In an attempt to tell lighter-hearted stories that take place on Mobius, I have created this thread to begin such an RP. In this setting, Robotnik isn't a nightmare given form. He didn't take over the whole world and turn people into creepy robot slaves. Instead, Robotnik is just the main enemy of Sonic and his buddies.

This is a fantastical world with pocket dimensions, and areas that are known as "zones". Strange ruins litter the world. The chaos emeralds are attainable through the special stages and allow you to be "super" whoever for as long as you have the rings to pay for it.

Feel free to choose a character in this setting, choose a "power" or two (such as Knuckles' ability to glide and punch through walls.) So long as it would seem neat in the Sonic video games and could also be fun in an RP. :)

Chris will go first.

Echo: Arctic Fox Bat with portal powers.  Self-replicant / twin. One is blind, the other deaf.  Psychic Bond.  They enjoy ultrasonic music.  They both wear mirror sunglasses.  Recall Friend power!!!  One is fox, the other bat.  Name idea:  Name of one is the name of the other spelled backwards   (robert/trebor, mirror/rorrim, stan/nats, mark/karm, adam/mada, luke/ekul, justin/nitsuj, james/semaj) or perfect mirror: (bob/dod, pip/qiq, tim/mit, wAltoz/sotlAw, qp w t Y u i/l o A sz dbH l L/J x v n m, paul/luaq, mavin/nivam, liam/mail, don/nob, van/nav, max/xam

Tim suggests Marco and Polo

Echo is an unusual boy.  The son of a bat and an arctic fox, he has traits from both - His mommy's wings, his daddy's fur and tail, and both their eyes - light blue on one side and red on the other.  One day, he created a mirror out of psychic energy and walked through it.  He came out two places at once.  In one place, he was a deaf fox.  In the other, a blind bat.

But he/they both were able to see, hear, feel, and think through the other.  It was confusing and overwhelming, so he/they stepped back through and reunited.  But over time, through practice, he/they mastered being able to deal with simultaneous double and proxy senses.  From there he/they experimented and figured a way to compensate for the drawbacks - the deaf one carries a mic that transmitted sound for the other to hear what he could not.  The other a camera to transmit what the other can see for him with the tiny screen reflect ing off the back of his sunglasses.  He/they tend to play hookey in class this way.  Flying around and enjoying the great outdoors to offset having to take a boring history test.
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  Well, I'm figuring on being lazy and going with Coyote variant "Standard Sonic Darkthorne".  Any particular tweaks or additions to that concept, we'll wait and see on.

Location: Mobotropolis.
Home to Sonic the Hedgehog, this is the capital of Planet Mobius. Of course, there are those who do not recognize it as the capital, but to most it is. Mobotropolis has a population of about 25 million. Everyone knows about the hero Sonic the Hedgehog and his buddy Tails. There has been talk about the Overlanders possibly waging war on the Mobians, but so far nothing is set in stone. However, this has caused racial tension in Mobotropolis and lately, the overlanders in the city have been making themselves more and more scarce.

To start off, we begin in High Park, a nice neighborhood where the racial tensions are low. It's noon and the sun is shining with a cool breeze.

A light-brown skinned overlander lady with wavy black hair is sitting at an icecream vendor, sipping a milkshake she ordered. The ice cream vendor, a male hamster who seems to be in a good mood.

Marco and Polo are sharing a banana split while seated at a nearby bench.  If not for being different races, one could swear they're mirror reflections of one another.  When one takes a bite with the spoon in his right hand, the other takes a bite with his left at the exact same time.  Closer inspection would discover that they don't pick the same flavor.  When Marco catches sight of Angel, he looks over at her curiously, breaking the mirrored movements.  Polo perks his ears, but stays focused on the ice-cream.

"Hello," they greet simultaneously, sounding friendly.

  Joe doesn't have icecream, because he's too cool for icecream-wait, no.  He already had some a few minutes ago.  You'll never manage the brooding loner thing if you keep putting money in those tip jars, man.

  Though it does let you have an excuse to sit around longer after you've finished eating, so there is that.

Angel smiles at the two. "Well hello... beautiful weather today. It's enough to put anyone in a good mood. Don't suppose you live in this neighborhood?"

Marco and Polo smile at Angel, pleased the interesting human lady is being so nice.  They quote a line from a powem about such a beautiful day, their stereo voices making it sound almost musical.

"It sure is!" Marco the fox answers.

"Not exactly from here," Polo the bat answers.

"I live several blocks away," they both answer.

"How 'bout you?"

"Where you from?"

Bumpers!

  Despite the reminders in the opening posts, Joe's brain had to be jostled out of 'don't care what species people are' to remember that Overlanders are notable around here.

  "The kid's raise a good question.  Just here for the icecream, or to stay?"

Angel says, "I'm from Mega Central*, actually. But I'm hoping to stay here at least for a few months. I'm an ambassador, hoping to mend relations between the Mobians and Overlanders."

*Mega Central is the Overlander capital.

Both Marco and Polo give a low, impressed whistle.

"Ambassador from Mega Central," Marco echoes.

"Now if that doesn't sound impressive..."

"I don't know what would."

"You've got your work cut out for you."

"But I think if people base their impressions of Overlanders based off you..."

"It shouldn't be too hard to mend things on this end."

"What's their major beef with us anyway?"

"Jealous of our icecream?"

 "Well, hopefully the worst you have to deal with is being a useless figurehead instead of a political scapegoat."

