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sonic & manik!!

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sonics family prt 1!! posting from mobile for first time.

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A wip of Cream & Cheese, Vanilla & Chocola! Unfortunately i still haven't figured their flowers out, so those aren't finished. Cream is a lop ear, but vanilla is actually a hare. Vanilla’s design was inspired by Victorian glove-box ladies! I wanted to make Cheese & Chocola more unique, and so i took insperation from chaos chao for their designs. Vanilla is actually a botanist in this AU, and she and Cream often take treks into the Toxic Jungles to get plants to grow & research! I’ll be posting their bios later tonight, so be sure to check out the character page!!

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Here’s Amy’s Overgrowth redesign!! I wanted her to have more spikey quills rather than the bob, and although i love her cute lil red dress i decided to incorporate some of the purple from her boom design and have an alternate classic design.

She probably wears it when shes dressing casual. i toned down the orange and added yellow & brown accents because it made me think of sunflowers. I also tried to make her hammer look more witchy, going w the divination theme.

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The ‘Blight of Nature’ Arc, or the Overgrowth Zones answer to Sonic Unleashed & Sonic X

Cosmos tribe creates several wmds during the war of thirds, one of which was a pair- the Gaia weapon, and the Metarex Blight. Gaia was built to cause mass destruction, while the blight intended to transform and kill any who contracted it, bar Seedarians who would simply gain a more powerful form from it. the entire project backfires horribly, leading to mass death among their people. their leader flees deep into the jungles to avoid Gaias wrath,and it is sealed away by a force of Mobians and Overlanders. they bury the knowledge of what they'd done, creating a narrative blaming the very people they'd attempted to use the weapons on…

In modern times, Earthia's husband, Lucas, discovers things discussing the weapon in a dusty royal archive. he, bitter and distrustful of Mobians and Overlanders like many of the tribe,  has been rallying some of the people to go to war with the rest of the factions and let the Seedarians rise to power despite his wife's objections. looking for knowledge on ancient weapons, he accidently breaks open an old sample of the Metarex Blight, which makes many fall ill while transforming some with powerful mutations. he blames the other factions and rallies those transformed to storm the resting place of Gaia and wipe out the rest of Mobius for their transgressions, even going as far as to hold coup d'état against his wife…

His wife takes many of her people and flees in the night, going deep into the jungle where the Metarex cannot find them, seeking medicine for the ill. Over the months, many die, and her teenage daughter Cosmo becomes convinced- despite years of stories of Mobian and Overlander cruelty- that they must seek out help or they will all die out. Her mother forbids it, but she sneaks out one night with her sister Galaxinas help, after revealing that she herself had been infected with the blight and thus will too die if they do not find a cure.

 Eventually, Cosmo, nearing the edge of the jungle after a long trek, meets a Mobian named Sticks, who has lived a secluded life there since childhood. Sticks is wary of outsiders and paranoid about this new stranger, and Cosmo elects to leave rather than bother her. However, sticks, realizing that Cosmo is clearly very sick and may be harmed if she doesn't help her, follows after her…

Meanwhile, Eggman begins getting strange reports from his observer robots about some group calling themselves the Metarex destroying his robots and attacking Mobians. Eggman send battle bots to investigate, which report back the Metarex's plan. Eggman, realizing what this highly advanced ancient weapon could do, contacts Sonic & Co and calls for their aid in stopping the Metarex. They distract his army, and Sonic goes on ahead to stop their leader in the ancient compound... Sonic  manages to disrupt the process of awakening Gaia midway through with a bomb supplied by eggman, and uses a chaos stone to chaos control out of the blast radius. Only to pass out in pain, having been infected with the Metarex Blight, which will only continue its painful transformations as time goes on…

 Sonic awakens later on in the night and, dazed and confused from the blights transformation, looks around the blast zone wondering why his friends didn’t find him- only to find a small fairy-like being curled up in the rubble. He rushes over to make sure they're alright, and they awaken only to discover they've lost their memory. Assuming the explosion must have been the cause, he offers to help them figure out who they are while he seeks out his friends. They stop at an ice cream cart since this new friend apparently has never had any and sonic is hungry after the fight and transformation. This earns the fairylike friend the nickname of 'chip'. Sonic and Chip soon learn that part of the Gaia weapon escaped confinement and is now causing havoc throughout the land from his friends via a badly damaged communicator.  Despite the continuing spread of the blight, Sonic is determined to help since it's his responsibility, and he and Chip set out. Along the way, Chip learns of the world…

