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au where knuckles stumbles upon tails instead of sonic and so he ends up as his big brother instead

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almost forgot to make an art piece for pride month to spotlight my fellow aroaces

Cure For Me is still my favourite song of all time and it's nice to remember its message every once in a while :)

🖤🩶🤍💜💚🤍🩶🖤

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Things Your Character Pretends to Be (But Isn’t, At Least Not Yet)

(Identity masks, coping roles, survival personas.)

The caretaker (but no one’s ever taken care of them).

The brave one (but they’re terrified all the time).

The flirt (because real intimacy is terrifying).

The funny one (because laughter hides the panic).

The overachiever (but they feel like a fraud).

The chill one (but they’re screaming inside).

The leader (but they never wanted the spotlight).

The rebel (but they just want to belong).

The calm one (but their thoughts race nonstop).

The loyal one (even when people don’t deserve it).

The loner (but they’re starving for connection).

The tough one (but they’ve never been allowed to cry).

The problem-solver (but can’t fix their own mess).

The grounded one (but they feel completely lost).

The logical one (because feeling has always gotten them hurt).

The “together” one (but they’re falling apart in secret).

The “nice” one (but they’re boiling with resentment).

The free spirit (but they crave structure).

The peacemaker (but they never say what they need).

The heartbreaker (but they’re terrified of being left first).

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whenever i see stuff abt "we need more tails and sonic dynamic where they're SIBLINGS!" and it's just them being rude to each other i get so sad. they do NOT talk to each other like that!!

sometimes they tease, yeah, BUT:

sonic knows better than anyone that tails is still a child, that he's been through a lot (and thus has some particularly sensitive spots,) and the usually brusque/brash sonic very clearly adopts a softer tone with his lil bro! he's also willing to slow down and (gasp) take care of himself a little better for tails' sake. we also see he gets pretty protective of him...

he has absolutely no problem indulging tails' interests and needs!! sonic thinks tails is adorable!! sonic thinks tails is incredible!!

and TAILS thinks his brother is the coolest thing in the world!! he wants to emulate and be more like him! so while he's inherited some of sonic's attitude (and he's earned the right to use it) he would NOTTT just. straight up insult sonic to his face, much less mean it. don't forget that tails canonically thinks this blue energy rat is incredibly cool

why would u want to make this relationship into a stereotype? they're not typical brothers, they formed this special unbreakable bond themselves!! its unique! its built off of understanding and perfect synchrony!! fundamentally it is sonic gently taking tails in and showing him kindness for the first time, and tails striving every day to emulate his hero! there's no want, no need, and no room for needless cruelty!

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GAHHH I love these!!!

(Tails is also my fav lol)

Here I am again for some personal hc abt Sonic and friends, this time its more character focused! I have been cherry picking form all canons bc you can't stop me lmaooo. So lets start with world building a lil starting with sonic? idk

Sonic is the eldest of a set of triplets. He doesn't talk about them much since he "ran away" [really he was sent away after his father was murdered by his mother for some bullshit prophecy that never happened and he's been bitter about it ever since lol]

It's not a secret, but he doesn't go and tell everyone he meets.

He's basically an orphan with no history - that's how he wants it to be. Sonia and Manic check in on him every once in a while, make sure their big bro is healthy and whole. The Queen is unaware they're in contact.

Tails and Amy know his full history [Tails was told, Amy saw it in her cards and weaseled full answers out of him]. Knuckles knows there's more to his history but respectfully doesn't care. Vector and the rest of Chaotix found out through some digging but promised Sonic not to tell anyone. Rouge has several inklings and while she's nosy as hell, respects Sonic enough not to pry unless needed. Shadow has no fucking clue lmaoooo. Basically, it's the worst kept secret that only the public doesn't know about.

That thing about him being from Christmas Island was only said bc reporters kept bothering him and he just came back from having lunch with Sonia and Manic from that very island so he just said that. They believed him lmao.

Sonic is home/houseless by choice. He doesn't feel the need for a whole house to himself, but he does have a room in Tails's place to keep his stuff and to sleep over if the weather is bad. The guest room at Amy's is always open for him and he's even got extra shoes and a few pairs of socks and gloves at her place. The couch is always available at Chaotix and Rouge will even lend him the couch at her place... for a price. Other than that, Sonic just sleeps where ever whenever.

this is getting long again so under the cut it goes!

