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Name: Godzilla Codename: ActGoji Moniker: King of the Monsters Height: 50 meters Weight: 20,000 tons First Appearance: Godzilla Versus (2026) Alliance: Undetermined

[ History ]  Godzilla, codename ActGoji, was a creature thought to be local folklore and nothing more. With primitive paintings in caves around Lakeside Zone dating back millennia, if not more. Once used as a bogeyman of sorts to scare disobedient children into behaving. In my research during my extensive stay in Lakeside Zone, homeland of one Laik the Wolf and Sevii the Fox, more than a dozen children's books exists, with titles like "Who's Afraid of Godzilla?" and "The Naughty Tanuki and the Fearsome Titan". I have since tracked down said books through thrift stores and the local library, and in each of them, the appearance of Godzilla is wildly different from the actual animal in question.

 Godzilla's biology is remarkable in that he is both aquatic and terrestrial. And, most remarkable of all, does not appear to feed on anything based on our brief surveillance missions of the animal. Despite this, the creature's body maintains an insanely dense muscle mass across his body, allowing the monster to not just run and jump, but—theoretically—lift things even heavier than it is with ease. Coupled with scales and flesh that appear indestructible against conventional Mobian weaponry, what we have here is a monster that could pose a threat to the people of Mobius should the animal turn his gaze toward us.

Fortunately, since his reappearance in the weeks following the Call of Cthulhu events on Fractured Islands, Godzilla's public appearances have been entirely docile, or even for the good of Mobius, at least on the surface. Having faced an attempted capture by Dr. Ivo Robotnik after being lured to Robotropolis, Godzilla quickly destroyed the giant Death Egg Robot after a fierce battle. And rather than continuing the destruction caused during the fight, Godzilla simply turned and left the area; retreating to the sea, where he eventually—much to the dismay of Lakeside Zone residents—returned to the depths of Azure Lake.

This is the most up-to-date information on Godzilla available at this time. In the next section, I will detail some of the animal's amazing abilities, most of which currently have the governments all across Mobius on high alert.

[ Abilities ] Heat Ray

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Godzilla's primary long-range weapon and, unsurprisingly, his most destructive power thus far. It is believed that within Godzilla's body, there exists two sources, call them reactors if you will, that the monster draws from in times of need. These reactors "light" the dorsal fins on his back, causing them to glow blue, with the brightest being at the at the base and dimming as it works it way  to the tips of each leaf-shaped plate.

As Godzilla expends allocated energy from his spines, the glow within his dorsal plates visibly drains, almost as if a plug is being pulled. Should this info be realized by forces intent on capturing or possibly killing the monster, this window of invulnerability could be exploited.

Stage 1 presents itself as a blue, almost fog-like ray and is spayed in short bursts. While it leaves his mouth in a condensed form, the "ray" or cloud fans out like a cone the further away it gets. This is considered his weakest attack as it's intended as a stunner, striking its target with concussive force rather than the explosive power found in latter ranking.

Stage 2 of Godzilla's heat ray attack is more condensed, firing from his mouth like a fine laser that can be sustained -- albeit at a greater draw from his charge. Stage 2 resembles a blue and white energy beam, and is believed to contain unstable cells of radioactive energy that explode upon impacting his target, causing a fiery burst from whatever it comes in contact with. This, coupled with the force multiplier behind the beam, can cause mass damage and destruction very rapidly.

Stage 3 has only been witnessed once in our short time examining the creature. Should one watch Godzilla closely in an extended battle, his dorsal plates will begin to glow red after a prolonged period, which is believed to be a chemical reaction of some sort when the energy from both sources within Godzilla's body are fed into his, how should we say this, "fire-breathing chamber." 

When dispersed, the red ray or the "spiral ray" we here at MDF have begun calling it, comes out of Godzilla's mouth in what appears to be an almost liquid-like form, with a reddened heat ray spiraling around the dense beam. This "splashing" affect has been noted to cause tremendously more damage--both forceful and fiery--when used on his foe, which he's showed as a "finishing move" of sorts. 

