#julie-su the echidna

[liveactionlover]

im sure youve all heard the idea that cats and dogs can see ghosts . bonus:

[fishflop]

Julie-Su

[lymooniee]

I imagined her in one of my fits and I screamed and needed to draw it and here we are ☆

[misterparadigm]

All my major Sonic The Hedgehog work over the years, including both IP classics and OC commissions.

[tillytilli]

hands u julouge propaganda

[the-infamous-man]

Got this awesome piece from @daniveart for my Archie/IDW Sonic the Hedgehog crossover, Rediscovered Frontiers! Poor Julie-Su, or Pink Knuckles as most know her, gets her Late 90’s/Early Aughts mind blown by modern tech!

If any of you are interested in my fic, which has the IDW/Game world be the rebooted world created by the Super Genesis Wave and has Nicole & Sally team up with Tangle & Whisper to explore it, check it out here:

[btm-txt]

Julie-Su [.com]

A commission I did for @julie-su of Julie chilling in her wheelchair 💖 I must admit that this commission was a joy to work on especially on the rendering!

Thank you for commissioning me, I hope you liked it as much as I enjoyed working on it, Julie has never looked better~ ^w^

[julie-su]

A simpler time.

[archiesoniconline]

Knuckles: Endangered Species #3 is now live!

The final battle against Knuckles and Thrash is rocking in the rocky depths of Albion, with a world changing clash of past and present in the balance. Can Knuckles save his people to ensure or a bright future, or will history repeat itself? Read to find out! http://archiesoniconline.com/?comic=knuckles-endangered-species-3-cover

[angievaldezart]

A commission of an updated Julie-Su (Archie Sonic) for @julie-su

They gave me free reign but I actually didn’t want to drastically change her too much, part of her design charm to me is that grungy 90′s sci-fi aesthetic, so I leaned into it more, adding more metallic bits (inspired by tinker toys - to counter Knuckles’ lego shoes) and giving her a fully body suit and thicker vest

My idea for her would be that she (and maybe a few other echidnas) have lived decades underground, hidden underneath abandoned labs/Eggman bases in icy tundras & taking that tech to be modified for their own gain, thinking that the world above ground is desolate and post-apocalyptic (which, it isn’t), but ventures out to try and find a suitable energy source for her dwindling tribe & learns that maybe the world’s not as bad as she’d been told. It’d be a completely separate echidna tribe than Knuckles’, so she’s not his distant cousin anymore at least :P

[jenzel]

some extra TMOSTH style sprites for Julie-Su

[liveactionlover]

wuick panel redraw where i dont give a fuck about the background. to the void with you both

[thecoolertails]

julie-suuuuu

[one-half-guy]

No, serious doubt here...

How much are you guys bothered by the "everyone is royalty" stuff from Archie Comics?

It seems like if the character were important, they would become royalty in some point! THAT'S SOO BORING!!

We start it good having only Sally and later Sonic because he's her destined boyfriend or some nonsense... And Antoine being only highly related to the royalty because royal guard father and stuff.

But then comes Amy, who's cousin of Rob, who's a king.

We had an entire issue focused only in reveal that Charmy is a prince 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and I can't be serious talking about it.

We had also Khan, I won't lie, I liked him... Until the point when he was revealed as the "King of the Free People" or some bullshit

We had Shadow becoming King Shadow in the Light Mobius alternate future.

We had Scourge becoming King Scourge, doing in Moebius what Shadow would do if wasn't Sally's interference.

Being the guardian of the Master Emerald seems a political role equivalent to monarchy, because God, they had even a council formed by the predecessors.

Espio is son of the leader of a clan (Bride of whatever), what's almost a queen since together they had enough impact to REJECT Snively's girlfriend's reign.

I wonder how it would follow 🤔🤔🤔...

Like, would later be revealed that "Silver's the, for long waited, destined king of the Knights of Kronos and that's why he's above time alterations and distortions"?

Honestly, in the pace the stuff was following, I wouldn't get surprised if Vector's "huge secret" was that he was a denying prince from Downunda all along.

Weren't the Babylon Rogues related to the Battle Bird Armada and the BattleLORD Kuku _insert roman numerals_ ?

LET'S NOT FORGET THAT BUNNIE WAS NIECE OF ONE OF THE GRANDMASTERS OF THE EGG LEGION!!! "But that's not equivalent to king in anyway, Eggman was already emperor" Yes, buuuuuut, if Eggman had ever succeeded in world domination, his empire would be the whole globe... Who do you guess that would manage the countries for him?

Julie-Su was daughter of the leader of the Dark Legion, right? He was like an emperor, wasn't he?

Tails' parents' arc was basically being jealous from the king's power and wanting a little and you can't change my mind.

And then they allowed Naugus to become the king 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pais do Ano.

[mahoutoons]

the sonic franchise has a misogyny problem

hello everyone, are you ready for another long essay by me? because i sure am. this has been on my mind for a while now. i've already talked about how the sonic fandom tends to treat the female characters worse than the male characters. but what about the franchise? do they treat the female characters better? well, in this essay i'm gonna talk about the misogynistic aspects of the sonic franchise. i'm not just gonna focus on the games, but also on other adaptations. so sit back, and lets have a long talk.

