#we just need a rouge and a big from other dimensions the we're good

[a-v-j]

Spoiler for Sonic prime, not much details but heads up

Ayo- guessed who watched Sonic prime and then promptly made a possibly angsty au where sonic and shadow's...

home world is permanently shattered and that Sonic's access to other shatterverse poked a hole in that reality and so got shattered on the process. with only the remaining survivors of those worlds left, they settled in The Grim, much to Nine's dismay. Also shadow stayed in the shatterspace 'cause he doesn't wanna deal with anything and it's not too bad and it's quiet but kinda pops in to remind sonic he's an idiot

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

Perfect Paradise Ch.14:

The Risen are Ridden with Rhythm and Dance

Summary: On the Shadow Path.

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"How disturb-ox," Caramba muttered, rubbing the "chin" of his short, round, yellow exosuit.

Looking through the data on his other arm's wrist screen. Caramba paced the length of the Chaos. Occasionally glancing at the waters of the Seine below.

"How did they open a vortex without a Blix?' Carapace asked.

"They didn't," Cece slid down the mast onto the main deck of the Chaos. "The astronomical rings you described are an Aerian dimensional anchor. They must've waited for a vortex to open in the general vicinity of France and redirected it to Paris."

Rena Rouge smacked her fist into her palm. "That's why it didn't close! They were keeping the vortex open because it was their only way back."

"But what were they after?" Carapace asked.

"You have a matriarch in that zoo of yours don'tcha?" Zak pointed out.

"The Blix? Isn't it a bit big?" Rena held her hands up and moved them apart to represent the relative size of the giant jellyfish and the pirate ship.

"Never stopped them from trying before," Cece replied.

"An entire dimension between her and the Triangle and these boneheads still can't leave her alone. Typical," Zak muttered.

"I hear you dude," Carapace said.

"It was definitely one of Caligo's missing ships." Caramba pulled his robotic limbs in and rolled his spherical exosuit towards Cece. Popping back to his feet and showing her his wrist screen. "Look at the engine signature."

"Caligo?" Rena asked.

"Admiral Caligo. He's the only skeleton with an eye patch," Zak explained.

Rena Rouge's brow furrowed. "Why would a skeleton need an eye patch?"

"What's more surprising is that you can detect anything at all, little dude," Carapace said.

Caramba opened the face screen of his exosuit. The small green alien grinned, single antenna bobbing. "Wahoolian technology is far more advance-ox than Earth standard. The only civilization that comes close is- No, I shouldn't say."

"Spoilsport," Rena muttered, disappointed at not getting a hint.

"If my calculations are correct the rate at which viable vortexes are appearing outside the Bermuda Triangle is stabilizing," Caramba stated.

"That's good. Right? That sounds good," Carapace observed.

"It's within expectations," Caramba shrugged.

"Huh?" Rena gave them a confused look.

"Remember when I unlocked the Triangle twenty-ish years ago?" Zak asked.

"Vaguely."

"Vortexes started opening sporadically across the Earth due to so many dimensions of null-time being... Reattached, so to speak," Cece explained. "The imbalance only delayed the stabilization process. Now that Carapace's ward is in place it appears the metaphysics of the Triangle is making up for lost time."

The present members of the Seven C's laughed at what was probably an inside joke.

"Hear that Turtle dude? Progress already!" Zak held his arm up for a fist bump. Carapace obliged.

"However, it does mean that more vortexes are safe to travel through," Caramba said. "Usually exiting the Triangle would send you back to the time and place you entered it."

"But skeletons were never ones for rules," Cece said.

"Neither are we," Zak grinned.

"You think they'll try again?" Rena Rouge asked.

"Unlikely. Timeline pirates have to contend with the temporal authorit-ox of Timesters, your own Bunnyx and the anti-paradox magic of the Bermuda Triangle itself. Coming back is just asking to get caught."

"Silver lining. I'll take it," Carapace grinned.

Zak rubbed his hands together. "Great! Then we're done. And since we're already here might as well go sight seeing!"

"Uh, don't you think an Atlantian and a Wahoolian will attract attention? Paris pretty much assumes anyone weird is an akuma nowadays."

"Rena Rouge is correct Zak Storm," Cece agreed. "We would stand out."

"I've thought of that!" Caramba raised a finger and then brought it down on a device in his hand.

A holographic field spread out from it. Zak's sword vanished. Caramba appeared like a short, pudgy boy in a yellow shirt. And Cece's clothes changed to more surface appropriate attire. Her hair was still pink but the scales on her forehead and the points of her ears disappeared.

