#Favorite of these female Sonic characters?

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[brainfilehasstoppedworking]

Amy Rose, I love you. You're just like me. They could never make me hate you 🫶🫶

[noxunderground]

Some really quick Rouge musings while dealing with some late night chronic pain. I really feel like she gives Bayonetta vibes, and as a kid I used to always draw a "Super Rouge" where her hair was longer! I'm currently noodling around with how I want to stylize her :)

[aoi-watarimono]

draw cream as medic from TF2 with nifty

Sorry. I don’t do requests. Also, I never played Team Fortress 2. Thanks for asking.

[demilypyro]

I'm ngl. I didn't actually like Amy Rose all that much until I started reading the IDW comics.

When I was younger, while I wasn't a very active Sonic fan, I was at least aware of most of the characters and what they were about. I'd played some random games like Sonic Heroes, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Generations. And Amy, most of the time, was...... kinda shit?

She had like, two character traits. And they were "girl" and "crush on Sonic." Not a lot to get invested in, and as the most prominent female character in the franchise, it didn't exactly feel like a forward-thinking way to write a woman. She was mostly... an annoying side character. And I didn't really think much of her.

But then. Man. Those fucking comics.

By just the end of the first arc, Amy is put in charge of managing the resistance against Eggman. After being a minor supporting character in Forces, she's suddenly put in a leadership role... and she fucking excels. She's caring, committed, intelligent and powerful. She's a natural leader. She kicks butt! And even when things are calm, she's fun to watch. And she gets screentime! She plays at least a small part in almost every major arc of the comic, always making a difference, always part of the crew, always important and present. It rules.

Meanwhile she maintains her crush on Sonic, but rather than the rather annoying obsessive behaviour she used to display, it's much more casual. She's flirty and sassy about it, she teases him, she has fun with it. And Sonic reciprocates a bit! You get the feeling he actually *likes* her! I actually kinda started to ship it.

After being a character I basically gave no shits about in the past, reading the IDW comics made Amy shoot way up the rankings for me. She became one of my favorite characters in the franchise, top five at least. I love seeing her in anything.

I'm not really sure how Amy is handled in the games nowadays. I haven't played Frontiers yet. But IDW Amy? Man.

That's my girl right there.

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Tis a niche of its own

Sorry there is only two female characters, I kinda pulled these off the top of my head and probably missed a ton of other candidates. Reblog with an addition if you have one!

Edit: I forgot to make this poll a week long! Once this poll ends I'll remake it with new additions depending on the results (the characters with the fewest results will be replaced with suggested characters from the notes so be sure to suggest some!) in the meantime tho plz reblog to increase sample size

This follows my own definition of what "Comic Relief" means: A character that is used as a conduit for comedy in a piece of media

Through character studies I have determined that there are 5 types of comic relief: the Character Relief, the Audience Relief, the Tone Shifter, the Butt of the Joke, and the Slapstick. Characters that identify as "Comic Relief" usually fall into one or more of these categories

Further explanation under the cut

The Character Relief refers to a character who actively makes jokes to be funny in-universe through conscious humor. Examples from this poll would be Sans and Rayla, who go out of their way to make their friends laugh

The Audience Relief refers to a character who makes the audience laugh regardless of their impact on the story. Examples from this poll would be Lapis and Gus, who are often involved in comedic bits meant for audience entertainment that aren't acknowledged by the narrative as anything unprecedented

The Tone Shifter refers to a character who makes jokes to relieve tension and shift the tone of a scene, either consciously or unconsciously. Examples from this poll would be Jay and Leo, as they both consciously make jokes about grim situations to help their friends or family feel better. Additionally, Jay would do this unconsciously before his trauma made him start doing it on purpose

The Butt of the Joke refers to a character who is made fun of by other characters in-universe, whether endearingly or not. Examples from this poll would be Dewey and Lance, who are often met with insults whenever they do something wrong or silly. The insults are usually meant to be endearing and comedic, but they can still feed into the character's possible inferiority complex. This also applies whenever a villain hits them with a sick burn*

The Slapstick refers to a character who is made fun of by the narrative and the audience like a punching bag. Examples from this poll would be Sokka and Yusuke, who are sometimes put in troubling and awkward situations as a gag for the audience's entertainment alone. These gags are not fun for the characters yet delightful to watch

Most comic relief characters can be characterized as multiples of these. For example, Jar-Jar from Star Wars is both Slapstick and Audience Relief, and even if you don't find his jokes funny that doesn't change the fact that they were written with your entertainment in mind

If you're curious how a "The Narrative's Favorite (derogatory)" character would fit into this chart, they're likely both a Butt of the Joke and a Slapstick character, making their life absolute hell. To be honest, MK from Monkie Kid is an example of a character who fits all 5 categories, but he isn't blue so he isn't in this poll

*Ok if you've ever seen Phineas and Ferb Mission Marvel let me just say MODOK is a total Butt of the Joke and my favorite line in that special is when a TV announcer calls him a "Giant Chicken Egg with a Face" and I just had to mention that omg

[emeritus-fuckers]

Random idea as long as I'm allowed to make two requests, if not delete/ignore this, but the papas, nihil and seestor playing video games with reader!

nihil is one of the papas, you don't have to specify you want him too lol - rat

Papas and Sister Imperator playing video games with their s/o

Primo (he/him)

He doesn't really play himself, but he's very willing to watch.

