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Bun-Bun|24|♀️|Has a Full Time Job, trying to improve art and maybe do freelance one day on the side|Got Emotional + Social Awareness of a 🪨
#MinnieRoseAU <- Roleswap AU
#ManiaDreamAU <- Main Sonic AU home for mouseboy

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Came up with some new lore for Rachelin's existence so made some art for it! I've also never really drawn Shadow before, at least not like a serious attempt [Buttons on top have purposefully swapped colors]

#ManiaDreamAU #ShadowtheHedgehog #SonicOC #SonicArt #SonicAU #Illustration

Rachelin Rabiun and Shadow the Hedgehog posing with a background referencing Sonic Rush's cover artwork. Done on purpose as Rachelin's bio parents are now from the Sol Dimension, partially making him into Shadow's Sol Dimension counterpart as Shadow doesn't have an official one

September 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM

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Somone gonna let him in? He seems a little... off

#SonicOC #SonicArt #SonicAU #ManiaDreamAU #Illustration

Rachelin staring at you through the peep hole... he seems a bit obessive though

August 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Rachelin forms and outfits!
#ManiaDreamAU #SonicArt #SonicOC #SonicAU #Sketches

All Current Rachelin depictations
[From Left to Right]
His Modern Outfit, His Extreme Gear Outfit, His Classic Outfit, His Chao Form and his Ancient Form. Its called a Powered Form as he and many others around him aren't aware of the ancients yet.

Rachelin will go from animal form to powered up form when his form is messed up for any reason. It's considered his exoskeleton holding the flesh up. If he runs out of chaos, he'll revert to his chao form to recharge the chaos drive placed in the chest area. If his emotions are too wild, he'll also eventually end up as a chao again until he calms down

August 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM

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Photos of young memories, how sweet!
Tekno before the Chaos Incindent, Sticks and Mayrah as children, Aditya moving from high school and the twins as babies! How cute!

...who brought the middle one?

#SonicAU #SonicOC #SonicArt #teknothecanary #sticksthebadger #ManiaDreamAU #Illustration

A Wodden Table holding 1 photo from each of Rachelin's group mates.

1) Tekno the Canary having just woken up, date unknown but assumingly before she met Sticks and Rachelin as she has an older shirt on
2) Sticks the Badger at a young age running in some field
3) Maryah Robotnik as a child, looks about 10 years old
4) Aditya Peacock just as he graduated high school... he looks completely different nowadays huh?
5) Twin panda/red panda hybrid siblings as babies. Probably about 4 months old?
6) The oldest record of Rachelin from some camera footage, he looks sad...

July 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM

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Some Sketches as I'm kept up by loud and flashy fireworks

plus a lil meme cuz I adore the Wide Susie Sprite

#sketches #SonicAU #ManiaDeamAU #MinaMongoose #FionaFox #RobotheHedge #Mari-AnSonic

*Had to fix some tagging and make Mari-An a tag apparently!?

Some Designs for some characters as they could possible occur in the Mania Dream AU:

- Fiona the Fox; Split into twins as the author felt her character betryal was half assed. Both raised the same, poor Spitfire was never loved like her sister due to their parents never expecting her. The two got into a mega fight, Spitfire worked for Eggman for a bit before she was chased out too. Suddenly, she was found by the Sonic of the Anti-verse. Manpulating her and making her hide him, the two were eventually discovered by this Sonic and she dipped. Her poor sister Fiona is devasted. She puts on a cheery smile, but it looks super robotic and forced. She tried to stop her sister before, but was mocked for liking the hero and her own insecurties of always being perfect. Doesn't talk about Spitfire much, but keeps their old photo album hopeful that one day her sister will return

- Mina Mongoose: Mostly kept the same with some color shifting. Never noticed she had feet that looked like Bunny's, implying she had robotized feets (and possibly wirsts?). Wanted to bring that back to her as it's weird that it was removed anyways. Kept the Purples to her hair and made her greens the main accent since I wanted to keep the punk look

- Mari-An: No full shot and yeeting that final 2 letters, we are not keeping that can of worms in this AU. She has a fur color similar to Tikal's implying they may be at least related in some way. She is still married to Robo', but her appearnce is often kept a secret due hostitly towards echindas in this AU

