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Relics from my early days in the Sonic fandom

Part of my Sonic collection, taken using my Nintendo DSi;

I still own most of the merch in the pic. Maybe I'll retake it, with a proper camera this time.

My Sonic themed room, complete with blankets, a pillow case, and various plushies and figurines.

Even had a Sonic-themed birthday party.

My childhood cat with my favorite Shadow plushie. She's long since passed, but I'm glad I have pics like this to remember her by.

Me watching angsty Sonic X AMVs on my ancient Toshiba laptop. Seriously look at that thing, holy shit.

A meme-y sprite edit I submitted to Round 31 of SOAH's LOL Sonic photoshop contest. It somehow got third place.

My SADX Chao. They loved to draw, swim, and wear funny hats.

Various notebook drawings, mostly OCs. I would get yelled at all the time during school for drawing Sonic characters when I should have been working. I also used to ask my classmates for their favorite animals/colors and then make them their very own Sonic-sonas.

More on my Sonic fan characters.

Gold the Hedgehog/Hedgegirl/Angel/Light - My first OC ever. Originally just a gender-swapped recolor of Shadow.

This was made in MS Paint using the fill bucket tool and an official coloring page ripped from Sonic Central. Could you tell?

She would undergo various redesigns and retoolings throughout the years based on whatever media I thought was cool at the time, but her personality remained the same. A rough & tough tomboy who loves the color black and knives. But don't worry, she's not all edgy. She had a LOL SO RANDOM sense of humor, too!

Why is she pink/magenta colored if her name is Gold? Because I liked magenta better.

At one point I became obsessed with the concept of fallen angels after watching Angel Beats and this W.I.T.C.H AMV, so I gave her an angellic form.

I eventually shifted away from her being a Shadow recolor altogether in favor of something completely original. An emo Amy Rose.

Yeah, stick it to those lame-ass recolor Mary Sues!

All jokes aside, I have a lot of fond memories of this character. Even if she wasn't a particularly unique one. She serves as a timepiece of my early adolesence, and a reminder that my love for edgy girls has persisted through the ages.

Godspeed, you funky little hedgehog.

Dark/Darken/Darkening The Demonhog/Prince of Madness - Hell yeah. Another character totally ripped off from anime and common AMV tropes. Darkening in particular was a furry mashup of the characters Ragnarock and Crona from Soul Eater, right down to their backstories.

(That text says maddening. I couldn't write cursive very well with a mouse.)

Those last two images were made using DeviantArt bases which I can no longer find. If you recognize them, feel free to reach out so I can credit them properly.