#Sonic forces

[angstandhappiness]

Interesting

uhhhhhh comic page wip from a while ago :] that forces au that infests my brains sometimes hhhhhghhh

[sun-citadel]

Ember eye

[deadrott]

catching some z...eros(?)

... while it's still safe

[radicalcircuit]

23 Radical years of Shadow in under a minute.

Also here's a goofy ass still of the rat.

[instability404nexus]

Me when i lock in

nights and reala theme + infinite boss theme 1

[myymi]

headcanon that after the mystic ruins workshop was destroyed in the war tails refused to leave it because he didn't want accept the fact he lost the home he built with his brother that he thinks is dead

[whokilled-fen]

Hii! I’d love a stimboard of infinite from sonic forces..I don’t have any specific wants/requirements I’d just love to see one :3!

oml i luv their dezign !!

Infinite (zonic forcez) ztimboard !!

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Revisit the events at the Starfall islands in this page illustration by @nikkiposting !

Dreamy has also made another illustration based on their Sonic Forces AU for shatterverse zine!

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[thespianinthebackcorner]

About what to do with the timeline change- a possible explanation could be that Silver, via the Chaos Emeralds or Time Stones or something else entirely, could be aware that his future is good, and then moves on purpose to the worse future of Forces to fix it and bring all three timelines back together. It's never stated whether Silver is affected by the time changes and forgets 06 or if he's completely unaffected by any timeline and just doesn't mention things that were erased to keep continuity. Considering he doesn't really have a purpose in the good future, and he's a young and impulsive kid, it's entirely possible he could have realised he has no purpose in the good future and found a way to switch timelines to a worse future that he can fix, and thus has a purpose for a while. He comes back to the past a lot for random things, so if he's trying to figure out what to do with his life with the good future, it'd make sense that he tries to fix other timelines too. That and if he does know about the timeline split in 06, it would make sense that he's trying to bring them all back into one future.

actually, silver's time traveling DID make sense... until sonic forces - an analysis

hello! this is a follow-up to my previous analysis post i made about why silver's time traveling is so weird.

everything i said in that post still applies, but upon looking at things closer (and creating an entire timeline map), i came to the realization that sonic forces actually kind of singlehandedly ruined everything. but hey what's new amiright

in all seriousness though, creating this timeline map helped me better visualize just what the hell is going on with silver's time traveling and various futures, and i hope it's able to do the same for you all as well! (full analysis under the cut)

FULL BREAKDOWN:

EDIT: i sort of forgot to take into account that sonic rivals and especially sonic rivals 2 DO seem to imply that silver's future is currently bad, though it's not stated outright. 06 also IMPLIES that silver's future is good at the end but it's not actually stated/shown to be the case. so in that case, it'd be future is still bad after 06 -> thus future is bad in rivals 1+2 -> rivals 2's resolution causes the good future mentioned in sonic colors ds. even in this scenario, it'd still be forces' fault for making the future bad again, but it wasn't AS crystal clear before forces as i may have originally made it seem like in this post. live and learn lol

so, let me explain what all this means lol (using different versions of this map)

silver is born into a timeline that's basically the bad ending of sonic 06 - where sonic is killed, elise cries, and iblis is unleashed, destroying the world. this is where silver starts:

the events of sonic 06 create a new timeline where solaris is never split into iblis and mephiles. thus iblis is never created and never destroys the world, causing silver to return to a future where everything is good.

silver starts in the 06 bad ending timeline, but he returns to the future of the new 06 good ending timeline, AKA the canon timeline:

(please excuse my shitty gifs lol)

this is where he remained for a WHILE, and where he should have remained. in all games between 06 and forces, the status of silver's future is either not mentioned, or is explicitly stated to be the good future. (specifically in colors ds)

so for a while, it was pretty simple and actually made sense. silver went from the 06 bad ending timeline, to the 06 good (canon) ending timeline, and then stayed there ever since. everything was fine. we could've just left it like this.

but then, sonic GOD DAMN forces decided to mess ALL THIS UP.

because when silver shows up for the events of forces, it's because his future... is taken over and polluted by eggman. as a result of forces. which doesn't make sense ANY way you cut it.

whether silver lived in a timeline where forces ended good or bad, EITHER WAY the events of sonic forces HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED. THEY SHOULD NOT CAUSE SILVER'S FUTURE TO ACTIVELY CHANGE BEFORE HIS EYES. THAT'S NOT HOW TIME WORKS

so because of forces, we then get this incredibly weird jump where silver LEAVES the canon good future... and goes to a random non-canon, bad ending timeline. for some reason:

from there, it's a bit more straight-forward. sonic forces happens and when silver goes back to his future, it's no longer the bad ending of forces, but the bad ending of the metal virus arc:

thus, silver goes back to the present to help stop that. the metal virus is eradicated, and we are EXPLICITLY shown that this is what directly causes silver's future to be saved:

and for now that hasn't changed. (and god willing, it never will)

ever since the end of the metal virus arc, silver's future is a good one and he's just been hanging out in the present, freaking out about not having a purpose anymore.

the literal SINGLE problem with all this is that silver was IN the good future before, but got yoinked OUT of it for some reason.

if after 06, he hadn't returned to a good future, but rather the bad ending future of sonic forces, then that would have made sense! that's the next point in the timeline where things can split off.

he fixes one problem, but it doesn't save the future. now the future is just ruined by something else. so then he has to go fix the next problem, and then the next, etc. etc.

that would've, y'know, made sense.

but you wanna know what's even more aggravating? they could've STILL done what they did with forces without changing silver's future!

it would've been so easy to have silver, in his good future, realize (through history books or something) that there is a point in the past where eggman almost fully takes over, and decide to time travel back to that point to make sure that things go as they're supposed to.

that would've made so much more sense! this goes back to the quirk of silver's time traveling that i pointed out in my first post, which is that silver tends to time travel to change the future, rather than make sure that the future happens the way it should (like a lot of other time travel stories do)

at this point however, silver's future IS capable of somehow changing at will. and i think there's really only two options to fix this.

the first and easiest is to just retcon stuff. either retcon silver's good future after 06, or retcon the forces + idw stuff about his future changing. this would be the simplest option i think.

the other is to try and come up with an explanation for silver being plucked out of his good future and shoved into other bad ending futures. i think it IS possible but it would still be incredibly convoluted.

i think you could spin it so rather than the good future becoming bad, it's actually just silver specifically as a person being transported from the good future to the bad future timeline. as to why, maybe whatever force sends him to time travel wants to... show him the consequences of that "canon event" getting messed up?

like, he's supposed to make sure that things go as they should for their good future to exist. and in order to make him understand why he needs to do this, he's like - shown a vision of what could happen if he doesn't? by him being transported to that bad ending timeline?

in all honesty, i really don't see a clean, easy way of explaining everything in one neat little package without retconning anything.

either things get way more convoluted and stupid, or things get retconned. and i dont know about you, but i would much rather take the latter. even if retcons can be frustrating, i feel like it's way better than the alternative.

but idk, what do you think? did any of this make sense? i hope it did. i quite like my silly little map.

anyways that's all for now bye <3

(bonus: here's the original version of the timeline map that i doodled in my notebook lol)

[katsinspats]

Tragic: Guy you based your entire villain backstory on doesn't even remember you

[fleetways]

the doctors waking me up post top surgery

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[starrjoy]

a bunch of old sonic doodles, from back when I first started my old blog <3

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[the-hydroxian-artblog]

i wanna see mercenary characters do mercenary stuff

[cephalosaur]

This isn't all the recent game-released characters since Forces, but I wasn't thinking much about Dodon Pa.