I love the drawing at the 1:00 mark, it’s just so powerful, her standing on someone’s grave and proclaiming her love for the blue blur. Truly empowering.
Melody’s redesign is adorable and honestly I can see her having a fun dynamic with Shadow- especially if she’s a well known idol in the SNT-verse and Shadow just tells no one his big sister is famous cause she embarrasses him in front of his -friends- enemies
@@P0tatoz9 well he is friends with Amy and Cream. He has some sort of respect for all the others I think (,except sonic,) but I don't think he is friends with them.
@@ellianaaranda-hofer8034 I would say, “ But shadow calls sonic the ultimate life form.” But tbh that’s not shadow anymore. Current shadow probably doesn’t respect sonic, but sa2-06 shadow definitely did.
I definitely did with my two old Creepypasta ocs, which was a brother and sister duo. The sister’s name was Slender Rose (she was basically Slender-Man’s adoptive daughter) and her brother’s name was Slender Bill. I used to ship them together, they both even share feelings for each other (Yeah, I didn’t realize that was incest as a child) but when I realized it I decided to fix it where Bill has feelings for Sally instead. After a while, however, I lost interest in them, so I never used them ever again.
When I was 8 I had a pair of completely original characters who were first cousins, and also carrying out a Romeo and Juliet forbidden love. One of them was adopted so they weren't blood related, but incest is still incest. They even eloped and had two kids. Yeah. They were also royalty though, so I can't say I wasn't being historically accurate.
Alright, I've spent the last couple minutes trying to salvage Melody's story, so here goes: What if the reason why Melody is so good at singing and why her color is black is because she was made out of chondrules from meteorites? To simplify, chondrules are basically beads of glass inside meteorites, so what I'm proposing is that Melody is entirely made of glass. This would explain why she's musically talented because traditionally, many instruments have been made out of glass and it would make more sense given the context that Gerald made Melody in space. Here's the reworked story: In-between the creation of the Biolizard and Shadow, Gerald created Melody as a proof-of-concept, and when she went ballistic, Gerald banished her inside a small capsule that was meant to orbit the Earth forever (that way, Melody cannot exit the capsule). Later on, at the end of SA2, when Shadow fell to his death, he managed to perfectly hit the capsule, causing it to crash on the blue planet. The capsule broke and Melody broke free. Yeah, definitely not a flawless story, but I tried.
ngl if she ever needs a retooled backstory, i'd probably assume it was G.U.N pulling a "new kids on the blecch" by making vocaloids to subliminally convince people to join their cause ...but melody refuses, and well, y’know
I would say that Melody was moreso an answer to Shadow of he ever got out of control, but was immediately buried after G.U.N. sent their task force to kill anyone in connection to the mission. Her name could serve as a way of "soothing the savage beast", being gifted with a sort of voice that can pacify naturally aggressive creatures to reduce the threat level, make someone forget what they saw, and many other things. It would add more credence to her status as a propaganda mascot and add more versatility to her talents.
@@Princess_Jade64 I think they mean in a sense that a lot of very young artists, and some artists in general, have a problem with same face/hair/cwhtever syndrome
The way Sunny looks almost identical to S.N.T. gave me an idea... what if Sunny is an alias S.N.T. uses occasionally when she needs to blend in more and hide the whole genetic experiment thing?
SNT: I found you... faker. Melody: Faker? I think you're the fake around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha. You're not even good enough to be my fake. SNT: I'll make you eat those words.
It'd be kind of interesting if Sunny was Eggman's attempt at recreating SNT's ✨special✨ abilities and synthesizing her to be evil. Only for the good cells in SNT to make her turn out similarly! She doesn't get the combat skill and attraction based things because she ended up being an imperfect version - mostly as SNT's DNA going into her was diluted. It's why they look so similar but are different people! She can keep her crush on Sonic as he could find her while he was at Eggman's base, looking for something, and therefore prevented the doctor from destroying her (because she's a failure in Egghead's eyes and she doesn't need to live if she's not strong). The rest of the group take her in and being the soft, sympathetic, sweetheart she is - SNT declares Sunny as her twin sister... And if we wanna do a full tie in, Sunny can have SNT's changed personality of being a shy and self-conscious person. Maybe brought on by the fact that Eggman told her she was a failed version of SNT; who she could grow to look up to.
I think a good backstory rework is similar to along the lines of the one Matthew Prower recommended but here's my change: After the absolutely embarrassing disasters that were the Perfect Chaos Incident, The ARK Reactivation Crisis, The Black Arms Attack, and the Eggman War it was safe to say moral and overall recruitment for G.U.N was at its lowest in the organization's history. They needed to find something, anything to not just boost morale but also to increase recruitment. Luckily, they manage to find a solution, through the power of music like old-timey war propaganda songs like Over There, but with a more modern flavor so to speak. But they can't just HIRE someone to do it. They are not going through the hassels of "Legal Ownership" or risk being "Sued of Everything" because the person they hired got a big ego and wanted more than their share. No. They would have to make one. But who could they use as a base for the idol? Rouge is... well... Rouge. Sonic would never be found in time. Amy... Well she COULD work but that runs the gambit of the idol being attached to Sonic too and... No. Not worth the hassel. But who else is there? There's no one el-... Wait. No. There is another. Him. It was a gamble. A HUGE gamble at that. One that, if it didn't work, would ruin G.U.N forever. But as the old saying goes, "Sometimes you have to role a Hard Six." And so, after many months of secrecy from Project Melody came the girl herself. And to the joy of G.U.N everything, was going, perfectly. It seemed they would finally escape that pit they landed in after those strings of failures. But then, it would all come crashing down one fateful day when Shadow showed up with Rouge to one of her concerts, invited by Amy, Tails, Cream, Vanilla, and Sonic, causing a butterfly effect that would not only cause the single most important moment in Shadow's life(/character) but bring G.U.N, an organization that finally recovered after years of humiliation, into absolute ruin...