  Could be worse, she could be a princess having to deal with the fact her dad hired a fat evil scientist in the first place? This theoretical comment applies as a 'would be worse' even if that didn't happen in this setting, whoooo vagueness insurance!

Angel says to Echo, "Thanks for the votes of confidence... as for what the Overlanders' beef with the Mobians is? Well it goes back two generations and nobody agrees on what really happened, of course. The Mobians say our dignitary assassinated your crown prince at the time. Overlanders say it was a set up and that House Acorn wanted to create an excuse to war with us in order to gain our resources. I looked into it and suspect it was a mere accident that got blown out of proportion."

She then looks over to Joe. "I'm sure you didn't mean that you hope I'll be useless, but rather that it would be preferable to being hunted down. But see.. if I become a scapegoat, I will already have lost my worth. And if I am useless to begin with, then my job and everything I worked for will mean nothing; at which point, I would be better off hunted. At least then I'd have someone to hate other than myself. No; I'd rather tell myself I'll become a useful figurehead."

Marco and Polo oh at Angel's explanation and look surprised by her answer to Joe's comment.

"You don't paint a very pleasant picture of your people," Marco says.

"One, A Mobian royal family member dies, and the Overlanders make like they're the victims?"

"And two, that they would ever harm such a sweet lady for any reason, let alone blame you for a crime you didn't commit, is despicable."

"You should switch sides.  Become a Mobian."

"You'll immediately become a very useful figurehead."

"Not only will you be living proof that Mobians are welcoming of nice Overlanders such as yourself,"

"But also proof that not all Overlanders are finger-pointing blamers who don't trust anyone."
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  Acorn would be crazy enough for that to have been a real possibility.

  "Mobian and Overlander is more of a species difference, despite the political situation.  She'd have to suddenly be a rabbit or something to stop being an Overlander."

  There we go, avoid the political commentary temporarily by sticking to the more frivolous details.

Angel says, "Thanks for the compliments... though to clarify something you picked up on, I'm not saying I would be framed because my bosses are overlanders. I'm saying I would be framed because they are politicians. Overlander, Mobian... it doesn't matter what you were born as, if you are a politician, chances are high you are going to stab someone in the back. My people, on the other hand... are longing for an end to this whole conflict. For me to switch sides would cause no change and throw away my unique position to help the overlanders."

Joe's comment gets Angel to quickly glance at him before she pauses to think and says, "And what if I did?" as if half-jokingly bringing up a silly theoretical situation... but she seems half-serious also.

The two recoil in unpleasant surprise when Angel explains politicians are backstabbers more often than not.

"Goodness."

"Good thing Mobotropolis doesn't have any politicians, then."

"Maybe that's the root of the Overlander problem right there."

"The people are stuck with a conflict they don't want because of the Nasties in charge."

"They should have a monarch instead."

"You for example."

"You'd make for a great queen."

They smile at the bunny comment.  "She'd make for a good bunny too."

"Though she reminds me more of a golden retriever."

  "Well, you'd have more luck with citizens accepting your Mobian status as an attractive bunny or dog, instead of an attractive Overlander.  While your example politicians debate prior citizenship status over species until they forget if they are arguing in favor or against."

  At the kids comments about politicians, he says "Monarchs are politicians, they just don't pretend your say matters as much as the ones that need votes."

Angel nods, thumbing at Joe. "Yup. Monarchs are politicians. Viziers are politicians. Regents are politicians. Lords, dukes, etc... anyone in leadership positions over a given city or country is a politician." she double-takes at Joe. "Attractive? Well... thank you."

She then looks back at Echo. "Though I appreciate you saying I'd be a good queen, I'm unsure what gave you that impression."

The two boys looks surprised.

To Joe, Marco says, "I'm surprised you would consider our gracious King the kind of person likely to make a scapegoat of such a nice lady and have her hunted down."

Polo says to Angel, "You're surprised a Mobian would compliment your good looks?"

"Let me add then that you have a beautiful voice."

"A lovable personality,"

They smile impishly, "And excellent taste in desserts."

"So besides all that, you remind me of the Princess."

"That's why I figure you'd make for a good queen."

  Political tensions aside, obviously it should be easier for talking animals to find humans attractive than the other way around, considering interspecies relationships are near constant for Mobians. Wait, no, that would make sense.

  "You said it, not me, kids."  Hear that, royal spy types?  Totally wasn't Joe.  On that note he's having another nebulous background moment and trying to figure out if he's thinking of the same King as they are.

King: Maximillian Acorn
Queen: Alicia Acorn
Crown Prince: Elias Acorn
Princess: Sally Acorn

These characters exist and have their stations as in the comics. However, there was no Robotnik betrayal and no mass-roboticizations. So they pretty much exist as politicians. Fair ones, but politicians. And they are known to associate with Sonic often.

Angel chuckles. "Thanks... on that note, I don't suppose any of you have any skills that would help me with my job here in Mobotropolis?"

All Echo knows of "politics" is what he learned in tax-funded public schools, so all he knows is that the Acorns are super people from a long line of super ancestors.  Today is the first day he remembers hearing the word, "politician."  They shrug to Joe's statement, not sure what to say.

They think about Angel's question.  "I'm not sure."

"I'd like to be helpful."

"But the only thing different about me..."

"...my ability to be in two places at once..."

"...I don't think would help you."

"Sorry."

  Well, maybe if she suddenly needed to go on that revenge spree.  "If you wanted cross city trips faster but less comfortable than a cab, I guess?"