Laik the Wolf, or simply Laik, came about early last spring, when I was cobbling together a universe built using the framework of established Sonic the Hedgehog lore, but would eventually become my own thing.

This fiddling around eventually lead to the creation of 'The CrossActs Universe', which again, while borrows heavily from Sonic in character design and name (since Mobius/Mobian is no longer canon), has come into its own existence as this universe where literally any franchise or world can exist--including our very own.

It's my own, creative playground, where I can write about any sort of media, character, video game or whatever. Inject some wacky anthropomorphic characters into the mix and just go nuts.

But who is Laik, specifically?

Laik is my boy. My precious little guy. He's my anime protagonist. My video game character. A horror movie monster. He is the Swiss army knife in my arsenal and is hands down my favorite OC ever.

I created Laik to encompass all of my interests into one, neat little package. Presenting him in a way that he doesn't look out of place next to the Sonic cast, but could also easily stand side by side with more human-like characters not look out of place.

With his creation, I've just kinda lived vicariously through him. Whereas I would always use my own name in video game when the option presented itself, I now use Laik and his crew's names in place. The only game where this won't be a thing is the Animal Crossing series, for reasons.

If you wanna learn more about his in-universe self, take a peak at his profile here,

And his first major adventure, spanning 119 chapters on my AO3 account below:

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   Name: Raiza Averill Pronunciation: Rise-Uh, Av-Eh-Rool Nickname(s): Kitty, Rize, Cat Species: Norwegian Forest Cat Birth Date: January 15th Birth Place: The Acorn Kingdom Current Residence: Memoria Village, Brick Hedge Zone Voice Claim: Carina Reeves 

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Appearance: Standing at average Mobian height, Raiza the Cat is a cider orange-colored feline Mobian with a bright pink nose, fluffy white cheek fur and chest tuft. Her claws are painted black and retractable, both on her hands and feet. She has a long, thick braid of hair that ends in a dolphin tail-styled tie-off. Despite never brushing her tail, it always looks perfectly immaculate. Colors: Primary Fur: Cider [#D8A175], Secondary Fur: White [#ffffff], Eye Color: Mother of Pearl [#8FD89F] Height: 3'3" Apparel: Raiza is normally seen sporting a black vertical keyhole shirt with long sleeves that end in loose, flowing sleeve ends. Through the keyhole, her bare chest is seen, with a tuft of fluffy white fur growing from her collarbone. She wears a short black skirt and knee-high stockings along with black shoes. Finally, around her neck is a small choker with a bell attached to it. Personality: Though appearing shy and withdrawn on the surface, Raiza has a very thoughtful and courageous heart who looks after her friends as if they were family, and will thus fight the biggest Badniks around to defend them. She also has a bad habit of falling in love easily, leading to inevitable (short-lived) heartbreak.

"Sevii, there you are! What the heck is going on—" "My entire family is gone, Laik! And there's this… this THING inside my brother's room; it attacked me!" Sevii replied. "A thing?! Oh I gotta see this!" Root said, but was halted mid-air when Sevii grabbed his leg.

Mobius was barely getting over the squid-like threat from book 1, and now THESE things?!

"Research, eh?" Master Yip pounded the floor with the butt of his cane, taking a graceful step forward and around the fox. "And what might you be doing research on in our beautiful Lakeside, Ms. Sparks?" "Oh, well it's a… ummm, uhhh. It's a—" "A dinosaur!" Root shouted from his beanbag chair. Athena snapped around, fire blazing in her lavender eyes. "Root! You weren't supposed to say—Wait, how did you know that?" said the otter as all heads turned toward the young cicada.

GODZILLA VERSUS on Archive Of Our Own

'Godzilla Versus' is a fanfic I am writing which, while set in something adjacent to the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, will take the crossover framework that CrossActs itself was built with and apply it to Godzilla.

