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Can we have a rough timeline of regressed!Mephiles' emotions and motivations starting from the first regression up to the point where he decides to cooperate with Eggman to reseal Iblis? He's a mysterious figure, which I suppose is very intentional, so I want some more insight into approximately how much his personality shifts are affected by his strengthened rapport with the hogs over time

Okay so, that’s a little complicated, especially because that’s changing some with the comic rewrite (mostly to clarify that part of the timeline), so I’ll explain this in text rather than comic. Spare yall my terrible handwriting.

Also this got pretty rambley so hopefully it still makes sense oop, feel free to ask clarification or further stuff if you need it.

I’m not entirely sure how well it came across in the story, so to start with: Wake Mephiles follows the ‘suddenly existed and immediately stuffed in a staff for no apparent reason’ interpretation of his character. So most of his emotions and motivations are centered around the anger and trauma caused by that mess.

The first few regressions, RMeph is mostly settling in with the ‘new’ information. Because while he’s Mephiles with all his memories intact, Meph went and made new memories that don’t click with his perception of the world. So he sticks with his views on the world even harder and attempts to shove everyone away - people are all terrible, why in the world would he willingly make connections in any state of mind? But it’s not like he’s in any position to get revenge, he’d get squished like a bug if he tried, so he sticks to needling everyone while he waits for Iblis to break free on its own.

As he interacts with everyone more, both regressed and not, he ends up thinking about things a bit more. He’s still angry about what happened, especially with Shadow’s part in things, but... they aren’t exactly acting the same with him? Silver can be written off, they worked together before so he might just be falling on old habits, but he and Sonic barely interacted, and Shadow is. Well, he’s Shadow. What’s with these people?

And it’s about here that he realizes that the emotional bonds he’s created while not regressed don’t just vanish while he’s regressed. He still cares about these people in some way. And, honestly, he’s known that on some level the whole time, but now he’s actually acknowledging that. Sort of.

By the main timeline, this realization is occurring over the same period as Sonic’s breakdown and then Silver and non-regressed Mephiles’ fight. Everyone’s stress levels are one of the major contributors here, seeing as it’s harder to be in denial about caring for someone when you’re constantly upset about them being upset.

With this realization comes the accompanying realization that well shoot, I guess I don’t want bad things to happen to em? Which is something that doesn’t sit easy with him, but he doesn’t really have the time to think too hard on it because Iblis is going to break free soon enough and suddenly that doesn’t seem like such a great thing anymore.

But he doesn’t exactly have the scientific knowhow to do anything about it, at least not without fighting Iblis directly which... no. Iblis is still his other half, he’s already trying not to think about the fact that he’s choosing these other people over it.

Of course he’s also spent enough time trying to make the others dislike him that getting them to work with this would probably take longer than he has, so alternative option - appeal to a certain egghead’s desire to take over a non-scorched world. Fortunately Eggman’s already aware of Iblis’ reappearance, so it’s an easier conversation than it might have been. Plenty of mutual distrust, but they’ve at least started working together. And the rest is history.

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Guess what I’ve been up to recently :)

Act 1 cover

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Happy pride month from the Wake crew! 

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what happened to the duke of soleanna after everything?

Silver: There’s a reason I didn’t want to know any more, for chaos’ sake…

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Hey Meph, when you brought up Sonic and Shadow dating platonically were you insinuating a queerplatonic relationship? Sorry if I’m reading too much into this, I just love qprs and wish they were taken just as seriously as other relationships

Mephiles: And to clarify that other conversation, Silver was aware of their relationship. He’s not that clueless, just thinks in different terms with these things.

((So sorry this took so long, I’m also really fond of QPRs and got a little stuck writing a good answer XP))

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Happy birthday to Sonic 06 and by extension these two dorks. Probably won’t do an event due to lack of interest, but have some boys and their poorly chosen party favors.

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((Hey all! So it occurs to me I failed to plan anything for 06′s birthday, yet here it is. Would anyone be interested in seeing some kind of event either tomorrow or Saturday? And any suggestions?))

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reblog and put in the tags what your total number of notes across all original posts are from this site. it also gives you your top 9 posts.

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Happy Halloween from everyone at ask-the-wake-hedgehogs! Hope your night is both safe and satisfying.

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hey mephiles may i refer to you as memphis tennessee AND do you support gay rights

So: Aw, that’s sweet.

Me: Shut up. Everyone in this house is either lgbt or doesn’t care, what do you expect me to say.

So: Exactly what you said. You rock candy sweetheart you.

Me: I. am going. to strangle you.

So: ;D

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Timeline updated!

So I totally forgot to update the ask blog for the last three days. Whoops. But hey, it’s done now! Haha...

Going forward, any questions asked here will be directed to the hedgehogs post-Wake. So if you have anything you wanted to ask the team about events in the story, you absolutely can!

That said, I will answer questions even if they or the answer contains spoilers to in-story events, so. You’ve been warned.

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“And honestly... that’s probably for the best.”

((Timeline-wise, currently this blog is set at around chapter 24 in the fic, so everything but the latest action arc has taken place.))

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