#shxdesofchaos

[agodlikehog]

Infinite gave a soft hum when he was sure the little one had fallen asleep, tucking him close, but still cradling him, he then quickened his pacing now that he could focus ahead of himself. He used his other paw as some form of warmth, given he had no blanket around, and followed after amy with the others soon behind.

It took a good while considering most of them didnt have the speed the deity’s had, shadow and Metal took the lead due to their speeds and eventually after awhile of walking through the mucky, rainy hills, they made it to the temporary camp they’d set up. Temporary, because they had no idea when the gods would switch zones on them. Infinite quickly took himself and the hoglet into one of the warm tents where he simply curled up on the sleeping bag setup while still holding umbra, keeping him close, and warmer now that he had a blanket to wrap around them both- while he let the others scramble to find the hoglet something to eat. The jackal kept a close eye on him and seemed to be essentially using his body as a big shield so if anything were to suddenly attack, they’d hit him first and not the vulnerable lil hoglet. Though, he did keep himself busy by cleaning the little one’s headfurs and quills very gently as to not disturb his rest.

“Umbra, hm? Thats a wonderful name sweetheart.” Amy cooed gently, a soft smile on her face however her attention quickly went to the brawling to make sure it was safe to get out of the cave or if a fight was blocking it, when she was sure it was clear, she turned back to infinite with a soft nod and squeak to alert him to follow as she quickly made it for the exit.

Infinites ears perked at the request, and moved to shape his arms in a cradle and softly lower his head and plop umbra int9 his arms to cradle him, after he had him situated he quickly moved after amy- and once outside, he promptly began running his tongue over the baby hoglets fur, making sure to be extra gentle and careful, mothers touch, sort of thing, as he began to clean the little one the best he could. He was dead silent so he could focus on caring and cleaning for the hoglet while following amy by keeping an eye on her pink fur and red dress infront of him. Luckily the boys did good to bodyblock the exit so the deity’s couldn’t follow, for now. Eventually, infinite would speak up, but it was a hushed tone of gentle song to soothe the sleepy hoglet, softly rubbing his small stomach with two digits and claws. He knew he enjoyed that as a pup, so he was essentially following instinct and what his mother did.

[asktheevilgeniusesson]

@shxdesofchaos liked for a Lore-based starter!

It had been nothing but pain and suffering on both sides. A fight that surely wouldnt be forgotten right?- well- thats what infinite thought. Along the lines that he’d win aswell- fueled by pure rage, sadness, and etc- the jackal had fought till he couldnt anymore with the ruby against the hero’s. And when he finally realized he couldnt beat them- it was too late. The last thing the jackal remembered was a harsh strike of chaos energy through his body and plummeting from where he was flying in the air.

His ‘body’ had been lost to the heros, due to the fact in a last ditch effort to preserve the jackals life- he had been trapped inside the ruby that kept his body alive. And because of that- they had yet to find where the gem had clattered to. And that was probably for the best- there was alot of discussion about snapping or destroying the gem. Which, in turn- meant killing infinite.

His fate rested in the hands of whoever found the ruby first, it seemed. It laid under some bloodied bushes- laying in a puddle of blood from the jackal that made it look like the ruby was bleeding or melting into it. But it was just from the jackal. It made good to try and not glow very brightly to not alert danger, the only remaining item of the jackal- for the moment- was his mask, that was discarded on the floor a distance away from where the ruby hid itself.

[dr-starline]

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[therestingwaves]

Umbra has been sprawled out with all manner of Chao lying on him for the past few hours.

He may have fallen asleep. It's... difficult to tell.

(This is technically at both Chaos and Chip)

- @shxdesofchaos

Feeling an uninvited presence in the chao gardens has definitely caught the attention of chaos himself, afterall, its just supposed to be the chao here. He doesn’t usually invite mobians to his gardens out of the fact he knows they’ve been developing… eating habits. To eat his chao. So, ofcourse from the gardens pool, water ripples as the god emerges, sure, chip didnt seem panicked telling him there was somebody and he couldnt hear chaos panicking but he wasn’t convinced yet.

