Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicolored arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. In Chris's artwork, he consistently switches the positions of blue and green. This is possibly due to some degree of color-blindness, but more likely it's just because Chris is a fucking idiot.
In the Sonichu canon and various other works, rainbows are a recurring theme. For example, a rainbow was responsible for transforming Sonichu and Rosechu into their present forms. It was later revealed that the same Rainbow also spawned eggs, which eventually matured to become the Chaotic Combo and Silvana.
In real life, there's a rainbow etched into Chris's high school ring.
Chaotic Rainbow
The rainbow effect was the result of an accidental collision of a male Pikachu with Sonic in Sonichu #0. As Sonic was using the power of the Chaos Emeralds at the time, their energies somehow caused the Pikachu to mutate into a being similar in appearance to Sonic. This energy also arced across the sky, striking a female Raichu some fifteen miles away, and transforming her into a similar hedgehog-like creature.
Independently, Sonichu and Rosechu realized that they had become the genesis of a new Pokémon species. Eventually, Black Sonichu was cloned from a sample of Sonichu's DNA, and the Anchuent Prophecy would bestow three humans the ability to transform into Sonichus and Rosechus at will, but these were only copies of the originals.
However, Sonichu would soon discover other Sonichus and Rosechus created by the Rainbow.
The Chaotic Combo
In Sonichu #3, Chris revealed that the Rainbow had also spit out five eggs, which landed in various locations around the world. From within these eggs emerged larval forms of Sonichu and Rosechu, called "Sonee" and "Rosey". These five eventually evolved into variants of Sonichu and Rosechu, each possessing unique abilities and characteristics in addition to the powers of Sonic and Pikachu.
In addition to the eggs, Chris established that "mysterious beams of light also shone from the rainbow", but declined to elaborate; this might be Chris's way of giving himself an out for adding more Sonichus and Rosechus, like Silvana.
Inconsistencies
In Sonichu #0, Chris established that Sonichu was sixteen years old, and Rosechu was fifteen. Presumably, this refers to their age upon the day of their transformation, and so they spent the bulk of their lives as a Pikachu and Raichu. Sonichu #8 has since established that the couple turned 19 and 20 respectively as of early 2008 in accordance with the "Earth Time" of the Rainbow phenomenon (Listed as February 1st, 1989). Note that this would make the Sonic/Pikachu encounter from Issue #0 occur three years before the release of Sonic's first Genesis game, and eight years before the first Pokémon games.
The Chaotic Combo were spawned from the Rainbow as eggs, meaning that they would have been born while Sonichu was 16. And yet, Sonichu #8 depicts them celebrating their 19th birthday a few months after Rosechu's 19th birthday. Compounding this, Black Sonichu celebrated his 20th birthday shortly afterward, making him the same age as Sonichu, despite being cloned when Sonichu was 16 years old.
Strangely, when Black Sonichu questions the notion of celebrating a birthday for a clone, he points out that he was "not properly born of a Rosechu". The fact is, none of the electric hedgehog Pokémon were born naturally, as they were all shat out of a big dumb rainbow.
Additional retcons
Chris since revised the story of the rainbow again to reveal that a sixth egg had been launched from the Rainbow, only to somehow wind up on the Earth's moon. There, the newborn Rosey was taken under the wing of Count Graduon, who named her "Silvana" and trained her in the ways of evil. To better equip her for the cause of sexual villainy, Graduon gave Silvana the power to shape-shift, as well as male genitalia, to better fool horny enemy Rosechus. Like the other egg-born Sonichus and Rosechus, Silvana's age is established to be 19, even though Count Graduon wasn't unleashed until Sonichu was 16 and discovered the Anchuent Prophecy.
To make matters even more confusing, Chris has introduced several other Sonichus and Rosechus throughout the series, including Darkbind Sonichu, Jamsta Sonichu, Lolisa Rosechu, Zapina Rosechu, and Simonla Rosechu. There was no initially explanation provided for when or how these other Sonichus and Rosechus were created throughout their appearances in the comic.
Christian revealed his most current patchwork re-telling of the Rainbow's gift in his own Sonichu article at the CWCipedia. Chris, not to be outdone by prior work, has pushed his myth way past the third dimension:
| “ | From the Rainbow, EGGS were emitted throughout Earth, Space and Time. ALL of The eggs were all time-traveled back to the day of February 2, 1989 into various locations. There were countless eggs in addition to the 5 that would hatch into the Chaotic Combo Electric-Hedgehogs. | ” |
| Chris, never too sharp with math... so let's just say it's more than you can count, mister! | ||
There is a innumerable amount of Electric Hedgehog Pokémon among us. Be afraid.
Other uses of rainbows
It should be noted that the various Sonichus and Rosechus represent every color of the rainbow, although this may be a coincidence, as there's so damn many of them that Chris has no choice but to use every possible color to tell them apart.
In Sonichu #3, Flame the Sunbird lives on Rainbow Island.
Following fan backlash against the hardcore sex scene depicted in Sonichu #8, Chris removed or censored the pages containing genitalia from the site, and posted a ridiculous apology:
| “ | **After Serious Consideration and numerous complaints, I HAVE REMOVED the explicit sexual pages from EPISODE 17 of Comic #8,
And as GOD Promised NEVER again to Flood the earth with a Rainbow over Noah's Ark, I cast My Rainbow of Promise to NEVER AGAIN Draw or Upload any Further Images between Sonichus and Rosechus in EPISODE 18 of Comic #8, as well as ALL Future Comics, that depict explicit sexuality. |
” |
| Chris, correctly comparing his pornographic artwork to the horrors of global disaster [1] | ||
The message was accompanied by a large painting of Noah's Ark, depicting the rainbow described in the book of Genesis.
Despite Chris's assurances, he drew a love scene between Black Sonichu and Silvana Rosechu in the second half of the same issue, and later restored all of the deleted artwork in the Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack, along with promises of even more hideous furry porn to come.
Chris also offered a "rainbow of promise" in an e-mail to Megan:
| “ | I understand the possible irriation from being touched, but I now realize what may have set off the burst of anger. It was because of my immature behavior (with jealousy) over the winner of that contest, wasn't it? I wanted you to know that I have honestly given up on that erronious behavior. I do apologize for having expressed that anger, and I offer a peaceful rainbow as my promise to not get jealous and express such anger again. | ” |
| Chris, blowing out his ass[2] | ||
Chris also mentions rainbows in "A-U-T-I-S-M", the third track on his album Christian and the Hedgehog Boys.
I'm lookin' at you all and I see a rainbow, come on
You think I'm different in every way, come on
All of the times that I've earned honor roll!
This is probably how autism was explained to him. Either that or he thinks everyone is gay.
Possible interpretation of Chris's use of rainbows
See also
Sauces
- ↑ The OFFICIAL Sonichu & Rosechu Blog: Episode 17 Update
- ↑ "I now understand" 08 August 2007, 3:46 p.m. Chris_E-mails_2007