Shadow’s chaos energy to fuel her gun(s). She goes on adventures with her friends.
If Maria’s sister ever gets name-dropped, I’m adding her pronto
Entrusting the Future to You - Shadow - After Gerald was brought down to Earth for interrogation, Maria’s illness grew even worse because of her concern for him. It reached a point where she only had a few days left to live. Shadow sacrificed parts of himself to preserve her life. It worked, turning Maria into a human-Black Arms hybrid. Maria didn’t know Shadow chose to do this, so when she saw his body, she was both sad and angry. The doom energy inside of her fed off of this. Her new abilities attacked the scientists. They put her under and into cryostasis. They were never able to awaken her because of the raid. Sage did many years later. Confused and still corrupted by doom energy, Maria wanted to get revenge on the entire planet for what it did to her grandfather and Shadow.
Unnamed (Blaze-Sonic swap) - I’m still thinking about this one. Shadow is in Silver’s role, so Maria would likely fit in Gold’s role, but I don’t think I’m going to keep Gold around for Silver in this AU. Just give me some time to think. I had an idea for Silver that I can’t quite remember anymore. Ig this is what I get for waiting so long to write it out lmao
Unnamed (Sonic-Eggman swap) - Abraham Tower - She isn’t switching with Abraham because he specifically is her enemy but rather because G.U.N. is. After the numerous incidents on the ARK, Maria was taken back to Earth. She became an agent of G.U.N. and eventually rose the ranks to commander.
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Been thinking about a Sonic movieverse swap, so you guys will have to listen to it:
First movie - Shadow’s asteroid crashes on Earth in the present. Instead of farmers and G.U.N., Maria Robotnik finds Shadow. Her grandfather is currently at a convention in San Francisco, leaving her home alone. She and Shadow bond until G.U.N. comes to investigate the asteroid drop. Maria and Shadow escape, deciding to get to Maria’s grandfather since he’ll either be able to protect Shadow or send him back to space. They road trip.
They’re pursued by Agent Stone, a high-ranking agent in G.U.N., and Stone’s assistant, Dr. Ivo Robotnik (which confuses Maria b/c Gerald never told her she had other family). Ivo makes robots, and Stone commands them like a general. Although Ivo’s the assistant, he’s still very egotistical about his position and how robots are superior. Stone, for his part, is so military-minded that he doesn’t even realize he puts up with Ivo’s BS because he loves—I mean, whatever Paramount says Stone feels about Ivo (they’re not fooling anyone)
The plot from there is mostly the same (tho Maria’s the reason they end up at the bar lmao). Shadow is allowed to stay with Gerald and Maria at the end, and they banish Stone to the mushroom dimension using a machine that Gerald made that repurposes Shadow’s chaos abilities (since they don’t have rings)
Second movie - Stone is rescued by the time traveler, Silver, who wants to defeat Shadow since he believes the Black Arms stole the (Master Emerald? But for the Time Stones). Silver and Stone go after Shadow while the hedgehog is home alone because Maria and Gerald went to somewhere for some reason (maybe a wedding still?). Shadow is rescued by Amy, someone who also came in search of the Time Stones in order to fix Little Planet. The plot also goes the same way, tho Shadow doesn’t so super, he goes… whatever the Time Stones make someone (which I actually have ideas for)
Amy and Silver fix their planet/future. They stay with the Robotniks, becoming the protectors of the Time Stones together
Third movie - Fifty years ago, Sonic escaped from Longclaw getting killed. He was immediately found by G.U.N. Still a young hoglet, he naturally gravitated toward Agent Tom and Dr. Maddie, a guard and scientist, respectively, at the blacksite. Sonic grew up with them as his parents. Eventually, he caused a universe blackout that made G.U.N. deem the project too dangerous. He tried escaping with Tom and Maddie, but Tom was killed. Maddie was imprisoned. Sonic was, too, and put in stasis per Director Rockwell’s orders (she’s switching with Walters)
Once Maddie’s freed, she frees Sonic and they plan to take out G.U.N., the rest of the world be damned by the crossfire. His freedom makes G.U.N. contact Shadow, Amy, and Silver for assistance
Maddie and Stone are not family, but Maddie does get into his head, first by appealing to his militaristic senses and then by learning part of him does want a family. She’s motherly to Stone up until they fight in the Eclipse Cannon
Sonic and Shadow have their Time Stone-powered fight and reconcile. Sonic and Stone sacrifice their lives to stop the Eclipse Cannon
Mid credit scene, I guess Shadow Androids show up, and Tails arrives to help Shadow stop them
Post credit, Sonic picks up his glove
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I was thinking, which is never a good thing, but-
Entrusting the Future to You, aka the Tails-Sonic swap, aka the sidekick swap (as in, everyone swaps with their sidekicks)
I posted this in an endnote in Entrusting the Future to You, but I thought I'd also ask for you guys' opinion because... I can? Don't look for logic in my actions lmao
So, Topaz takes the role of Rouge, right? I was already thinking about having her be more like Maria's handler than on a team with her. But I've recently gotten really invested in Professor Victoria (aka Torii), especially the "theory" (it's like practically confirmed, no?) that she's Maria's sister. I say all that to say, what if moving forward, Topaz is still the handler, but Torii's the one who fills Rouge's role including going to find Maria in Sage's base in Heroes? It could make sense considering Torii is an archeologist who would be interested in jewels and artifacts to the same extent as Rouge even if it's for different reasons
This does kind of break the theme, but Rouge doesn't have a sidekick, anyway, so it's not like I can even do the theme with her. I might as well just do whatever I want, you know?