He likes two types of games: the ones where you get to build, farm and make friends (The Sims series, Minecraft, Stardew Valley) and games where choices matter and there's a mystery to be solved (Detroit: Become Human, Baldur's Gate 3, Life is Strange).

If you play games where you get to build, he asks if you'd mind letting him give you design ideas, as he was always interested in architecture. Your in-game houses never looked better, he's an excellent architect.

He also memorizes all the gifts and recipees from Stardew Valley for you. Considers it a good brain excercise.

With the other kind of games, he is fascinated by all the options they offer and the concept of morality.

Although he does think Detroit: Become Human got way out of hand with the plot. It was one of the few times you heard him mutter cursewords in Italian.

He does enjoy Neil Newbom's performance in games, though. He's the only reason Primo bought you Resident Evil: Village and insisted you play together.

Secondo (he/him)

Well, he does like classic arcades.

And surprisingly, it doesn't take long for him to grow familiar with a joystick. So if you have a console, he's pretty good at it after a few days.

He's weirdly good and Doom. It's very concerning how good he is at Doom.

And MovieStarPlanet. This man spent so much money on MovieStarPlanet it's insane.

He needs his character to look fabulous, after all. He will actually make it a point of pride that his character is dressed better than yours.

He plays as a female character, by the way.

Naturally, he played the Barbie games, too. His favorite is The Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery.

Terzo (he/they)

Terzo is rather decent at classic platformers, like the original Mario Brothers game or the old Sonic games.

You show them a dating simulator and the bastard is obsessed.

He gets a new phone just to have more dating simulator games on his phone.

This is all fine and dandy until he he gets his hands on Mystic Messenger and stayed up at nights to play the night chatrooms.

On maximum volume. On maximum brightness.

Needless to say, Omega was not amused. Neither were you.

It gets even weirder when Terzo starts throwing around phrases in Korean that they learned from the game.

Korean with a very thick Italian accent.

Omega is losing his mind, especially after Terzo, having not gotten enough sleep one night, accidentally tried to perform a ritual from the Arcana, rather than the one he was supposed to.

You both end up on technology detox as Omega insists it's crucial for you two to touch grass.

Copia (he/him)

We all remember him playing Driving Miss Daisy.

We also all remember that he sucked at playing Driving Miss Daisy.

He's good at co-op games, though!

Like Minecraft or Raft. Or even Stardew Valley (that one mod is forever in my heart).

Especially Minecraft. Copia yearns for the mines.

You find a bigger hill or a mountain in the game? He insists to dig a room in it as your first base.

You leave for a bathroom break and suddenly Copia's wearing diamond armor and you have a giant underground empire.

You know he didn't cheat, he doesn't even know how to input cheats in the game.

He's the same in Stardew Valley. He was at the bottom of the mine with the original pickaxe and a crappy sword in less than a week in-game.

Science can't explain how he did that. Or why the mines is the only thing he's good at in those games. He sucks at everything else, he is a mines-only boy.

Old Nihil (he/him)

He is not going anywhere near the computer after Swiss and Sunshine showed him Five Nights At Freddy's.

He is not risking that shit again.

He will sit in the corner of the room and sulk if you play video games while he's around.

Young Nihil (he/him)

Even in his youth, he was older than video games and not very smart.

He gets way too distressed about the games so you put him on a gaming ban for the sake of both his and your own sanity.

He does like watching you play, though. Especially as he cuddles up to you.

He keeps complimenting you while you play. He's proud of you!

Young Sister Imperator (she/her)

She would not have the time.

As much as she loves you, it's almost always a no.

She doesn't mind if you play something while you're together, she's just... not gonna have the time to actually play.

Although considering it's the 60s, it's probably more likely to assume she just hears about you going on about arcades.

Which she doesn't mind, even if the games seem completely absurd to her.

Old Sister Imperator (she/her)

She will die of embarassment if anyone finds out, but she's a sucker for old Pokémon games.

She even has the first generation Pokédex memorized.

You leard that by accident while looking for mods for Minecraft and she automatically quotes the Bulbasaur Pokédex entry as you gush over the cute creature.

She's embarassed to say the least. You totally use it as blackmail on her.

