#he seals Iblis inside him *knowing* that crying will release it which has to mean he trusts himself to not cry his whole life

[true-blue-sonic]

i know silver isn't really one to cry but i imagine if he were shown an unexpected level of affection he might just start crying

I can imagine that! It definitely wouldn't be full-fledged bawling, it'd be a few tears and maybe a sniffle at best, but he's just struck by a massive wave of emotions all of a sudden that he's got no idea what to do with. The person who's providing him affection (probably Espio haha) might be a bit startled that he reacts so strongly, but in a way they probably expected it too, once they found out that Silver's just entirely touch-starved and cannot remember the last time he got hugs or pets from someone. I think Silver himself is also quite surprised there's suddenly tears on his face, because he's not exactly feeling sad! But the person with him assures him it's normal and you can cry from any strong emotion. As it stands, I think he'll calm down again soon enough, and can focus on working all his emotions out while getting some more affection <3

[looniecartooni]

Sonic 06 Theory: Was Mephiles really an idiot?

Warning: Clunky theory ahead and spoilers for the slightly over hated game, Sonic 06. You have been warned.

As many people who like Sonic or have played the games knows- Sonic 06 was a mess. But in that mess, many people are enticed by the game’s antagonist Mephiles the Dark. However, many Sonic fans are confused by his motivations and actions. Even Sonic IDW comic writer Ian Flynn has called him an idiot during a Q and A for how he goes about his main motivation... to k*ll Sonic so that Elise cries and releases Iblis.

Many people have argued that if he could just do it himself, what was the point of sending Silver to do it? What was the point of gathering all the Chaos Emeralds or convincing Shadow to join him? Or even- why bother with Sonic when he can just k*ll Elise or wait until Elise is dead to reunite with Iblis? He has the power to travel through time and does eventually just off’s off Sonic. Why not just do that?!

Well- let’s look into this insane faker’s faker’s logic a little bit... In Silver’s story, we already saw what happened to the world after Elise and Eggman crash on Sonic’s timeline. Mephiles describes it as the world being devastated by Iblis’s flames. Silver and Blaze did confront Iblis just before they met Mephiles and it appeared to be a giant unruly monster while Mephiles already had taken the guise of Shadow. That begs the question- could Iblis recognize or even reconnect with Mephiles within the time that Iblis had already destroyed the world in?

Mephiles also at the time had only one Chaos Emerald which he entrusted to Silver, but towards the end of the game seemingly required all seven to reunite with Iblis. Silver had also tried to re-seal Iblis inside of him with 2 Chaos Emeralds with no success while Blaze ended up being able to, but to seemingly the price of her life (or perhaps a return/ creation of the Sol Dimension as she’s actually meant to be the princess there according to Sonic Rush which came before this game and the fact we’ve seen her in other games. Kind of makes me wonder the direction that was going to go after 06 as someone on a discord server I was on pointed out that Blaze was seemingly non-existent to anyone but Silver and that with the emphasis on “Sol” in the name of Soleanna and Solaris that the game should have been Blaze’s game. But that’s a whole different theory and discussion entirely so back to Mephiles). Iblis is implied to have become strong enough to destroy the world without Mephiles’s aid perhaps in a similar way to how Mephiles was able to become unable to be sealed by Shadow again or perhaps even stronger than that to a point where he and Iblis would not be able to connect or Mephiles would just end up getting destroyed. Iblis could have adapted to Elise as its host or became more hostile due to her unreleased pain from not crying most of her life. Considering that Mephiles claims that he grew stronger by absorbing Shadow’s “shadow in the past” and how much Sonic’s story tries to dedicate to trying to get Elise to realize that its okay to feel things, perhaps there is a correlation.

It also means that Sonic needed to stay alive long enough to 1) Connect with Elise on an emotional level and 2) Make sure Elise didn’t crash like she was predicted to do. But even if that were the case, why even bother giving Silver a Chaos Emerald and sending him after Sonic? Extra emotional tension Elise and Sonic (as if Eggman didn’t contribute that with all his kidnapping attempts with her)? Back-up plan in case he isn’t able to able to kill Sonic after Elise is saved? Eggman mentions towards the end of the game that even if you destroy Solaris on one timeline such as the present, you’d do basically nothing so perhaps Silver needed to be the one to be able to seal away Iblis in the future in order to save the timelines from the so called flames of disaster (even though it was Blaze that did that, but Mephiles doesn’t seem to acknowledge or talk to Blaze nor does Blaze ever seemingly talk to him. Both only talk to Silver...)

It’s still a bit overly complex with a couple holes and a couple things not quite easy to comprehend, but hopefully instead of accusing Mephiles of just being stupid or a weird creep that likes to mess with people, we can somewhat see what his logic is. He’s mostly meant to act as a reflection upon Shadow’s character and it’s my in-game theory that Mephiles tends to also relate to Shadow a bit because he suffered similar injustices with humanity fearing and sealing his power. While I wouldn’t put it out of his character to do things just to be dramatic or showy (he says lines like “dance my shadows-dance” “now its time for the final curtain call” and immediately bows like an actor when he thanks Shadow), I feel there still has to be some semblance of logic behind those cold, unblinking eyes. But perhaps I’m just a Mephiles simp looking too much into it.