#empire!au

My reasoning for why it looks so different from the 'original picture', alongside credits, can be found under the cut.

I mostly wanted to try out clothing folds with this drawing, I'm aware the shadows are rather poor. But. Oh well. Meh.

ALSO I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THE TEXTURE IS SO CRISP OUT OF NOWHERE?????

Alternatively, I have about a billion different Metal Sonic OC characters LOL

Rebole a pança e raba pro seu dengo sultão e tire até as cueca dele.

Well, get ready for a ramble! (Sorry in advance if I use too much color, I like color-coding names and such- LOL)

Too Little, Too Late! AU

This is a Sonic AU regarding one (not-so-simple) question:

What if Sonic worked for Eggman?

How would this change the world, and how would certain characters react?

Situated in Starlight City, a place run by the ever-looming Empire, this AU aims to answer all of these theoretical questions.

Though the poll was between "M.I.A" and "all of these", I think I'm gonna do Too Little, Too Late/Empire AU cause that's the one that's the most fleshed out- so uhh. Ramble incoming!

(edit: I drafted this for a while accidentally LMAO so if I'll just post it now, didn't mean to post two posts about the same AU in such short succession)

Too Little, Too Late

Otherwise known as Empire!AU

Remember The Road to El Dorado? It wasn't nahua culture by a longshot, but you can tell the artists did extensive research on it in order to create a fictional civilization that fits in that time era and location, right?

That's what Empire!AU is (better name pending).

Senpai (aka thegrumpysiberian aka nonsensicaljello aka Ashley) and I founded it a few months back...actually, it's been a whole year, wow!!

We create civilizations based on previously existing ones, and we add magic, myth, and legend before throwing it all together in an AU world.

Xóchitl, for example is heir to a civilization based on the Meso American cultures, mostly Mexica and Maya. Her mother comes from a foreign kingdom based on Iberia (or Portugal and Spain "mixed"), so she's influenced by both cultures, just more so by the Mexica/Maya.

Senpai's muse, a Siberia named Alexei, is heir to a civilization with Ainu, Russian, and Mongolian culture.

They adventure together; good childhood friends.

My Paris, Marie, does not come from human origins, she is being raised to be a guardian of sorts. A guardian of time. She resides in an underworld like location. She does not like this position, and would like to run away.

To the north, right before Alexei's land starts, there is a grand forest. This forest is dangerous to those who do not know it, and those inexperienced. A while ago, a friend and I were talking about her Arthur's role in this AU, and we decided he would be something like a King/Guardian of the forest, similar to Elves in LotR, and that he would be greatly against the rising Germanic kingdom, which is based off of Hamelin in Ni no Kuni. The king of this kingdom is Germania, and his two sons Gilbert and Ludwig. Gilbert does not want to lead, he wants to be in the battlefield, leading his people to victory. Ludwig is much more suited to lead, but he is the second son.

The dangers in the forest include witches, forgetting who you are, being lost forever, dying, and being eaten, among other things. There are rumours that in the center of the forest, there is a safe zone, but few have entered it, much less come back to tell the tale.