I would love to see more of your old OC's! Sometimes it's a lot of fun to look back at your stuff, even if it's cringe. On another note, I hope you're ready for fanart of Melody😆
3:30 Young Courtney could have went with "Dr. Gerald tried to capture her and destroy her but SHE jumped into the escape pod and ran away." But ok I guess lmao Also it's funny how I guessed at first glance that she's shipped with Shadow because of her colors 😂
What’s funny is that type of rock music wasn’t a thing back then in the 50’s. Unless we’re talking about the 70’s where that type of rock did become a thing.
I'll be honest, I have my own idea for a roster of experiments. I basically thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be interesting if Project Shadow never really had that name and there were multiple failed experiments before Shadow?" There would be graveyard or other similar place on the Ark, paying homage to every failed experiment, maybe even some that died almost immediately after synthesis. They would all be named after dark things and all in alphabetical order, showing just how long it took to get the desired result. Ash, Blackberry, Coal, and so on, each one lasting a little longer in testing than the previous, until Shadow finally came. It could also have an effect on Maria, maybe causing her to shut out each new experiment as she knows it won't last long. Thus, her finally bonding with Shadow would be even more meaningful. I'm imagining the characters exploring the Ark and finding out this dark secret, making the organization behind them all even more heartless, causing moral questions like, was one ultimate lifeform worth the lives of at least 18 other experiments? How can Shadow make up for that, if that is even possible, and is it his job to do so? Things like that.
Kinda hoping Melody is canon to the SNT universe now. Imagine if she also has the "special" aura, and the only person it doesn't affect is Shadow because of the sibling thing. Imagine if it has an effect on Amy and then SNT and her become rivals. It would be so dumb but also so hilarious.
As an OC creator myself, (Having once created 200 Ocs(No I am NOT Kidding;, mercifully though the vast majority are lost to time, as my roster has shortened to around 60 of my own save for adopts and trades, which brings it closer to 100 if I were to start making an alternate multiverse and characters to fit in it.)) I am interested in hearing about your roster of OCs, as it lends some insight into what their AU looks like and what they can do to improve upon it.
My brain is thinking about her connections of the black arms because even though they were only thing after this character's creation, the color scheme makes me think that she would also fall under the category of a black arms assisted experiment. That or the power of music made her so edgy that she was black and red.
I mean, I'd love to see more of these types of videos. I'd also like to see Melody be used again in the future, maybe as a not evil antagonist. Seeing that Amy's been drifting out of that role and it'd be interesting to see SNT go up against someone that's on her level.
So Gerald had used the power of music and later alien contact for research and Eggman attempted to create a bioweapon by combining Sonic's, Tails' and Knuckles' DNA. The Robotnik family is really weird in this timeline.
Cool history of Melody. Although I'd be careful if someone named Circle-Of-Dreams sees Melody's redesign, she will accuse you of stealing her character, Elizabeth's design. Just a warning since the idea of a black hedgehog with a pink streak and PrincessElizabeth013 came to mind.
You know with SNT , Sunny , an Melody turning them into idols will be a perfect amount to make a Team like the whole Sonic Heros thing with a team like them turning Idols like some sailors moon stuff will turn out to be an Sonic Underground thing only for idols what idea of an team name for your three OCs together an if you go in a traditional Sonic underground story ark what instruments will thy use?
I think that as a slightly revised backstory, Robotnik could, while eveloping Melody and realizing she was soulless or something, as an attempt to make her more life-like, surrounded her with music, cuz it's the window to the soul or something
If i redesigned her, i would make her look tuff, give her an appearence that would show she is a prototype and based her design on Terios the proto shadow, i'd also called her Ares (Melody) the hedgehog but i like you're redesign.
I can imagine Melody and Shadow being aware that they are siblings and so Shadow introduces Melody to everyone, and then SNT and Melody start to wonder why they’re kinda similar, I mean they’re experiments, have big ponytails that they were just made with and they were both created by a robotnik
Oooh! Forbidden OCs :3 I'm imagining that the only way way to summon Melody and Daisy are through esoteric rituals, involving Goetic sigils and non-Euclidean angles. The Melody redesign was really cute!
Idea for some more melody lore: as she grew up with cream they bonded very good and for a while they where singers together but melody got more famous and got power hungry ditching cream and becoming an idol leaving cream by herself. When cream joined the sonic crew she gained a close bond with everyone and almost forgot about melody, eventually the gang went to a melody concert with snt when cream saw her she remembered everything after the concert she went to confront her about ditching her but melody got the security to knock her out and she fainted. When she woke up she was kidnapped in melody's dressing room where she had snt kidnapped as well and she explained "you know fame is hard but you go big or go home, you have to break some friendships for fame. Sorry not sorry" and she wiped cream's memory of her snt asked "why do I have to be here!"melody said " your too special you would know, I had to silence you," she said while also wiping her memory them throwing them out into the woods to bond and find the gang, OK THAT'S ALOT- BUT HERE HAVE LIKE A PARAGRAPH OF LORE!
