Shadow isn’t impressed with the Blue Blur…or is he? We’ll see
Previous Comics
01: Live and Learn
02:New Hog in Town
03: Duty Calls
04: Friendship is Theft pt.1 pt.2 pt.3
05:Fore(shadow)ing
06: Hog in Uniform
07:Legacy under her limelight
08:Meet? Cute
AU Notes:
-As you can see, despite this being a pretty chill au, there was still a rebellion period. This au takes a lot of inspiration from the 90s and that includes SatAM and TAOSTH—The two Sonic cartoons that aired back then
-This comics takes place in a post restoration period. Hence why everyone is in the mall, including Knuckles. Angel island is being rebuilt so he and the emerald are in the mall rn
-Sally is canon! She is still a princess, but not exactly the same way.
-This takes place in Mobius but not the Archie or cartoon version. Mobius refers to a set of islands where Mobians (animal people) live. Human people exist on other continents but are rare, so you wont see them here
Been brainstorming ideas for the AU, let me know y’all’s thoughts if you want. Ask me questions !
1. Nightwings never fled the Night Kingdom, therefore never “lost” their power and never felt the need to invade the rainforest
2. The Dragonet Prophecy is real and involves a dragonet from each tribe.
3. Rainwings kept the old way of changing queens, the cannon ‘temp’ Rainwing queens are now just non royal nobles. Queen Grandur sits on the throne despite her old age as she has no available heirs (until Glory comes along) her bio kids are dead but she has two grandchildren, Jambu and Glory. Grandeur has been looking for any sign of Glory over the years, glory was stolen as an egg right before the brightest night. The Rainwing nobles have been suggesting that one of them should take over the throne as the search for Glory became desperate, Grandeur stubbornly refuses.
4. There’s a fourth hidden Sandwing princess that no one currently knows about, who might be hiding somewhere at the edge of the rainforest
5. Starflight and Sunny both have seer and mind reading, with Starflight’s being slightly stronger being full Nightwing.
6. Hvitur and Asha both survive, permanently scarred but alive. Hvitur teaches them history and tribe customs, and often tries his best to help guide the dragonets of destiny whenever they have a problem. Asha teaches them hunting and basic biology, is a great example of a “mama bear” type, will openly confront Kestrel whenever she gets too rough during battle training.
Some details may or may not change, these are just some ideas that I’m really liking so far.
So in the AU I have Hop catch Calyrex and since he's also essentially adopted by Peony... I have the silly idea that Calyrex just sometimes uses Peony to chat with Hop if he feels like he needs a nice calm and wise voice to listen to. The Legendary has been around for many, many seasons and while he still doesn't understand much about humans he's learned a lot from little Hop. So of course he wants to return the favor.
That said Calyrex only does it very rarely because Hop has asked him, many a time, to please not use people as microphones. Especially the nice man who's currently taking him in. So instead they've been building and strengthening their bond so Calyrex can use telepathy to speak to him in his mind. (Also just putting in my headcanon that you could speak to a legendary Pokémon with the ability this way but you need to have a strong enough bond to do so.)
The steed Hop helped Calyrex reunite with is Spectrier. Since in Pokémon Masters Leon has the Calyrex with the ice steed, I thought the ghost steed for Hop would work as a reflection on how Hop is feeling more at the moment. Stuck under his big brother's shadow... along with feeling lost and wanting to return home but wondering if he even can... Calyrex understands at least some of that feeling for being forgotten all these years...
Peony still doesn't know Calyrex and a big ghost steed live in his house either. Peonia does, but she just simply goes "Oh neat! Good for you Hop!" and goes on her merry way. She's seen so many Legendaries by this point the shock has worn off for her. She's just glad Hop has a new companion who'll look out for him.
Hop also goes out and hand grows carrots for Spectrier to enjoy. Hop is Spectrier's favorite human ever. The feeling is mutual for Calyrex and because of that he's determined for the boy to somehow reunite with his loved ones, his brother especially. He may not know Leon, but from how much Hop clearly adores his brother, Calyrex is certain he must be a good person and love and miss Hop just as much.
brackets is put in an especially "interesting" position in the dream role swap timeline because in the act of saving arduien and giving them one of their divinities (their original one) and becoming equally honor bound as a paladin of arduiens (and because both of them are using the wrong protocol for divinity*) brackets has become soul bound with 2 people (and arduien through right of the madness that reviving them with divinity is has, by extension, become soul bound to quests)
quests does not approve of this actually, things have been way too hectic in that timeline to properly talk about it tho
*arduien should really be with their qpricule resting up and getting loved on instead of staying at quests house, staying at quests house is actually making them more sick
>> She was only in her early 20s, and had been working in the medical bay as a nurse to injured Octo-troopers. This was until she was specifically chosen to become #115’s caretaker/guardian. They never understood why they were chosen, until they began to develop feelings of love and affection for the strange “inkling” child.
