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We're officially in the second half our journey with only 9 AUs remaining. Welcome, everyone, to Round 4!
Reminder: If you would like to edit your AU's image, description, etc, you will need to DM me by July 27, 8pm PST. After the deadline you will not be able to make any edits until the end of Round 4. (CWs are exempt and can be changed at any time).
Polls will be released on Wednesday, July 29, at 6 AM PST.
Each AU and their respective creators are listed below the cut.
LEFT SIDE:
Warped Perspective AU by @totaleclipse573 VS New Yoke Times by @newyoketimes VS STH: Dark Days by @personadescent
My Brother is a Zombot by @nekolikedacat VS Out of the Blue by @artisyone
RIGHT SIDE:
Infinite Silver AU by @jesterjesteringjesterly VS The Hates Shadow Club by @eclipsed-jester
Count Me In! by @itz-pandora VS Sonic and the Miles's Ask Blog by @sonic-and-the-miless & @starrygirlypop
Count Me In! belongs to @itz-pandora [link to masterpost] [link to tumblr tag]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Character death, Chao death, cults, crime, sexual harassment, manipulation, family issues, eating disorders
Sonic and the Miles's Ask Blog belongs to @sonic-and-the-miless & @starrygirlypop [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Panic attack, swearing, and cuteness overload
Explore each world below the cut!
Count Me In!:
Little Planet, a rock band, has become quite the cultural icon. Sonic the Hedgehog is the face of the band, joined by his very best friends, Miles 'Tails' Prower, Amy Rose, and Knuckles the Echidna.
During a tour, the band's sound operator suddenly quits. Luckily, Night Babylon's sound operator, Shadow, easily picked up the slack, earning the attention of Sonic. When asked to start working for Little Planet, as they still needed to finish their tour, Shadow agreed, joining them as their sound operator, and, soon, friend.
But what happens when Knuckles asks to resign as the bassist, asking Shadow to fill in the role? Did he sense the underlying tension between Sonic and Shadow, or was he simply homesick?
Through controversy, friendship, crime, and romance, these artists withstand anything thrown at them. Be it a legally questionable corporation, harassment from other artists, exes, organized crime, family drama, or even a cult, they always come out stronger, together.
"Dear Maria, Count me in!"
Sonic and the Miles's Ask Blog:
Welcome to the Sonic and The Miles's ask blog! Sonic is trapped in a room with 12 different variants of his little bro! You, my little Starlight anons, are here to help guide these trapped Mobians out of here. Chaos ensues as you and your fellow Starlights try and use your anon magic to help them overcome problems and get them out of that checkered room!
The Hates Shadow Club belongs to @eclipsed-jester [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Lots of grief, Mentioned/past character death (and themes of death in general), Blood/Injury/violence, discussion of child abuse, some existentialism
Explore each world below the cut!
Infinite Silver AU:
Sonic Forces retold! Silver the Hedgehog had spent years in the past. Saving people, doing good and spreading hope with no results. Bad future upon bad future driving him further into desperation and self hatred until he feels forced to use alternate methods. He ends up using the Phantom Ruby, a gem created by Dr Eggman, slowly allowing it to corrupt him so he can become strong enough to create the future he always dreamed of, that he believes he deserves after suffering over it for so long. His mind becomes twisted and he starts seeing all actions as able to ruin what he built, both good and bad. Now he has come back from his own timeline to a time he had already been, taking on the moniker “Infinite”, so he can erase the past with all its imperfect beings and replace them all with perfect clones with the Phantom Ruby so that his future can never be ruined by the actions of flawed lifeforms again, wearing a mask that hides his face and his own sadness, anger and disgust in his own actions. Will Sonic be able to bring out the good he still sees in his friend? Or will Infinite destroy himself in the seemingly endless battle against the resistance, leading to an endless cycle of darkness for Silver.
The Hates Shadow Club:
The Hates Shadow Club(or THSC for short) is an AU that follows Mephiles, Eclipse, and Infinite after joining forces to try to take revenge on Shadow, only for the three of them to grow attached to each other and finding a strange love for a much more domestic life in Spiral Hill. It's a lot more focused on Found Family and the healing that comes from companionship, even with the most unlikely of people. It's mainly just an au to enjoy exploring characters and the healing journey they go through.
