#sa1 au

[whimsical-sonic]

teehee

[moodlemcdoodle]

Concept design sketches for the main cast of Sonic Adventure in my superhero human AU! With both their hero personas and secret identities! (Or, in Knuckles’ case, his real identity and a casual style disguise for going about the city unbothered lol)

ALSO if you’re wondering why Tails and especially Big are still furries here… well this isn’t just a human AU, it’s also a superheroes AU so they all have the same powers that they have in canon! Tails is a shapeshifting kitsune who still uses his two tails to fly, and Big is a mutant and the local cryptid of the Mystic Ruins… but he’s still just a chill dude who likes fishing! He’s not exactly a ‘hero’ but he does have powers and likes to use them to help out his friends :)

[couch-house]

AITA? My (30M) brother (27M) beat my ass because he thought my dad was dead

INFO: Technically he's my brother's dad too, but I don't like him

[rustedrocket]

she can be your pacifist or pass this fist through your teeth

[chiptunepacifist]

SpongeBob Adventure DX

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[cupofadonis]

Tikal and Shadow of Moebius

Or maybe IxTab and Bolide ?

I'd love to read your comments and thoughts on this matter

I wanted to draw my own versions of the characters from Anti-Mobius.

P.s: IxTab - Goddess of sacrifice and hara-kiri in Mayan mythology

Bolide - "throwing spear". This is a bright, large meteorite

It would be fun to imagine SA1 and SA2 from Scourge's perspective! :

Where in Tikal's case, she and Chaos would try to flood Scourge's kingdom, believing war to be the only correct solution to problems.

And Shadow would be a follower of Black Arms and come to usurp power Lol

[adhd-sonic-the-hedgehog]

hey ya'll wanna see a hyper-specific au i've been working on for months because of schoolwork, inspiration loss and procrastination?

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[sonicexelle-junkary]

Finally sat down to properly design this girl I love what I did for her (and this story) tho I know I’ll rarely post anything about it

What’s her deal? Will I say anything about it? Probably?

[azuredreamrealm]

Some character designs for the SA1 portion of my Sonic AU! the gang's all here

[emthimofnight]

YEAH NO YOU'RE 100% RIGHT LMAO. I was talking with my friend about this, how Void would only really be able to catch feelings for someone he sees as a peer or someone who can actually best him. Those feelings would also not be very healthy, translating into Void fixating or obsessing over whoever he had grown attached to.

Void has a god complex, and because of that, he puts himself up on a pedestal above everyone else. This only results in him becoming isolated, believing himself to be the only person in the world. In his perspective, anyone he can recognize as an equal can only be two things, 1) a competitor that must be erased or 2) a kindred spirit to be latched on to.

I think, at his core, Void is actually lonely. I don't think he actually consciously acknowledges it, but he's a deeply empty person. He craves power above all else, and his ego is entirely attached to his own self-perceived superiority over everyone around him. Shipping Void is like trying to give a tiger that's spent its whole life in a zoo a mate, you carefully introduce them and hope he sees the other tiger as a potential partner instead of competition. 😂

So, the voices of brainrot won so I had to put this into words cause I have been thinking about this idea for about… two hours now and I HAVE to put it out there.

The character I was thinking about was a Sonadow fan kid Void made by the wonderful @emthimofnight . Go check out all of her work, it’s absolutely divine! Her stuff is what ultimately inspired me to start drafting my own Sonadow fan kid.

Anyways, I, the romance writer that I am, was trying to think of how the actual hell a romance Void would even come about. A TL;DR summary on Void as a character: Void is narcissistic, greedy, selfish, born and raised villain with a god-complex so massive it makes Mystic Messenger’s Rika’s complex look angelic by comparison. A romance between him and… well- literally anyone- would never work. Despite his good looks, no romance would get past the other person’s attempts to initiate as, in Emthimofnight’s own words on Void on a post about their character’s reactions to being confessed to, “He just assumes it is natural for someone to be attracted to him… …whether he actually reciprocates is entirely determined by what he could get out of the person confessing.”

However, in my continuous back and forth with myself, I kept coming back to the second and third words used to describe him, greedy and selfish. The reason being was that I technically already knew how to make a character like that enthralled into a romance thanks to a manga called, “Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun!”.

To keep myself from completely spoiling one of my, at the time of writing this post, two favourite archs in the whole manga, I’ll just describe the way the mangaka makes the greedy and selfish character fall in love with the object of their affection: B gives A a smack to the face with reality that their is someone above them, A’s sudden confusion and yet fascination with this new complete stranger who just broke into their head, the fascination leading to A trying to get B, only for B to be constantly putting themselves just out of reach A’s grasp, driving A to only want B more, finally, both dumbasses are into this so it keeps going.

