#space ark colony

[murahel]

Sonic X people, please hear me out on that headcanon (even tho it's been like, 15 years since I watched the show entirely).

Tl;dr: Eggman ended up on Mobius to escape the ARK genocide. ⬇️

So I recently felt the urge to check if Eggman in Sonic X was the only human of Mobius, and as to why and how and when the hell did he leave Earth for Mobius to become a tyrannical maniac and stumbled upon this deep and detailed explanation on the wikis-

WHAT DO YOU MEAN UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES

Anyway. I obviously felt the need to skim through Gerald's and Maria's pages to check for any mention of Eggman, but no. Since Maria and Eggman are stated as cousins, it means that Gerald had AT LEAST a wife and two children who are never mentionned nor explained (I remember a line like "she was my grandfather's granddaughter" and not "she was my sister", I hope if Eggman had a hidden murdered big sister, he would at least MENTION it in the ARK.. arc).

(Yes, they could be clones or life experiences of sorts. Or adopted- maybe, in Maria's case. But then what would be the point of me coming up with this whole headcanon, hm?)

Now about numbers. Eggman's age in the wikis is 59. Maria's is 12 when the ARK was, hm, shut down. If we stand by the "it's been 50 years" nice rounded timelapse between the ARK's downfall and Sonic & Co.'s present, Eggman would have been 9yo when G.U.N. raided the ARK.

Now I don't think the guy was running around on Earth freely for an unknown amount of time after- all of Gerald's family was killed- everybody on the ARK was murdered and somehow went to Mobius one day.

Also since Gerald worked on Chaos energy and Chaos Emeralds, which are NATIVE to Mobius' dimension (in the show at least if I remember, idk about the games), it means there was already knowledge of Mobius' dimension in Gerald's time. Since Gerald was already damn old I mean, of a certain age when the ARK was raided, I'll round up the knowledge of Mobius' dimension to 50 years. So by Sonic & Co.'s present, it would have been a century since the discovery of their dimension by Gerald. Anyway, I digress.

What I'm coming up to, is that Eggman could have been born on the ARK just like Maria (yes the wiki states born on Earth but it also states UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES and Eggman doesn't seem very fond or nostalgic of life on Earth ergo he didn't grow up on it so stfu-). The whole Robotnik family could have been living on the ARK, maybe a bit apart from Gerald and Maria because of her illness/Gerald's researches on the top secret Project Shadow to cure her, yes even Maria's own PARENTS and Gerald's wife in this case (if anime's curse of dead parents hasn't reclaimed them all already).

What I mean is that Eggman could have been on the ARK when it was raided by G.U.N. and fled to Mobius' dimension to avoid genocide being murdered. Since G.U.N. shot 12yo Maria, I wouldn't put it past them to shoot 9yo Eggman.

So, what happened? The Robotnik family is on the ARK when G.U.N. raids it and tries to escape to Mobius through a portal, but only manages to get 9yo Eggman through it before the parents and grandmother are killed. The portal is either destroyed by dying Robotnik family members to protect Eggman, or by the G.U.N. agents themselves. Since escape to Mobius isn't possible anymore, Gerald, Maria and Shadow run through the ARK to escape pods towards Earth and the show's events unfold undisturbed from there.

Since Eggman doesn't recognise Shadow 50 years later and doesn't seem to really know the details of Project Shadow, I guess the Robotnik family didn't open the portal with the help of Shadow and his Chaos Control.

(Maybe they were late, dodging G.U.N. agents everywhere, maybe they got to the portal just after it was destroyed, only to find the corpses of the other Robotnik family members, of Maria's parents and uncles and aunts and grandmother and couldn't dwell on the loss because the place was full of G.U.N. agents with fuming barrels who came running after them, yes the agents we see in the show-)

I guess Eggman either forgot it all because of trauma or really wasn't very close to his grandfather and Maria. Or he would have been, but didn't know about Project Shadow because it was top secret or because he was too young (but Maria knew because the project was to save her life). Also maybe his family didn't tragically die trying to escape to Mobius, maybe he just warped himself in another dimension by accident while tinkering in his parents' lab or something, and the Robotnik family just died offscreen but that's less emotional.