My Brother is a Zombot belongs to @nekolikedacat [link to AU blog]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Death, possible blood and violence in the future but nothing set in stone, apocalypse scenerio
Out of the Blue belongs to @artisyone [link to comic]
Art Credit: 321pietime on Instagram
Explore each world below the cut!
My Brother is a Zombot:
"My Brother is a Zombot" is a fancomic that follows Miles "Tails" Prower as he looks for a way to cure his older brother, Sonic the Hedgehog, who turned into a zombot. Because there has to be a cure- his brother is already a special case after all! Seemingly self-aware to some degree, able to recognize Tails as someone to be protected — there must be a way to turn him back.
But Tails isn't the only one to take a note of how odd the phenomena is…
Out of the Blue:
A fan retelling of the Shogakukan Sonic manga from 1992! This story is about Nicky, a young normal hedgehog boy living the most ordinary of lives, or so he thought for a while anyway. One day, fate turns a page and flips his life on it’s head! Now he has (unknowingly) possessed an amazing power, meets threatening foes and helpful friends, must find the courage to save the island, even if sometimes, he doesn’t want to.
Warped Perspective AU VS New Yoke Times VS STH: Dark Days
Warped Perspective AU
New Yoke Times
STH: Dark Days
Remaining time: 5 days 15 hours
Warped Perspective AU belongs to @totaleclipse573 [link to AU blog]
CONTENT WARNINGS: (In canon-typical starline fashion) Gaslighting, manipulation, mind control, stalking, medical malpractice. (Other things) Paranoia, heavy mentions of death (both the intent to kill and Eclipse dealing with the death of the black arms/the guilt that comes with it,) instances of blood and injury, trauma bonding, mental instability/breakdowns, hallucinations, suicidal ideation, dehumanization
New Yoke Times belongs to @newyoketimes [link to tumblr tag]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mild Language
STH: Dark Days to @personadescent
CONTENT WARNINGS: Angst, Anxiety, Body horror, Mental health/illness, Mild injury (no blood), Physical pain, Trauma
Explore each world below the cut!
Warped Perspective AU:
Eclipse the Darkling is a weapon. A weapon to be used. Nothing more. And there’s nothing else he’d rather be. He’s sure of that…when did he become sure of that? Right. When Shadow became a problem again. Eclipse thought they could finally be brothers, it was what he wanted from the start. Now, though, he’s been shown the “truth” about why Shadow or anyone else accepted him in the first place. To use him. Manipulate him. And when the time came? Kill him. So how foolish of Eclipse, to think he should do anything other than he was made for! This time, he will kill Shadow, and avenge his kind, even if it takes the help of the only mortal he trusts to do it. When and why did he begin to trust him? Didn’t he hate Starline before…? Doesn’t matter anymore. Eclipse will do anything to fulfill his intended purpose. Anything.
Shadow, on the other hand, is being forced to come to terms with all the things he’d tried to push away for the longest time after Eclipse goes missing. The truce made between him and Eclipse (with the help of Sonic, annoyingly) was messy, but whether Shadow wanted to admit it or not, it led to a bond later down the line. It led to Shadow…caring about that little alien. Genuinely. Even nowadays he can feel conflicted about that part, given all that happened in the past, everything with the black arms…and if there’s something Shadow is NOT good at, it’s being open about anything. The roles are reversed after Eclipse’s rescue, with Shadow (in his own special Shadow way) attempting to bring back a bond that currently doesn’t exist, and Eclipse wanting nothing more than his “brother” to face his downfall. Even the dark arms aren’t too fond of Shadow right now. And though he feels Eclipse has every right to hate him, Shadow is determined to put Starline’s influence over this whole situation to an end. The question remains: how?
New Yoke Times:
A Sonic Prime AU that exists in a world where the Robotnik family came to power, dubbed themselves as The Chaos Council, and built New Yoke City not through Sonic's absence but due to his inability to stop them.