Speaking of doing what I want, I know that I've mentioned putting Belle in Omega's spot. I can still do that if we think it's good, but also what if I put Supreme there? Like, a smaller version, obviously. I'll be honest, I don't remember what my original logic was for this. Because for Frontiers (if I even write that) would be the robots switching with their pilots if I continue the theme. I can technically still do this. Oh, I remember what my logic was. Basically, Sage possesses Supreme and deactivates him when she isn't using him. This paired with the remnants of Crane give Supreme sentience, and he decides to rebel against Sage. He wants to destroy her for making him a servant and trying to take over the planet
But that's more trying to establish a connection between Sage and Supreme than Supreme and Omega. I'm sure only like three of you care, but to those three, how are we feeling about Supreme as Omega instead of Belle?
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Maybe it's because I loved writing Liberation so much, but I want to try doing another Shadow-Sonic roleswap. I've got new, different ideas for some of the subsidiary swaps.
So, of course, Shadow and Sonic would swap. Maria and Tails would likely still swap, too, just because that makes the most sense. Tails will more or less be the same, but I'll get into him in a moment. I want to focus on Maria. Now, I was discussing a potential Maria survives type thing (I think it was in the context of her as a villain), and I have ideas about the sort of powers she could possibly have. My two current most-likely choices is giving her a mech suit (exactly like Firefly/SAM from HSR. If you don't know what that is, basically a cute, petite girl inside the fuck-off mech suit powered by willpower. It has flaming swords and can fly and looks cool as shit). On the other hand, I did think she could have a bond with the wisps. She's got the right personality to bond with at least one, if not more, and that could be interesting. She'd still be sick. Her and Shadow's meeting would probably be the same in Liberation, too, where he finds her after she's snuck out to see the world and gotten taken out by her disease
Now, back to Tails. So, one of the reasons I started thinking about rewriting this AU with differences is because I wanted to include Torii (she's one of my favorites, shut up-). She could go into Gerald/Abraham's place. She would still be a doctor, but she's a historian who specializes on the Great Civilizations/the Chaos Emeralds. Instead of being made by Aleena and sent out into space, Sonic will be a creation of Dark Gaia (who was also tampered with by Light Gaia in order to achieve balance). Torii likely would have made a deal with Dark Gaia. It wanted a weapon to help it destroy the planet and Light Gaia permanently; Torii wanted something to study. But, like canon Gerald, she decided to convince Sonic to turn on Dark Gaia instead. Sonic would be given inhibitor rings, but he has them to keep him from turning into Dark Sonic, not because he has too much power
(Oh, and the "werehog," or like an actual giant wolf could replace the Biolizard)
Anyway, Tails, like I said earlier... I'm not quite sure. I guess Torii brought him along. Maybe he won a competition to be her assistant. He was way too young for it, but she saw value in his intelligence. Or, maybe, the government thought his intelligence was frightening and put him under Torii's tutelage on the ARK to make sure he didn't turn evil. Either way, that's how Tails' would be her pride and joy. He was her legacy. She taught him everything. They became so close that his eventually death along with all her research going up in smoke would convince her to manipulate Sonic's inhibitor rings. The influx of negative chaos energy and Dark Gaia's influence whispering in his ear would convince him to destroy the planet, as was his original purpose. But he'd be conflicted about it
Ofc, I have no idea who to replace Abraham with. There's still Topaz and Gerald, who he was more or less swapped with in Liberation. I'm not sure if I want to continue on that track. I could bring in someone like Molly, Leon, or Sam from Sonic X. It could be a Mobian, though.
