The Strays

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 is a small pop/rock band in ChaosControl VA's Sonic AU, comprised of a few of his OCs who travel around the worldEarth F1718-1
https://chaoscontrolvaocs.carrd.co/#sonicocuniversesystem and perform wherever they can. Admittingly, they're not necessarily popular, but that hasn't dissuaded any of the group's members.
==Main Members==
===Serena The Hedgehog===
 is the lead singer, as well as the (electric and acoustic) guitarist and (extra) bass player,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Serena_The_Hedgehog#Skills_and_Abilities of the group. Always cherry and happy and optimistic,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Serena_The_Hedgehog#Personality Serena is the glue of the group, keeping her other band members inspired and committed and happy with the band and each other (all of which has caused the public to (unofficially) see her as the group leader).
While the other members can and do sing for the group, Serena has the better singing voice (hence why she's the lead singer). Of course, Serena is more humble about this and doesn't consider herself to be the lead (as well as the leader), but the other band members are cool with her having such titles and roles.
===Kama The Akita===
 is the keyboard guitar/piano player of the group.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Kama_The_Akita#Skills_and_Abilities With her emo-like personality on the exterior, the public perceives Kama as "the hottest member of the band." Despite this praise, Kama's reserved personality keeps her from acknowledging this properly, so she just ignores it. She would love to interact with her own fans more often though.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Kama_The_Akita#Personality
Creative decisions go through both her and Serena. However, they both have a hard time coordinating their ideas together, especially as Kama struggles to get her messages across (thanks to her reservedness again). Thankfully, their fights would resolve themselves shortly after the facthttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Kama_The_Akita#Serena_The_Hedgehog (especially when Rowdi attempts to stop such fighting.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Strays#Rowdi_The_Cat The only other band member Kama is able to open up to and cooperate with properly is Audrey The Hedgehog, as they're close friends.
===Rowdi The Siamese Cat===
 is the percussion playerhttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Rowdi_The_Cat#Skills_and_Abilities of the group. With her child-like personality,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Rowdi_The_Cat#Personality the public considers her to be the "baby of the group." Her fellow bandmates even think this of her from time to time, but they still treat her like a good friend.
Whenever the other band members start infighting (especially with Serena involved), Rowdi is the one to keep them in check, as she hates to see her bandmates fighting. While the other members of the group are cool with hanging out outside of their work, Rowdi especially loves hanging out with her bandmates, constantly wanting to arrange dinner dates and dance club reservations and so on. She's also one of the group's head fashion designers, alongside Audrey The Hedgehog, being greatly financed by her family to do so (along with all of the group's other operations);https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Rowdi_The_Cat#Past she had a hand in crafting her own and Serena's outfits, while Kama preferred to merely wear her own clothing and Audrey wanted to remain modest and not take the spotlight from everyone else with any outfit she could use.
===Audrey The Hedgehog===
, with her name being an acronym for , and thus being otherwise known as , is the violinist and bass and horn player of the group, as well as their social media manager.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Audrey_The_Hedgehog#Skills_and_Abilities She is one of the groups newest members, having joined them after bonding with them during the war between the Resistance and the Eggman Empire. She initially didn't wish to tell the band that she is a robot, but she eventually told Kama (after bonding long enough with her to become close friends),https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Audrey_The_Hedgehog#Kama_The_Akita to which she responded with care and understanding. With her help, Audrey told the other members about her condition, and they too responded with love and understanding.
Due to her robotic proficiency combined with her organic levels of feeling, she is very proficient with the instruments she plays (especially the violin), being able to perform very emotional-sounding pieces when performing. Also due to her robotics, she's very knowledgeable and skilled with the internet, which she uses to the team's benefit by helping promote them on social media.
==Guest Members==
===Spectrum The Hedgehog===
 is a singer who the Strays occasionally performs and collaborates with. With Spectrum having originally saved the band members from imprisonment onboard the Death Egg,https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Spectrum_The_Hedgehog_(ChaosControl_VA)/History_and_app.#Past they were eternally grateful to Spectrum (Serena especially, as she was growing romantic feelings for him as well).https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Serena_The_Hedgehog#Spectrum_The_Hedgehog So for the remainder of the war between the Resistance and the Eggman Empire,https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_Forces Serena would encourage her band to encourage Spectrum from the sidelines, as they couldn't fight. It was only later on when the war was finally over that they started inviting him to be a guest singer for their shows. 
