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[sparkles-rule-4eva]

🎵 Whoooo wants a nice little short 'n sweet post-Prime one shot with Sonic and Tails and some angst and also fluff and cuddles and nightmares and sadness and cuteness and the implementing of that one headcanon from the post I made about Sonic getting more cuddly and clingy when he's hurt or upset??? 🎵

Sonic Prime - Healing Hugs

Something had happened in the cave with Sonic. Tails was absolutely certain of it.

At first, it had just been pleasant changes, pleasant surprises. Sonic had suddenly switched to being a 100% team player, had started paying attention to each and every thing Tails instructed, and seemingly communicated with Shadow just as the Ultimate Lifeform arrived out of nowhere to Chaos Control the Paradox Prism to who-knows-where.

Then there had been the more weird changes.

Every time Tails opened his mouth, Sonic would drop everything to listen to every word with laser focus, even if it was about something as simple as what he was going to get for dinner or some cool comics he'd read. He was giving a lot more hugs, too, far more than usual. Sonic used to be a lot more selective about physical affection, but now, Tails couldn't seem to get through 30 minutes of a day without his older brother scooping him up in an embrace, however brief. Not that he was complaining, it was nice.

He kept catching the hedgehog lying around in the grass, fingering the green leaves with utter delight in his eyes. Once he found him on the beach, sitting in a palm tree and singing some kind of pirate-y sounding song. Another time he found him wandering slowly around the woods nearby, talking to the flickies about how pretty the trees were.

Something was off, but Tails couldn't put his finger on it. From his perspective, he hadn't seen anything out of the ordinary happen during the battle in the cave, but Sonic's change in behavior made it painfully obvious something had.

Especially when the more negative changes started manifesting.

Not negative in a sense that Sonic was doing anything wrong. But he seemed . . . a little rattled. Some of his hugs were far more than just quick side squeezes. Sometimes he'd stare at Tails with an oddly pensive, faraway look in his eyes.

In bed, one night about a week after the cave incident, Tails found himself tossing and turning. These thoughts were driving him up the wall with how often they'd been occupying his mind lately.

He wanted so badly to sit down with Sonic and ask him what happened. He knew something had happened. But whether Sonic was willing to talk about it was another question entirely. He knew something was different, but he also knew his brother. Sonic didn't like uncomfortable conversations. If he felt unsafe, he would run.

Tails knew better than to confront him with questions that Sonic would likely not want to answer. If he'd wanted to tell Tails what was going on, what was different, he probably would've told him already.

With an exhausted sigh, Tails gave up trying to sleep and sat up in bed, casting a quick glance at the digital clock on his nightstand.

3:47 a.m.

Great. Even when I'm not working on a project, I STILL end up sleep-deprived. He smirked. At least Sonic can't get ticked at me this time, it's not my fault.

Speaking of the Blue Devil, he was right down the hall. Conked out on the couch, where he often slept. In fact, he'd been sleeping there every night for the past week.

Since he couldn't sleep, anyway, Tails slipped out of bed and crept down the hall, having memorized which boards creaked and which ones didn't. He half-hoped Sonic was awake so he'd have someone to talk to, but as he emerged into the living room, he saw his brother sound asleep, half-curled on his side.

Tails blinked and looked closer.

Sonic was asleep, but . . . he was also clinging extra tightly to his pillow. And he looked . . . incredibly stressed.

Was he having a bad dream?

Tails took a couple steps towards the couch until he stood right beside it. In past experiences where he'd found his brother having a nightmare, talking it out rarely helped. Sometimes even waking him up didn't help, either. He usually just wound up disoriented and panicking, and sometimes even ran off to deal with his feelings alone out in the wilderness.

Tails really didn't want him to leave. He also didn't want him to be alone.

He reached out and ever so gently placed his hand over Sonic's clenched fist, both ungloved.

One thing he had discovered about his brother during hard times like this was that he became more clingy. On the rare occasion he was visibly upset, he'd sometimes come up and just hug Tails without a word. When he was sick or injured somehow (and actually allowing himself to be taken care of), he tended to snuggle more. If he was in enough pain, he'd hold onto Tails as tightly as he could. Sometimes he'd do the same with their other friends, but Tails was always his go-to.

Not that it happened very often. Tails only knew these things because he'd known Sonic for most of his life. Sonic had raised him. He'd seen more of Sonic than anyone else had.

Now, he rubbed a finger over his brother's fist for a moment, then very carefully tugged the pillow out of Sonic's unconscious grasp. He set it softly on the floor, then carefully clambered onto the couch next to him, lay down, and hugged him tightly.

Without waking up, Sonic wrapped his arms around him in return and held him close, burying his face between Tails's ears with a barely audible whimper.

Tails could feel his brother's heartbeat racing, so he snuggled in closer and softly began to purr.

And, with time, he felt Sonic start to calm down.

