#anyway eggman is fun

[tails-boogie-board]

so, what happens now that eggman has his memories back?

Eggman appears in the story like all good Sonic stories do, which is to say don't worry about. /s

Robotnik and Eggman are similar; egotistical, full of avarice and cruelty, with the inability to see the value of nature beyond its potential use. The main difference between them however, is hubris.

Eggman came to this land to get his memories back, or more specifically, to figure out what was missing. Because, while Sonic knows that his previous memories were him and struggles with the dichotomy of it all, Eggman doesn't care.

He'll use the name-confusion to his advantage sure, but to him, Robotnik was a prototype who failed. Eggman doesn't want to find a middle ground or explore his past self, clearly Eggman is the superior of the two. He is better than Robotnik was in every way and doesn't consider himself a 'copy' (maybe something closer to murder or weirdly Freudian, but he doesn't have that level of introspection lbr)

Which to say, that Ronotnik would love the secret, underground Illuminati cult dedicated to him. Instead, Eggman finds it distasteful at best; it's more talk than actual execution -but it's the thought that counts and he truly does appreciate it.

Eggman is found by dissentients and ends up in the middle of a political terrorist group headed by Snivly and some of the former elite. They want Robotnik back in power so they can reclaim their prior status and power. Which, early on Eggman was excited for, but he realized that the concept or 'Robotnik' has moved from a real person to a concept/figure piece. And he's no ones pawn and tries to dip when he realizes it.

However, pre-memory Eggman is having fun being an asshole dictator to his underlings who keep telling him he's going to change things. He doesn't believe it, mind, but he's willing to bide his time with his own plots and have someone deliver grapes to him. He's in the middle of this when he gets his memories back, so he goes from kinda vibing at having underlings to catching up on the unsaid downlow. But also, it doesn't take a multi-degree genius, rocket scientist to see the cult's ploy is half-baked useless trash.

The faction sees a traumatized and potentially loyal city with an army, the roboticizers, and a population that already "knows what to do." But Eggman is a realist and even if he went along with their desperate plan, the amount of work needed to make Robotropolis useful as a proper hub wasn't worth the effort.

Because, the thing is that Mobotropolis is a broken nation. It's politically, economically, and socially stressed and the unified government doesn't even have majority support. It's a starved city that doesn't have any remaining resources or a even a strategic location.

Plus, as a villain, he's a bit apathetic about the whole thing. What's the fun, the thrill of it all, in taking over something that's already been crushed? The population is already desolate and morally destroyed and they don't have anything left to offer. It feels like Robotnik's leftovers, a handicap that he doesn't need. No thanks.

And tbh, he really doesn't want to deal with the cult and if he was in charge, they'd all be in command too and he'd have to talk to people and be social and delegate and ugh, he'd never have time to be evil for himself. (He's too used to fighting on his own as Eggman and making his own allies. So having assistance in real people, that he didn't create and can't control, doesn't interest him)

So a time jump, and as he's actively ditching, he goes to take whatever data they have. And as he's stealing their archives, Tails' finds him (the context for that meme lol)

Fun fact: Eggman is Mobotropolis' largest trade partner and is the main importer of steel....which came from Robotnik in the first place. He noticed the discrepancies on the ledgers and the unofficial name change, but didn't think anything of if at the time

[sonknuxadow]

there is no secret 6th option i am specifically asking who is your favorite out of these guys

[hide-your-bugs-away]

martha checks in with her two semi-divorced dads ☝️

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

CHECKMATE

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[beatcroc]

Creating some kind of fucked up soap opera between metal and mecha in my head

[redpenship]

cosmic wip

an: this fic is taking me FOREVER to write and i like this convo quite a bit so I am posting it on tumblr!!

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This was a huge claim. Starline blinked in surprise. “You . . . stabilized an energy circuit? Without a surge protector?”

