Finally, after a month or two of on and off work, I have finally completed my newest Sonic OC for my Paracosmic Megamix AU: Prince Astro the Seedrian!
As you can see, this OC is heavily influenced and inspired by @carlycmarathecat’s OC Xasma, and just like Xasma, Astro is the fraternal twin brother of Cosmo from Sonic X!
Astro, being one of the children of the Seedrian queen Earthia, is a prince. But more than that, he wants to be a hero, adventuring across the universe, righting wrongs with his sword, spells, and his derring-do!
As for the Metarex Saga in my AU, Cosmo grows back from the seed she gives Tails in a matter of months, because that seed is something that all Seedrians can create as a last resort to avoid death.
Instead of repopulating the Seedrians like in canon, Cosmo’s other seeds are the “Rebirth Seeds” of all the other non-Metarex Seedrians, through which most choose to return to life and settle on Earth/Mobius while Green Gate re-terraforms and heals, including Cosmo and her family.
Reblogs are heavily appreciated!
More information about Astro below👇
Astro is being trained alongside Cosmo by Algol, Queen Earthia’s confidant, in the ways of the Chaos Force (Basically this AU’s version of the Force from Star Wars, except the Dark Side doesn’t innately corrupt. It just uses negative emotions which have more potential for corruption. This makes wielding both sides not just feasible, but optimal in a balanced mind.)
Astro’s sword is one of Lucas’ old swords from before he became Dark Oak. Astro took it and brought it on the Last Hope.
Astro has a big crush on Cream… but don’t let him know anyone else knows that!
I WAS WATCHING RANDOM SONIC X CLIPS AND I SAW THIS?????? SCENE????? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN SHE WANTED SHADOW TO KILL HER???????? THATS NOT????? OKAY AT ALL???????? THATS A VERY SERIOUS AND WORRYING THING TO SAY????? GIRL???? IM PRETTY SURE THIS WAS LIKE NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN AS WELL?????? HUH???? COSMO??????? DO YOU NEED A HUG?????? A THERAPY SESSION????? AN ACTUAL FATHER FIGURE???????? YOU SHOULDNT BE ENCOURAGING YOUR OWN DEATH THATS NOT OKAY THATS NOT OKAY THATS NOT OKAY COSMO THAT ISNT OKAY AT ALLLLL WDADWSADSADSDWSWADS
it also doesnt help that she literally asks them all to kill her a few episodes later for the finale💔💔💔💔💔 shes a literal baby what are we doing guys💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
In my AU, Shadow is reeling from the guilt of trying to murder Cosmo (he and Rouge later informally adopt Cosmo [Cosmo’s bio mom Earthia and her new husband (yes she remarried) share joint custody with Team Dark] as a means for him to atone for it), and hearing this absolutely breaks his heart. He’s thinking “no one should be saying that… especially a child… especially her…”
She got two father figures, Shadow, and Earthia’s aforementioned new husband, a golden-hearted Seedrian knight (Cosmo, in addition to making a seed for herself to regrow from, made similar seeds for all the non-Metarex Seedrians and sent them to Earth/Mobius in this AU).
I WAS WATCHING RANDOM SONIC X CLIPS AND I SAW THIS?????? SCENE????? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN SHE WANTED SHADOW TO KILL HER???????? THATS NOT????? OKAY AT ALL???????? THATS A VERY SERIOUS AND WORRYING THING TO SAY????? GIRL???? IM PRETTY SURE THIS WAS LIKE NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN AS WELL?????? HUH???? COSMO??????? DO YOU NEED A HUG?????? A THERAPY SESSION????? AN ACTUAL FATHER FIGURE???????? YOU SHOULDNT BE ENCOURAGING YOUR OWN DEATH THATS NOT OKAY THATS NOT OKAY THATS NOT OKAY COSMO THAT ISNT OKAY AT ALLLLL WDADWSADSADSDWSWADS
it also doesnt help that she literally asks them all to kill her a few episodes later for the finale💔💔💔💔💔 shes a literal baby what are we doing guys💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
In my AU, Shadow is reeling from the guilt of trying to murder Cosmo (he and Rouge later informally adopt Cosmo [Cosmo’s bio mom Earthia and her new husband (yes Earthia remarried) share joint custody with Team Dark] as a means for him to atone for it), and hearing this absolutely breaks his heart. He’s thinking “no one should be saying that… especially a child… especially her…”
What if Tails got extremely love-smitten after Cosmo returns? Like, going worryingly mad with possessive and borderline-obsessive love? As in, when the love of his life, his soulmate, his everything, came back to life, Tails decides that he’s not going to lose her ever again, no matter what, not even for a moment.