- Robo' the Hedge: That last name is so fucking lame, yeeted. Just Robo' (misplet like a dumbass). Now has Amy's pink to link her to him since in the original he's just turquoise for some reason (would work if there was other family members present but it's just him and the king..... who doesn't look much better)

Also Meme Francie

July 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM

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Another redraw study, this time the infamous Aunt Sally vs Fiona scene. This time it features my version of the cast from my #MainaDreamAU, practicing some more coloring after realizing the poses are weird af in panel 2 plus some word bubble stuff

#Practice #DigitalArt #SonicAU #Study

Original Panels from Sonic Universe #15, Page 8

Redraw version of those panels made with the designs of the author's main AU

June 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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Just doing some style practice. Redrew a pose from Soul Eater and while she looks a little wunky, I just decided to focus on color instead :3

....maybe I should be drawing boxes... but translating 3D to 2D is so weird to me!!

#Practice #DigitalArt #Sketch

Artist attempts a sketch of a pose from Soul Eater's Maka Albarn from Episode 1 of the anime

June 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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--CONTENT WARING: LGBTQ Topics--
*Transphobes piss off 😘*

A little late cuz I've been working extra hard for that collection box money, but here's a pride celebration picture featuring the family trio!

#ManiaDreamAU #SonicArt #Pride #PrideMonth #SonicAU

A Render sketch featuring Maryah R, Aditya the Peacock and Rachelin Rabiun; holding or wearing their respective flag for their spot in the LGBTQ+ Community

Maryah is Asexual, not having any interest in sex or even most romance. She is dating Aditya at his request. She feels it's a way to say thank you to him for sticking by her side and believing in her for all their years togther. They're also eloped at Aditya's request, but can't get a proper marriage certifcate

Aditya is Transgender, Female to Male. He's into humans, but it's mostly towards Maryah. He's tried to move on, but always finds his way back to her. He jokingly asked Maryah to date and then marry him, not ever expecting her to take it seriously. He loves wearing the engagement ring Maryah got him and while Maryah can't wear her's on her hand, Aditya got it attached to a steel neckless so that she can have it at all times. He adores Maryah and is proud of his journey

Rachelin is intersex, he has no proper gential... at all. His lack of knowledge outside the concept has made him disregard the organs entirely during reconstructions of his body. This has caused his body to present for feminine naturally aside from him 'fixing' his eyebrows to look like other males. His hormones are also completely fucked, but that hasn't been found yet

June 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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References have also been updated to show this,
Slimed him down a bit as he's supposed to look fair more skinnier than even the main cast, almost unhealthy... if the dingus had proper bones

Reshot of the Family Lineup with Rachelin's new outfit

Updated Rachelin Reference showing his new outfit and fixed properations

June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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Have y'all noticed that I just seemingly hate whatever Rachelin is in? I keep changing that top of his constantly, and it's basically he's unbalanced color wise and honestly, looks too plain...

Maybe this one will last?

#ManiaDreamAU #Concept

Each Rachelin here is depicted is one of his previous outfits since his first drawing in his current appearance with his current color palette (yeah, there's more designs that are trashed). All have shared a similar tank top/crop top-ish design that the creator seemingly hates because of how many times she changes it

In an attempt to achieve balance in her color choices of Rachelin, she has finally yeeted the top in favor of some neck clothing instead, now pulling the intentionally Shadow parallels into the light. His gloves also have a line of blue that was seen in previous designs. The tail has changed once more showing that while Rachelin has some development, some things are still incorrect. The color seperation is divded by a bright red ribbon that not only ties him to Maryah's pieces, but Amy Rose since in this AU, the two meet before the events of Sonic Adventure and that's why Amy swaps her ribbon for a headband. His shoes have also been altered once more, now adding this shield around his toes, but also adding more white into the design.

The main point is his top article is now this robe like object. This is meant to allude to his magical like character since his abilities are more mage like with healing and crystal control being a part of his skill sets. He wears a giant cape like object that could remaind one of the Black Mages from Final Fantasy. They sport two points at their ends in the back as a reference to Rachelin once having back spines.

