Silver's similarities to the ancients and echidna tribes
Silver's front quills are like the head crests of the gizoids and the Ancient Warrior Kocos, the big quills on the back of his head are like Chaos and the Ancients head tentacles, the symbols on his cuffs and gloves are found all over Nocturne and Sky Sanctuary(old echidna places with Ancient's tech) and look like Imperator IX's cuffs and Silver's powers are the same color as the Ancient's
The funniest research I've ever done in my entire life:
Anyway, congratulations to all the fans who wanted Infinite back in the franchise, I'm happy for you. Now, we just have to wait for Mephiles, and who knows, maybe one day my beloved Enerjak and Imperator Ix will return too?
Imperator Ix or Pir'Oth Ix leader of the Nocturnus Clan is intriguing case because well he seems to be inspired by a lot of characters
1. The Dark Legion from Archie being tech-based echidnas who fought against Knuckles and his ancestors.
2. Brotherhood of Guardians from Archie again being echidnas.
3. Doctor Finitevus being a white echidna who again with a penchant for technology and megalomania.
4. His name Ix brings to mind another character from Sonic Satam and Archie Comics series: the sorcerer Ixis Naugus. And the fact both are sealed in a dimension and have no qualms experimenting on themselves.
5. Doctor Zachary being an enemy white echidna against Knuckles related to his past using technology.
6. Dr. Starline who may of been based on him being Monotreme (which means egg-laying mammal) like Knuckles species, and being an evil counterpart to him who uses tech and teleportation.
7. ********** ********** ** (commonly dubbed Wechnia by fans) is a glitch character featured in Knuckles' Chaotix. He is a recolored version of Knuckles the Echidna, who's unique design is used for other characters in offical media.
Here we have Shadow the Hedgehog in my roleswap AU known as Blockbuster. We have two versions here, today, one with and without the mask.
Info about artwork below the cut
Lore:
Shadow is the leader of a blood cult consisting of ancient hedgehogs from 4000 years ago called “The Brotherhood of Black Arms.” With their own blood, they use it to dye their quills with red stripes and use it to paint around their eyes.With their faith, they place it in a protector of the multiverse known as Devil Doom. I use Shadow 05’s big bad is cause I wanted Shadow and the Black Arms to still be related in my AU. They see this being as an amazing deity who they wish to share with the world. In order to do this, they develop technology that they had discovered from the Starfall Islands provided to them by the survivors of the Ancients (who are redesigned to look more ghost like.)
They develop at an exponential rate, building robotic servants, researching genetics with cloning and augmentation, and this all culminates with the invention of a super weapon harnessing the power of both the chaos emeralds **and** the master emerald. This gets the attention of Devil Doom, and it pulls the civilization into the Twilight Cage. But the entity didn’t grab the emeralds as the storage space for them to fuel the weapon broke off in the destructive process of bringing the brotherhood into the Twilight Cage.
From there, the brotherhood continue to develop their technology, stealing tech from other civilizations trapped in the Cage until the present where they make a machine that temporarily phases their civilization back into their world where they steal all 8 emeralds before phasing back into the Twilight Cage. Their plan is to repurpose the super weapon into a device harnessing the emeralds to **__merge__** the Twilight Cage with their world, forcing Devil Doom to reside with them where the brotherhood will share the “deity’s glory” with the world.
Design Notes:
Now with Shadow, I made his iconic symbol the symbol of the brotherhood like how Christianity uses the cross or the “Christian Fish.” I even made it the head of his staff referencing Imperator Ix’s staff with the partial gear head ||As you can see, the staff has a lot of dry blood stains.|| With the mask, I wanted to reference the Doom Eye with the forehead eye with the red stripes mimicking Shadow’s and the Doom Eye’s red markings.