#guess my favorite sonic character

[veveisveryuncool]

oh yeah, i love sonic the hedgehog (shadow)! sonic (shadow) is such an iconic member of today's gaming industry! his likable personality (shadow) and nuanced characters (shadow) have always drawn me in (shadow) to the extensive franchise! sonic games (shadow the hedgehog 2005) are an interesting mix of story and action and hold a special place in my heart (shadow).

[hiding-under-the-willow]

And that is what it continues to be about! Forcing that guy through therapy at the hands of cartoon animals if it is the last thing I do

[foalfangs]

silver and espio ^w^

[yuukar0]

on a ROLLLL 🔥🔥 just something fun and sillay

[shadows-coffeebeans]

[kid-sid]

the fav 

[lowpolyshadow]

no further explanation

[duckapus]

Cream 10

Exactly what it sounds like; Sonic/Ben 10 crossover au where Cream is the wielder of the Omnitrix.

-She doesn't bother with the whole secret identity thing because she's already a fairly well-known hero thanks to her adventures with the rest of the Sonic cast.

-I'm torn on whether she should find it when she's six so she can go through some of the games with it or if I should make it a post-series time skip so she can be 10 for thematic purposes

-Her unseen dad was a Plumber who fell in the line of duty, and Vanilla wasn't a Plumber but was fully aware of what he did for a living.

-As you might imagine, GUN takes issue with a child being in possession of such a powerful "weapon." Given what happened last time they took issue with something like that, nobody's particularly interested in their opinion, especially Team Dark.

Cream's Starting Playlist: -Quarterback (Tetramand) (yeah cream's nicknaming conventions are different from Ben's. Mostly) -Permafrost (Necrofriggian) -Eyesore (Black Arms) (a big part of why I'm conflicted on whether to go post-series or mid-series. can you imagine how things would go in Shadow the Hedgehog if Cream turned into this thing?) -Brainwave (Voxai) (look Chonicles isn't good but it gave me cool aliens to use and by chaos I'm going to use them) -Hijack (Galvanic Mechamorph) -Gargantula (unknown giant spider alien) -Short Circuit (Nosedeenian) -Apeshoot (unknown species based on a monkey slingshot toy) -Spin Cycle (Ferrograde) -Sea Queen (Thalassian) (while Thalassians are normally deep-sea fish, the Omnitrix has safety features that prevent Sea Queen from undergoing fatal decompression. She still can only form legs on scale-shedding day though.)

-As we all know, Eggman's first thought when encountering something new and interesting is "how can I make an evil robot out of this" and the Omnitrix is no exception. To that end he created Ovitrix, a pseudo-Gizoid like Gemerl that uses a reverse-engineered Omnimatrix (the core bit that makes the transformations happen) to turn into replicas of most of the robot designs Eggman's come up with over the years, as well as a few new ones based on some of Cream's alien forms because of course.

-Ovitrix has a black and green color scheme, while Cream's Omnitrix is orange (so it looks a bit like Mad Ben's but without the decorative spikes) since that's Her Color.

-I'm including the full rogues gallery from both continuities, though some of the human villains will get reimagined as Mobians instead and almost all of them are gonna need some tweaks to fit them into the Sonic Universe.

-well, technically I've replaced Kevin with an oc but that explanation (both the who and the why) deserves its own post

I've got other ideas for this AU but this'll do for a first post

[minkschasijasi]

Pulling up to the chili dog stand with a sonic (re)fixation

Say ur condolences to my friends, they’re suffering from my constant spam.

[deadjam6]

Abundance of starlines I have drawn within the last few weeks

[jinxedshapeshifter]

No, Silver the Hedgehog's Personality Has Not Changed: An Analysis

Okay, I'll be upfront about Silver being my favorite Sonic character here so there's transparency. However, I've also either played or watched someone else play every game Silver shows up in and read all the IDW comics (except the Bad Guys miniseries). I am qualified to analyze Silver's personality. This also gets personal in both the tags and towards the end of the analysis, and the post is long, so I'll add a read more break.

So first things first: the stuff people complain about. Here are the main complaints I see:

His personality is completely different from how it was in Sonic 06 and Sonic Rivals

His dorky traits (such as his social awkwardness) have been amplified

Neither of these are necessarily true. Let's start with the first complaint, his personality being completely different. My reasoning for this does tie into the second point however.

Let's quickly go over how personalities work. Under different circumstances, different aspects of a person's personality might be more prominent. For example, I'm a naturally anxious person. Under certain circumstances -- usually being around people I know -- my social anxiety specifically disappears almost completely because of circumstances. This can even be seen in the Sonic series with other characters.

Vector isn't usually aggressive, but he can be provided the circumstances are right, as seen in Sonic Heroes.

Sonic likes to goof off and joke around, but he can be serious if the situation requires it.

In Sonic Prime, Rouge does do a lot of treasure hunting and loves looking for gems, but if the situation puts her in danger, she avoids it; she specifically says "No gem is worth losing my wings over!"

Silver's circumstances are different from his circumstances in 06 or Rivals, and he's developed to realize that he doesn't always need to solve things with violence.

