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Zeti Family Portrait (keep reading for my awesome zeti lore dump)

I promised a Zeti lore dump and today I'm finally here to deliver. As I've said on an earlier post, Sega forgot to give these six any lore or motivation, so I took matters into my own hands.

Last thursday (which is now actually 3 thursdays ago, because I forgot to post this, lol), as I was getting my highly anticipated Zavok tattoo, my tattoo artist asked what made Zavok turn to a life of crime and evildoing and if he had a tragic backstory that made him act this way. And all I could answer was "No, he's just evil. Lol." (She also asked me to find a cool video clip of Zavok that she can put in the video she took of the tattoo process, but finding something cool is really hard when your only source is freaking Sonic Lost World….)

In my head, he does have a tragic backstory, but in that moment, I had to stick to the canon facts. And while I love characters that are just assholes for the fun of it, I think the Zetis really deserve some cool backstory as well. So here I go.

First things first, the Lost Hex in general. Are these six the only Zetis living there? Do any other Zetis exist at all? Where did Dr. Eggman get his information about this "Lost World"? (See what I did there?)

This is where the headcanons start. I think there used to be humans living on the Lost Hex. Not many, but a few who discovered the floating planet and decided to stay there, thinking it was an uninhabited landmass. It was not. They soon learned about the Zeti, who were, admittedly, not the nicest of neighbors to have around. And so the fighting started.

As the fights continued to become more brutal, the humans, who were at a great disadvantage against the Zetis enormous strength, were about to give up, until one of them, by sheer coincidence, decided to chisel a musical instrument out of a Zeti horn they had found lying on the ground. Which they soon discovered had the power to turn the mighty warriors completely defenseless through the power of bad music.

The Zetis were caught completely off guard by this, since they had already thought themselves the victors. Soon, most of them were caught and their horns crafted into more of these obscene instruments, which the humans started calling "conches" due to their peculiar shape.

This is where the Deadly Six finally come in. Not the ones we know, but the original Deadly Six, led by Master Zik. Made up of the strongest warriors their race had to offer, they managed to chase off the humans using clever tactics that wouldn't get them anywhere near their musical instruments. Not without casualties though, as Master Zik was the only survivor of their group.

After their close victory over the humans, the remaining Zeti decided to split up (some even leaving the Lost Hex), while Master Zik decided to stay right where he was and rebuild the Deadly Six, to make sure there would be future warriors who were ready to fight once again, should the need arise. He took in some of the orphans who had lost their guardians during the fight with the humans. Five of them.

So while Master Zik trains up his army of children to be the next defenders of the Lost Hex, the human survivors train up their very own "Zeti Hunters" to someday take their revenge…

My headcanon is that Dr. Eggman got the conch he has in the game from one of these guys. Maybe he accidentally stumbled across one of their forums and got veeeeery interested when someone mentioned a whole planet that was inhabited by crazy strong monsters who are easy enough to control by playing a little bit of music.

The number six seems to be quite important on the Lost Hex, thinking about it. Hexagons everywhere, the Deadly Six… What are the Zetis anyway? I've seen some manuals describe them as aliens, though I don't believe that. They're supposed to be based on Japanese Oni, which seems more plausible than the alien thing, as they share some similarities to the traditional Oni: Imposing horns, sharp claws, impressive strength and their inclination to violence.

They're not quite as vicious as the average Oni, though. (Well, maybe Zazz…)

Then there's their weird magnetic field manipulation shenanigans. Did they always have this power and only discovered they could control robots when Eggman came to the Lost Hex? I don't think there were any robots on the Lost Hex before Eggman got there. (But since this is the Sonic franchise we're talking about, maybe the humans 100 years ago already had robots with them, lol.) What a random power to give to characters who apparently lived on an undiscovered planet for hundreds of years with no machines to manipulate. Though I did read that Onis were sometimes depicted with lightning powers, so maybe that's why. Wait wait wait…… They do shoot lightning projectiles in the game, right?? Okay, it all makes sense now.

Making up an edgy backstory for the Zetis doesn't change the fact that they're assholes, by the way. This is something I should definitely mention. And while they're not completely beyond redemption (I'd say they're on the same level as Bowser, who also goes karting with his adversaries), they're probably really hard to get along with. They barely get along with each other, much less Sonic and his friends.

Okay, now for the fun part. Speaking of Sonic and his friends… It probably won't shock you if I told you I was a very big supporter of shipping Zeena and Rouge. They probably met at the Olympic Games and have been hanging out ever since then. Most people would make them hate each other, since they're both sassy, fierce women, but I hate pitting bad bitches against each other if I could make them kiss instead. I was about to draw fanart of these two, but I couldn't figure out how to draw Rouge, lol (And I kinda ran out of time. I also wanted to draw Zazz in his punk rock outfit…). Someday, I'll draw swagful yuri of them, I promise.

