#movieverse nova being a more inexperienced metal sonic like how movieverse sonic was younger and less experienced is like

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

been thinking about how nova au would work in the movie verse bc i think her and movie!sonic would be very funny and i spent the entire time watching sonic 3 again not stimming in pure excitement thinking about it so here’s like. my au of my au. uh. sonic 3 spoilers below.

so, the idea i have with movieverse!nova is that she'd be the main metal sonic seen in the post credits scene disguising herself after she failed to simply assassinate sonic. she’s more cunning than her “sisters” and has her shapeshifting from heroes so she creates her nova form as a way to keep track of her prey without suspicion- after having feigned an attack on her by the other metals, so people trust she has nothing to do with them.

so, after finding someone like them being attacked and clinging to them terrified and alone team sonic and co immediately take nova in, bc the exact traits that make her suspicious in the main au accidentally make for a great disguise for a literal alien child. her lack of familiarity with social skills or even basic concepts like hugs, her clinginess and lack of personal space, her being very cagey about her past… it makes total sense for a lost child in an entirely new world.

and, from past experience, they’ve found their fellow “aliens” to be at worst angry and misguided, so what genuinely unambiguously concerning gets interpreted through that lens. she might be weirdly morbidly fascinated by violence and eager to fight, but knuckles is like that and he's a decent guy. she might be standoffish and rude and prone to overreacting, but so was shadow and… they don’t want to think about that. it’s confusing. and like obviously no matter the circumstances the concerning stuff that’s literally “i was horrifically abused isn’t that cool i love that” is not going to be blamed on her in any universe bc it’s. not a mark against her it’s a mark against her family.

but like the thing is! movieverse!nova hasn’t gone through her psychotic spiral like in the main au. she hasn’t been through much of anything, because she hasn’t had a prolonged rivalry with sonic yet, and she perceives herself as a tool to kill sonic. so while original nova has had years for anger and resentment to breed, movie!nova is practically a blank slate. sure, she’s been following orders for as long as she's been activated, but she's been in a miserable haze through that, only getting satisfaction out of making others suffer as much as her. she's experiencing all these things for the first time- and without the anger and delusions that developed from years of endless trauma and neglect, she's like. still developing her worldview and sense of self. and she has a positive influence now!

so she’s actually a lot less fucked up than the og nova! she's still obsessively focused on the whole killing and becoming sonic thing, she literally physically cannot help that, but she's able to flourish a lot better under actual decent parents tom and maddie (not that her dads don't care for her, they’re just awful parents who are at their best neglectful to an extreme) a healthy friendship with sonic tails and knuckles and especially with amy essentially taking her under her wing as a cute little sister (this also means her egg cracked wayyyyy earlier lol) and so she’s. still a sadistic egomaniac murder robot who thinks fundamentally differently but she's got some sense of morality and compassion for others. even if it’s just to make her friends happy. she's also a lot less paranoid and doesn’t self harm constantly! which is a massive improvement mental health wise. dw she's still a deviantart kid goth girl hatsune miku fan girl that’s just who she is deep down that has not changed one bit.

so like, in this case, instead of basically double crossing everyone, she does pretty definitively switch sides- but she's still dishonest and manipulative bc she’s terrified of the only people who’ve ever shown her kindness without expectation will abandon her if she ever reveals herself. but she still does eventually, when her new friends are in danger and she shifts back to protect them which leads to them understandably freaking out bc of the whole Designed To Murder People Thing not helped with her being terrible at explaining so they think she didn’t mean any of it and she thinks they'd never accept her because she's a fundamentally Bad Thing that shouldn’t ever exist so. yeah she does the ova thing and basically lets herself die protecting them bc there can only be one sonic and she’s inherently a blight on this world. which proves she does care but also means she’s kinda fucked.

though thankfully she's not Destroyed here- tails repairs her, albeit in an extremely weakened state bc he struggles with eggman's code on her. unfortunately this means she’s unable to keep up her transformed state (which also means she’s mute) which genuinely despite hating at first causes her a lot of distress bc she liked being nova, even though she also likes being metal sonic. and she still feels like an awful useless burden bc whoops doing the nova thing way earlier in her mental development just gave her way different self esteem issues! she feels alienated from those who care about her and unable to even pretend to be like them so she's honestly even more of a wreck than base nova bc i refuse to allow her to be a fundamentally happy person. so while the problem is defeated she feels trapped between two worlds, is expecting abandonment at any time, and also can barely walk let alone fight.

and then sonic 5 happens and she rips silvers eye out again or something idk man.