Effort was made

Replaying Adventure, my beloved, and it's a kind of interesting that the water hurts you in the Chaos 4 boss fight if you sink into it for too long. It's like the entire lake has become an extension of Chaos' body and can harm you, which might be why it seems oddly viscous too.

It doesn't really align too much with how Chaos' lore was elaborated - his body described as being composed of concentrated energy, rather than water as such, and the later lore of his ancestral connection to the Ancients in Frontiers.

I've always been really obsessed with connecting all Sonic lore, early and recent, into something cohesive and internally consistent using headcanon. But the idea Chaos may have originally been intended to be composed of water has some cool possibilities for other directions his lore might have taken. Like what if he was some weird gestalt of water amoeba? Ancient microfauna released into an unprepared modern ecosystem. It might have carried Sonic's environmental theming forward, as a parallel for our real world ancient viruses, once safely encased in permafrost.

I like to think I might have chosen to adapt Chaos that way, if I was writing a Sonic comic adaptation in the late nineties. I think I'd have preferred that to whatever Archie or Fleetway were up to with Chaos at the time, anyway.

Trynna go for a very specific vibe here, primarily inspired by Archie Sonic (Super Special 15; the FCBD redraw of course).

I haven't ever gotten very far into Archie Sonic, but I dip into the art regularly, at it can be really evocative to me.

I had of this cover Ice Mountain Zone Act 1 playing in the background as I drew.

Oddly melancholic for Sonic, just like the story, where he pays respects to a strange Archie background character.

Thinking I'll do more with this.

Since I'm doing 40K stuff now