Before you know it, umbra has a slightly angry god of water looming over him. Trying to understand what in the blazes could be happening here and how all the chao are just. Piled like that. Bright green eyes shining down on them all until one of the chao seem to stir, and get excited seeing him. Which ofcourse is starting some chain reaction of chao waking up happy to see chaos. Reaching a hand over them, he roughly taps the mobians forehead. Narrowing his eyes.

[glitchedxout]

@shxdesofchaos

The bioweapon clicked one of his talons against the floor, staring at the hedgehog with a tilted head. Normally, the Indoraptor was aggressive towards anything that moved but this case was...different.

Something about the other didn't smell right, a pheromone that made his quills stand on end.

A kindred soul, perhaps?"

[ultimachaos]

"Eternity is not really a blessing, but a curse." - @shxdesofchaos (to Lancelot)

@shxdesofchaos

"Yes… I agree, eternity does appear as the desire of many, yet as thou dost dwell within its grasp thou shalt perceive it as a dire curse. It's sad that the multitude are blind to such truth…"

[a0iakuma]

@shxdesofchaos requested a starter for the displaced future.

He sat there with new shorter quills ⸻ cut down to the base of his neck, a different change and a new way to cope. He had a photo album. It wasn't open yet as Sonic was hesitating. His fingers have been brushing against the spine for minutes now, then he pushes it to Umbra. He promises himself not to cry, but it was hard when he was on edge. ( Though it felt like he always on edge. )

“ It's still too much for me. I don't think I can do this yet. ” He can't bear seeing his friends, knowing that they've all passed now. Even his brother, Tails.

[adarkpastandbrightfuture]

"...Hm. I forgot I used to be this small." - @shxdesofchaos

“‘Used to be’? what the fuck is that supposed to-“

…oh. That is. A very tall version of him, isnt it? The ebony hedgehog stared up at the taller variant with a narrow-eyed look, flicking his ears back just abit in a minor annoyance. First, another silver that gave him a headache. Now another version of himself? Atleast he wasn’t screaming.

“..hm. I see now. I assume you got stuck in this timeline like the other silver did? Im not sure if i’m the right hedgehog to come to about timeline hopping mishaps.”

[timeclipsed]

🕯️-shxdesofchaos (for Umbra)

send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character. (status — closed!)

Oh, this one. Didn't you indirectly tell me I was cute? What the hell is cute about me, for one, and two, what gives you the right to call me cute?... Whatever, you're a step up from all of the other ones, at least. I can play nice for now. We can stay indifferent like this, just as long as you don't fucking call me Maria.

[icxlledyoushxdow]

@shxdesofchaos Came to see Maria~!

"Ugh, this cold weather is pretty tough on an old lady's joints..." Maria muttered to herself, hobbling along on her way home from being out all day. It was a relatively cold day outside, though as she continued on her way, she spotted a familiar figure and blinked a little. It couldn't be...Could it..?

"Shadow? Is that you?"

[umbrumsol]

[ guard ] - shxdesofchaos (perhaps protecting him from G.U.N trying to "re-aquire" him?)

@shxdesofchaos

it knew this creature.

the memory of oozing darkness slipping into ports and plugs, overloaded with information, statistics, data. everything that the wretched captors were hiding. including this being.

the same being it had modeled its physical form after.

mephiles tilted his head to the side, though it was hard to adjust to having a shape, making it resemble a doll with a broken neck more than anything. project shadow. founded in 1974. ended in [REDACTED].

"shadow." it warbled, taking a step to be at his side. "destroy them."

[agodlikehog]

Umbra was tense. Disbelieving. There was no way. No way.

That couldn't be him. He had seen him. Had watched as the virus... completely consumed him and turned him into nothing but a puddle of more of that dangerously infectious substance. And yet. Here he... seemed to be. Was he hallucinating? Had the virus evolved more? Dear Chaos... sweet Gaia... he hoped not. If it evolved more, it could risk his current immunity to it.

