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The thought of Espio being either more incompetent with technology than the rest of his friends or just being wholly tech illiterate gets a lot funnier for me when I remember that he's sixteen. I personally never knew any sixteen year old besides myself who wasn't very involved with technology at that age (I've gotten better as an adult though I guess). Plus one of Espio's friends/allies is basically a literal boomer who hacks computers by smacking them. And yet Espio is still the cringe one

To be fair, I don't think Espio is that incompetent with technology? Vector wouldn't have asked him to go hack Eggman's and the ARK's computer if he didn't at least believe Espio could pull it off, I figure. Plus, the Chaotix managed to fire the Eclipse Canon, even if it's not shown who was responsible for that specifically. It's just that we never see Espio with anything else technology-wise as far as I know, and the telephone the Chaotix have in their possession in X and IDW is one of those very old-fashioned horn-with-cord ones, haha. So there's just nothing modern for Espio to practice with, maybe?

That being said, with Espio's focus on Being A Ninja, I figure he might show more appreciation for the traditional way of doing things than replacing it all with technology. In one Sonic Channel artwork, he's shown taking notes with a notebook and brush, where I'd say a laptop is just far more efficient. (Assuming they've got the money to buy one, of course. If they do ever get a computer, I figure it'll be one of those twenty-year-old square blocks of screen with a dinky keyboard and mouse that's barely hanging on to its last threads of life. That fits best with the Chaotix Vibes in my mind.) So Espio staunchly refusing to modernise and sticking to what works best for him is something I can envision, haha. I would say that he'll be able to figure out how a smartphone works if you gave him one and just let him figure it out by himself, it's just that he doesn't want to use it until it's a clear necessity.