#brotherly sontails

[sonikkudash]

something something draw your fav ship like this and I went don't mind if I do !

[spookyscaryships]

A Sontails (Sonic series) with themes of brotherly love that became romantic over time

Requested by: anon

- Mod Stare

[sideblogforsonic]

I feel the need to clarify something.

When I put different colored love hearts together in relation to Sonic characters I want you to know that it’s not always about shipping.

Obviously 💙🤍 for SonElise and 💛�� for Tailsmo and 🤍❤️ for Knuxouge and 💙💖 for SonAmy and whatnot are shipping.

But 💙💛 is not SonTails (ew). It’s brotherly love.

💙💛❤️ is the movie brothers!

Any kind of love can be represented with love hearts, okay?

[managician]

Getting back into Sonic has reminded me of how much I love sontails... It's such a cute and fluffy ship, they just warm my heart so much. 

I’ve seen a lot of hate for it lately, though, so I ended up writing a whole essay (aka rambling) about why I think they’re great together. Figured I’d share that here for anyone that might need a pick-me-up :) 

(Or for people interested in learning the perspective of a shipper, ig. I’m open to discussion.)

“What’s so good about them?”

I know plenty of people hate it romantically, but I really adore their bond in any shape or form. The idea of this really cool hero that's just some guy and his nerdy life partner settling together feels so wholesome to me, with how much they appreciate each other.

There's a closeness and mutual understanding in their dynamic that is simply perfect. I can see them casually growing into a relationship once it hits them how much they need each other in their lives — and it'd be the mushiest thing known to man, I tell you. 

To Tails, Sonic is his light and source of inspiration, after saving him from bullies; to Sonic, Tails is the best buddy he could've asked for, someone loyal that will always keep up with him. They mean the world to each other. They're very attached, to the point the other character feels 'wrong' when they're alone (Sonic: Tails... it’s weird without you following me... [Frontiers], Tails' whole disappearance act after Sonic went missing [Forces]).

It isn't hard to imagine the adoration they hold for each other in a romantic light.

They're always together, through thick and thin. They were each other's first friend. Wanting to keep the other safe, wanting to support them… those are emotions just as powerful in friendships than in relationships, and very much present in their case. 

They're literally called the Unbreakable Bond. Their friendship has been put to the test before, but it always stays firm in the end — so how would their closeness work in case either of them developed feelings...? It's pretty cute, it can be drama-free if you want it to, but it can be kinda angsty and interesting all at the same time. 

With how important they are to each other, anything that alters or touches on their bond can make for great character development. That really drew me to them in the first place.

(Here's the point when someone would come in and say "You're a freak, please kys", to which I'd reply, I have to wonder what part of what I described is 'freaky' whatsoever. 

I see them as best friends, and their ship dynamic as an adorable, budding love born out of their dozen adventures together. I've clearly stated as such. If that's gross to you, I got nothing, to be honest.)

“Okay, but they’re brothers. You’re disgusting.”

Of course, I understand why people see it brotherly as well, and respect that vision. But I grew up with them in the 2010s, with them being strictly best friends, and with their bond always getting the spotlight in the titles I was initially familiar with [Colours, Lost World]. 

They complimented each other perfectly back then, and they still do now that I’m familiar with more of the Sonic franchise.

I feel the whole brother thing is prominent in English versions of the media, such as certain scripts having Sonic call him "lil' bro" as a term of endearment, or the old cartoons [AoSTH] where they are actual family. I never got that impression from them while playing the games in Spanish, and I think the fact it's a well-known ship in the fandom overall shows I'm not the only one.

Being "as close as family" is also a very popular trope for people into romances, whether you personally like it or not. It can stay like that, with the characters treating each other like the sibling they never had, or evolve into them seeing each other in a different light as time passes, thanks to their closeness. Both are good, healthy outcomes.

“They also have an age gap.”

Ah, yes, there's the matter of age difference as well. I didn't know about their ages when I was a kid, I found the discourse surrounding them absurd when I was a teenager, and I'm not gonna care about it now that SEGA removed them from their profiles, since it's obvious they didn't ever make much sense. What kind of 8 or 12 year olds drive planes and cars?

In the games I’ve played, Sonic and Tails have been consistently portrayed as best friends, first and foremost, by most writers. That's the media I care the most about, and the one that made me invested in the characters in the first place.

(Also, fun fact, official Sonic designer Naoto Ohshima has occasionally liked and retweeted sontails art. So I don’t think it’s “wrong” to their eyes in current canon.)

