A summary/blurb for Sonic And The Guardians Of Acorn

Since I've had Sonic The Hedgehog on the brain a lot lately (for reasons you'll hopefully see soon), I've been brainstorming for my Sonic reboot. Here's a very basic rundown of the plot:

Sonic is a teenager living in the town of Emerald Hill with his guardians Tom and Maddie Wachowski. He keeps in contact with his globetrotting uncle Charles "Chuck" Hedgehog, who's an adventurer and researcher. One day Sonic is approached by the titular Guardians, who inform him that Chuck has gone missing while trying to locate the seven legendary Chaos Emeralds. They then ask Sonic for his help in looking for him, as he's become famous there in Emerald Hill for his speed. Of course Sonic is up for the challenge, and that kicks off the whole story. During his search, Sonic meets new friends and new enemies, as well as discovering the strange and fantastical secrets Mobius holds.

S&tGoA is a homebrew of my own ideas combined with elements from various branches of the Sonic franchise (of which you can see a few of already) as well as fan ideas, including fan art. Many characters have been reinterpreted from before -- think of how franchises such as the Batman mythos, He-Man, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will reboot themselves with new takes on familiar characters and concepts.

ETA: Okay, I did come up with a little summary. I'll just post it here. Don't know if it needs any work or not: There exists a distant planet of sophisticated technology, mysterious ancient ruins, and magical creatures. This is Mobius, and it's a world where a certain speedy blue hedgehog sets out to find his missing uncle.

Oh, also, I had a Knight Errand reader from before, Dukect, mention wanting to see Sonic and Antoine actually become friends. Well, this just might be the story for you then.

Here's what's up:

Firstly, fics will not be publicly posted until they're mostly if not entirely complete. What brought this decision on was my reading the user page of a certain FF.net author and agreeing with her thoughts about posting in a timely matter for readers. Seeing how my thoughts and ideas have actually garnered the interest of other fans has been both interesting and exciting for me, and I want to be able to finish more fics for them to enjoy. 

TL;DR: Sometime ago I decided that I didn't like making readers wait months on end for fic updates/or completion. So stories will be posted when they're done. It'll take longer, but will pay off in the end. :)

As for this blog, I will be re-posting relevant posts (story/setting lore, other info of note) here when I can. Also, last week a bad thunderstorm threw my computer's hard drive out of whack and I had to get it repaired (BTW, I cannot stand computer repairmen because I have yet to meet an actual nice one). Prior to that whole disaster I felt my writing had been moving along at a nice clip, and I could see both respective plots playing out in my imagination.

In other news, this is something I didn't really go into a lot of detail about before, but I've decided to just go ahead and do a proper AU of Sonic The Hedgehog called Sonic And The Guardians Of Acorn. This does mean I won't be working on anything Knight Errand-related anymore. My sincerest apologies to people who were invested in that setting -- I love that folks enjoyed the story so much -- but it was becoming too much of a headache to try and explain away all of Archie's plot holes, figure out why X was Y or why those particular characters had been separated from their families, etc (and KE was supposed to be sort of a melding of Archie and SatAM with AU elements). By comparison, working on S&TGOA has been vastly easier and more fun as well. 

S&TGOA will be a hard reboot, so none of this "oh, I have memories of the other timeline!" junk like in New Wave Genesis (IMO, if you're gonna reboot something, then just cut the strings and properly reboot it already). I have a character lineup done, and have written some basic profiles for Dr. Robotnik and most of his crew. I'm on the fence about whether or not I should include Thunderbolt the chinchilla in with them... might be funny for Agent Stone to have a rival for "world's biggest Robotnik simp".