"... You're supposed to be dead." Umbra said tightly. His arms and legs were wrapped in thick metal based fibers so he could make sure to grab supplies without getting superficial wounds on the limbs from broken glass and other inorganic material or on the sharp spikes of some of the... zombots wandering about.

He drops instantly into a defensive stance. His eyes have turned a golden tint from the constant use of Chaos energy. One of his inhibitor rings looked recently repaired. The other was dull and seemed on the verge of cracking. He's looking over the bloodied hedgehog, visibly wary and almost anxious and high strung.

- @shxdesofchaos

Kolossus had been.. confused at first. Obviously this wasnt the survivor they’d been tormenting for so long, he lacked the multiple eyes on the face. But the fear didnt go unnoticed. Infact the huge bloodied hog fed off that fear. Thats why he tormented them. Not for fun, but to feed off their fear. Their despair. And feed off their bodies. He was a hunter. A predator. Not someone to play games.

So as the hedgehog stared him over, noticing that hes taller than the survivor hes used to seeing, kolossus leans forward twords umbra, mouth tilted upwards in a toothy smile. Large tail slowly wagging as he flexes his singular paw. He certainly looks fucked up. One singular arm intact, the other stripped of flesh and fur, a mess of tissue, muscle, and bone. With three sharp bones jutting where his paw used to be. Blood soaking his fur and not to mention.. the fact hes littered in wounds. From burn scarring to downright bite marks or deep gashes, hes been through the wringer of determined survivors prey. He lets out a dark little laugh, its gurgled and ugly, as blood wells in his throat from the movements until it pools from his mouth as he isn’t bothered to spit.

“Tteehcnically… dead…” he stutters out through gargles and gags. Hes usually silent for a reason but perhaps this other shadow dserves some awnser.

[asktheevilgeniusesson]

Tests were hard. He'd just gotten done with one, singed and still slightly twitchy from the level of electrical current they'd pumped through his body. The professor had been overseeing it. And... for a moment, he hadn't seemed so nice.

'An Ultimate Lifeform shouldn't have limits.'

Those words echoed in the tiny hog's brain as he was let down and allowed, at minimum, to allow the aftereffects of the test to run their course.

Or at least, that had been the idea. The walls had become unfamiliar and instead of space outside with a view of the planet... he saw... trees?

The hoglet gave a confused noise before bumping into a leg and falling backward, the small contact causing a tiny bit of the static electricity still in his quills to transfer to the fur on the limb.

"Ow—huh?" (To Infinite — @shxdesofchaos )

Infinite had been out on a patrol as usual, to sniff out any unwelcome guests trying to infiltrate the base.. the basics of his job when it wasnt time to beat the snot outta the heros. So you could imagine when the mercenary felt something touch,and then shock his leg ever so slightly, he whipped around and without missing a beat, sliced his dagger twords the sudden contact, narrowly missing the little hoglet as his dagger stabs into the ground in a violent manner that digs through the dirt. Noticing he missed, he immediatly turns his head to glare the new target dead in the eyes. Thats when he sees what and who it is.

Shadow. But young. Small. Tiny. And alittle fritzed on electricity. Its not hard to notice his eye shrinking in size and oupil sharpening like a snake eye almost as a deep guttural snarl escapes his throat. Looming over thr little thing with heavy breaths and angry dog snarling. This little shit. This little thing.. it’d grow up to torment him. He couldnt find himself wondering how shadow was this small. Or why he was this small. He didnt care. All he could think or focus on was the hoglet underneath him and the voice of the ruby. Invisible claws wrapping around his body in a safe hug as an invisible force whispers through his ear. This thing wasnt some innocent child.

It was to grow to be genocidal maniac. Deserving of death.

With that in mind. He yanks the dagger from the grass and lifts it over the little thing, a crazed look in his eye as the glowing red sclera brightens more. Turning his pupil the same red as the ruby with little purple swirls that mimic its design.

“Ohohoh.. YOU. YOU’RE GOING TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU’VE DONE.”

