#not really related to any archie story i just stole the characters lol

[thethee]

remember that au i was talking abt (no)

basically if knuckles and dr finitevus ended up being the last echidnas for some reason so knuckles was pretty much raised by him

[fortruechaos-moved]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; mun & muse.

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tagged by:  Stole from @spiritwinding​ SWEET I MISSED U tagging:  Anyone who wants to use this as an excuse to do smth that isn’t drafts-related (aka me)

my muse is:  canon / oc / au (? technically?) / canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES (:/) / NO / IDK. Is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK Are they underrated?  YES / NO (lmaaao) / IDK Were they relevant for the main story?  YES / NO. (depends on the game) Were they relevant for the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG. Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO. How’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. (depends on who you talk to) How strictly do you follow canon?  —  Shadow’s world is mostly game-verse but I take heavy influence from the things I like about Archie and have included mentions of the Freedom Fighters + Suppression Squad. ShTH doesn’t happen. Shadow doesn’t get Zombotted. So....lol I basically just make up my own canon of things I like tbh

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.  —  If you’re tired of SEGA trying to make Shadow into the asshole he is today and you were also tired of super bland-ass cardboard Shadow....welcome to my blog. Shadow’s a good guy, he just doesn’t know how to show it and he’s trying to atone for his previous fuck-ups. He’s someone who constantly struggles with his past despite trying to move past it and into a better life, despite his claims of ‘moving on’ and he is--but he’s still got lots of guilt. He is sharp edges with a heart of gold and an arrogant grin to back it up.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).  — After SA2 SEGA decided to make Shadow the epitome of the :| emoji and have no personality, and recently they’ve made him a shitty person and undone pretty much any sense of character development he had--his promise to Maria to protect people? Down the drain in favor of his “fucc u sonic” attitude when REALLY Shadow would never put something as petty as that above Maria. Any arrogance, any sense of ‘edge’ and ‘cool’ to Shadow? Gone. God damnit.

What inspired you to rp your muse? — Literally just being mad about how SEGA has written Shadow and feeling like I could do better lol

What keeps your inspiration going? —  Growing up with Sonic, mostly? I know almost everything about the series and being able to create new lore and cherrypick the bits of canon I like to make a new world is just...really fun.

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters.

Do you think you give your character justice?  YES (I can definitely improve in some areas but I know I can write Shadow well at this point) / NO / I SINCERELY HOPE I DO? Do you frequently write headcanons?  Sometimes; with headcanons I usually need some seed of inspiration to hit me and then all these ideas hit me at once and I can’t shut up. Usually RBing headcanon asks helps. Do you sometimes write drabbles?  YES / NO Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO / SORT OF? (anxiety) Are you confident in your writing?  YES / NO. Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO. / SORTA. Do you accept criticism about your portrayal?  —  Always. On things that are actually important. If someone’s gonna criticize my Shadow for being too SA2-y or too canon-divergent or they’re gonna have an issue with ShTH not being canon on my blog? Boi go find another Shadow blog, there’s literally no shortage of us, he’s the most popular character in the franchise behind Sonic himself.

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?  —  YES? Do people not like this?

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?  —  Oh always. Shadow has gone through 34852934 different portrayals and I am interested to see what my fellow Shadow-muns think about his writing or the differences in their headcanons. I have an issue with the term ‘disagree,’ because it’s headcanon--not actual canon...we all just have different opinions and that’s fine

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it? — I’d be kind of frustrated, because I’m very straight-up in my doc about how my Shadow doesn’t adhere to any one canon and he’s not going to be the version of Shadow you’ve seen in modern portrayals because I DON’T LIKE THAT VERSION OF SHADOW. So it just shows an absolute disregard for my rules and my Google Doc.

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it? — Shadow’s an overrated character and I’ll be the first to say it but he’s MY overrated character and I’m tired of the needless hate on him for him being a dramatic bitch

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors? — Fuck proofreading. Go for it but also...why bother lol. They’re there. Usually my grammar’s good so I don’t care.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?   —  Pls say hi. I know I’ve been MIA but I wuv this blog

[patchdotexe]

SO bc i was talking abt character names earlier, HERE’S ALL THE REASONING BEHIND ALL THE NAMES IN CHAOSVERSE

Chaosverse itself started as just kind of a general name i used for my various Sonic aus during KL-- yknow, like any of the Sonic-related worlds Ku and friends would end up visited would be labeled as part of the Chaosverse, bc Chaos Emeralds. it just kinda stuck, even though now the AUs/stories originally under that label are now under the name Shattered Worlds. the fancy designation for it, CAV-4, is because Chaosverse and the 4 is a reference to Shattered Worlds.

Sik is pretty fun-- in-universe, “Sik” is a corruption of “SK”, which is short for “Super Katie” (my ~online name~ for a while). King’s the only character that still calls him Katie or SK, though. his last name, Lang, is a reference to a character i had in a dA group that was designed after him named Language; es name got shortened to Lang a lot, and when i wanted to change Sik’s last name from what it originally was (more on that in a bit) it just sounded nice.

Tide originally had water powers! and was blue. now she’s kinda like... i dunno, seafoam green? her last name, Sanglo, was suggested by a friend and im not sure where he got it from. we say it kind of like “sand glow” but without the d, and i have no idea if thats how it was intended to be pronounced. the cool alias she uses while EX Gear racing, Riptide, was a name she had a bit in 2007 (oh god).