And pay for it in the bedroom.

(Step on me in those red heels of yours Seestor please.)

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Written by Nosferatu.

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10 favorite female characters poll

post I saw said "if you see this pretend I tagged you" so I'm passing that on to you 💥 here come 10 epic women in no particular order

[squishy-lombax]

I went to see Sonic 3 and it was so amazing I've fallen head-over-heels back into my Sonic obsession. I'm rewatching Sonic X, I'm taking advantage of the video games sales, etc. I am living my best life! So, naturally, I had a strong desire to draw the Sonic characters as well. Specially the three main hedgehogs, Shadow, Sonic, and Silver! Right off the bat, I had to give them clothes, because I cannot stand when franchises make female characters wear clothes while the males are totally nude. I struggled to come up with good styles for each, but I think I'm decently happy with the end product. Who's your favorite hedgehog in this line-up?

[aspiffygoat]

yesterday i decided to look at the steam curated list of which games were "too woke" which games were "partially woke" and which games "werent woke." some highlights: - Cavestory, Final Fantasy 6, every DOOM game, every Valve game (except for portal 2), and Sonic Adventure DX contains no woke content - Portal 2 is woke because all male characters are portrayed less competent than female characters - Some games are considered woke just for featuring a stereotypical gay character - Every game with a character creator that is less distinct between "male" and "female" (like Body Type A and B) is at least partially woke - There are a lot of porn games on this list - Skyrim is considered partially woke because it contains the option for gay marriage, and an "NPC in Whiterun asks you whether the sight of a strong Nord woman offends you." - Of the 1300+ games reviewed, only ~300 were considered woke free. that means according to this list only 25% of video games do not contain wokeness. Most of these games released before 2005. Needless to say i was incredibly entertained. I'd tell these people to give it up and go back to playing their favorite childhood games like Chrono Trigger, but they consider that game woke too.

[kaylatoonz]

Things movie 4 could do that would (hopefully) make up for Amy’s absence in movie 3.

-Amy’s character better be 100% intact or at least anything other than a basic girl boss who needs no man. Let Amy Rose be energetic, kind, compassionate, hotheaded, stubborn, strong, flawed, and a hopeless romantic.

-Team Sonic should include Sonic, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles, not Sonic, Shadow, Tails, and knuckles. None of that team Sonic plus Shadow bull that people keep trying to push. Team dark exists for a reason, use that.

-And if They not gonna include her as a member of Team Sonic at least give her her team like Team Rose or something new entirely.

-Make sonamy cannon in the movie verse or at least advertise them as a couple.

-If movie three gives Shadow the main focus it's only fair for Amy to get the same treatment. That means no cramming more characters in four that would overshadow her debut. This means no Silver! Metal and maybe Rouge is the only exception 😤.

-Adapt Amy’s arc in sa1 or elements from it. If we’re not getting her arc in sa2 that basically defines her character they could at least give us a piece of it by adapting sa1 to some extent.

-If Shadow is still alive after three let Amy and Shadow have heartfelt interactions with each other. If we’re losing Amy and Shadow's moment then at least give us more interactions between the two than Sega is willing to give us.

Bonus:

-Add more female sonic characters. They skipped Amy, Rouge and Tikal For Shadow and more human characters then I can count, there’s no excuse.😤

If paramount can’t do most of these things in sonic 4 I’m out.

(No comments saying this is unreasonable I don’t want to hear it. Fans are being promised everything they want from Shadow so it’s not me getting greedy for wanting or hoping for things similar to what other fans may want for their favorite character. This is a wish list full of wants and hopes that would help ease my concerns for the future of the series. Leave it at that.)

[blankers24]

Drew Blaze the Cat. My favorite female Sonic character! 💖🔥

Hopefully she shows up in a future Sonic movie. I already know that one of my favorite Sonic characters would be in Sonic 4, that's a win lol.

[sai-comz]

I've been wanting to draw fanart for the sonic games and I never really knew how to. That led me to start to draw Rouge in an attempt to learn the style a bit. She's been one of my favorite female characters for a while, so I thought it would be more fun and easier to get the ball rolling if I started with her.

I plan on doing more of these arts with other characters, and next on my list is Amy!

Process photos and closeups under the cut.

[skaruresonic]

I want to like Amy but her fans make it difficult.

Every other moment they're throwing another character under the bus to make Amy look better when that shouldn't be necessary. It's like they're playing victim over something that people don't do anymore.

If Amy is perfect like they claim then they shouldn't feel this threatened whenever another female character gets any kind of attention or praise. But without fail every single time another female character is girly, kind, brave, or anything else you can think of, it's somehow an attack on Amy.

Imagine if Sonic's fans got mad everytime there was a new character who was confident and athletic. That's how ridiculous this is.