STH: Dark Days:
By day, he's the Blue Blur. By night, he's…something else.
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Sonic the Hedgehog, now known worldwide as the iconic Blue Blur, finds being a famous superhero to be…not what he'd expected. After spending most of his life on the sidelines, he's not exactly used to being the center of attention. It's a bit more than he can handle, but he manages to anyway, because being a hero is about being responsible.
That's just the way it was, and he doesn't expect anything to change. Until what he thought would be a repeat of his usual routine ends in total disaster.
The Chaos Emeralds, seven legendary gems of ultimate power, are drained and left useless—and Sonic is left with a transformative affliction.
Now when the sun goes down, a darker and wilder side of Sonic is unleashed. It's bigger, tougher, furrier—and dangerous. Between Sonic and this beast he's become, the difference is night and day.
As Sonic struggles to come to terms with the "condition" he now has, everything around him seems to be getting shakier—literally. With the strange tremors around the world getting worse, it becomes clear that something dark has been awakened. And if the Chaos Emeralds aren't restored soon, there could be world-shattering consequences.
Out of the Blue has advanced to the AU showdown quarterfinals!
Thank you for the little doodle from @nekolikedacat, so take this mini comic of their Zombot Sonic from @mybrotherisazombot. And good luck in the @sonic-au-collision-zone round!
Anyways, good luck to my lovely moot @itz-pandora this round! You know I've always enjoyed your CMI AU, and I’m looking forward to competing against you for the fun of it!
sorry for tagging out of the blue (hehe get it?) @artisyone but couldnt find a way to send it to u directly- i made a good luck crossover piece since we are against each other in the next @sonic-au-collision-zone bracket :'3
anyway, im really happy to see ur comic in the event!! it was one of the first fan projects i found when i rejoined the fandom 2ish years ago and loved the concept so much x3
A silly head to head because like any good Infinite variant Silver-Infinite is also a massive hater of Shadow hehe. So no matter who wins this next poll Shadow loses.
At this time, you can DM the blog to make any updates to your AU’s image, description, etc. as needed. The deadline for any changes is July 27 at 8pm PST.
Stay tuned~ The bracket will be revealed tomorrow, July 25!
Scenes from this snippet of Someone's Waiting For You by @reidluver. Amy+Nine budding friendship is so sweet and has my soul. ^-^ And who can resist the hilarious (and heartfelt!) part where Sonic and Tails get Nine to feel comfortable playing with toys. <3
Be sure to vote for this adorable au in the @sonic-au-collision-zone!
Sonic and the Miles's Ask Blog belongs to @sonic-and-the-miless & @starrygirlypop [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Panic attack, swearing, and cuteness overload
Lost World belongs to @mang0-draws [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Family issues, a character death, violence, harassment
Explore each world below the cut!
Sonic and the Miles's Ask Blog:
Welcome to the Sonic and The Miles's ask blog! Sonic is trapped in a room with 12 different variants of his little bro! You, my little Starlight anons, are here to help guide these trapped Mobians out of here. Chaos ensues as you and your fellow Starlights try and use your anon magic to help them overcome problems and get them out of that checkered room!
Lost World:
it's just ur typical sonic band with each memeber like with each role
Sonic for lead vocals, and soon (after there first concert) learns to play an eletric guitar
Amy for backup vocals and acoustic guitar. (used to play drums when she was little tho)
Tails as the music producer, uploading music, fixing gear, setting u stages, and lighting all of that jazz.
Shadow as the basssist and second lead vocals.
Knuckles as the drummest and co-manager
Rouge as the Main manager (and sonic's older sister!) and they all form together in a band called Lost world.
With many fun adventures, learning more about other ppl, meeting new friends, and understanding about the ppl u already know in a different perspecive.
They play there music hoping to reach to other ppl like themselfs.
Count Me In! belongs to @itz-pandora [link to masterpost] [link to tumblr tag]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Character death, Chao death, cults, crime, sexual harassment, manipulation, family issues, eating disorders
The Losers AU belongs to @neo-nightmares
CONTENT WARNINGS: Includes body dysphoria, attempted suicide, and major character death.
