Finally got around to finishing this! I actually ended up quite liking a few of the AUs and I may expand on them in the future / make art of them! If you have any comments or headcannons on any of them, PLEASE SHARE, it would make me incredibly happy!!!! Alright, here we go..!
Around 60 years into the future, the Earth caves in on itself through pollution, global warming, erratic weather events, and disease. Worst of all, a parasite reminiscent of a zombie virus. Stone, an ex-soldier who went AWOL a few years after the breakout hit, meets Robotnik, a hermit who has lived in a bunker for most of his life anyway, meet in an underground bar, each looking for something. Robotnik, a safehouse, and Stone, a way to get to his rumored safehouse— an old CDC HQ taken over by survivors from the military and made a safe haven, passed through word of mouth in the army. Robotnik quickly lies to Stone that he has a working car and can bring him there as long as Stone allows him into the safehouse with his ex-military status.
They manage to pick up a few other survivors on the way, one of which is related to Robotnik. Stone gets bit protecting Robotnik and Gerald convinces Robotnik to leave him behind for their safety. Robotnik eventually dies to the rest of the group.
Extra details: Robotnik and Stone get drunk off of hospital isopropyl and kiss. Stone ends up hiding his bite for longer than he wanted and gets shot by Gerald.
On Curos, an alternate version of Earth, society is heavily restricted and in the middle ages. Both witches and humans exist, and witches hide among the humans. Bounty hunters are hired to kill both witches and criminals, as well as preserve witch blood to be used for magic. Robotnik is a witch, using his magic to create multitudes of familiars (like the drones) to scope out areas and sic on people he doesn’t like, and stealing artifacts to create his own wooden machines. He’s well known as a criminal and a witch. Stone is a bounty hunter hired and trained by the government to hunt down witches, and eventually finds Robotnik and attempts to kill him. Robotnik is able to blackmail him with Stone’s forged documents (accusing criminals of higher crimes so he would be paid more) and forces Stone to work with him.
Extra details: Robotnik is missing a leg and replaces it with magic. His magic is colored red. Overuse of magic can cause the user to pass out, which happens often— and Stone is always there to help him out when it happens.
Stone wears a bounty hunter’s mask, so Robotnik doesn’t even see his face until much later in the story. Stone also has a small supply of witch blood and knows just a few spells.
In an alternate dimension, there are forest spirit wolves. They get pretty large, up to twenty feet tall in extreme cases. These wolves have three forms, their typical form (which vary in appearance from regular wolves to dire/maned wolves, demonic teeth, antlers/horns, snake tails, etc.), their small form, which makes them look like regular wolves and the proper size, as well as a human form (which most people don’t know exist). These wolves protect the people from supernatural evils like titans, witches, demons, etc. As the wolves continue to kill off these evils, there slowly becomes less use for the wolves, and when humans become relatively safe, they begin to hunt the wolves for sport. These wolves have the ability to connect with certain people called “riders”, and when the wolf and the rider bond, they develop matching glowing markings that appear on the rider when riding the wolf. A wolf with a rider becomes more prized to kill, as well with antlers, horns or teeth because of the markings, and more precious to have their head hanging up on your wall.
Robotnik comes from a line of riders, genetically bred to be more and more in control of the wolf than the last. They’re one of the only families that knows of the wolves’ human forms, and pass down the wolves and their litters as servants. They’re raised in captivity and because of this don’t bond naturally with their riders, and instead just serve them without a bond. When Robotnik is given his first wolf, he’s able to chase it off back to the forest. This continues to happen to every wolf he’s given, until eventually in his older years he’s gifted Stone. Although Robotnik tries to scare him off, they end up bonding naturally (with red and purple markings) in an incident where Stone protects him.
Extra details: When apart, Stone has purple markings. When he’s with Robotnik, they turn red, which isn’t something that typically happens. Robotnik doesn’t have any markings when he’s away from Stone.
