How do you think an 06.zip would play out? like what would be. Silverniah's gimmick, and just. what would the story be generally?
How would you tackle a "Serious" 3.zip? Like what if Zephelohead WASN'T made as a joke?
How did you come up with the Idea for Zeph and his siblings?
Would D-Zacchaeus be Claws or would he be in a different vessel?
How would you design a "Copyright free" Zephaniah? Like the Ring Master for DareDevil, or like uhhh that one Copyright free Sonic.exe take that made X Santa. Stuff like that
06.zip never got past the idea of "what if i wanted to make a modern sonic-based one? what if it was silver and it was based on 06?" so i really don't know how that story would play out or what the new brother's motivation or purpose for living would be. i do remember that, when trying to throw around ideas for zaavan, names that i cycled through were zechariah, zelophehad (which was later repurposed) and zaanaim, using their "meanings" as a basis for what the character would be like, but couldn't come up with anything definitive from any of these. zaavan, however, means terror, which is why i went with it. just worked well. i'd probably start with a name for silver brother, based on its meaning, and then work a story out from there.
the problem with a serious take on 3.zip is justifying zelophehad's existence. why is there just some other worm? why does kyle want it destroyed? why couldn't he just destroy it himself? HOW is there another worm? did kyle create it knowingly or was it just leftover zephaniah code personified? i'd probably come up with some answers eventually but if i were to play it completely straight i'd definitely strip it of being sonic 3 specifically; the absurdity of sonic having 5 daughters, almost none of which are even classic, is part of the joke, so i'd probably turn them into simple minions of him and then give the game similar vibes to the shitty mid 2010's fangame vibes, like nightmare beginnings where everyone is written completely out of character and whatnot.
i've talked abt it before and shared the screenshots before but zeph was the result of us finally taking d sides exe more seriously, as our early concepts were "yeah he's mario lol" or "maybe he'd be knuckles !". once the canon version was made and had a definitive story that i was satisfied with (at the time at least), i wanted to do much more with him but couldn't feature him in any fnf mods (at the time d-sides redux wasn't even started on yet and zipperbomb was being merely discussed) and i'm not really cut out for comics, so i opted for a sequel which starred a new antagonist. after CHAOTIX.ZIP, i was coming up with a LOT of ideas for a third one (including 06.ZIP and the amy idea for a MANIA.ZIP), but all fell flat because i couldn't come up with anything i was happy with. eventually, though, i landed on something i was happy with which became r.zip.
in the d-sides zacc idea i discussed before, we made him sonic; i really fw that idea, if we were to ever include him that's definitely what i'd go with. i can't decide if zaav would have the same vessel, neither me nor anyone in d-sides have come up with anything. (although raven suggested honey, which...i don't think would work, you'll see why in the future.)
for starters i'd probably use the d sides design as a basis, but try my damndest to keep the canon one's colour palette (and the canon's eyes as well). i'd also take some cues from the werehog's mighty hallucination in archie.
spiked shell, the boots, clawed fingers, much longer tail...i'd also change the shell shape to look less sonic-adjacent lol
