#and the robots are very much still robots (which is where the afton inclusion comes in! robot pro heroes would be VERY efficient.)

[bluerasbunny]

i know i have too many AUs. i know. but would you guys kill me if i talked about a FNAF BNHA AU

[unoisveimved-un-proffesional]

You know on some level, there are some interesting similarities between Sonic The Hedgehog and Five Nights At Freddy’s.

1. Furry’s.

2. And this is very interesting, the use of organic beings to power and give life to robots. Recently I’ve been retreading old paths of my past, specifically Sonic The Hedgehog and FNAF, which this post is dedicated to, and I’ve come to find so many people who really appreciated the E-102 GAMMA story in Sonic Adventure, which I’d always been a fan of and inspired some of my story ideas and concepts of which may never see the light of day, and if you know anything about both these franchises, you’ll know exactly the comparison I’m about to draw; The one between the organic being who gives life to the lifeless machine. FNAF Sister Location as well, with its inclusion of the character Baby and her story, with the mixing memories of Elizabeth Afton and the Circus Baby animatronic, reminded me of some of the implied messaging of Gamma’s playable story. Especially the part where Gamma has to “save” his robotic brethren by dismantling them, forcefully, before planning on destroying himself so the flicky’s trapped inside could flee and live their life. It’s eerily similar to the destruction and burning of Freddy’s Pizzaria at the end of FNAF 6, where in an attempt to free the lost souls trapped in these murder machines, Henry, co-founder of Freddy’s, burns the entire place down with the animatronics and Michael Afton (who’d helped him get those animatronics together in one place) all inside. What ticked me off to this thought experiment was one specific line “And to you monsters trapped in the corridors, be still, and give up your spirits, they don’t belong to you.” This line always stuck out to me because the animatronics lore had always been that they were possessed, that they became the children stuffed inside, but this line clearly implies a separation of the human being that once was and the robotic vessel they’re trapped in, creating a interesting dichotomy between the two, similar to the one between Gamma and his flicky, and the Badniks as a whole and their flicky’s, which I’d always found to be untread territory. What an interesting concept, left mostly unexplored in the Sonic franchise, which yes, ultimately lead me to writing many, many pages of possibilities that may be of use yet. In any case, this same idea, one endlessly interesting and worth exploring, of the dark merging of organic and inorganic life forms, is a common element shared between the two, which has only just now stuck out at me. FNAF is definitely doing more of the heavy lifting in this comparison, as most of its story is centered around this concept, while in Sonic it’s more in the background and just a neat element of the world rather than the central focus and dilemma (except in E-102 GAMMA’s story where it IS! It’s also one of the strongest stories in the franchise despite being the least connected to it and shortest, wrapping up rather quickly and not given the Shadow treatment. Gamma stays dead, or is he? Afterall we never really learned what the deal with the flicky’s and the robots AI is, or the connection between their sentience and lives, so like a ghost, a spirit, E-102 GAMMA may live on, exactly as he set out to, in some way shape or form) (god i love that story (and how they ended it! it ended! it’s a story with an ending! a conclusion! and a bundle of thoughts and emotions it leaves you to dwell on after it’s climax! in a franchise like Sonic’s, that is definitely a rarity for a character, especially one as thought out and interesting as Gamma to have. instead of being brought back again, like at the end and beginning of every Simpsons episode, he stayed dead, and got an ending! (Something I wish FNAF could’ve gotten! “I always come back.” Yeah! I get it! But please die with some dignity damn it!) (i still love it though)))) it’s still very much a part of the world, but it’s kind of a shame how untouched it is. I have yet to read any of the comics, I’m just going off of what I know of the games and shows. I know about roboticization from SATAM, and I really like it, it’s a great adaptation of the game while still being different.

3. How many hours you have to spend to understand the (often rebooted, forgotten, and rewritten) lore, as well as the multiple continuities between installments and mediums. Yippeee!

Almost entirely opposite franchises, one where you sit still and cower, hide, and fear for your life and dread death every passing second, with such grimm themes as child murder and corporate cover ups, and one where you run free, run fast, and love for the colorful world around you waiting to be explored, where there’s cheerful heroes in a story with such themes as (suddenly remembering Shadow) child murder and government cover ups. Hmm. (In humor of course, I am not making any bold claims. It’s just an attempt at humor).

Anyway, these are all just my observations. Beyond the surface level and incidental, these are two completely different stories and games, but the one idea they share is so ingrained in their lore and history, well, at the very least, it’s interesting. Unlike typical cyborg stories, (save for RoboCop which is definitely an (Rusty Rose a lot like RoboCop. (Damn pattern seeking brain never shuts up)) interesting exploration of the merging of man and machine, focusing much more on the Death part of Life and Death like FNAF, wheras Sonic The Hedgehog is a lot more about the Life part, afterall, it’s Living things that power Badniks. Can’t just stick a dead bird in there and have its ghost power the Buzz Bomber’s) anyway where was I? Oh yes! The concept to me is heavily unexplored in a lot of places, and could definitely use a touch up on Presentation here and there, to really communicate something with the audience, Sonic The Hedgehog and Five Nights At Freddy’s, while having Robots, Furries, and Robot Furries, beyond the superficial, also share a core element of the chaotic nature of life harnessed by cold steel and machines, to create something unique, although dark and very possibly immoral and unholy, as well as somewhat existentially dreadful (which may be why it’s more of a rarity in common media) is something I for the past decade of my life just could not stop thinking about. I choose these two franchises because it’s the only deep commonality they reallt share, and in the fact that it is the only one, adds interest to it for me. Anyway, that’s my midnight thoughts. Goodbye!