Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-679780-20160714230312

Are you ready to have your mind blown? I just thought of this theory when a friend asked why Sonic's world in games still has regular animals ove rmobians. This theory came to mind:

What if chao are the prehistoric predecessors of the modern mobian?

Chao have the ability to assimilate animals by holding them and inherit physical traits and abilities from them. What if prehistoric chao did this excessivly in the wild to the point that over thousands or millions or years their assimilation was dropped from evolution in favour of keeping the traits excessivly picked up from other animals to keep genetically, thus chao evolving into mobians.

Further evidence to support my theory is Chaos 0 who is regarded as a chao was was super-evolved by the radiation energy of the Chaos Emeralds. Chaos 0 roughly the size and shape of a mobian and has more advance intelligence than that of the average chao.

Modern chao we see in games are perhaps domesticated, sub-species of their ancestors and no longer capable of protecting themselves in the wild unless in very specific environments. Kind of like the ancestors of the domestic dog, no matter how small or yappy they were, are decendants of the savage wolves that still hunt in our forest and lands to this day. 