TRANS BILL & TED! TRANS BILL & TED

Ideas for a SatBK remaster (if it ever happens):

Camelot Castle and Nimue's Lake as hub worlds! Nimue can provide her challenges of Chivalry (the missions she sends Sonic on), and the bonus stages (unlocked after defeating Merlina), while the extra challenges could be given by the villagers in Camelot Castle. Connections to Arthurian legend can be accessed through dialogue at Nimue's, while SatBK specific lore can be accessed with the villagers in Camelot Castle, changing at different parts of the game (them talking about Arthur's corruption, how grateful they are to Sonic, and when Lancelot/Percival/Gawain, how they react to each knight). Plus, it would provide easy access to the Blacksmith, unlocking titles, and exchanging items.

FIXED CONTROLS. NO MORE DELAY. It's admittedly part of the charm (for me), but I would LOVE to have them fixed so the delay isn't as bad.

Camelot's treasury as an ACTUAL room (like Shadow's room in Generations). This can showcase the different items that are found, different talismans or potions made at the blacksmith's, and even showcasing the Sacred Swords. You could also view found concept are and replay cutscenes here.

A way to access Battle Mode in the game. Like, walk through one gate, and a prompt comes up asking if you want to enter Battle Mode/Multiplayer. This would let the player choose what character they want to play as, and also allow them to battle against a CPU opponent.

Some way to access the map at all times. With the original theme for the level selection playing while it's pulled up. For levels, you'd still have the ability to choose which knight you play as before entering a level, and the ability to equip items/talismans from the Blacksmith's Shop. (Maybe Merlina's magic allowed Sonic to instantly memorize the map or something.)

Last, but DEFINITELY not least:

GALAHAD AND LAMORAK IN THE GAME. PLEASE. SEGA, I'M BEGGING YOU.

FAE LANCELOT!!!!

sonadow doodle day 27: "Thee dare enter mine own forest?"

Unshaded under the cut:

I love it when SATBK AUs take advantage of Lancelot's fae heritage

without sonic (fae lancelot design):

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Welcome!

Hi, I'm Arkturus, and welcome to the blog!

I'm a Sonadow and Arthurlot shipper, and I have a BUNCH of AUs in the works!

I normally post my writing on AO3, but you might be able to check some stuff out under the Arkturmistswrites tag! (once I actually begin to post stuff ;-;), and some WIPs with the ArkturmistsWIP tag, too! (Though those will be rarer) If you're in any rambles and/or random thoughts, look at the ArkturmistsYaps tag I hope you have a great time here!!

CROSSPOSTED FROM AO3: I AM DISGUSTED BY RUMORS.

I don't use this account but I've hung onto the handle, and I guess now I'm using that handle to post... this.

To put it bluntly: people have been spreading rumors that I’m a weirdo around children. Details in the doc. TL;DR: I am not. I am utterly revolted by these accusations.

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It’s come to my attention recently that folks have been spreading rumors that I’m a creep around children. I want to address those rumors here, because I’m sick of people running around and spreading misinformation.

I am DISGUSTED by this. I’m FURIOUS. 

The rumors stem from a source that I will admit IS true: a nsfw fanfic I wrote in 2020ish. That fanfic was Wonderstruck. In my revised version of WS, titled Enchanted (Taylor’s Version), I vaguely touched on this subject in my author’s notes, hoping it would quell any misinformation, but clearly vague isn’t enough, so I’m putting my foot down here.

I would like to preface this by making sure I express right off the bat: I am a SEX-REPULSED ASEXUAL. I don’t even like the idea of sexual interactions with adults, let alone children. Yuck!

That said:

When I wrote WS, I was new to the fandom and eager to make friends. So eager that as I participated in a server full of other, far more popular authors at the time (who enjoyed NSFW content), I felt compelled to write something that would impress them, something that would help me fit in with them. I thought they were cool, and they ended up thinking I was a waste of time. These were big-name people, folks with far more kudos and reads and followers than I had at the time. Thus: I looked up to them.

I will not mention these people by name. I refuse to pass any sort of blame. That’s not the point of this.

