So Uhm stick with me here while I ramble and ask a question at the end
I recently saw a fic on Ao3 by awesome _hedgehogthethird named hero of the year
The premise takes the concept of shadow basically stealing sonicās identity in the third movie
shadow takes a device that makes sonic look like him and sound like him and shadow does the same to himself making himself look and sound like sonic
he does this so he can have a family sonics family specifically
As much as I love the idea it wasnāt written in a style I like or understand you can check the fic out for yourself since you will most likely (definitely) have a different opinion on it
But the idea has a lot of potential if you think about it
sonic and shadow could swap bodies but only sonic (in shadows body) would remember certain stuff about his family (the wachowskis)
and shadow (in sonics body) wouldnāt remember much of anything but he would remember that he had a family (the wachowskis) as sonic and he would really think he is sonic since he cannot remember the mind transfer like the real sonic can
Basically when shadow and sonic swapped bodies they almost swapped minds too
shadow as sonic remembers the wachowskis and some of sonics previous life before earth but only enough to make it seem like he is the real sonic
sonic as shadow remembers that he was sonic before the mind transfer but has a lot of gaps in his memory he barley remembers what his time with Tom was like same goes for maddie tails and knuckles
a lot of his memory went during the transfer but he does remember the most important part that he is the real sonic
he also has some of shadows memories so he remembers what happened to Maria it was as if he was in fact shadow who had experienced his sisters death
that effects him a lot because he knows this grief he feels the rage he feels itās not his itās not his emotions his feelings itās not his memories
he tried to convince everyone what happened was real that he swapped bodies with shadow but of course no one believes him
he (as what people would like to say nowadays) ācrashes outā getting real angry for shadow stealing his life from him
and when he finds out shadow doesnāt remember anything from his actual life he feels absolutely hopeless
now that no oneās remembers that they transferred minds and heās the only one who did everyoneās gonna think heās insane going around saying heās the real sonic and that they swapped bodies
I also like to think that if they ever did a full on crossover with the games and movie universe that this timeline would work out differently
I have a scenario in my head shadow and sonic are meeting up with their other counterparts
sonicās meeting his counterparts that includes movie shadow (in Sonicās body)
and movie sonic (in shadows body) with the other shadows
The other sonics would notice that shadow as sonic would have a bit a of a different personality than the rest of them (being overprotective since he is still shadow in some regards) and have quite the different life
while sonic as shadow would be brooding and sulking in the corner with the other shadows
Eventually sonic as shadow would start to stare in absolute hatred at the real shadow modern shadow would notice and try to ask the real sonic about it
but the topic that the real shadow would get onto is the wachowskis calling them his family and oh boy that would piss the real sonic off so bad
heād have another meltdown absolutely yelling and screaming at the real shadow for what happened
everyone would probably just try to calm him down or shut him up
when the real sonic saw how everyone was looking at him as if he was crazy heād go ahead and cry about it
apologize for rambling hopefully you understand what that all meant
but what do you think about the concept?
Honestly, that is really interesting :0
But it'd be really hard to get past certain points in the og timeline that Sonic 3 goes through, or at least adapt them to a point where things make sense. Everything in the fic could all be angst before things:
A. Nothing changes, and Sonic doesn't get his body/looks & memories back. (more angst)
B. Sonic & Shadow finally going back to normal (Shadows deff going to get in some really deep shit for pulling that stunt. And with how much mental strain and pain Sonic probably went through, yeah, he's not going to be able to find a way out of it.) [less angst, but at least a happier ending]
The added alt-universes coming into it too would be an interesting twist. But there's only so much you can do before you're repeating yourself and themes in the story over and over and over again.
(I'm not trying to larp or criticize the person writing it. If anything, it just says how little I can imagine what's going to / what could happen based on what scraps of the storyline/plot you've given me. TvT)
Anyways, yeah, I think it's cool! 100/100 :D
Might read it once I finally finish up Chp.7 :3
