#and could like. summon kaiju versions of their book characters

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

Hiiii. Hello. :]

anyways. I ironicallyish hate dazai osamu from popularish manga and anime and light novel and creature bunguo stray dogs. I have many reasons. :] that would be badly articulated if put here. :]

funniest ending the series could do that would cause the fandom anger. :] would be him staring into the camera and informing the audience he is a STRAIGHT man who LIKES WOMEN and has never thought of kissing men. that is what I would say if it were not for the fact that he already did that. :] in like the first chapter of the manga. :]

in summary it'd be kinda funny if people voted hate because I find him. kinda annoying. :]

only mixed feelings I have are that the manga artist draws him really cool sometimes. not in the animes way where I think the animation team just tried to make him pretty at all times. just kinda. shaped. there is a panel where he is in a trash can. then again the manga has a generally shapey artstyle that's always fun to look at so.

:] I hope he explodes itd be funny.

Wait there’s a guy in bungo stray dogs who looks directly at the camera and says “I am a straight man”??? What is going on in this fandom

[blazehedgehog]

How would you handle new Sonic villians. The reason why Dr. Eggman works is because he is the antithesis to Sonic (Sonic fights for freedom while Eggman fights to create a tyrannical rule). The other villians never got that besides maybe Shadow. I would have them relate to the themes of nature vs technology that the classics embodies.

Well, to make a villain I feel like you must first deconstruct the hero. Villains are always something the hero isn’t. Or in some cases, villains exist because of something the hero does to create the villain.

Unfortunately, Sega’s version of Sonic is one-dimensional by design. The whole cast is, really. They insist on telling stories about these characters, but then never give them any mileage to grow, or change, or reveal any deep-seated facts about themselves. Like, who would even remember that Amy Rose is a tarot card reader? It has never even once come up in the games. It exists in her character profile only.

So already we don’t have a lot to work with. If we take every Sonic game ever made, plus the TV show Sonic X (which seems to drift in and out of the canon), then our Sonic the Hedgehog is:

A bit of an explorer. He seems somewhat well-versed in ancient cultures, often for civilizations most history books have forgotten or don’t know about.  

A little bit lazy. When he’s not out exploring or saving the world, he seems to enjoy a good nap.  

He has a strong sense of justice. He often intervenes without being asked if he thinks there’s a problem.  

He has a bit of a mouth on him. He likes to taunt his enemies and dispense one-liners like an action movie hero.  

He’s a bit of a loner. He doesn’t seem to stick around in one place for very long and constantly greets even his closest friends by saying, “Long time no see.” So he isn’t around them very often.  

He appreciates natural beauty. Being an explorer, he seems to just... go exploring for the sake of seeing what’s out there.

So how do you build a villain out of these? Well, up to now, we’ve seen Eggman being the one to unleash ancient evils. But I think it makes a lot more sense for Sonic to be the one to do that, and probably by accident. I know Sega wants Sonic to be the cool hero that never loses or does anything wrong, but I’ve always thought of Sonic as an impulsive sort of guy who never looks before he leaps because to him it just doesn’t matter. He’s faster than anything on the planet, so in his mind, he sees himself as kind of invincible.

So maybe he’s out exploring, or even fighting some robots or something, and he stumbles in to these old ruins. Older than anything he’s ever seen before. And he’s instantly caught up in the idea of finding something new. Something he hasn’t seen yet. So he delves deeper, and deeper, and accidentally unleashes an ancient evil.

The problem is, I feel like for this to resonate, we’d have to retread a lot of the same ground as Dark Gaia. I immediately gravitate to something very old. Around at the beginning of the planet. Something that turns Sonic’s safe spaces (his friends) against him, like an infection.

I think making Dark Gaia a big ghostly kaiju was probably a mistake. We need something smaller. More compacted. Something Sonic can more easily interact with and talk to.

Maybe we could flip it around and it’s, like, almost a cultist of some sort. Another animal character, but this one’s bad. They want to bring Dark Gaia back, and can summon some of Dark Gaia’s power. They indoctrinate others through some kind of hypnotic brainwashing. A little bit Lovecraft, a little bit Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I don’t know if we would bring the Werehog back necessarily, but maybe the cultists can transform, until Sonic purifies them and removes the evil in their hearts using the Chaos Emeralds.

These sound like dark ideas, but it’s all in how you portray them. This doesn’t have to be edgy. You can do a lot of these ideas in a way that’s still appropriate for someone under the age of 14.