#super emeralds

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

#sonic 3 and knuckles #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #super emeralds

[milliesmusings314]

Headcanons on Gold and Red Rings, Chaos Emeralds, and Sonic's Iconic Forms

I've been wondering for a while about how the rings and Chaos Energy in the world of Sonic the Hedgehog might work, and I've come up with a few ideas that I'd love to explore.

Of course, my musings don't take into account all of the established canon, as some elements have been changed or discarded over the years, and said musings started before the two latest games in the franchise. But this is mostly just self-indulgent creativity anyways, isn't it? No need to think too hard about the absolutely pin-prick fine details of a franchise that's been ongoing for 31 years and counting, I'd be giving myself a massive headache if I tried.

So, without further ado, let me share how I like to imagine the way that rings and Chaos Energy work in the Sonic universe.

I like to imagine that the golden rings found throughout the zones are a physical manifestation of positive energy. Depending on the amount of positive energy present in a location, the rings can range from being abundant to scarce. For example, when nature is being oppressed and drained of life by the mad doctor Eggman's machines, the rings can become increasingly difficult to come by, as he saps the resources from the land and tramples on its life. In contrast, the buildup of negative energy in an area could lead to the manifestation of red rings, similar to those found in Sonic.EXE fan creations, especially their portrayal in "An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack", but, y’know... without the crappypasta entity really being at all involved. These rings have the power to cancel out the collected golden rings, thereby weakening the player who is not protected by positive rings.

It would honestly be pretty cool to see SEGA add something akin to this, and develop this whole concept of positive and negative energies further, after involving positive and negative energy in the plot of Sonic Adventure 1 and not touching it again past that.

The Chaos Emeralds, on the other hand, possess limitless energy, but said energy is inherently chaotic and discordant. The Master Emerald, capable of unifying the chaotic energy, serves as a controller, enabling its user to create or destroy. If one uses the energy from the Chaos Emeralds without unification, the result is purely chaos and discordance, a mishmash of positive or negative energy.

Super Sonic is a result of harmonizing the energies of the Chaos Emeralds towards the positive end. You know the deal with that - fifty rings, seven emeralds, and you're golden. Literally.

Hyper Sonic involves harmonizing the energy through the Master Emerald instead, before this energy somehow being purified and refined by the user. Hence the white quills that flash the colors of each of the emeralds - purity of energy combined with a resemblance to the energy’s source. This is the part I've thought the least about, but I still feel like this makes some amount of sense, or at least I hope it will.

Fleetway's version of Super Sonic, meanwhile, came about from the raw unharmonized combination of positive and negative energy within the Emeralds, resulting in disharmony, dissonance, discord… chaos, aptly enough, which is exactly what the transformation resulted in.

Drawing from the negative energies, finally, results in Dark Super Sonic. When Dark Sonic appeared, the only real source of negative energy anywhere near Sonic were the fake Chaos Emeralds. Sonic had previously been able to utilize Chaos Energy by using a fake Emerald that was created by Tails in Sonic Adventure 2, which allowed him to Chaos Control himself back onto the Space Colony ARK, but I personally doubt that Sonic would be able to sustain a real Super transformation with fake Emeralds, even if he had as many as he would normally need, especially since there were very obviously more than seven fake Emeralds visible during the scene in which Dark Super Sonic made its singular appearance. I’d probably say that Sonic has some innate positive energy enabled him, one, to utilize the fake Emerald to perform Chaos Control, and two, probably just to be as powerful (and don’t forget fast!) as he is by default.

This explains Sonic's ability to effortlessly use the Chaos Emeralds. With others, it appears to require either extensive training, such as with Tails in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, who was only able to transform once the energies were already harmonized through the Master Emerald, but became able to use only the Chaos Emeralds alone to transform once Mania came around, suggesting Tails’ adventures in the interim allowed him to somehow gradually unlock the understanding of how to harmonize the energy of these gems, or a deep knowledge and understanding of these gems, such as Knuckles after serving as the guardian of the Master Emerald for fifteen years by the time Sonic and his friends arrive.

Not only that, but it also explains positive energy of Sonic explains why the Dark transformation was easy to undo with just some words from Eggman. Unlike the Super transformation, which adds positive energy on top of positive, Sonic's innate positive energy actually hinders his Dark transformation. This is because his positive energy cancels out some of the negative energy, and since, once again, the supply of negative energy from the fake Emeralds is limited, the transformation wasn’t going to last very long if it were left to continue anyways, with how much of it Sonic was using up at once.

TL;DR: Gold rings represent positive energy, red rings represent negative energy, Chaos Emeralds contain chaotic energy that needs harmonization, Super Sonic is a positive harmony transformation, Fleetway's Super Sonic is unharmonized chaos, and Dark Sonic is a negative harmony transformation, hindered by Sonic's innate positive energy when the negative energy is limited.

#headcanons #sonic headcanons #worldbuilding headcanons #worldbuilding #sonic worldbuilding #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sth #sega #sonic x #super sonic #hyper sonic #dark sonic #dark super sonic #fleetway #fleetway sonic #fleetway super sonic #chaos emeralds #super emeralds #sonic 3 & knuckles #prower power sonic hour #sonic physics (real) #sonic energy economy #sonic speculation crash course #hedgecanons

[metallix-mixin]

HYPER

boom, the actual drawing

based off of @mmm-asbestos 's badass Hyper Neo design

I’ll do something crazy with shading tomorrow I was too tired today

#hyper metal sonic #neo metal sonic #super metal sonic #super emeralds #sth #sketch #sketch with color #doodle #myart #sth fanart #metal sonic #my content #sonic

[xxclutch45xx]

This was a piece I did a couple years ago and got signed by Karen Strassman! It's not perfect, but I'm super proud of it! The background is a little meh, but the emeralds look amazing, I'm so happy with them! The idea was "what if we can't find the super emeralds cuz Rouge already stashed them away somewhere??" Not exactly my headcanon, but still fun regardless.