That drama aside, I wrote WS to impress these people. I was not coerced or pressured to write smut, but I was driven by the latent, unspoken social pressure I felt when spending time with these people. “These people consume and write smut, ergo, I should do that so I can fit in with them, even though it’s not of my own interest.” I thought that by catering to their interests, I could slip into the clique (and I realize now that it was a clique and not an open, welcoming friend group). 

Probably a dodged bullet that I didn’t get any further with those people, lol. I digress.

That one, single instance of a fic that I have expressed upon multiple occasions my shame surrounding, has blown up into something horrible. Nobody is doing their research about it. I have not been secretive about this situation.

Let me establish a few things.

1.  I do not, in my daily life, enjoy any sort of sexual content, ESPECIALLY NOT that of minors! That is abhorrent! The very thought of consuming underage smut is making me vomit in my mouth a little.

2. I have never in my life DRAWN nsfw content of any kind. Don’t know where that rumor came from. 

3. Since Wonderstruck, I have not written a single nsfw fanfic.

4. In Wonderstruck, I established the characters to be adults. I am fully aware that this is a sticky subject, as many folks do not condone “aging up” characters–but I did want to throw this in. I did not write smut with the intent of writing children. From the very beginning of that fanfic I established Sonic and Shadow to be in their mid-twenties. Take that as you will.

5. I have never groomed or been otherwise weird around a child. The allegation here is INFURIATING.

I fully acknowledge and respect that the fanfic made some minors uncomfortable, and I deeply apologize for that. That fanfic made ME uncomfortable, too! I get it! That’s why I took it down. That’s why I completely rewrote it. I’m uncomfortable, you’re uncomfortable, we’re all uncomfortable. And I know my own past decisions have led me to this point. I’m so, so sorry.

The last thing I want is to create a space that minors feel unsafe in, which is why I’m posting this now. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m jumping into self-defense mode a bit, I also just want to make it clear that I do not, will not, and would never dream of being weird around minors. I’m so sorry that things have spiraled so far that folks believe so. :( 

That single fanfic is not who I am, and I do not want it to be my legacy. That fanfic was a projection of who other people were. It’s not even a pattern–it’s just one awkward instance that I have long since righted.

I just, I dunno. This isn’t the most eloquent thing I’ve ever written, but I’m still so shaky and mad and fucked up over the fact that people out there seem to believe these terrible things. I know I can’t stop rumors. They’ll just keep spreading, and spreading, and spreading. But my hope is that someone out there will hear something and think, “hey, let me do my research.” And they’ll come to my profile and see this.

So, I beg folks to look into things a bit more before they throw out such disgusting, potentially life-damaging allegations about people you don’t know and have never interacted with. I am a real, living human being. I have literally the same exact moral code as the folks throwing out these allegations, and I am furious and outraged and angry and sad that people think I’m one of those disgusting people out there who are actually doing real damage.

If anyone has any questions or wants more details, please don’t hesitate to ask. I want to be as forthright about this situation as possible, because I don’t want it to devolve even further.

Thanks for reading. I’m sorry it had to come to this. I’m gonna take a pause from writing fanfic for a little bit–just long enough to clear my head, probably.

Have a nice day :)

Imagine an episode of Sonic Boom where Sticks and Sonic swap bodies.

Sonic (in Sticks' body) tries to tell everyone what happened, only for no one to believe him (because to them, it's just Sticks being Sticks). Sticks (in Sonic's body) is getting used to the super speed, and is using it to travel around the island in hopes of finding some sort of evidence for her conspiracies.

For a good majority of the episode, no one seems to notice. Sonic's acting a little weird, but nothing too out of the ordinary. Sticks is being Sticks to them, so everything seems all good.

The only reason they notice something's wrong is because Sonic threw off his communicator, and Sticks put it on. It's the last five minutes, and they're hunting down Sticks to reverse the switch, only to find her breaking Sonic's tv in the shack with one minute left in the episode.

No, I'm not crying! You are!

I don't think Robotnik ever saw Stone's affection as genuine. He's used to people only valuing him if he's useful. His own bosses call him a freak, yet they put up with him because of his "perfect operation record". He isn't even shocked when he learns the goverment erased him, he expected it and had a contingency plan ready.

