Lamia's Stone Soldiers

, otherwise simply known as either the , , or even , are enemies that appear in ChaosControl VA's Sonic AU. They were once normal statues of Naagon Soldiers until Lamia The Constrictor animated them with her magic after the downfall of that same kingdom, entrapping the deceased souls of her (former) citizens (including the royal family of Naagon) within them and having their actions controlled through the manipulated monuments via a curse (as a way of her tormenting them beyond the grave); they notably assisted Lamia in fighting against Team Spectrum when they arrived in Naagon to rescue Marina Rose, but they have since been destroyed with their imprisoned souls set free to go to the afterlife after Spectrum The Hedgehog broke their binding curse upon his victory over Lamia.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia%27s_Stone_Soldiers#Madness_in_the_Jungle_Arc
==History==
===Past===
At the end of Lamia's infamous reign the usurper queen of Naagon, the kingdom was left in ruins, with its generations of citizens finally dwindling out from the mismanagement of their current tyrant...https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia_The_Constrictor/History_and_app.#Pasthttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000194489/r/4400000000000614322 At some point, feeling as though she needed to torment others some more (in spite of her birthright's condition), Lamia decided to use her magical knowledge to summon the spirits of her deceased citizens and send them into the statues of Naagon soldiers scattered throughout the city, causing them to come to life as they uprooted themselves from their foundations and began to move their solid stone appendages around;https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Hall_of_the_%22Queen%22 Lamia placed a curse on those dead citizens of Naagon so that they would remain trapped within the Stone Soldiers and that their actions through those statues (in the physical world) would be forced to bend to her will as she would command them, all with a binding totem that she crafted (with it being in the shape of a skull as black fog oozed out of it)... So just like that, Lamia got herself an army of immortal slaves, and the necromanced citizens of the now-dead Naagon were forced to endure eons more torment at her hands because of this...
===Madness in the Jungle Arc===
Lamia notably called upon her army of Stone Soldiers when Team Spectrum entered the ruined city of Naagon in the hopes of finding shelter within its crumbling walls for the night,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Ruined_City and so the two factions ferociously battled each other in the streets after the Stone Warriors were able to successfully sneak up on the group of heroes;https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Stone_Soldiers_of_Naagonhttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia%27s_Stone_Soldiers#Skills_and_Abilitieshttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#An_Arch-Rivalry_is_Born ultimately, the battle ended in the Stone Soldiers' favor, as Berri The Rabbit had disappeared near the start of the fight to chase after her friend Ginger The Polar Bear (who was being mind controlled by Lamia and used to lure her away), and Audrey The Hedgehog and Whisper The Wolf volunteered to distract the army of Stone Warriors so that the rest of Team Spectrum could escape, which they did (much to some of their protests and regrets)...https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#Dealing_with_the_Losses
As the survivors of that battle recuperated and started setting up camp in the jungles outside and around the ruined city, the Stone Soldiers accompanied the newly-brainwashed Berri and Whisperhttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia_The_Constrictor#Personality as they led an ambush against them;https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Lamia_Effect this surprise attack was successful (with them swiftly incapacitating Amy Rose, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Tumult before they could react) as the Stone Soldiers concealed themselves in the foliage as backup, eventually coming out of hiding after their new commanders finished all the hard work... The Soldiers were then tasked with transporting Sonic and Tumult (sealing him specifically into a magic gem that Lamia provided them) to the Naagon Royal Palace while Berri and Whisper constricted and carried their primary target themselves:https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Berri_The_Rabbit#Skills_and_Abilities Amy;https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Amy%27s_Sol_Dimension_Pendant at some point along their path to Lamia's old palace though, Spectrum reappeared (after walking away from his friends to be by himself (inadvertently) during the attack) and interrupted their march, prompting Berri and Whisper to command the Stone Soldiers to continue taking Sonic and Tumult to the palace while they took care of their interloper (which they did successfully), and they did as such.
