#gemerl the robot

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@zac-attack2008

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[moon-drop-grape]

so i started a new sketchbook and might've ridden a high

[futuristichedge]

Are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go ape shit???

[timandmau]

I'm utterly insane

I was reminded of this stupid rare pair crackship that only me and like 3 other people gaf about and I just had to draw them again

[cararata]

Sonic brain activated

[mildcharacterenjoyer]

Scrapnik Island AU

Takes place after Sonic Frontiers. Tails decides to temporarily part ways with Sonic and goes to Scrapnik Island to help Sigma and the Mechas out with their goals.

Tails begins to help out where he can and soon the island is a bustling safe haven for Badniks and robots alike who have been left behind by their creators. Includes some Gun Robots who have gone rogue too.

Cream is on that road trip with Amy and Vanilla is with the Chaotix leaving Gemerl to pursue his own desires if he wishes, except Gemerl doesn't know what he wants for himself. He is not his own robot, being reprogrammed and most of his data is not actually his own.

He goes to find Tails to try and figure some stuff out, ending up at Scrapnik Island with everyone.

At the same time, Omega has been malfunctioning a little bit and decides to temporarily part ways with Shadow and Rouge. He seeks out Tails to figure out what is wrong, which also brings him to Scrapnik Island.

At first Omega did start attacking Scrapnik island but the fight quickly deescalated by the Mechas, Gemerl, and Tails. Gemerl is helping building the Island outward to accompany all the new robots moving in.

They get the Egg Carrier working as a means of transport. Tails enlists Mecha, Gemerl, and Omega's help forming the first battle robot Team, Team Defect. (I could have called it something else but I really like this one.) Mecha - Run, Gemerl - Fly, and Omega - Power.

Those three go on adventures together, grabbing spare parts or fighting Eggman's forces back, engaging Sage/Metal Sonic, and plenty of other things.

Omega and Gemerl already have a mutual respect for each other, but they still argue a lot. Mecha is the leader, and the one that can help the other robots come to an agreement.

Mecha is that robot that loves his family like Gemerl, but will happily fight others if need be. He's a good mix of Omega and Gemerl which is why hes a good leader for them.

Mecha Sonic and Knuckles easily gain Omega's respect. Sigma less so. This is due to Sigma being another E-Series robot. Omega keeps trying to prove his superiority and Sigma just doesn't care. He's just proud of his little brother no matter what he does. It drives Omega up the wall.

Having Omega around makes Sigma want his brothers back, so he begins plans to rebuild who he can from the E-Series, sending out Team Defect to retrieve parts and memory cards from various areas around the world.

While that's going on, Tails deciphers what Omega's malfunction is and it's growing pains. He is coding his own soul. Omega is angry about this and wants to be a soulless murder robot.

Gemerl is dealing with his own identity crisis and is mad he never got the chance to turn on Eggman like Omega did. He asks Tails to look into if his love for his family is truly his own or not. As Tails pokes around in his code, Gemerl starts having hallucinations about his predecessor Emerl.

Except they aren't hallucinations, it's what is left of Emerl's code actively trying to communicate with him. Gemerl listens and Emerl tells him that what he feels is truly his own. It's a heartfelt moment, but Emerl truly passes on giving Gemerl access to the ability to fuse with machines and some of the other strengths the gizoid lost when the original was destroyed.

A good portion of the E-Series has been rebuilt now and all of them. And I mean All of them, treat Omega as the baby brother. It's antagonistically adorable, but Omega HATES it. The Phis are the trouble makers intentionally ticking him off so they can race away snickering.

Beta has been found and rebuilt. Beta hates Omega because the youngest E-Series is stronger than him How dare?! Omega tolerates Beta the most, besides Sigma because 'Oh good! Reason to beat something up and get out my RAGE!" Beta can't beat Omega. He keeps trying and failing.