That reminds me, I also mentioned on one of my last posts that I wanted to write more about their relationships. My headcanon really burns down to "Let's all be in a polyamorous relationship and not tell Master Zik", just because I think it would be funny as fuck.

But I think that in general, they tend to get along pretty okay, aside from the occasional brawl when they do get pissed off at each other. I saw some people mention that one panel from the IDW comics where Zazz says something along the lines of "Zavok has done much worse" after getting beat up by Espio, which a lot of people interpreted as Zavok being abusive towards his fellow Zetis. But I honestly think it's just a Zeti thing to beat each other up from time to time, lol. Secretly, they all love each other.

I imagine Zavok would try to act cold and calculating most of the time so as to not let down Ziks very high expectations in him. (I imagine he has a whole complex about that, where he tries to never show anyone any weakness, not even his family, which, you know, is super healthy) But if someone from his pack was in trouble, he would raise hell for them.

Anyway, I think getting him pregnant would fix him. (I hope no one read this far) I'm serious. I get that this would make him even more similar to Bowser, but who give a shit, this is my post. I'm gonna start coming up with Zeti fanchildren.

Anyway, that's it. Thanks for coming to my Zeti talk.

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Can't wait for the one-sided beef between Zavok and Spongebob ;)

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And then my Mario bled at me

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Ever wanted to see Zavok in lingerie? Now might be the time 😈 (This might be my magnum opus)

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All of them :D (If there's no merch of your favorite guys out there, you just gotta make it yourself.) (Awesome shirt under the read more)

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My funny Zeti headcanon is that being a nail designer is actually a highly respected job for them. Someone's gotta be responsible for keeping all those claws looking sharp and dangerous (+ well maintained and colorful)

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Sega give me Sonic Racing Crossworlds now and my life is yours!!!! (And be sure to add the rest of the Deadly Six it would be so funny)

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You've heard of Christmas in July, now get ready for Halloween in April.

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mug moment

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They turned my Mega Man woke????

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Merry (late) Christmas! ;)

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Every time someone complains about Fully Charged Airmans design, my love for him grows even stronger.

I feel like most people are mad that he isn't blue. Like back in 2014 when people complained that Sonics arms were blue in Sonic Boom. But I honestly don't think it's that big of a deal.

But if you see Fully Charged as an alternate universe to the classic series (which it is), then I don't really get why you'd have to complain about Airman not being blue. I think it's good they tried something fresh with the robot masters. They didn't have that much personality in the classic series, to be honest, compared to Fully Charged. I just think he needed a little more screen time to focus on his character. Just like many other robot masters on this show.

Okay, I have to admit, I did change around his colors a bit for a joke that would have gone along the lines of "Just hire fans, lol", but it actually ended up looking pretty cool, so I can't really make that joke anymore……. Really shot myself in the foot with that one. Anyway, here's blue Airman:

I still think that an episode featuring an air race would have been really really cool. They could have introduced a robot master like Gyroman as his rival. Maybe losing that race could have been the start of his character arc where he finally confronts his inferiority/superiority complex. Along the lines of "Flying is all I have left! If I can't have that, what else am I supposed to do?" Well, now that we're already in headcanon territory, I might as well tell you about all my other ones involving Airman. I believe his family is suuuuper rich. All his siblings have well respected careers and probably make his parents buckets of money. Meanwhile Airman is like the youngest sibling who dreamed of becoming a professional racer, which his parents didn't support at all. Kinda reminds me of another robot master under Lord Obsidians command whose dreams were crushed by his parents......

And as we've seen in that one episode, Airmans siblings are assholes. They just pretend he doesn't exist, like he never belonged to their family at all. Like they're ashamed that he's such a failure.

Oh damn that got dark again, sorry. But just like Drillman, he gets better in the end. While Drillman gets Woodman to look out for him, I've had the headcanon for a while that Airman gets taken in by Blastowoman, since she's also a flying robot master like him. Maybe she even gets him a job as a cargo bot alongside herself. I feel like he really needs someone supportive who's not afraid to call him out on his bullshit in his life. And because I have another headcanon that Blastowoman actually has an adult child (Blastman, lol), she's like the perfect woman for the job. ;)

Coming back to Airmans design, I did change some things about it for this particular piece of fan art. When I was trying to come up with an awesome pose to draw him in, the first thought I had was "Damn, I gotta give this man some heels." And that's exactly what I drew.

Sorry for not posting anything for 2 months btw. I got addicted to Metaphor ReFantazio ;) If that doesn't become game of the year, I'm gonna be real mad.

Jenny out.

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All the things I drew for the SiIvaGunner Spirit Week :D

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I wanna feel good With my personal god Tell me what to do Tell me who to love

Here's an alt version featuring slightly less armor ;)

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Windman big naturals

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Ventus Airus (alt version under the read more)