The second step onwards aren’t exactly hard to to imagine happening, as they are just natural consequences of both characters’s writing, leading both characters to make to follow step after step. It was just that first step that was putting me in a bind. What in the hell would you have to do to make Void even consider you to be better than him? So, I kept trying to go back to what gave him the god complex in the first place. It was his ability to fight, right?

That’s when it hit me: someone just has to beat him in a fight.

Before you say that’s impossible, firstly, nothing is truly impossible in writing, secondly, if we’re talking about fighting, if someone is just as gifted as him that has done more training than him, bitch is getting his ass handed to him. People with god-complexes often either stop, or never started with gifted people, improving themselves in the area that gave them the god-complex in the first place. It’s why villains with them are defeated more often than ones without them.

Just imagining Void deeper and deeper into all consuming, rather obsessive, love that slowly drives to actually start getting stronger and stronger, while literally everyone watches in object horror, and as those who try to control him try to force him to stop, the end up giving up their hand, making Void doing the most selfish and greedy thing he could have ever done in that situation, leaving. That kind of stuff is what I live for.

Anyway’s, thank you for coming to my TED Talk, Imma go pass out now.

[goldengekkoz]

Totally normal conversation with a emerald definitely not talking to a ghost!

First(ish) time really drawing shadow not as a doodle and I think I need more practice lol

SO. this may be a au I'm making now (it's a slippery slope from "haha these two should be friends" to a incredibly complex lore dump that keeps me up till 3 am ) and if somebody wants info I will try and make a mildly coherent explanation

TLDR of the au for now: tikal chose to stay on earth after the end of sa1 to experience the present/future, but her soul is bound to the chaos energy and she uses the emeralds as portaly-windows into the physical plane of reality

shadow somehow, through use of some emeralds Tikal was linked to, gains the ability to see and hear her. Now she literally lives rent-free in his head.

[whimsical-sonic]

chaos possessed sonic, for funsies

[itz-pandora]

For my swap AU, I might actually take inspo from Frontiers for SHTH's swap, since it is more akin to Chaos and stuff

Idk what I'll do for SA1 tho lol, I still don't know half the swaps. Again, feel free to give me ideas :3

[the-sky-queen]

***spirits au?????***

Spirits AU!!!!!!

In Spirits, Sonic was born with the ability to see and interact with spirits - specifically the spirits of the dead, but he can see the spirits of living people too. And it's a good thing too, because the entire population of Christmas Island was wiped out when Sonic was a baby. (He didn't even realize he could see spirits or that his family + the entire population of the island were dead until just before SA1. He thought they were alive. 😭)

Anyway, yeah! The AU mostly explores the events of canon but with the added bonus of including Sonic's Spirit Sight. Stuff like Sonic knowing Shadow didn't die after falling from space because he doesn't find his spirit hanging out anywhere, seeing the spirits of jackal squad following Infinite around, and interacting with the Ancients during Frontiers.

Oh, and! There's a special little design quirk in this AU that I'm really proud of. In Spirits, whenever someone goes through an important event in their life, it leaves an imprint - a ripple - on their spirit, which manifests on their body as a circle with a line sticking out of it. For example, Sonic has ripples on the bottoms of his feet that appeared when he discovered his speed, and Shadow has a ripple over his heart that appeared when Maria got shot. (She has a ripple in the same place. 😭)

[umbra-borealis]

A peek at Tikal's AU design. SA1's events are the same 'cept she's not a child. She was outnumbered but not weak. In fact I think Knuckles inherited his own strength from her in this timeline so please picture at least a few soldiers slapped around.

I also like the thought that the bright red fur is a trait that started with her. I know her dad was brown, but most of the other echidnas were shades of pink (which I'm gonna go absolutely feral with in the future) Oh yeah Knuckles is a direct descendant in this, I know it's not canon, that's why it's an AU :U

Her whole body is sketched out already but my hand started to hurt so I slapped in a color palette that felt warm and regal and called it a day for now.

[meowzerswowzers]

Da big Shadow AU design doc

Decided to put together a little design document for my Shadow Is The Main Character AU. Most of this contains old art I've already posted, but it's helpful to put it side by side with the info for visual clarity.

Shadow is the protagonist au:

just a fun "what if" alternate history for sonic as a series. What if Shadow was the series' main character? How would it shape the tone and story of Sonic?

The Thesis:

To me, a lot of Sonic is about meeting people and helping them overcome their struggles. For Shadow, I picture the inverse. The people Shadow meets makes him a better person. Think a Yusuke Urameshi sort of journey.

Color palette identity:

Sonic is characterized with a lot of primary colors. It gives me the feeling of a bright waterpark. There's a lot of beachside imagery in Sonic that lends to this too.