Another reason I was thinking about rewriting this is because I decided it might make more sense to swap Rouge-Knuckles, and then I came up with a decent idea to swap Amy-Omega. Then again, I'm still fleshing out the details. In my head, Knuckles is stealing all remnants of his tribe that's been scattered around the world, including but not limited to jewels. G.U.N. convinced him to work with them in exchange for them getting the goods for him or providing him with the information. Rouge, on the other hand, was a regular jewel thief, but she encountered someone who gave her either the Master Emerald or some other jewel. Rouge both bonded with the jewel and felt like she was responsible for it because the person who gifted it to her died. Knuckles has been trying to steal it from her for the echidnas, but Rouge doesn't let it happen for the aforementioned reasons and because she doesn't let people steal from her. That's not how she rolls.
As for Omega and Amy, it's a little tricky. At a baseline, my idea is just, Omega has a strength-crush on Shadow. Like, he's not romantically interested in Shadow at all; he just really admires Shadow's strength. He wants to surpass Shadow one day, so that's why he sticks around so often and is always chasing after him. As for Amy, Little Planet was attacked/destroyed by this AU's main antagonist, and she's sworn revenge on them. While she wants to be just a tool for revenge, Sonic and Knuckles frequently encourage her "humanity" (hedgehog-ity?)
Now, you may be asking, who's the main antagonist? Fuck, if I know. Dark Gaia and its spawn replace Black Doom and the Black Arms. That makes sense, to an extent, and then, Ig, Shadow gets turned into a 'demon' at night with... whoever replaces Chip. Maybe Eclipse or Doom's Eye? Or maybe a Chao and we sort of play with the Black Arms wanting to destroy the planet and the chao wanting to preserve it? Another idea would be having one of Shadow's helpers (tutorial guides?) from '05 helping him. Whatever, that's a thought pattern for another day.
What does matter is the actual main antagonist. I'll have you know that I got no idea. I don't want another situation like Liberation where the villains are shuffled rather than swapped, but if that's what I have to do to make it all make sense, sure, fine, whatever. We can still have the Black Arms as the Badniks and Black Doom as Eggman. We could branch out, though. If we need robots, we've got the Metarex (which would make Cosmo Belle, Ig). We've got the Ancients (which would make the Cyber Corruption the Metal Virus). We've got Imperator IX and his hooligans. I don't know. They've all got strengths and weaknesses.
I don't know, though
One of my last reasons for wanting to do a reboot of sorts is just that I want to try being more accurate. To an extent, anyway. For instance, in Liberation, Sonic's initial awakening is more of a mix of the movie with an implication that Black Doom had a hand in it from the outside. I'd like someone to actually go in to free him. Then again, do I really want to rewrite SA2 for the fourth time (I've got way too many AUs that go right through it lmao)?
Anyway! With this additional swap, I'm able to interact with you guys more about swapping people. Nothing is really set in stone, so we can have an even more open discussion about swapping people. So, you know, if you've got ideas and opinions, don't be afraid to plop down a comment. Even if you're disagreeing with literally everything I've said here, go ahead. Open discussions are necessary in the pursuit of progress!
Oh, and if you want to talk about other AUs (both mine or your own), you can also start talking about that. I'm open to any and all conversation :D
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I might as well use my brain for thinking. Back to the new Shadow-Sonic swap (I've gotta come up with a name. I've got ideas, honestly, but we'll see)
First, I was thinking long and hard about Sonic. He's my favorite character, after all. Torii makes a deal with Dark Gaia. It gives her a piece of itself (for it's a hyper-energy organism). She gets to study it in exchange for a weapon being made with it. She chooses to make a hedgehog because of the slate with the platinum hedgehog fighting a monster she's seen on her journey (aka, Shadow fighting Tikal). It works, and Sonic is created. She gives him that name because a lot about him has to do with sound: he produces an internal frequency and moves as fast as it, for instance. Originally, Sonic has the purple-black quills and black eyes (sometimes no eyes) of Dark Sonic. He constantly hears Dark Gaia whispering in his head both about how he should just go destroy the planet, how he should kill everyone around him, how he should hurt himself. Sonic struggles with that in addition to resonating with the negative emotions of the scientists around him, their disgust and homesickness and frustrations.