It's also worth noting that from the beginning he's been relatively awkward when it comes to situations where he's not trying to save the world. He's even awkward when he is trying to save the world. He's always been awkward in social situations especially, because aside from Sonic 06 he's been alone most of his life, and even in Sonic 06 he's presumably only ever interacted with Blaze before meeting Mephiles, so he's not used to interacting with other people socially.

I'd argue that it's implied he's not as socially awkward when he's with someone he knows when Blaze mentions in 06 that he's "pretty insecure when he's alone" because I'm the same way. If I'm not around someone I know, I get incredibly anxious and insecure in social situations. It's even directly shown in 06 that he gets awkward in social situations when he's alone; when Blaze is around he interacts with Mephiles and Sonic just fine, but the second Blaze is gone he gets awkward when he interacts with anyone he doesn't know.

This is mainly seen in the cutscene where he first meets Amy. He has no idea how to respond to her throughout the entire exchange, making him come off as awkward. Even as they're helping each other, he's still incredibly awkward.

It's even implied he's not naturally aggressive:

Him questioning whether it's right to kill Sonic to save the world means doing so likely conflicts with his morals. He's so conflicted on whether or not it's right to kill Sonic that he is literally willing to let the future stay how it is if he decides it's not the right thing to do. It's because of Blaze that he continues to go after Sonic, but my point still stands: he had a moral crisis over killing Sonic, implying that sort of aggression isn't in his nature.

Also in Sonic 06 and Sonic Rivals 2, he's shown to be quite the awkward dork when he's not focused on a mission. In the Sonic Rivals duology especially, he's shown to throw hands first and ask questions later, but he does -- again -- take a nonviolent route in his story; his story is the only time Capture the Chao is played in Story Mode in Sonic Rivals 2, and he decides to play it with Sonic instead of fighting/racing him again. The reason he's so aggressive in the Rivals duology is because he thinks everyone's getting in his way. He becomes incredibly docile towards Espio when Espio offers to help him in Sonic Rivals 2. The only reason he was so violent towards everyone else in Rivals and Rivals 2 is because he wanted them out of his way, and this continues to be the case as the franchise goes on, albeit to a milder extent. Listen to his in race dialogue in Team Sonic Racing, it proves my point. He LITERALLY tells Big, IN THE MOST MOCKING VOICE EVER, "Go home to Froggy, Big!"

Speaking of Team Sonic Racing ...

He's shown in both TSR and Sonic Colors DS to be incredibly docile if he doesn't have a set goal (I’m not counting his snark in Colors DS as hostility so don’t bring it up). Remember, in both games there’s no mention of his future still being ruined; in Colors DS, he specified that his future is no different than the present, and the most we get about his future in TSR is a line from Zavok about there “being worse in your future, Silver!” During races he gets non-aggressively hostile because he’s competitive.

His personality only is how it is in Sonic 06 and the Rivals duology because he’s set on a goal and views everyone else as obstacles, with the exception of Espio who is helping him. In every other situation, his hostility is playful/competitive hostility, not necessarily genuine hostility.

So, in summary: Silver’s personality hasn’t changed, but his circumstances have, and he’s learned that he doesn’t need to resort to violence to solve every problem. That’s why his dorky traits are more likely to be highlighted. Those traits have always been there, but his hostility overshadowed it most of the time because he had a set goal in mind and everyone, in his eyes, was getting in his way. Since he’s learned how to handle those kinds of situations without getting overly hostile, his more aggressive traits aren’t as prominent. Those traits end up prominent again when he gets competitive. He’s grown as a person and learned to have more self control. Why is that a bad thing? Why is Silver developing enough to not see violence as necessary a bad thing?

Now I’m gonna get personal for a sec because I was much like Silver was in 06 and Rivals at one point, likely due to my autism going undiagnosed for far too long. I’m no longer like that because I developed as a person.

So I ask again, why is Silver no longer seeing violence as inherently necessary a bad thing? Why is it bad that he’s more dorky and awkward than hostile and aggressive now? Answer: it’s not. He’s developed, and it makes me incredibly upset that it’s criticized instead of celebrated, because his mentality in 06 and the Rivals duology would've realistically led to some incredibly toxic relationships.

[m9nwh0r3]

Some unfinished stuff that probably won't continue, depends on my mood ig

[sonknuxadow]

ok so all the sonic channel calendar art for this year is out now they just posted the last one last night i think. overall thoughts are that i really liked the theme they were going for this year all the art is really cute i love seeing them put those beasts in an outfit. i just wish the silver and blaze one had been a different set of characters not because i dont like them but because its the only art to have both characters be ones that already showed up in earlier stuff and it just feels weird and out of place and they could have given other characters a chance you know.

[garfrigerator]

just consumed sonic media for a solid 4 hours & am going to watch the fandubs when i get in bed with my three shadow plushies & shadow shirt

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Out of the grandmansters/egg bosses in the Archie comics, which one was your favorite?? It can be either from pre reboot or post reboot!

Hehehe unfortunately for you, anon, my fav becomes a grandmaster before the super genesis wave and therefore is my immediate first choice without contest

*Bangs fist on table* I love her so much

[guiltypandas]

Take a guess who my favorite Sonic character is (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE!)