Be funny. this isn't a request.

What if Eggman began his quest for world conquest earlier, when sonic was too young to stand up to him? What if he led an attack on gun? What if a rouge missile not only destroyed the space colony ARC, but destroyed a gun base that contained the ultimate lifeform?

Now awake years before he should be he finds a little blue hoglet and raises it as his own. Allying and befriending a much older Sally acorn, and her adopted son Miles(Tails) the fox. They form a group of freedom fighters to stand up to eggmans oppression. Can they win...time will tell.

"Original post/concept"

"Inspirations"

"Official fanfic link"(COMING SOON)

"Fanart/Fanfics"(None yet. But maybe one day!)

AU UPDATE #1

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Short story's/concepts

"The good news, you'll live a long life. The bad news, you'll live a long life"

"This may be an ARC, but I'm not Noah"

"No matter the universe, the Parental instincts remain"

"Thirty seven at sixteen"

"Fanfic chapter 1 concept"(Featuring Art!)

"Official Fanfic ARCS"(Potential spoilers)

"Day to day life, Not as good as it sounds"

"I'm old, not weak"

"Doom powers?"

"Unexplored(for now)characters"

"What I look like! Not as good as what I'm made of, but it's still cool. (Sonic/shadow designs)"

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT #1

"Timeline(Cause time happens in a line)"

"Haven't even finished the beginning, yet for some reason writing the ending(s)"

"Unused scene/teaser?"

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Questions asked that I've answered!

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Fanart and fanfics of my AU are and will always be welcome! However there are some guidelines to be aware of.

No excessive gore. Blood and injury is fine just don't go to far. (If you're art makes me throw up you've gone to far) this rule applies mostly to fanart, but if you're gonna have gore in fanfics at least give a disclaimer/heads-up.

Be careful about shipping! Sonadow, Sonally, So nails, and Sonic x uncle chuck are NOT allowed. (Shadow is Sonic's adopted dad, Sally is an old lady and Sonic is only like sixteen in the present, tails and Sonic are still pretty much BROTHERS and UNCLE CHUCK is Sonic's UNCLE!) No NSFW content about my AU. Shipping is fine but be aware majority of main characters are MINORS!

No homophobia, transphobia, racism, or any form of bigotry at all! Need I explain why? No. Good!

Asking questions is fine, just be kind and respectful! To me and others!

///TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRYPOPHOBIA///

"Just too good to be true.... CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU."

"This was the look back in my day!"

Also know as Lord X wearing his old RUNAWAY outfit :)

MY FIRST EVER DIGITAL FAN COMIC :D

In the near future I'm planning on moving The Parent!Shadow AU to a different Tumblr blog! I'll link it when it's ready!

I'm rewriting some elements of the AU and it felt easier to start fresh than to keep this one. This blog will pretty much just be my personal one where I post whatever I feel like, while all the AU content will be over there, hopefully weekly!

The premise of the AU is the same and a lot of elements are unchanged but I can't guarantee everything will carry over to the final product.

None of the Parent! Shadow posts here will be deleted, and some may be re-uploaded on the other blog depending on what is changed in the lore.

"Dad! Dad, check it out!" Sonic ran through the resistance base towards his father.

Shadow looked up from his paperwork. What it was for sonic had no clue, but they had much more pressing matters at the moment.

"Sonic, I'm busy at the moment, can this wait?"

Sonic practically shoved the mysterious object into his father's hands. "I was exploring some weird ruins, and I found this this! At first I thought it was just a cool looking rock but after I touched it sparks flew everywhere and it started glowing!"

Shadow inspected this rock, it appeared to be a magenta ruby with black stripes. True to Sonic's word, it was emanating a mysterious glow.

"Hmm..."Shadow reached up to touch his ear communicator. "Sally Acorn and Miles Prower, please report to the common area. We need you're input on something important. Miles please bring you're energy scanner."

A few seconds passed with no response, only the static of the communicator

"Sally? Miles? Do you copy?" Shadows voice tensed as he looked back at the ruby, still in his hand, which had began to glow and hover slightly. Sonic looked nervous.

"Dad, what's happening!?" Shadow tossed the ruby to the other side of the room and raced to pull his son away, when a portal, the same color as the ruby appeared, sucking the ruby in.

"Sonic get back!" Shadow shouted as sonic began to be sucked into the portal.

No. No. NO!

He had to save his son!

Shadow jumped towards Sonic, grabbing his hand tightly, desperate to save his son from an unknown fate.

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(none of these are cannon to the main story yet! Just brainstorming! Though they may be considered branching timelines/alternate universes to cannon)

Ending one!

The freedom fighters defeat eggman with no casualties but keep him alive, locked away somewhere. Teasing that he may return one day???

Ending two!

Same as ending one but eggman is put down by shadow. Peace is permanently(?) achieved. The freedom fighters live the rest of their lives in peace. Shadow and Sonic, father and son, living to be several hundred years old. Ending with shadow passing away peacefully!

Ending 3!

