Due to Sonic's lack of naturally occuring superspeed (can be temporary obtained with his skating/shooting gear) Metal Sonic is built with enhanced combat abilites instead of extreme speed. Metal Sonic's hands can transform into a sword-like weapon, combined with the ability to rotate some of its joints 360 degrees, allows for an extremly versitale fighter.
This Metal Sonic is no longer in maintence nor production. It was disgarded by the year ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️.
Public Note: The Metal Sonic series are NOT part of the toy lines, and are not sold or advertised to the public. These fall under the "combat" category and are only used for that particular purpose.
I have 2 concept designs for Espio as of right now.
This is an OWL VS DRAGONFLY design poll. Pick which one you’d like to see more!
(Ps: Espio is the height of charmy the bee in BOTH of these designs. Both designs retain camouflaging abilities (not invisibility) Please consider that fact while deciding.)
Here is the concept for DRAGONFLY (specifically Rhyothemis fuliginosa)
design pros: he’s so pretty and sparkly and purple
Story pro: he’s FAST. Like REALLY FAST. If he is ever caught, fighting and fleeing will be absolutely no issue. He even gets a armor bonus buff due to being part bug- so any fight or flight scene is extremely intense as he can hold up his own against bigger opponents.
(Any bonus powers hasn’t been thought of yet.)
Story con: he’s not very ninja like at all here. dragon flys are noisy, and the wings can’t be tucked in, resulting in more problems for doing what he does. It can create a big issue when during sneaking or other forms of “ninja stunts”. He’ll be caught quicker than normal espio would. Though him knocking into things is quite funny.
^this is the first concept for dragonfly espio. Might incorporate more of this into the design if picked
HERES CONCEPT FOR OWL (specifically BARN OWL)
Design pros: graceful, fluffier. Might have a more interesting palette than 100% purples an blues, has talons.
Story pros: he quiet, almost silent. He gains advantage over anyone- being able to fly to height to quickly get out of people’s line of sight and the flapping of wings can’t be caught by anyone with untrained ears. This makes any ninja-ing incredibly easy for him. Sneak attacks and Gathering info for detective work has never been easier. He gets an attack bonus buff, because of the sharper talons/claws, so even if he doesn’t have a defense he can sure as hell make you bleed.
He’s also got night vision (because of the owl side) so he’s capable of seeing better in the dark. Alongside the chameleon eyes, he’s got an extremely good vision ability.
Story cons: not as fast as dragonfly, and without the armor bonus buff, he’s easier to be taken down if ever caught (wings are pretty easy to catch.). Though this can lead to more struggling whenever he’s been spotted.
He’s also feathery, so even if he sneaks properly, chances of a feather falling and ruining his cover is high here.
^first concepts for owl espio. (Might incorporate more of this into the design if picked)
Ps: this is a sonic au called “FusionSwap”. I’m polling because I seriously cannot figure out which design is better.
I like them both, and I already know my favorite. But I’m a logical person to, and I know my favorite story wise. But that makes them both good.
PS: please reblog? This sounds like begging but feel I’ll get like 4 notes on this and 0 votes if I don’t say otherwise.
I think this audio could work with Maria in this au, but this interaction between Amy and Shadow is something i have been gushing over for sooo long
After so many years of isolation and abuse and neglect its somewhat vindicating to see shadow get a loving treatment- even if he may reject it at first!
Even though theyre not like bffs (like Metal and Amy) in this au, Shadow definetly feels comfortable around Amy, especially after witnessing him cry and her kindess and warmth to all this stuff. Theres a unique bond between these too that most of the cast dont have with Shadow and i adore it. Plus. I cant help but make Shadow a little disney princess so beauty and the beast asthetic (without the romance) is what im all for.
This is post-Bluebot era (aka when it wasn’t fem) ended up befriending Amy Rose during this time too.
I tried my best with the coloring but I only have access to cheap or not exactly high quality color pencils, so take what you will. (I also did a last minute change with the arm and legs, so if you see lines- that’s why.)
He still has laser eye powers and high speed stuff. I’m also forgot to add but there ARE in fact extra rocket stuff for flying underneath his heels.
(And yes, it’s still the same height as cream the rabbit. )
Notes to take from:
-pronouns: he/it. (Yeah he’s a femboy)
-legs made too look like high heel boots
-(painted on) knee high socks (not sure what color it should be so I left it white/pink. Forgot to add more pink.)
-(painted on) criss-cross pattern on arms. (Darker than the other greys on the design)
-the drawing here is of MT having its blades extended. But it can be easily retracted so he can it’s hands.
-skull bow! (Made by FS!Amy Rose. He will kill you if you touch, remove, destroy, rip or do anything to it- unless you are Amy.)
-layered skirt (first layer is pinkish with flame pattern on it. Bottom is fully black)
-headband is very much attached to his head.
-even the sunglasses have eyelashes (well technically the sunglasses ARE it’s eyes. So that can’t really be removed either- but can be broken)
I’ll have to redesign the fem-boy design as well since it no longer matches FS Sonic’s current design.
Metal Sonic is a mix of a sword fighter and a Runner (as Sonic fight with a giant sword) so he’s able to turn his arms and hands into giant blades. (It also has sunglasses shaped eyes!!)
He still has the turbine engine (or whatever that is called) on its chest to go as fast as sonic on his Rocket shoes.
So yeah, high speed in the air sword fighting machine! Who will soon become a fem boy.
Also yeah it’s got laser eyes. Why? Because “parry this you fucking casual” post stuck with me.
-left in the basement of The Asteroid Arc to die but instead survived for 50 years due to the increasing cold temperature (like a freezer) and his chaos energy. Overtime, he would end up sleeping for longer and longer periods of time (basically hibernating in the basement.)
-he’s a mixture of fuzzy and prickly. His quills and fur are incredibly overgrown, and are mixed together. (Which is why he’s both fuzzy and prickly.)
- quills look more akin to knuckles’s design than Sonic’s (which is why the quills are long and droopy and why his ears are floppy (so it looks like he doesn’t really have em.) )
-has a history of abuse via relentless experimentation and neglect. (Helplessness doesn’t do much for the guy.)
-When creating Shadow, they realized he was way to powerful, so they created MULTIPLE limiters on each of his limbs (including his head)
-he can literally shoot giant laser beams out of his mouth like Godzilla. (Uses up his chaos energy though.)
-part alien, part hedgehog, part something???, somehow related to that weird ass monitor lizard boy, part chaos??? (He’s got a lot of weird shit in him honestly. They really didn’t know what to do with the guy.)
-pronouns are he/him but gets misgendered as an it/its a lot. (It’s sad)
-his parents are divorced (it’s also sad)
-his best freind/basically sister died (that’s also sad) and he ended up passing out (for months) due to actual bullet wounds, tasers and other copious amounts of lethal weapons (he didn’t die though!) when they tried to kill him. He could barely fight back during that time due to the restraints. So the girl who tried to protect him died while he tried to fight them off. It sucked.
-never learned to read or write aside from reading simple words that Maria taught him. (And it was hard considering she had to get actually big abc blocks because she wasn’t going to force him to try and stare at actual ant sized words.)
(Amy and the gang teach him a lot more later on! It’s like his favorite past time it’s fun.)
-size of the original biolizard (from head to tail.)
I don’t know the character of Chaos, Mighty and Ray all that well tbh..
I was thinking of having Swaps between Mighty,Ray, Espio,Vector and Charmy since that fills the entire chaotix group but I realize I know basically nothing about Mighty and Ray which complicates things.