#amy rose

[demilypyro]

Thinking about the design decisions that led to Amy Rose being a bruiser character.

The first appearance of Amy's hammer was in Sonic the Fighters, a fighting game. This was her first playable appearance, and her first time fighting. And there you can see the first decision. She was likely given the hammer because the designers thought it would be unfair to make the girl character fight barehanded against the largely male cast. So she was given a weapon: an appropriately cartoony hammer. This remained her main method of self defense in Sonic Adventure.

Note how in these earlier depictions, the hammer looks more like a toy than an actual weapon. It's not meant to actually be threatening, it's just something to put her on equal grounds with the other characters, since the perception at the time was that a girl character wouldn't be able to fight as well as the male characters.

As we move into more modern and less cartoony depictions of the Sonic universe however, the piko hammer got redesigned. They didn't change its size at all, but maybe someone on staff thought the toy look was too silly, because they made it look more metallic and heavy as the years went on.

But this does change things. Because taken with its new look and realistic weight... that is a freakishly big hammer, and utilizing it the way Amy does would require incredible strength. So, in the modern day, her mastery of the hammer is treated more as a sign of her inherent power, rather than a bandaid for a power differential like a smaller weapon would be. While often still referred to as a "speed" type character, she's regularly depicted as a character whose physical strength rivals Knuckles or even Shadow. As we move later in the franchise, character descriptions regularly call her "powerful."

It's interesting how this shift happened, when really nothing about Amy's depicted abilities has changed. What changed is how realistically the Sonic universe is depicted, as it moved away from slapstick comedy. In that new context, the girl with the big hammer suddenly becomes a lot more intimidating.

[smallpwbbles]

Me randomly remembering that Shadow goes to concerts with Amy

God I hope they do another Twitter takeover before movie 3

[eloaholiveira]

dandanda

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

this is SO fucking funny out of context

[momodr0id]

amy!

[mstormcloud]

I MADE MORE OF THEM!!! I’m gonna be giving these out as stickers at Sonic Expo….not selling them just giving them out…I wanna try to make friends…maybe….

[sonicexelle-junkary]

The things you find up North at 4 AM. Like an alien that looks like a hedgehog.

[blurd-blue]

My actual favorite piece of Amy artwork, like period.

lovestruck !

[rapidhighway]

[weirdozjunkary]

Admittedly I don’t know a lot about DanDaDan and I’m only experiencing it through the anime. And I love seeing people make it SonAmy, cuz it’s cute.

BUT I CANNOT STOP THINKING HOW MUCH OKARUN IS LIKE SILVER IM SORRY THEY’RE BOTH LOSER DORKS!

[nuclearbattery]

returning to my roots

[liana-butterscotch]

Amy: "Burguur!" ✨ ❤ 🌟

girliepops ✨💖

[nightfurylover31]

Commission by the amazing @chacolachao (thanks so much again) from my question on the Bumblekast about Amy getting sent to the Satam world!

Here's a link if you want to hear it. X

[seyfertgalaxy]

sonic arts because ive been neglecting to post them El Oh El

[cheatsy-reblogs]

Plushie Bouquet!

inspired by this post

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