In conclusion: I see an endearing friends to lovers narrative in sontails. I see Tails thinking Sonic is the coolest person he's ever met, and Sonic thinking the same about him in return. I see them finding a perfect partner in each other, falling in love with the person that saved them from solitude.

They're cute as best friends, they're cute as bros, and they're also cute as a couple. I just love them. 💙💛

People are perfectly within their right to be uncomfortable with the ship or its fans. But if you dislike them and read this far, I hope I could make you understand, even if just a little bit, why they're not bad to my eyes. 

To any sontails fans out there, keep being awesome (and feel free to interact/add on to this post, I’d love to meet more people that like them too!)

[loudlypanickinginvenezolano]

Life is just a big, bad joke. (WIP.) Pls stop me.

Tails is missing, and Sonic may or may not be losing his head over it. Add an amnesiac and very lost Shadow, and you get the perfect recipe for disaster.

Just, what is Eggman planning this time? Is it even Eggman?

And so, he raged.

He raged in the loneliness of the place, in the greyish and maddening white of this gigantic room where every one of his gasps bounced back in a torturing echo. He raged against his bindings and against his urge of screaming, biting and cursing. He fought to keep it until wraps, to keep himself together and not give them more reasons to contain him when he was needed outside…While he was failing on his duty of protecting those who believing in him.

Failing in protecting his little brother.

He was so consumed in his emotion, or well, in trying to contain all that emotion, that he didn’t realize he wasn’t that alone until softs clicks managed to gain his attention.

There was a single piece of bread next to him.

There was a black hedgehog seated not so far from him.

“Shadow?!” So, he did scream in that part, so he didn’t think twice about the other´s wince. Sonic, admittedly, was too preoccupied with being mad at himself not noticing Shadow before, at SHADOW himself for not saying something before, and, well, happy, as he may now have a chance at getting out of there more quickly and easier than before.

It totally didn’t have to do with seeing Shadow at all. It wasn’t like his stomach got all giddy with emotions every time the hedgehog and he crossed ways.

Anything but that.

“Mh…Yes?” Came the wary response, which, was admittedly unusual coming from the dark hedgehog. Shadow was looking at him rather strangely, as well, as if he were searching for something on Sonic`s face, but also holding what…looked like a juice box maybe? As if it was a shield, a worried frown marring his face and eyes darting to the door every so before coming back to him.  

Sonic wasn’t sure about what was that about, and he really was trying to ignore the bad feeling growing in his stomach so…Yes, he didn’t stop to question it. He really wasn’t sure if he even could afford to do it.

He was trying not to have a mental breakdown, after all.  

“Yes-a nothing, man! You need to get me outta here!” Sonic rattled his wrists, grimacing at the loud clanking sound it made. It echoed dauntingly in the big space, bouncing from wall to wall, which almost made Sonic grumble. Yes, yes, scary place, we got it.

Shadow also grimaced, and recoiled even, though he almost seemed in pain, the strange expression making Sonic stop dead.

Shadow didn’t like doing pained faces. He avoided it, at all costs.

“…Why?” The ebony mumbled at the end, almost uncomfortable, and Sonic tried hard, he really did, to not let his smile falter.

“Why, you ask.” He breathed slowly, feeling how his insides froze entirely, reaching up to his throat and hurting with his breath intake, feeling how his chest seemed tighter, his hands even more unsteady, and how his stomach became a rock. This…wasn’t happening. This wasn’t okay, not at all. “Why…Why wouldn’t you? We need to get out of here, Shadow. Don’t you--know?”

He searched for it. For his face, for his true. There was some curiosity in Shadows eyes, curiosity. Since when is Shadow openly curious about something?

There was also confusion, and what he was sure was mistrust. He was used to seeing it there, all right, but never in this…in this quantity. Not directed at him.

There was no recognition.

It hurt more than what he expected.

He kept smiling, though, he kept waiting, hoping for a brighter outcome.

That is what he did, right? What he was supposed to do…

But it didn’t came, and as time kept going Sonic found himself staring straight at the bitter truth. At the one he had tried hard to ignore, he had tried hard to make himself believe would never come again.

“You don’t… You don’t remember me, do you?”

Shadow demeanor changed entirely. He sat straighter, ears perked and eyes wide. He gaped, trying to say something, anything that came to him, trying to deny it, to deny that small detail, that weakness that left him disadvantaged but…but he couldn’t, not when it was the truth and not when it was so obvious and not when he was like this.

Shadow couldn’t deny it, even when he wished the situation wasn’t like this, even when it caused some… something to this other guy. It was the reality now.

Why did it ache?

Ruby eyes snapped back to his juice box, and Sonic found his blood running cold, real cold on his veins. His heart was beating so fast he could hear it, a loud ringing sound that almost drowned everything else. It was like every single thing was getting worse by the moment.

