HOME | DD

Description

I can’t believe this is probably the last thing I’m going to have drawn in 2014. :V

Well, since my Miis in Tomodachi Life have been really gettin’ busy lately and having all sorts of strange offspring, it got me thinking about MXYL and how much I hated it. Not just the Penders part of it, either. Nevermind slumber party drama, I’m not interested in reading about Sonic and Sally lite, not!Bunnie and not!Antoine, the baffling spawn of Tails and Mina. If I have to read about the characters’ kids (which, future stories are already a big nono for me), I want them to be interesting in their own right, not copy/pastes of their parents. I think out of everything, that bothered me the most.

So I just futzed around, wanted to have pieces of both parents in the design, but not BE the parents. These could really use some streamlining, but for barfing up some ideas I don’t think they’re half bad.

So- of course I have personalities and stories for them. I always have a story.

Leftmost- The eldest daughter. Okay, so maybe it's just because I didn't like Sonia and Manic at all in MXYL, or maybe it's because I got so sick of the "oooh legacy of my forefathers, i must be like my ancestors" baloney that Penders spewed all over the place, but I reallly didn't like the idea of Sonic having a son. At least, not a son who looked like him and acted like him and was supposed to follow in his footsteps. NAH. Instead, he has two girls first, and none of his children have his super speed. NONE.

The first kid he has is the blue chipmunk. The direct heir to the crown, Sally takes her under her wing, and from a very young age she is groomed into becoming the future queen. Not stuff like how to be prim and proper, but how to lead a team, understanding the legal system, yadda yadda. It is Sally's thought (and fear) that should a similar crisis happen to what the Freedom Fighters experienced as children, it is up to this daughter to lead the new generation to victory. She's not trying to be an overbearing traditionalist like her father, and actually worries a little bit that she's behaving that way. NICOLE becomes her mentor and sometimes assists her through an updated handheld body.

However, because of this attention, this daughter gets a very big head, an ego the size of the moon. She's going to be the Queen someday. There has never been any question about it, by her or anyone else. She is smarter than her siblings, she knows some karate moves, and when she's in power, she can order them around as she pleases. Well, try as her parents might to humble her a little, she retains this jerky attitude for most of her teenage years.

I imagine Sally wanting to name her Alicia or Julayla, or both, after her mother and mentor. But Sonic is NOT a fan of naming his children after real life people (see how that worked out for him), and talks her out of it.

Designwise, I wanted to play with Jules/Werehog colors with a Sally body/face structure. Originally didn't intend to give her that white bangs section, but I liked the look of it so kept it. I'm not so good at drawing Sally, I'm not sure she's really visible in the design here.

Middle- The middle child. A tiny, spunky ball of energy who's ready to go on an adventure and get into some fistfights. She's the most like Sonic in personality- still no super speed, but has taken after him in learning to parkour up and over just about everything. She's very active and is constantly learning new fighting techniques. So her sister's going to be queen and she isn't? So what? She's seen the training her sister's been going through and it looks dull as heck. By the age of 6, she had already decided she was going to be the world's next greatest hero. Sonic gets a kick out of it, Sally isn't so thrilled.

She's incredibly aggressive, moreso than her father. She gets into fights with her sister a lot, and bullies her little brother a little bit. Her temper gets her into the most trouble and she'll need to learn to keep it under control if she wants to be a better hero. But otherwise she's very bubbly and has an endearing personality. She gets along with a lot of people despite being kind of a jerk. (From my Chuck perspective ((I can't help it, it's what I do)), I think she'd be his secret favorite.)

Designwise, just a hedgehog with Sally's hair made out of quills. She looks like Tiara Boobowski, lol. :V Her outfit could really stand to be more unique, but I like the warm colors.

Rightmost- The youngest child, and only son. When it was announced they were having a boy, there were big expectations for him. As he grew up... not so much. It was clear early on that he didn't have his father's agility, nor his mother's aptitude. He kind of tends to be forgotten, and no one expects much of anything from him now. His oldest sister's going to be the monarch, the other one is going to be the hero- seems to him like there's nothing left for him to do. He feels a little detached from his immediate family and tends to seek comfort from more distant relatives, like his grandfather and uncle. For most of his life, he's just stumbling around, without a clue about what he's going to do with his future.

However, buried inside him, he's actually a perfect combination of his parents. Despite feelings of loneliness sometimes, he's got a heart of gold and a strong moral compass. He's incorruptible, and doesn't let anyone try to tell him what's right and what's wrong. In a strange turn of events later on in life, he reveals himself to be a tremendous leader when his oldest sister is called upon during a time of real crisis and chokes horribly. He steps up to guide people to safety and strategize a plan. This finally gets her to shut up about herself and reevaluate whether she even wants to be Queen.