He gets so dependent and so utterly infatuated with Cosmo that it scares her. He literally grabs onto her arm or latches onto her in a bear hug, begging her to stay, whenever she has to be apart him for even just a little while, such as going out for a family meal with Team Dark (who coparent Cosmo alongside her bio-mom, Earthia, on Shadow’s request, so he could atone for trying to murder her that one time). Tails breaks Cosmo’s heart by saying he almost tried following her to the grave after her sacrifice, thinking she was truly dead and never going to come back, and Cosmo has to literally sit Tails down and tell him how frightened and worried she is for him, of him hurting himself, others, or, heaven forbid, Cosmo in one way or another to somehow try to please her.
This is a plot point in my headcanon Sonic AU. Tails and Cosmo still make their love work and are still just as in love with each other as they always were. However, Cosmo has recently been staying over the night back at Earthia’s place (in this AU all the non-Metarex Seedrians are alive and on Earth/Mobius [doing the “one world” thing that TailsTube showed]) or at Shadow and Rouge’s house, instead of staying at Tails’ house, as a form of exposure therapy and weaning-off for Tails’ separation anxiety and more troubling obsessions with her. Also Sonic signs Tails up for actual therapy sessions with a psychologist.
Basically a fluffier concept (Tails’s brain getting fuzzy from infatuation when around Cosmo) combined with and twisted by an angsty one (Tails reeling from Cosmo’s “death” and suffering from major separation anxiety even when she returns).
This is a Source Filmmaker/SFM depiction of Elise in my Paracosmic Megamix Sonic AU's post-Sonic '06 timeline. For those not in the know about how the end of Sonic '06 goes in my AU, the Flame of Hope that Elise blows out is actually a magical seal/cage containing Innerste (the heart and soul of Solaris that Elise is the vessel of in the Sonic '06 Story Surgery video). When the Flame is blown out, Innerste is freed and unites with Solaris, truly completing them. The now completed and, more importantly, benevolent Solaris decides to rewrite the timeline, as well as its own divine nature. This results in not only the Solaris Project not taking place, but it also makes Mephiles, Iblis, and Innerste a trinity of full-fledged divine aspects of Solaris, instead of their broken pieces.
This new trinity of Solaris then decides to incarnate in the mortal world... as Elise and two of my OCs who are her fraternal triplet siblings. Elise in the post-'06 timeline is the demigod incarnation/vessel of Innerste, the soul and light of Solaris. Her cold-demeanored, cunning, and calculating brother Marlowe is the incarnation of Mephiles, who is known in the new timeline as Noctis or Tenebris, and her hot-headed, hot-tempered sister Vesta is the incarnation of Iblis, who is known in the new timeline as Hestia or Pyrrha.
Anyways, Elise is the kind, caring princess she is in canon, in contrast to her sister’s anger issues and her brother’s sometimes snakeish and nasty attitude. And she's primarily a healer/support, tending to prefer healing and shielding others in battle with her divine magic, which includes fighting alongside both her siblings, and Sonic and friends.
However, if she, sometimes reluctantly, deems it necessary for her to actually fight and do combat in battle in addition to being the healer/support, she can use said divine magic, as well as other light, sky, and holy powers to *SMITE* enemies, or use her rapier to defend herself.
As for the art itself, I gave Elise the armor (which is from Hilde from Soulcalibur) because even if she wants to just be the healer and protector when in battle, she still has to get herself out there in danger's way. Because of that, being armored up wouldn't hurt, to say the least. And I couldn't find any SFM models of Solaris for their wings, so I just gave her angel wings.
If you saw my post about Shadow atoning for trying to hurt Cosmo during the Metarex Saga by acting as her foster co-father after she and the Seedrians came back in my AU, here's some SFM goodness I made about their father-daughter bonding.
Cosmo's introducing her puppet/plushie pals to Shadow. Right now he's saying hi to Princess Rosetta!
So, remember the time Shadow tried to kill Cosmo in Sonic X? What if he had his memories of Maria at the time, and felt really awful about it after all the rage and adrenaline that drove him wore off?
In my headcanon continuity, this is essentially what Shadow goes through during the Metarex war. It only got worse when he had to almost kill Cosmo as part of her sacrifice, but thanks to his Chaos Regeneration, and the power of the Planet Eggs, Cosmo had more than enough power to make revival seeds for herself and all the other non-Metarex Seedrians, before sending them to Earth.
