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amy knew she might be overstepping her bounds here, but she couldn't stand to see the girl so upset. especially over someone who was supposed to be their parent. shadow being anyone's father was a hard thing for her to imagine, but him not being good at it, or maybe even hesitant was something far more likely.

sharing a glance to her own partner on the beach, as if he had sensed something was wrong, amy just gave him a reassuring look. everything was alright, sort of.

"no, no..." she was quick to reassure jazz as well, but did pause a moment. she knew she was reaching here, she had no idea what the dynamic was between her alternate and the rest of the people in her life, but she wasn't going to let the girl be upset. "he's just...different. he doesn't really work in the way the rest of us do. it's probably just been an adjustment...?"

The hoglet glanced back up at Amy as she felt the other's arms rest on her shoulders, the frown still on her face. "But... but he talks to everyone all the time! But... but not me..." She had no clue why, but what Jazz did know was he seemed to avoid her. Even their interactions seemed short. The way her mom always seemed to frown after those...

Something was wrong and she just didn't know what was the reason. A small sniffle before wiping her eyes. No tears! "Mommy... is daddy mad at me? Did I do something bad?" That was the only conclusion the child could come to. Obviously she did something to make her dad so angry with her, he didn't want to deal with her.

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had the boy not yelled, amy may not have heard him. too lost in her own little world. but she had, and gave a very audible 'yip!' as she jumped slightly. on instinct she had reached for her hammer, fully prepared to knock whoever had frightened her away, but she had not expected to see what she did.

mouth agape and arms limp for the moment, she just stared at the...ostrich? chicken? whatever the big bird was she had never seen such a thing and spent a long time staring at it before she remembered the real matter at hand. looking back at the boy she had just opened her mouth to say something when the nearby shout cut her off.

she really hoped these people were friendly...

looking back at the odd things she had thought were flowers, and had every intention of picking before she had been interrupted, amy frowned. now that they were pointed out there was something off about them and she thought it best to leave them be. but now she had questions, and turned back to the other just as turned to leave.

"w-wait!" she ran after them, not entirely knowing why she did. but she kept her distance, not knowing if the bird was friendly or just the opposite. "who are you?"

SHE WAS TREADING PEACEFULLY, not a monster in sight . . . but just because there wasn't a monster didn't mean danger wasn't a foot. "H—hey!" There's a call from nearby, spoken hesitantly as if whoever spoke did not want to draw too much attention to himself. "Watch your step! Get away from there!"

The voice belongs to none other than a scruffy looking boy, no older than thirteen perhaps. Donning his apprentice hunter's gear, Nata leaps down from the saddle of his Seikret, and hesitates again to scan the wooded horizon line. Then, he jogs up to meet her, with remarkable caution.

"There's a Lala Barina nest nearby here—look," He points to the ground and leaf litter. Those flower-like, crimson florets scattered about the shallow forest floor were not in fact flowers, but the paralytic hairs shed from the offending temnoceran. Though their potency had faded some what since they'd been shed, the fact that they were still bright in color meant that there had to be one nearby.

"Nata! Where'd you run off to?" A woman's voice calls from nearby. The unmistakable serious tone of his mentor catches his attention. "C-coming! Hunter, I found someone!" He cries over his shoulder, glancing back towards the pink-furred stranger before him. She certainly wasn't a lynian he recognized . . . torn between dragging her along with him or just leaving her there, Nata ultimately gestures for Amy to follow, and returns to his seikret.

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Friends and pleasantries

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"agreed. they don't know what they're missing out on." well, she actually was pretty sure they did but that was beside the point. she was just going to drag them all along on another adventure sometime soon and they all knew that. she was just going to have to make sure it was extra 'fun' for all of them.

she was definitely going to enjoy herself today though, and was given the smile on her face. what her other friends were doing right now didn't matter. she was there to have fun.

"not really. i feel the same way on days like this. i don't know...it's kind of hard to explain but i would escape into caves and forests and just about anywhere else i could when i was a kid and my parents were being too...themselves. knowing i can do it and hunt for treasure whenever i want now is pretty comforting."

"I didn't mean to suggest I wasn't, your MY friend too Amy and I'm more than happy to be one." Even if it may have just been a jest of some sort, seems it didn't entirely click to the demon-hog as he replied with certainty, as if trying to reassure her. "I told you previously I'm willing to help and hang out, I just would have figured you'd have gone to one of them first."

Though hearing what she had to say about her other friends and allies' absence, now it caused that smile to twist into a smirk and a shake of his head. "Ahhh.....occupied then." If it could be really called that, already having an image pop into his head. "Oh well, their loss I suppose."

"Y'know, places like these remind me how I used to live, I was always trying to find little tunnels and caves to turn into hideouts....even if I have access to better now it's still unusually comforting, is that weird?"

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"we're still...uh, not telling most people. the villagers around here are known to blow things out of proportion and we're trying to enjoy this before it..." amy paused, trying to find the right word for it. without being too harsh, anyway.

