#inspired by that one image of sonic surrounded by a bunch amys

[tamagoneko]

god i wish i was her 💖

[cyberramblings]

Sonic & Tails: Ideas for a new Sonic Plot and Partner System

So, first off, there is a game called Sonic & Knuckles. It is basically just the second half of the overly ambitious Sonic 3. It is not Sonic 4, but it is a standalone game. Anyways, there isn’t a game called Sonic & Tails yet, so let’s make that happen.

Regardless of that, I wanted to talk about my vague conceptualizations of a Sonic game plot. I WANTED to continue my thoughts on other Sonic characters, but my stupid brain can’t stop thinking about “what if Sonic and Tails fought?” Again, this is getting into some borderline fanfiction territory, but I write the blog AND the rules.

Piggybacking off my previous post detailing my thoughts on Tails, I had said that I liked the idea of Tails taking over Robotnik’s lab after he is defeated once and for all (or temporarily, I don’t expect Sonic Team to kill off the main villain, as much as I’d pseudo-ironically love Sonic Adventure 3 to open with Eggman’s funeral while Sound of Silence plays like the overly edgy funeral scene from Watchmen 2009).

Now, this is also getting into some serious Marvel Civil War or Batman v. Superman territory, but stick with me. I feel like one of the most underutilized aspects of Sonic as a series is the cast of characters. Maybe it is just me, but I feel like Sonic fans want to see their favorite obscure character return or see as many characters as possible. Even the most trivial characters have a cult following in the weird Sonic fandom. It was really cool to see the obscure Sonic the Fighters characters return for a boss fight in Sonic Mania, even if they were just an illusion. I am proposing a Sonic game where nearly every characters returns to make up the boss fights.

Now, the first issue with this idea is that typically the “rival” battles in Sonic are a bit hit or miss. Fights against playable characters in the Adventure IMO felt pretty flat and uninteresting. Now, 2D Sonic has some better boss battles against the likes of Metal Sonic and Knuckles and the same goes for Generations, so maybe those could be emulated. Regardless of gameplay, I’d like to see all the weirdies like the playable cast of Sonic Heroes, The Fighters, Emerl, Blaze, Gamma E-102, etc. return at least as boss fights, if not as playable characters, even if they are just piloting the mechs that would typically be piloted by Eggman. I get zero excitement from fighting Eggman anymore, but just put Rouge’s model in the cockpit and suddenly its way cooler with more potential for unique boss dialogue.

So far I have proposed a Civil War-style plot where Tails goes a little bit off the deep end and a Sonic game where the boss fights are all the beloved recurring characters. It should be obvious how these two parts fit together. Perhaps the dual story structure of Adventure 2 is overplayed by this point, but obviously it would fit in with these ideas.

To get into the nitty gritty and provide an example of what I am imagining, consider Metal Sonic. I can easily see a plot that starts with Tails reconfiguring Metal Sonic to be “good”. This bring back a classic character in a new way and allows for a lot of angles for the plot to go, of course borrowing from various Iron Man plots and the Buffy-bot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

One idea from Sonic Adventure that I would really like to see return is the ever-evolving nemesis concept. Even if Sega never really brings back Chaos, I’d love to see a rival that increases in power as the game goes along. This could totally tie in with my previous idea, with Metal Sonic becoming more powerful over the course of the game, possibly with the acquisition of the Chaos Emeralds like Chaos does. Metal Sonic already has been shown to take on a few different forms, such as at the end of Sonic Heroes.

Another story beat that I’d like to see replicated is the end of Adventure 2 where Sonic and Shadow have to team up. Now, in this hypothetical Sonic & Tails game, that would obviously be Sonic and Tails teaming up, but I’d also love to see them bust out Mecha Sonic as a kind of retconned prototype of Metal Sonic from Sonic 2/3 as a last resort too.

I also love the story beat of all the playable characters at the end of Sonic Adventure bringing the depleted Chaos Emeralds to Sonic for the final fight. I would love to see something like this but a little more weighty. I have a clear mental image of something like the Breath of the Wild loading screen that shows your level of progress though the game, but instead with Sonic endlessly walking towards the camera as the game loads, surrounded by more and more characters walking towards the screen as you rescue/recruit them.