Stone has both goat horns and sharper teeth, and strange markings, which attracts a lot of attention to them. Stone tries his best to stay in his human form for Robotnik but they often run away a lot together for him to be in his original form. And yes, he runs as fast as he can and takes Robotnik on rides trust ♥️
In the far future the Earth runs out of space on the surface for the population to live, so a layer of metal is built in the atmosphere where most people live as there’s more space. It’s so far above the Earth’s surface that most everybody has never even seen a plant. Macro, a robotics corporation first but had many subsections that form monopolies over food, weapons, etc, have many different lines of models for companions, servants, soldiers, etc. One of the soldier models is Stone. Macro is basically a corporate government of sorts, and over time the people began to fight back, and now Macro and a rebel force are engaged in war. Stone is sent out with a battalion and gets caught in an explosion, ripping off his leg and leaving him shut down in the middle of the battle feed. The RCs (remote controlled robots) are considered expendable, and therefore Stone is left behind. The rebels end up winning the battle, and Robotnik finds the old robot and decides it's worth cleaning up and repairing. With his leg repaired with rebel technology, Stone figures he must make himself useful to avoid being thrown out again.
Extra details: There are multiple models of Stone but this Stone is unique in particular due to his upbringing and being one of the first of his model. He was subject to a lot of testing as one of the first.
Robotnik reveals to Stone his plan in leading the rebellion is not just to overthrow Macro but also to take over the world. He promises that he’ll bring Stone to the surface of the Earth when that happens.
Stone has an obsession with living organisms(like plants) as a robot and believes himself to be a “fake”. He thinks Robotnik is fascinating just for being a human (and Robotnik wishes he were a robot). He’s under the impression that he’s fooling Robotnik into thinking that he’s a person, but Robotnik eventually convinces him that just because he isn’t living doesn’t mean he’s not real.
Stone has an opportunity to return to Macro during an attack on base. He turns down the opportunity by shooting the man in the face 🫶
Elgatine originated from a small gold bracelet that was dropped from the god Enjorlas, the goddess of treasure, and into the valley beneath where Elgatine now is. The demon lord Zang Affol stole the bracelet and used it to raise the earth between the valley into the sky to escape the underworld. A band of “heroes” (as the legends call them) fought Zang Affol away from the sun and banished him back to the underworld, where he still lives today. The heroes formed the royal regime, and one was nicknamed “The Old King” by the future generations, as he was the first to take rule. In the future, the Temple was raised out of fear for Zang Affol returning. The Temple raises guardians of Elgatine, as demons leak out from the underworld often and attempt to hurt the people of Elgatine. Disciples of the Temple are trained in the temple and center their entire lives around becoming a guardian.
Stone, a gargoyle (one of the more holy creatures) was dropped off as a child to the temple and raised there, becoming one of their top disciples. When he’s much older, he runs into Robotnik, a shopkeep who happens to have frequent incidents with demons in his shop. Stone exorcises a demon hound for him, and returns to the temple, but can’t stop thinking about the shopkeep. He sells old artifacts and machines he’s made to keep afloat. Stone keeps getting called back due to the strange incidents, and he finds out much later on that the man he was falling in love with was a demon hiding in Elgatine. He ends up betraying the Temple in the end with Robotnik.
Extra details: For Temple disciples, hair is very important. When losing a battle your hair is cut, and Stone’s hair goes down to his waist. He typically keeps it braided. Robotnik is a cambion with wings that match Stone’s. Stone has a large scar up the side of his face and a missing horn (a crack from his gargoyle form).
Also, there’s an annual festival held by the temple (centered around the killing of demons and the celebration of their independence from Zang Affol). The tradition is for a disciple to ask a friend to come and Stone asks Robotnik, who can’t help but come for Stone— even though he can’t step foot inside the temple. The evening consists of him making excuses for why he can’t meet Stone’s elders or doesn’t want to participate in kid’s plays about killing demons.
Heaven and Hell want to bridge the gap between demon and angels, and decide that a project between their governments would be the best idea. Robotnik, a heaven-born angel (born and did not die), is sent down to the fifth circle of Hell and Stone, a death-born demon, is chosen to guide him through Hell.
Stone gets wrongly accused of a crime when they return to Heaven together to continue work on the project, and Robotnik decides to defend him. As per his punishment (for a crime he did not commit), he’s sentenced to a year on Earth. Robotnik is sent with him for defending Stone. This is Stone’s first time back on Earth since his life, as demons aren’t allowed to travel. Robotnik grapples with Heaven’s betrayal (of sending him to Earth) and how Stone could be so calm with being wrongly accused.