>> Years later, she grew too affectionate of #115, resulting in her becoming sanitized…
Phase 2: Post-Sanitized/Acht:
>> Once they were freed from the Octarion Army’s clutches, following their escape plan that helped #115/Pearl to escape, they’re now trying to figure themselves out as a person.
>> Despite having been sanitized, their determination and love for Pearl (as her former caretaker) managed to break their “sanitized state,” and so their emotions remained. Living in an apartment with both Sean and Pearl, they have a hobby in remixing songs (particularly the Squid Sister’s songs and other bands), along with still retaining their role as Pearl’s caretaker (but to a part-time degree, rather than as a full-time job).
I know it's been a while (and I'm thinking of creating a sideblog for my PPT Fanfics) and the poll has not ended yet, but I kind of figured out a few things lore/story-wise during the past week for my fanfic "Aiding A Pal". I'm still going to do the top three choices, just in a different way.
First off, the Giant Doey Dream Sequence would be its own one-shot and perhaps more of a story that Aiden tells to the children. In doing so, I created at least 8 Safe Haven Toys to use for my fics in general plus a Nightmare Critter!
As for the other two chapters, I decided that Chapter 4 and 6 will be reversed. Chapter 4 will be a story-plot chapter focusing on Matthew and Kevin while Chapter 6 will be a silly chapter with all three boys. I did this for a few reasons:
Chapter 4/5 would be the mid-way point of the story
Chapter 6 will be placed to ease tension (calm before the storm) because Chapter 7 (Kevin's chapter) would be the climax/heavy angst.
Timeline-wise, it would make sense to put it there as a nice segueway for Jack's character arc (since his chapter/my other fic "Mother Mine" take place before Yarnaby's chase)
I mentioned Yarnaby a lot in the fic, and at first, his scene would have been a flashback sequence, but since he was the reason the characters were in a strange position, I decided to give Yarnaby a more significant role.
It just works plot-wise and it does set up for the fics that come afterward/in general.
Anyway, the chapters will be reversed. I am taking ideas for silly safe nom prompts in chapter 6, so if any of you have ideas, feel free to share.
Now the big breakthrough you've all been waiting for... why I'm making Chapter 4 an important chapter and I finally gave a name to the AU besides "Aidenverse". This AU of stories is called "Project: Phoenix". Note I'm still developing it and the full understanding of how it plays out will be realized when Chapter 5 hits, but I have more info under the cut:
Project: Phoenix is essentially an experiment where the scientists wanted to resurrect someone without turning them into a Toy. Because it's frustrating to have staff killed and replaced constantly. Basically Sci-FI mad science/Frankenstein stuff. So they tested flowers and chemicals on people to see what happens. Most die within hours/days/weeks. The few who did survive long enough to get results also passed away but by different circumstances.
The study is called "Phoenix" named after the mythical creature that is reborn. The simple idea is that a human with the Phoenix gene would come back to life if any of the Experiments/Toys would kill them, making the human immortal (at least to the toys). However, besides the obvious side-effects of paranoia, hallucinations, effects due to Red Smoke, etc., there are other side effects that are unknown. However, there are notes that Phoenix humans who get exposed to a particular Monster Toy for a long period of time, especially with unique DNA, not only would it create a bond between human and monster, but slowly, the human's behavior would adapt to the toy they bond over and the monster would crave the human. (HINT HINT HINT).
The Project was proposed to Dr. Sawyer who did try, but then decided it was unrealistic and dropped the project. Dr. White picked up on it and did experiments.
You will find out more in the next chapter but to give you a rundown:
For this AU, someone/something (perhaps the same being who gave the Player the tape and letter) laced the package with pollen from the Phoenix toxin that affected Aiden. Because of this, Aiden is cursed with side-effects and cannot die. He gets resurrected every time he gets killed. By the time "Aiding A Pal" begins, that's when the unknown territory/potential of the project kicks in.
Needless to say, Doey and Aiden will be in for a wild ride!