A couple minutes went by, and his heart rate slowed down just a bit. The tension coiled throughout his entire body started to unwind, and his spiked-up quills lowered slightly in a more relaxed position. His ears were still kinda droopy, but he seemed a lot more restful than he had a few minutes ago.

Tails smiled, still bundled up tightly against Sonic. And his smile only grew wider when he felt his brother start purring, too.

There was something infinitely comforting about being held, about snuggling with his brother, the person who loved him to the moon and back. The person he loved in exactly the same way. For those moments, the very problems that had been keeping Tails awake half an hour earlier seemed to fade. He was here, Sonic was here, no words were spoken or needed, and they would be okay.

Tails slept soundly for the rest of the night.

-

The sound of flickies singing from the treetops woke Sonic the next day. He blinked blearily as his eyes came into focus, and he realized that Tails had joined him sometime during the night.

Once upon a time, waking up to find him right there had made him jump. It didn't anymore.

He smiled, carefully adjusting one hand so he could stroke his little brother's bangs and give him a tiny scratch behind one ear. Tails mumbled something unintelligible in his sleep, and snuggled closer in Sonic's chest.

He grinned wider. Tails hadn't been snuggly to this level in a while. Granted, he'd always been the more snuggly one of the two of them, but still. It kind of reminded Sonic of the first couple years he'd been taking care of Tails, when the kit was between 3 and 4 years old.

His smile faded a little as he thought of Nine at that age, still alone, still being bullied and hurt, with no one to save him and show him the love and care he deserved.

He could only hope that the other Shatterverse variants were showing him such kindness now. The thought that he would never get to see him again made his heart ache in a way he couldn't quell.

Sonic studied Tails's sleeping face, noting the intense similarities and differences between him and Nine. He wondered whether Nine had always existed even before the Shatter event, as a part of his little brother that Tails would never bring to light. Was it the same with Mangey and Sails?

A tiny snort escaped him against his will as he thought about whether Mangey's existence was an implication that a part of Tails just wanted to go a little feral. Sometimes he couldn't blame him.

His suppressed laugh had Tails stirring, blinking open his big blue eyes. He looked back at Sonic, grinning sleepily. "G'morning."

Sonic ruffled his bangs again, smiling as Tails giggled. "G'morning, little buddy."

Stop calling me that!

He froze at the memory of Nine's angry shout, and Tails clearly saw it.

"Are you okay?" he asked with a gentle, inquiring frown, slowly sitting up.

Sonic sighed as he sat up as well, leaning back to stretch, then pulled his little brother close again. "I've got a story for you, bud," he admitted, deciding it was about time to open up about what had really happened in the cave.

Tails gazed up at him with surprise, but then smiled and nodded.

"I'm listening," he replied quietly.

AO3 version

Did I come up with this while hugging a giant pillow during my nap earlier today? Maybe :3

I also maybe just really wanted to implement that headcanon somewhere teehee

[voidsumbrella]

i like this guy

[gwinverarrouz]

I have such a soft spot for characters in big fluffy scarves <3

[spotaus]

Sighh. Trying to figure out if I'm going to project onto Night again for this next drabble....

[robotsprinkles]

dumb ranting being mad at 343 for halo infinite's multiplayer

see, the issue is that while I don't think halo infinite's gameplay itself is bad (I think it's pretty enjoyable actually), my primary experience with halo infinite is its multiplayer*

and I'm australian

and btb is pretty much the only mode we can consistently find games for when there isn't an event. The thing is, because of how dead the game is (compared to other games like destiny 2, battlefield 1 and V, and even MCC), the only matches we can find are those with latencies of 170 to 330 (90% of our matches are 220-300ms). Which means I've become terribly aware of the game's piss netcode.

the core issues being ridiculous amounts of rubberbanding and grenades sucking ass

trying to use the grapple on anything long distance is a coin flip on whether you're going to end up where you want to go or if you're going to die in the stupidest way possible

(if you try to grapple on anything that's slightly too far away (and I think sometimes even things that are in range) your character will shoot out the grapple, have it ping off and snap back to you, then rapidly shoot out and retract the grapple another two to four times before you can do anything else that isn't walking. which is either just annoying or actively gets you killed if an enemy sees you while your character is figuring out how to use their arm properly)

jumping off any significant height causes you to rubberband at least once — usually two or three times — before landing (this one is mostly not annoying because it largely only really comes into play at the start of one map so eh)

using man-cannons is a death sentence about 70% of the time because the moment you hop in you just start getting rapidly rubberbanded back and forth between random points in the arc and the start of the man-cannon for 50-100% of the journey, which makes trying to aim and hit enemies nigh-impossible, but apparently enemies see you travel normally because they never seem to have a problem killing me when I'm getting rubberbanded

using the thruster for some reason always results in the animation and sound playing twice/1.5 times (this one is less annoying but is still very "why is this how this works". haven't checked if it actually sends you twice the distance yet. doubt it though)

