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brucenorris007 · 1 year

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Who. Taught. Knuckles. Speech????

All y’all going on about Sonic being nonverbal in his early years, KNUCKLES LITERALLY RAISED HIMSELF.

He survived purely on the basis that basically nothing on Angel Island could kill him and his own wits

He was otherwise completely alone with only other nonverbal company for YEARS, probably close to a decade before Sonic and Tails came along

My only working theory is that Eggman used the entirety of his abandoned pursuit of a teaching degree to give the Echidna a grasp of language before Sonic caught up to the crashed Death Egg

This would also explain the unfortunate instances of occasional sexism from Knuckles in some of his earlier iterations; Eggman would tell you nowadays that he was never That Guy, but he absolutely was and still is That Guy

#Knuckles the Echidna #Knuckles #WHO TAUGHT HIM THOUGH???#This Eggman theory is halfway a joke only because there’s NOTHING ELSE to go on #Does the Master Emerald double as a learning aid?#Did someone other than his asshole Dad leave voice recordings and books for him to read?#And if so why isn’t he ever seen listening to those recordings on repeat just to hear another voice?#Did he meet the Chaotix before the events of Sonic 3?#I feel like even a young Vector would’ve had some advice about picking out a con though #and if his first encounter with other verbal folk ended up being friends like the Chaotix #then he wouldn’t be QUITE as consistently quick to dismiss people off his island #Eggman's lies were formative of his opinions on outsiders #Sonic and Tails just wore him down over time #thoughts #Bruce talks about

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