Sally Evergreen (original) (raw)
urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fellfromthetree Sally Evergreen Sally Evergreen Sally Evergreen 2011-06-05T23:41:04Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fellfromthetree:724 fellfromthetree @ 2011-06-05T19:39:00 2011-06-05T23:39:02Z 2011-06-05T23:41:04Z Sally Evergreen was born in 3220 (we think). She was raised by her parents in a very large city called Station Square, the Hidden City of the Ancients. There was no war, no sickness, no robots. There was nothing but peace and prosperity for nearly everyone, including Sally's parents.
As Sally grew up, however, she herself found she was not entitled to that prosperity. Soon enough she became painfully aware that she was different from other children. She stopped growing while everyone began to tower over her, grew fur while everyone else grew just hair. With her cat-like ears and tail looked more like an animal than she did in comparison to her very human parents. This caused the other kids to make fun of her, to the point where she had few friends as she grew up. She wasn't even allowed to go to certain places with her parents, restaurants or playgrounds, since she was considered an animal, not a full citizen. But that was how Station Square was - after all, Station Square was the capital of humanity. Creatures, science experiments. and freaks like herself were frowned down upon. Her teachers, neighbors and civil leaders bluntly told her that she shouldn't expect a right to real citizenry and that she should resign herself to living on the fringes of society - or, at the most extreme, end her life and spare herself the suffering.
Despite this, Sally's parents always assured her that she was their child - despite everyone whispering that there was no way two normal-looking people could give birth to something like her - and that nothing anyone said would change that. What was more, they would make sure she wanted for nothing, and tried to help her live as normal as she could. Nevertheless, Sally was lonely, cut off from most opportunities despite her brilliance, and her presence always caused embarrassment and shame (so she thought) for her parents. She decided she'd become human so she could be a part of society just like everyone else. Once she was old enough, she tried to get a summer job, supposedly to pay for college without scholarships (but really it was to to save money for surgery to make her human-looking); she only could find low-paying, poverty-class industrial jobs under the city. Not only this, but she was fired from many of them because of her looks and because of co-workers who didn't want her around. Finally, she got a job working on machines deep within the city sewers, where everyone wore hazmat suits; no one could see how she looked, so it didn't matter.
Officially, she was told they were part of the city's electrical grid for this latest dangerous job, connected to special gems called Super Emeralds. The full truth, however, was much more sinister. For centuries the leaders of the Hidden City had kept their people under such a tight control of information and propaganda, using the Super Emeralds to prohibit almost all access to their city, that nearly all the people believed their city was the only city in a flat world. Station Square was, in fact, a vast underground network of tunnels, and the people were virtual prisoners kept inside an artificial environment controlled by weather machines. The only way into this place was a cave inside a mountain, deep within an ancient forest, And outside the cave and beyond the forest, a whole world awaited; different races walked the planet above, and a long, terrible war had just ended with the defeat of a techno-tyrant, Robotnik, only to renew again with his unexpected return a year later.
But the people of Station Square know nothing of this. In fact, for them, it's the year 1997 (just like our year 1997), there's no war going on, and the idea there are other places other than their sprawling city is absolutely ludicrous. And Sally, far from being a freak of science experiment, is in fact something far more, someone more important than she can fathom, but no one save her parents know. For her parents were rare refugees of the outside world - and they too are prisoners, ordered to keep their mouths shut about the truth of their "child's" origin for fear of dire consequences.
Of course, this ignorance cannot last forever. After all, once a certain madman sets his sights on making something happen, nothing stops him. Even if he has to destroy Station Square bit by bit for those Super Emeralds hidden deep within...
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In this universe, instead of Elias, King Acorn sent Sally with Queen Alicia for safety during the first half of the Great War. After all, the king felt his son and heir, Elias, was safer with him. Unfortunately, the plane that carried them didn't even make it to the Floating Island, which, in the original canon, the plane crashed after being attacked - instead it malfunctioned and crashed deep within Overlander territory, where the burning plane wreck was found by an Overlander couple, the Evergreens. The only survivor was the baby Sally, who they took back to their village to try and raise. Eventually the Evergreens were forced to flee when the Mobian army came to destroy the village under Julian Kintobor's command, and they stumbled onto the cave with Station Square in it by complete accident. Sally has thus lived in Station Square - in this world a dystopic underground megapolis that has lasted in isolation for millennia - since.
Sally knows nothing of being a princess, or of the Freedom Fighters, or of being a Mobian. In fact she is completely unaware that there is anyone else at all like her or even that her hometown is really inside a cave. Any and all knowledge of Mobius was forbidden to be revealed and her parents, as refugees from the outside, were told not to reveal anything to her or to anyone else about Mobius on pain of extreme punishment.