For Shadow, something darker but not bleak is a good equivalent. Like those fun arcade carpets. If the idea is the series is still created in the 90s, but with Shadow as title character, the tone should reflect the sort of in-vogue imagery of the time.

Shadow's 2000s style COOL wasn't a thing yet. It would be something a little different...

Here's a scene I never fully colored, but it + my reference images kinda help get the idea across.

The Story:

Shadow's backstory largely remains the same. He is created by Gerald Robotnik in an attempt to find a cure for Maria's illness. The project is ended in the same hostile way, Maria sends Shadow to Earth to escape, she does not make it.

Shadow remains in a deep sleep where he lands, until the site is one day disturbed…

Fastforward:

Eggman has known about his grandfather's creation for his whole life. Despite his own innovations, he can never seem to get his world domination plans off the ground. Knowing what he does about Shadow, he's convinced that some part of his remains must still be out there. For years, he searches, until he is eventually successful.

Eggman finds the ruins of the crash site. There, he is determined to revive Shadow.

Picture the part of Megaman Zero where Ciel first finds Zero. That's the vibe.

Shadow knows who he is, who created him, but the details about his last moments aboard the Ark are fuzzy. Eggman introduces himself as part of Shadow's family, informing him Gerald was indeed his grandfather and Maria his cousin. He takes on a faux sympathetic role, telling Shadow all that's transpired since the loss of the Ark. Taking advantage of Shadow's lost memory, it is all too easy for Eggman to entice him to take revenge.

Shadow joins Eggman's side and a successful campaign to conquer the world ensues. But while Shadow is plagued by doubts, it takes far too long for him to realize this isn't what Maria would have wanted.

Eggman rules the planet.

Fastforward again:

Consumed with guilt, Shadow decides the only way for him to make amends for the destruction he's helped cause, is to turn against Eggman.

And so, Shadow's journey begins! This would be where the series starts. From here, Shadow continues to meet new friends who help him heal.

The Characters:

Shadow:

Design wise, he needed something to visually set him apart from Shadow as he currently is. I'm personally too big of a fan of his design to change much about him though, so I settled on a little tattered capelet that visually echoes Eggman's post SA1 coat. It shows his ties to Eggman, while also getting the idea across that he no longer holds allegiance to him.

Eggman:

Eggman is in complete control in this world (save for that pesky hedgehog). I wanted his design to reflect how much more laid back he is here. That corporate bigwig that brandishes luxury athleasure. He hasn't a care~

There's a bit of dark comedy and industrialism to his reign. Most goods are branded by him, he probably has his own fashion line. You'll love the new Eggman power suits, because you don't have any other options. There is some animosity on a personal level between him and Shadow too, but see Metal Shadow's section for that.

Tails:

Tails is still a work in progress, so I have less to write about him unfortunately. He and Shadow have a rocky start that later forms into the brotherly bond he and Sonic have. Tails marks Shadow's commitment to make things right. He's the first person he is able to rescue from Eggman. But that trust is hard earned, as Shadow's involvement can't be ignored. Eventually forgiven, but not forgotten.

Amy:

Amy's design is mostly just her Fleetway look, with a few touches of Shadow's colors to tie her to the setting. Amy is a waitress at a roadside coffee shop. But she's not satisfied with a lackluster job in Eggman's world. Amy has dreams of being a hero. By day, she is taking orders for waffles and pancakes, by night, she is a self proclaimed "vigilante of justice"! (Which mostly involves her sticking it to the man by smashing stuff with her hammer.)

Shadow and Tails meet her on their journey when they stop at the cafe for lunch. Shadow later meets her again during a late night of her smashing parking meters and other Eggman property.

Amy does have a crush on Shadow, but the difference is that she's eager to hide it. (yes, yes you can make your tsundere jokes now.)

Shadow may or may not feel something for her too (he isn't sure), but it's a limbo sort of romance sub plot. Forever sorta stays in the "will they, won't they" territory. Feels different enough from Sonic and Amy's one sided dynamic, while not straying too far either. Both versions never see any real resolution.

Metal Shadow:

Metal Shadow has his own side plot/character arc going on. Eggman creates him much in the same way as Metal Sonic. He's a tool meant to aid his fight against Shadow.

Eggman has a personal axe to grind here though. Harking on his dialog in Sonic Frontiers about how everyone ignored him in favor of Maria (and ykno. Generally being happy about the idea of Sage being like a daughter to him) Eggman does have a real want for a family connection. Shadow turning against him was another notch in the ol' abandonment issues. Metal Shadow may have also been made to fill some of that void. However, now that he's here, Metal Shadow is just a reminder of what's gone. While proud of his creation, Eggman resents Metal Shadow. Metal Shadow in turn, is a little confused.

oh yea and i still gotta hit him with a train somehow.