Don’t take him wrong, they were going to remount! No doubt about it! It just…it just sucked a lot right now.

Not so little (??) peek at chapter 1! Yei...i think. 

[gacha-every]

Sonic: "To those who think Tails' two tails are weird is their loss cause he's adorable and fluffy, I should know, he lets me use his tails as a blanket once"

[mewzerz]

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

"sonic and tails actually canonically have a brotherly relationship" that just makes shipping them even better!!! ❤

YEAH U GET IT ANON

god i WISH sontails was incest. that would be even hotter.

[greenyvertekins]

Not sure if this falls under your rules of SFW, but what to you is some of the most problematic ships/couples in Sonic, in either licensed media or fandom? I don't mean a ship you dislike but one that is really upsetting. I found it pretty gross that Archie tried to imply Tails and Barby being a thing and was glad Flynn stated he killed that off, fanon wise I used to lots of fanarts of Chris and some older character from Boom.

SonTails and....ugh....SonEgg. The former is strictly a brotherly relationship, arguably father and son-ly if you consider Sonic akin to a father figure to Tails. And there's also the 7 year age difference. No....just no. SonEgg is immensely creepy to me because it's pedophilic - Dr Eggman is implied to be in his 50's at least. SONIC IS 15. I don't support adult x minor ships. That includes Rouge x Sonic/Amy/Anyone else canonically under 18.

Locke x Lara Le is a fucking awful coupling simply because Locke is a slimeball who used Lara simply to give him the next guardian. Sickening how Penders in one 25YL story had him proclaim how he always loved her on his deathbed when she was married to a guy who treated her a thousand times better than he ever did.

[sarahlouiseghost]

SPOILERS REBLOG THIS IF YOU WOULD LET SONIC IN YOUR HOUSE?! Let's all take a moment to love these 2 CUTE MOMENTS!! I couldn't stop laughing at poor Tails!! 😂😍

[silverxcristal]

Do you have any Sonic ships besides Sonuckles and Infidget?

//crack knuckles

I ship Sonadow, Shadamy, Sonilver, Silvamy, Knuxamy, Blazamy, Espilver, Mephilver, Silvaze, Knuxmo, Tailsmo, Shadmo, Sonally, Metonic, Metal Sonic and Tails doll(?), Metal Sonknux…. to name the first ones that come into my mind

I used to ship Classic Sontails too, but with time that ship turn into just a brotherly bond for me @v@~ besides their age gape in Modern era ehhh no thanks

Also, Infinite with Sonic / Gadget with Sonic is getting my attention

[spookyscaryships]

Can I request a sontails moodboard? Maybe with themes of brotherly love that became romantic over time. Thank you!

Of course! I ended up tagging it as shipcest due to the themes, hope you don't mind! - Mod stare

[loudlypanickinginvenezolano]

Life is a Big, Bad, joke; 1s Chapter, Edited.

I am happy about how this turned out! 

His mind went through a powerful halt, forceful enough that his eyes hurt again, and he was sure there may be some mid-lasting damage to his thinking. Or maybe his eyes hurt for the abrupt way they almost popped out of his head thanks to the surprise, that was another theory of his…

Whatever it be, the sight before him didn’t change, not even after waiting for a while, and slivers of hope dissipated slowly the darkness he felt prior as, as time passed, he became more and more convinced that, indeed, this was reality, and his friend was really sitting in there!

Or, more exactly, he pushed it all down with all of his might, not willing to let the other know of his inner turmoil just yet.

“Shadow?!” So, he did scream in that part, so he didn’t think twice about the other´s wince. Sonic, admittedly, was too preoccupied with being mad at himself not noticing Shadow before, at SHADOW himself for not saying something before, and, well, happy, as he may now have a chance at getting out of there more quickly and easier than before.

It totally didn’t have something to do with seeing Shadow at all. It wasn’t like his stomach got all giddy with emotions every time the hedgehog and he crossed ways.

Anything but that.

“Mh…Yes?” Came the wary response, which, was admittedly unusual coming from the dark hedgehog. Shadow was looking at him rather strangely, as well, as if he were searching for something on Sonic`s face, but also holding what…looked like a juice box maybe? As if it was a shield, a worried frown marring his face and eyes darting to the door every so before coming back to him.  

Sonic wasn’t sure about what was that about, and he really was trying to ignore the bad feeling growing in his stomach sooooo… he could be forgiven if he didn’t stop to question it too much, right? He really wasn’t sure if he even could afford to do it.

He was trying not to have a mental breakdown, after all.  