Then, he meets Tails. The kit is someone who was brought onto the ARK before Sonic's creation to be Torii's assistant. He's learning under her, but the government also wants Torii to watch Tails to make sure he isn't building weapons and stuff. Tails is intensely fascinated by Sonic to the point that Sonic can't really feel negative emotions from him. He sometimes catches a whiff of loneliness, but it's easily subdued by Sonic and Torii's appearance. There's one point where Sonic holds Tails' neck and reminds the kit that he was going to kill Tails because he's just Gaia's weapon. Tails rejected that sentiment, declaring that Sonic could be anything he wants to be. From that point on, the voices were quieter when Sonic was around Tails, especially when Tails would just talk about his inventions and whatnot. Sonic grew attached to Tails for this reason, and Tails, likewise, adored having a brother after being abandoned by his parents, bullied by his peers, and isolated on the ARK (for being a child, a genius, and a Mobian) by everyone except Torii
It is around this point that Torii and Tails make Sonic a pair of regulator rings. They keep him from absorbing negative energy and instead inject him with Light Gaia's power siphoned from the air. With them, his quills brighten into blue. And after his first encounter with the green Chaos Emerald, his irises turn that color.
The raid happens. Sonic tries saving Tails, but the kit manages to get the upper hand to lock Sonic in the escape pod. He gets shot. Sonic's regulators nearly break from the influx of negative emotion, but he's knocked unconscious before he can do anything about it. Fifty years later, he reawakens with faulty regulators. This paired with his own grief gives Dark Gaia a stronger grip on his mind. The constant whispering drives him to the brink of madness, and from there, he decides to destroy the planet using the Eclipse Cannon like Dark Gaia wants (this will also help awaken Dark Gaia).
SA2 happens. Some of the other games, too, and then! Sonic is living with Team Heroes (Amy and Knuckles). His regulators have been fixed, but there's also a degree of him still experiencing the voices because between his own mentality and the regulators, he suppresses his negative emotions until they explode. It can drive him into violence and self-harm if he isn't careful. Unfortunately, Amy and Knuckles only ever find him after the worst has happened. It gets to a point where Amy takes Sonic out to the middle of the desert. She tells them they're going to have a 'bad day,' where Sonic just gets to scream and fight out all the building negativity. He doesn't want because he knows he'll lose control and hurt her. He almost does. He stops himself in time thanks to her words. While this does help him feel better over the next few days, he refuses to do it again
This is when Amy goes to Shadow. She doesn't want to, ofc, but she realizes that Shadow and Sonic are equals. If anyone can help Sonic, it'll be Shadow. Through some means, Shadow and Sonic start sparring on Sonic's 'bad days.' Sonic participates in that, especially because he enjoys the silence that falls after they're done
Enough about him, though! Villain time! I was really thinking about it, and I'm leaning towards the Metarex. Hear me out: Eggman is industrialization and civilization and authoritarian order. Sonic is nature and borderline anarchy. That is how they are foils of one another (besides the obvious human-hedgehog, mechanical-natural, etc.)
Shadow, however, is more similar to Eggman than Sonic in this regard. He uses guns and motorcycles, man-made creations. He was artificially made in a lab and raised among humans. His villain, therefore, should be the natural world. And who would that be other than the Metarex? They want to kill all humans and Mobians, tear down every civilization that isn't plant/Seedrian. This is the opposite extreme. They've also already got robots which sort of helps my case in writing this AU
So, Dark Oak and Eggman are the ones who switch. We'll just bring in a Metarex-style Shadow Android for Metal Sonic. Maybe Cosmo as Belle and Galaxina as Sage? I don't know. We'll probably never get to IDW or Frontiers. I kinda want to use Cosmo more, tho. I'll think about that later
But this also sets up Lucus in his Dark Oak suit and Maria in her mech suit (I'll give it a name, I swear. Something good and hopeful like Hopebringer or something) because original Eggman and Tails also have that kind of beef
So, in this case, Little Planet would have been taken over by plant life, destroying the infrastructure and killing/displacing a lot of people, Amy included.
As I'm writing this, I just got a comment from Empty [again without account] (Guest) that explained how Abraham and Eggman can swap... Lowkey, they make some solid point. I'll have to think about it now because their idea is actually really cool. Oh, the woes of open discussion. I'm kidding. I love, love, love talking at length with everyone. Let the discussion commence. Again, you can yap at me about this AU, about any of the other AUs, about your own AU, I am all ears!
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