At its core, it's just an excuse for me to write fantasy match-ups between Godzilla and impossible foes like giant Xenomorphs, a kaiju-sized Rawhead Rex and the Tyrannosaurus Rex from 'The Last Dinosaur', all wrapped up in a Power Rangers-esque "Monster of the Week" package.

But deeper than that, it IS canon to CrossActs and will provide additional character development. Specifically, for Sevii the Fox, who is my female protag and Laik's opposite.

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ActGoji was born out of a long held childhood desire to create a Godzilla of my very own, instilling in him design aspects from the many incarnations of the character over the decades.

I had even attempted to write a series of stories titled 'Godzilla Versus' years ago, using the same crossover basis in CrossActs. It would have been told strictly from Godzilla's point of view, awakening to the modern worn, confused... angry. Scared, even.

But that fell apart quickly, as human (or human-like, in this case) characters were needed for exposition. I'm not one of those Godzilla nerds that thinks a movie of only monster antics could succeed. The human element is 100% pivotal to the monster element.

And it was with the conclusion of the first CrossActs saga that I had the brilliant idea of incorporating Godzilla into the world as the weapon ancient Mobians had used the first time to defeat [spoilers], which lead to the creation of the Phantom Ruby.

But what ingredients from the Godzilla design cookbook did I mash together to create my dream kaiju? Let's dive into it.

ActGoji, in spirit, is the 1975 Godzilla. It is hands down my favorite design across the entire franchise, and the look for Godzilla that always comes to mind first upon hearing his name. Near perfectly proportioned body, lengthy tail, prominent dorsal plates and a combat spirit that allowed him to take one two monsters--one of which being his most deadly adversary--and still come out on top!

Obviously, this was the aura I wanted ActGoji to give off. Maybe not so much in appearance, but definitely in attitude.

So right off the bat, I knew I wanted the Trendmasters Godzilla design to be the basis. To this day, I adore the mid-90s aesthetics of everything Trendmasters put out. The day I found the bendable figures at Walmart still exists vividly in my mind to this day.

Anywho, yeah, there's a bit of a mixture of a gentler, almost Hanna-Barbarah thing going on with ActGoji, foregoing the bloodred eyes of TrendGoji in favor of eyes that more closely resemble that of an alligator.

If you'll notice in the two pieces of ActGoji art that he has one dorsal plate that stands taller than all the rest, then you have the Godzilla sprite from the NES game 'Godzilla Monster of Monsters" to thank for that.

In the CrossActs universe, a Godzilla creature's back plates represent a crown of sorts, with the larger the display, the more respect that individual commands, male or female. Young or old.

The plate connecting to his spinal cord is the biggest, with diminishing sizes leading to and away from it. To the left and right of the spinal run are two smaller lines of plates running up to his shoulders.

I always liked Godzilla to have a prominent display of dorsal fins, but I hated when they looked overly crowded(Heisei) or lacked the signature leaf shape (2014), so I strived to give my Godzilla a crown befitting of true king.

Other little, less noticeable aspects I incoroprated include the presence of ears, akin to the 1956 and 2004 designs.

"It all began during the war with Dr. Robotnik and the Phantom Ruby-wielding mercenary, Infinite. The Rookie, partnering with Sonic the Hedgehog, joined forces and brought about the end of their empire's evil reign. But behind the curtains, a far more sinister force unlike anything the people of Mobius had faced was stirring after centuries of dormancy, and it was going to make the universe pay for its suffering. Now that Laik the Wolf is back on Mobius, he must come face to face with the cosmic horrors that threaten to claim each planet as their own. Equipped with a world-hopping portal ability, Laik and his growing party of friends traverse the CrossActs universe hoping to stop the tentacled abominations from taking over existence as they know it!"

CrossActs began life as a Sonic the Hedgehog AU, following the story of Laik "The Rookie" Bogard following the events of Sonic Forces, but as the story progressed across the 119 chapters of book 1, it gently separated itself from straight up being a story set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe to being something simply adjacent to the series.

CrossActs 1 - The Cosmic Threat Saga can be read on my AO3 account, along with non-canon and side-story stuff for those wanting some extra crossover fun!