“Yes-a nothing, man! You need to get me outta here!” Sonic rattled his wrists in an impulse, grimacing at the loud clanking sound it made. It echoed dauntingly in the big space, bouncing from wall to wall, which almost made Sonic grumble.

Yes, yes, big, bad and scary place, we got it.

Shadow also grimaced, and recoiled even, though he almost seemed in pain, the strange expression making Sonic stop dead on his tracks.

You see, maybe they weren’t the closest to each other, and there were still a lot of walls and facets that Sonic still needed to pass through and see; He was sure of something, though, and he hadn’t needed to befriend the other hedgehog to realize it, so clear as pure water of a lake, if could very well be as clear as the petroleum: Shadow didn’t like doing pained faces, may it be pride or actual fear, he just didn’t. He avoided it, at all costs. He would growl, hiss, stare at you dead in the eye and pick up as many fights as he needed, but he wouldn’t let you see him hurt in any way. Shaking fists, broken bones, bloodied noses, tears and gashes, you name them; Shadow would hide them all, or ignore them so well you would find yourself tricked, and ignoring them too.

To see it so clearly on his face…Uhm. All of Sonic alarms were suddenly ringing.  

Didn’t the ambience feel a bit strange?

“…Why?” The ebony mumbled at the end, almost uncomfortable, and Sonic tried hard, he really did, to not let his smile falter.

“Why, you ask.” He breathed slowly, feeling how his insides froze entirely, reaching up to his throat and hurting with his breath intake, spreading to his every limb until they felt even numbest than before, feeling how his chest seemed tighter, his hands even more unsteady, and how his stomach became a rock. This…wasn’t happening. It really, really wasn’t. How could it be true, for real!? This wasn’t okay, not at all. Just…What?! “Why…Why wouldn’t you? We need to get out of here, Shadow. Don’t you--know?”

Ah, it really did.

He searched for it, unheedful of how his voice seemed to falter, to die mid-word, as if his strength was really leaving him. Sonic searched. For his face, for his true, and he knew mostly were to find it. Even the ebony had some tells.

But… There was some curiosity in Shadows eyes, curiosity. Since when is Shadow openly curious about something?

There was also confusion in the set of his brow, and what he was sure was mistrust. He was used to seeing it there, all right, it was almost by default in Shadow´s face, it never left, but never… never in this-this quantity.

Not directed at him anymore.

There was no recognition.

It hurt more than what he expected.

Maybe because he never expected this to really happen?

Sonic kept smiling, though, he kept waiting, hoping for a brighter outcome.

That is what he did, right? What Sonic the Hedgehog™ was supposed to do…

But it didn’t came, and as time kept going Sonic found himself staring straight at the bitter truth. At the one he had tried hard to ignore, he had tried hard to make himself believe would never come ever again.

“You don’t… You don’t remember me, do you?”

<<You forgot about me again, didn’t ya?>>

Shadow demeanor changed entirely, so fast it could have been funny.

Sonic felt like doing anything, but laughing.

The ebony sat straighter, ears perked and eyes as wide as a little scared deer. Could it be that he had really been frightened? Sonic could see him, feel him almost, the anguish that surged as his mind overworked itself, running wildly in search of the right answer to give.  

It pained Sonic. A real lot, to be honest, and suddenly, he didn’t feel like hearing Shadow response.

He felt like he already had it, maybe since long ago.

He still needed to hear the ebony confirm it though. He just needed to be sure.

Shadow was left gaping, stiffened to his soul (Did he had a soul?) under that fella scorching gaze, trying to say something, anything that came to him, trying to deny it, that small fucking detail, that damned weakness that left him so clearly disadvantaged in front of others but…but he couldn’t, not when it was the truth and not when it was so obvious and not when he was in this fucking state.

Shadow couldn’t deny it, even when he wished the situation wasn’t like this, even when it caused some… something to this other guy, going by his sorrowful expression.

It was the reality now.

Nothing he could do to change it, right? No matter how bad you asked for it, life would never be fair.

But

Why did it ache, then?

Ruby eyes snapped back to his juice box, and Sonic found his blood running cold, real cold on his veins. His heart was beating so fast he could hear it, a loud ringing sound that almost drowned everything else. It was like every single thing was getting worse by the moment with such a speed, he couldn’t stop himself from wondering, Was this one of his nightmares?

Would he be able to wake up and find Tails bossing around in the house, maybe trying another disaster-recipe in the kitchen as Cream laughed in delight at the scene? Would he be able to go running around the city, and find Shadow discretely eating a small-sized ice cream under a tree?

Could he?

