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MasterPerryMartin — How I Would Write: Fiona Fox

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Published: 2015-03-12 01:22:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2181; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 2
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Description So, this might be a small sub-series I might get into ('cause, you know I haven't got enough of those yet or anything), detailing how I would write characters that are otherwise considered the Devil's arse-end. These will normally be more in-depth and fleshed out than my usual bio set-up. Hopefully, anyway.

First up, the most controversial character outside of Sally (and frankly, they can fucking have her, for the most part), Fiona Fox. First up, a small list of what is considered wrong with her:

Her post-betreyal personality is little more than "OMG Scourge's cock WANT". However, is ultimately loyal to no-one but herself.
Post-Betreyal outfit = fanservice bait (and not even good fanservice bait, she just looks desperate)
The reason for her betrayal basically boils down to Sonic being a dumbass and Fiona being...well, EVERYONE being a dumbass.

And I'm pretty sure I could keep going. Still, I'll keep a maximum of three "wrong things" for each character, so it's easier for me to "fix" them. Well, I'll try to, anyway. Let's start, shall we?

FIONA ARCANE FOX
Female Red-Fur Fox (Mobian Category)
17 Years of Age


The story starts in the outer edges of Mobotropolis, just outside on what is considered The BorderWorlds; a large, desert-esque expanse of almost nothing but hostile winds, sand, bandits with revolvers...and a seemingly limitless supply of Roboite, an unknown element associated with the ability to turn flesh to steel. Naturally, it wouldn't be long until someone came along to exploit this. That someone was Doctor Alfred Robotnik, the aging leader of the Robotnik Empire. Initially he found little use of it, due to his dislike for robotocisation, but was urged on by his own son to push the project forward. Fiona, from a very young age, was born to a family in the middle of the BorderWorlds some time previous, having reached the age of eleven just as Robotnik began to take over. She was thus deemed set for work and sent to one of the many mining camps being set up around the area. Whereas in the "anchor" universe (I.e. the Archie Continuity) she was kidnapped by Robotnik and left for dead to be raised by scavengers, here she was saved almost instantly. It was a very important day for the camp, as Robotnik himself had visited the camp to check on its progress. During the proceedings, two individuals, a wolf with a trenchcoat and a small rookie with purple fur attacked the mining camp, blocking off the mines and eventually tracking down Robotnik himself. With a single swing of a knife, the wolf slit Robotnik's throat, seemingly ending his reign for good, before grabbing Fiona and running away from the camp and indeed the BorderWorlds. Both he and the rookie dropped off Fiona in the middle of Knothole Forest and departed, telling her that their friends, the Freedom Fighters, would be along soon to protect her. Sure enough, a group of fighters showed up and, after making sure she wasn't a spy, let Fiona live among them, before eventually joining them. Much later in life, Fiona would ask the group's leader, Sally, about these two. Sally responded with there being no records of either on file or in memory, which was Fiona's first tip-off about the identity of her rescuers.

Years passed and Fiona managed to prove herself as an effective Freedom Fighter, going on successful mission after successful mission. Robotnik's son, Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, had taken over the renamed Eggman Empire by this point and was putting a greater deal of pressure on the Freedom Fighters, so the missions were slowly becoming harder and harder. Fiona was the team's scout, keeping high above the fields and picking off enemies and other obstacles with her sniper rifle. Beyond this, Fiona often did little but relax in the Knothole Sanctuary, a location where the Freedom Fighters were safe, playing with the children or helping the others with their work. Perhaps the closest one she got to was a young fox named Miles Power, albeit often going by the nickname of Tails, with whom she slowly developed a relationship with. While Tails initially thought a relationship would only get in the way of his scientific research, he relented after a while and became Fiona's "official boyfriend". However, it was quite known to most of the Freedom Fighters that their main leader, Sonic the Hedgehog, had been suffering what could only be described as "psychological degradation"; thanks to a particularly powerful laser blast to the head in one of the missions, Sonic had become more unhinged and aggressive as time went on, becoming more and more susceptible to outright killing people to solve the problems of the Freedom Fighters. The final straw came on a mission to recover a powerful artefact known as the Master Emerald, which had been stolen by Eggman. Sonic, in his seemingly already energy-fuled state, came into contact with the Master Emerald and transformed due to the overflow of energy. While changing his appearance and giving him powers far beyond the average Mobian, it also completely broke his mind, turning him evil if not outright insane. This new abomination, dubbed and eventually renamed Scourge, cut off his ties with the Freedom Fighters and vanished into the night, vowing his own control of Mobotropolis and beyond. Before that, however, the transformation had resulted in a large emission of Chaos Energy in the area. Most of the Freedom Fighters were unaffected with the exception of Fiona, who came down with a serious and seemingly incurable dose of Chaos Radiation Poisoning.

