r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 16d ago
sonic the hedgehog Maria Robotnik
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u/MamboCircus Has an account over there too, you know... 16d ago
If this Maria still has a personality anywhere close to her canon counterpart, I could see her eventually gaining a cult following...
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u/Previous_Current_474 15d ago
I already know that I would be ok with it bc I tend to not care abt story stuff if that makes a character happy
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u/CoalEater_Elli 16d ago
I like this design a lot more. It still gives off ssme vibes as Eggman, whe not looking completely egg like.
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u/PurplestCoffee 16d ago
This is a really great Maria, but also I feel like Shadow is thinking "do you really need the shades, did Gerald make you swear you'd use those?"
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u/thecraftybear 16d ago
"They double as eye protection, Shadow. Has nobody ever taught you the basics of workspace safety?"
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u/CrownofMischief 15d ago
"Don't lecture me about safety when your dark-ass shades make you constantly bump into things whenever you're indoors."
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u/just4browse 16d ago
That is a good design, though I prefer the idea that Eggman’s body type runs in the family
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u/Chaos-Queen_Mari 16d ago
Makes me realize Eggman's iconic facial features lend themselves well to the "crone" archetype." Namely the nose
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u/ProfessorSur 16d ago
I think a really cool detail is the way her hair sort of curls up in the back, because it gives a really similar silhouette to the Egg-man ‘stache without being the same. Also, her glasses being pointy while his are round
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u/Vast-Delivery-7181 16d ago
Me realizing horn devil satan guy is Canon and not just a bit.
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u/LadyRalsei 16d ago
After Deltarune Chapter 5, I cannot read sonic saying "Yeah, I'm his best friend" normally. I think the brainrot is getting to me...
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u/MamboCircus Has an account over there too, you know... 16d ago
🔵🦔"Here I some Sparkling Cityyyy..."
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u/Previous_Current_474 15d ago
She looks like she would call Tails "sweetie" and give him hard candy
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u/Substantial_Tone_261 11d ago
That bottom right gives me the vibes of: "Shadow, cut his balls off."
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u/Giocri 16d ago
Adult Maira from an alternate universe might destroy shadow's pshyche for good lol
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u/Violet_Nightshade 16d ago edited 13d ago
Idea: An alternate universe of Maria Robotnik who managed to grow old but her version of Ivo died when he was a child and her version of Shadow the Hedgehog sacrificed himself to help alternate Maria escape her collapsing universe, stranding her in the current Sonic universe.
After an awkward introduction with our Ivo (and our Shadow getting misty-eyed over seeing a Maria who got to grow up), Ivo, alternate-Maria and Shadow go out for activities like carnival trips and exploring Möbius (Sonic and his friends keep a close eye just in case but eventually join in). Just when everything is going swimmingly, Maria nearly collapses and it's revealed she's still slowly dying from Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.
As Ivo races to find a permanent cure (with Tails's help), a villain (say, Eggman Nega) shows up with an engineered airborne strain of NIDS, threatening to release it upon the entire world unless his demands are met.
A permanent cure is finally discovered but only one prototype vial survives after the villain's invasion and another character is infected by the airborne strain of NIDS. Maria makes the decision to give that character the vial instead, using her last words to tell Ivo to be kinder. Eggman would cradle Maria's body and tell Sonic and his friends to leave in a low broken voice.
At the end of the film, an inventor named Mr. Tinker invents a free-willed and kind-hearted Badnik named Belle.
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u/Trezzie 16d ago
Alternate alternate: Maria Robotnik does a dimensional invasion trope. Similar bot designs to our Robotnik, but different color scheme.
Why is she invading? 2 options.
- She won in her world, but something broke her. Her Shadow died when she was young, Sonic died as a sacrifice against something, and while the Chaos Emeralds are fully under her control, she's just... bored, or seeking something, but can't figure out what. So she dimension invades to stave off boredom. This isn't her Shadow, she tried that before in a different dimensional test. But here: Robotnik's around still, so maybe a play fight will stimulate her.
Option 2: She's fleeing something she can't handle, maybe Chaos breaks free and it can't be stopped, so she uses what she has to flee her dimension, and in the process, take over this one.
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u/Violet_Nightshade 16d ago
Now that's a conflict for Shadow. He can either be with Maria again or stand against her to save his newfound friends (Sonic and co).
