#latin dr robotnik's birthday bash

[latin-dr-robotnik]

I guess this is my legacy now, huh? Haha, thank you, my learned friend, my Tumblr Sonic Hero, my Ohtani Oyster!

A very happy birthday to @latin-dr-robotnik! My good friend whom a while ago, I made this SonAmy vid for! His love for SonAmy rivals my love for Sonic Unleashed! He’s a good man!

[latin-dr-robotnik]

So, birthday’s over. As always, a massive thank you to my Learned Friends, the Tumblr Sonic Heroes, the Ohtani Oysters themselves, @beevean and @dizzydennis for being some of the best friends one could ever ask for :3

And all of my mutuals, you guys know you’re amazing too! Love ya <3

[latin-dr-robotnik]

SEBAAA !! Feliz Cumpleañoooos !!! Espero que tengas un bonito día !!✨🎉🎊🍰

Aww, ¡gracias Ram! Fue un buen día, no puedo quejarme jajajaj

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Perks of having your birthday on the same day as Streets of Rage’s anniversary: double party time!

Happy 30th anniversary, Streets of Rage!

This little legendary beat ‘em up franchise stayed on 16 bits for over two decades, but nowadays it’s alive, well and full of energy once again! One of the killer apps of the Genesis, one of the core pillars of SEGA’s offerings back in the day, a lovely series filled with banging soundtracks from the one of the legendary names in the industry: Yuzo Koshiro.

Three decades old and completely outdone by its sequels (and especially SOR4), but the original still deserves recognition. It came out swinging and Keep the Groovin’ is probably the best song to represent that. Happy anniversary! <3

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Super!SonAmy - Zero gravity

Author’s note: this is the culmination of two things in particular; this recent headcanon and this old but still very cute ask. Super!SonAmy is quite an interesting idea already, so mixing it up with that sort of inspiration should make for quite a beautiful little prompt. Oh, and this post is also part of my 2020 birthday bash. Enjoy, and don’t forget to check my special content section for more SonAmy!

“Woo! We did it!” Super Sonic celebrated, as he dealt the finishing blow to Eggman’s powered up mech trying to launch a desperate attack at the Starlight Space Station. 

The battle caused a significant portion of debris to fly off everywhere in the open space, making navigation quite difficult.

“Take that, Egghead,” Super Sonic pointed towards a fleeing Eggman in the distance, trying just as hard as Sonic to dodge all the debris, “your ugly machine isn’t enough against the Chaos Emeralds power! Right, Amy?”

“Heh... we surely did.” Super Amy was lagging behind Sonic, struggling to keep a steady flight. When she reached his side, she stopped for a moment, catching a breath and also bracing herself. 

“H-hey, is it me or it’s getting colder out here?” She asked.

“What do you mean by colder?” Sonic turned to see her, his sassy attitude immediately changed to a concerned one. “Whoa, whoa, what’s going on with you?”

“Huh?” Amy looked at her hands, finding her super yellow glow started to fade little by little. “I don’t know, but I’m starting to feel weaker...”

“Oh no... he did get you, right?”

Amy nodded.

“That isn’t good news.” Sonic scanned the space surrounding them, looking for a clear path out of the debris-filled field around them. “And you’re feeling weaker, is that correct?”

She nodded again. 

“You’re losing your super state. And we’re quite far from the station, at least too far to make it before you turn back to normal.”

“It’s fine, Sonic” Amy tried to calm him down, after all, it wasn't her first time going super. “You can always carry me, right?” 

She smiled at him.

“With this much debris flying in all sort of directions, no. You could get hurt.”

“Well, what’s another scratch going to do to me after that amazing battle?”

“Not gonna risk it.”

“And what then? Are you gonna keep staring at me until I pass out?”

“Let’s get back to the Station, we’ll make the most out of your energy left.” He grabbed her arm. “I’ll lead and keep stuff away from us”

They navigated around the debris, looking for an opening that would give them a straight shot back to the station. With each passing second, Super Sonic got more and more stressed, and in exchange, he grew impatient and a bit more reckless.

“Sonic, stop.” Amy said, just as they were leaving behind the area were the big battle took place. “It’s getting way too cold, I’m freezing!”

Sonic looked at her, concerned.

“What are we gonna do, then?”

“Can you call Tails to pick us up?”