❝ becomes a pain in the backside, ❞ sonic chimed in, not caring about the way amy looked at him after. he just shrugged. ❝ the people who need to know do. that's enough for us. ❞

“Oh, boy… you guys aren’t used to this, huh?” He asked,

“Better get used to it. Anyone with sense could tell from a block and a half down. You’re gonna hear a lot more a’ that.”

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Just a heads up that a few irl factors are keeping me busy (and stressed af) more than usual so things are going to take longer than normal. No idea when they'll pick back up, whatever that means anymore for me lol, but, yeah.

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the hedgehog may have made his own world seem small by comparison but he knew firsthand how vast it really was. he had spent a lot of time exploring, getting lost and generally hiding from most people before settling on bygone island. part of him still felt that pull too, that need to just let his feet go and take him to wherever they might have chosen. but he had commitments now. he had a family he couldn't just leave.

he would have, however, gladly shown mari around his world if she had even ended up there. it would be the perfect excuse for a little adventure.

❝ you mean like not having giant monsters that want to eat us? cause i definitely consider that one a win on our part, ❞ he joked, mostly anyway. he wouldn't get into the other things that had, in fact, tried to eat him and his friends. he didn't know how she might take killer robots and the like being almost commonplace in his world. certain parts of it that was.

and thinking back, he really hadn't explained himself back when they had first run into each other, had he? mari probably thought he had just been a moody thrillseeker. ❝eh, honestly? i needed to clear my head at the time. was going through a rough patch with my girlfriend, plus had just escaped my worst near death experience to date. so, yeah. needed a little downtime. think i got a little more than i bargained for though. ❞

"WHATEVER'S CLOSEST TO HOME, I GUESS. If you need me to narrow it down. 'Everything's' not an answer, is it?" There's a light tease in there, but Mari was being at least partially serious. The world was big in itself—beyond the mainland were regions both well documented and unseen; the Old and New Worlds, the icy poles to the north and south, the ruins of Schrade and the like. There were places she'd only heard about from hunters in Lulucion. While Mahana was considerably more open than most Rider's Villages, it was still generally sheltered compared to the average town.

So now, take all that information and multiply it by whole other worlds. Aside from confusing, it got Mari excited too. Stuff like that could get a person's imagination running wild, albeit also make her head spin.

"Sounds like your home and my home aren't so different. Barring a few crucial details." Muses the teen. She guessed from Sonic's response to the Tetsucabra that monsters weren't so commonplace where he came from. He sure seemed unsettled when they'd first laid eyes upon it . . .

"What made you wanna come here? I mean, not today today, but ya know, before we met?"

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wisteria would have said the same thing about basswood, but she could count on one hand the number of times she had really seen him exhausted. it wasn't a common occurrence but he would want to take it easy the rest of the day, more than likely, so that was still a sort of win in her book. though she knew gibbous was going to give out before then, given the way basswood seemed to want to play keep away the moment his hands touched the disc again.

but her attention was draw back to the laptop, though she didn't do anything right away as she realized light was right, it was different than the ones she has used before. she guessed that was to be expected, given the circumstances, but she did what he said and toggled through the limited information as they sat there.

she didn't stop listening to light either, a contemplative expression on her face. "yeah, we've thought that might be the case too...there's just a lot of difference between our crystals and the emeralds so we can't be entirely sure. then again, maybe that's just the nature of them."

she didn't know, but she was a little relieved to know that light had come to the same conclusion she and her friends had a while back. that their crystals being the same as, or similar at least, to the emeralds wasn't that farfetched.

"or maybe it's all better left alone. they've been nothing but trouble for us so far, after all."

If there was one thing that Light was sure of by the end of their visit, it was that the toddler would likely be completely and utterly exhausted by the time they went home and would hopefully get a full night’s rest. She was still fixated on the frisbee, even while taking a drink, but was willing to wait a few minutes before giving it chase again.

The pup went from a dead stop to a sprint as quick as she could. A bit of dust kicked up in her mad dash, tail wagging all the way to get the disc before Basswood could, and another round of keep away could start.

Light watched her for the moment, but it was clear he was listening. His ears faced Basswood, then shifted at the huff. A small snort was stifled before he offered the heroine his laptop to look over the files he had found and went back to absently playing his guitar. “I know the keyboard and most of the programs are in our language, but if you toggle those two keys and hit those three there, it’ll bring up the information I have on our world’s chaos emeralds.”

As he spoke, he pointed to the keys in question before going back to playing. “From what I know, a lot of the chaos emeralds' origins are a mystery in most worlds. It could very well be that yours just happens to have these crystals instead.”

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forced as it was, amy still gave a smile at the words. it was like she said, it was too late to change anything. frankly, she was a lot happier with how things were now anyway. "i guess you're right. a lesson's still a lesson even if you don't like looking back one it. sorry for being a downer."

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"Hey, better late than never at all right?" Sonia said. "I'm not big on superstitious stuff, but sometimes everything happens for a reason y'know?" She put a hand on Amy's shoulder. "You're a great person Amy, don't beat yourself up like that."