(art by evan stanley)

the lack of recurring female characters

quick question, how many recurring female characters can you name off the top of your head? no, the non game characters don't count, and no, the ones who only appeared in one game and then disappeared don't count. i can only name four recurring female characters - amy, blaze, rouge, and cream. maybe vanilla too. compare that to the amount of recurring male characters - we have sonic, tails, knuckles, shadow, silver, the chaotix, eggman. yeah you can see the problem. and these four characters aren't even utilized that well as of late. blaze especially has so much potential. she lives in another dimension for christ's sake. but sega just doesn't do anything with her. she deserves her own game to explore her dimension. like, there's so much potential with these characters but they just don't do much with them.

the way they treat their lead female character

amy rose is the main female character of the sonic franchise. i've already written an entire essay on how she's treated so i'm gonna try and keep this short. the way sega used to treat their main female character is appalling. she already got enough hate from the fandom, and sega just didn't make it better. just look at how the social media team used to treat her

i have never seen any sonic characters get this much jabs from the social media team as her. heck, i've never seen a lead female videogame character get treated as badly as amy. and the way they purposely go to exclude her? just look at what happened with mania. it was supposed to be a celebration of all things classic sonic but they didn't have her there even though she was a classic character. instead they brought two characters from an obscure arcade game. which... yeah its nice to see obscure characters get the chance to shine but you don't have to exclude a main character for that. and even in origins, though she's in the marketing and cutscenes, she's not playable. why? and before you say "oh its because she wasn't playable before", tails and knuckles weren't playable in sonic 1 either yet they were able to be included there. so what's wrong with making amy playable? what else am i supposed to call the purposeful exclusion of the classic era's only female character other than misogyny? seriously, i've never seen any other franchise do this to their lead female character. even PRINCESS PEACH gets treated better. peach got her own damn game. what's sega's excuse? if they treat their lead female like this, what does it say about how they treat their other female characters?

and one last thing. i've already touched on this before but it makes me angry so i'm gonna rant on it again. the way sega seems to think amy's role in sa2 in reminding shadow of his true promise to maria is replaceable. and every time she's been replaced, its a male character who took her place (chris in x, implied to be sonic in archie). and honestly, i don't have high hopes that they'll let her keep that role in the movie either. i don't even have high hopes that she'll appear in the movie. forgive me for being a negative nancy but i've been disappointed too many times.

archie's treatment of its female characters

lets talk about archie now. pre reboot archie sonic, especially before flynn came around, was an embarrassment to the franchise for many reasons. but what i don't see many people talking about is how they treated their female characters.

lets start with sally, since she's the comic's lead female. those who know her from satam know her as the leader of the freedom fighters, a strategic genius, a no nonsense princess who is determined in her goals. but in archie, especially when penders came along, her agency was taken away. once king max was rescued, penders didn't know what to do with sally. so she had little personality besides being a princess. and need i mention how he tried to kill off sally in the most anticlimatic way? she spent most of the time after the endgame arc being stuck in the castle, not joining sonic and co on battles like she used to. and need i mention the utterly disgusting aspect that is her """"""relationship""""" with geoffrey? there is one issue i particularly remember when geoffrey kissed sally without her consent and sonic saw it from afar. what does he do? does he confront geoffrey about it? does he protect sally? nope, he just thinks that sally is trying to make him jealous. what the fuck?! she's legit being sexually harassed and you're just going to blame her for it? i know this was the 90s but STILL. and to make matters worse, sally is 16 while geoffrey is in his 20s.

and let me talk about how characters are introduced solely to be a love interest. like mina mongoose. i've got nothing against her but lets face it, she was introduced solely to create drama in sonic and sally's relationship. and they even gave her super speed just so she could have something sally didn't, so she could be a "competition" to sally. they didn't even do anything with it later. and flynn has it retconned so that mammoth mogul was the one that gave her that power.

and speaking of which..... ig every female character has taken interest in sonic at one point. we have sally, amy, mina, fiona, bunnie.... it seemed like they wanted sonic to have as many love interests as possible. i mean just look at this cover

and if they weren't into sonic, they were into any other boy. mostly knuckles. and speaking of which, lets talk about julie-su. she's supposed to be this strong woman type character but penders made her whole personality being knuckles' gf. she occassionally showed her "girl power" when she was sticking it to vector (who was turned into a misogynistic asshole to make julie look good. granted this was before heroes gave him a personality but after that you'd think they'd change up vector's character). flynn and occassionally bollers tried to make her interesting but she just didn't do it for me imo. and lara-su, knuckles' daughter who was supposed to be the main character of the "mobius: 25 years later" arc, got sidelined in her own arc. she doesn't have much of a personality there other than wanting to be the next guardian.

now when flynn came along the treatment of the female characters got better. and even more so after the reboot. but i feel like this is something we should talk about.

"only male hedgehogs can go super"

this is, without a doubt, the stupidest mandate ever. i get it, going super is something not everyone can do and if that was the case, the super form would lose its specialness. but why specify only male hedgehogs? the "hedgehogs" part is already stupid enough because tails and knuckles have gone super before, but why the "male" part? why specify that? seriously, give me one good reason why only make hedgehogs should be able to go super. i can't think of any reason this mandate exists besides sexism.

female characters being less utilized than male characters

this kind of ties in to the first point, but the female characters are generally less explored than the male characters. we have few recurring female characters and sega doesn't even utilize them that much. again, blaze has so much potential. there's so much about her to be explored, but sega just..... doesn't do that. we don't even see her much in the games anymore.

and lately, cream is also being excluded from the games. the last mainline game she appeared in was generations. and tell me, what was the reason for cream to be replaced by the chao in team sonic racing? this is amy's little sister figure, and you're just gonna replace her without giving an explanation as to where she is? at least with espio and charmy, they had a reason to not be with vector here. but with cream, there's no reason she's not here.

the female characters have so much potential. they have interesting aspects to them, dare i say it, some of them are even more interesting than the male characters. but sega just doesn't see that.

that's all for my rant. in short, sega has a history of mistreating or underutilizing their female characters as compared to their male characters. though its getting a bit better, they still have a long way to go.

[tillytilli]

tired: julie-su and rouge fighting over knuckles :(

wired: julie-su and rouge kiss :)