Extra Details: Robotnik is somehow even MORE of a repressed freak in this AU and because Stone grew up around zero censorship he’s a lot more comfortable making comments around Robotnik… heh…
In a more technologically advanced medieval setting, the sun is considered a god. The sun decides that humanity is due a new symbol and creates Stone, a man with giant wings who bleeds and cries gold. Because of this, he quickly becomes very sought after. He grows up believing that a life in captivity is normal, being passed around and bought by wealthy people, kings and queens, gamblers, hunters, etc. He’s treated as a pet, a servant, or even in some cases an experiment or a source of wealth. He’s broken free a few times but is never in the sky for long, which is where he feels the safest and at home. In present time, Stone is in the center of a table on an airship, when Robotnik (a pirate) waltzes in and bets on him. He ends up winning with Stone’s help, looking at people’s cards, and Stone believes he’s just going to be like the rest of his handlers. However, Robotnik brings him back to his own gargantuan airship titled “The Nest”, where he has his own worker bees and is determined to make Stone one of them (when in reality, he just saw Stone shivering and pathetic and decided on a spur of the moment to steal him).
Extra details: They have the obligatory scene of Stone spreading his wings and flying again, he picks up Robotnik and makes him fly with him and pretends to drop him hundreds of miles in the air.
Stone has light blue wings that blend in with the sky. He also refuses to let Robotnik touch his wings until much later. He’s also scared that Robotnik will find out that he bleeds gold and will take advantage of that as a pirate.
Robotnik refuses to send Stone out on missions the first few times as he says he’s “convinced he will fly away if given the chance”. Later on, he just flat out denies him the missions because he doesn’t want him to get hurt.
A more episodic format, Stone works at a cafe underneath someone else (and hates it) and Robotnik frequently goes there to annoy him. One night as Stone is closing, he goes into the back to retrieve something. Robotnik follows him under the guise of “keeping him safe” (he doesn’t want to be alone in the dark) and they are locked in the back room together. They have a run in with a ghost and make it out in the morning when one of Stone’s co-workers opens the door.
They face various monsters and such over the “show”, like giant spiders, shapeshifters, sirens, gorgons, secret cults and love potions (😜), body swaps and groundhog days, and everything else in your typical supernatural show that they can fix by the end of the episode.
Extra details: In one episode Stone gets possessed by an ancient demon or some shit and Robotnik doesn’t even notice 😭 It’s a turning point in their relationship as the series progresses when Robotnik realizes he has to put effort into the relationship as well or it’s not going to last.
Robotnik is the god of time. Every hair on his head represents a human life, and he has very little care for humans despite his job literally being to give them visions of the future to avoid their fates. He can see through the past, present, and future in each eye (a third on his forehead). Stone is the god of nature, but his goals clash with Robotnik’s, as he takes great pride in creating natural disasters to kill as many humans as he can.
There are multiple other gods created by the Universe inhabiting the Whitespace, Robotnik the Universe’s favorite and under the most pressure to please. So, in the beginning, Stone is his enemy. Robotnik makes no attempt to socialize whilst Stone is beloved by most of the other gods. Eventually, Stone is able to get him to crack a bit, having him tell Stone about his creations and projects. And even past that, thousands of millenia later, they become friends.
All the gods are immortal. If they’re injured beyond repair, they can “die”, living in the Blackspace for a while before returning in a new body. Stone is the first to find out he is mortal. As a god of nature, humans are slowly killing the earth and therefore Stone. He hides it for a while but it slips out eventually after one of Stone’s later deaths, physical scars appearing on his body. When Robotnik finds out, he directly defies the universe, planning to kill all humans just to save Stone.
Extra details: Gods can visit the Earth. Stone often sits in one of Robotnik’s temples to calm himself down or hang out.
Stone has a vast and silly wardrobe in this AU. He’s much more concerned with his appearance, wanting to seem more “godly” than he is (an insecurity stemming from his mortality). He regularly wears makeup, while Robotnik couldn’t care less.
While Robotnik still had long hair, he allowed Stone to take care of it. Stone ended up knotting it on purpose sometimes out of spite for humans. Eventually Robotnik cuts off all of his hair in defiance to the Universe.
