#empire!au

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I did @superbfirnacho's 500 follower DTIYS (in like 4 hours I'm so so SO sorry it's so rushed)

My reasoning for why it looks so different from the 'original picture', alongside credits, can be found under the cut.

I mostly wanted to try out clothing folds with this drawing, I'm aware the shadows are rather poor. But. Oh well. Meh.

ALSO I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THE TEXTURE IS SO CRISP OUT OF NOWHERE?????

Some of you might've guessed it, but this is Nachos Empireverse!Nightmare! The scene I drew is based on a drabble that @imtrashraccoon wrote (CHECK THEM OUT TOO THE WRITING IS AMAZING), and I hope I did it justice :)

[[ Emperor!Nightmare & Ivy belong to @superbfirnacho ]]

[[ Empire!Soul and the background characters all belong to me ]]

[creativesploosh]

Would y'all wanna hear about any Sonic AU ideas I've had? Curious to see what the most appealing one might be

Alternatively, I have about a billion different Metal Sonic OC characters LOL

Any of these sound interesting?

Too Little, Too Late (Empire!AU)

Roseshift (working name, "swap" style AU)

Me and My Shadow (Tails centric, post-Frontiers)

M.I.A (Tails centric, Forces AU/Rewrite)

I would like to hear about OCs

All of these

Voting ended onMay 18, 2025

[tiatatu]

Rebole a pança e raba pro seu dengo sultão e tire até as cueca dele.

Fanart de "Entre Véus", fanfic KonoHana e NejiHina de minha autoria onde Konohamaru é o Sultão e Hanabi sua concubina favorita.

[prehnite-soul]

Irene is banned from shapeshifting on the palace grounds due to reoccurring impersonation of high ranking officials of the Royal guard, royal advisors, the head cook (which caused the kitchen to serve only sludge for two days), and the Emperor himself.

[creativesploosh]

Y'know, I should probably make an actual, not in-universe introduction to at least one of my Sonic AUs....

Well, get ready for a ramble! (Sorry in advance if I use too much color, I like color-coding names and such- LOL)

Too Little, Too Late! AU

This is a Sonic AU regarding one (not-so-simple) question:

What if Sonic worked for Eggman?

How would this change the world, and how would certain characters react?

Situated in Starlight City, a place run by the ever-looming Empire, this AU aims to answer all of these theoretical questions.

This AU has a few working names; Too Little, Too Late (TLTL) and Empire!AU, both of which have tags associated with them.

I tend to use Empire!AU as a shorthand for TLTL (Empire!Sonic, Empire!Amy, etc) though both names work.

Here's our main cast:

- Tails Scavenger the Fox

A genius fox who sticks to the shadows and has made it his life's goal to take down the Empire. He never had a Sonic when he was bullied; he just took it, and took it, and took it, hiding away one day, and never looking back.

- Project Cobalt Bullet

A secret project by Scavenger... The Empire has sustained minor losses of mechanical material when Enforcer Units are decommissioned, but no one knows why.

- Amy Rose

A kind-souled, young citizen who stumbled across a lone fox while she was walking one day. She wants to help him, but she isn't aware of everything Scavenger has done or plans to do.

- Sonic the Hedgehog

Key General to the Empire, and the strongest force in its army; he was taken by Ivo a long time ago, far before he knew what was right. He's the bane of Scavenger's existence.

- Ivo Robotnik

Sonic's boss and the running monarch over the Empire he established on the isles. He's the "father" of Sage, the city's AI guard, and the creator of everything Scavenger hates.

Follow this blog if you'd like to ask questions directly to the main fox himself, Scavenger!

Art to come soon, hopefully I can figure out how in Chaos drawing Mobians works in a timely manner.... (Mfw I have designs for Sonic and Tails but I can't draw:)

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I realized recently that I should probably just be saying stuff about my AUs even if I don't have art for em yet lmao

Though the poll was between "M.I.A" and "all of these", I think I'm gonna do Too Little, Too Late/Empire AU cause that's the one that's the most fleshed out- so uhh. Ramble incoming!

(edit: I drafted this for a while accidentally LMAO so if I'll just post it now, didn't mean to post two posts about the same AU in such short succession)

Too Little, Too Late

Otherwise known as Empire!AU

TLTL's story, and its departure from the main timeline, is based on the idea of "what if Eggman started his takeover while Sonic was still a kid?"

Ultimately, the result of this is a jaded Sonic working directly as Eggman's right hand man for the Empire post successful takeover.

Tails is the protagonist of this AU by proxy; Tails never had a Sonic to save him growing up, so he ends up breaking a little bit and becoming a scavenger, which grants him his new (a little more derogatory) nickname, Scav

(notably, it's very similar in concept to New Yoke City from Sonic Prime, but it takes itself more seriously than that and the similarities are mainly present between Nine/Tails and the Eggmen/Eggman in this AU)

Aside from those two, Amy is a civilian that ends up being roped into Tails/Scav's schemes because she wants to help him live without anxiety of being caught/found, Metal Sonic is a creation of Tails this time around who's made of the scrap parts of Eggman's "Enforcer Unit" robots (that look like a mix of Eggrobos and the E-Series bots), and Silver pops in from time to time as a result of the future being terrible. He disguises himself as the Empire's mailman, and he and Amy have had a few run-ins.

Otherwise, a lot of the other characters are either civilians in the Empire (Cream, Big, the Chaotic, etc) uninterested in whatever Eggman is doing (Knuckles, who's just guarding Angel Island), or... Otherwise occupied (Shadow, whose whereabouts are unknown)

That's all I have for now, cya!

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I live the fact that in Empire Terrence Howard's character's name is Luscious because it makes me think about Lucius Malfoy, and what if Narcissa was a lot more like Cookie?

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i want to talk about kingdom/empire au, but no one will listen but i don't care so

Remember The Road to El Dorado? It wasn't nahua culture by a longshot, but you can tell the artists did extensive research on it in order to create a fictional civilization that fits in that time era and location, right?

That's what Empire!AU is (better name pending).

Senpai (aka thegrumpysiberian aka nonsensicaljello aka Ashley) and I founded it a few months back...actually, it's been a whole year, wow!!

We create civilizations based on previously existing ones, and we add magic, myth, and legend before throwing it all together in an AU world.

Xóchitl, for example is heir to a civilization based on the Meso American cultures, mostly Mexica and Maya. Her mother comes from a foreign kingdom based on Iberia (or Portugal and Spain "mixed"), so she's influenced by both cultures, just more so by the Mexica/Maya.

Senpai's muse, a Siberia named Alexei, is heir to a civilization with Ainu, Russian, and Mongolian culture.

They adventure together; good childhood friends.

My Paris, Marie, does not come from human origins, she is being raised to be a guardian of sorts. A guardian of time. She resides in an underworld like location. She does not like this position, and would like to run away.

To the north, right before Alexei's land starts, there is a grand forest. This forest is dangerous to those who do not know it, and those inexperienced. A while ago, a friend and I were talking about her Arthur's role in this AU, and we decided he would be something like a King/Guardian of the forest, similar to Elves in LotR, and that he would be greatly against the rising Germanic kingdom, which is based off of Hamelin in Ni no Kuni. The king of this kingdom is Germania, and his two sons Gilbert and Ludwig. Gilbert does not want to lead, he wants to be in the battlefield, leading his people to victory. Ludwig is much more suited to lead, but he is the second son.

The dangers in the forest include witches, forgetting who you are, being lost forever, dying, and being eaten, among other things. There are rumours that in the center of the forest, there is a safe zone, but few have entered it, much less come back to tell the tale.

That is really all I have without going into specifics.