#phantomruby

[soniclibraryooc]

[flightyalrighty]

Happy birthday!!

Thanks sm Phantomruby!! :]

[tailsthetheorist]

💫 How Classic Sonic REALLY Got to Forces — The Phantom Ruby Timeline Fix 🌀

You know how everyone just kinda shrugs off how Classic Sonic shows up in Sonic Forces like, “lol, another dimension ig 🤷‍♂️”?

NAH. I got a better theory.

Let’s start from the beginning—Sonic Generations. Yeah, the birthday game where Time Eater tries to ruin everything.

🧠 Phase 1: Eggman & Classic Eggman Found Something

After Generations, we know both Eggmans teamed up.

But what if, instead of splitting, they stuck together for a while?

They were trying to locate a powerful relic... something beyond time: 👉 The Phantom Ruby.

🤖 Phase 2: Sonic Mania’s Secret Setup

In Sonic Mania, Classic Sonic is vibing back in his timeline, and suddenly—BOOM— Hard-Boiled Heavies and Eggman find the Ruby.

Where did it come from? 🌀 From the timeline meddling that happened in Generations. The Time Eater fractured reality, and the Phantom Ruby slipped through the cracks.

📌 The Ruby was drawn to Eggman—like a magnet to chaos. 📌 The Heavies? Part of a subroutine from Eggman’s robots sent to hunt it down. 📌 Sonic? Just caught in the middle.

🔥 Phase 3: Sonic Mania’s Ending is Forces’ Beginning

After defeating Egg Reverie and reclaiming the Ruby, Classic Sonic is pulled into a final portal.

Where does it lead?

👉 Straight into the war-torn world of Sonic Forces.

Not a coincidence. That portal wasn’t random—it was the Ruby returning to its last known “master”...

🥁 Modern Eggman.

But Modern Eggman is like “?? tf is this rock again??” Because it's been YEARS. He doesn’t remember the Ruby, doesn't recognize Sonic looking all chibi again, and just assumes “okay new threat cool.”

💥 TL;DR Timeline Fix:

🧪 Generations – Eggmen tamper with time = unstable reality

💎 Phantom Ruby leaks into Classic world → Mania

🤖 Robots programmed by Eggman hunt the Ruby in the past

🌀 Sonic uses Ruby = portal to Forces

🧠 Eggman (present) forgets it was his old plan

💥 Classic Sonic is back, and he ain’t from another dimension... He’s from a botched timeline.

Bonus Headcanon:

“Classic Sonic isn't ‘another Sonic’. He’s just our Sonic, caught in a recursive loop of Eggman’s broken plans.”

[marinaiguess]

GOD the idea that Sonic's free spirit and need to explore the world affects Tails so much,,,but Sonic can't change that bc that's just who he is AAA

EXACTLY!! Sonic cannot stay put, he needs to explore, to run, to find different places to stay at nights, to live like the wind. and he can't really change that (and maybe he has tried to in the past but to no avail.) and ofc all of it has affected tails.

I like to think that at some point, sonic kinda forces himself to leave tails on his own more often, as a means to cope with his insecurities of whether he is doing a good job as a big bro or not. running=a means to clear his head. but tails doesn't see it that way and thus, misunderstandings and a distance between them occur:)

[neurotypical-sonic]

The cishet fancam.....

[clouded-chaos]

OKOK I HAVENT DRAWN SONIC IN AWHILE, and Sonic in the second to last one looks HORRID BUT!! But, listen. @phantomruby has an AMAZING IDEA and I HAD TO.

Sorry if it’s messy I was excited to get it done :33

[chaosandthe-deadblog]

Anti honesty hour. Are you. A Sonic fan?

(visibly in pain and sweating shaking and crying) no i hate that blasted hedgehog

[biggreendinosaur]

The Traitor - The Choice (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/634863465-the-traitor-the-choice?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=milokanus&wp_originator=CpcJHVU%2BpQzsE90ugoXZbR6vLXNGRX4zjO2l1Mol4pb7vqmdR%2FEgR%2FxFwLFVYHvlisKujEi%2FuI1lM6qm9OTRfFLByQKVg91o%2BVQZZUW3WZ7fhVNWlV1BsJ3cFFmqGx3L Gadget wasn't very special. They trusted him. They believed in him. But none of them understood how he truly felt about the world. Only his Enemy understood him and with the end of the war coming, he had to make a choice. (An AU of Sonic Forces) One of my favorite fanfics.