"What do you get when the world of a certain blue hedgehog and the world of (mostly) magical characters combine? Join Sonic and friends as they vanquish the nefarious Dr. Eggman's efforts to build his world empire while dealing with a few Puyo battles along the way!"
- Series summary on Archive of Our Own
A Hedgehog of Many Colors is an ongoing Sonic the Hedgehog and Puyo Puyo Crossover series posted on Archive of Our Own by FubukiVolt under the aliases PuyoVolt and SonicVolt taking place in a world where both ''Sonic'' and ''Puyo Puyo'' characters live together.
The series has a timeline
and a separate series of one-shots taking place within the universe.
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List of Stories
Beware of unmarked spoilers.
This series provides examples of:
- Adaptation Expansion: The stories in the series do not shy away from detailing the more major events of the games adapted, also providing information on the characters and their personal lives.
- Adaptation Deviation: In Unleashing of a Dark Night, Sonic's first transformation into the Werehog doesn't occur when it is supposed to when Sonic refuses to fall for Eggman's trick to awaken Dark Gaia, but he's still depowered from his Super form through other means, and in the end, Eggman uses the Chaos Emeralds for Dark Gaia's awakening regardless.
- Speaking of Sonic's first transformation into the Werehog, it instead happens because Tomo bit him to save him after he was attacked by a Dark Gaia spawn.
- Adaptation Species Change: All of the characters from the Puyo Puyo universe are made into different species of Mobians. Tomo, one of the author's Original Characters, who is normally a Puyo (a wolf/shark/hedgehog Puyo, in fact)-human hybrid in the Puyo Puyo universe she was originally made for, is instead a Werewolf/shark/hedgehog mix, while Hana, another OC who is normally Tomo's sister when it comes to their Puyo Puyo universe counterparts, is made into an unrelated Chao (really a Chao/Nightmare hybrid, as revealed in Chapter 4 of Unleashing of a Dark Night) Tomo has taken care of since she hatched and are great friends.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Despite her true form actually not being a full-blooded Chao, instead being that of a large Dark Gaia spawn/Chao hybrid, Hana chooses to be in Chao form as she grew up in that form.
- Affectionate Nickname: Tomo tends to call Roquier "Roki".
- Big Eater: Tomo, as established in Chapter 7 of Unleashing of a Dark Night with a mention of how everything she eats will immediately be used as fuel for her pyrokinetic and electrokinetic energies, and Chapter 42 establishes that she has to keep eating, or else the aforementioned energies will overwhelm her body and she will go out of control.
- Bold Inflation: Mainly used for when Tomo's angry or in her Were form (the former case may also be italicized), but also when a character is outright screaming as loud as they can (also being italicized as well), but otherwise used for emphasis.
- Canon Welding: The continents are given their names from the Archie comics, and Mobius is the setting for the series as a whole.
- Cast from Calories: Tomo's abilities (not the elastic arms, that's a WereMobian thing) are the reason she constantly has to eat.
- Child of Two Worlds: Hana is part Chao, part Dark Gaia spawn.
- Tomo is also part Mobian and part WereMobian.
- Enemy Without: Metal Sonic and Neo Metal Sonic are now two separate individuals in this series, with them being split in the series' interpretation of Sonic Heroes, as detailed in the timeline.
- Furry Reminder: Every once in a while, a story will mention a certain animal-like behavior, just to clarify that Mobians (and WereMobians) are not much different than their non-anthropomorphized counterparts (i.e. Tomo and Sonic's ears twitching when hearing other WereMobians (read: Werewolves) howling, Tomo's tail wagging, etc.).
- Growing Muscles Sequence: Almost every transformation by Tomo into her Rage Form involves this trope. Or every transformation into any of her larger forms.
- Hulking Out: The Werewolves' Rage Form, only acquired through copious amounts of anger. Tomo going into Rage Form involves muscle growth to a behemoth double her original size when she gets angry enough. As of Chapter 43 of Unleashing of a Dark Night, however, she gains a new form double that size in height. The author's note at the end of that chapter reveals that there's an even larger form double the size of that form that would come later, which made its debut in Chapter 80 as a result of the Gaia Eclipse. Hana's transformation into her Dreaded Nightmare form also counts as this trope. Especially the first time she goes into this form when Zero and Eight try to capture her.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Tomo's fire and electrical energies are so strong that anything (and everything) she eats will be converted into energy to counteract the negative effects that may result from said strong energies, down to the very last calorie, leading to her having to eat very large quantities at once, as briefly mentioned in Chapter 7 of Unleashing of a Dark Night.
- Killed Off for Real:
- Emerl dies for real in the series' version of Sonic Battle, as detailed in the timeline, with Eggman erasing his data to prevent him from returning. Gemerl still exists, but he is a completely different individual than canon.
- Living Emotional Crutch: It's heavily implied several times that Hana is this to Tomo, with the former being referred to as the only friend she's ever really had. From Unleashing of a Dark Night:Spending time with the others was pretty hard without having Hana with her. She'd left her alone before. She'd been fine on her own all those times, but this was different. The world was in danger, and now she had to be forced to be separated from her only true friend. note"Battery...? Are you saying you want to take my only real best friend for the Dark Gaia Energy in her?" note"You're going to take Hana, my life-long partner, away from me just to use her for your experiment? I'm not letting it happen." note
- Lost Food Grievance: Tomo is known to go through quite the food withdrawals if she hasn't eaten some of a specific food for a while, starting with denial that it's gone, and then it gets worse as time goes on. Something Hana knows all too well.
- Megaton Punch: Hana is very much able to pull one of these off.
- Mix And Match Creature: Any Mobian that is a hybrid or chimera, and Tomo (shark/wolf/hedgehog).
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Hana, as are many other Chao, is capable of superstrength, even able to withstand the weight of Tomo's arm while the latter is in Rage Form.
- Myth Arc: In Unleashing of a Dark Night, saving the world from Dark Gaia while also uncovering the secrets of the WereMobians.
- Never Say "Die": Averted. Characters mention death, characters are threatened with death, and, in Unleashing of a Dark Night, the humans-turned-Dark Gaia spawn wish for death.
- Oh, My Gods!: Many characters swear by Chaos.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Expect Hana to have this kind of reaction when something that happened in the past (either in the story or before it, in which it would be mentioned) happens once more.
- Original Character: Tomo, Hana, and Vale. The author has made art for the two and their original Puyo universe counterparts, and has specified in the tags that they are OCs as well.
- Original Flavour: The series is a combination of the action of the Sonic franchise and the humor of the Puyo Puyo series, with each element getting their own special focus in some parts.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: WereMobians are a thing in the AU the story takes place in. There are two different classifications, the Demi-WereMobian (Only transforms at night, like the typical lycanthrope) and True WereMobian (Can transform at any time of day, yet have to be transformed at night), which share the trait of stretchy arms, with other traits depending on the species of Mobian they are. Tomo is half True WereMobian (Referred to in-story as a "True Were"). They turn others into Weres by biting them, by which the affected will permanently become a Demi-Were. They also once worked alongside Dark Gaia.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Werewolves have three forms compared to two for other kinds of WereMobians: a daytime form, the standard Were form (their nighttime form), and the Rage Form, only awakened once angered to a certain extent. Being part Werewolf, Tomo has this capability, but since she is only half True Were, she lacks the standard Were form. Well, she was supposed to, if not for Dark Gaia…
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Tomo is not someone you'd want to piss off. Especially with larger forms that she's able to achieve at such rage levels...