When Berri, Whisper, and Amy finally arrived at the Naagon palace, the then-dormant Stone Soldiers were already there, lining the walls after Sonic and Tumult were taken care of;https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Naagon_Royal_Palace#Throne_Room it was there that the Stone Soldiers witnessed Amy's brainwashing, Lamia taking the Sol Dimension Pendant, Spectrum showing up and bargaining for the lives of his enslaved friends with his own, and Lamia performing a ritual on Spectrum to turn him into a Stone Soldier himself... It was after all of that that Lamia began her invasion of the Sol Dimension, and so the Stone Soldiers attempted to join her, but she stopped and commanded them to keep watch over Sonic and Tumult to make sure they don't escape and/or go after her (noting how they would not want to see more citizens from another kingdom be enslaved like they were anyway)...https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia%27s_Stone_Soldiers#Past After she had finally left for her conquest though, and while the Stone Soldiers kept watch over their prisoners, the souls inside would convene with Spectrum, revealing to him how Lamia cursed them into the statues and how he can escape, as the curse applies to the citizens of Naagon only; after making him promise to free them, Spectrum escapes his fate as another one of Lamia's Stone Soldiers, destroying his statue in the process, and freeing Sonic and Tumult so that they all can go after Lamia and save the Sol Dimension.
After defeating Lamia in the Sol Dimension and thus saving it from her, Spectrum found and took the totem binding her victims to the Stone Soldiers on her unconscious person, honoring his promise to them (as he assumed that the totem was indeed reasonable for their situation) and crushing it to dush in his hand; at the same time, back in the palace of Naagon, the Stone Soldiers all crumbled to pieces simultaneously, releasing their trapped souls and allowing them to finally make their way to the afterlife (now that the curse was lifted by Spectrum), and they all celebrated as they did so and floated away into the sky.
==Appearance==
The Stone Soldiers take on the appearance of (actual) soldiers that inhabited the once-lively Kingdom of Naagon, albeit with a grey rocky texture but with the addition of glowing red eyes (an indicator of Lamia's magic upon the then-living monuments);https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia_The_Constrictor#Skills_and_Abilities the Stone Soldiers appear as anthropomorphic snakes with extremely large tails in the place of legs (tails that are surprisingly controllable and movable in spite of their large size, being able to wrap around individuals and strangle them as well as lump into masses of coils when the stone soldiers themselves are stationary).
For attire, the Stone Soldiers (naturally) have the appearance of wearing armor, mostly with just galea helmets and lorica segmentata chest plates; most of them also use weaponshttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Lamia%27s_Stone_Soldiers#Weapons_and_Gadgets that they were originally sculpted with as statues before Lamia enchanted them.
==Skills and Abilities==
*Body Movement
**Super Strength
**Stealth
*Loyalty (under Lamia's curse)
==Weapons and Gadgets==
*Swords
*Shields
*Spears
==Trivia==
*ChaosControl VA is very protective of his characters (especially Agony here), so if you want to use any of them (in art, animations, etc.), he wants you to ask him for permission to do so first. He also does not want any attributes of these characters being changed (their races, sexualities, etc.) beyond his original storytelling intentions to suit your own needs (in art, animations, etc.); this will continue to remain the case, unless ChaosControl VA gives permission on some of your proposed changes first (approved changes that ChaosControl VA describes as essentially being fan fiction for you alone).
*The Stone Soldiers' (real life) creator, ChaosControl VA, had created a system to better categorize and designate different Sonic OC Universes, considering he's had Spectrum interacting with OCs outside of his Sonic AU, and considering he didn't want to mess up the canon or anyone else's AUs with his own. The Stone Soldiers' home universe is designated "Earth F1718-1."https://chaoscontrolvaocs.carrd.co/#sonicocuniversesystem
*The concept behind how the Stone Soldiers work, how they bind the spirits of the dead to them via a curse and force their actions in the physical world (as well as the circumstances and details of Spectrum's self-sacrifice and "recruitment" into their ranks, the curse not applying to him and thus allowing his escape from eternal servitude in the statues,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Sheol_of_Naagon and his eventual rescue of the other souls trapped within them),https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rookie_Chronicles_(ChaosControl_VA%27s_AU)/Chronology_(Past_-_%22New_Generation%22_Saga)#The_Battle_for_the_Sol_Dimension were all based on Sheol (or "Abraham's Bosom"), as well as Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection (as they are both described in the Bible).
*The moment where Spectrum and the ghosts of Naagon's former citizens talked to each other within the Stone Soldiers (during the Madness in the Jungle Arc) was apparently inspired by the scene in Resident Evil 7 where Jack Baker begged Ethan Winters to "free his family."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQb-zQV-kjw
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==References==
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Category:Weapon Users: Melee
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