“I don’t think he’s gonna come.” Sonic reflected, looking at the space station in the distance. “He should’ve been here long ago. Maybe there’s something going on there.”

“Well, there’s gotta be something we can do about it.”

“I’m trying, Amy!” Sonic suddenly yelled, and his voice cracked. 

He took a deep breath before continuing. 

“I’m trying to think about something... no, that shouldn’t work.”

Amy stared at him, confused.

“...what shouldn’t work?”

Sonic kept scanning her with his eyes and muttering to himself. “I’ve never tried it, I don’t think it’s something that can be done...”

Her yellow glow faded so much that small patches of her pink hair started showing as she was shivering a lot more. Sonic’s desperation was reaching a breaking point – if the rumors were true, he might have a potential way out, but he had to risk it right now.

“Here goes nothing.” He whispered.

“...Sonic?”

He slowly closed his distance to her, then his eyes, and finally make the move for her lips. At first, he felt the same cold she was feeling, but moments later a big gold flash engulfed them, feeling warm and powerful again.

Amy stood frozen in place, trying to process what was happening. She opened her eyes and raised a hand to her mouth, quickly realizing it was now warm and emitting that golden glow again

“Sonic...” She was perplexed, “how...?”

Sonic didn’t respond. He backed off, blushing and refusing to look at her.

They remained silent for a moment. 

There were so many things going on Amy’s mind at that moment, so many different questions and she wanted answers for at least a couple of them.

“How did you know that would work?”

“I didn’t.” Sonic responded, scratching the back of his head embarrassed. “I knew it was possible to share some energy, but never this much... or in this way.”

Amy kept her eyes on him, admiring him.

“Okay, let’s keep going,” he reached his hand to her, before turning towards the station, “and, please, don’t tell anyone about this.”

“Oh, you think they weren’t watching already?” Amy teased him.

Sonic panicked. “Wh-what?”

“I mean, don’t you think they have been watching us from the Space Station all this time?” She sounded more confident than ever.

“N-no. They would’ve sent help already if that was the case.” He kept flying towards the station, now faster that before.

“But what if they thought it’s all part of the celebration... like, a celebratory kiss?”

“No!” Sonic tried to shake those thoughts out of his head.

“You wanna bet?” Amy rushed in front, stopping him before pointing out again at the ever closer station. “Then let’s go and find it out, c’mon!”

Sonic groaned, and followed behind her.

She was happier than ever, so much so that she didn’t notice Sonic wasn’t actually falling behind on purpose.

“What’s up, slowpoke? Your feelings not letting you catch up to me? Heehee!” 

She kept teasing him, as Sonic looked at his hands, realizing his own glow started to fade out now. 

“Uh oh...” He was getting concerned again.

Amy was quite ahead of him when she turned around and found out what was going, coming back for him in an instant.

“Well, that was quicker than I imagined.” Amy said, holding one of his hands. “You do know what this means...”

Sonic tried to hide his blush, and didn’t resist as Amy kissed him without hesitation. He might have hesitated the first time, but for Amy the sheer determination to keep them both going was stronger than whatever their own feelings were.

Another moment of silence followed, as they stared at each other so closely their own glows felt like just one. 

“You know, we can’t keep doing this all day.” He whispered, as she slowly stepped away. No words, just smiling. 

He continued speaking to her, “we gotta find another way to get back to safety that doesn’t involve stopping every minute for... that.”

Amy reflected for a bit, then an idea struck her mind, with Sonic giving her a distrusting look. 

“But what if we don’t stop... well... you know.”

The sole idea of it was too embarrasing, even for her.

“What do you mean...” He reflected for a bit, “oh... no. No way, Amy!”

“I know! I know!” She was still too embarrassed to look him in the eyes. “But it’s the only chance we have!”

Sonic froze, looking how Amy’s glow was fading once again, faster than the last time. He kept thinking, and trying to come up with any possible alternatives.

This time it felt like there was no other choice.

“But how are we going to reach the space station if we won’t be looking at it?” Sonic broke the silence.

Amy looked back at him, then at the station and back at him again. “I think we have a straight shot from here! Just aim for it, launch ourselves towards it and pray we’ll reach it in time. Should be enough, right?”

Sonic let out a sigh.

“I hope so.”

And so they both slowly embraced each other one final time, launching themselves directly at the ever closer Station in a big and twisting golden flash.

