#i need her to meet metal sonic and shadow and cream and charmy immediately

[sonknuxadow]

i really hope that sonic racing crossworlds has a lot of dialogue like team sonic racing did because theres so much potential for fun interactions between characters who dont get to interact much or have never officially met at all with the amount of characters that are in this game

[pahrak-the-sinnoh-slizer]

When I found out there was very briefly a real chance we could get a Sonic Storybook game based on Greek mythology, I was pumped and immediately started planning a fic using the concept.  But, after so long and considering...everything, I think I need to just admit it’s not going to happen.

I still like the ideas I was able to brainstorm, though.  So here’s a rough overview of a hypothetical Greek mythology Sonic Storybook fic.

The title I was going with was “Sonic and the Muses’ Song”.  One of the nine muses (Calliope, muse of epic poetry) escapes the storybook world to find Sonic and ask for his help: her sister Melpomene, muse of tragedy, has sealed away the other seven muses for unknown reasons, and she is afraid the same will happen to her if she tries to save them herself.  Naturally, Sonic agrees, and he is brought into the world of Greek mythology.

Since hardware gimmicks were unfortunately a key component of the Storybook games, I wanted to see if I could play into that idea in an interesting way. (Even if it wasn’t going to be an actual game, I still wanted to think about it like it was.) What I settled on was giving Sonic a lyre he could use to activate special abilities gained from freeing the muses, with the strings of the lyre appearing on the touch screen of the Wii U gamepad.  Tapping one string activates one “song”, keeping the gimmick simple and relatively unintrusive.  I hadn’t figured out all the potential songs, but I thought things like the boost and Time Break would fit in well, along with maybe songs that give rings for defeating enemies, allow you to rewind from one death without losing a life, things like that.

As Sonic tracks down the muses, he meets numerous characters from Greek mythology portrayed by people he knows.  The early parts of the game include: Hephaestus (Tails), Athena (Amy), Hermes (Jet), Ares (Omega), Atlas (Big), Demeter (Sticks), Apollo (Blaze), Artemis (Rouge), and Icarus (Silver).  At some point Sonic joins forces with the Argonauts, here composed of Jason (Knuckles), Odysseus (Vector), Achilles (Espio), Calaïs (Charmy), Zetes (Ray), and Heracles (Mighty), and they come into some conflict with Poseidon (Storm).  This part of the journey ultimately leads to the hiding place of Medusa (Wave), who is also sheltering Pandora (Tikal) and the Oracle of Delphi, Pythia (Cream); it becomes apparent that Pythia knows more than she’s letting on, but she refuses to elaborate, insisting that if she explains now things will go very, very wrong.

The final muse is in the Underworld, because of course we have to go there at some point.  Hades is Shadow, another no-brainer, but he says he’s not taking sides in this conflict.  With all the muses freed, Sonic finally goes to confront Melpomene.  She is defeated, and reveals that the reason she sealed her sisters away was to prevent their power from being misused.  The Muses control stories, and the more stories of the gods are told, the stronger they become; Pythia foresaw that Zeus was plotting to escape the world of the story and conquer the real world, so Melpomene sent her to hide and then set about sealing the muses away so that the stories of the gods would die out and Zeus would be trapped in this world forever.

At this point, Zeus (Neo Metal Sonic) would probably make his move, and Sonic would need to find a way to stop him.  I hadn’t nailed down specifics, but I liked the idea of having him go back to the Underworld and find the remains of Chronos (Mephiles) for...something.  Whatever the case, Sonic eventually storms Mount Olympus and fights Zeus, unlocking a new transformation (as is Storybook tradition) that I was thinking of calling “Epos Sonic”.  I never got around to the details of the form, though.

Miscellaneous things: -Since Sonic always has an implied role in these stories, I was thinking he would be a stand-in for Perseus -Wanted to do something with the lotus eaters -Generic enemies would’ve included myrmidons, centaurs, sirens, harpies, and lamia -I was absolutely going to shoehorn in a joke about Echidna the mother of monsters

And, uh, that’s about it.  Really wish I could’ve wrangled this into a proper story, but I need to choose my battles and this had a low chance of actually materializing, sadly enough.  Hopefully you at least enjoyed this look at the possibility!