Hey Courtney! I got an idea for the redesign of melody and make it look so not cringy and made alot more scene! I also know how to make her origin sound better! Like:"Melody was born from her vocal cords where dr gerald has an idea of music like he accidently trip over some speakers and interments witch gives the perfect melody! When melody woke up, she starts to panic (like you mentioned) and started to wreck the stuff! Dr. Gerald tries to find a way to kill her but realized by shooting will cost animal cruelty but he decided to put her on the machine to burn her! But melody escapes by jumping onto the escape pod! But the escape pod has something unlikely that dr gerald forgot to fix and get rid of, but it was "₮ØØ Ⱡ₳₮Ɇ", the escape pod has launch it out to space toward mobius/earth, melody feel slightly werid and then suddenly passed out and begin to deformed into the mobian half human half symbiote! 40 years later, she was found by the group of badniks and carried the ruin and rusty escape pod to eggman. Eggman decided to make this pod something more better out of it, that's is until he accidently opens it, the escape pod door opens to reavel the deformed mutated mobian half human.................THING, then eggman screamed after witnessing it! Eggman hide behind the desk with sage, cubebot and orbbot before realizing that it won't hurt him, eggman decided to take a closer look at the deformed monsterousity, then has an idea. Eggman calls out some of the badniks and take the deformed monsterousity melody to the lab and put her in the where snt was made! Eggman was going to rebuild melody with a twist, but it didn't go as planned because something went wrong with the machine causing it to glitch alot and making the tv staticing to create the worst nightmare that eggman has created! Even worst..............melody remembers..............EVERYTHING! and decided to take revenge, starting with eggman, but orbbot stopped her and decided to take her to the pod that will launch her to space, but fails and Inmunitly got destroyed, and then she escapes, plan her revenge as a symbiote before find the "perfect" body!"
I remember watching your first OC video when I was little, and ever since I made sure my characters suffered endlessly, and be careful not to use overused character tropes. Now that I'm older, I've created a whole new universe! Best part, I now have a comic series. And best act II part, I realized I made a simliar mistake that you did with Melody. Only, to thankfully a lesser extent. Thank you!
Her backstory is like what Shadow’s backstory would be if he was in sonic underground, so screwed, let’s run with that! Since Dr. Gerald seems to have a pension for taking random ancient artifacts and using them for experiments, you can say he found a retooled version of the underground medallions and used one of them as the basis for Melody. Then a more sensible version of the rest of the backstory happens. Also, since SNT is now officially shipped with Amy, and since she was originally adopted into creams family, why not ship her with Vanilla (as Melody would be around the same age or slightly older than her)? I’ll admit as a straight male I am biased, but felt like mention it anyway.
Melody seems like the type of sister to tease her brother for ages. It could be interesting if it takes Shadow a long time yo find his sister. Say, he finds records of her creation, and tries to track her down for a long time, but bdcause shadow isnt the type to pay attention to idols and such, he completely misses the fact she’s a very public and famous idol
My main oc had a similar background bio but the older I got the more I rewrote her story and now my main oc has a sister i ship with my boyfriend oc’s, yes I created an oc for my poor boyfriend that wants nothing to do with furries lmao
I have a lot of made up characters I barely use them. And you ain't alone, I had an experiment OC named issebella. She's always serious and grumpy, and her animal is a rabbit, because back then Cream was my favorite character. She still is and I now draw her. Lol
I had (and still do, she’s my main Sonic oc) an oc for STH that is also Shadow’s sister, except I actually knew that she’d be Shadow’s sister if she’s from the ARK (she’s Shadows younger sister by less than two months.) I also went with “I want her to look like Shadow, but to be separate in design from Shadow.” So, I made her purple instead of red. At first, I kept her quills, but now I think I’ll redesign her quills to look more like hair, kinda like Amy’s hair or something like that. My oc’s name is Kurai (Japanese for shadow/gloomy) and yeah! :3
4:16 Uh, something something something seventh fonon? Even if that's from Tales of the Abyss... I actually... would love if she showed more in the channel! =D And don't worry, when we're young we clearly... do not know... a lot... of stuff... it is, however, the stage many of us are at their most creative and open to ideas and I'm glad you're recycling a lot of them! And yes, short vids of OCs sounds like a great idea! I wouldn't mind if they're short, you always know how to make them sweet.
Just the day I think about renaming four of my Sonic OCs from Axl (reference to Axl Rose), Ozzy (reference to Ozzy Osbourne), Eva (reference to Evanescence) and Hayley (reference to Hayley Williams) to (respectively) Riff, Groove, Beat and Chord to match the Sonic naming convention, Courtney reveals a music themed Sonic OC...
When I first got into Sonic, I made an OC named Rubellite, a merlot coloured hedgehog who was Shadow's "twin" sister created alongside him. Like you I didn't know about the Biolizard at the time either. I also had this other OC Jazza the Cat who was sent to the ARK around the same time because she had two tails (I wonder who I subconsciously took inspiration from lol), and they - along with Maria - were all friends, practically family. But I made Rubellite like... really violent? Especially towards Shadow, to the point where Shadow was genuinely terrified of his own sister. He permanentely had a tear in his ear from Rubel ripping it apart with her teeth one time. I did similar backstories for quite a few throwaway OCs now that I think about it. Damn... I guess 2019 was the true awakening of my dark imagination lmao Been planning on revamping Rubellite and Jazza for a while now actually, and I might just get around to it now since this video's given me the motivation for it!
Revamped Backstory: Dr. Gerald Robotnik trying to perfect his life creation experiments, he takes a hedgehog and mixes it with music soundwaves. He tries to generate the experiment it malfunctions, that caused the experiment to rampage around the arc. Gerald tries to capture and terminate her so protect the arc, but she trips into the escape pod and launch out of the arc. She gets sent to Mobius, but instead of being sent to a populous area, the pod crashed to a remote island which is why it took long to be found. She was in a coma on impact, but stopped aging because the pod was on Cyrostastis mode. Sonic and Tails find the pod years later while on an adventure. Tails tries to wake her up but wasn't successful, they go back home with Melody, confused on what to do with her. Sonic decides to take her to Cream's house because her mom is nurturing, they take care of Project Melody until she wakes up. She wakes up after a few months, after being let out she was thinking about music alot because it was hardwired in her DNA. She meets Shadow and they are both confused, a whole situation goes on. Everyone is confused, and they soon find out she and Shadow are siblings as they were created by the same person. After a few years she takes on a music career as an Idol.
