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UPS!✨

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Just Married

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doodle

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Shadina a du talent en tant que styliste... Et Blacky, notre illustratrice, a clairement un talent en voice acting !

Shadina: Blacky Maria: Webyr Auteur: @beanbagstab

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Happy Year of Shadow the Hedgehog 🖤❤️

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had this one stuck in my head for an extremly long time 👽 can't believe this meme format hasn't been done yet, or at least I haven't see it anywhere

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how almost all of Amy character has been toned down including her feelings for Sonic while Sonic seems more smitten and almost regretful at times regarding her.

Like from Amy’s perspective she must be feeling like she’s done a lot of self reflection and growth in effort to become a better version of herself. Then here comes Sonic who wants her to stay in love with him even if that means being a “worse” version of herself.

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Sonamy Huggies 🫂

IDW edition

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A long examination of Amy and her character treatment.

This was initially a YouTube comment lol.

I truly loved the Sonic x dub cast but it really always came down to an issue of script and possibly the voice director. It always stung to me how much vitriol Amy used to get and while I like how she is better treated (being more recognized as one of the core 4), I do miss the sassiness she was given in the 00s. Sonic is meant to be kinda edgy and often in the anime he’s portrayed with immature traits because he’s a teenager, Amy often was the counterpart to that, a modern posh girl who was stubborn about what she wanted but not solely defined by that. I don’t think it was revolutionary but I do think compared to the Japanese ideal woman, Amy would be more akin with trickled down gyaru culture (Mat[ure] gal, something in line with the image of posh spice). It’s unfortunate that headstrong translated probably somewhat to boy crazy and desperate to an English audience and where Sonic’s immaturity was toned down removing that feeling they were on the same level. Often my biggest issue with her modern voice is she comes off as a knock off mini mouse (more so in the earlier games with her current English VA).

Maybe ironic is it sounds more alike to her Japanese portrayal which also ironically I’m very conflicted about since it somewhat aligns her more with cream age wise. But what I do like about it is the difference in character portrayal. If I were to guess Sega’s stance on Sonic and Amy it would be two people loosely dating, similar in the way Mickey and Minnie are a couple but that validity fluidly changes depending on the situational need. Keep in mind that Amy’s first portrayal is as a version of Sonic’s girlfriend. Given that there was apparently a valentine’s plush bouquet of the two I think to some degree they’re meant to be as such. When it comes to the Adventure era to just before generations, the context of this relationship is greatly changed between languages. American Sonic often gave off the feeling of a laid back but heroic guy who puts up with a girl because he is too kind and she’s too pushy. And I think even just the voice direction plays into that perception because of how they sound a different maturity than the Japanese portrayal. In Japanese, Sonic is often more playful and less uncomfortable than he sounds in English. A great example is adventure 1’s park segment when Amy gets excited for free couple entry, in English Sonic is clearly annoyed and calling her a pain while in Japanese he’s caught off guard but going along with it. I’ve only just been digging into the Sonic X sub but the comparisons I see give off more the feeling that Amy is casually dating Sonic and regularly fighting with him to take her on dates (gonna point to Goku and chichi in this case). He cares about her enough to go to her place first at the end of the first season but reflexively avoids responsibility, she’s the scary girlfriend always mad at him. Specifically pointing back to episode 52’s ending, they use a song associated with specially the relationship between Amy and Sonic that also is explicitly romantic (and in terms of the song presumably reciprocated) when she asks him to tell her He loves her and the lip flaps of his unheard response *could* match up to “Aishiteruze Amy” (my conjugation isn’t that good and google isn’t helpful but to me vague knowledge a more casual masculine way to say I love you) and a white rose which symbolizes “chaste love”.