From the Starlight Station it wasn’t exactly clear what exactly they were doing, only the fact they were coming back at a blazing fast speeds. 

They barely made it back before losing both of their super forms and crushing down on the floor of the loading bay next to some crates, as everyone rushed to check if they were fine. Sonic got himself up and, without uttering a single word, dissapeared back to his quarters, leaving only Amy to be asked what exactly happened out there in space.

She needed some help to get back up, and a bit of medical support for her massive headache produced by crashing so hard, but she was in a way better mood than Sonic.

“What we just did was nothing short of amazing.” Amy happily responded to the questions about what went wrong. “We managed to defeat Eggman and save everyone here and back on the planet. We were so happy in fact that we couldn’t keep ourselves from celebrating before getting back.” 

She took a moment before continuing, since she was blushing more than ever.

“You know, things happen out there, but I’ll just say that with this victory we managed to return the peace and love back to our world, love in particular.”

Sonic never spoke out about what happened.

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Okay, real talk now.

One month ago I was sitting in front of this very screen, thinking what I wanted to do for my birthday since it was confirmed I wasn’t going to be able to go out and chill with my IRL friends the same way I like to do every year. I was looking at my drafts, then at my follower count, then back at the drafts I had.

I thought: “Well, maybe by then I’ll be around the 200 followers mark, and I’ll celebrate both my birthday and everyone that’s following me at the same time.” My plan was simple: prepare a bunch of posts related to all the stuff this blog is about and has been for the past 2 years; Sonic Music, Sonic stuff, SonAmy... and then release all of them throughout the day, as a way to celebrate all these years I’ve been doing what I do with this blog. A way to repay my debt with the community.

Tough stuff has happened ever since then. July wasn’t actually the best of the months I had so far - probably the absolute worst if I’m being honest. But while I was trying to deal with all the overwhelming stuff happening around me, the blog literally exploded. So many people whose names I could recognize, and a lot more that I didn’t know started following the blog -over 220 of you to be a little more precise- and the sudden growth took me by quite a surprise.

So, it’s currently 20:35 here, and all I wanted to say is: thank you. 

Thank you for sticking with this wacky little blog, thank you for joining me in the discussion, thank you for making me a part of not just the fandom, but a part of a small community within the Sonic fandom. This is now our little corner in the fandom, and I’m so grateful of having fantastic friends in here always drawing, writing and sharing all sorts of fascinating stuff. Thank you for spending the day, my birthday, with me.

This is the official end of the scheduled and non-scheduled posts I tagged under “latin-dr-robotnik’s birthday bash”, and tomorrow everything will go back to normal; yet the memories will remain. I know it sounds pretty silly and cliché, but during times like these a day like today is everything I could’ve hoped for - and even more.

I’ll be updating my Special Content Section to include some of the stuff from today, but if you missed it, these were the biggest posts:

Super!SonAmy - Zero gravity (I was going to change that title before publishing, but I forgot entirely about it.)

Boom!SonAmy - The Dress (What originally was a small conversation on Tumblr and a Simpsons reference became a fun little scene I wanted to share, even if it ended up a little bit incomplete, check the tags.)

The Sonic Music post: Percussion edition! (By this point I probably reblogged a more complete version.)

“Celebrity life” - part 5: Emerald Heist (Now with less SonAmy than I originally anticipated.)

If I have to put into music what I’m currently feeling, I probably choose the K.K. Cruisin’ remix from Tee Lopes and Funk Fiction. It’s been a great and exciting day, and now it’s time to go back to normal and relax, just the way I always liked it here.

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Aww, ¿gracias Amy! ¡Gracias por los saludos y por ser siempre una persona súper divertida de interactuar con! (¿incluso con angst? Incluso con angst.)

@latin-dr-robotnik 🥳🤪🎊🎉

Te deseo un feliz cumpleaños y te mando un abrazote! 💯🔥 🎊🍾

[latin-dr-robotnik]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUUUDEEE ♥️♥️💖💖✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼 literally you’re one of the chillest, friendliest ppl out there, you are MAD intelligent and your takes on sonic and sonamy are 👏🏼🙏🙏🙏🙏 hope you have a good one, my dude

AAAAAA THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH CEL! I appreciate it a lot, seriously <3 It’s been quite a wonderful journey, joined by some of the best internet friends I could ask for, and hey, sometimes I don’t even know how to repay all the fun discussions and good memories y’all gave me - I’m so overwhelmed 😭💖

I hope those queued posts and prompts were worth it, I’m a little bit sad that I couldn’t come up with more tsundere hedgie for us though, ran out of time :P

[latin-dr-robotnik]

The Sonic Music post: Percussion edition!

