#parallels au

I plan to sprinkle more of that throughout Into the Shade and I have another AU I am working on, that is currently being referred to as parallels, and it will have more of it.

I have multiple theories for some quirks so I plan to have different AUs have different takes on them when there is overlap.

i’m not ever coming back by sunflower_live

Chapters: 9/?

More of these mfers

SOOO Sonic's friendgroup obviously consists of Tails, Knuckles and Amy. He has other friends, but these three are the ones he's always hanging out with.

Amy is kind of friends with Nicky but they don't really talk unless Sonic's there. Tails and Knuckles are okay with Nicky, but he usually avoids Sonic's friends so they don't really talk.

Nicky's friend group is made up by Silver and Blaze. Both are also friends with Sonic, but they're closer to Nicky. He gets soooo mad when he sees Sonic talking to them tho.

Rouge is a friend of Sonic's. They don't hang out as much, but they're defenitely friends, while she only knows of Nicky. Still, what matters is: Rouge moves into a new apartment, and with a new roommate, so she throws a house warming party. She calls Sonic to invite him, and during the conversation she also tells him to invite his brother as well. Which Sonic does not want to do bc, yknow, they dont like each other.

"Uhm, are you sure? He's too closed off, y'know. He might ruin the vibes..."

"Oh, that sounds like he'd get along with my roommate. Invite him! It won't hurt."

"He doesn't do well with strangers."

"He can invite his friends! Come on, Blue, I wanna meet your twin! Why are you keeping him from me?"

And Sonic sees no other way out. He ends up telling Nicky, and after telling his friends about it, he gets encouraged to go.

So they go to the party, and there, they meet Rouge's new roommate, Shadow. He and Rouge met at their job, they're coworkers, and it so happened that they were both looking for a new roommate, so it worked out for them both.

Sonic and Nicky are interested the moment they first interact with Shadow. He's got this quiet but sharp energy that draws them both in, and it has an immediate effect. Sonic talks to Shadow first, introduces himself, cracks a couple of jokes at which Shadow scoffs and rolls his eyes teasingly and that works like a charm for Sonic. Nicky then encounters Shadow in a corner and they strike up a conversation, they seem to have a few things in common, which pulls Nicky in.

Before they leave the party, Sonic asks for Shadow's number, and after a bit of teasing from Rouge, he accepts. Nicky sees this, and he hates it. Why does Sonic always have to take everything away from him? He had a nice conversation with Shadow, he was interested in seeing him again, and Sonic just had to step in between.

Sonic picks up on this, on how much Nicky seems to hate seeing him talk to Shadow, and he just knows what this is about. And he loves making Nicky this mad.

theyve kind of been put against each other their whole life. they were always compared to their brother and had this dynamic where they were constantly competing between the other. their rivalry had been growing ever since they were kids, reaching the next level of distaste for each other during their teenage years, in which they started to actively try to piss the other off, teasing and getting on their nerves.

they kind of stopped trying to be friendly with each other during this time, and it got to worse levels after Nicky confessed his feelings for this girl he liked in high school, but she said she liked Sonic instead, and Sonic, like the asshole he is, started dating this girl even though he wasn't all that interested in her.

in retaliation, Nicky began to be an active nuisance for Sonic. He would hide his shit, mess up his homework, purposefully throwing away his stuff and then going "oh, sorry, I thought it was just trash". That kinda stuff, and this is when their hatred truly bloomed.