Sonic found Tails when he was around ten and Tails was 2-ish[he'd been alone since he was 4 - his guardian Longclaw dying mysteriously shortly after being entrusted with his care. Sonic doesn't remember much, only that he was to find his Uncle Chuck and stay with him - only to find his uncle died during the raid that seperated him from his family and his mother thought it best he stay with Longclaw - she didn't know the owl had died]

Sonic tried to find his family and found the village he was from but the village and even Tails's own parent rejected him because of his mutation. Sonic got mad and decided to keep Tails.

For several years they slept in burrows in the woods bc, well, Sonic was just a kid himself. But he managed to get some funds to buy a house for Tails.

Tails admits he doesn't remember much before the house, being so young and all. Just that Sonic was rather quiet [mute] and very protective of him.

Manic and Sonia have met and love Tails. They were the reason Sonic managed to find a home for their lil bro lol - don't ask how 3 12 yrs olds managed to buy a whole ass house - Mobian children seem to be highly independent and capable.

Sonic actually really does love Amy, romantically, he's just scared and super shy. He has no idea how to confess but somehow Amy just knows and is infinitely patient [especially now that she's mellowed out in her mid-teens lmao]. They aren't dating but neither of them have looked at other people out of respect for each other. If they do find someone interesting they talk to each other about it and try not to get jealous jghadjhgjdhg It's complicated.

Sonic's relationship with Eggman started when he was 7. Eggman was tracking a weird chaos signature and found and captured Sonic. After realizing the blue spiky thing was in fact just a child, he kinda keeps him??? Like a weird kid he was babysitting only testing his chaos limits and his speed. At seven he was going faster than most race cars - not quite breaking the sound barrier... yet.

Ivo was the one to make Sonic his first shoes since his feet burning via friction was part of the reason Sonic had troubles going full speed. At first Sonic cooperated with everything Ivo asked bc he thought he found a parental figure - even giving the old man a nickname due to his funny shape and love of eggs.

Until, Sonic found out he was abusing Chao and using Flickies to power his robots. Sonic rebelled and destroyed the place he called home for the better part a year.

It would not be the first time Sonic has had bad interactions with adults. In fact, Vanilla is one of the few adults Sonic trusts without question.

Amy was Sonic's first friend! Amy knew where to find Sonic and she was genuinely the first person to be actually kind to him in so long he basically became her bestie in minutes lol [this was a few months before Tails.]

Sonic can feed off his chaos energy if needed like Shadow - but he can't do it indefinitely, the longest he'd ever done it was during the Phantom Ruby incident - Eggman and Infinite rarely fed him so he was forced to use his chaos energy to not starve to death. It fucked him up for a while after. He's fine dw.

Let's move on to Amy!!! My sweet girl!!!

Amy does regular tarot readings and Sonic will even play along. He's not sure if he believes in any of it, but he can't deny Amy's instincts on the matter. Mostly she uses Sonic as practice since she already knows his fate lol.

Shes from Little Planet ofc, and since she's from there she's both older and younger than she appears. I have this hc that Little Planet and Mobius have a weird relationship with time. On Little Planet she could be 12, on Mobius 14, on Earth 16. It's strange and simultaneous. Especially during convergences.

As such, she's actually a clairvoyant! In fact most people "native" to Little Planet are, but subtly so. Amy cannot not control what she knows or can know - her cards help focus but really it's just intuition.

If she trained more, she could actually be stronger that Knuckles, but she's too busy for that! She's got too much going on - as long as her hammer can still crush an eggbot with little effort - she's happy!

Amy's school girl wold crush on Sonic has expanded to a more soft love and while she's endlessly frustrated by how Sonic dances around her without the proper courting ritual, she's genuinely content. She can wait, they have their whole lives and they're literally like 15....probably. Time is weird.

Time for the all time fave of mine since i was just a kid.

Tails has always been smart ofc ofc. He was talking before Sonic found him alone in the woods - having been left there by his parents who couldn't take being ostracized from their village any longer.

Tails wants to hate them, but he can't. Sonic didn't raise him to hold hatred in his heart. He found them when he got older and told them of all he accomplished, ending with a "I have a better family now". The Prowers are proud but it's too little too late. Tails sometimes visits them - it's rare though - he's a busy fox!

Sonic did build the og Tornado and knew how to fly from Eggman teaching him. Sonic then taught Tails to fly after the little fox figured out what was wrong with the engine.