Just imagine how he meets her is by taking snt and a couple of his own friends to a concert and just sees her and just feels a strange connection (not romantic but like a platonic) and basically snt helps him figure out what the hell is going on
The memory of making cringe Ocs are coming back to me now- but, I feel like Courtney could make Summer redesign aswell! Like, since she loves flowers, let her be a flourist!
4:10 Maybe we can retcon it to her being an in between of the two after Gerald saw the mural from Hidden Palace Zone. (Gonna need to retcon that as well)
I’m being reminded of the somewhat awkward Backstories of Arisu, my Wolf Oc and one of my main Ocs. It wasn’t horrible, but needed some work. She was originally a Sonic Underground Oc and is currently is the stand in for Gadget/the Avatar in a Rewrite of Sonic Forces and part of a Team that repurposes the Speed, Power, and Flight Team Mechanic from Sonic Heroes and sometimes still uses that connection to Sonic Underground.
Awww I luv her, hope you do more with her. The maybe sibling antics her and shadow might get in will be glorious (they read the "someone will die, of fun" kinda)
I'm a new sonic fan (which means i never had a sonic oc before) but i Really like watching these videos to see how it was growing up with sonic (I wish i grew up with sonic and drew cringey oc's and shipping them with characters)
What if her (Melody's) initial purpose was a potential alternate body for Maria Robotnik (either a way for her to survive her illness by transferring her consciousness, or to give her a second life should she perish before her cure's completion), but instead she woke up prematurely hearing Maria singing closeby which is what drives her to dedicate her lifestyle to the pursuit of music?
The redesign, especially the clothing kinda looks like pop star Amy, even down to the colouring. That’s a weird coincidence. Btw to elaborate, it’s only the clothing and the fact that she’s an idol
I have an idea: to fix Melody, maybe she could keep her love for music, but just enjoys playing the piano. I think her being a timid and antisocial Cinnamon roll who has a love for piano would be cute!
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I love the drawing at the 1:00 mark, it’s just so powerful, her standing on someone’s grave and proclaiming her love for the blue blur. Truly empowering.
mom come pick me up i'm scared
its not that deep😨
@@Q_wahh Yeah, that’s why you can tell it’s a shallow grave
I'm worried about Amy now
@@thethirdolmak9061you're actually so funny that joke was really good
Melody’s redesign is adorable and honestly I can see her having a fun dynamic with Shadow- especially if she’s a well known idol in the SNT-verse and Shadow just tells no one his big sister is famous cause she embarrasses him in front of his -friends- enemies
No, no, their his friends. I mean shadow even got Amy a birthday present before sonic did 😂
I love that idea, it would be adorable
@@P0tatoz9 well he is friends with Amy and Cream. He has some sort of respect for all the others I think (,except sonic,) but I don't think he is friends with them.
@@ellianaaranda-hofer8034 I would say, “ But shadow calls sonic the ultimate life form.” But tbh that’s not shadow anymore. Current shadow probably doesn’t respect sonic, but sa2-06 shadow definitely did.
@@P0tatoz9 true
4:59 Ah yes, childhood OC accidental incest. I feel like everyone who's dabbled in OCs at a young age did this at some point.
I definitely did with my two old Creepypasta ocs, which was a brother and sister duo. The sister’s name was Slender Rose (she was basically Slender-Man’s adoptive daughter) and her brother’s name was Slender Bill. I used to ship them together, they both even share feelings for each other (Yeah, I didn’t realize that was incest as a child) but when I realized it I decided to fix it where Bill has feelings for Sally instead. After a while, however, I lost interest in them, so I never used them ever again.
When I was 8 I had a pair of completely original characters who were first cousins, and also carrying out a Romeo and Juliet forbidden love. One of them was adopted so they weren't blood related, but incest is still incest. They even eloped and had two kids.
Yeah.
They were also royalty though, so I can't say I wasn't being historically accurate.
@@TheGoldfishArmy I mean yeah when it come to royalty, incest is gonna happen so you were historically accurate with the whole royalty thing.
I feel like I never made a oc have a "sweet home Alabama /incest" relationship
Or I'm just really smart
@@Bag3l_cak3 Well good, because honestly i wish that I didn’t.
Alright, I've spent the last couple minutes trying to salvage Melody's story, so here goes:
What if the reason why Melody is so good at singing and why her color is black is because she was made out of chondrules from meteorites? To simplify, chondrules are basically beads of glass inside meteorites, so what I'm proposing is that Melody is entirely made of glass. This would explain why she's musically talented because traditionally, many instruments have been made out of glass and it would make more sense given the context that Gerald made Melody in space.
Here's the reworked story:
In-between the creation of the Biolizard and Shadow, Gerald created Melody as a proof-of-concept, and when she went ballistic, Gerald banished her inside a small capsule that was meant to orbit the Earth forever (that way, Melody cannot exit the capsule). Later on, at the end of SA2, when Shadow fell to his death, he managed to perfectly hit the capsule, causing it to crash on the blue planet. The capsule broke and Melody broke free.
Yeah, definitely not a flawless story, but I tried.
THAT GLASS IDEA is actually amazing
She survived that impact because she's made of plexiglass!
@@blazingroseninja9574 lol
Project Melody lore
@@blazingroseninja9574 because she's.. ✨ s p e c i a l ! ✨
ngl if she ever needs a retooled backstory, i'd probably assume it was G.U.N pulling a "new kids on the blecch" by making vocaloids to subliminally convince people to join their cause
...but melody refuses, and well, y’know
It's like turning a popular mascot into military propaganda
Oh my god, the concept of them going as far as to GENETICALLY ENGINEER a propaganda mascot goes so hard
Love that idea
I don’t wanna sound mean, but this feels like something Ken Penders would write about GUN.