It was cold comfort for Shadow, however, as he still felt like he’d betrayed Maria… and stained his hands with her blood… with Cosmo’s blood…
This would keep Shadow up for many a restless night. The nights he did sleep were filled with nightmares of the monster he feared he’d become, or disturbing dreams of killing the little plant girl, only to see Maria dying before him instead. Other dreams had him be chastised by Commander Tower, à la Konrad with Walker the ending of Spec Ops: The Line.
When Cosmo and the Seedrians finally regrew, Cosmo’s reunion with Shadow was, even for her, unexpectedly apologetic and tearful. Shadow broke down crying as he hugged Cosmo, begging for punishment from Earthia, saying he’s unworthy of forgiveness.
Cosmo and Earthia both cut him off, saying they forgive him, even if they won’t forget. Shadow still wants some way to atone, and so… he takes care of Cosmo, essentially coparenting as her foster dad. Slowly the two grow closer as friends and family until Cosmo sees Shadow as her second father, her papa; and Shadow sees Cosmo as his own daughter.
Shadow: Do you want me to read you a bedtime story, sweetie?
Cosmo: Of course, papa.
Shadow: Alright then… long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, there was a princess of flowers who dreamed of traveling the stars.
Cosmo: You already told me this one, papa! And I know it’s about me! *giggles*
Shadow: Okay, you got me. How about this one: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived amongst the stars, and wished to see all the wonders of the Earth…
Later…
Shadow: And then the girl, having prevailed beyond death, reunited with her brother, and the two lived happily ever after. The end.
It’s been a long while since I posted about my Sonic AU. Allow me to fix that with some more information about the Seedrians post-Metarex Saga, as well as Prince Astro, my OC who’s Cosmo’s brother.
First off, the amulets Seedrians use are sources of energy for their more taxing powers, like stages of Mover Mode for Thorndrigans/male Seedrians. The tree forms are voluntary to go back and forth in like in @cosmicheartzone’s AU.
Second, the Mover Mode forms are unique to each Thorndrigan. Lucas’ form was the Godzilla T-Rex form, and Astro’s is more draconic. Usually, Astro only uses lesser stages of his Mover Mode during tough battles, granting him wings and making his horns more dragon-like. But when the battle gets big, like against some giant Eggman Mecha, Astro uses his artificial-Emerald-boosted amulet to turn into a giant dragon a la Alduin.
Speaking of, it’s no wonder that Astro came across a certain RPG, about involving a certain dragon born hero saving the land from a world-destroying evil dragon god, and got inspired, using the dragon shouts as verbal components for some of his magic, and as attack callouts for his Mover Mode powers.
Meanwhile I ship Nine with my New Yolk version of Cosmo; Persephone, and it’s the same kind of dynamic, especially once Nine and Persephone move to Green Hill.
While I prefer Metal Sonic being mute, I think AM’s voice would be a decent fit for him. Maybe with less of the murderous intent (Unless he’s fighting Sonic, then he goes full hating mode)
I will never be ok with damsel Rouge in Knuxouge and Shadouge art. Soft moments? Ofc that's sweet. Protecting her when she's caught off guard? Sure.
But Rouge cowering in fear waiting for someone to save her?? No, that's not her. She'd kick them up the jaw, pick them up, and shatter them into a wall.
Every time Agnes Tachyon talks about the uma musume limit of speed in my head I’m just like “in another life you would’ve been a crazy speedrunner”. I’m just imagining Summoning Salt’s Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit in my head the whole time
As I said before in that ask for @qwiopty, in my Sonic AU, New Yolk’s version of Cosmo, who I now call Persephone (Perse for short, pronounced like Perci), like in qwiopty’s AU, sacrifices herself to restore that world’s plant life, before leaving behind a Rebirth Seed for her to grow back from. Nine puts it in a robot body so that she can stay with him, but the both of them are soon wishing there could be more done for her.
So Nine gets the bright idea to make a life sized plushie body that Persephone’s robot body can be remodeled as hyper-advanced animatronics for. With some help from Tails (Tails’ parents adopted Nine, Sails, and Mangey, passing them off as separated quadruplets) Cosmo, and Belle the Tinkerer from the main universe, Persephone finally got a much comfier, cuddlier body!
And after Persephone finishes her regeneration, the old body is remodeled once again, into a puppet-tronic plush that she and Nine name Chloe Belrose Mainspring.
And yes, the dress is the one from Vector’s dream sequence imagining Tails and Cosmo’s romance in Sonic X.
