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i had a vision

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another sonilver comic based on a scene from whispers from the future; whispers on the wind by @blurredblu! highly recommend giving it a read 🤍💙

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THE BOYS!! THE BUDS!!! They're here, and I must admit, they were the trickiest so far!

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shooting yuri right up my veins rn

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didn't realize how much i missed them until i started drawing to loosen up and they showed up on the screen

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if i had a nickel for every time a really shitty sonic game had a villain with a super fun design who was pissed shadow forgot the time he beat their ass i'd have two nickels

🔴 KO-FI

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Have I posted this before? Idk

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They're geeking out about space together...

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Rouge redesign!!!!!!!

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mimir

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been thinking more about portrayals of naivety and how often it gets viewed on a surface level and further translated into "the character is vulnerable, childish, and must be protected, they are incapable of harm." it's an obvious pet peeve of mine, all similar acts of reducing a character to a single, likely prominent trait is, but it strikes me more with naivety because it can add so much complexity to a character when combined with other traits

for sonic characters, shadow is naive. he's naive all the way from sa2 to shadow 05, way too trusting of others for his own good, and it's not until after 05 that he really begins to acknowledge that tendency and consciously work against it when necessary. it is not his most prominent trait but it's an important feature of him and plays a lot into who he is as a person, but in his case it gets brushed aside because he's also dangerously cool, and for whatever reason the council has deemed naivety to not mix with that particularly well. so instead we get a portrayal of him as someone much more mature than he actually is, at least in terms of fan interpretations. there's nothing inherently wrong with that of course, but it ends up grinding my gears

silver has the exact opposite problem to shadow, where his naivety gets highlighted and played up to the point it drowns out everything else about him. that kind of reading fails to take into account how brutal and reckless he has the capability of being, how many of the choices he makes in 06 stem from a feral desperation to make a change, save his world at any price. he's naive, too trusting for his own good, with a remarkably black and white view of the world, what's right and what's wrong, but to reduce him to a child for it is missing what makes him so interesting in the first place. silver doesn't have the mysterious coolness to him that shadow does, and perhaps for the sake of being a foil to him his naivety is played up to a point of ridicule at times. perhaps some of that could be brushed up to his world being in a relative state of peace after the timeline reset, allowing him to grow into a person who doesn't have to live in a state of survival mode every moment of his life. either way is flattens him in a way that i despise in all honesty

other media also has examples of this kind of stuff, which is what's actually gotten me to think about this in the first place. it is, to a degree, interesting to see which traits people deem worthy of highlighting in any given character admittedly, and gives me food to chew on and ask myself why the characterization feels so off. it may not be a feast, but it gives me ideas on what the feast that i crave so badly consists of

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wowie mephiles

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E schi no ne voles voli sanctus a E schi no ne voles pres e frui meloda Väde no vi ero a Sende no vi ero a Vive sanctus ici e si se sus veri

Happy belated 18th, 06! I plan to do other artworks for ShTH 19th and Sonic Shuffle 24th!

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Character Rewrite: Princess Elise. When Elise was a young child, to prevent an apocalyptic disaster, her father sealed half of Solaris; Iblis, inside of her. Elise was aware of her duty to the family and her people, willingly becoming it's vessel. Before her father died of his injuries, he told her to stomp on her anger to prevent the flames from overtaking her. She must not get angry, no matter what happens.

Because of her youth, a lot of advisors in her kingdom had taken power from her or often tried to manipulate her into decisions she didn't want to make. She was unable to stand up for herself or fight back, and lacking control made her angry. She would set things on fire around her by accident when frustrated. To prevent this, she often retreated into her mind, dissociating, masking her negative emotions. She knew it wasn't the best coping mechanism.

So, to keep her mind as peaceful as possible, she'd practice meditation, drink warm tea, and go to the spa. Her people and advisors often saw her as spoiled or weak, not knowing that if she let her stress consume her, everyone around her could die. She was actively protecting them from a great disaster, and they didn't even know it.

Then, when she was kidnapped by Eggman, in came Sonic, who whisked her away from everything- the stress of her duties as princess, as well as the vessel. She saw different parts of her kingdom, traveled far, met many people, and did amazing things she would only dream of. It was all thanks to Sonic, whom she became rather attached to. She even encountered Blaze, another princess of flame, who offered to teach her how to control her powers before an untimely, tragic death. Elise could cry all she wanted, for grief was impossible to stifle. But when Mephiles snuck up and killed Sonic, her closest friend and symbol of salvation and freedom- she snapped. The flames of Iblis activated from within her soul, and she fought Mephiles with more power than she's ever used. It was more than she could take- especially without training. Her anger eventually consumed her, and Iblis broke free of her, fusing with Mephiles. Timey-wimey stuff happens, too much to really rewrite, but when Sonic and Elise go into the past, right before she becomes the vessel and she is meant to blow out the flame- saving so many people from death... she hesitates. Because it means she'll forget all about Sonic. She'll forget all their adventures, all her happiness, all her exhilaration. (She'll miss her power over fire too, even if she wouldn't say so) But Sonic insists that their timeline will always be real to them, even if they don't remember, and convinces Elise by reminding her that- with the flame inside of her gone, she'll finally be free. Free to let her emotions go, free to command her kingdom like a queen she was always meant to be. So she blows out the flame, and resets all that happened.

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repost oops anyway