Ivo gave him another paper from the folder. Starline stared at it blankly. On the paper was a schematic for a capsule; in the main section was a drawing of a small bird, and attached to the bottom was a battery. The title read: animal-powered battery. 

“This must be some kind of joke,” Starline mumbled incredulously. In what world could animals power a facility like this on their own? He couldn’t even begin to imagine how they would stabilize his energy electrical circuit. That was a feat physicists had been trying to achieve for decades. And here, Ivo was claiming to have done it own his own. Without training. 

“It’s not a joke! I’ve been using those batteries as my main source of power for many years, now.” Appearing excited, Ivo leaned forward and tapped the schematic with a finger. “They work because I adapted our laws to the conditions of this world. You are a biologist first, so I will explain this simply: Chaos Emeralds respond to the needs of living creatures. Without their interference, the animals inside the capsule would die during the energy extraction process. The emeralds protect the animals by supplying the electrical circuit with enough energy to function without killing them.” 

Starline blinked. Ivo was right—he was a biologist, not a physicist. He hadn’t looked at energy physics in a very long time. But despite his inexperience, he understood just how big this stable energy capsule could be. Ivo had made a breakthrough in Earth’s sciences. Unstable energy had suppressed the planet’s sciences for millions of years. If Ivo’s invention really worked . . .

“Given your silence, I can only assume that you’ve come to understand the grander implications of this capsule,” Ivo said. He took the schematic and put it back into the folder. “Don’t get too excited. I have no intentions of sharing this with anyone else for the time being.” 

He was keeping it for himself? “Why?” Starline demanded. “You could help science everywhere!” 

Ivo shook his head. “This will not help science. It is a temporary fix to a much larger problem. To help science, I will need to present a complete solution to the energy crisis.” 

“This is a good first step!” Starline argued. “Other physicists could use this to find the solution!”

As Starline spoke, Ivo’s face fell. He said his next words sternly. “If human science was capable of solving the crisis, we would have done it by now. I accomplished what I did by abandoning our methods completely. No other scientists would have been willing to do such a thing.”

They were right back to Ivo’s initial argument: humans, and by extension their science, are idiots. “What makes you think so?”

“Anyone who is allowed to practice science in a lab has completed the circuit of higher education. To survive such a circuit, students must depersonalize themselves and accept rigorous training. They are traumatized into accepting academic dogma even if it seems unnatural to them. Upon graduation from such a system, how many of them will be willing to abandon everything they’ve learned to perform ‘unscientific’ experiments?”

Starline immediately disagreed. “They’re rigorously trained to meet scientific standards.” 

“On a non-standard planet! Everything they’re learning is useless until we can solve the energy crisis.” 

The logic didn’t add up. “Then the crisis is unsolvable. Unless you mean to say that you’re the only one who can do it?”

Ivo crossed his ams with a huff. “I’ve hit a road block in my research. Now that I have the capsules, I am finding it more and more difficult to pretend that I don’t have expectations for my experiments. Staying away from university could only bring me so far. No matter what I do, I will always make assumptions about the future and my experiments. It is an unconscious way of thinking that I cannot overcome; my brain simply cannot accept the uncertainty created by Chaos Energy.” 

Unconscious ways of thinking. It all clicked at once. Starline looked to the cognitive tests on the table in front of him and realized exactly what conclusion Ivo had drawn from them.

“You think only someone with a traditional Mobian worldview can solve the energy crisis,” he said. Ivo nodded his agreement and Starline kept going. “It has to be someone comfortable with uncertainty . . . someone with an intuitive understanding of Chaos Energy.” 

“Precisely! The energy crisis will only be solved by someone whose first reaction to learning the law of conservation of energy is to refute its existence.”

[thesarcasticism]

happy tax day everyone!

i commissioned my friend @weird-hoodie-kid to draw this to further my headcanon of "eggman is the only sonic character who pays taxes."