In my head, Chuck dies sometime close to when he's born, causing Sonic to rethink his stance on naming his kids after people. Sally's fine with it, but remembers the grief Sonic gave her about Alicia/Julayla, and agrees to it under the condition she can also contribute her father's name. So I've been calling this kid Chucksamilian since I started drawing him. If Sonic Battle and "Emerl" is anything to go by, Sonic's terrible with naming people. Meanwhile, Chuck is rolling over in his grave. (That is a horrible, horrible name, and he's so so sorry for having anything to do with it.)

Didn't plan to even have a son in the group at first, but that's what my Sonic and Sally Miis had in TL, so I rolled with it. Their baby ended up being super chubby with these uber cheeks, and I liked the idea that Sonic and Sally have a kid that's heavy set. I'm not so wild about his color scheme being so similar to Elias and Sally, though- I originally tried it with more vibrant colors, even the pink and black Sally colors from the early comics. They didn't quite look right. But this doesn't either... Might make him more Rotorish in the next pass.

The poor child inherits his grandfather's, uncle's, and great-uncle's fuzzy fuzzy brows, as most men in Sally and Sonic's lineage do. That's how you know he's a natural born leader. :V

And the parents? Sally would be the main ruler. I can't see Sonic wanting to have anything to do with that business. He wouldn't want to be King at all. I don't think he'd be totally useless though, I mean, he'd go out and visit other territories. Basically wear his ambassador socks around the world and help maintain the peace. Besides that, I could see him being more of a stay-at-home dad, in that he doesn't actually stay at home, but is constantly with his kids and taking them on field trips to wherever he feels like. The kind of parent that shows up to school sometimes and lies about a dentist appointment to take their kids to Disney Land. Sally's the one out doing important business things, and she sees her kids less often.

When his kids were first born, he was really hoping for a son, because he had no idea how he was going to relate to a daughter. Sally was hoping for daughters, because she didn't want any mini-Sonics to deal with. But it kind of turned out that he had an easier time relating to all of his kids than Sally did, and they ended up being mini-Sonics anyway. He's closest to the middle one, but he loves all of his kids. He's finding the oldest daughter to be a bit of a pill lately though, hopes she grows out of that phase quick. Sally's closest to the oldest, but tries hard to remind herself to give attention to the other two. The last thing she wants is for her kids to resent each other.

And then obvs there's lots of cute babysitting adventures with other characters. But we'll get into that at another date.

Based on Archie Sonic characters

Description

I can’t believe this is probably the last thing I’m going to have drawn in 2014. :V

Well, since my Miis in Tomodachi Life have been really gettin’ busy lately and having all sorts of strange offspring, it got me thinking about MXYL and how much I hated it. Not just the Penders part of it, either. Nevermind slumber party drama, I’m not interested in reading about Sonic and Sally lite, not!Bunnie and not!Antoine, the baffling spawn of Tails and Mina. If I have to read about the characters’ kids (which, future stories are already a big nono for me), I want them to be interesting in their own right, not copy/pastes of their parents. I think out of everything, that bothered me the most.

So I just futzed around, wanted to have pieces of both parents in the design, but not BE the parents. These could really use some streamlining, but for barfing up some ideas I don’t think they’re half bad.

So- of course I have personalities and stories for them. I always have a story.

Leftmost- The eldest daughter. Okay, so maybe it's just because I didn't like Sonia and Manic at all in MXYL, or maybe it's because I got so sick of the "oooh legacy of my forefathers, i must be like my ancestors" baloney that Penders spewed all over the place, but I reallly didn't like the idea of Sonic having a son. At least, not a son who looked like him and acted like him and was supposed to follow in his footsteps. NAH. Instead, he has two girls first, and none of his children have his super speed. NONE.

The first kid he has is the blue chipmunk. The direct heir to the crown, Sally takes her under her wing, and from a very young age she is groomed into becoming the future queen. Not stuff like how to be prim and proper, but how to lead a team, understanding the legal system, yadda yadda. It is Sally's thought (and fear) that should a similar crisis happen to what the Freedom Fighters experienced as children, it is up to this daughter to lead the new generation to victory. She's not trying to be an overbearing traditionalist like her father, and actually worries a little bit that she's behaving that way. NICOLE becomes her mentor and sometimes assists her through an updated handheld body.

However, because of this attention, this daughter gets a very big head, an ego the size of the moon. She's going to be the Queen someday. There has never been any question about it, by her or anyone else. She is smarter than her siblings, she knows some karate moves, and when she's in power, she can order them around as she pleases. Well, try as her parents might to humble her a little, she retains this jerky attitude for most of her teenage years.

I imagine Sally wanting to name her Alicia or Julayla, or both, after her mother and mentor. But Sonic is NOT a fan of naming his children after real life people (see how that worked out for him), and talks her out of it.