Personally, it seems like Sonic games struggle to balance multiple playable characters, so I’d settle for something like Advance 3 where you pick a partner that enables new moves. I would prefer to find a way to include every possible character as playable, but I would settle for a 3D Sonic game where Sonic (and maybe characters that control near identically like Metal Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Blaze, etc.) is the only playable character, with characters like Tails, Knuckle, Amy, Big, etc. are relegated to the partner role, but swappable.

Playable Characters:

Sonic: Everything normal

Metal Sonic: Just make him control like he does in Adventure 2: Battle, so faster than Sonic but with less moves. I don’t think Metal Sonic has ever been canonically playabe, only appearing as a boss fight or playable in racing games or bonus modes, so that would be my biggest request.

Shadow: Just Sonic but slipperier and please give him a teleport instead of a homing attack

Silver: Again, just Sonic but make his double jump more offensive to represent his telekinetic abilities

Blaze: Her name is BLAZE and she has FIRE POWERS in Rush and Rush Adventure, so please just make her control like Sonic but with a fiery homing attack or her fire hover from Rush

Espio: Just give him some kind of limited invisibility or maybe the tornado attack as a reference to Heroes

Mighty: He could probably be thrown in with his moves from Mania, but this is reaching

Jet: Probably asking too much, but he’s never been playable in non-racing game, so even seeing him with his board in a main game as a kind of joke would be cool

Assist Characters:

Tails, Cream, Charmy: Obviously, limited flight with slightly different characteristics. Cream could alternatively have the Chao attack from Advance

Knuckles, Rouge, Tikal: Either a limited glide or the digging

Amy: Piko Piko Hammer as an attack or as a big jump. She could also maybe be a Sonic-like characters, but I feel like she was shoehorned into the speed role in Heroes

Big: I just like seeing this dumb idiot return. It seems like asking a lot for the fishing rod to be used as a grappling hook, so maybe he could just have a big area attack

Fang/Knack, Bark, Bean: I mean, maybe just show up and fistfight some enemies?

Vector: Something music based, realistically

Chaos: Again, this is reaching, but maybe this ties into Tails taking over Eggman’s research

E-1XX Alpha, Gamma, Omega, etc: It is asking a lot to have all the robots return, but I’d love to see them all as slight variants of “shoot a bunch of missiles” or limited hovering

Omochao: Personally I’d love to see this little guy as an assist who just never shuts up, maybe with some hidden secret-unlocking potential

Vanilla: She doesn’t have a lot of game appearances, I’d take anything

G.U.N. Commander: Again, I just think this would be kinda funny. He could summon robots or just fire missiles

Eggman Nega: Not sure why he would help the main characters, but I’m always rooting for weird stuff like this

Wave, Storm: They could function like Tails/Knuckles or grant a temporary board for tricks or whatnot, maybe like the skateboard powerup from Sonic Generations

Tails Doll: This is dumb, but it would be fun to see as a little throwaway easter egg

So, that was a bunch of random nonsense directly from my brain, but you probably get the idea: find a way to include a lot of characters in the plot and the gameplay. Do I expect any of this to ever happen? No. And honestly, I’d prefer to see another game where I can actually play as characters like Rouge, the robots, Amy, and Cream.

ONE LAST THING: There should really be a Sonic rhythm game. They have so much music, both the classic songs as well as the Crush 40 songs, with tons of remixes of both already existing and even more possible. It would fit perfectly with the gameplay of Sonic, you could just have the notes appear as obstacles or powerup boxes. There are a million different ways to slice it, but it just makes too much sense to ignore. I don’t have enough ideas to make a separate post, though. Maybe I’ll make a playlist sometimes of songs I’d like to see included, but the issue is that it would be way too many songs. As with the main point of this post, I would love to see many different playable characters with very slight changes to their properties.

ONE LAST LAST THING: Since Sega hates localizing Puyo Puyo games, they should just make a new Mean Bean Machine with HD graphics and all the various Sonic characters represented somehow and then release it internationally either as Mean Bean Machine or just Sonic Puyo Puyo. Again, I didn’t have enough ideas for a whole post.