[bordonfreeman]

Meme redraw because this is the only way i know how to join new fandoms anymore

[mars-ipan]

sooo @degrading-m0ss challenged me to draw komaeda in this pose. and it turned out. way fucking better than either of us expected it to

[happi-tree]

Hi, everyone, happy wipweds!!! So, in honor of yesterday's episode being absolutely phenomenal with no heartbreaking bits whatsoever, I've decided to share a snippet from a few months back that is surely one of the most self-indulgent, hyper-specific things I've ever written. You know. To go with the fluff fest that was episode 46! BEcause everything is okay forever 🥰 The teens are just having a fun mall boba shop hangout dw about it!!!

[skeletalheartattack]

Who was your favourite mario character as a kid, and who is it now?

honestly? that's a pretty tough question for me to answer, because i played a lot of mario games growing up, and i don't know if younger me would've been able to choose a favourite. in terms of established characters, i think a safe option would likely be bowser; he was always my pick in Mario Kart 64, Melee, and Brawl. though in terms of the entire series as a whole, i liked the luigis mansion ghost designs a lot.

a favourite nowadays? i'm not quite sure. if i had to pick an established character, it'd probably be wario or waluigi. in terms of the entire series, i like the Mario Sunshine boos design a lot... but that's narrowing it down too small because i like a whole lot of designs from the franchise, so it's really hard to pinpoint.

[un-pearable]

like i did still have fun. but it was in spite of a lot of things about the game rather than because of :( let’s focus on the positives. trip is adorable if a little too modern looking. this cutscene was very funny bc it was the first time i realized one of my bros had swapped eggman to lego at some point.

i love her <3

[sonknuxadow]

Honestly the thing I'm most worried about uf they make Eggman fat in Sonic 3 is I'm 95 percent sure they're going to come up with a BS excuse.

Like yes Eggman was planned to slowly turn more game Eggman like as the movies progress (Sonic 1 gave him his red outfit in the end, Sonic 2 made him bald, gave him the signature stache and made him a bit crazy, Sonic 3 might be giving him his signature bulk and probably some other things) and it sucks that they'd have to use a fat suit in order to get Jim to look the part but I don't want it them to phone it in as something like it being an effect of absorbing the Master Emerald and I'll be real disappointed if its something like 'oh, he just let himself go'

Maybe Eggman had a scientific reason to bulk up, or maybe he just thought he looked good with some extra weight, or maybe it is a side effect of something but he knew about it before hand and was okay with it. As long as its more of a choice then I think I'd be more okay with it.

we dont really have the full context yet of course but the descriptions of the teaser going around are making it sound like they went with the "he let himself go and gained a lot of weight" explanation. and idk man maybe it just sounds bad out of context but im tired of fatness being portrayed as gross and a negative trait and weight gain being used to signify a character becoming Worse in some way. fat people are just people and the body type someone has doesnt have any morals attached to it. again maybe it just sounds bad out of context and the movie wont make his weight gain into a joke but my hopes arent high because being weird about fat people is not new for sonic media at all

[staticmonitor]

❝ Wait... That time of the year already?? Happy nth Birthday to meee~!! ❞

❝ Now if only father-dearest would stop rotting in hell for a minute or two and like— send me a birthday card, or something. Seriously, Egghead— death hasn't stopped me from coming to visit you on our birthday! You have no excuse!! ❞

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

No one:

Me: Okay, but what if their relationship has nothing to do with Sonic and Tails? What if Metal literatally just saw Eggman working on Tails Doll and assumed without proof that they were created for him? What if Metal quite literally attached to Tails Doll through this assumption and then their partnership progressed naturally? What if the inorganic creations fell in love as an unorthodox power couple and just so happened to resemble a famous partnership?

[theramblingsofadork]

Oh boy—

Tomorrow I think I’ll unleash a small snippet of the guilty pleasure that is my AU of Starline having actually had friends (and maybe something more) once.

I am going to die of cringe, but I made this blog specifically so I could talk about it, and I want my stupid platypus man to just be happy for a single moment gosh dangit!! So whatever. XD