Yet another year passed. Scourge, as he was now forever called, had already managed to kill Eggman and rule his Empire with an iron fist. He came down even harder on the Freedom Fighters, to the point they were on the verge of collapsing. This was not helped in the slightest by Sally Acorn's royal heritage making her a spoilt and insufferable brat who thought of no-one and nothing but herself. Because of this, coupled with the lack of Sonic to calm and restrain her outbursts, the Freedom Fighters became much less efficient and powerful and began to fail missions repeatedly. This mattered little to Tails, of course. For the past year he had tried to find a cure for the love of his life, and for a year he had failed. Fiona had become more and more ill, to the point to being unable to get out of bed, and was slowly dying of the radiation. Not only that, but she was starting to go a little crazy too, beginning to sound and reason like Scourge, which only made Tails all the more determined to find a cure. It was around this time that the two rescuers from Fiona's childhood returned, looking slightly more mature and battle-weary than last time, taking residence with the Freedom Fighters to ensure their victory in an upcoming battle. This didn't last, however, as Scourge finally remembered where his old friends had lived and turned up to attack the area. Destroying the village and robotocising most of the residents, he tried to take Fiona, knowing she was heavily poisoned and delirious, to be his queen over Sally. However, the wolf, named Lowell, came to Fiona's rescue and viscously attacked Scourge, eventually killing him by wrapping a cord around his neck and throwing him off a balcony, hanging him. This victory was too short-lived, as Fiona began to actually die from the additional exposure to the still radiated Scourge. Luckily, Lowell appeared before her and made quite a bit clear:

She had been rescued by him and his rookie because she was chosen for their little team of Hellblood Vigilantes, going after a seemingly power-mad creature not too unlike Scourge himself. Their universe was a duplicate of another universe, created due to a "glitch" in a reality changing device known as the Genesis Wave. Lowell had seen the original universe burn to nothing, to the point he had been forced to take part in the slaughter of reality itself, and he became determined to ensure that this new universe would not suffer the same fate. To that end, he and his rookie had appeared at parts in the timeline that had caused the original power-mad creature to flip out and attack the universe in the first place, altering history so these events either did not happen or happened in a different manner, with one of them involving Fiona and Scourge's betrayal of the Freedom Fighters and a long, long road to painful deaths at the hands of this "Master" creature. Lowell was here to change that.

In her dying breaths, Fiona allowed Lowell to bite her, transforming her into a Hellblood vampire and instantly reviving her. Lowell, in a fit of rage, shot the bratty Sally in the spine, disabling her from the waist down, and banished the Freedom Fighters from Mobotropolis and the surrounding area, before departing with Fiona for a new universe, where training and a new life awaited her. Meanwhile, with the main heroes and villains banished or dead, the new universe needed a new hero to protect it. This hero turned out to be a hedgehog named Silver, who not only protected the citizens from evil, but managed to find a new and much more benevolent use for the Roboite that started this mess to begin with. Industrial technology exploded out of every country and what we now know as The Urbanverse was born.

Never mind. I fucked up too much. Why're you still here?! Go watch some more shit with FINO and leave this unexsucable disgrace of a rewrite alone!
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Comments: 5

ToaArcan [2015-03-14 20:19:12 +0000 UTC]

This... Isn't a Fiona bio. It's a fanfic about your OC changing things in an Archie-esque setting. This isn't telling me anything about how you'd write Fiona. The only part you actually put any detail into was the part where she's bedridden.

It also seems like you were more focused on taking shots at things you didn't like about the Archie protagonists than you were with rewriting Fiona. You villified Sonic so that you could kill him, and made Sally a brat so that you could shoot her... even though the presence of the Freedom Fighters would've meant that there was no-one around to spoil Sally, so she couldn't have grown up like that. The FF did nothing to deserve being banished either. Flubbed against Sonic? Well, not for a lack of trying, and they couldn't get close without being poisoned, so how were they supposed to do that? Tails focused too much on saving Fiona? Well, that's wholly understandable. Not only is fighting Sonic a major risk to a close-quarters fighter like himself, but Sonic was still his brother, he'd have all kinds of issues fighting him, and by making Sally a brat, you also took away his other family connection among his friends. Fiona was the only one he had left. Added, she could've sniped Sonic from a distance if she was okay, and solved the previous problem entirely, so by saving her Tails would be able to save everyone else. Furthermore, if someone ends up focusing on desperately trying to save their girlfriend... through everything going wrong with her... how are they a bad person?

THere's also the problem that the FF don't really do anything because you throw your OC at them. Sally, while bratty in your vision, is still the rightful leader of the nation: Shooting her would just be an act of treason, and claiming to be able to banish them? No. Lowell does not have the authority to do that. Barely anyone even knows who he is. Sure, the OCs killed Sonic and saved Fiona... but the question everyone should be asking is "WHy didn't you save her and kill him before he fucked everything up. And since he's going to another dimension, why can't the FF just come back. Are the civilians the same idiots from Archie that turn against their heroes just because someone says so? ANd why is FIona so okay to leave her boyfriend to die in the wastelands after all he did to help her, especially on the say-so of the asshole who let her go through all that and die before turning her, and let Sonic terrorize Mobius for years and kill a load of people before killing him in turn. 

This just makes Lowell look like a cunt and Fiona an ungrateful bitch. The canon version can be fixed in two words: "She's brainwashed". This version? No. 

You need to focus on getting characters right without your OCs being involved. You're turning them into wish-fulfillment Fixer Sues, the problem being that you're the only person who would see this as a fix.

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MasterPerryMartin In reply to ToaArcan [2015-03-14 20:23:54 +0000 UTC]

Well this was a fucking waste of my time, then.

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ToaArcan In reply to MasterPerryMartin [2015-03-14 20:31:21 +0000 UTC]

Consider it a learning experience. If you're going to rewrite a character, focus on that character. As a challenge, don't use OCs to solve problems. Get the characters to overcome their issues rather than get them solved by someone else.

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MasterPerryMartin In reply to ToaArcan [2015-03-14 20:59:25 +0000 UTC]

Actually, better thing: why don't you try it so I can more clearly see what I should and should not do?

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ToaArcan In reply to MasterPerryMartin [2015-03-14 21:06:43 +0000 UTC]

The problem I have there is that Fiona has a major role in my reboot, but I want to keep her character arc under wraps.

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