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Disguises - Chrysalis and Mephiles

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I have not posted anything in over two weeks, which somewhat alarmed me. So last night I woke up in the middle of the night and did some drawing, which got me trying to finish up some of my other projects lying around. Eventually I got to the point where I started procrastinating with what I was doing and ended up doing this randomly instead!

I was browsing around and noticed that among the Sonic art community, MLP art is becoming more prevalent among even Sonic artists; It almost feels mandatory to be into it just as much. I enjoy the show, but I'm not as passionate about it as I am with Sonic. Still, I do enjoy drawing ponies on occassion, I like to tinker with drawing them in my own style as you can see here. Here is a random idea that came to mind, since both Mephiles the Dark and Queen Chrysalis are very similar, especially in regards to taking on a form that isn't their own. So it was fun drawing Princess Cadence and Shadow the Hedgehog, except not really drawing those characters themselves!

I did this in my usual half-assed messy style, since I was feeling a bit impatient with it. I drew it on a very huge canvas, so the original image has a very large resolution, this one here is about 25% the size. But it was fun at least, I used it as an opportunity to experiment with a bunch of colouring styles. This took about 5 hours or so of procrastinating, and ended up just finishing because I gave up. I really should put in more time and effort, and have more patience with my stuff. I still kind of like it, though!
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Remiaro's avatar
Ohhh!

If it's one aspect I would like to see of Chrysalis (or any changeling character), or if Mephiles was to return, is more themes of manipulation and deception than we've already seen in either series. While the whole idea of appearing as someone you're not has been shown in a more literal context in MLP, when Chrysalis is shown as her regular self she looses that manipulative/deceptive side of her personality (Maybe less so in season 6 with the implication that she was denying her subjects individuality but we didn't get to see much of the changeling kingdom under her rule)

I'd certainly like to see it again because in my opinion Mephiles lying and tricking others was probably one of my favourite part of Sonic 06. Juuust maybe with Meph I would make it so that he needs to rely on manipulating others to do certain things/use certain abilities like time travel/reach Elise only because I think one of the weakest plot holes of Sonic 06 was "Why did Mephiles decide to just go through everything he did and manipulate the other characters like that instead of going to any point in time and making Elise cry?"

...But yeah... that's Sonic 06 for you. I think there was genuinely a lot of fantastic concepts in that game and I love to see the takes fans have on them :D