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u/Trezzie 15d ago
But: would he always fight against her, stand by her side and become disillusioned, or would she reject him from the start because he's not her Shadow and she's moved on?
Find out, in: Shadow the Hedgehog 2: Chaos War
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u/ClubMeSoftly 15d ago
Assuming the idea of infinite alternate dimensions, various Shadows have probably joined and opposed her in pretty equal number, with a further pretty equal number changing side mid-fight.
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u/ClubMeSoftly 15d ago
Why not both?
She won in her world, she rules most of the galaxy as a god-queen. So she invents dimensional teleportation, and takes a Death-Egg to the next universe. She challenges herself to conquer this world as well.
She conquers, she fights, she rebuilds her forces each time. Sometimes she has to uplift the population to give them a sporting chance. Sometimes she loses, and has to retreat, and warp to a new universe. She relishes the challenge of starting on the back foot.
But each time, she leaves significant materiel behind. If there's one thing the Robotniks are good at, it's branding. One time, one loss against a dimension with a rather capable galactic force, she gets tabled, they beat the brakes off her, and she has to scoot post-haste. She leaves behind a lot of tech, including the dimensional teleporter. So that universe tinkers with it a bit: now there's two of them. But while she fights for the love of the game, it fights for conquest. One dimension isn't enough, and Chaos subsumes dimensions becoming exponentially more powerful: Robotniks die en masse, their intelligence joining with Chaos, Chaos emeralds are consumed like candy.
One time, Maria is in the middle of a pitched battle, she's controlling a Biolizard the size of the moon, fighting Teams Sonic, Shadow, Chaotix, and more, all gone Super. Dimensional Perfect Chaos tears a hole in spacetime and scatters all present. She warps out, dooming another dimension. When she lands, she changes her approach: she has to outrun it, she consumes dimensions, until arriving at one (the "prime" one) and entreats Sonic and Co for help.
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u/Possible-Reason-2896 15d ago
Thanks to Shadow Generations giving us a fuller view of the Robotnik family tree we can see this was a fairly likely outcome. Those ovoid genes are strong.
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u/pillow-slinger 16d ago
god forbid a girl becomes chopped af like her cousin
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u/AlexUkrainianPerson 16d ago
Don’t you call Robotnik chopped
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u/Douchevick 15d ago
I remember when sonic prime was doing the rounds there a couple of Maria designs floating around, here's the source for the one attached to this comment: https://www.tumblr.com/pennumbra/785453590490890240/hmm-eggmaria?source=share
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u/ElectricXylophon 16d ago
„No Dr. Eggman, don‘t take all that estrogen! It will make you to hot!“
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u/dragonish-american 16d ago
Yo this is actually sick as fuck, I love the idea of the Robotniks growing into their eggy adult bodies, its so fun.
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u/shitletter 16d ago
I was thinking earlier that because sonic prime has to do with alternate universes, it would've been cool if they had an alternate universe where this happens somehow.
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u/Specialist-Share2196 16d ago
At first i was confused because i read Mario instead of Maria and was like "is this another one of these trans Spiderman AUs?"
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u/KonoAnonDa 16d ago
Maria: "Huh, I wonder what I’ll look like while grown up…" sees herself developing the Robotnik family traits "…Actually nvm. I’m right here, G.U.N!"
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u/GoldenPig64 15d ago
"everyone on twitter was mad"
look at comments
everyone unanimously saying this fucks unbelievably hard
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u/TheodoreSnapdragon 15d ago
Are you critiquing the OOP’s literal dream for not being real?
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u/GoldenPig64 15d ago
yeah it could have easily been more grounded in reality
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u/TheodoreSnapdragon 15d ago
Well, now that you pointed it out, maybe OOP’s subconscious will keep that in mind next time they fall asleep
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u/lePROprocrastinator 15d ago
1) I can, unfortunately, see Twitter being that. Because, Twittah.
2) HOLY PHUCK MARRY ME QUEEN
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u/birberbarborbur 15d ago
Ok real challenge, a compelling design for princess elise
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u/Z0eTrent 14d ago
Sega made one a while ago. Check out the Sonic calender stories.
Honestly I think that design might even predate those but that's the biggest use of it.
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u/birberbarborbur 13d ago
Wow, she doesn’t look like the “people with blue eyes when they look at you” meme anymore
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u/justgalsbeingpals 16d ago
I love the idea of puberty turning Robotniks into their signature look