FINAL FINAL FINAL RAMBLES: I kinda wanna play Sonic 06 since I actually just recently found out that Rouge, Omega, and Blaze are playable, but the disc is 20 bucks at gamestop for 360. I also kinda wanna play Unleashed, but not enough to buy it. I really get more excited when more characters are playable, which makes me wish I enjoyed playing Sonic Battle more. I also have my eye on Chronicles if I can ever get the patience to actually sit down and play it. At this point, I should just make my own dang original game or story inspired by the things I like about Sonic.

[shadowsfascination]

Sonamy - a past no one has to know about

"Hurry Sonic! We're running late.” Amy peeked around the corner of the bathroom and found her friend struggling with his tie. In frustration he groaned and unfastened it, starting to tie it up again. He'd lost count of the times he tried to make the stupid thing right and wondered why he had even agreed to this whole happening. “C'me here.” “No, I'm fine.” Looking in the mirror and having drawn the image of an all dressed up version of himself with a tangled tie, he didn't even believe himself. “Of course you are. I just don't want to be seen with you like that.” “Very funny. Okay, help me.” Sonic sighed, feeling not amused at all. She giggled and shook her head at him while unfastening the tangled mess. She sleeked it to undo it from all the wrinkles and pleats and tied it up just fine in only one attempt. “Thank you for coming with me tonight.” His ears twitched at the sound of her voice and suddenly the grumpiness  slid away from him a little. He decided to suck it up and shook off the rest of his chagrined mood. This was a big nigh for her so he needed to be a man about it because she needed him. Amy had been taking part in a national archeology congress this week, organized by the archeology faculty of their university as an assignment for the bachelor she was doing. There had been events around the campus all week and there even was a display of the Chaos Emeralds in this fancy gallery. Knuckles had helped her with the display of the emeralds and speeches she had to do about all this archeology stuff Sonic didn't know much about. Tonight a dance would be held that indicated the conclusion of the congress and she had to perform a short lecture there. It was a formal party and Amy needed someone to go with. When she asked Sonic he hadn't known about the ballroom dancing and the 4 week practicing courses they'd have had to take. Somehow he was embarrassed about it and therefore didn't want anyone to know about them going together. Their friends would- of course- have a good laugh when they found out and definitely start thinking there was something between them when there was not. No way they would never know about this. Truth was that Sonic had surprisingly enjoyed the dancing and even discerned some kind of sorry feeling  inside himself that it would be over after tonight. “Of course, Ames.” he smiled at her politely and abruptly he stepped away from her as an embarrassed heat flew through his body at the dawning realization that she was all dressed up and he hadn't even noticed- not to mention compliment her. “What?” “I totally forgot... eh... our corsages!” In a clumsy move he stooped to reach for a paper bag on the shelve above the sink. Not what he meant to say, but it wasn't a lie either. He needed to shake off these nerves, which had caught him off guard. Where did they come from all of the sudden anyway? Ah, whatever! When he rose again he bumped his head to the sink. The corsages, right! “Sonic?” “I'm fine! Now, could you fasten these as well since we both witnessed I suck at that and we're running late already?” They both laughed and left for the party after she attached the corsage to his jacket and he fastened hers as well around her wrist. The evening had flown by faster than than Sonic liked, even with the speed he was used to and before they knew it the last dance was announced. Both of them had enjoyed themselves having dinner which existed from three courses of delicious food. Even though there were no chillidogs, which he was prepared to by Amy, he loved the food. Sonic didn't like all the speeches during dinner. They were too formal, stiff and on top of that completely meaningless. Just a bunch of people wanting to hear the sound of their own voice, so they would seem important. They bored him out and since he had been sitting long enough he was starting to grow impatient. Dinner was followed by Amy's lecture and she had been nervous about it, which was totally unneeded because she gave a flawless performance and after Amy finished, everyone applauded. He felt relieved when it was finally time to enter the dance floor. The ballroom dancing had ended five songs ago and now some attenders of the dance were dancing on their own to the soft, subtle music's tones, not performing formal dances anymore. Others were sitting at the tables that surrounded the dance