Sonic is the one to end eggman and must deal with the mental health consequences that come with taking a life, especially as a teenager.

Ending 4!

Eggman is defeated, but many die along the way! How do the freedom fighters rebuild?

Ending 5!

Sonic is killed. Shadow Semi-permanently looses his shit over his son's death.

Ending 6!

Shadow is killed, Sonic temporarily looses his shit over his father's death.

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Bad ending...

Eggman wins, Shadow is the sole survivor. Doomed to spend his near immortal life in a hell he failed to stop.

Worst ending:

To be determined...

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I was scrolling through tiktok saw an AU I LOVED. Then was heartbroken to discover it was cancelled. And I don't know why but that gave me motivation to start working on this AU again.

Some of the lore may be reworked though, as I've learned a bit since I started. But expect updates soon! :)

(Not 100% accurate but it'll do for now)

This is a rough estimate of the timeline leading up to the present day/start of the story/ First ARC in 2004!

The space colony ARC incident happened on January seventh 1951.

Eggman leads a full scale attack on G.U.N, where eggman destroys all their satellites and space stations, including space colony ark. He then fires one at the G.U.N facility holding shadow. Who survives and finds a four year old sonic that same day. Deciding to raise him. -January seventh, 1982

Sonic, who is now 10, gets separated from shadow and attacked by badniks. He is saved by Sally Acorn, who is 46 at the time, and her adopted son Miles(Tails) who is 13. Shadow finds them and they all become friends. Deciding it's best to stick together. -1988

One year later, after coming across an abandoned underground G.U.N base that's still functional and off eggman's radar, they officially form the Freedom fighters. They recruit people from far and wide, gathering an army of roughly 57 people. (Sonic is now 11, Sally is 47, and Tails is 14). -1999

Don't worry NOTHING is CHANGING AND IT'S NOT CANCELLED!

The official fanfic is still happening. There's no bad news.

Only good news!

At the Start of the next school year I'm taking an animation class and a comics/cartoon design class.

Which means, the possibility for a Parent shadow AU OFFICIAL COMIC and Animatics/Animations is getting more and more likely.

Nothing's set in stone yet, but its certainly not out of the question.

But that's not all.

Parent! shadow is my most developed and thought out AU ever! Most my other AUs were concepts that never ended up seeing the light of day.

However I'm very passionate about this AU and don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I'm please to say that I'm finally going to begin writing the first chapter of Parent shadow AU.

The first chapter will be on AO3 AND Tumblr. Future chapters will likely be exclusive to A03, however I will always post on Tumblr when a new chapter is out!

Shadow:

Since shadow is an artificial creation, he's design remains pretty much unchanged from cannon. The only difference being his more grown out fur and his additional red marks.

His fur is less neat because he's the one who goes on the most missions and the extra red marks are because of the nature of the black arms in this AU. (Also his eye marks are a reference to Rottmnt Leo)

Sonic:

Sonic's design is more complicated. Like shadow his fur is more grown out.

He doesn't shave his arms, due to wanting to be more similar to his adoptive father (Shadow).

Also for this reason, he wears green makeup around his eyes to emulate shadows red marks. He also wears green quill guard, spike thing's on the tip of his quills for the same reason.

His favorite color is red, the only reason he didn't make his quill guards and eye liner red is because he felt it didn't match his fur. So he went with the color of his eyes. (Green)

He also sports a Red Cape. It's made of an old blanket. It keeps him warm when outside or just cold.

However there is a deeper reason for Sonic's design. Sonic knows that his father brings hope to everyone. Having the ultimate lifeform lead the freedom fighters gives the people hope. And during this time do to his more childish personality and the fact he has yet to go on a mission, people underestimate sonic.

Amy Rose:

Had a few concepts for her character but nothing solid. In a few she was robotized and used as a way to infiltrate the freedom fighters. Where she'd either be long gone and unsavable, or she'd rebel and join the freedom fighters.

In another she was Sonic's childhood crush and best friend who died when their village was destroyed.

I want to use her character, and I'm pretty confident I can fit her into it I'm just not sure how yet.

Rouge the bat:

Haven't even thought about her yet. But now that I'm thinking about it she could lead a proper "resistance" like the one in IDW and Sonic forces. That'd allow the Archie freedom fighters and the game resistance to both coexist. maybe they'd join together to make restoration HQ?

Vanilla, cream, and cheese:

Either cream was never born, or vanilla is still pregnant. Since cream doesn't exist/doesn't exist yet they don't know cheese. So he likely will never appear.

Though vanilla is a character I wouldn't mind exploring. She has potential. Maybe she'd be a motherly presence for Shadow??? Idk.

Sticks:

Maybe an innocent survivor driven mad from loneliness and trauma?? Could show just how bad eggmans effected the world???

Blaze:

Likely will never appear. Though I can think of ONE way for her to fit in. It'd require an extra ARC. Unless I can think of something really good she'll likely never appear.

Emeral:

Hmmm....

Whisper and tangle:

Wouldn't be main characters, but could be a cameo.

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