Designwise, I wanted to play with Jules/Werehog colors with a Sally body/face structure. Originally didn't intend to give her that white bangs section, but I liked the look of it so kept it. I'm not so good at drawing Sally, I'm not sure she's really visible in the design here.

Middle- The middle child. A tiny, spunky ball of energy who's ready to go on an adventure and get into some fistfights. She's the most like Sonic in personality- still no super speed, but has taken after him in learning to parkour up and over just about everything. She's very active and is constantly learning new fighting techniques. So her sister's going to be queen and she isn't? So what? She's seen the training her sister's been going through and it looks dull as heck. By the age of 6, she had already decided she was going to be the world's next greatest hero. Sonic gets a kick out of it, Sally isn't so thrilled.

She's incredibly aggressive, moreso than her father. She gets into fights with her sister a lot, and bullies her little brother a little bit. Her temper gets her into the most trouble and she'll need to learn to keep it under control if she wants to be a better hero. But otherwise she's very bubbly and has an endearing personality. She gets along with a lot of people despite being kind of a jerk. (From my Chuck perspective ((I can't help it, it's what I do)), I think she'd be his secret favorite.)

Designwise, just a hedgehog with Sally's hair made out of quills. She looks like Tiara Boobowski, lol. :V Her outfit could really stand to be more unique, but I like the warm colors.

Rightmost- The youngest child, and only son. When it was announced they were having a boy, there were big expectations for him. As he grew up... not so much. It was clear early on that he didn't have his father's agility, nor his mother's aptitude. He kind of tends to be forgotten, and no one expects much of anything from him now. His oldest sister's going to be the monarch, the other one is going to be the hero- seems to him like there's nothing left for him to do. He feels a little detached from his immediate family and tends to seek comfort from more distant relatives, like his grandfather and uncle. For most of his life, he's just stumbling around, without a clue about what he's going to do with his future.

However, buried inside him, he's actually a perfect combination of his parents. Despite feelings of loneliness sometimes, he's got a heart of gold and a strong moral compass. He's incorruptible, and doesn't let anyone try to tell him what's right and what's wrong. In a strange turn of events later on in life, he reveals himself to be a tremendous leader when his oldest sister is called upon during a time of real crisis and chokes horribly. He steps up to guide people to safety and strategize a plan. This finally gets her to shut up about herself and reevaluate whether she even wants to be Queen.

In my head, Chuck dies sometime close to when he's born, causing Sonic to rethink his stance on naming his kids after people. Sally's fine with it, but remembers the grief Sonic gave her about Alicia/Julayla, and agrees to it under the condition she can also contribute her father's name. So I've been calling this kid Chucksamilian since I started drawing him. If Sonic Battle and "Emerl" is anything to go by, Sonic's terrible with naming people. Meanwhile, Chuck is rolling over in his grave. (That is a horrible, horrible name, and he's so so sorry for having anything to do with it.)

Didn't plan to even have a son in the group at first, but that's what my Sonic and Sally Miis had in TL, so I rolled with it. Their baby ended up being super chubby with these uber cheeks, and I liked the idea that Sonic and Sally have a kid that's heavy set. I'm not so wild about his color scheme being so similar to Elias and Sally, though- I originally tried it with more vibrant colors, even the pink and black Sally colors from the early comics. They didn't quite look right. But this doesn't either... Might make him more Rotorish in the next pass.

The poor child inherits his grandfather's, uncle's, and great-uncle's fuzzy fuzzy brows, as most men in Sally and Sonic's lineage do. That's how you know he's a natural born leader. :V

And the parents? Sally would be the main ruler. I can't see Sonic wanting to have anything to do with that business. He wouldn't want to be King at all. I don't think he'd be totally useless though, I mean, he'd go out and visit other territories. Basically wear his ambassador socks around the world and help maintain the peace. Besides that, I could see him being more of a stay-at-home dad, in that he doesn't actually stay at home, but is constantly with his kids and taking them on field trips to wherever he feels like. The kind of parent that shows up to school sometimes and lies about a dentist appointment to take their kids to Disney Land. Sally's the one out doing important business things, and she sees her kids less often.

When his kids were first born, he was really hoping for a son, because he had no idea how he was going to relate to a daughter. Sally was hoping for daughters, because she didn't want any mini-Sonics to deal with. But it kind of turned out that he had an easier time relating to all of his kids than Sally did, and they ended up being mini-Sonics anyway. He's closest to the middle one, but he loves all of his kids. He's finding the oldest daughter to be a bit of a pill lately though, hopes she grows out of that phase quick. Sally's closest to the oldest, but tries hard to remind herself to give attention to the other two. The last thing she wants is for her kids to resent each other.

And then obvs there's lots of cute babysitting adventures with other characters. But we'll get into that at another date.

Based on Archie Sonic characters