We don't know what happened to the game cast's parents but my headcanon is that Sonic's parents DIED.
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We don't know who the game cast's parents are (especially Sonic's, since they have yet to make an appearance in the game canon, but NOT as expies of Jules and Bernadette as doing that would get Ken Penders involved)
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Name me Knuckles' ENTIRE lineage (wrong answers are also allowed too!)
Begins on a 20-minute cutscene explaining who Enerjak is
First level involves Knuckles wandering around Angel Island talking to himself, and is set at nighttime with ambience playing and is open-world
90-minute cutscene explaining Knuckles' lineage.
Eggman is killed by Locke when he arrives at the Space Colony Ark
Geoffery St. John & King Max prevent Sonic & Tails from stopping Shadow
Archimedes replaces Omochao
The Dark Legion finds Shadow on Prison Island not Eggman
Plot twist where Locke foresaw the Biolizard
Rouge is established to be from a country of anthrophomoric bats that all look just like her
Another plot twist where Gerald was in cahoots with the Dark Legion & Penders tries to justify why we're supposed to sympathize with Gerald teaming up with them
Enerjak is built up as a big boss fight but is ridiculously easy
Knuckles & Julie-Su romance subplot
The Chaotix are here but don't do anything, Penders forgets Charmy exists halfway through
Terrible stealth levels where you play as Geoffery
Subplot about Tails' long lost brother that has nothing to do with the story
There's a gold Gamma recolor to hint at a major plot twist
Knuckles becomes Chaos Knuckles in the final third of the game
Super Sonic & Super Shadow have trouble defeating the Biolizard but Chaos Knuckles one shots him
Knuckles falls down to earth not Shadow.
Game ends with the reveal that Gerald is alive and will become the main antagonist in the next game which takes place during a timeskip
Changes:
ADVENTURE 1:
- Begins on a 20-minute cutscene explaining who Enerjak is
- First level involves Knuckles wandering around Angel Island talking to himself
- 90 minute cutscene explaining Knuckles' lineage
ADVENTURE 2:
- Geoffery St. John & King Maximillian prevent Sonic & Tails from stopping Shadow
- Terrible stealth levels where you play as Geoffery
- Titan Tails & Chaos Knuckles appear
Add more changes to what would change if this happened.
Have this comic with a deep-cut Archie reference that I bet no one will understand other than @DKCfan10