I would say that Melody was moreso an answer to Shadow of he ever got out of control, but was immediately buried after G.U.N. sent their task force to kill anyone in connection to the mission.
Her name could serve as a way of "soothing the savage beast", being gifted with a sort of voice that can pacify naturally aggressive creatures to reduce the threat level, make someone forget what they saw, and many other things. It would add more credence to her status as a propaganda mascot and add more versatility to her talents.
Her redesign is adorable! Also sunny and snt shareing a hairstyle is honestly incredibly relatable
how is that relatable??
@@Princess_Jade64 I think they mean in a sense that a lot of very young artists, and some artists in general, have a problem with same face/hair/cwhtever syndrome
@@ThatFoxyPixelKid I remember that phase for me
I got a feeling that SNT and Melody could have a potential to become a long run rivalry anime series, i can tell
kinda like a friendly rivalry ?.
@@aikotitilai3820 eyup
@@F0st1n4t0rOoh, wonder if Amy will get jealous?
@@allisonstarr6074 she will probably
@@allisonstarr6074 because amy likes sonic
The way Sunny looks almost identical to S.N.T. gave me an idea... what if Sunny is an alias S.N.T. uses occasionally when she needs to blend in more and hide the whole genetic experiment thing?
Headcanon: there twins
SNT:
I found you... faker.
Melody:
Faker? I think you're the fake around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha. You're not even good enough to be my fake.
SNT:
I'll make you eat those words.
wouldn't that be SNT instead of Courtney ?
It'd be kind of interesting if Sunny was Eggman's attempt at recreating SNT's ✨special✨ abilities and synthesizing her to be evil. Only for the good cells in SNT to make her turn out similarly! She doesn't get the combat skill and attraction based things because she ended up being an imperfect version - mostly as SNT's DNA going into her was diluted. It's why they look so similar but are different people!
She can keep her crush on Sonic as he could find her while he was at Eggman's base, looking for something, and therefore prevented the doctor from destroying her (because she's a failure in Egghead's eyes and she doesn't need to live if she's not strong).
The rest of the group take her in and being the soft, sympathetic, sweetheart she is - SNT declares Sunny as her twin sister... And if we wanna do a full tie in, Sunny can have SNT's changed personality of being a shy and self-conscious person. Maybe brought on by the fact that Eggman told her she was a failed version of SNT; who she could grow to look up to.
I really like this one
I think a good backstory rework is similar to along the lines of the one Matthew Prower recommended but here's my change:
After the absolutely embarrassing disasters that were the Perfect Chaos Incident, The ARK Reactivation Crisis, The Black Arms Attack, and the Eggman War it was safe to say moral and overall recruitment for G.U.N was at its lowest in the organization's history.
They needed to find something, anything to not just boost morale but also to increase recruitment. Luckily, they manage to find a solution, through the power of music like old-timey war propaganda songs like Over There, but with a more modern flavor so to speak.
But they can't just HIRE someone to do it. They are not going through the hassels of "Legal Ownership" or risk being "Sued of Everything" because the person they hired got a big ego and wanted more than their share.
No. They would have to make one. But who could they use as a base for the idol? Rouge is... well... Rouge. Sonic would never be found in time. Amy... Well she COULD work but that runs the gambit of the idol being attached to Sonic too and... No. Not worth the hassel.
But who else is there? There's no one el-... Wait. No. There is another. Him. It was a gamble. A HUGE gamble at that. One that, if it didn't work, would ruin G.U.N forever. But as the old saying goes, "Sometimes you have to role a Hard Six."
And so, after many months of secrecy from Project Melody came the girl herself. And to the joy of G.U.N everything, was going, perfectly. It seemed they would finally escape that pit they landed in after those strings of failures.
But then, it would all come crashing down one fateful day when Shadow showed up with Rouge to one of her concerts, invited by Amy, Tails, Cream, Vanilla, and Sonic, causing a butterfly effect that would not only cause the single most important moment in Shadow's life(/character) but bring G.U.N, an organization that finally recovered after years of humiliation, into absolute ruin...
What happened at the concert?
Ay, don't just leave us hanging 🤨 /j
Melody’s redesign was just beautiful and adorable! Thanks for sharing your story about one of your Sonic OCs.
I would love to see more of your old OC's! Sometimes it's a lot of fun to look back at your stuff, even if it's cringe.
On another note, I hope you're ready for fanart of Melody😆
Courtney clearly made 2 female OCs based on Sonic and Shadow.
Imagine these two becoming rivals.
3:30
Young Courtney could have went with "Dr. Gerald tried to capture her and destroy her but SHE jumped into the escape pod and ran away." But ok I guess lmao
Also it's funny how I guessed at first glance that she's shipped with Shadow because of her colors 😂
Gerald creating her with the power of music is something I thought I never thought I needed to hear 😂
What’s funny is that type of rock music wasn’t a thing back then in the 50’s. Unless we’re talking about the 70’s where that type of rock did become a thing.
I'll be honest, I have my own idea for a roster of experiments. I basically thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be interesting if Project Shadow never really had that name and there were multiple failed experiments before Shadow?" There would be graveyard or other similar place on the Ark, paying homage to every failed experiment, maybe even some that died almost immediately after synthesis. They would all be named after dark things and all in alphabetical order, showing just how long it took to get the desired result. Ash, Blackberry, Coal, and so on, each one lasting a little longer in testing than the previous, until Shadow finally came. It could also have an effect on Maria, maybe causing her to shut out each new experiment as she knows it won't last long. Thus, her finally bonding with Shadow would be even more meaningful. I'm imagining the characters exploring the Ark and finding out this dark secret, making the organization behind them all even more heartless, causing moral questions like, was one ultimate lifeform worth the lives of at least 18 other experiments? How can Shadow make up for that, if that is even possible, and is it his job to do so? Things like that.
