User:Skbl17

Hi! I'm skbl17, but longtime users on SFW (and SNN) may remember me as Schoolbus13, the username I used between July 2009, when I first signed up, and October 2010, when I left Wikia. I can't access that account anymore because I don't remember my login details nor do I have access to (or remember) the old email address. Ah well.

I've been on a bit of a nostalgia trip over the last week, and part of that was going back through the old stuff I had on SFW. I had a raft of roleplays, OCs, concepts and locations in the past, and to be frank, present-day me cringes at a lot of the stuff I posted here. Oh, I enjoyed the brief time I spent on this site, but a lot changes in a decade.

skblverse
Much as Archie Comics did with the Sonic the Hedgehog comic books in the aftermath of their legal spat with Ken Penders, I've decided to start over and give what I used to call the "Emerald Hill universe" (EHU) a complete reboot. There'll be new characters, locations, and concepts, but I've decided to summarize some of the changes between the EHU (Schoolbus13 stuff) and the "skblverse" below. Pages will come soon enough.

Of course, most of my old pre-reboot stuff is still on the site. If you want to see a sample of my old stuff, you can browse the Schoolbus13 user page and the categories filled with stuff I created in my previous stint on SFW.

Locations

 * Sunset Coast: What used to be known as the "Emerald Coast" in my previous stint on the site. Sonic Generations wasn't out at the time (and I only just discovered there was an "Emerald Coast" in Sonic X, so...). The city of Parkview still exists (as does the airport, albeit under a different name,) but in a different form to the EHU version. The Sunset Coast is part of Arcania (Seaside Province in the EHU), one of the ten provinces of...
 * The United Isles: An island archipelago made up of five main islands that exists in a stable, if somewhat tense, peace with the Eggman Empire. As such, the only time the United Isles actually has to deal with catastrophe comes whenever there's some big planet-destroying plan or such. The United Isles is roughly equivalent to Emeraldsbourg in the EHU, but with differences so significant that it is a completely different country.
 * Mobius Corners, the name of a small village in AoSTH and the largest city in and capital of Emeraldsbourg in the EHU (the city's airport was the site of a directionless but really popular roleplay back in the day) looks like the AoSTH version in the skblverse. It's also in a completely different country, but that's neither here nor there.

A word about Tails...

 * Tails is my favorite Sonic the Hedgehog character, but remember what I said earlier about cringe? In addition to being the tinkerer he is in canon, back in the EHU days I used to have Tails as the head of a massive conglomerate, owning a cable company and previously owning a television service. Yeah, file all that in the cringe folder: in the skblverse, Tails has the same role he has in the Sonic games.

Old OCs, Jennie, and the NNS

 * Similar to the fate of every echidna not named Knuckles or Tikal in the aftermath of the Penders lawsuit, all of the OCs I had the last time I was on the site have been erased and do not exist in the skblverse.
 * In the skblverse, my primary OC is a teenage Mobian mink by the name of Jennifer "Jennie" Kane (a word on names later). The youngest member of the politically prodigious Kane family, Jennie doesn't share her parents' or grandparents' taste for Arcanian provincial politics. Of course, when your mom is the incumbent (and really popular) governor of the province, people want personal favors and influence. The governor herself is mostly immune to these advances, so it's often the case that they (or their sons and daughters, some of whom go to the same schools as the governor's daughter...) use Jennie as a proxy to gain favor with the governor; as a result, Jennie has trust issues.
 * With 16.5 million Mobians within her borders, the United Isles would find it hard to keep track of hundreds of thousands of people with the same name ("'Rob the Hedgehog'...there are 485,000 of them in the country, how the hell do we tell them apart for tax purposes?"). Decades ago, the country introduced the Name Normalization Scheme that all Mobians of majority age are enrolled in. Under the NNS, all Mobians choose human-like last names that they go by in daily life. While enrollment in the NNS is only required upon reaching the age of 18, millions of younger Mobians are enrolled at birth by their parents or voluntarily enroll in while they are in school. Jennie was enrolled in the NNS at birth.