Black Doom and Diana Animatic | I posted this back on TikTok but this was my first time trying to do a animatic! I chose this song because I felt like this suited the relationship between Black Doom and Diana.
This was a small idea I came up with for a while for Diana and I'm not the best at creating stories so I hope this is accurate to the sonic lore and not cringy 🥲
Here’s the backstory behind the animatic:
[1] The story is a bit similar with Shadow and Black Doom in the Shadow the hedgehog game, so if it's not as interesting or original I apologize and I felt like I wanted to put that type of relationship with Diana too but with a different motive and that's why I created this so yeah!
Plotline/Backstory: Diana had unstable chaos powers for her entire life, she was meant to be more powerful than her father, Shadow, but she ended up being the weakest of all 7 siblings. The cause was that she was dropped by Eggman after an attempted kidnapping before Sonic and Shadow were going to pick her up the next day in her capsule from Tails' lab. Eggman wanted her for himself because he sensed in one of his machines how powerful her chaos energy was. Sonic, Shadow, and Tails were too late and she was injured, ending up with unstable chaos powers for the rest of her life. Tails created her a necklace to contain the power from harming her, since using that power can harm her (like being electrocuted).
[2] Diana loved her siblings but secretly envied them too, they could use their powers without harm, while she had none except battle combat for defense, but she wasn't very interested in battling because of her anxious personality and fear that she could be harmed.
But one day, a voice spoke to her, Black doom. Shadow never explained to her or her siblings about him, because he doesn't see him as family, so Diana was surprised to hear that Black Doom was her grandfather. He told her he watched over her and had felt bad for the way she is, so he wanted to help her be what she was meant to be and get her power back, and that he could be trusted since he's family. So, he gave her some chaos energy, and all of a sudden, her power worked again. She was happy, and wanted to tell her family, but he also told her that she can't tell anyone about this or even her family because if she does they could die in her hands out of her control and no one else even her father Shadow can help her, only he can help her gain control since she's new and needs training as well. She also needs to collect the chaos emeralds so that she can be powerful again and this was only half of her power. Diana, naive about black doom but determined and trusted on what he told her, she was willing to get her power back safely and she thought this was the only way and agreed. So for the next few months, Diana was being trained with the few black arms that Black Doom was able to create again in the new formed black comet while also secretly trying to collect the chaos emeralds. But over those months, Shadow and Ruby have noticed how different she was, she was too tired for some days or injured in some places and Diana kept reassuring them that everything was alright and told them excuses, but she also felt guilty for lying to them, because she was closest to them.
[3] Then, the worst happened, she thought that after all of this was done, her training with her new chaos power and getting all the emeralds, she could at least tell her family the news and about her grandfather, and thinking she bonded with him in a way, but she was wrong.
Black Doom only wanted the emeralds for the same reason, to get his newly formed black comet to Earth for life source, but his other motivation was to have her and her siblings under his control to have his army more powerful since they all had black arms blood in them with different powers, Diana had the most power of them all so that’s why she was targeted first. Diana, terrified, tried to attack but she couldn't as Black Doom took over, gave her wings and controlled her weak mind. Black Doom then took her and his small army to where Sonic and Shadow lived to attack and as they were almost getting close, Sonic and Shadow were already running to their path, because they sensed something was wrong, and Shadow sensed Black dooms presence. They stopped in their tracks and got into a fighting stance, and then they realized Diana was with Black Doom. Sonic, was furious, ready to fight whatever goes at him to save his daughter but Shadow was in shock for a moment and then was frightened.
He was afraid to lose his daughter to black doom. Seeing her in that state, terrified him because now she's at her most powerful and she was under control. He has tried many times on small sessions to help on her powers when she was more younger before since he was familiar already with chaos power, but it never works as she almost gets harmed and he would try to absorb that quickly but he learned to accept that she will never have her powers normal again and told her he was always there no matter what. He wants his daughter back, his star (nickname after Shadow and Diana's visit at the ark) and he feels like he failed her.