June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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Need some more Sally in my life and AU!
[Also. major headcanon for this AU: The Legend of King Author is actually the Acorn family history, Sonic had actually traveled back in time and Caliburn remembers Sonic]

#ManiaDreamAU #SallyAcorn #SonicArt #SonicAU #Myart

Age 13 Sally Acorn: Sporting some of her Archie Reboot, but decided to kind of simplife it as her little jumpsuit idea is adorable alone

Age 17 Sally Acorn: Jacket is back, but now is this yoga pant + tank top combo instead of the crop top and shorts Archie did. Wanted to show my take on chipmunks in my AU, having stripes on their legs and arms that run in the back. Boots stay almost identical, but have a clasp

'Super' Sally: Now Sally will wield Excalibur! Once she is deemed worthy and passes the mage's tests, Caliburn unlocks his true powers once more and the two take down foes. In this AU, Magic is a force that's exists without the Chaos Emeralds and came from the planet. This magic is similar to a true super form, but it doesn't need rings to hold. It does still relay on the user's stamina and wield power as the darkness of magic is still infused with the sword, something that can come out violently if not controlled. User's also gain a halo of light that can gague their emotional state (and for drama)

Age 24+ Queen Sally Acorn: She has rebuilt the remains of Camerlot into a nation known as Emerald, coined by her late husband. Her current home is also named Emerald Capital with other big cities in the region being named after varies jewels. She acts as a queen, but sees herself more as a president. Caliburn refuses to drop it. She's also gone blind in one eye after recovering from the Phantom Metal Incident and while her brother-in-law has offered to restore it, she refuses and sees it as a mark of the past that needs to be remembered

'Super' Sally Ver B: Alt version of Super Sally when she becomes queen. Losing the skirt bits and going for more speed over flair. Caliburn is still miffed at her decsions about the attire cuz he had a much more grand ideal outfit for her

June 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM

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Back Again!!

4 more added to the lineup now with outfits from Shinobi and Sakura Wars!

#MinnieRoseAU #SonicAU #MyArt #AmyRose

Steampunk Minnie: Direct inspo from Sakura War's Main [and most well known] female lead; Sakura Shinguji. Colors have been swapped out for more steampunk-ish colors with Minnie keeping her greens and hammer

Ninja Minnie: Direct reference to Aghea from Shinobi. Colors have been swapped to Minnie's and a train added to the back to avoid some unsavory imagery

Lumionisty Minnie: One of the few originals that just modifies her original costume. Her greens have been shifted to more blues

Phantom Minnie: Based on a fusion between the OG Phantom Rider suit and Paladin Amy Rose with colors swapped out

May 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM

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Family Lineup!
*Things look a bit funky as Maryah was shrunk down to match the picture size of Rachelin's, but Rachelin was scaled up to fill the page. Aditya is true to size

NOTES:

- Rachelin is smaller than Tails, but taller than Cream
- Aditya barely reaches Sonic's Nose
- Maryah is a good head shorter than Eggman, but about as tall as the average adult male human

May 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM

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!HEADS UP!:
Content: TransMan
[This is honestly here so I don't get Transphobes complaining]

Can't have Maryah and Rachelin without their Aditya!!

#ManiaDreamAU #SonicAU #Sonicfancharacter #CharacterReferenceSheet #CharacterSheet

Aditya the Peacock
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Age: 30

Colors:
- Pale Purple [Beak *oops*/Chest]
- Offset White [All Whites]
- Ballet Slipper Pink [Fur]
- Lolipop Purple [Clothes/Eyes/Inner Ocelli]
- Lemon Yellow [Hair Tie/Ocelli/Crest]
- Denim Blue [Shorts/Gloves/Socks]
- Cantaloupe Orange [Feathers]

* A braecelet with a G.U.N ID badge given by Maryah. Allows for some access to certain G.U.N Spaces like the Station Sqaure Riot Locker Rooms

* Fur, Tail and Crest Colors are all Dyes as a part of his transition. Aditya is a transman and chose these colors based on his favorite [Pink], Maryah's [Yellow] and the fur color of his late father [Orange]. His beak/chest couldn't be changed due to it being skin like. He has a heart shape on his chest that is part of his chest scars and a tattoo given to him by his older brother as a present for his surgery going well
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Aditya has had a lot of clothing choices, though his idenity and colors have been a constant. Originally making him eastern, I've chosen to finally just make him urban-ish as culture idenity is not a topic I'm not at all versed in [Author's own family culture is about white as bread just placed in a heated toaster]

May 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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She's Back!!!!!
A better stylized Maryah and her super form!