Kara’s original name for, like, the longest time, was Caracal so i just shortened it and turned the C into a K. she’s technically Kara the Caracal, which is... why i changed it bc having a caracal oc named Caracal felt a bit silly. originally her full name was Caracal Catt, so i usually write her down as Kara the Cat. she doesnt have a last name anymore because i couldnt think of any that i liked

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Double and Copy’s kinda pokes fun at something from Shattered Worlds, where Tails’s interdimensional clone got named Copy and there was a good amount of angst over it and it sucked to look back on. the Dallas boys are basically expies of those two, but it didnt really make sense for Copy’s nickname to exist when he’s not a clone, they’re just parallel selves. so... the idea is that they’re poking fun at the idea in-universe by calling each other the “fake” as a joke. their actual name, Daedalus, is uh... the name i gave to Tails’s fankid with Tide in SW, and their last name Perrow is a corruption of Prower (which Jorb came up with). so, yeah, these two literally started out as two Tailses.

Aile is named after one of the player characters from Megaman ZX for no reason beyond the fact that i was major into it at the time and i thought it sounded nice. the fact that he has a matching name with Vent was a total accident because originally they werent ever going to interact, and now theyre boyfriends? i have absolutely no memory of where his last name, Graff, came from.

Vent is also named after one of the player characters from Megaman ZX! again, no reason beyond the fact that i really like the game and i thought it sounded cool. his full name is written down on toyhouse as Test Model NM-155 “Vent”, with the NM standing for “Neometal” as in Neo Metal Sonic. i dont remember where the numbers came from. his first name pre-roboticization, Evan, is.. actually a reference to Evan Stanley, the creator of the sonic fancomic Ghosts of the Future & artist on Archie Sonic + IDW! im pretty sure. fun fact: in SW, he was codenamed “Mekion”, which is straight up a Netraptor reference.

King is named after our best friend from middle school, who he’s also based off of (although the friend spelled it with a “y” last we knew him). kyng was like, one of the only people we knew irl that was into sonic, and he helped us come up with a lot of ideas and stories and characters that carries over even into cv. we... kind of stole his character design after we moved away, lol. him being Sik’s cousin was something established with kyng years ago as a fun background detail, and then it ended up becoming plot relevant in cv? wild. his last name that he doesnt really use, Roe, was actually Sik’s last name for years and he ended up with it to like.. reinforce the fact that theyre related? i think we came up with it bc a) we knew someone with it as a last name and we thought it was kinda cool and b) SK’s boyfriend (who no longer exists, he was created by someone we havent talked to in about 10 years) had it as a pun name... thing. (Cojiro -> Coji Roe)

Seven is hilarious because i kept struggling with naming her. her name was originally Kath, then it kept getting changed-- the only one i remember is Lee-- and i was telling jorb about it like “god damn i cant think of a good name for her, she’s had like seven names” and he joked that she should be named Seven and... and now she’s named Seven. mostly because her last name is Zero, which is a reference to Chaos 0 because when i first came up with her she was like... an analogue to Tikal, like how King used to be an analogue to Sonic.

Amber is kind of boring. i liked the name, and her last name Rush is because i wrote a fanfic with her and Seven years and years ago where they were going through all the Sonic Rush levels together (i think it was called “Kath’s Adventure: Sonic Rush” or something like that).

Lynn is from the same fanfic, actually! him, amber, and seven are friends. his name was originally “Light” because he could run at the speed of light or some shit, so i just... picked a name that was vaguely similar. i dont remember where his last name Kimberly came from and i cant seem to find any like.. written down evidence of it coming into existence?

Vance was originally named Ven but then Vent started existing and it was bound to get super confusing so i changed it. WAIT HOLD ON APPARENTLY THEIR NAME USED TO BE VEN LYNNE? WHAT. OKAY. i guess Layton was kind of picked bc of starting w/ the same letter???

Isaac Brenlo was entirely named by someone else! he’s a legacy character of sorts, in that a couple plot-important characters were made and written by somebody else in rps and they carried over. i forgot he had a first name for a really long time tho bc he’s usually just called brenlo

Brooke is named after someone we knew! kind of! we keep calling her by her last name bc thats what our friend’s name was. her first name, Emily, was a character that friend had. there is... basically no correlation beyond that, i think.

Wayne is a legacy character like brenlo (and is even by the same person), and i dont remember where his name came from. i think it was originally intended to be something just kinda silly-sounding, bc he was a joke character for a while before becoming serious and plot-important. his last name, Bay, is a reference to a major location in the rp continuity and also where he lived, Junkyard Bay! fun fact he used to be a prower.

Tru is, uh. i dont remember where her first name is from, but her last name is bc “they’re good dogs, brent”

i’m pretty sure Octave got named Octave bc i thought it sounded cool. her last name, Trigger, is... actually the name of a different oc i had around the same time? Trigger the Mongoose. they had no connection and i kind of forgot she existed until now. she had horrible fashion sense but now octave has her colourscheme on sheer accident (bc octave’s palette was randomized)

uhhh what else is interesting... Ripley got her name from a SRB2 modpack oc i had that was like, a tails clone, and the plot of the modpack was you were trapped on a space station that got attacked by metroids and you had to escape, so its probably a reference to Ripley from Alien? cvsonic has a first name and its Oliver bc of the stupid name ken penders came up with and i made it less bad. (she also has a last name! it’s Lang. cause, yknow, sik’s her cousin.) jorb came up with Suki (Blue’s real name) which is also derived from SK like Sik is! and.. i think that’s it.

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