Trivia / Sonic: Into, Across and Beyond!

• Approval of God:
  • In a repost on Tumblr, sstorminghearts / emistations, the designer of the Black Knight Amy AU concept, praised the inclusion of her What If? idea in Into, Across and Beyond!.
  • The original creator of Milly also approved of her Original Character's inclusion in the project and the story written up for her, with her hopes for the Love Triangle to end with her marrying Lord X.
  • In a comment on the post showing The X appearing in the IAB! Shared Universe, LemonDew / That_Frog_Robo saw and approved of their character's appearance in the project, and mentioned they were flattered when they learned about it from a friend.
• Creator's Pest: MCStudio, one of the project's co-writers, dislikes Lost Memory Sonic, due to his behaviour and portrayal in IAB! making him feel like a full-on edgelord, even more so than Shadow is usually portrayed.
  "Everything about LM is just making me scream "UGH THE EDGE" all over :')"
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: The appearance of Lord Mortis from Sonic II Special in one of the Quill Society mockups was suggested by NightAkio, whose own Original Character makes an appearance.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • For "Canon Aversion Attempts", Nitro's mention of a jam and cream donut is attributed to Pico himself having had one at the time of writing the post.
  • The cameo appearances made by Red are due to Sega acquiring Rovio and their IPs.
• Referenced by...: One of the posts for Funkinverse, "I Had a Vision", features one of Pico DS's sprites of The X briefly amongst the featured artwork.
• What Could Have Been: In the post talking about the SEGANet, small tidbits were dropped as to choices that would've been made for Into, Across and Beyond!.
  • The Spider-Ham role was originally going to be for a Sonic based around all three of the classic Sonic cartoons, though the role was ultimately handed over to Mr. Needlemouse via a suggestion by his creator. The Underground version of Sonic was instead moved to being a member of the Quill Society due to this.
  • SatAM Robotnik and Mammoth Mogul were both considered for Kingpin's spot, though both were ultimately turned down, for reasons explained below. Eggman Nega was ultimately decided upon for the role.
    • SatAM Robotnik was ultimately turned down due to Snively, his ex-henchman, already representing that cartoon.
    • Mammoth Mogul was rejected for the role, since he already takes Kingpin's place in the Mobiverse continuity.
  • Wacky almost lost her position in the project outright due to allegations going on around danicorelove at the time, though once this was resolved, she could stay in the cast.
  • Before ultimately receiving the name "Bently Forceloyed", the alternate version of Benjamin in the New Identity, New Life sub-story was to be dubbed "Bentonly Riley".
  • The Gust Planet billboard mocking Sonic Omens was planned to take a jab at the Squick Maria's model in the game was revealed to have. It was swapped for the idea of "fighting an orphan" due to being a bit too on the nose.
  • The alternate Friday Night Funkin' universe was originally intended to be standalone before the full release of Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness, before being repurposed as a Continuity Reboot that takes place after that mod's events.
  • For the D-Sides universe, its counterpart of Sonic was originally intended to take the position, though this was swapped to Mighty in the end.
• Word of Gay: Through this post, the LGBT headcanons for various characters were revealed:
  • OMT!Tails is a transgender boy.
  • EV!Sonic is polyamory.
  • Nitro is polyamory and bisexual.
  • Black Knight Amy, Benjamin and Pico are bisexual.
  • Trip and Superstars Amy are asexual and biromantic.
  • Nine is aromantic.
  • Amy Rouge and Lucia are demisexual.
  • Fleetway Amy is lesbian.
  • Barry, as per The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, is non-binary.
  • Grace, Bently, Amelia and Devy are four of the more prominent straight allies.
  • Nicky is abrosexual.
  • Somari is gay/homosexual.
  • Carol, Lilac, Evo and Wade are all pansexual.
  • OMT!Mina is intersex.
• Word of God: As mentioned at times in the posts, including the post mentioned for What Could Have Been.
  • The project was originally made as a fanmade expansion of Sonic.EXE: One More Saga before developing into its own thing.
  • Both Lost Memory Sonic and Soft Boyfriend / Benjamin Fairest are not the same counterparts as their original sources, but alternate versions with their own changes. Softie, in particular, is not only younger, but was ultimately Happily Adopted by the Mikus.
  • Sonic.exe is the counterpart to the Venom symbiotes.
  • Antho is paid 100 rings and a free McDonald's meal each Tuesday for his likeness to appear on Gust Planet's billboards.
  • The counterpart to Spider-Cat is a smaller version of the Werehog who is a Pint-Sized Powerhouse.
  • Takaya Yamashiro's counterpart is the Sonic from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
  • All the deaths that occurred as a result of LM!Sonic's "canon event theory" are of OMT!Sonic, OMT!Vanilla and OMT!Sally (for OMT!Tails), Uncle Chuck (for CR!Sonic), the Sonic and Tails of OMT!Mina's world, Caffrin (for EX!Alice), Marc Smith (Nitro's father), Mobiverse Sonic, CU!Sonic's Amy, all of Hog's companions, Silver from the Lost Memory universe, CD!Sonic's Tails and Amy, the original Boyfriend and Girlfriend, Cassandra (first time via early intervention) and Proto Man/Blues.
  • The Sonic Chaos Adventure counterparts of Sonic, Amy and Cream are all part of the Quill Society. Amy specifically is mainly there to ensure Sonic doesn't get into any major trouble, considering the events of that story.
  • A good number of the mockups were made using images pre-made from The Leaf Forest Zone, whilst a lot of the others were self-made using the relevant assets.