Sonic also taught Tails the ancient hedgehog language that very few know anymore - mostly bc Sonic was pretty much mute at first. Between Tails coaching him and Amy's encouragement, Sonic started talking... and then never stopped lol

Tails makes enough money to support both him and Sonic via his patents and odd mechanic jobs he does. this doesn't mean Sonic doesn't rake in enough cash to cover the electric bill.

Tails is also a Chaos user! He can't use it like Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, etc can though, its more passive like Rouge. He uses it to fly! [Come one guys, there's no way spinning tails is gunna lift him and those wings Rouge have are way too small to lift her weight, they def use chaos energy].

uuguhghgughg i had more but im hungry so i'll stop here. If anyone is interested in a character from the sonic franchise or my sonic kid ocs hit me up!

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Routinely checking my pad makes me feel like an overprotective dad like “heyyy how’s it going down here”

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It's still sinking in that The Owl House was about a girl running away to a fantasy world, all because of the ripple effects of losing her father at an unfairly young age — only to eventually learn that the fantasy world itself was made of the bones, and the flesh, of a loving father who'd protected his child with one of his final actions, before dying and giving life to that fantasy world. And eventually, in his truly final action, ever giving life to Luz herself. Luz ran away to the Boiling Isles, all because of a single book that her dad gave her — and unknowingly, she spent every day walking over ground that embodied parental loss. A world that was born from a parent's death, a parent who had to leave their child far too soon — and not just any child, but Luz's own new best friend, in all of this new magical world. And King and Luz were only ever brought together because of their fathers' deaths — before they even realized they had anything in common to grieve. Before they realized a reminder of that grief had been beneath their feet this whole time.

But, at the end of the day... their fathers both gave them parting gifts. Their fathers both gave them the key to come of age in a world full of people who'd care about them — maybe not the only world where they could've been happy, but a world they wouldn't want to imagine missing. Their fathers gave them the chance to meet each other. To understand each other. And, ultimately, to heal and grow up together. Until the ground beneath their feet stops feeling so heavy, like grief — and starts feeling lighter again, like a gift, and a happy memory.

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"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

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Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

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[art backlog: november 30, 2024]

did a kiss request challenge on my ig story and never finished all the submissions but i Did finish this one!! god i love gay people guys. did you know that. did you know i love gay pe

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I guess I won't get tired of drawing Anne the Goddess*°★ I love her.

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we love to glorify best friends who fall apart, but what’s sadder is two people who never were friends to begin with. because you’ve had a chance with your best friend, you’ve tried being with each other, but all the pinky promises in the world can’t erase the fact that she’s the sun and you’re the moon and you two just weren’t meant to exist in the same sky.

but maybe the guy who sits behind you in chem class could have been your real best friend if only you’d talked to him. maybe the girl who was reading the same book as you on the subway could have been your future love. and all it took was one missed opportunity, one moment of possibility that died when you swallowed your words. maybe you could have been more than stars gathered in different constellations, strangers sent adrift on diverging paths, never knowing what could have been.

— arlen c. | my books

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Despite her strange blood, she was still a Leviathan.

Some more Raised in Amphibia AU stuff because I really liked drawing princess Marcy, this time also feauturing Lord Sasha (poor Anne doesn't get to show off her outfit much, but I'm thinking of drawing them both properly later). I'm thinking things get very complicated when they're adults.

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[art backlog: may 22, 2023]

she’s never letting him live that down ever

platonic rosegold my beloved. the in-laws ever. they’re such little shits to each other

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A little… shroomance??

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You know that thing in media when

Main character: *is making stupid choices*

Best friend: MC, you’re being stupid

MC: Oh are you jealous? Are you trying to stop me from living my life? F*** you I’m gonna do it anyway

Love interest: MC, you’re being stupid

MC: Wait maybe they’re right

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Love referring to characters who are never seen without each other as "bonded pairs" like yuuuup. if you put these two in separate cages they're gonna get real sad and anxious and possibly violent too, one of em is biting the bars as we speak. you gotta adopt both of them or none at all, it is encouraged that you take them both. they are most likely to thrive if they stick together. it is easier for them to get used to new environments and situations because they have each other. they do everything together because they love each other so so much. you COULD separate them but it's gonna do a lot of psychological damage and it's gonna lead to a lot of issues and there's a big possibility they'll never be the same again