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what are ur thoughts on the ‘almost no parents alive/around’ lore? is it just convenient to have them out of the way to let teenagers and kids save the world… or is there deeper lore? or a happy medium of both? 👀

i don't think sega honestly intended for it to be involved in lore or whatever. there was not worldbuilding in mind with that. since the sonic games are aimed at tween audiences, who want to see themselves portrayed as confident and able to take on grand adventures, because they're just mini adults and want to be treated as such, it of course makes sense not to have a bunch of boring adults bogging down their adventure.

however lore wise they drive me bonkers

there's two ways i like to interpret it and that either the mobian society operates like pokemon or sonic and his friends are the insane outliers. like either its super common for kids to just wander around unsupervised, going on fun adventures, like in pokemon, or its NOT the norm but sonic and his alien/dimensional counterpart/future/god friends are just. exceptions. like okay technically amy should not be renting her own apartment however she has been involved in numerous plots to stop eggman from basically turning the world into a giant pollutated wasteland and/or amusement park. so sure. also who's going to be the bastard that tries to take the kid who fights gods and robots for fun to like, an orphanage. nope.

i am VERY interested in the parents they do mention. like vanilla. i want her lore so badly and DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON JET"S FATHER. literally everything about the babylons drives me insane but thinking about the generation right before jet *shakes*. also the fact that they gave rouge a mom is so fucking funny even if she's only mentioned. i love it so much.

i think a lot of them not having parents makes sense, anyway. what parent in their right mind is letting their kids go kill god for fun.

anyway i don't have like super cohesive thoughts on this concept but the few parents we've seen in the sonic universe do interest me greatly.... especially the ones that are still obviously in the picture.

#i think sonic tails and knuckles don't have parrents #orphaned and the like #whereas i think amy DOES still have parents she just ran away from them to chase after sonic and help save the world #silver was also orphaned #shadow has two dads etc #eggman is an interesting scenario because i think he was ophaned #but i rather like the idea he wasnt. his parents were just real fucked up.#which like #if YOU were the kid of a disgraced scientist who went insane and had to be put down by the us government uhm. you might have some issues.#and then BOOM generational trauama and the cycle of tryingt o outlive the legacy of gerald begins. oopsie.#well anyway.#master emerald brothel

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