Well, “M” is before “S” in the alphabet…
Kinda hoping Melody is canon to the SNT universe now. Imagine if she also has the "special" aura, and the only person it doesn't affect is Shadow because of the sibling thing. Imagine if it has an effect on Amy and then SNT and her become rivals. It would be so dumb but also so hilarious.
If there are any other story's about this oc, I think we would love to hear them
yes!!!
Oh, absolutely!
As an OC creator myself, (Having once created 200 Ocs(No I am NOT Kidding;, mercifully though the vast majority are lost to time, as my roster has shortened to around 60 of my own save for adopts and trades, which brings it closer to 100 if I were to start making an alternate multiverse and characters to fit in it.)) I am interested in hearing about your roster of OCs, as it lends some insight into what their AU looks like and what they can do to improve upon it.
My brain is thinking about her connections of the black arms because even though they were only thing after this character's creation, the color scheme makes me think that she would also fall under the category of a black arms assisted experiment. That or the power of music made her so edgy that she was black and red.
Ooh, Courtney has more OC that hasnt being told until now. Fascinating!
I mean, I'd love to see more of these types of videos.
I'd also like to see Melody be used again in the future, maybe as a not evil antagonist. Seeing that Amy's been drifting out of that role and it'd be interesting to see SNT go up against someone that's on her level.
I really loved that “WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!” Part. That got me laughing. 😆
I deadass thought I was hearing things while I was playing Overwatch with this video in the background. I was like "WHEN DID WE GET A SIGMA?!"
@@SPDRED551 I said “deadass”, not fuck.
@@SPDRED551 I don’t care, lol
@@SPDRED551 deadass?
I zoned out at 1:46. So I got scared thinking she could see me and was trying to get my attention back when I heard my name
So Gerald had used the power of music and later alien contact for research and Eggman attempted to create a bioweapon by combining Sonic's, Tails' and Knuckles' DNA. The Robotnik family is really weird in this timeline.
I would love to see more OC redesigns. And maybe an SNT meets Melody video.
Cool history of Melody. Although I'd be careful if someone named Circle-Of-Dreams sees Melody's redesign, she will accuse you of stealing her character, Elizabeth's design. Just a warning since the idea of a black hedgehog with a pink streak and PrincessElizabeth013 came to mind.
You know with SNT , Sunny , an Melody turning them into idols will be a perfect amount to make a Team like the whole Sonic Heros thing with a team like them turning Idols like some sailors moon stuff will turn out to be an Sonic Underground thing only for idols what idea of an team name for your three OCs together an if you go in a traditional Sonic underground story ark what instruments will thy use?
I think that as a slightly revised backstory, Robotnik could, while eveloping Melody and realizing she was soulless or something, as an attempt to make her more life-like, surrounded her with music, cuz it's the window to the soul or something
If i redesigned her, i would make her look tuff, give her an appearence that would show she is a prototype and based her design on Terios the proto shadow, i'd also called her Ares (Melody) the hedgehog but i like you're redesign.
I can imagine Melody and Shadow being aware that they are siblings and so Shadow introduces Melody to everyone, and then SNT and Melody start to wonder why they’re kinda similar, I mean they’re experiments, have big ponytails that they were just made with and they were both created by a robotnik
Melody actually isn't that bad, she just needs more work done to make her a good oc.
I'm so glad I saw someone else say it. I thought I had a bad taste in OCs because I actually thought it wasn't COMPLETELY bad 😭
I really like seeing your redesigns. I think its fun seeing people remake their old Oc's, It would be neat to see more like this! 😊
Oooh! Forbidden OCs :3
I'm imagining that the only way way to summon Melody and Daisy are through esoteric rituals, involving Goetic sigils and non-Euclidean angles. The Melody redesign was really cute!
Idea for some more melody lore: as she grew up with cream they bonded very good and for a while they where singers together but melody got more famous and got power hungry ditching cream and becoming an idol leaving cream by herself. When cream joined the sonic crew she gained a close bond with everyone and almost forgot about melody, eventually the gang went to a melody concert with snt when cream saw her she remembered everything after the concert she went to confront her about ditching her but melody got the security to knock her out and she fainted. When she woke up she was kidnapped in melody's dressing room where she had snt kidnapped as well and she explained "you know fame is hard but you go big or go home, you have to break some friendships for fame. Sorry not sorry" and she wiped cream's memory of her snt asked "why do I have to be here!"melody said " your too special you would know, I had to silence you," she said while also wiping her memory them throwing them out into the woods to bond and find the gang,
OK THAT'S ALOT- BUT HERE HAVE LIKE A PARAGRAPH OF LORE!
4:31 🎶sWeEt HoMe AlAbAMa🎶
🎷🎺🎷
I feel you…I had an OC that looked like shadow that WASNT a project, and I shipped them…
she really just said 'sweet home alabama'
That melody and shadow relationship MAN-
The original is:
SWEET HOME ALBAMA
while the new one:
Normal home New Jersey
the design (new one that is) looks like if Shadow and Rouge were Digi-Fused together
Hey Courtney! I got an idea for the redesign of melody and make it look so not cringy and made alot more scene! I also know how to make her origin sound better! Like:"Melody was born from her vocal cords where dr gerald has an idea of music like he accidently trip over some speakers and interments witch gives the perfect melody! When melody woke up, she starts to panic (like you mentioned) and started to wreck the stuff! Dr. Gerald tries to find a way to kill her but realized by shooting will cost animal cruelty but he decided to put her on the machine to burn her! But melody escapes by jumping onto the escape pod! But the escape pod has something unlikely that dr gerald forgot to fix and get rid of, but it was "₮ØØ Ⱡ₳₮Ɇ", the escape pod has launch it out to space toward mobius/earth, melody feel slightly werid and then suddenly passed out and begin to deformed into the mobian half human half symbiote! 40 years later, she was found by the group of badniks and carried the ruin and rusty escape pod to eggman. Eggman decided to make this pod something more better out of it, that's is until he accidently opens it, the escape pod door opens to reavel the deformed mutated mobian half human.................THING, then eggman screamed after witnessing it! Eggman hide behind the desk with sage, cubebot and orbbot before realizing that it won't hurt him, eggman decided to take a closer look at the deformed monsterousity, then has an idea. Eggman calls out some of the badniks and take the deformed monsterousity melody to the lab and put her in the where snt was made! Eggman was going to rebuild melody with a twist, but it didn't go as planned because something went wrong with the machine causing it to glitch alot and making the tv staticing to create the worst nightmare that eggman has created! Even worst..............melody remembers..............EVERYTHING! and decided to take revenge, starting with eggman, but orbbot stopped her and decided to take her to the pod that will launch her to space, but fails and Inmunitly got destroyed, and then she escapes, plan her revenge as a symbiote before find the "perfect" body!"