floor, talking and drinking. Amy and he were still dancing in the dim-lit room, his hands had unconsciously lowered to her waist now that the formality had subsided. As for her: one of her hands rested on his shoulder and the other one cupped around the back of his neck loosely. “I'm surprised you handled this so well, you know?” she wondered out loud. “Heh?” “I mean, this isn't really your scene and all, but I even feel like you kind of enjoyed yourself tonight.” “I did.” And not just tonight, his own thoughts twitted him. “I can't believe I won't be able to tell anyone about this,” she chuckled in amusement. “You promised!” Sonic hissed at her, somewhat startled at the thought she might break that promise. “I knoooow.” The tone in her voice gave away the fact that she was totally bummed about that. “The only thing that'll remember us about tonight are the corsages.” “Hey, were are they?” Looking at her wrist and his chest there was nothing to be found and he concluded they had probably lost them. They were fragile and most of the time the flowers in them would wither as the night endured. It was common for them to break or for people to lose them. They decided not to look for them and broke away from each other's hold when the music came to a stop. “I'm gonna get your coat, Ames.” Helping her get on her coat, he glanced at her doubtfully, not knowing what to do next, but then felt her hand on his arm. “We'll go home like we usually do” she sighed while a smile curved her lips just slightly. He lifted her in his arms and took off into the distance at dazzling speed. Nearing her home, he slowed down and walked her to the door. Sonic felt his heart throb against his breastbone and hear the blood  whiz in his ears. Meeting her glance, a train of thoughts thundered through his awe-struck mind. There it was again: taut nerves, an empty vocabulary, disability to speak normally, him loosing his cool and acting like a total idiot. His ears then twitched at the sound of something in the distance, disturbing the peaceful quietness of the night and in the corner of his eye he saw a familiar shape. In adrenaline driven hasty arousal he swung open the door, dashed inside, dragged Amy in with him and pushed to the door to shut with more power than intended. “What's he doing here this late?” the blue hedgehog stammered underneath his now rasping breath. Amy's awkward, sarcastic look let him realize once again that he acted strange tonight. He breathed out loud and got a hold of himself. “You're acting weird. Who was that?” “I think that was Tails.” “Oh no, it's your best friend!” she mocked him and he rolled his eyes at her. When silence followed the tension inside him grew and peaked the moment he grew aware that she was really close to him and he was actually holding her. Eyeing her in that dress, he cleared his throat: “I meant to tell you earlier, but you looked really pretty tonight. You actually still do.” Suddenly she unraveled the reason behind his awkward act and all the feelings she cherished for him  years ago were re-awakened inside her at that very moment. Naturally she lowered her eyelids and after the shock of the discovery of Sonic's feelings a warm smile played her lips. The pink female placed her right hand on his chest and her left around his waist, their gaze still locked. This tensity between them was different from the crush she had had on him before when she was younger. Desire roared inside him and accelerated his pulse. She titled her head and he felt her warm breath softly brush against his lips, her scent intoxicating his mind with eagerness to have all of her. But they were friends! She didn't have a crush on him anymore, had she? His twisted mind protested, logic arguing with his emotions. And then she silenced those doubts. In a gust she pulled him closer and pressed her lips against his. And just like that she was all he could breathe, all he could feel and he was all for her.

But now everyone does and I'm to blame! I'm sorry Sonic!   Okay, maybe I'm not that sorry.   READ! This takes place in my Young Adults Alternate Universe (YAAU) BEFORE the actual story starts. Amy is still studying to get her bachelor here, so she's about 4 years younger here or so. Don't know exactly and I don't think it matters that much. You can find the main story in my gallery (including artwork), but here's a link to the first chapter. Note that this is not a Sonamy story and I don't know if I will develop them as a pair in the story in the future. And here's the sonamy picture that I was talking about. Inspirations for this story and artwork were the songs Still falling for you (acoustic version by Sara Farell and Somon Samaeng) and Ed Sheeran's Perfect (also acoustic). And just like that All I breathe All I feel You are all for me I'm in And just like that All I breathe All I feel You are all for me No one can lift me, catch me the way that you do I'm still falling for you [Still Falling For You- Ellie Goulding]