#also to be clear unlike starline and some other characters

[themetalvirus]

hey can you. can you tell us more abt eggcat blaze? she seems fun. we support woman's wrongs

yes :3

she's adopted by eggman nega, who was heavily influenced by eggman (obviously). after he fled the future (to avoid paying for his Miscellaneous Crimes) and traveled to blaze's world, he kidnapped her out of the castle as a baby like in tangled but without the antisemitism. his ancestor had powerful mobian children, and it is well-documented that they led to his rise into power... surely a princess born of flame will serve him well.

eggman nega takes advantage of eggcat blaze's connection to the sol emeralds to take them back to his dimension and then to the past to meet the person he idolized. she could only accomplish this once she was old enough because she needed training. she's still 14 dgmw

meanwhile, eggy blaze is a composed, quiet, polite kid. her composure and steely gaze hide how shy she is. she is more isolated than the egghogs ever were, having very sparing interactions with other people, even marine (her nemesis).

so when the egghogs instantly leap on her to ask a bunch of questions and welcome her enthusiastically to their home, she is very frazzled and doesn't have room to object before they drag her around for a tour of the lair and teach her her first swear word in secret (it was damn, yes shadow chose it because it's his favorite) (eggman nega doesn't let her swear so it feels very scandalous to her)

blaze isn't used to familial affection. as a socially isolated only child, she is very lonely. she assumes over and over again that the boys' play fights and nests and movie nights were something she was not invited to. over and over again, the boys are bamboozled that she thinks she's not included. she is OBVIOUSLY family!

this makes her feel warm and loved in a way she has never felt before with her own very small family. she grows to enjoy and appreciate their company, and because they get so rowdy, they can speak for her and take some of the burdens off of her shoulders.

then eggman nega decides his ancestor is an idiot and forbids her from talking to eggman or his stupid sons ever again.

all four of the kids are absolutely heartbroken. when the whole robotnik family is defeated at the end of this first adventure, the boys grieve her even though she's still alive after she leaves.

she comes back a few times because robotniks are nothing if not persistent, and EVERY TIME the boys completely ignore eggman nega and go BLAZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D before getting pointed looks from the eggmen. she shyly waves while their dads are distracted and they wave back =)

blaze is a goody two shoes in terms of dad's rules. the egghogs in all their dummy glory end up indirectly teaching her that she can have an identity all her own and eat with her hands and say damn

so when amy and the redeemed boys inevitably see her again, they welcome her with open arms. egghog sonic may end up having even more family to grieve. blaze does follow the commands of eggman nega before anyone else, but she DOES still care for shadow and silver after they switch sides.

idk if she gets redeemed or not just because as the guardian of the sol emeralds she can't stay in their universe forever and marine would be too stubborn to accept that she was open to changing. but marine could fix her. autism be damned my captain can fix her

[stepichu]

UHH???? I CANT BELIEVE YOU HAVE AN ESSAY ON HIS HAIR?? LIKE YOU CANT JUST SAY YOU HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND NOT SHARE???

i’m laughing oh my god alright here’s the over the top explanation and analysis of why sometimes jason has the streak, and other times he doesn’t that i wrote (i didn’t include exposition on what the streak is but i had explained it earlier in the discord chat)

Jason’s first reappearance afterhis death was just before the Hush Storyline, in the main Batman comics, and hedid have the white streak. It was there, it was blatant, and he was rocking it.His double also had the streak. He also had the streak in the flashbacks of himsearching for the Joker, before he returns as Red Hood. Strangely, he didn’t have the streak when he initially emerged from the Lazarus Pit, but that mayhave been a colouring error, or the streak just took a while to appear. Thatisn’t clear. Regardless, he did have it until at *least* Batman Annual #25:Daedalus and Icarus: The Return of Jason Todd. (Winick, Starlin) This issuegives readers a summarized version of how Jason came back to life and made hisway to Gotham to find the Joker and Batman, and features the fight in thegraveyard, where he reveals his face for the first time. However, if you readany issues included in the Under the Red Hood Storyline, (Winick, Mahnke) youwill notice that Jason is missing the white streak he’s known for within fancommunities. He inexplicitly regains the streak in Countdown to Final Crisis,although it’s not explained at all.

There are a couple theories as towhy he doesn’t have the streak, but the community is unsure of which is themost accurate. The first is that the artists simply forgot, or didn’t want tokeep drawing it in. Relatively understandable, given that there is noexplanation for it. Generally, when an aspect about a character is changed,there’s a reason given by the writer that changed it. Using Jason himself as anexample, before the Crisis on Infinite Earths Storyline, he actually had redhair. His initial persona was a redheaded acrobat (who dyed his hair black tolook more like Dick), although his backstory was changed after the CIE due toreader backlash that he was too similar to Dick Grayson. Writer Grant Morrisonlater brought back the Red Hair in Batman and Robin Vol. 1 #5, explaining thatBruce made him dye his hair. Notably, the Jason in these issues has the streak,indicating that it could be more writer choice than artist choice.

The prominent theory is thatJason dyes his hair regularly in order to remove the streak. It’s almost anunwritten agreement that no, Jason does not have red hair, that was just anunfortunate choice by Morrison, because this Jason is not the same Jason fromPre-CIE. Therefore, unless the streak magically went away on his own, he mustbe dying his naturally black hair black again. It could be argued that his hairgrew out black, but this is unlikely, as when hair turns white, it’s due to aloss of pigmentation that in almost any circumstance, can’t return. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-hair-turn-gray/)In addition, since he trained with the All-Caste, that would presumably beextremely stressful, and stress is known to cause hair to go grey in somepeople.

Given that Jason has been writtenmany times by many different writers, any one conclusion about his hair ispractically guaranteed to be disproven or changed at some point in the future.However, given the general consistency of his black hair and the seeminglyrandom reappearances of the white streak, it is most likely that he dyes his hairas per the writer’s and artists’ discretion.

**TL;DR** he most likely dyes itbut we don’t actually know