Stone is a demon from a different realm, sneaking into the human realm for resources that sell for quite a lot in the demon realm— those resources being misery and evil. Robotnik, a human being kept captive to work on a government controlled project, stumbles across Stone. Stone gets attacked by other officials in the project, fighting well but getting badly hurt. Robotnik, curious about the strange creature, helps him away and follows him back to the demon realm. Once Stone is back in working order, he frantically tries to get Robotnik to go back, as he can’t disguise himself as human forever and demons can be dangerous. However, Robotnik feels more at home in the demon realm as he ever had in the human one. He feels more understood and refuses to go back to the human realm, and Stone takes Robotnik as his responsibility.
Extra details: Stone is a satyr-type demon, complete with a tail and goat horns hehe!!
Stone gives Robotnik a hood with a cape to disguise himself that he used to have as a kid, so it has a tail covering as well as horns (so they’re matching).
Stone is on the poorer side of the demon realm and was put into an underground fighting ring as a kid. He escaped when he was older, but it was the only way he could reliably make money (through people placing bets on him, etc) and ended up returning but prefers not to tell people about it because of shame. He has to leave to go to “work” at night and makes Robotnik promise to stay at home, but Robotnik becomes concerned when Stone comes back home every morning with bruises and cuts. He eventually finds out, makes Stone quit (getting them into a fair bit of trouble), and they move into the city. They make money off of Robotnik’s inventions instead as he began selling them while Stone was busy.
They also have a heart to heart scene when Stone asks Robotnik why he’s so willing to stay in a world that wants to kill him. Robotnik tells him the world at home was much the same, except there he didn’t have anyone who cared about him.
TW on this one for sensitive topics:
In a regular office setting, Robotnik is Stone’s boss but barely even knows of him. Stone is obsessed with his boss to an abnormal degree. He draws him in his sketchpad, ignores his work to stare, writes his name on post-it notes and sticks it to his wall, and dedicates himself to the work so everything is done well for Robotnik (often neglecting himself). He takes stalker-ish photos of Robotnik, and eventually Robotnik begins to catch on— but he’s a little into it.
Robotnik plays with him a lot once he realizes what’s going on, but doesn’t know the full extent of it. Stone doesn’t let him come over to his house even after a few dates and seeing Robotnik’s. Once Robotnik finds out about Stone’s self-harming habits “because of him”, he basically rushes Stone back to his house to take care of him, and finds the insane scrawling of everything about him all over Stone’s house. He’s decided Stone is a challenge for him to fix and it isn’t too bad to have someone drooling over every little move he makes.
Taking place while the two are teens, Ivo is sent to a summer camp to get out of the orphanage. He’s a huge germaphobe and hates anything related to touching grass. He refuses to let anyone near him, let alone touch him, and barely speaks, but he’s condemned to a cabin filled with bunk beds for the summer. Stone has been going to the same summer camp since he was old enough to go, and is scarily optimistic and cheery. The second he sees Ivo, he’s determined to make him his friend just like everybody else in the camp. He’s just a little harder to get through.
Ivo slowly starts to enjoy Stone’s presence, considering he’s always there. Stone gets him to try new experiences, shows him the quietest places in the woods where they can get some peace, listens to him talk about everything he’d rather be doing, and chases off the kids who are mean to him. Ivo eventually realizes that Stone only hangs out with him, though, despite Stone insisting that he’s friends with everyone here. Even the camp counselors don’t seem to like them. It’s just a prank when Stone is left alone to pick up after the teenagers smoking and drinking outside of the campgrounds, it’s a game that he has to play when campers try to aim at him with rocks, and the reason no one wants to talk to him isn’t because of his eccentricities but because it’s an “inside joke” that Ivo wouldn’t get. It’s clear to Ivo that even though Stone might be delusional, his “relationships” with the other campers are important to him, so when he’s caught snuggling up to Stone against a tree in the middle of the night, a photo passed around and accused to be gay, he doesn’t understand why Stone doesn’t care that everyone else is bullying them. He tries to distance himself from Stone to stop the rumors, but it only seems to make things worse. When Stone confronts Ivo about avoiding him, Ivo yells at Stone to just be realistic for once, and to accept the fact that they will never be good enough for other people, so it’s best to stop hanging out altogether. Obviously, Stone doesn’t take this well, and all his enjoyment for summer camp is sapped out of him.