I don't think this is normally as much of an issue in btb (sometimes it is but usually it seems to be alright), but when we played the castle wars mode today, the first match was at 70-90ms and was pretty good, but the following matches were at 170-220ms, and there was a very noticeable change in the effectiveness of grenades — namely, that grenades started doing the thing where they come out 150-300ms after your character finishes the throw animation. which sucks ass. especially when it means you miss a very easy plasma grenade stick against a warthog. (I also have issues with how infinite handles throwing things in general even without the latency but eh)

also for some reason there's a bug where if you grapple onto a warthog but get caught on something or otherwise fail to get in/on before the grapple disconnects your character forgets how to jump (and I think sprint as well). so good job on that 343

*I've played the campaign as well, but these days I only really play infinite with my friend who mostly plays multiplayer and firefight, so

[artemx746]

Do people not realise that a person doesn't suddenly gain full maturity and knowledge of everything when they turn 18?

[euclydya]

tuinkign ablout. Hanahaki Disease adn how we aplareentlt have a similar thing in our system. those Effected dont cough up flowers (... often) but instead find that certain flowers sprout off of them at random. it's not painful until it Is (#yearning and all) and Yes the members mainly effected by this are our bpd holders . and then daisy but whatever the fuck is going on with daisy is like. idk he's an outlier adn should not be counted

[raayllum]

other theories i'm tossing around in my brain:

on the note of the celestial elves being a little bit too dedicated to startouch ways / the possibility of rayllum/the trio bringing the prison with them to the starscraper, a fanatical celestial elf being the one to free aaravos (or at least attempt to)

[voidthecryptid]

here's an art dump of my au ink bendy design because he's all i've been drawing lately (haha i totally don't have an obsession with him what do you mean /j)

also don't mind the eye being on either the left or right side it's supposed to be that way (it's just the ink covering whatever one that's not visible but also it's fun to draw it on the opposite sides too)

[austinwehaveaproblem]

hi genuine question what does pro para mean

i support people w/ paraphilias/paraphilic disorders. don't like, misinterpret this as omg austin problem just said pedophilia is ok!!! because, it isn't and children can't consent obviously. but it seems spaces are accepting towards mental illnesses and can acknowledge that they aren't something you have control over until it's sexual i guess. like idk disorders should be treated as such? and if it isn't a disorder then most of the time it isn't harming anyone and is fine to engage in if all parties can and have consented.

[ornithic]

good evening, i started playing x for the first time earlier this week + i've been playing it nonstop and it's making me realize!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How Cute skiddo is,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[levil0vesyou]

Having a post get popular enough to be independently reblogged by someone you follow but aren't mutuals with is. Wild

[groovyships]

A lot of my mutuals have been reblogging that n//s//f//witchy post about breaching DNI's which. I agree with the point. It is chronically online behavior to search someone's blog relentlessly for a differing opinion from yours. But guys you REALLY need to figure out why someone would be passionately defending a stance like that before spreading it. Because no matter how good the original message seems the nuance is sort of removed when you learn she's a necrophiliac

[ravencromwell]

Yes, there is absolutely! a comment period, and it has been extended to June 12th! As far as I understand: you can make public comment here. I think it's crucial to note that while this encompasses negligence around broken and mishandled equipment, and people with those sorts of horrors should absolutely submit comment! it by no means limits itself to that. This rule also concerns itself with enforcement of improper transfers, ala the grueling, humiliating ordeal of Charles Brown. Which I'm frustrated more people aren't emphasizing, as it matters so fucking much to get voices who've been dehumanized in similar fashion into the comments, too. There's a brilliant list of Do's and Don't's linked as a list on the comment page. Per that list's request, I'd urge you to peruse the full regulation before commenting

As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.

[ourceliumnetwork]

you know i never understood why my maternal aunt hates Anne Hathaway, and like not for any real good reason. She could never articulate fully why she hated this otherwise beloved woman that many others love. Admittedly there may have been a touch of oversaturation in the market of "my aunt's eyes" but like I think my aunt hated her from the start before she was even popular so who really knows. However, it occurred to me just now that i hate Judy Garland for no particular reason. I have never liked her, not even before I knew some of the more upsetting things she's said. I tried to like her a little more when i learned about what she'd been through (again, still prior to knowing about how she felt about certain types of people and certain topics during her life so i literally had no reason to dislike her). And like, everyone else seems to be able to look past a lot of what she said and maybe she walked it back later on and i've missed those statements she made but like. I dunno man, I do not like her and i could never articulate why.

I don't think i'll ever "get" why my aunt hates Anne Hathaway and I don't need to - that's a very silly issue to get hung up on and try to change her mind about anyway. But like i get how it happened in a more mechanical sense cause it definitely happened to me.

[alyimoss]

feel the desire to say something do not wish to say it bc *certain people* will probably find it abd im too tired to read stupid bullshit today