It's cannon that Chaos Gamma is made with Gamma's parts, so at some point Chaos Gamma will come into the picture. Maybe he's tired of being neglected by Eggman too. There could be a choice between dismantling Chaos Gamma and getting E - 102 Gamma back or keeping the current robot. I like the idea that if you decide to dismantle Chaos Gamma to recreate E-102 Gamma, then Gemerl will be upset. Mostly because he sees himself in Chaos Gamma. Not being his own robot, even if Chaos Gamma has Omega's temperament.

Literally everyone loves Sigma. Even Beta. Sigma is that mom friend who will make sure all your needs are met. He dotes on all his brothers with a passion. He also loves participating in meatbag traditions like birthdays and holidays. Sigma is the only one who can refer to Omega as a baby brother and not get a gun to the face...eventually. Omega learns to tolerate it.

Sigma helps Omega grow into his soul. By the time Rouge and Shadow come to find Omega on Scrapnik Island for something they absolutely need him for, Omega just accepts Sigma's love and everyone is so surprised Omega is letting Sigma pat his head like he's a child.

The scrapniks huddle together at night a lot of the time for snuggles and to heal their feelings of abandonment. Sigma is always the one who starts it, but the Mechas follow close behind. Mecha Sonic was the one who first introduced Gemerl and Omega to the cuddle pile.

Gemerl didn't take much prompting, having done this before with the rabbit family, but Omega is very much against joining in.

It takes Sigma starting a cuddle pile around Omega, to where the badnik can't escape the love to get him involved. Mecha Sonic and Gemerl are just sitting there next to him, teasing him about it.

Beta is an aggressive cuddler. Whenever Beta cuddles, it always turns into a rough house session. Omega uses this as his escape from the mushiness.

Tails is so proud of everyone and what they've accomplished together. He is able to repair the Mechas to better working conditions, modifying limbs to make them look more like their original forms. Sigma has asked to remain mostly the same provided a few updates here and there. He likes the way he looks now.

The fox might be the mind of Scrapnik Island, but Sigma is the heart and Soul. Omega's the muscle.

Omega and Chaos Gamma get along well. They spar all the time. Beta likes Chaos Gamma too. If they team up on Omega, he loses to them. So much sparring goes on Scrapnik Island that they had to build a specific arena for explosions so they stop blowing up parts of the island.

If E-102 Gamma gets rebuilt instead of keeping Chaos Gamma, Omega and him talk about their favorite meat bags. Tails will call Amy and she will be so so happy to see him. This will make Omega begin to miss Rouge and Shadow.

Tails does research into the Gizoid's while here as well. Testing out Gemerl's fusing abilities. I'ma stop there because as much as I love shipping Gemerl and Omega, I want this to remain more platonic. 🤣🤣

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[tboyblaze]

mobian omega....mobian omega save me

[teamdarkweek]

Observation:

Cast your eyes over this difference in robots:

Look closer:

Metal Sonic has 5 fingers while Omega has 4. Thumbs included as fingers.

Emerl and Gemerl both have 5:

It is hard to see here, but Gamma has 3 fingers:

Theories:

Eggman gives solo/ single series robots a full five fingers, but economises on designs that will be repeatable.

Eggman has been experimenting with optimum number of fingers for a combat robot.

Fingers add different abilities: Fingers 1-3 ensure basic motor skills. Unerring self-belief in combat prowess is stored in the 4th finger. Self awareness and capacity for existential crises stored in the 5th finger.

Eggman is a beginner artist and frequently forgets how many fingers there are.

[toaarcan]

Sad Headcanon Time!

Sonic doesn't like being around Gemerl.

It's nothing Gemerl did, really. Sonic's remarkably good at forgiving people that tried to kill him. Their eight or so fights over the course of the First Shattered World Crisis aren't really anything to hold grudges over.

But that's his kid. Except not. He found that robot on a beach and raised them himself. And then they died in his arms, asking him whether they should be glad that they were born. Whether their life was something to regret.

On some level, he knows that Gemerl doesn't have anything in them that's Emerl. Emerl's body crumbled to ash in his hands, and Eggman built copies of the design before. Gemerl is obviously just a refined version of the E-121 designs. But they're still painted in Eggman's colour scheme, they still have Eggman's mockery of Emerl's name. He visits Cream and sees this shadow of what he once loved, more robotic than Emerl ever was. It doesn't bother Cream. Why does it bother him so much?