But that's exactly does not sound like melody...........
Her redesign looks amazing!🤩😄 If you ever put her in future videos, can’t wait to see them.😁
Thanks for the cool story about Melody. Great job on the redesign. Hope to see her again
I love seeing your old OCs it’s fascinating 😊
Damn, I played a whole entire game of Tic Tac Toe on Courtney's new OC's fourhead
I would indeed love more short OC centered videos like this in the future
She's so pretty and her new design is amazing ^^
I remember watching your first OC video when I was little, and ever since I made sure my characters suffered endlessly, and be careful not to use overused character tropes. Now that I'm older, I've created a whole new universe! Best part, I now have a comic series. And best act II part, I realized I made a simliar mistake that you did with Melody. Only, to thankfully a lesser extent. Thank you!
I can see Melody teasing Shadow about him being in love with SNT and getting to know the gang through them helping her with stage stuff sometimes
Her backstory is like what Shadow’s backstory would be if he was in sonic underground, so screwed, let’s run with that! Since Dr. Gerald seems to have a pension for taking random ancient artifacts and using them for experiments, you can say he found a retooled version of the underground medallions and used one of them as the basis for Melody. Then a more sensible version of the rest of the backstory happens.
Also, since SNT is now officially shipped with Amy, and since she was originally adopted into creams family, why not ship her with Vanilla (as Melody would be around the same age or slightly older than her)? I’ll admit as a straight male I am biased, but felt like mention it anyway.
Fan art is on the way-
Melody: Baby Brother! 🥰
Shadow: 🤦
Sonic: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't you hate it when you're just jamming out on your guitar and you accidentally create life? I know I sure do!
Melody seems like the type of sister to tease her brother for ages.
It could be interesting if it takes Shadow a long time yo find his sister. Say, he finds records of her creation, and tries to track her down for a long time, but bdcause shadow isnt the type to pay attention to idols and such, he completely misses the fact she’s a very public and famous idol
My main oc had a similar background bio but the older I got the more I rewrote her story and now my main oc has a sister i ship with my boyfriend oc’s, yes I created an oc for my poor boyfriend that wants nothing to do with furries lmao
I have a lot of made up characters I barely use them. And you ain't alone, I had an experiment OC named issebella. She's always serious and grumpy, and her animal is a rabbit, because back then Cream was my favorite character. She still is and I now draw her. Lol
This reminds me of a sonic OC I had where they were pretty much just a DJ and they would start parties at the end of every battle
I had (and still do, she’s my main Sonic oc) an oc for STH that is also Shadow’s sister, except I actually knew that she’d be Shadow’s sister if she’s from the ARK (she’s Shadows younger sister by less than two months.) I also went with “I want her to look like Shadow, but to be separate in design from Shadow.” So, I made her purple instead of red. At first, I kept her quills, but now I think I’ll redesign her quills to look more like hair, kinda like Amy’s hair or something like that. My oc’s name is Kurai (Japanese for shadow/gloomy) and yeah! :3
3:17 Gerald no doubt played the _Sonic Underground_ theme song. Music is very powerful in that show.
4:16 Uh, something something something seventh fonon? Even if that's from Tales of the Abyss...
I actually... would love if she showed more in the channel! =D And don't worry, when we're young we clearly... do not know... a lot... of stuff... it is, however, the stage many of us are at their most creative and open to ideas and I'm glad you're recycling a lot of them! And yes, short vids of OCs sounds like a great idea! I wouldn't mind if they're short, you always know how to make them sweet.
I'm sorry, but the reveal of Melody being a red and black OC made me wheeze! 😭
me seeing how melody looks a bit like shadow: oh no.
Just the day I think about renaming four of my Sonic OCs from Axl (reference to Axl Rose), Ozzy (reference to Ozzy Osbourne), Eva (reference to Evanescence) and Hayley (reference to Hayley Williams) to (respectively) Riff, Groove, Beat and Chord to match the Sonic naming convention, Courtney reveals a music themed Sonic OC...
Melody kinda looks like if the ironmouse coppercat vtuber model was a sonic character. other wise great OC redesign!
Does that mean Shadow is SNT's great uncle?
Uhhhhhh?
@@SPDRED551 Okay, good. That's a relief.
When I first got into Sonic, I made an OC named Rubellite, a merlot coloured hedgehog who was Shadow's "twin" sister created alongside him. Like you I didn't know about the Biolizard at the time either. I also had this other OC Jazza the Cat who was sent to the ARK around the same time because she had two tails (I wonder who I subconsciously took inspiration from lol), and they - along with Maria - were all friends, practically family. But I made Rubellite like... really violent? Especially towards Shadow, to the point where Shadow was genuinely terrified of his own sister. He permanentely had a tear in his ear from Rubel ripping it apart with her teeth one time. I did similar backstories for quite a few throwaway OCs now that I think about it. Damn... I guess 2019 was the true awakening of my dark imagination lmao
Been planning on revamping Rubellite and Jazza for a while now actually, and I might just get around to it now since this video's given me the motivation for it!
