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Request: Nonbinary Tails? :O (do with this how u want)

Thank you for the request! ✨

Transparent version under the cut <3

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(Same guy as the Nicole request, this one is secondary and I'm not expecting it's completed as I know there's a lot)

Non binary Tails perhaps?

waiter! waiter! more nb tails please!

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4 of 21 complete MILES TAILS PROWER

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And when you’re done, the world will be at peace and we can finally go out!

That could be fun

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For the hot takes: on the topic of Lost World, what do you think of Tails' writing there? (I recently replayed the 3DS version and did not have a good time XD) I myself am of the opinion that his anger towards Sonic in Frozen Factory comes a bit out of nowhere. It's right after the scene wherein Sonic teams up with Eggman, and Tails expresses zero issue then. Besides, Sonic tells him he makes a good joke about Eggman asking "sooooooo nicely", and Sonic indicates he's not happy with this. So for Tails to be pissed the very cutscene after is a bit unfitting imo. But then at the same time, there is a scene later in the game wherein Tails nearly gets hurt by the Cubot-Crabmeat he made and Sonic scolds him for that. So while I get that could be a cause of concern for Tails that Sonic doesn't trust him, I simultaneously feel that Sonic never actually indicates as such; especially since that confrontation comes before Sonic scolds Tails. He says at the end he'll never doubt Tails again, but like... did he ever? What do you think? ^-^

I'm one of the three people in the world who enjoys LW's story, and that includes the idea of Tails giving in to his insecurities :P

But rewatching the cutscenes years later, yeah, it's odd to see Tails in Tropical Coast laughing with Sonic at his proposal to team up with Eggman, only to see him snap in serious anger the level after. It's not unfeasible that he let his thoughts fester off screen, so the more he thought about it the worse he felt... but that borders on the verge of doing the writers' job for them :P

I can be charitable and say that, since everything stems from Tails' insecurities, the fact that Sonic vocally protests about having to work with Eggman doesn't really factor in his breakdown. Actually, it might make it worse. So he knows that asking Eggman for help is a bad idea... but he still would rather do it than completely trust Tails? He still trusts Eggman that he's the only one who can shut down the machine?

Pontaff wrote Tails as someone who doesn't want to follow Sonic's shadow mindlessly. I always took the impression that they wanted to make him feel slightly older, like a pre-teen: still young, still caring a lot about Sonic, but growing up and not afraid of questioning him. You can see shades of this in Colors, where Tails pokes fun at Sonic "talking to dead robots", and the two get into some playful ribbing near the end where Sonic jokingly asks what Tails did during the whole adventure and Tails equally sarcastically points out that he was the reason they even understood the Wisps' plight. I know some people don't like this because it feels too meanspirited, but personally, I liked this direction because it felt like natural chemistry - naturally, there is zero indication that the two don't love each other any less, as the three major games penned by Pontaff have at least a scene where Sonic readily protects/goes to save Tails (man I love how uncharacteristically pissed he gets at the Zeti for this <3).

So, going back to LW, this is why I personally never questioned the idea of Tails briefly doubting Sonic. He might genuinely believe he was in the wrong, for once. It's one thing to allow Eggman to help in a situation like on the ARK where it was a matter of hours between life and death, but here? Trusting Eggman on the word? Why would Sonic do this? Why is he refusing to listen to him, like with the Conch that caused this whole mess in the first place? And ofc, this sentiment isn't helped by Sonic scolding Tails for "trying to help". See, even with the choppy development of Tails' anger, there's a good story here!

I do, however, take umbrage with the very ending, where Sonic is the only one to apologize for doubting Tails. That's just not true. Tails should have been the one apologizing for letting his insecurities getting the better of him! Sonic was just working with the information they had. This is really the only part I fault the story for.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my annual "Lost World's story is not that bad and it did a pretty good job analyzing Sonic's and Tails' flaws + this Eggman is unironically peak, and I don't understand why this game of all games made everyone act like Pontaff pissed on their wives" apology post :P

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gonna try the hot take ask game!

let's see... Sonic has never had an extremely rigid philosophy about not killing bad people to give them another chance. It's a blatant misunderstanding of how Sonic represents freedom to interpret him as believing everyone should be free indiscriminately.

Strongly agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly disagree

It simply doesn't exist in the games. There is not one scene of Sonic coming close to killing someone, only to pull back at the last minute. He's not a bloodthirsty Punisher, but he also has no qualms about stopping enemies, one way or another.

In fact, just ask Erazor Djinn how merciful Sonic is! Oh, wait, you can't. He's drowning in lava because Sonic trapped him there :P and let's not forget how he lowkey threw a death threat at Infinite when he talked about hsi epitaph.

Point is, Sonic's only principle if you want to call it that is his desire to help people in need. But it's not a rigid rule he lives by. There is no way he'd ever say "I want to do this, but my own rules prevent me from doing so." That is the complete antithesis of what Sonic stands for!

I'm gonna copypaste what I and a friend wrote in the IDW Sonic FAQ which I think is relevant:

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“Why do you want Sonic to kill people so bad?”