#ManiaDreamAU #SonicAU #Sonicfancharacter #CharacterReferenceSheet #CharacterSheet

Maryah R[][][][][][]
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Age: 31

Colors:
- Warm Ivory [Skin]
- Offwhite [Scarlas and Shirt]
- Scarlet Red [Details]
- Olympic Blue [G.U.N Utlity Belt]
- Lemon Yellow [Hair Strand]
- Raisin Black [Shorts, Shoes]
- Russet Brown [Hair]

* Collection of Scrunchies, all related to some color she has assoication with or uses on the daily. There is a purple one for Rachelin and a Pink one hiding somewhere

*Has a G.U.N Utility belt as she is now a Riot Officer for G.U.N. She's recently been promoted to Sergeant due to her efforts during the Chaos Incindent. It comes with a retractable baton that is charged with electrcity, bear spray and pepper spray, and a bag of Rachelin Crystals
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Maryah's design has been given many details to make her look more anime and main character-ish. Her little hair strand now connects to the bun in the back of her hair
The back brace is a bit more visable, this is to reinforce her stance cuz she's had bad posture for a majority of her life. It is directly implanted in her spin, so it has a hole into her body which is the reason she'll have chaos tenticals coming out her in her super form.
She's been made the average height of an adult male human. She still has some muscle but are hidden a bit to comply with the art style and shock the people when she transforms

Super Maryah
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Colors:
- Warm Ivory [Skin]
- Offwhite [Scarlas and Shirt]
- Orchid Purple [Chaos Hair and Details]
- Sky Blue [Skirt and Pure Chaos]
- Lemon Yellow [Hair Strand]
- Raisin Black [Shorts, Shoes]

* Skirt comes with a built in belt that holds Rachelin Crystals that dangle for aesthics

* Riot Gaunlets that have been magical girl-ifed that is infused with more Chaos and Rachelin Crystals. Makes good shields and powerful brass knuckles

* A Rachelin Crystal is inbedded into her hair tie so that the wild chaos goes towards it. It infuses with her scrunchie, but the tenticals become solidifed. Can be controlled with the Crystal. For art reasons, the colors all fuse together instead of keeping the original scrunchie color

* Her Super form is similar to a magical girl transformation. Maryah has a secret interest in the genre due to her own struggles growing up. This leads to her powers making her look more like this idealized version of herself. At first, it was a bit odd, but she easily got used to it because she's able to move much faster. She's also a bit taller now due to the boots

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Her Super form has been update a bit, now her leg guards look like proper equipment. Her top and gloves were kept the same. Her hair was changed a bit to make her look more wild, including loose strands and her yellow hair now peaking through a bit more. The Chaos Tenticals now come clearly from her spine due to the implant and a power source was added to her scrunchie to give reason as to why the chaos goes to her hairtie

May 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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opps, forgot Rachelin Color Chart

Iris Purple: Horn Tips
Lemon Yellow: Accents
Dark Purple Grey: Main Color

May 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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Made a new reference sheet for Rachelin and his chao form! #ManiaDreamAU #SonicAU #Sonicfancharacter #CharacterReferenceSheet #CharacterSheet

Find out all change details in alts!

Rachelin the Chao
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* Made in the G.U.N Labs, his birthplace is the Station Square Gardens [20 Years Ago]
Stats [Archieved 13 years ago from present]:

* Swim; Lv 2-; 05-- Points
* Fly; Lv 2-; 03-- Points
* Run; Lv 2-; 03-- Points
* Power; Lv 2-; 08-- Points
*Stamina; Lv 04; 00-- Points

[Stats still imply neglect before he met his fusion]

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Chao Design has been overhauled as his previous sketch was a quick idea, not fully formed. He resambles a dark chao, but is slowly turning into a dark chaos chao. His yellows are not like the other natural chao, giving clues to his origins. He has the head of a power chao, giving clues to what his best stats are, but his eyes are either sleepy or disinterested. He is deform as well, missing wings, his tail being way too small for his age group, and despite not evolving yet, he already has horns.