Anyway, it's been 15 years since I bingewatched that show with high attention, so maybe I missed a thing or two. Also the fact Eggman never calls Maria his cousin?? I watched it in french maybe it's not the same in other dubs but it's just strange.

Does anynone know an actual explanation? Like, in the "canon" of Sonic X, because I've gathered that it's not the same in the games, I think? Or if this headcanon has already been explained somewhere else, I would love to read a better parsed explanation.

Anyway, that's all folks.

[lamemummy59]

I want this baby publicly executed

rbs very appreciated!!!

[ratrrriot]

A song you forgot.

small comic of the Ark siblings and a sequel to that drawing i made of them listening to music.

It says it in the first page but still: song is Sweet happy life,specifically Peggy Lee's version from 1966. It has absolutely nothing to do with SA2 but i feel like its the kind of song that Maria would have liked at the time: https://open.spotify.com/track/4QJ1F5dFjDTnoHgew9cdRr?si=fwqd_aYGQtqoVvGtECtFGw

[mogosketchpad]

someone cheer this boy up!!

[superemeralds]

here it is, finally, my secret interior page for @sonicworldadventurezine

[therummesoccupied]

New headcanon: The reason Shadow hacks computers by just hitting em real hard is because he remembers Gerald sometimes smacking machines on the ARK when they weren't working right and thought that's just how technology worked

[sirpyes]

Cosmo 🪐✨🌌🍃

[etaleah]

I think a lot about how Shadow probably started out very similar to Sonic in his worldview but then the trauma surrounding Maria’s death changed that forever. It opened his eyes to a darker side of life that he can’t un-know, and he can’t ever be as optimistic and innocent as Sonic again.

Shadow didn’t attack the G.U.N. soldiers raiding the Ark because he likely believed, as Sonic does, that hurting people is wrong even if they deserve it and even if they hurt you first. He likely believed, as Sonic does, that you should always opt for the most moral, non-hurtful path, and he tried to take that path by escaping with Maria.

And then she was killed anyway. She and him did the right thing and the moral thing and she was killed anyway. Because it turns out the good guys don’t always win no matter what, and sometimes the bad guys don’t see the error of their ways. Sometimes you do have to get violent and dirty your hands if you want to protect what matters to you. Shadow had to learn those lessons the hard way and it changed him.

Now he’s trying so hard to make sure Sonic doesn’t have to learn this lesson the same way he did. He’s trying so hard to spare Sonic the pain and trauma and loss that he went through because he knows that Sonic loves his friends as much as he loved Maria. He warns him, over and over. Nine can’t be trusted, Mr. Tinker will turn back into Eggman, Cosmo can’t be left alive. He tries to tell him.

But Sonic doesn’t listen. Not only that, he mocks Shadow for it. He makes dickish jokes about “Lol your trust issues are why you have no friends” and “Well you lost your memory too sweetie, so shut ya face!” =)

And every single time, Shadow is proven right. He warns Sonic to try and spare him, Sonic ignores/is snarky to him, the exact problem Shadow predicted would happen does, and the cycle repeats again. And again. And again. No matter how many times Shadow is proven right, Sonic still won’t listen because he’s been lucky enough to never have experienced that level of trauma and unconsciously assumes, a little arrogantly, that what happened to Maria and Shadow could never happen to him or his friends.

I love Sonic and I understand his worldview too, but man do I get why Shadow wants to beat the fuck out of him sometimes.

[astrafortune]

The phrase “big brother shadow au” won’t leave my head

[jj-exe]

Sonic X Shadow Generations Mini Comic - Won't Let You Fall Twice

[risziarts]

Lavender candle

[johnmcdevitt]

What song does Shadow rock to win the talent show 🤔 🤘 🎸

[lamemummy59]

Maria yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

rbs very appreciated ^_^

[rhythmcrown]

Air shoes count as rockets in the vacuum of space, right?

--In celebration of absolutely nothing whatsoever*, I figure I should probably start with a bang when it comes to posting legit art, right

Anyway take this, I fussed for far too long with it over the course of a few days back in January and kind of just. Forgot about it until I remade lmao

[alterchaos]

The story of how Shadow became adopted into the Robotnik family...

[cluepoke-archive]

New baby brother..