So, I made this partially because I was on a Sonic the Hedgehog nostalgia kick, and mostly to experiment with gradients and splatterpaint brushes. It’s very rough and abstract because I was just messing around and having fun. Messing around is great practice, because you’re willing to make mistakes and not take it seriously just to see what happens.
For those who don’t know much about Sonic the Hedgehog comics, a couple years ago one of the big writers for the comics had a tantrum and left, taking with him a bunch of copyrights for characters. The company had to completely rewrite the comics, using a “Genesis Arc” catastrophe to kickstart a new timeline. It sucked. They’re doing their best, but it sucked. All my favorite characters are gone. Screw Tantrum Guy.
What the Genesis Arc did, lore wise, is it erased access to the multiverse and undid most of the major events in the timeline. They’re never going to address whether the multiverse is still there, and blocked off, or completely erased, because all the multiverse characters are the copyrighted ones. I have some doodles and drabbles of my own story for what happened; it’s sort of a mess, mostly concepts. Pictured here is my design for Genesis Fiona--one of Sonic’s ex-girlfriend enemies in the comic--and Anti-Maria, a character from Anti-Mobius (aka Moebius) who we never got to see. I mixed Fiona’s old and new outfits together. Anti-Maria’s look is pretty typical for my outfit designs, which you probably noticed, but I tried to use elements of Maria’s in-game outfit and Molly’s outfit from Sonic X. I’ll put more of my story ideas under the cut.
The Genesis Wave happened right after the escape of Scourge the Hedgehog, the Anti-Sonic, from the No Zone Prison. The No Zone is a “perpendicular” universe to Sonic Prime’s, and it tends to take a totalitarian authority to the multiverse and travelers. Scourge had jumped between Moebius and Mobius Prime to conquer both, hence his imprisonment. When the Wave happened, Prime was entirely cut off from the multiverse; no one knew what happened. Scourge, Fiona, and his Destructix team were stuck on Moebius. Zonic, the No Zone’s top agent, was sent to maintain order in the other Zones, to try to mitigate the effects of the Wave. With the Wave wreaking havok on Prime’s timeline, and Prime being the center of their multiverse, the other timelines were rippling, too.
Zobotnik, Zonic’s boss, was supposed to be helping calm things down. Severing paths where he needed to, sending individuals to repair timelines, stuff like that. Eggman Nega, a separate version of Eggman, had been attacking the No Zone for a while, but the Genesis Wave wiped him out. This gave Zobotnik an idea. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to keep order in the multiverse if the other Zones simply... didn’t exist?
This causes a decade-long series of events. Zonic is too busy slowing the effects of the ripple to notice what Zobotnik is doing. Scourge and the Destructix discover it and, not wanting to cease existing, start a rebellion, attacking Zobotnik themselves. Anti-Maria becomes a key element in this fight. On the old Moebius, Marilyn Robotnik had NIDS just like Maria did, but when Anti-Shadow tried to save her, he died. Marilyn was the one captured, and she was experimented on for the next 50 years, becoming an immortal human, the only human who could absorb and use Chaos Energy. This also means she can affect the No Zone portals, and the Destructix use her to repair and fight their way to the No Zone. Zonic initially doesn’t believe them about Zobotnik, until Zobotnik directly attacks Marilyn; Zonic has to sacrifice himself to save her.
This is the catalyst in the final battle, and unfortunately, the group is too late to stop Zobotnik’s Genesis Wave. Scourge, in Super Scourge form, is at the epicenter of the Wave alongside Marilyn, and the most they can do is create pocket-ripples to protect everyone about to be erased. This means that those people are still lost, but that they can be found, and their existence keeps the timelines from completely collapsing; the multiverse is streamlined, but the edges are frayed, like dangling threads.
This is where my story would actually start, whenever I get around to writing it. All ten years of that fight have been erased. Scourge and the Destructix are back where they started, as teens on Moebius, although this Moebius is not the one they remember. Scourge remembers all ten years that are gone, and his team is only just familiar enough to trust his decisions, but they can’t remember why. Zonic is baffled by his jumbled memories, which are cut off due to his previous death, and pursuing the Destructix, as well as trying to find out why the No Zone’s Highway is ripped to shreds and missing whole chunks--chunks that should be worlds. Scourge gets to Marilyn early, who doesn’t remember him, but is extremely enthusiastic to join the gang and escape her imprisonment.
She’s in a baggy sweater and sweatpants when they find her, because her captors don’t care that much. Fiona gets her disguised in dramatic, punk-y clothes, and Marilyn insists on having a neat scar like Scourge’s. She says it’s to disguise herself, but really, she’s just a cheesy dork who wants to look cool. Flying Frog is happy to assist on (carefully) scarring her face. The two of them are best buddies, honestly--he tosses her off buildings, she teleports back and begs him to do it again, they both laugh hysterically, it’s great. Marilyn might be a little nuts.
Zobotnik still wants to erase the multiverse, so it’s Scourge’s goal to get a headstart on fighting him, training Marilyn and convincing Zonic to join their side. This will eventually form a very large fighting force that jumps between the Zones and hides in the cracks, breaking down Zobotnik’s supports until the ground collapses from under him. Eventually, the Destructix will get their memories back, and Scourge won’t be so alone in remembering. Fiona will cry upon remembering that she’d been pregnant before the ten years were erased. Zonic will have an identity crisis at remembering his own death. The lost people will be found in the forgotten Zones--like Geoffrey St. John and Dr. Finitevus. But, for now, for the story’s beginning, it’s an on-the-run Marilyn, a confused Zonic, and a bunch of crazy criminals in the Destructix who don’t really know how to parent an immortal human child.
Geez that was a lot of writing. I know you’re supposed to only give little bits of lore at a time when writing about your stories on Tumblr, but I just can’t do that, I have to get it all out. That’s why I put all this junk under the cut. Read at your own risk and all that.
I wanted something with my Anti-Maria, Lyn, and her crush, Dr. Ztarline. So, here is them on the Destructix’s airship that they fly through the void to find lost worlds Post-Genesis Wave. I’m still learning to draw ship interiors; my textures are getting better, and I think I got the brass and wood look down okay. But, the shapes could use some work. I need to do some ship studies to practice that.
I also redesigned Lyn’s outfit just a tad, and made Ztarline more my style rather than Sonic-y. He might be a little bit too tall, but that’s okay. Lyn is pretty short.
Here is a little preview of my next bit of art. Meet Ruby’s No-Zone counterpart, Zuby. People familiar with Archie comics may understand what that means, but basically Zuby is an assistant to one of the high ranking Zone Cops. Will have more details written once I finished the pic.