Explore each world below the cut!
Count Me In!:
Little Planet, a rock band, has become quite the cultural icon. Sonic the Hedgehog is the face of the band, joined by his very best friends, Miles 'Tails' Prower, Amy Rose, and Knuckles the Echidna.
During a tour, the band's sound operator suddenly quits. Luckily, Night Babylon's sound operator, Shadow, easily picked up the slack, earning the attention of Sonic. When asked to start working for Little Planet, as they still needed to finish their tour, Shadow agreed, joining them as their sound operator, and, soon, friend.
But what happens when Knuckles asks to resign as the bassist, asking Shadow to fill in the role? Did he sense the underlying tension between Sonic and Shadow, or was he simply homesick?
Through controversy, friendship, crime, and romance, these artists withstand anything thrown at them. Be it a legally questionable corporation, harassment from other artists, exes, organized crime, family drama, or even a cult, they always come out stronger, together.
"Dear Maria, Count me in!"
The Losers AU:
A Swap AU based in the game Sonic Unleashed where Shadow swaps with Sonic and Dark Gaia swaps with Chip.
Sonic fails to rise to the occasion and stop Eggman's brigade of air fleets that surround the Earth, so Shadow, the ultimate lifeform, takes his place, collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds and fighting Eggman among the stars. However, things take a wrong turn when Shadow finds himself stripped of the Chaos Emeralds power and hooked to a machine, used to fire a laser of energy into the Earth and wake up a eldritch entity that had been sleeping within the core of the Earth. Before the ultimate life form could comprehend what had happened, Eggman cast him down to the Earth.
The impact didn't knock him out or kill him, and when Shadow got up, he finds that his form had been changed into something unique, alien, and…euphoric? A lizard-hedgehog thing? A hedgizard? He doesn't get time to think about it as almost immediately after he encounters a amnesia-hit creature who's feisty nature immediately puts her at odds with Shadow, but he has no other choice but to take her under his wing because of G.U.N. trying to hunt down the 'thing' that had crashed through Empire City like a falling meteorite.
Shadow joins forces with Team Dark as well as the mysterious 'Swing', having named herself after her favorite style of Jazz, to travel the globe and discover the locations of the ancient Gaia Temples, where the Chaos Emeralds had tied themselves to. Their goal? Take the Chaos Emeralds out of the temples and prevent the overbearing entity of daytime and light from causing the Earth to collapse into its core.
The Hates Shadow Club belongs to @eclipsed-jester [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Lots of grief, Mentioned/past character death(and themes of death in general), Blood/Injury/violence, discussion of child abuse, some existentialism
Dream Land AU belongs to @raccoon-crown [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: There may be some fantasy violence mentions.
Explore each world below the cut!
The Hates Shadow Club:
The Hates Shadow Club(or THSC for short) is an AU that follows Mephiles, Eclipse, and Infinite after joining forces to try to take revenge on Shadow, only for the three of them to grow attached to each other and finding a strange love for a much more domestic life in Spiral Hill. It's a lot more focused on Found Family and the healing that comes from companionship, even with the most unlikely of people. It's mainly just an au to enjoy exploring characters and the healing journey they go through.
Dream Land AU:
Come and Visit Popstar in a galactic adventure that combines Sonic Characters and the Kirby world. Amy takes Kirby's place as the hero of this adventure and her friends take other roles as Meta knight (Sonic) , Bandana Waddle Dee (Tails) and King Dedede (Knuckles) and much more!
Predator is an underground laboratory network built on ambition, secrecy, and an insatiable hunger for power. For years, the organisation operated unnoticed, stealing research from the ARK, G.U.N, and Dr. Starline to fuel their experiments. Their hierarchy is controlled by a council of power-hungry leaders, each competing for resources, influence, and dominance over the others. Unable to obtain the overwhelming power they desired for themselves, the council turned to creating beings capable of containing it. These creations, known as Vessels, were engineered as living weapons, each designed to channel extraordinary abilities. Some experiments failed; others succeeded. Regardless of the outcome, every Vessel existed for one purpose: to serve as a tool of war.
