hii! i love reading about your wips :] i was looking in your fic archive and i saw something new to me- idk if you've talked about it before but i'd love to hear about no space for sentimentality!
youre my goat i hope your holidays are happy :)
Hi! :D Thank you so much, oh my gosh. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season as well <3
I think I've talked about it super briefly, but it was definitely a while ago, so I'm happy to touch on it again! "No Space for Sentimentality" is a fic that is supposed to expand on the epilogue of "Sometimes the Picket Fence isn't Perfect" and is set during the events of Sonic Heroes.
The idea was that Metal Sonic with Sonic's bio data had too much "Sonic" in him. It's what led to him empathizing with Tails and freeing him from being roboticized, so Eggman decided to strip Metal Sonic of all aspects that resembled Sonic that he deemed extraneous. Which was everything except for his speed and his identity as being "Sonic."
My headcanon from there is that it's impossible for him to be Sonic without his full sense of self, when he's completely empty inside and there is nothing remotely "Sonic" about him. Metal is driven to madness - leading to the events of Sonic Heroes and the development of Metal Overlord.
It's not supposed to be a long fic, and it's not as huge a priority as other projects which is why I haven't really given it too much of my time yet. But over time, I also decided I want to delve a little into each of the four teams as well. I know I want the Team Dark vs Team Sonic fight, and Team Rose vs Team Sonic (or something adjacent to it that expands on the conflict between Sonic and Amy), so there's still a bit of plot/pacing to iron out there. Or they might end up being two different fics entirely, lol.
But that's the general idea! It's a Metal Sonic focused fic <3
