Sonichu Sonichu as Interpreted by Post Apocalypse Survivors -

[KingofManga420]

You are the only child of a chieftain who leads a tribe of nomads who wanders through the wastelands, your clan is small but close. You are bright and have a yearning for understanding but this hell scape is all you have ever known. When you were little your father taught you an ancient art passed down from his father and so on; the art of reading. Books are scarce in the hundreds of years since the bombs dropped so you haven't had too much time to put this to use... Until today.

While scavenging you come across a eerie little wreckage of a house that despite the stench of radioactive, rotting watermelon-scented shit, you dig through the remains of. Eventually you find a treasure trove of literacy... Picture books colored magnificently with artistry the likes of which you've never seen. "Sonichu"...

You spend the entire day reading them. What do these books teach you of the old world and those who came before? How do they make you see the world around you now?

 

[Dr. Meme]

Chris is love, Chris is life
He is alpha and omega
All hail the Great Director Chandler and his Son, Sonichu for they shall save us from the misery that is our existence.

 

[Ification]

I'd probably assume that the events taking place in this story were real. As for interpreting the story itself, I'd think that this was the tale of a love-seeking mayor slowly going mad due to the increasing pressure mounted on him by the villains, along with the deaths of several of his friends and love interests. Eventually, after being forced to carry the deaths of 100 innocent people on his shoulders, and after one of his friends is murdered, he snaps and becomes even worse than his enemies. As I'd believe the story's events to be real, I'd imagine the time the books were created as more chaotic and warlike than it is now, with lost magic and strange creatures being commonly-used superweapons. As such, I'd also believe that Chris-Chan was a unique ruler, trying to hold on to values of peace that back then were considered lost. I'd feel sorry for him, and wish that I could have done something to help him onto the right path.

After having read these books, I'd begin to truly appreciate our current situation, along with the values of love, preserving history, and being able to defend oneself. I would begin to record the history of our clan, using whatever I can find. I'd do it in Chris's style, using all the quirks that his writing and art skills have to offer. Lastly, I'd also realize that no matter what, our situation can get worse, but I must not stray from my values like Chris-Chan. I must remember what is right, without letting life's obstacles trample me, or else I'd become what Chris-Chan became: a monster.



That, or I'd just consider them interesting relics of the past, and nothing more.

 

[Konstantinos]

I think it would just be The Book of Dave but with pokemans and da trolls instead of taxis and evil women.

Also, this is only tangentially related to the matter at hand, but I've always felt like Sonichu takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Its the only way the majority of the content makes sense to me: all of the pokemon and chu's are mutants; Chris is a despotic warlord whose power goes unchecked because civilization has ended; CWCville is like it is because there's no more federal government; the trolls and jerkops are able to go around terrorizing people because there's no laws to stop them; and so on.

 

[EI 903]

I'm pretty sure we've had this conversation in What If or Random Thoughts & Questions before.