In the meantime,  the team continues to deal with the ongoing threat of the Metarex, who are continuing to unearth dangerous weapons and causing general havoc. Shortly after sonic had activated the explosive and the Gaia weapon had escaped, they had managed to saved a badger by the name of Sticks and a sick Seedarian called Cosmo from a rockslide caused by the destabilized ground. Sticks offers her reluctant help, given that the Metarex are a threat to her livelihood as well, and Cosmo insists on helping given her familiarity with blights and the fact that she could do with Cream's medicinal knowledge. Along the way, Cosmo learns about Mobian and Overlander culture, and finds they are not so different after all…

 These two plots eventually come together. Dark Gaia is revealed to be just a part of a sapient learning weapon-  the part with only power and instinct, no ability to reason or feel sympathy. Cosmo is shocked by the revelation that the cruel Metarex are in truth her own people, effected by the same blight. Earthia, having followed Cosmo out of concern for her welfare, is forced to reveal the truth that the Seedarians are to blame for these terrible weapons- not the Mobians or the Overlanders.

Cosmo is disgusted that her mother would keep this a secret- and even more so by the fact that she would allow the narrative of the cruel and evil other factions to prevail when they were just as bad.

Rejecting the centuries long hatred, Cosmo elects to physically and verbally confront her father with this new information, and in the ensuing fight he is gravely injured by one of the weapons.

 Realizing his destructive path has lead to the death of hundreds of his people and the illness of his own daughter, he apologizes to Cosmo and Earthia for his ignorant hatred, offering to help defeat Dark Gaia to atone.

Sonic notices that one of the Seedarian artifacts Lucas has matches Chips necklace, and brings it to him. Chip regains his memories and realizes that he is in fact the other part of the Gaia weapon- the part designed to avoid such mindless destruction. Realizing if they can get Chip to Dark Gaias core he may be able to override it and stop the destruction, they set out.

 During the ensuing fight, the team gets bogged down fighting Dark Gaias minions, and Sonic & Chip are having touble making it to where they need to go. Lucas and the blighted Seedarians use an ancient and unstable Seedarian boost serum, to fight and give Sonic and Chip the chance they need. Cosmo takes the White Emerald with her with Creams encouragement, hoping to prevent their deaths…

Sonic does his best to help fight Dark Gaia, but the blights effects have taken their toll, and even he is having trouble. Chip manages to wrestle control over part of the system and assists in the fight. Eventually, Chip realizes that the only way to win will be to reintegrate into the Gaia weapon, and thus lose himself…

 Gaia returns to dormancy, a bioorganic learning machine with all the potential Chip had. Sonic considers himself lucky despite the heavy weight of his new bracelet on his heart, simply because he has not permanently lost two friends today. Despite the blights toll and the boost serums unstable reactions with many of the blighted Seedarians, its regeneration function works, perhaps due to the White Emeralds effects …

 While Earthia takes most of the resulting seeds home in order to regrow those she can over time, she elects to leave Cosmo with her new friends. She reasons that, after all the years of seeking out the outside world, Cosmo deserves to be a part of it. The plant will bloom far more quickly with contact with chaos energy, anyway. Galaxina elects to leave with her mother, reasoning that the tribe will need a new leader after all of this, one who is not as stuck with the old ways. She wishes everyone the best and leaves her sister her rescued cane.

  Cosmo's plant sprouts extremely quickly thanks to two parts rabbit care and one part Emerald energy. Knuckles allows the healthy plant to be put near the Master Emerald for a short time, hoping that it'd encourage growth even more- only for Cosmo to pop out of the now massive plant the next day. Chaos Energy really is amazing like that. Cosmo, for the most part, is happy and healthy- although not without effects from her time fighting the Metarex Blight. Aside some minor discoloration of her right eye and wing, and one of her flowers being permanently removed, she has a tendency to limp- and spastic paresis of her right arm. Cosmo has had some trouble adjusting to these permanent disabilities and her return in general, but she's happy to have a place as a permanent member of the team, and she's enjoying learning about the world outside the jungle.