There seems to be this common misconception that people who have an issue with Sonic’s “principles” would rather watch him kill in cold blood. That is not the point.

Sonic is a nuanced character who simply doesn’t have any “principles” when it comes to his enemies. He treats villains on a case-by-case basis: sometimes he takes them down without feeling sorry, such as Erazor Djinn. whom Sonic sealed in his own lamp and then threw into lava. Sometimes he first defeats them then comforts them, such as Merlina. Sometimes he takes a non-lethal approach, such as Chaos who was simply neutralized (it’s up to interpretation if he empathized with it or Sonic simply saw the situation  pragmatically). Eggman is a special case because of his plot armor that comes from being the franchise’s main antagonist, but his tendency to survive his encounters with Sonic can be easily explained as Eggman being very good at getting away: see below.

A violent Sonic is just as OOC as a Sonic that insists on letting enemies go in peace.

“Sonic spares Eggman.”

The “principle” of Sonic letting Eggman go is nothing more than Flynn’s attempt at a Watsonian explanation of a simple piece of storytelling that harkens back to the Genesis era: how come Eggman survives everything Sonic throws at him? The truth is, of course, that this is a cartoon series and Eggman is protected by his status as the main villain. If you really wanted to explain it logically, you’d have two options: Sonic always holds back and lets Eggman go… or Eggman is very good at surviving and escaping. And honestly, the second option sounds the most likely, because Sonic is shown to be near-ruthless when it comes to his archnemesis. Just a few examples:

Sonic 1: The player can control Sonic at the end of the Final Zone and they have the chance to attack Eggman one more time, watching him fall down in his exploding Egg Mobile. 

Sonic CD: In the bad ending, Sonic throws a rock at Eggman as he’s flying away, causing the Egg Mobile to explode.

Sonic Pocket Adventure: Super Sonic rams into Eggman at the end of Chaotic Space Zone, even as Eggman is visibly shaking his head and arms to say “please don’t”. 

Sonic Battle: In Cream’s story, she accidentally electrocutes Eggman, and Sonic mocks him all the while for his “new dance”.

Sonic Unleashed: At the end of the Egg Dragoon fight, Sonic takes the time to destroy the Egg Mobile and then throws Eggman in the general direction of the lava, again ignoring Eggman shaking his head and arms in fear.

Sonic Lost World: In the ending, Sonic sabotages Eggman’s jetpack and gleefully watches him fall down for miles.

Sonic Mania/Sonic Mania Plus: At the end of the Phantom Egg fight, Sonic leaves a panicking Eggman behind in the collapsing Titanic Monarch. In Plus, Super Sonic and the gang knock Eggman away into the Phantom Ruby-caused wormhole right behind them.

And this is not counting the many instances of Sonic leaving Eggman for dead, from the Death Egg’s implosion in Sonic 2 to Eggman being sucked into a black hole in Colors, or particularly gruesome fates that are played for laughs, like sinking into a pool of lava after S3&K’s Lava Reef boss or being cut by the Screw Mobile’s turbines in Mania’s Hydrocity miniboss. Clearly, cartoon series or not, Sonic has no regard for the life of his archnemesis.

The only instance in which Sonic actually stood there and watched Eggman escape was in the ending of his own campaign in Sonic Adventure 1. And even then, that was quickly rectified in the ending of the Last Story, where Sonic starts chasing Eggman again almost immediately after neutralizing Chaos.

(Sonic Adventure 2 doesn’t count. Gerald’s plan and Shadow’s death distracted everyone, with good reason)

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Harsh winds ahead.

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Couples shirt idea

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“I hate obvious symbolism” bro shut up sun and moon couples are a pillar of our society

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eureka!

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Tails invites his new guest, Professor Victoria, to do a deep-dive on the ancient history of their world! But when a certain uninvited guest arrives, will it doom their future conversations?

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(About the heights) Sega revamped their character page on their Japanese site. Classic Amy, Eggman and Knuckles have canon heights too.

Oooh I just saw

Too bad they removed Tikal & some other characters 😭

And too bad about using the 3d renders instead of the 2d artwork. Siiigh.

But otherwise very fun! Lots of new characters too

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I HEARD TAILSAGE HI (theyre such cutie patooties i need to draw them <33)

Hiiii ^-^

Yepp they're so cute to me <3 my babies

I have sooo many thoughts about them & their potential dynamic & I really hope they'll become rivals (who respect each other but still support different sides) in canon !!

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So Classic Sonic and Tails have canon height measurements now. Looks like my guesses for them were actually very close! C!Sonic's 75cm; shorter than Modern Tails{80cm}, and C!Tails is 60cm.

Classic Sonic being shorter 🤭 (validation for me who draws adult!Tails relatively tall)

I've kinda been out of the loop though, where did those measurements get revealed?

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Classic tails 10x adorable.

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I've been meaning to redraw this scene/meme from kung fu panda for literal YEARS at this point.. and now i can finally check it off my list... i love any joke that makes charmy believe he's been born of espio and vector's actual flesh and blood just because they've raised him for as long as he can remember.

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Please don’t interrupt his Amy time, he needs it to stay strong and healthy