[dr-starline]

@the-muse-coven/@fragmented-deity/@shxdesofchaos liked for a doodle!

I couldn't decide which to draw so i did both. He barely ever meets people taller than him...

[lunargcat]

shadow ( @shxdesofchaos ) // continued X

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a soft bleat of protest was all he could manage. his knees felt like they were made out of liquid, so he didn't need to be asked twice before he was wobbling and plopping himself down on the ground.

it seemed like such an insignificant attack at first- a simple blow to the back of his head from what he perceived to be a lesser lifeform. and yet, here he was. the son of the moon, seated in the dirt with a throbbing head (that was probably bleeding) and jelly limbs.

what would mother say to such a thing?

"i trained you better than this." the words would spill off her tongue like acid, her disappointment melting all the way into his false bones. "you were supposed to be stronger. you were created to be stronger."

a soft sniffle reached his ears and it took him a good moment to realize it had come from himself. was he....? no! he couldn't be crying over something as trivial as this.

maybe it wasn't the wound that was making him so upset.

"mother would be so furious with me...." jericho mumbled, curling his unnatural tail around his waist.

[afracturedexistence]

If Mephiles didn’t know better, he’d say that the other was annoyed by this request. Maybe. Either way, he didn’t care terribly about that — this information, he decided, was long overdue. Or rather, an understanding of it. Over the years, there had been whispers that he had picked up, little tidbits here and there of information that his old adversary wasn’t quite what he thought them to be. And this alternate was just confirming that. Should all of this be applicable to others across the multiverse, of course.

The logic was… interesting. Create something immune to the problems you wanted to solve, then… what, study it to learn how and why it was immune? That was very curious to him. Only a less advanced mortal race would work in such a way, he decided, assuming that he understood correctly. And following that, he wondered just what sort of problems for the scientists that introducing alien DNA might have for their prospective cures.

“You were engineered to be perfect,” he said out loud with a thoughtful expression. Mephiles shook his head to himself a moment later, knowing the answer, but he had to ask.

“This story of yours — is it a… a typical one for those with your face?”

"Ah. I believe only Deity and god have similar definitions, elemental is usually something different." Umbra starts off with, "Though stating you do not have any particular preference would have worked as an answer as well if you truly don't."

The ebony hedgehog paused as he heard the rest of it, an ear twitching. Right, if he didn't know about Chaos Drives, he likely didn't know about Gerald either. He took a slower, deeper breath as this would be a bit more of a sound bite than he normally was.

"...I was created, not born. G.U.N... the Guardian Units of Nations which are a military group... funded the project which led to my creation and also those of the chaos drives, which were made in conjunction with myself as they were a part of the project's process. Essentially, I'm an artificially created lifeform. An experiment."

"I'm considered the solution for those of whom the answer to their prayer is 'no'. I was created by Gerald to be the cure for all diseases and illnesses by making sure upon my creation that I was immune to them." Umbra began to explain the core idea of the project that had created him in incredibly rudimentary, bare bones skeletal details so that the base idea of what was meant to be accomplished would be understood.

"They utilized alien DNA... that which causes things like these wings that I have already explained regarding the Black Arms, and then Mobian hedgehog DNA in order to give me a form that resembles a mural on Angel Island, a floating island that is where the Echidnas lived and the Master Emerald is kept. As well as in order to make sure that I was stable for the level of raw chaos energy they put in my system through those drives, which enables me to utilize Chaos Energy the way I do." Umbra stated.

His voice tone is detached as he explained it, as it's not the first time that he's talked about it. He'd done so on the ARK when gathering the emeralds back then for the Eclipse Cannon. It's not difficult to talk about, at least, not in the level of detail that he is purposefully leaving out since Mephiles had not asked for an in-depth explanation. Even if there are a great many implications of just how Gerald and the other scientists who would have been helping the professor would have made sure that Shadow was actually immune to all diseases and illnesses. Not that he had ever gotten to the part where he was used as a cure. The ARK raid had seen to that.