#rouge the bat fanart #sonic the hedgehog #rouge the bat #super emeralds #chaos emeralds #sonic battle #fanart #digital art #my art #clutch45 #casino

[madarashipslicerromancedicer]

Now I want a if Madara was in Sonic

Madara with all the chaos emeralds (or super emeralds), the time stones, the master emerald, the world rings, sol emeralds, and phantom ruby and wisps. And it would work really well in his favor thanks to emeralds being able to change thoughts in power. Sharingan + that crap is wrap to any.

#Madara Uchiha #Chaos Emeralds #Super Emeralds #Master Emerald #World Rings #Sol Emeralds #Phantom Ruby #Wisps #Time Stones #Madara

[drizzl-e]

ok now hyper sonic blblbl

#sonic the hedgehog #super emeralds #hyper sonic

[conceptmobius]

Special Stage Poll

The Prime Era (2022 - present) is excluded for being too recent.

~Ryan

#Sonic the Hedgehog #SEGA #Special Stages #Chaos Emeralds #Super Emeralds #Tumblr polls

[cdgzilla]

Hyper Sonic!

(i love hyper sonic!)

#sonic #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog #sega #sega genesis #hyper sonic #sonic 3 #sonic 3 and knuckles #super emeralds

[sonic7ischaos]

Hyper Sonic should absolutely return.

Look, I understand the concerns about power creep and transformation creep, no one want Sonic to just turn into "a new transformation is the only way to solve any and all narrative problems" Dragonball style. but Hyper Sonic EXISTS. It played the deciding role in the Angel Island prophecy and stopping the Doomsday Zone robot from getting away with the Master Emerald. The power has crept already. The question to ask now isn't whether it should exist or not, but how it should be USED. Personally, I think accessing Angel Island and the Hidden Palace shrine should, lore wise, be the only way to do it, so Sonic would have to collect the Chaos Emeralds, go to Angel Island, go to the Hidden Palace Zone, place the Emeralds on the shrine, do the special stage challenges (because those should come back in the 3D games too) to power up the Emeralds, and have them be transformed temporarily until they run out of "Super Emerald transformation juice", turn back to the normal Chaos Emeralds, and scatter again.

Both in terms of gameplay and lore, it allows everyone else to get their own unique super forms while ensuring Sonic has his own unique, special main character only transformation. Purely on a gameplay level, it also makes Sonic's playthrough last longer, especially if they handle it like 3 & Knuckles did, where you've got to re-collect the Emeralds after a Super Sonic playthrough, or after finding the Hidden Palace Shrine.

I genuinely think it should make a comeback, even for one game, or even just as a gameplay contrivance. It encourages multiple playthroughs and increases replay value with the barest minimum of effort and assets. Literally just some animations, colors, effects, and sounds for Hyper, the work that would go into making the Emerald shrine, maybe a "you can now play as Hyper Sonic" screen, and the special stages, if you even go as far as needing to include them.

It's too cool and serves the gameplay, character, and lore way too well to leave to the wayside out of concern for power creep that's already happened.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic team #sega #hyper sonic #chaos emeralds #super emeralds #sonic 3&knuckles #sonic 3k #super forms #angel island #master emerald #doomsday zone #game design

[one-half-guy]

#Sonic the Hedgehog #hyper sonic #Super sonic #chaos emeralds #super emeralds #Master Emerald

[ohrobro]

if the chaos emeralds turn sonic into super sonic

and the super emeralds turn sonic into hyper sonic

then by that logic, would regular emeralds turn sonic into chaos sonic?? these are the real questions.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic the character #chaos emeralds #super emeralds #super sonic #hyper sonic

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

#archie sonic #amy rose #super emeralds

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

sometimes your blorbos are a group of characters who care about eachother deeply. and sometimes your blorbos are a set of emeralds capable of great feats of power. and who care about eachother deeply. and that's okay

#chaos emeralds #sol emeralds #phantom ruby #warp topaz #super emeralds #idk i just love them

[melanch0ly-gh0st]

Okay this is only for nerds who remember Sonic 3 & Knuckles but what if, if Hyper Sonic somehow ever returned, instead of just being super Sonic but rainbow, it’d be like this gem design where his fur turns into emerald plates and his spikes are all jagged and he looks like a stained glass mural

I might illustrate it later so it makes sense but just marinate in that cause I think the concept is cool, like something different than just a pallet swapped super Sonic

#Sonic #sonic the hedgehog #super sonic the hedgehog #hyper sonic #sonic 3 and knuckles #super emeralds #chaos emeralds #I know it’s a stretch but HEAR ME OUT OK

[therummesoccupied]

What is your hottest of Sonic the Hedgehog hot takes, and why do you believe it?

I think if I really had to pick just one, it's that I really don't like the Super Emeralds/Hyper Sonic.

It's similar to the way I don't like Super Saiyan 3 in DBZ. It feels like pointless escalation for the sake of escalation.

The Chaos Emeralds are supposed to be the Ultimate Power in the universe, and there are just. Better ones???

#sonic the hedgehog #ask box #chaos emeralds #super sonic #super emeralds #hyper sonic

[cosmicguts]

Going SUPER SONIC!

#super sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #art #chaos emeralds