He keeps calling Stone a sycophant and a barnacle, because why else would someone stay with him if not to gain something? Clearly, Stone is just a suck-up wanting to ride his coattails. And Ivo is fine with that! He gets his ego stroked and in return Stone gets a slice of the world-domination pie. Mutually beneficial!

This symbiotic relationship gives Ivo a sense of control and ensures that Stone won't abandon him like everyone else. It also keeps him detached: of course Stone waited months or him to return from space, that's his job. His admiration is inevitable, and meaningless.

Ivo develops a genuine, irrational attachment to Stone, one he's able to rationalize as just being transactional. Those emotional walls shield him from the fear of abandonment that comes with caring for another person.

Except...even after Robotnik becomes a liability, Stone stays. There's no benefit, no plans of ruling humanity, not even a paycheck. Yet despite everything, Ivo tries to keep the old boss/employee dynamic going. He can't fathom the idea that someone would stay for anything other than convenience.

Then Gerald shows up, and for the first time Ivo allows himself to put down those walls. As an orphan he had built up this idealized image of family that he thought he could never have. People will use you then toss you aside when convenient, but family? Family is different. Family will always be there for you and love you no matter what. Family won't abandon you.

And suddently Stone's grovelling is no longer necessary. Why would he need someone who just pretends to like him when he now has all the unconditional love he's always longed for? That's obviously why Stone got so jealous, it couldn't have been real concern, he was just afraid of losing his comfy position as the lapdog of humanity's new king. Between a sycophant and family, the choice felt obvious.

And, of course, Gerald turns out to be just like everyone else in Ivo's life: just another person trying to get something from him. The second he stopped being useful, he was tossed aside.

His image of family is once again shattered, but those emotional walls are already down. Now that Ivo experienced that betrayal he was so afraid of, now that he's about to die, he's finally able to be honest with himself.

Looking down on Earth, he realizes there had only ever been one person on that blue marble who actually cared. Someone who had always been there, even when there was nothing to gain. Stone had never abandoned him.

But he had abandoned Stone. He tossed him aside, just like Gerald did to him. Now that he's able to understand how Stone felt, this is his last chance to make things right.

In his final moments, with nothing to fear, Robotnik puts down his emotional walls and opens up as best as he can. Stone had done so much for him, asked for nothing in return, and now it was his turn to do the same. Ivo helped save the world, not for recognition or convenience, but simply out of love.

Stone had always been a sycophant to him, yes, but he had also been a friend. A sycofriend.

I LOVE the parallels between Gerald and Eggman in Sonic 3. ESPECIALLY with how they treat Shadow/Stone (their respective henchman/helper).

Eggman's BLATANTLY honest with Stone, and certainly blunt, but he actually DOES care about him. In Sonic 1, he looks down on Stone, calling him a sycophant and stupid ("Way to go, you got that one"). In Sonic 2, he doesn't seem to hold Stone in a higher regard, saying that he and Knuckles should ditch him, and leave him at the Mean Bean. While Stone's completely loyal to him, and it's clear that he cares about Eggman, it's only in Sonic 3 when Eggman actually realizes that Stone IS the only person who ever cared for him.

Meanwhile, Gerald's manipulative. He seems to talk down to Shadow, primarily ordering him around and only bothering to keep him out of harms way during the London heist, BEFORE he has access to the Eclipse Canon. He actively preys on Shadow's grief, telling him that he needs to remember that Maria was taken from them, and that humanity deserves to be destroyed. Gerald doesn't even bother with correcting Eggman when he calls Shadow a "Thermonuclear gerbil". And when Gerald sees that Shadow is now working with Sonic, he says "I see you chosen betrayal. And you were once so useful to me."

Gerald was (likely) only using Shadow as a tool, something he could discard when it no longer had a purpose. But Eggman WANTED to keep Stone around. He IS the reason that Eggman tried to save the world. To Eggman, Stone was MORE than a henchman and sychophant. He was a sychofriend.

THIS IS AWESOME!

keanu reeves is shadow??

BIG, THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT

Big the Cat Therapist

Doodle is a result of a convo I had with a friend btw. We both headcanon that Big always knows what to say and that’s why Shadow likes him 😌.

“You don’t have to be The Ultimate Lifeform all the time. Sometimes you can just be Shadow”