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jazz's expression alone told amy that it was, indeed a sensitive question. but she was curious. not that she was really one to talk, she guessed. she didn't get along the best with her parents either (a trait she shared with the other hedgehog on the sand) but they were still on speaking terms.

or would be if she could ever remember to call them. or work up the courage to.

the girl's answer made amy's expression fall more, and that last statement had her closing the space between them to put both hands on her shoulders. "hey, i'm sure that's not true. he...probably just doesn't know what to say most of the time. feelings are hard for some people."

and if shadow was her dad, like the jazz they had met before...yeah, that went doubly so.

Jazz had gone under the water a couple of times, her eyes wide open while under to see what fun there was under the surface. She had popped back up when Sonic had returned, and for a moment she watched as he started to set up some new items.

He did mention a sand castle. Maybe in a few moments she could try to build one with him. She was turning to find a new spot to dunk under the water when Amy spoke again.

The child's forehead furrowed at the question, the tiniest frown on her feature before she turned towards the older hedgehog. "...I don't know." Was she okay with her dad? He didn't really interact with her. There was a few moments of the hoglet being quiet, glancing once again at Sonic.

"...I don't think daddy likes me."

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amy was all too familiar with jungles, and seemed at home as they walked along. it seemed a lot like the one back home, but she could see a few differences here and there.

but her attention was taken away from the flora to the offered...fruit? it looked like an apple, but not quite. luckily she trusted liz and took it, pausing a moment before biting into it.

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Liz walked through the sand and dirt path from her home that lead into the jungle. She laughed a little at Amy's comment about the smell. "Yeah? Well that's one way to describe it."

She paused as they walked and spotted a wampa fruit tree hanging low enough for Liz to pick two fruits off. "Y'hungry love? Try it, I'm sure you'll like it." She handed one to Amy before taking a bite out of hers.

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I know I'll be drawing these cats until december... and maybe longer than that

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Headcanon Generator

basswood likes to pop their back

basswood plays casual poker with their friends

basswood sleeps with socks on

basswood has an incredible spice tolorance.

basswood loves hot cheetos.

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– @the-blankest-slate asked: “You two make a cute couple.”

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❝ uh, thanks...? ❞

it was the first time someone had said it since the couple had come out, to some people anyway, so sonic wasn't quite sure what to say. amy, on the other hand, was trying not to blush too hard.

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it wasn't the kind of place a lot of people would associate with amy, unless they really knew her. she may have seen prime and proper most of the time, but she had a side to her that genuinely loved exploring old caves thanks to her love of the ancients and her on-going, slight, obsession with them.

she did give dan a look at his question, one of mock disappointment as she huffed at him. "you are one of my friends, dan. but if you have to know, the others were either stuck in their workshop, showing off to a certain pair of twins or covering their burrow in more leaves and twigs."

she would let him decide who was who in those scenarios.

"Ahhh don't mention it, I've told you before I don't mind lending a hand, plus it gives me the excuse to explore more." Dan would cheerfully respond, who had no qualms about such locations. Bygone Island may have been far more familiar to him at this point but there was still a lot more he didn't know so any chance to see more of it was ideal in his mind.

"In fact I was actually kinda surprised you asked me, pleasantly so of course, were your other friends busy or something?"

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Headcanon Generator

Wisteria likes pink.

Wisteria stole a lollipop at the checkout when they were 5 and they still feel guilty about it.

Wisteria encourages NOT swearing, yet swears.

Wisteria sings opera in the shower

Wisteria can hug you and will.

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that much was a relief, at least. not that he really thought the whole task had been up to mari and her companion, but it was nice to know that there were more than a few eyes on this thing. it seemed like the exact thing to have multiple individuals on, the more people looking out, the better. not that he really knew what he was looking for, but he still wanted to help.

her comment about some monsters being harder to pick out wasn't the most reassuring one, but he had survived plenty of sneak attacks from eggman. surely one more would be the end of him and he walked along, looking for anything suspicious.

luckily, he was more than capable of walking and talking, taking a moment before answering nonchalantly. ❝ depends on what part ya what to know about. i live on an island too, pretty small too but it has some great sights, and a cool volcano so it kind of makes up for it. there's the mainland too, which is like a million times bigger. but it's a lot more populated, mostly people like me but we have humans and stuff too. ❞

"YEAH, WE GOT REGULAR PATROLS OUT." And even more than usual, she silently noted to herself. The ecological turmoil in the wake of Oltura's rise and fall had begun to die down, but there was still some fixes and clean up to be done, and of course, making sure that things don't spiral out of control again.

Thankfully, the clearing seemed rather empty. She could sense the presence of several small neopterons, but for the most part, the bnahabra swarms and the konchu left them be. "Well, as far as I'm aware . . . there isn't anything. But some monsters are a little harder to pick up than others, so just keep your eyes peeled. I'm not in the mood to get jumped by a nargacuga today . . ."

Thus the pace remained slow, for now.

"You mind me askin' what it's like where you're from? I only caught a glimpse of it through the ring. My tribe hardly ventures beyond this island, y'know. I'm the first one in a while to do it." In other words, she saw herself as relatively sheltered, and eager to satisfy a constant wanderlust.