Ultimately I read their relationship being Amy trying to find compromise with Sonic’s free spirit. They’re by no means official and probably never will be because it’s not in Sonic’s priority (in his game portrayal). The most I think that would ever become of him being with someone would be almost completely out of the picture and light hearted at best.( But that is also due to him eternally being 15/16 as for now. ) Amy trying to get him to spend time with her and show some reciprocation is I think all Sonic X Amy is looking for. But going back to my thoughts on why Amy got so much backlash for the longest time is I don’t not think the first wave of Sonic fans in America understood that. The image of who Sonic is was completely treated different and even before Amy (who you could technically call the second character created in game universe) could appear stateside, the U.S. already created the answer that “Yes, Sonic is interested in romance and here is the type of girl he likes.” My feelings toward Sally always lie in, I did not hate Sally but I hated the way fans pointed to Sally as the reason to hate Amy. It doesn’t help that when Amy was introduced, she was defined by being young, bratty and blind to Sonic not loving her back. She was the little sister trying to steal your boyfriend and the age gap they share was even more so focused on. Even with just the English dub of Sonic media, it was leaning into the concept that boys should feel disgusted at the ideas of romance that isn’t as prominent in Japanese media. It paints the picture to the average 90s Sonic fan that “Amy will never be his type because he’s more interested in a cool mature girl like Sally.” Of course the same comic that particularly created that shipping divide collapsed leaving Amy once again to be the sole main girl that now had a fandom known for hating her. Already doing a whole reset with Colors on scaling back the grand stories and cast, by the next time we really saw her in generations she was just…….dainty. I remember being very effected by her Disney princess hand posing in Lost World. To be honest she hasn’t been that deeply tied into any mainline stories too much, at least not in her modern styling but to also be fair, I’m trying to enjoy Forces despite being late to the game (There was a decade gap of buying a major console) and while I have seen pretty much the full extent of her rep in Frontiers, I’m holding off on dream team currently(also want to play the murder of Sonic on my own time). From the way I look at it, this has lead mainly western media to define her character and often working off said issues that previously arose with her portrayal. As much as I love Sonic Boom, I see Amy’s straight forward pursuit to awkward denial of even feeling that way as nothing less than an absolute failure of her character. That mixed with making her the “The girl annoyed with the boys because she’s just so much more smarter and sophisticated than them” just switching her to a different girly stereotype that ultimately pacified her, then further extending into prime emphasizing how nature loving she is in a way that again really just feels like a Disney princess cliche. Ultimately she’s become “The nurturing homebody who is a little annoyed at the brutish guys she’s around and doesn’t want to address having feelings for her guy friend because that would just bother him.” Maybe it's just aging to that point but its come to a girl minimizing herself is more frustrating that a girl obsessed with a guy. I get why they chose to pivot her in that way but it often also feels directionless.

Actually looking back at all the media that sparked this, even Sonic X doesn't feel that bad as she was made out to be. Granted I'm only a 7th of the way in but she's not often making a huge deal about sonic as much as sonic is the heavy hitter especially with knuckles gone and he's not taking his duties seriously. But it's also interesting to try and see what's going on in the Japanese dubs of the games now that I also have a decent hold on the Japanese language. Sonic adventure 2 gives the impression of her being a part of the crew just constantly not caught up in what's going on. Naturally she'd be invested getting her beloved out of prison but he is so tied up in what's going on that he (and tails) don't stop to fill her in before she's also a wanted criminal. Notably as well, when the island is set to explode, where sonic says "I got to warn the others!" Others is addressed as "Amy-tachi". The word the Japanese use for we is "Watashitachi" which is the word for I with Tachi denoting people with them (watashi can also be replaced with of pronouns if you don't use watashi). It took my by surprise that between tails and Amy, sonic refers to any instead. Something about Japanese sonic makes Amy feel more a part of the group and part of me cries the many ways English sonic fans did not get it.

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nobody talks about how sad sonamy is like actually especially now. Back then it was just a fangirl who loved sonic and wouldn't leave him alone. Sega didn't try to necessarily show that sad part of chasing someone who doesn't love you or write amy to be taken seriously (unfortunately) about her unrequited love for sonic, because she never gave up. but now, she has. She still loves sonic. Of course she does. When you love someone like that you don't truly ever stop loving them. But she is moving on from sonic. And sonic is matured now, and Sega has literally made it official that he wishes he could've told her earlier on that he loved her. I'm assuming so, because what else would he be talking about. Like to tell her to turn the oven off or something? It's crazy. And it breaks my heart. But it makes me so, so happy at the same time.

It breaks my heart because this is how it will always be now. They are both grown, and matured enough to realize things. But what they both are realizing are completely different things. Amy has realized she needs to move on, and she is, because no matter how hard she'd had tried over the years she never truly got to sonic. And it's even more sad because you know she still loves him though. But she's doing it for herself. And for sonic, he's realizing he did have feelings for her. He's not running away from his feelings now because he's grown as a person and confronts it now. But it's too late. And I'm gonna sob my eyes out because I love this duo a lot for these reasons because it's lowkey really tragic how this is gonna end-trick question it will never end. That's why it's so sad to me. It's like a love that is too late or something. A love that has gone on too long there's no use for action anymore. So you just leave it alone. But it will never go away. They still live on. As friends, and I'm pretty sure in a serious note sonic is aware of how she feels now. Because him alone saying he wishes he could've said something sooner proves that he knows she is done with him now. They're still friends, just without that question mark at the end anymore. It makes me happy at the same time because They're growing up. But it hurts my heart. But we too have to let it go, as amy is doing along with sonic. 

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Kiss kiss fall in love ~

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Sonamy: Soul Eater!!!

Quick drawing that has bits I wish I fixed, but I'm just happy I made something new!! I can see Sonic and Amy like this XD

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Finally drew Sage ☝️

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The struggles of a double sun relationship ☀️☀️

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Fifteen years ago today Sonic and the black knight was released 👑 ⚔️ 🛡