so!!!! sonic prime thoughts/me getting my ideas straight before tomorrow/theory 👍👍 this will literally all be irrelevant by tomorrow but whatever this is for Me !!!! fair warning I have no idea if any of this makes sense, also I am probably an idiot <3
so here I go. uh. what I'm getting personally: when the prism split, everything was all divided and reality formed its ownnnn..... branches, for lack of better word. branches off of each shard. the previously singular world seperated, formed the shatterverse. that's the wiring of it all, connecting the shards, because they are meant to be one. sonic didn't split because of paradox energy reasons. shadow escaped the blast. but the others didn't (nor the environment itself), and now they're all different versions, none quite.... right. but most alive.
that brings us to saving the 'real' characters! getting sonics old friends back. all the energy back in one place will, in theory, bring back green hills. well, one place in particular. (altho we're missing some. sonic. but that's another story.)
there isn't exactly a lost, true version out there that'll spring back out of nowhere when the energy is together, they're mostly all just parts of a puzzle. with a base, a guideline to be filled in, which I assume you know what I'm thinking as to where.
no matter how I put this it's gonna sound dramatic bc of the way I'm writing it but yep! ofc it's ghost hill. (which I really like the name of btw lol)
yes, ghost hills is basically a copy of the original world. everything was "the same." literally where the whole paradox prism fit was right there, an outline of where it was before. a place to put them back and fix everything.
but though it IS the most similar, it's not some frozen over green hills that needs to be ‘freed.’ even though when the prism was formed there everything sprang ‘back to life,’ it wasn't them being TRAPPED in there the whole time. they weren't entirely there at all. they were incomplete.
even though they had one prism shard to start, like all the other worlds, they were still not as "real." that's because this shatterspace is the exception, less a world and more a host. a shell of a place it was before. ghost hill is different from all the other worlds in the sense that it's physically incomplete and isn't meant to be habitable that way, rather than a new world itself.
(prob why shadow can get in, something likely important plot wise but also just. this place isnt new it's not keeping you out, it's just hurting!! but it recognizes you!! you're meant to be here, home!!! of course you can come in, here I am, nothing added while you were away, I just.... lost. but you may still come in. there are no gates. insert that undertale it's still you thingy or whatever)
this part finished world held the space the shards needed to fill by drawing energy from other shatterspace shards, sucking it back in to become whole. and eventually it was working. it took almost all of the energy for them to wake up, this living color washing over them. and when they did, as soon as the energy was gone, the world went grey again. but it was working. the world covered in color and they were returning.
green hills and ghost hills are the same, one is missing things. it was their home drained of nearly all it had, but if it just…. got its parts back, it could be whole again.
i don’t know if it was because nine took the one shard it did have, or because the prism as a whole was formed somewhere else than it was meant to be (probably more the latter) but it’s gone. but if it’s gone it can’t be the only place that can host, as we have more episodes after the explosion lol, or it’s not truly destroyed irreparably. sonics energy, sonics tie to the very shatterverse and prism, can probably fix a lot.
the grim is a reasonable option for another site if it really doesn't require ghost hill, as it's oddly empty and we don't know why. there must be something we don't know about it.
no matter what ghost hill and the grims fate really is, as of right now the shatterverse is being torn apart, and ghost hill was the first to go. and I'm accidentally disproving my own theories here so I'm gonna shut up now.
oh oh!!! important note I want to address: I'm fairly certain when the world would go back to normal, the "parts" (aka shatterspaces) will be gone as their own thing, their core puzzle pieced back into the real green hills and morphed back into what it was before. along with everyone in it.
I don't think sonic knows this.
nine and shadow do, I believe, or at least shadow and mostly nine. I have a post in drafts about this but grr bad timing.
anyways yeah ghost hills is weird, all the characters are basically going to be gone, nine probably has the suspicion he's doomed, and I need to go to bed !!!