(He still has the Emerald that was all that remained of Emerl. If he convinced Tails to install it in Gemerl's chassis, would it bring Emerl back? Is that even a good idea?)

So he stays away whenever he can.

Sage asks him to look after her 'father' when she goes. The angry, vicious, vindictive part of him, the part that only ever came out he was Darkspine Sonic, wants to spit back that Eggman offered only further torment when he killed Sonic's kid, why does he deserve anything besides scorn? He stomps it down. It won't help anyone if he lets it out.

(Sage comes back, of course. Like she never left, Eggman pushes a few buttons and he gets her back. Of course he gets the get-out clause. Gaias forbid Eggman experience consequences.)

[wonderinc-sonic]

Tiny Headcanon 10: Omega's brain parts, as well as Gemerl's are actually remarkably small; Eggman makes excellent small processors, and large compenents are more difficult to protect. They will not take kindly to being called pea brains.

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[neoncherryblossom]

You know what I think is interesting? Is how some people portray the Sonic robot characters as being the logical ones. And I'm talking like, Metal Sonic having these fully well thought out plans that he executes perfectly and how every hit is precise, how Omega would do anything to accomplish his goals and would do things he deems the greater good (a comic I remember seeing about Rouge making a sacrifice and telling Omega to hold Shadow back) and there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is a fair. I love seeing this.

But the interesting bit is the 'logical' robots are probably some of the most emotionally impulsive characters in the franchise.

Like sure, yeah Metal Sonic plans and does so really well (Neo Metal Sonic in the games and comics). Sure, Omega is reliable in getting stuff done and is an incredible tank against badnicks. (In the comics) Gemerl makes a pretty great ally when he's around to fight. But I find it insane that Eggman made all his robots so emotional.

Neo Metal Sonic's whole thing was trying to be better than Sonic, and even when he's outnumbered and the whole cast is literally there, under all that rock music he's spewing about how much Sonic no longer matters to him, in a giant dragon form, still determined to beat Sonic. Omega's entire backstory is how he was pissed that Eggman left him to rot guarding Shadow's comatose body, essentially throwing a fit before he decides he'd rather do his own thing and destroy everything Eggman has built. In the comics (because he's never in any games anymore and that should be a crime) Gemerl leaves everyone to be there for Cream when she gets the metal virus.

Omega will absolutely dip everything in order to save Rouge and Shadow. Gemerl is the walking meme of 'I've known Cream for a day and if anything happened to her I would kill everyone and then myself'. Metal Sonic is shown to be cunning, but his hatred for Sonic (and his tendancy to ignore other threats in his tunnel visioned hatred) is usually what screws him over in the end.

Eggman, my guy, I get you want your robots to be loyal to you and all that which is why you gave them emotions, but I feel you messed something up here.

[futuristichedge]

Important reminder: sonic robots are incredibly cool

dont forget this

[timandmau]

robot yaoi....

I made this quickly for a reblog earlier but uhm I'm just gonna post it as its own thing too

[mildcharacterenjoyer]

I enjoyed the imagery from your fanfic where these idiots cuddled. Hope you don’t mind some fan doodles.

!!!! OHMYGOD! LOOK AT THEM! LOOOOOOK AT THEM!!! AAAAAAAAAA *SQUEAK*

This!!! This is amazing!!! Thank you so so so so so much! I'm happy my fic inspired you! They are such dorks! I love all of these positions! Look at Gemerl bap. HE BAP! GSGDHDGDJDHDKDDHDJDHDHDJDHDJDH!!!! I'ma be screaming about this for the next year of my life! Thank you so much! ♥️♥️♥️

Here's the fic this is related to if anyone is curious. Could I put the art up with the AO3 fic too with credits? No worries if not I just want more people to see THIS AMAZING MASTERPIECE OF YOUUUURSS!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63967858