Maybe in the future you may do a video were you design the parents for characters whose parents where never shown in any form of Sonic media
@0:52-.-Can't wait to see people equate this Sunny with Sunny OMORI for the name alon.
omori 🤯🤯🤯
Revamped Backstory:
Dr. Gerald Robotnik trying to perfect his life creation experiments, he takes a hedgehog and mixes it with music soundwaves.
He tries to generate the experiment it malfunctions, that caused the experiment to rampage around the arc.
Gerald tries to capture and terminate her so protect the arc, but she trips into the escape pod and launch out of the arc.
She gets sent to Mobius, but instead of being sent to a populous area, the pod crashed to a remote island which is why it took long to be found.
She was in a coma on impact, but stopped aging because the pod was on Cyrostastis mode.
Sonic and Tails find the pod years later while on an adventure. Tails tries to wake her up but wasn't successful, they go back home with Melody, confused on what to do with her.
Sonic decides to take her to Cream's house because her mom is nurturing, they take care of Project Melody until she wakes up.
She wakes up after a few months, after being let out she was thinking about music alot because it was hardwired in her DNA.
She meets Shadow and they are both confused, a whole situation goes on.
Everyone is confused, and they soon find out she and Shadow are siblings as they were created by the same person.
After a few years she takes on a music career as an Idol.
Wait a second! I know that "Ewww!" sound effect from AthenaP!
Really?
I thought it was from Beast Machine
Personal headcanon about Shadow is red and black coloring was from a black arms DNA because they're red and black
nice to see I'm not the only one with the thought of Shadow having a sibling lol
Why do I need Melody to cosplay as Project Melody the v-tuber?
That's a great idea!
Just imagine how he meets her is by taking snt and a couple of his own friends to a concert and just sees her and just feels a strange connection (not romantic but like a platonic) and basically snt helps him figure out what the hell is going on
I would love to see more of your old OCs!
The memory of making cringe Ocs are coming back to me now- but, I feel like Courtney could make Summer redesign aswell! Like, since she loves flowers, let her be a flourist!
“IT'S PIKACHU!!”
“It’s Clefairy!”
@@skyes.pallete "FUCK!"
@@skyes.pallete “It gotta be Pikachu!!”
Top 10 anime plot twists
Also the fact I knew that she wouldve been shipped with shadow is so funny to me lol
I like the redesign though :)
4:10
Maybe we can retcon it to her being an in between of the two after Gerald saw the mural from Hidden Palace Zone. (Gonna need to retcon that as well)
1:13 WHAT IS THIS TEXT TO SPEECH CALLED I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE😭😭😭😭😭😭
Microsoft text to speech
@@goober50000 7 months late, but hey thanks
5:26 Wow!!!! The SNT Outfit!!!!
Man...I always Explode of happiness and cuteness lol
Anyway Melody is very beautiful :3
ngl i'd hit the "crap go back" button on the redesign device
I’m being reminded of the somewhat awkward Backstories of Arisu, my Wolf Oc and one of my main Ocs. It wasn’t horrible, but needed some work.
She was originally a Sonic Underground Oc and is currently is the stand in for Gadget/the Avatar in a Rewrite of Sonic Forces and part of a Team that repurposes the Speed, Power, and Flight Team Mechanic from Sonic Heroes and sometimes still uses that connection to Sonic Underground.
Oh my gosh I have not seen your channel in forever. I remember SNT and I loved it because of how goofy you told the story.
The melody re-design is adorable I want to see more of this character please
5:31 *_GURA OH MAH GAAAWWWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111!_*
Black Doom: "Wtf are you doing?"
Gerald: "I'm creating LIFE!"
Black Doom: "With... a guitar?"
Gerald: "No, with the awesome power of ROCK AND ROLL!"
That character blurb for sunny gave me Sonic Shadow and Silver Show flashbacks. God I miss when those were the highlights of TH-cam for me.
I wanna see a melody and SNT conversation.
I feel like they would make good friends.
It is very cool because I also had a Sonic OC named Melody. 👍
I am actually crying right now. I wish there were comics of that magnificent beautiful OC.🥺🥺🥺
Shadow having an older sister actually sounds really cool and interesting tbh. Very, VERY far from ever happening but cool.
Awww I luv her, hope you do more with her. The maybe sibling antics her and shadow might get in will be glorious (they read the "someone will die, of fun" kinda)
I'm a new sonic fan (which means i never had a sonic oc before) but i Really like watching these videos to see how it was growing up with sonic
(I wish i grew up with sonic and drew cringey oc's and shipping them with characters)
What if her (Melody's) initial purpose was a potential alternate body for Maria Robotnik (either a way for her to survive her illness by transferring her consciousness, or to give her a second life should she perish before her cure's completion), but instead she woke up prematurely hearing Maria singing closeby which is what drives her to dedicate her lifestyle to the pursuit of music?
The redesign, especially the clothing kinda looks like pop star Amy, even down to the colouring. That’s a weird coincidence. Btw to elaborate, it’s only the clothing and the fact that she’s an idol
I have an idea: to fix Melody, maybe she could keep her love for music, but just enjoys playing the piano. I think her being a timid and antisocial Cinnamon roll who has a love for piano would be cute!
Or a Violin
@@raheemaslam7363 or that
If there is sommone melody would be good to be shiped with melody it would be rouge i dunno it just feels right
Everyone had *that* sonic OC.
Mine was named Dawn. Originally named Eclipse but then I read that one issue of Archie comics.