I was looking at stuff of the Deadcode AU ( for research on a comic dub with a friend, and found out about an AU called "Fear AU" (by @talisetekt here on Tumblr) and wanted to add a little silly input because why not honestly.
I mean everything nicely and I am sincerely sorry if I come off as rude.
Love the design of Scourge and I know he was a one time little drawing, but I have some input as a decent fan of him. Scourge is Sonic from a different universe, and is that world's Sonic. So absolutely, water is a no no, however, there is more to Scourge as fears than just water. Only if one wishes to go different to Sonic.
In the prison arc with Scourge, Scourge was restricted of his power, making him weak and practically with nothing. And until his old crew came along to get his ass out, he was practically helpless. Similar to Tails, who has the fear(of sorts) of being too reliant.
ALSO, as seen in the comic between him and Jules. We see how he reacts when Jules puts his foot down and basically says "hey, you didn't care about your dad, but my son cares a lot about me," and that brought Scourge to tears. Being confronted with a truth he refused to acknowledge. His father was extremely neglectful, as he says, and what did Jules do? Confront him like a father would. A threat, yes, but he knew Scourge would back down. That one was a bit of a reached yap. Maybe you get the point. Moving on!
And hey, on the note of neglect, let's talk about the possible fear he has of being ignored/forgotten. As we saw briefly in the comic previously mentioned, Scourge gives a bit of his backstory. His father was neglectful, whether intentional or not, and that affected Scourge. He wants to be big and bold, to make his name known and feared.
What we also find about Scourge is his disdain for liars and traitors. Could add to a fear even with how much he hates it. Within moments of knowing his group betrayed him (Archie comic, issue #194,) he kicked all their asses. The moment he's betrayed, he gets defensive and angry, and knowing stuff I learned as an actor, anger derives from hurt and sadness in simple terms I guess. Lots of commas, gracious.
One last thing before I wrap this up, Scourge has a disdain for order and structure. That's why he's all about chaos. But even then, it's not all order, it's just order he isn't in control of. To be king, you gotta have rules. He had rules for his groups to keep them in line and in his vision of ruling. This one I don't have evidence for, but I make the assumption from how he behaved with his groups. It honestly extends to the reasoning of his discomfort with a lack of control.
The purpose of this was to establish alternatives to water as a fear honestly. Also because, I love the AU and wanted to contribute my thoughts into how things could be for one specific character that got a drawing I saw and spiraled into a whole post. I might make another post showing off how these could be portrayed, but that's all I got for now. Toodles, and live laugh love divas.
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