Sonic Prime Extended Universe HCs - Boscage Maze
so we know that the Shatterverses aren’t “real,” full universes, just distorted reflections of the Prime that aren’t fully-formed, hence why there’s only like 6 people and two locations. However fucking around is fun fun fun so I’m just gonna do a post for each universe dissecting where the other Sonic Universe characters would be and what they’d be up to. Please for the love of GOD add your own ideas/hcs in the comments I want us all to melt into creativity mush.
this is my favorite world it’s so blorb shaped get ready for chaos <3
literally OBSESSED with @son1c‘s idea that this place is a MegaFlora apocalypse instead of a prehistory era so that may color my interpretations a little pls go look at their cool windthrow and halcyon
Thorn and Prim are sisters; I won’t shut up about that interpretation I think you can tell. Anyway, my hc is that she was found alone in the woods as a toddler by their tribe and adopted by Prim’s dads. Prim’s dads were the tribe leaders, and one also had the honored position of Forest Protector; they treat him like kind of a spiritual leader. He WAS training Prim to be future protector but she was just... never very interested? And he could tell, so when Thorn showed an interest he kinda switched to her. Prim literally never once minded, she thought it was neat that she didn’t have to worry about Future Expectations anymore. Well, until several years in the future, when Thorn went “mad” and she had to take over her dads’ former position as leader.
Gnarly was also found in the woods, this time as an egg. I like to think toddler Prim found him and brought him home thinking it was just a shiny rock. She was massively disappointed when it hatched and kept trying to shove him back in the eggshell.
This is because the echidnas are still around in the Boscage, but I like to think a timeline-condensing like in the SCU happened and Pachacamac’s in charge so the echidna tribes are constantly trying to kill each other. It’s a warzone when they meet up. When the Knuckles Clan were passing through Thorn’s area, it was pretty tense between tribes but Prim’s dads led a peaceful tribe and so the Knuckles Clan didn’t see them as a threat and left them pretty much alone so long as they didn’t make nuisances of themselves. The Knuckles Clan eventually moved on to go bother the Nocturnus the next forest over. As Thorn inherited the position of Protector from her Father, Tikal inherited it from her grandmother. Funny how Thorn from the peaceful tribe ended up being more confronational and Tikal from the warrior tribe ended up being a pacifist.
Once again, Sticks is fucking THRIVING. This is her DREAM world. We have no government!!!! She doesn’t even know what a robot is!!!!!!! She is THE happiest person on the planet this is HER world we’re just living in it!!!
It is harder for humans to survive in this world than the animals, so they’re pretty scarce, and often live either high in the trees or deep underground. The OVA humans are obviously sky-based. The SCU humans live in one of the few land-based settlements, running a farming community as best they can in a meadow. The X humans are mainly underground but the kids often sneak to the surface to explore. Sam helps them do this cause he thinks it’s funny.
also the Sonic Underground characters literally live underground
Blaze starts fires when she’s mad and this world is nothing but flammable plants so she is like sooo repressed it’s insane. Gardon keeps reminding her that “Well, at least we don’t need to work hard to start a campfire!”
Marine is feral like Mangey and we love her for it
Tangle keeps getting her tail tangled (no pun intended) up in vines and branches and Jewel and Lanolin have to extricate her
Acorn is a decently thriving community– Knothole is literally just their territory, instead of a medieval kingdom. They like to say they have more damage caused by Dulcy’s crash-landings than any kind of environmental disruption. Bunnie has a wooden prosthetic arm and leg braces that she wraps up in vines cause she thinks it looks cool as hell.
Actually now that I’m typing this, them being in conflict with the Knux Tribe might be a neat idea...
ROUGH AND TUMBLE WITH TUMBLE HAVING A THICK FUCKIN VINE FOR A TAIL,..,,.
The characters who have the MOST issues obvsly are the very tech-y ones. Tekno is pretty good at going 2016!Jungle Book and using her skills to make new gardening and foraging equipment but literally all it would take is one run-in with the Nocturnus to get her to build the world’s first gun. Bean doesn’t have bombs but he DOES have fire which he will use on EVERYTHING.
Bark, signing furiously: Bean stop setting everyone on fire to see what will happen!!! what will happen is fire!!!
Bean: but what if... what happens... isn’t fire???
Bean: GOOD NEWS WHAT HAPPENED WAS FIRE
Can’t decide if the Zeti are doin well or not. They seem to live in a very natural world already, with their control over electronics only being a problem in their main hub and when Eggman shows up, buuut also they are not a “work together to survive” species.
okay and and AND. what i’m sure everyone was waiting for, even if you didn’t know you were waiting for it:
(sidenote: we were never told Cosmo’s species name in canon, unless it is actually just “Metarex.” “Seedrian” is a fanon name so I might use it but if I refer to the whole species as Metarex that’s why)
Okay so like. These are guys are THEEE dominant species over here. Either they caused the megaflora apocalypse or they’re a byproduct of it; either way, it gave them like a HUUUGE burst of control over the planet.
Thorn’s tribe hasn’t encountered them often mainly because they are on like. The other side of the planet. Totally diff continent. But uuuuhhh it will not take long before these bitches learn how to cross the ocean and start causing trouble.
They have basically the same biology/life cycle, except now that the planet is 90% plant they have a greater connection to the natural world and use this to their advantage.
Unfortunately, Earthia died in the normal Metarex/Seedrian way so Dark Oak is in charge and hahahaha he’s uuuuuuhhhhh not super nice to non-plant ppl :)
Dark Oak’s philosophy that’s kinda spread through the species is “These animal-mobians have to KILL OTHER THINGS to survive, how barbaric. We just subsist on solar power like normal civilized people.” No matter the universe, Dark Oak loves to enable war crimes, so this goes about as well as you’d expect.
Ofc there’s still a lot of dissenters so they’re infighting about as much as they’re outfighting. Is outfighting a word? i dont care
Galaxina and Cosmo are the only surviving kids of Earthia/Oak. Both are kinda Tikal-style the voice of reason but they are not good at it, especially poor “doesn’t know how to talk to ppl” Cosmo.
The Nameless Zone foxes live on this side of the planet and they’ve been the main forces against the Metarex. They used some kind of magic to teleport Mangey to the other side of the planet because... idk prophecy or someshit? Maybe they were just under attack and needed to get the kid out asap. But I want Cosmo to eventually find him and be like “AH, AN ENEMY” and then he just clings to her arm and she’s like “Oh nevermind this is an angel”
If the Metarex had shown up in Green Hills when Thorn was still on her rampage everyone else on the planet would be dead there’s like no question about it. Thankfully by the time they get there Thorn’s mellowed out quite a bit and is like “Hmm. Sounds genocide-y. Have you ever been hit in the face with a hammer? WOULD YOU LIKE TO???”