Cece touched the invisible fins along her forearms to make sure they were still there. "And this is why Atlantians don't like visiting the surface."

"Aw, c'mon!" Zak wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Already walking down the ramp. "It'll be fun! We can visit an aquarium if you get land sick."

"Very funny, Zak Storm."

Caramba stretched his exosuit arm from the walkway on the bank of the Seine to pat the Chaos' hull. "We'll be back before you know it!"

The Chaos' eyes glowed briefly as he acknowledged their departure.

Rena glanced down at them, still on the deck, and pointed. "Should we?"

Nino waved her concern away. "Ah, let 'em be tourists. They deserve a break."

"I thought you said there were seven of them?"

"Yeah, two of 'em are spending time with family in the Middle Ages and one's in the Golden Age of Piracy. Apparently."

"Shut up!"

"I'm serious! Time doesn't flow linearly in the Triangle. You know that, dude."

"I keep forgetting that they're older than they look."

"Zak and Cece are about our age."

"They look twenty!"

"Yeah, they don't spend much time outside the Triangle... Or at least Zak doesn't. Atlantian dudes do age slower than us."

"I'd be jealous if it didn't come with temporal displacement trauma."

"You still look beautiful, dude."

"I'll have you know that I'm not the type of girl who fools around with another man's husband."

"Ha, ha," but Nino couldn't quite hide his smile.

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[blazehedgehog]

Iizuka told famitsu that there is going to be “a second wave” of Sonic content in 2023 in addition to the Frontiers dlc. The Knuckles show is supposed to drop next year, along with more eps of Prime and the IDW comics… but do you think we could get any other Sonic games next year? Are you willing to make any predictions? Or fantasize about what you’d personally like to see in 2023?

I mean, we kind of know what that "second wave" is going to be -- most of the Sonic Frontiers DLC is slated for this year, at least one more Sonic Prime release (if not two), the Paramount show... they might start teasing the third movie, too.

The more I think about it, the more I think the Knuckles show has to be Sonic Adventure 1 as a setup for the third movie being Sonic Adventure 2. Going by that previous post, for Shadow's story to have real impact, we need setup for Echidna culture and the idea that Shadow was created based on ancient Echidna prophecies about Super Sonic fighting Eggman.

They could even make it more overt, even. Maybe the Echidna prophecy and mural shows Super Sonic and a scientist but it's not clear if they're fighting or not, leading to Gerald misinterpreting things as him creating Project Shadow. I don't think the TV show would have the budget to do Perfect Chaos, but there are certain things it needs to get in position to set up Shadow's relation to Sonic and also Knuckles, I think.

It probably won't be faithful to the games, much in the same way a lot of that movie stuff has been constantly remixing everything. But it does need to paint some kind of through-line. Maybe it's about Knuckles re-assembling the Master Emerald and some part of the process relates to Echidna lore and that's how we touch on the ideas that will run through the third movie. I've said it before, but that would be a good way to introduce Rouge, too. Maybe she comes from Sonic's dimension because somebody else wants the Master Emerald and it turns out to be someone who knew Knuckles' people. So she's working for whoever, but her allegiances aren't super clear because she also wants the emeralds for personal collection, yadda yadda. Or maybe she's just a very good treasure hunter and is looking for them on her own terms.

And I'm still thinking we're due for one more big Sonic Origins patch. There's still activity happening on that private beta depot according to Steamdb. There's a "review" channel suggesting something is getting submitted to somebody, somewhere, for internal verification. And it has been updated consistently every 3-6 weeks.

I don't want to set expectations too high, but whatever is being done to Sonic Origins, it's taking a long time. Like a lot of things that could be good or it could be bad. It could be slow because the person working on it isn't being paid very much and meaningful updates aren't being made smoothly. Or it could be slow because it's going to be a massive update that turns the collection in to what it was supposed to be like in June of last year.

A whole team working full steam for seven months could do a lot of work to something like Origins. But we don't know if a full team is working on the Sonic Origins update. We're still not even sure if there will be another Sonic Origins update, given Sega has not formally spoken about it in any capacity. But it sure looks like something is going on, and personally speaking, if Sega leaves Sonic Origins as it is, I'm not really willing to entertain the thought of any future Sonic collections. I've bought those old games over and over and I will gladly return to just emulating the ROMs in something like BlastEm and never look back. Sega needs to do right or else it spoils the whole thing forever.

I don't expect much in the way of new projects this year. Maybe they'll announce new SA1 and SA2 remasters and completely invalidate the video I'm working on. That feels about how things are going for me lately.