Greetings everyone, and welcome to the fourth edition of the Sonic Music post! In past editions we discussed some of the best guitar solos, basslines and winds featured in Sonic music, and now it’s time for a pretty critical part of each song: the percussion.

[btw, this post is part of my “birthday bash” set of posts, so... yeah check out the rest]

Percussion is a fascinating part, since it’s not just about having a drummer that goes crazy in the background of the song. There’s a lot more going on and some good percussion can go a long way in making a good track even better. A lot of instruments around the world focus on adding this percussion layer, and I want you to list some of the best examples you can think of from Sonic music.

Like always, I start sharing some (I feel like I always have to explain this) base examples of what I think are tracks with great percussion, being just outstanding drumming, good use of samples or the mixing of multiple instruments, most likely from around the world.

Flame Core - The Cavern: This is probably my favorite post-Adventure Sonic track. One YouTube comment from years ago put into very simple words what I feel about this track: “drum dude going ham 👏��” This song is a trip and a half.

Silent Forest 1: I already featured this one on the winds post, but take a listen at that insane percussion going in the back. 

Volcano Valley Act 1: I’m sorry beev but I’m taking this one for me. The Genesis just runs wild with the percussion here

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Happy birthday FOR REAL this time! (Hoping I'm on time though, #timezones) Hope you had a good time at your party! 🎁

You madlass, you did come back for real! Thank you so much! I feel pretty blessed right now, ngl

As for the party, yeah it was good fun! At my current time now it's been only an hour or so since I woke up (#latebois), and somehow I feel absolutely thrashed; it might be the lack of parties for like half a year now, or it might be that I went overboard without realizing. Anyway, enough rambling, thank you again!

[latin-dr-robotnik]

#maybe by the end of july I’ll fall back into sonamy

Just in time for my birthday bash! Just like last year, with all the prompts and hcs and tsundere hedgie shenanigans...

I'll personally drag you back into it

why can’t I hyperfixate on popular ships/ something normal, sometimes it’s tiring making all this food for myself

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Happy birthday❤️❤️ 🎉 I hope your day is fulled with happiness and joyy and sonic memes lol💕💕

Aww thank you! I've seen some great Sonic memes today, but I have to admit it's been mostly a SonAmy day, and one of the best because of that! :P

[latin-dr-robotnik]

You know what makes me go all nostalgic and glassy-eyed? This shit right here.

Not even my own birthday gets me as emotional as this. I can’t believe this particular video is turning 10 in a couple months. 

Bruh I’m getting old.

I love Starry Night. I love it to death. I loved it in its incomplete form. I love it as the currently WIP Megamix Mania mod iteration (which I can’t wait to see it coming back.) The incomplete Act 1 is one of my all time favorite 2D Sonic levels, while the zone’s general aesthetics and -oh boy- that music are probably my absolute favorites. It can’t get any better than this. 

This zone gets it all right for me... well, except the part of being actually finished and not a leak from a decade ago.

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Thanks for all of your posts about Sonic and I wish you a Happy Birthday!!

Oh, hey, thank you very much! Regular Sonic content will now return for everyone to enjoy :P

[latin-dr-robotnik]

¡Happy birthday! Have a nice day y que ¡disfrutes de tu fecha con mucho amor y cariño de tus seres queridos! Te mando un abrazo cibernético y que disfrutes a todo dar lleno de buena música y buenos memes. Ha sido genial platicar contigo de publicación en publicación y espero con ansias ver tus próximos post

jajaja muchísimas gracias! <3 Ciertamente aprecio un montón poder siempre conversar y compartir buenos momentos sea donde sea - y para ser la primera vez que festejo con este blog a esta escala, ha sido un día excelente :3

[latin-dr-robotnik]

Holiiii te deseo un muy feliz cumpleaños!! 🎈✨ Espero que lo disfrutes a full y que se cumplan todas tu metas💃 me encanta tu blog! Te mando un abrazote a la distancia 😊🎉

Aww muchas gracias! Me alegra mucho también que te haya gustado ese pequeño Super!SonAmy, era mi artillería pesada para celebrar :P