Stephen Zacharus:
Oh my god, I totally forgot about that one! Was that in one of my Timelines?
Sean Catlett:
Yep!
Stephen Zacharus:
Hehehe. I knew those were good for something. They did have a practical use, too, aside from just being an excuse to post another chapter. Well, Serpentine was to be based on an idea I came up with when I was in elementary school, actually. I've been a writer for a long time, see. Anyway, would you believe that I wrote fanfiction in grade school? It was very bad fanfiction, but I'd write silly little stories in my class journal about my favorite cartoon or videogame characters. One of my favorites was an extended adaptation of the "Mickey Mouse's World of Illusion" story. Did you ever play that game? For the Genesis. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this story. So. I loved the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon back then. Still do. It's so lovably silly.
Sean Catlett:
Indeed.
Stephen Zacharus:
And I sort of daydreamed this story for a Sonic the Hedgehog movie. I figured that in order for the movie to be interesting, there had to be a new bad guy -- somebody even worse than Robotnik. Perhaps even an enemy of Robotnik's who wants to take over the planet just as bad, or worse. My character was a snake. I never named him. But he was this awesome villain who had supernatural powers, and he would banish Robotnik to a parallel dimension. In order to stop this new villain, Sonic would have to rescue Robotnik and join forces with him temporarily in the face of a common enemy. I never wrote it. But when I started getting into Sonic fanfiction years later, I remembered and embellished the idea in my notebook. I abandoned it, though.
Sean Catlett:
You just.... didn't write it?
Stephen Zacharus:
I didn't develop the idea enough. It was just a vague idea of a story with a few details here and there. But the new version would, of course, be SatAM based rather than AoStH based. And the snake guy would kidnap Sally!!
We'd later find out that he wants to have sex with her.
Sean Catlett:
Oh. Because he's a snake.
Stephen Zacharus:
Which is twisted and wrong, and quite a departure from my original grade school idea, but I liked it anyway because it was edgy.
Sean Catlett:
It might have worked!
I guess we'll never know.
Stephen Zacharus:
Guess so.
Continue to Part Fifteen
