#Sonic Prime New Yoke

[quitepossiblybamboozled]

I'm so glad we get to see what would have happened if Sonic weren't around to lead everyone, but I also love that we see what a useless mess he is without his friends and how bad he is at making new friends. we also see how Sonic compartmentalizes the different parts of his life. he is deliberate about his exclusion of Shadow from the very first episode.

he introduces the others as "my friends," and when it comes to Shadow he just says, "it's complicated." When he talks to Big, he says, "Gotta go save our friends!" when he talks to Shadow before the Prism shatters and gets distracted by the initial explosion, he shouts, "My friends!"

to me, this shows that Sonic doesn't view Shadow as one of "my friends" and doesn't think he's friends with anyone else in the group, either. Sonic purposely isolates Shadow from the others in his mind and out loud with the language he uses.

We see another example of the "my friends" diction when he and Nine are separated from Rebel, Knucks, and Rusty. He says, "I've gotta help my friends!" which has to be a gut punch for Nine, who has been told that he and Sonic are supposed to be best friends. It isolates Nine as not being one of the friends that Sonic needs to help, as well as implies that, while Rebel, Knucks, and Rusty are Sonic's friends, that does not mean that they are also Nine's friends.

All throughout Sonic's first trip in New Yolk, he repeatedly reminds Nine that he's wrong somehow, that there's something incorrect about his existence. Sonic even refers to Nine as "messed up" Tails. While we have the perspective to see that Nine is indeed a version of Tails who is deeply traumatized due to repeated hate crimes against him, Nine doesn't.

Sure, Sonic tells him as much, vague and incoherent as the explanation is, but that doesn't make the name "Tails" feel like less of a slur, and it doesn't make calling him "messed-up you" hurt any less. Even when they land in "The Grim," Sonic says, "Be on the lookout for whacked-out versions of you, me, and anyone else you know!" implying that Sonic initially viewed Nine that way.

Sonic has a very self-centered way of viewing the world, and while he is learning throughout the entirety of season one that that is not the way to treat your friends (we see him actively change when he refuses to go after The Devil's Lighthouse while Dread, Catfish, Sails, Batten, and Black Rose are fighting Rusty and the eggforcers). It's super clear from the start that Sonic cares deeply for his friends, but it is also super clear that, since they all believe in him wholeheartedly, he's kind of phoned it in when it comes to effort and consideration, and consequences are never on his mind.

I have a lot more thoughts about this but my lunch break is over, I just needed to write some things down.

[owldart]

They figured he was an angsty TEEN not an angsty THIRD GRADER

[yellowvixen]

A version of Maria that survived to adulthood in a dimension where Shadow doesn't exist? I'm sure that won't affect Shadow's self image at all

[r0th3freak4rtist]

Finally some "contexto"

I posted the concepts on my Twitter, this vertion of Sonic is quite traumatized :v

Some doddles <3

Angryhog doesn't want to talk...

[weirdozjunkary]

Okay so hear me out- hear me out. I know that it’s not likely for this to happen but like imagine like

IM NOT CRAZY FOR THINKING THIS, AM I?

[rapidhighway]

oh im doodling this guy again, for some reason i care for him very much

[brainworms-all-night-long]

"When I was your age" They're both 8

[milkflavouredpoptart]

I posted this to my tiktok but I love this so I'm gonna repost it here too hehe

[eloaholiveira]

Hes playing subway surfers on his bald head

[myymi]

nine has absolutely no idea what the hell a chili dog is, he only said he hates them because he knew sonic would take it personally

[lunapegasus]

Idea by @dreaminginmysoup

[nanamivnemesis]

These 3 are best trio ❤️ 🌹

Amy rose is best girl

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

Nine is obviously a tragic character but he's also self-centered. He leaves the resistance to die so he can have his perfect world, and despite his anger towards Sonic for not considering his wants, Nine also assumes they both want the same thing and lashes out when this doesn't turn out to be the case.

He's so fixated on his own pain that he ignores that of others. Nine doesn't care if other worlds die as long as he gets the happy childhood that was robbed from him. He is the epitome of "I suffered so why shouldn't they?"

[nb-hedgewolf]

Nine meets The Blue Blur incident, 1 universe shattered, several people divided into limited aspects of their identity, more at 7.

[fireyartccoon]

couldn’t skip sonic appreciation day, so here ya go

[ceemi]

my boys <3