Sonichu 10 Page 48
Caption: Meanwhile, in RuleCWC…
Caption: Inside the castle…
Caption: Da cave
SFX: *CRACK*
CLAWDORF: RRROOOAAR!!!!!
CLAWDORF: Finally! The Chaotic Crystal powers have released me from my stone shell!!! How long was I out?
This is our first glimpse of RuleCWC, the Sonichu canon version of Legend of Zelda setting Hyrule. It seems to be a rather provincial setting, with forests and tiny villages, not unlike Hyrule. Chris has occasionally expressed interest in setting an entire sequence of Sonichu in this area, though as the medieval European-styled setting of Hyrule is immensely different from Chris’s modern Charlottesville, this will likely never come to fruition. It is, on the next page, described as being in England, something never really expanded upon - if RuleCWC is a part of the monarchy of England, why does it have its own king and queen (Zelina’s human adoptive parents)? I suppose that Chris doesn’t think that a purely invented country like Hyrule would work in his somewhat grounded into the real world story he’s writing, but RuleCWC is nevertheless a plot hole.
It also seems that the reunion of the Sonichu Balls has had an unintended consequence - as the Ganondorf equivalent that is Clawdorf was turned into stone the last time the Sonichu Balls were together, putting the balls back together allowed him to free himself once again, and he appears to be ready to go back to the same old tricks he was pulling before he was petrified. In theory, this was supposed to be a sequel hook, for that aforementioned return to RuleCWC, but without that sequel it just seems like Chris and Sonichu were being careless, prioritizing saving their friends over the possible innocents being slaughtered by Clawdorf.
Chris’s designation of the cave where Clawdorf was sealed as “Da cave” appears to be another Jamsta-esque attempt at looking “cool”, but I like to think that “Da cave” was literally the cave’s name a la the Castle of Aarrgh from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Darkbind, who I guess we’re meant to assume had lost all faith in being able to reunite the Sonichu Balls after his two Balls were yoinked by Magi-Chan back in Sonichu 6, is simply praying at Zelina’s bedside, all hope nearly being lost. Based on Darkbind’s statements in Sonichu 6, he made it seem like either the Sonichu Balls were a one use only thing, or they scattered like the Dragon Balls after each use, so it’s possible that he’s given up trying to revive Zelina at this point. Luckily Chris’s powers have no limitations, so the story didn’t have to choose between saving Zelina or saving Crystal.
It’s about this point where the god complex that had been bubbling under the surface of Sonichu since day 1 really starts to show through. Sonichu, the super-powerful being born to a virgin, descends from the roof, arms outstretched like Jesus on the cross. Combined with the (admittedly only tangentially related) image of a tomb sealed with a large circular rock opening directly above, and the reawakening of a character from a long, death-like, slumber on the next pages, there’s a lot of Jesus resurrection imagery that may well have been intended.
