So this fan fic is going to be... In a sense a writing exercise... But also a bit on the corny side.

If you want the full story as to how this came to be, feel free to read the author's notes. If you want to get straight to the story, skip this and head to chapter 2. That's the REAL chapter 1.

My apologies...

This is my first time doing a chapter 1 with just author's notes but I felt it relevant because this fanfic started from an essay/thesis of mine. As a writer Sonic 06's story amazes me just due to lost potential alone. Silver and Elise get a lot of brownie points in this regard – they both could've been great should the story have been written better. The idea for this fanfic came from me doing a thesis on Elise's character and how she could've been better – think of it as a combination of Digi Valentine's "Who Dat?" series on YouTube as well as sort of a general writing workshop thing. Unfortunately this was all done in the form of an audio-only podcast thing that hasn't been posted anywhere online.

But one of the solutions discussed in a section on if you were to remove Elise from the game entirely would be to make Silver the Iblis Trigger rather than Elise, and that character would have a powerful and moving arc on his own. So basically this fanfic took that concept and rolled with it with the bonus challenge of keeping both Elise and Iblis in the story (both of which are just sort of there in the canon game. You could rewrite the story without either of them).

So what's this fanfic's goal and what will it change?

Here Silver himself is the main character – hence the title "Silver Edition"

We'll also be getting 3 or 4 story lines. Silver's would be the default story line you start a new game on, Shadow would be another story line and Blaze and Elise have somewhat meshed story lines that compare and contrast with each other fairly well. They're not going to be separated so they're all going to be written meshed together as one long story, separated by ellipses and it will be obvious when one story line has shifted to the other even when 2 stories are meshing together and shared by 2 or more characters. And we'll get 3 of those story lines segments per chapter with the exception of chapter 1.

Because this is also written as a complete rewrite of the game there are elements that are going to come off as obvious because we're already aware of what happened in the events of the Sonic 06 we got in the end. This is written as a new game entirely, new story, new save file, etc. This is essentially giving Silver his own solo title ala Shadow the Hedgehog (with 90% less edge) and placing it in the 06 universe with elements from Sonic Rush mixed in.