Children raised within Predator’s sectors were forced into brutal tests of strength and intelligence. Those who excelled earned funding for their division; the weakest were discarded. Many were trained to fight in the underground arena, where among them, V-008 “Crow” rose to infamy as the undefeated “Predator of the Ring,” overthrowing the long-standing champion, V-002 “Aura.” Predator’s downfall began when the first Vessel: V-001 “Zero,” a stolen jackal child, vanished without a trace. The Chaotix Detective Agency was hired to investigate and spent years chasing dead ends until an anonymous tip led them to Predator’s doorstep. Using his invisibility, Espio the Chameleon infiltrated the facility, only to disappear for weeks. When he finally returned, traumatised and silent, he carried a small child with him: V-007 “Saturn.” With Espio slipping into mutism and the case collapsing, the investigation was handed off to G.U.N, who spent years struggling to uncover the truth. Everything changed when V-009 “Dove” lost control of her powers, triggering a catastrophic explosion within the facility. Team Dark infiltrated the ruins, retrieving an exhausted Dove and a fiercely protective Crow. They marked the site for G.U.N forces, leaving the remaining Vessels still trapped beneath the rubble.
Zero was only one of many victims. Predator had stolen children from across the world, their laboratory network stretching into hidden research stations disguised in plain sight. Some children were transformed into Vessels; others were subjected to experimentation. All were victims of the council’s obsession with control. In the Products of Predator AU, Sonic the Hedgehog was one of the original stolen children. Experimented on as a Chaos Subject, individuals altered to withstand and manipulate Chaos Energy, he eventually escaped. Trauma buried the memories deep within him, only resurfacing years later when Shadow the Hedgehog brought Dove and Crow into his life. This history explains Sonic’s extraordinary durability and power, speed and strength forged not only by destiny, but by survival.
Infinite Silver AU:
Sonic Forces retold! Silver the Hedgehog had spent years in the past. Saving people, doing good and spreading hope with no results. Bad future upon bad future driving him further into desperation and self hatred until he feels forced to use alternate methods. He ends up using the Phantom Ruby, a gem created by Dr Eggman, slowly allowing it to corrupt him so he can become strong enough to create the future he always dreamed of, that he believes he deserves after suffering over it for so long. His mind becomes twisted and he starts seeing all actions as able to ruin what he built, both good and bad. Now he has come back from his own timeline to a time he had already been, taking on the moniker “Infinite”, so he can erase the past with all its imperfect beings and replace them all with perfect clones with the Phantom Ruby so that his future can never be ruined by the actions of flawed lifeforms again, wearing a mask that hides his face and his own sadness, anger and disgust in his own actions. Will Sonic be able to bring out the good he still sees in his friend? Or will Infinite destroy himself in the seemingly endless battle against the resistance, leading to an endless cycle of darkness for Silver.
Sonic Prime: Round Two belongs to @reversetheatrekid [link to masterpost]
CONTENT WARNINGS: Offscreen torture, non-consensual body modification, violence, minor referenced/offscreen character death
Out of the Blue belongs to @artisyone [link to comic]
Art Credit: 321pietime on Instagram
Explore each world below the cut!
Sonic Prime: Round Two:
Directly following the end of Sonic Prime, not all is well on South Island- or the Shatterverses. The Chaos Council has discovered that the repairing of the Paradox Prism has given each Shatterverse a full, individual Prism instead of a piece. And like Eggman, the Chaos Council is a one-trick pony: They want it all for themselves. It's up to Sonic and Shadow- along with their friends and foes including Silver, Metal Sonic, and Cream among others- to delve into the Shatterverses and stop the Chaos Council once more.
Out of the Blue:
A fan retelling of the Shogakukan Sonic manga from 1992! This story is about Nicky, a young normal hedgehog boy living the most ordinary of lives, or so he thought for a while anyway. One day, fate turns a page and flips his life on it’s head! Now he has (unknowingly) possessed an amazing power, meets threatening foes and helpful friends, must find the courage to save the island, even if sometimes, he doesn’t want to.