As he's not an official member of the band, Spectrum tries to be humble and not suggest many changes from them while he's working with them; Although the band is more than fine with meeting whatever accommodation Spectrum needs, he doesn't want to overstep and impose himself. When Spectrum is one of their guest performers, he rarely travels with them; when he does travel with the band though, Spectrum spends a lot more time with his sister Audrey and Serena than with the other band members. Even between his girlfriend and sister, Spectrum spends more time with Serena than with Audrey, as Serena's commitment to the band keeps her from being with Spectrum normally; nonetheless, the other members often like to tease the two lovebirds all lot when they're together and on the road.
===Basx The Persian Cat===
To be added
==Allies==
===Don and Nite===
 and are the boyfriends to Kama The Akitahttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Kama_The_Akita#Love_Interests and Rowdi The Siamese Cathttps://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Rowdi_The_Cat#Love_Interests (respectfully), and they air the Strays' songs on their own radio station: "K-TBR 199.2". Since the two are very close with the band through Kama and Rowdi, Don and Nite felt it would be fair to help the band out with their struggling road to success by allowing their songs to play on their radio station.
The Strays barely get a chance to interact with Don and Nite, on account of them constantly moving around the world to perform and on account of Don and Nite needing to run their station. Whenever the group's tour path happens to cross towards the radio station, however, they'll be sure to pay a visit, allowing them to get rundowns on the statistics of people listening to the station and their songs, as well as allowing Don and Nite to get some much-needed quality time with their respective girlfriends.
===Team Spectrum===
 is one of the Strays' primary allies. Being led by the titular Spectrum, the two factions have been interacting with each other ever since Spectrum rescued them from the Death Egg, with Serena being the most eager to interact with Team Spectrum (thanks to her feelings for Spectrum); in fact, Team Spectrum and the Strays are on such good terms with each other that Team Spectrum considers the band members to be honorary members of their own group.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Team_Spectrum#The_Strays Most of the band members merely provide support from the sidelines, with only a few of them going on adventures with the group from time to time (namely Serena and Audrey).
Aside from the titular Spectrum, the Members of Team Spectrum that interact with the Strays include:
*Berri The Rabbit
*Tumult
*Vi
*Priscilla The Orchid Mantis
*Ginger The Polar Bear
==Trivia==
*ChaosControl VA is very protective of his characters (especially with all of his original characters seen 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 Strays' 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 Strays' home universe is designated "Earth F1718-1."https://chaoscontrolvaocs.carrd.co/#sonicocuniversesystem
*The Strays were heavily inspired by Sonic's, Sonia's, and Manic's band in Sonic Underground.
*The band is mostly comprised of OCs who were originally adoptables (which the group name references). Kama is the only member who isn't an adoptable.
*In-universe, the Strays were the original artists behind "Believe in Myself" (originally performed by Kaz Silver), with it being the band's biggest hit; in real-life, ChaosControl VA felt it sounded like a song the Strays would make, with Kaz Silver's original performance even sounding like how Serena would to him.
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*As Kama is dating Don The Rooster and Rowdi is dating Nite The Owl, the two of them are heterosexual in ChaosControl VA's Sonic AU, with the two being just friends with each other.https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Don_the_Rooster#Triviahttps://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Nite_the_Owl#Trivia ChaosControl VA's reasonings behind this change and these ships are due to his self-imposed rule of only allowing his own characters to have different sexualities, but also because of a few other reasons; he felt that Don with Kama and Nite and Rowdi would make pretty good matches (personality-wise), that he wanted to emphasize the alternate universe aspect of his AU, and that he wanted a more fluid way to have Don and Nite play the Stray's songs on their radio station.https://sonicfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Strays#Don_and_Nite
==Social Medias==
*Twitter/X
==References==
Category:Teams
Category:Owner:ChaosControl VA
Category:Owner:ChaosControl VA/The Rookie Chronicles
Category:Universe:Sonic Ascension (AlexaLynnSTH's AU)
Category:Universe:Sonic Solara (Omorfia-Glimmer's AU)
Category:Bands
Category:The Strays Members
Category:Team Spectrum Members