#riptide sonic

Kaiju Sonic, Blackjack Sonic (a Wonderland storybook series super-form that can size-shift), and Riptide Sonic (the fishy fellow in the back) are my designs, whereas Buzz Sonic (the bug fellow in front) was designed by leonathegriffin on DeviantArt.

“Sometime a couple years ago I came up with this idea for a story where Sonic had to save an underwater world and therefore acquire a water-based superform. Originally I was going through various ideas for a Storybook Series title and this one featured the sunken city of Atlantis, but then I realized that Atlantis wasn’t a part of any faerie tales and didn’t really have a story associated with it. So I decided to mold this story around the format of games like Sonic Unleashed, which had Sonic traveling around the world trying to right another of Eggman’s wrongs, while simultaneously battling an ancient monster awoken from millenia of rest. However, the key places in this global trek are all underwater, which normally poses a major problem for Sonic as he does not swim nor breathe water. Near the start of the story, though, this problem is solved for him in the form of a forced transformation into a marine fishlike being… or at least, a partial transformation. At the moment, he was lacking all of the “equipment” necessary to facilitate a full change, which allowed him to keep his hedgehog legs, as well as roughly his original body shape; however, not only is he able to swim, he is able to move super-fast through the water, just as if he were running on land (without the actual running motion, though), and not only can he breathe underwater, but he can also survive crushing depths and see clearly in the deep, dark areas where sunlight cannot penetrate. He also has sharp, pointed teeth like a shark, poisonous barbs like a lionfish, and the ability to shock foes like an electric eel. Unfortunately for Sonic, the marine superform comes as a curse as well as a blessing. He cannot stay out of the water in this form for very long, as he cannot breathe air. Also, his favorite food, chili dogs, become toxic to him; upon discovering a taste for sushi, he finds he can thrive on that instead. Finally, he eventually discovers that certain things which normally would give him a power boost in his normal form, end up causing terrible reactions if he interacts with them while in his fish-form. This superform is known as Riptide Sonic.“

If you’re wondering where my older Leta stuff is, you can find it through my Leta tag.

Thank you Christian Whitehead, Tyson Hesse, and all you other people I can’t remember the names of right now. <3

Relearning Blaze and Marine, plus some Sea Fox and random Riptide Sonic.

I started on this page a day or so after I started playing Mania... it was the first Sonic-related thing I had drawn in a long time. Sometimes you have to wait for inspiration. (Thanks again Whitehead/Hesse and also Oshima because you’re just so awesome.)

1) Tails 2) You remember Leta the Sea Dragon, right? 3) Someone next to me at the table asked if the figure in the upper left was a “Vaporeon Sonic”, to which I answered with the bottom three figures

“The title for this particular story was Sonic Depthcharge, since I was running on the theme of Sonic series titles. Along the way, Sonic is assisted by some of his old friends, including Marine the Raccoon, who in the time since Rush Adventure has become an expert on boatbuilding, as well as skilled in her special power of hydrokinesis (what I thought she was using in that final boss cutscene in SRA). She’s also calmed down a bit, and takes time to plan things through, though she still spouts out Australian slang like it’s going out of style. Oi! Marine is brought to Sonic’s world as a result of a transdimensional energy wave from the power which initially transforms Sonic into Riptide Sonic.“