 Sticks meanwhile hates the toaster at amys because it keeps overcooking her toast.

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knock knock it’s knuckles

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look it’s bat-face the rogue

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i need to make a in depth explanation at some point abt this still jeez

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shadows redesign is still a wip, but heres a pic anyways. still need to incorporate his flower somehow.

speaking of which, if anyone has a flower that they think might ft him better feel free to message me!! i don’t know many flower meanings so every bit helps :3!

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An ancient weapon born of Overlander technology and Mobian magic lies sealed within her, as both birthright and curse as the last of the royal lineage of Soleanna. If she were to cry, be it from pain, surprise, or sadness, the creature would awaken and devastate the land...

Elise has lived with this burden from childhood, when her father sought to use this ancient weapon to bring prosperity to his kingdom. though with good intent and pure-hearted motives, sometimes things of the past are best left buried and asleep.

Since his death, Elise has had restrict and push away her emotions, dissociating herself from all feeling and never allowing herself to experience all the joys and pains of human experience and childhood.

As she nears her eighteenth birthday, her advisors question how the kingdom might continue if the queen cannot raise up the next for fear of upset.

Elise, grim keeper of the kingdoms past mistakes, is resigned to allowing her lineage and the flame die with her.

Elise is stoic and sterile, best compared to a burdened guard than a young woman just entering adulthood. The most emotion one sees out of her is deep melancholy and grim resignation to her fate, and although she is strong of will, her repression of her emotions makes her surprisingly fragile if truly pushed.

It is only for the fact that she has never allowed herself to get close to anyone that keeps the flame at bay.

  In the end, Elise saves herself the burden by opening the flame to her past self before her father ever attempts to harness it. young and unburdened with years of repression, the flame and Elise become almost symbiotic, the flame learning and growing with her.

A powerful mage in this new future, Elise uses the almost the full energy of the flame powdering the great machine her father built, thus providing for the kingdom for decades and reducing the flame to but an ember of its formal self.

By living her life to the fullest, Elise ensures a bright future for all of Soleanna, lit by the light of a gentle ember.

Elise is kind of a hated character for most sonic fans. Complaints about her drastically different design, her personality, and her backstory were- and still are- rampant.

I wanted to push the parts of Elise that were interesting- the status as a living time-bomb, the cultural heritage of Soleanna, the burden of severe emotional repression, her lack of any real social life due to her upbringing.

Making her a sad, lonely woman burdened by the mistakes of the past just seemed to fit her backstory better, rather than the more optimistic(?) depiction in sonic '06.

A theme i wanted to push with her is that emotional repression often harms oneself more than helps, and in the end its Elise choosing to make her own agency that saves her.

Her design was heavily based off vague recollections of designs for ancient sonic stuff, and it ended up looking very Inca according to my dad. I was going for a very 'high priestess' look.

I feel like in the overgrowth version of '06, Elise and shadow probably have a very poignant heart to heart about their statuses as 'living weapons'.

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Given that Maria is receiving longterm care for a degenerative neurological disease with immunosuppressive traits, it never made sense to me that her outfit was designed the way it was, it'd be really hard to get lines in and stuff if she needed iv medication?? so I scrapped that and made a design based off of fashion hospital gowns with pockets and stuff. the overcoat is designed to keep her warm and also has things to hold lines and stuff, and she's wearing hospice socks.

Other than that it seemed to make sense she'd wear fitted masks whenever she was out and about the ark in order to ensure she gets no airborne infections, and I gave her the color band for 'no vaccinations' for similar reasons. Her hair's a lot more scraggly b/c she's likely constantly getting sick, and with the antibiotics and other medicines she's on I figure shed be fairly underweight even despite the nutrition monitoring by her DRs.

Marias age is never really cleared up in any of the lore, but it's implied from dialog she was raised on the ARK in hospice for most of her life, and possibly doesn't have any memories of earth. Given that she can't do a lot of things other people can on the ARK, I figure she'd probably appreciate a lot of things other people her age might have grown out of, like cutesy glow in the dark patterned gowns and drawing faces on her masks. Her and Shadow probably liked to doodle on the paper gowns she had to wear for certain procedures.

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