Normally I'd say it's not really equitable not to give a character a fair shake just because their fans are being obdurate, but I can sympathize with your mindset when it comes to how folks gas up Sonamy. If they were chiller about it, I'd probably like it more. While I appreciate Sonic and Amy's dynamic as friends, I swear people portray it as an issue of life or death, and it's so freaking tiring.

Despite not posting about her much, Amy is actually tied with Maria for the third spot in my favorite Sonic characters list. Both girls are great characters for similar and different reasons. It doesn't make much sense to me to claim Maria is boring when Amy displays many of the same traits.

Heck, I kind of think people exaggerate how bad her Battle portrayal is, making it out to be the bad apple that spoils an otherwise good bushel. It's not fantastic, pretty Yikes(tm), actually; yet you'd think she singlehandedly ruined the game based on the way folks hone in on her portrayal at the expense of ignoring the others. ...and idk, I still laughed at a few of her lines. :v

Amy sits in the same boat as Shadow in that everyone holds their own interpretation of the character close to heart and will get defensive if you say otherwise. I've noticed a certain stubbornness among Amy fans that is also shared by Shadow fans. One time I said "I'm an Amy fan, I don't need a crash course on her character" in response to being linked a thread on her character, and got hit with "oh you're just saying what everyone else says." Like? bruh?

I'm just not one of those fans who's like "AMY DESERVES EVERYTHING EVER." She has her flaws and foibles, just like everyone else in the cast. She has a tendency to step on toes, be a bit whiny, overbearing and one-minded... and it can be simultaneously true that her kindness wins over hearts. Amy contains multitudes.

But it's almost like, for many people, taking her as she is isn't enough. She needs to practically be shown curing world hunger in order to be considered as valid as the boys or something… Which I kinda find more offensive to her character than dismissing her outright.

Why does Amy need to star in everything before you're happy, even though of the female cast, she's technically enjoyed the most screentime? Again, not to pit two bad bitches against each other, but Maria's representation isn't exactly sterling, especially considering how often folks objectify her as Shadow's morality pet or treat her death as something to shock non-fans into thinking the series is Deep and Dark(tm). If you're really for better female representation, you should be arguing for better representation for every girl character, not just saying "let Amy get hers and fuck the rest." This shouldn't be a competition. Everyone can have a seat at the table.

First the fandom consensus was "Sega sucks because they didn't include Amy in Origins." Then when they actually did that and included her in Superstars to boot, fans proceeded to move back the goalposts. Superstars doesn't count, apparently, because (insert spurious reasons here).

Maybe it makes me a bad Amy fan or whatever, but I find her crush on Sonic to be the least interesting aspect of her character in part due to how much emphasis people put on it. She and Sonic cannot have a single conversation without fans being like "OMG OMG THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER SONAMY IS CANON," even if canon implies that Amy is imposing on Sonic, such as SatBK's manual describing Sonic preparing for their date as "awaiting a stressful encounter."

Although I can acknowledge that Amy's crush is integral to her character, the way people talk about it makes it seem like female representation in the series as a whole is at stake every time she's mishandled. There's apparently a hashtag trending on Twitter called #letamylove that was made in response to what people perceive as Flynn's mishandling of Frontiers!Amy, FFS. They can't just say "Amy sounds too depressed in Frontiers," no, it has to be blown up into a near-political issue.

The other thing is that people who ship Sonamy often ignore Sonic's feelings and comfort in the matter. Ohshima's tweet that Sonic isn't a "real man" due to his reluctance to express his feelings towards Amy exemplifies this. It's like Sonic is considered some sort of prize that Amy earns through personal growth, when really, folks should be arguing for Amy's personal growth for her own sake.

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Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

my previous attempt got nuked. I'm so sorry women

BUT WE PERSIST. if you already voted please do it again the first one got eaten :(

Stealing from @waveridden because it seemed fun!!

I tried to keep it to a) women that most people following me would know (mostly) (hopefully), b) only women who were my top favorites from their respective canons, c) only one from each canon!

alright let's hit it (TAKE 2)

[laughdamnyou]

I personally don't think Amy will be in the 3rd movie. As much as I love her, I don't see where she could fit in and get enough screen time and character development that she deserves. Also this is a different take on SA2 events, she probably wouldn't have really fit in. If she were to come in to only give her famous speech, it wouldn't hit as hard because she wouldn't be as entwined in the whole story.

I feel that if there is a fourth movie, Metal Sonic (via Sonic's quill he gave Robotnik) and Amy would be a very good pick. Especially if they do a Sonic CD based story. Which, if I remember correctly, is their debut game and thus give Amy the attention and development she deserves. And Metal Sonic would be so cool on the big screen, I love him so much.

I'm a little more upset with the possibility of no Rouge, as this is a take on her debut game (and she's my favorite female sonic character, but that's just me)