Rachelin Rabiun
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Age: 13

Colors:
- Purple-ish OffWhite [Fur]
- Offwhite [Scarlas, design choice not actual feature]
- Tanned Almond/Biege [Skin tonesa]
- Midnight Blue [Gloves, Collar and inner Shoe]
- Baby Blue [Shirt, Outer Shoe and Eyes]
- Lilac Purple [Freckles, Nose, Tails, Buttons]
- Lemon Yellow [Using Powers]

* Eyes will change from blue to yellow when using powers, when fully using powers eyes will actually resamble that of a Dark Chao. With his ability to sync with others via blood, he can mimic traits at will and his eyes will reflect the other party's, plus his yellow hue.
-LIMIT: He can't mimic traits when fully using his powers as mimic
requries his thoughts, something he doesn't have a lot of when at
full strength

* Inside of Mouth is blue with large fangs

* He has Inhabitor rings that resamble medical bands, an upgrade from Shadow's more obsecure rings. Holds medical information at the press of a button, beeps when chaos levels are too high and has a needle at the ready for blood transfusions

*Boots now come equip with a botton on the side to activate extreme gear now loaded inside. Simply reveals air pods underneath his heels

* Is Shorter than Tails, but Taller than Cream

* Tail can emote when Rachelin emotes

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Rachelin's design has been slightly altered, mainly his head shape. He now resambles his chao self. In universe, his ears are odd to outsiders as normal mice have rounded ears, not pointed tips. His shirt has been altered to give him a floaty feel to his poses. Buttons were added to this shirt to complete this set he has going on (two buttons on both wrists, two buttons on his shoes, freckles on his muzzle)

May 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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Getting my butt kicked at work, but finally got some energy to make some sketches!

Took some heavy inspo from @piinkrose.bsky.social's verion of Movie Amy's shoes since in the movie, her shoes are never actually shown in detail!

#MinnieRoseAU #SonicAU #Myart #AmyRose

Birthday Minnie Rose: Based on a mix between some Sonic Channel Artwork of Amy in a casual outfit and her ballgown dress from Sonic X season 3

Detective Minnie Rose: Replacing the Stealth Suit skin, takes inspirtation from Breezie's Archie depication plus her outfits from Sonic X and her boom apperance

Racer Minnie Rose: Based on 2022 Racer Miku with some alterations based on Minnie's colors

May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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The boy trio is here from the #MinnieRoseAU!

[New on the Left, Old on the Right!]

#Sonicthehedgehog #Sonicart #SonicAU #Knucklestheechidna #milestailsprower #myart

2025 version of Team Wind: Nikki Longclaw, Tails Prower and Knuckles the Echidna

May 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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The best treasure hunter in the #MinnieRoseAU! Part Time enforcer for A.R.O.W's Physical Force Division, Knuckles loves to explore ancient ruins and visit Vector's local cafe on his off days

#Knucklestheechidna #SonicAU #Sonicart #myart

Knuckles the Echidna, treasure hunter and part time A.R.O.W worker. He stands taller than most of the group and often comes off as cold. He cares for Sonic and Tails deeply, feelings born from his life of early child independance. He works hard everyday, and is even in contact with Longclaw to make sure Sonic is kept in the loop. Girls flock to him like fish to bait, but he seems to be werided out by women...

May 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM

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Bonus: Sonic's current mood

Somebody is not happy to know this many people

May 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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Rizz her up you two! I've got an angry hedgehog banging on my closet door!

Note: This is not part of the ManiaDream AU, This is Game Rachelin, menace who's here to hype up Amy and make Sonic realize his feelings. Surge is here to fuck around

#AmyRose #SurgetheTenrec #SonicOC #Myart #SonicArt

Surge the Tenrec and Rachelin have teamed up in Operation: Jealousy! Show the pink heroine a good time and make Sonic realize his feelings for her! Give themselves a little taste too, maybe steal her? Their motives are pretty grey, especially with how much effort Surge is putting into this, but whatever pisses off Sonic the most.

And then poor Amy has no idea what to think about this. It seems ridiclous in theory, but they seem so confindent about it...

May 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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First 6 hour session in a while, felt good till my right pointer went numb lol

Fun Fact: I have a fascination for any of Sonic's possible 'love' interest(s) rizzing Amy or stealing her, I think it's the funniest shit (Rachelin doesn't count lol)
#Surgethetenrec #AmyRose #SonicArt #MyArt #SonicOC