They make up in the end, but it takes a while. Ivo just has to understand Stone’s point of view, that he doesn't care what other people think, as long as they’re together.
Extra details: Stone’s worst fear in this AU is Ivo not coming back to camp. He knows he was forced there against his will, and he knows that he would not come back if he doesn't have the “best summer ever”. So he tries his hardest to make Ivo see what makes camp so special for him. Ivo’s just extremely negative about everything.
Stone is not his name in this AU. He’s nicknamed that by the other campers because they all throw stones at him as an annual tradition LOL. He takes the nickname in pride, though, and makes sure everyone calls him it.
Robotnik and Stone are sent out on a data retrieval mission, arriving by car. Stone gets shot and then dies, trying to tell Robotnik something but failing to before dying. Robotnik wakes up again in the car, convinced he had a bad dream. However, things are the exact same as in his dream, and although he tries to change the outcome, Stone dies once more and doesn’t finish what he is trying to say due to Robotnik repeatedly cutting him off because he’s “going to live”. He wakes up yet again in the car and it doesn’t take long for him to realize he’s stuck in a time loop. He finds out that the loop is not triggered by him dying, but Stone, and changes his objective to protecting Stone. He believes that in making sure Stone lives until the end of the mission, he can escape from the loop. He’s sorely mistaken when they finally complete the mission without any casualties, but Robotnik wakes up again in the car before the mission.
It turns out, the solution is straight out of a crappy romcom. He has to listen to Stone’s final confession, that being that he loves Robotnik. Upon hearing it that last time, he’s able to save Stone, abandoning the mission and escaping the loop (as well as reciprocating his feelings).
Enemies Today, Friends Tomorrow
Superhero AU! Some people are just born with powers in this world, and the second the government catches wind of it, a child with powers is trained to become a superhero. This happens to Stone at a very early age, not having much contact with his family and growing up to be a leader of his team. Stone has technopathy, the power to talk to technology (as well as the ability to teleport through anything with a screen, in this AU specifically). He has support items because of this, like gloves with claws.
Robotnik also has powers, but was able to hide them until he grew older and avoided being “drafted”. He became a villain without anyone noticing who he really was, and no ties back to any family or anyone who could rat him out. He uses his robots to help him, however his power is telekinesis, which is very handy when building his creations.
Stone and Robotnik fight quite a lot, and Stone gets very close to killing him multiple times (but is held back by his team whenever they are together). He’s unable to get Robotnik’s robots to do anything as they are very resistant, although overtime they warm up to Stone and do more of what he asks them to.
Robotnik, needing a job, finds a position as a social media manager with alright enough pay for one of the hero teams. Of course it’s Stone’s, and he gets hired for the position without Stone realizing it’s his arch-enemy. They become very close in the workspace, and Stone is much kinder to Robotnik when he’s not fighting a villain version of himself. Robotnik starts valuing their relationship and begins to fear for when Stone finds out that he is the same man that Stone fights all the time.
Extra details: People already shipped Stone + Robotnik as superhero and villain, but the “unnamed social media manager” becomes part of the picture when he steals the spotlight on their twitter page.
Robotnik knows that the router will tell Stone everything that is accessed on the wifi, so he repeatedly opens up fanfictions of them to annoy him.
Stone will most likely escape the government’s leash and become villains with Robotnik by the end heh 😋👍
Here’s a quicker one, I just really like this Resident Evil AU and wanted to include it. Robotnik and Stone are married in this universe, Stone’s father working for Umbrella Corporation. Stone gets a letter from his father and goes to visit him based on a “family emergency” (which is what he tells Robotnik) and goes missing. Robotnik tears up everything trying to find him, but to no such luck. Eventually he is just convinced Stone is dead and gives up on searching for him a few years later.
During the T-virus pandemic (world-wide as in the novelization), Robotnik gets a tip from an unknown source about an island off the coast of Central America. When he goes there, he finds a bunker underground that goes on for miles and turns out to be home to many experiments from Umbrella Corporation, a project long forgotten at this point. He gets locked down in the bunker away from all civilization, and eventually finds Stone, who’s convinced he’s been turned into a monster (and has been experimented on and gone halfway insane as well as physically modified). There’s no set ending yet, but I’d like to think they fell in love a second time heh 😙
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