Don’t take him wrong, even in this kind of situation, they were going to remount! No doubt about it! It just…it just sucked a lot right now, maybe to an extreme beyond words as they could not describe it, or maybe it was him who couldn’t find them…

Thanks to a lucky flash, he suddenly wished fervently to wake up soon.

“What… who did that to you?”

His mind reminded him that they were losing precious time. They really needed to get out of here and go stop Eggman and go search for Tails and go save the world again. They didn’t have time to do this, this whole awkward dance and this whole useless wishing and thinking.

The stunned words still left his mouth.

Shadow hands shot to his head by reflex, trying to feel the injuries there or maybe hide them, he wasn’t sure, but the memory of being told not to touch them stroke him like a thunder, making him stop in the last moment, hands hovering awkwardly over his injuries as his eyes quietly looked around, wondering if there were cameras watching him. Them. Whatever.

They hurt, a lot, there was no way to beat around the bush and downplay the agony he felt at first, and that to some extend he still feels, but they had stopped bleeding mere moments ago, so he didn’t wanted to mess it up and cause a major disgrace. It wasn’t like he didn’t knew what bleeding was, or how to accordingly deal with it, so his worries were forcefully ignored unnecessary, actually, non-existent.

He had gotten worse, also, so there was no real reason to make a fuss about this small matter.

This was okay.

This, really was okay.

Right?

#No, it’s not. Please be kind to, and take care of, yourself. If you don’t feel fine, it is valid to take your time or ask for help. #  

Shadow sighed when the other urged him, calling his name in a strange, demanding way. Even if he didn’t wanted to, he guessed that this mister did deserve an explanation, however chopped was the information Shadow could provide. Wasn’t part of his duty answering what he could?

No, really, was it? It was, right?

<<??>>

What was he supposed to do now?

His being stung for a command.  

“I-I don’t know, sir.” He shook his head slowly, letting his hands fall back to his lap and crossing his heels. He desperately kept his gaze glued to the floor, unable to stand and watch this hedgehog face as he reported. “I don’t know what happened, nor do I know who, uh, who are you, nor where we are, if that is something you wonder. When I woke up I wasn’t gave more instructions besides than to hand over the invention and wait here for the others. No information was shared. I…I don’t have any answers you may need.”

<<I am sorry, fella, I can’t help you at all. >>

It shattered Sonic´s hopes. Maybe not all, but quite the bit definitely.  

“It…it’s no biggie. It really isn’t, just´s a-a setback, we will find a way, alright? We have been through worse! It’s just… We still need to get out of here, Shadow, to get going. Quick. ”

<<I need to get both of us outta this shithole, yesterday. >>

He couldn’t let the other hedgehog in G.U.N.´s hands when his memory was in such a sorry state. Like this, wasn’t he even more malleable, and even more easy to manipulate, than the first time they met?

The list of ´what if´s´ kept growing with more disgusting scenarios each time.

The things they could do with Shadow, the things they could do to Shadow… There was no telling if his state and those ugly looking injuries weren’t a G.U.N. experiments product, and he knew by a good informant that these where awful and really invading, enough to render the brooding-looking hedgehog stomach sick in bed, or anxious for days to come.

Sonic didn’t knew wherever it was how sickening his ideas were, or because there was an actual possibility of them becoming true, but his whole being shuddered, feeling cold and nauseated.

No. He couldn’t keep thinking about it.

The image of a bloodied and unresponsive Shadow still lingered behind his eyelids, no unlike many dawns in which he found himself waking up without breath and tangled up in his sheets, shivering and soaked in sweat like a leaf during a storm.

AO3: 6 chapters, still without editing. 

[loudlypanickinginvenezolano]

Life is a big, bad joke. (Am I ever going to stop?)

Tails is missing, and Sonic may or may not be losing his head over it. Add his amnesiac and very lost crush (Coff CoffShadowcoAFFCAFF) and you get the perfect recipe for disaster. Just, what is Eggman planning this time? Is it even Eggman!? 

This but a peek of chapter One! Tho I feel like I am going to split it up into two, at least... Be aware that Shadow is amnesiac, low-key freaking, and also hurt his head. Poor boi is scared. Also I dont like how this part turned out... 

“I am not tricking you, Shadow! You are my friend, I would never ever, unless-unless we are playing or there is something big on stake but those are extreme situations. I just… I just need your help. I’m serious, just… just get me outta here, outta this cage and I will let you be. I swear.”

“I-I don’t even know your name or-or-or serial”

“ C´mon, c´moon, I need to find Tails, Shadow! You have to help me. He is missing, and we need to find him. We can’t lose more time!” He didn’t wanted to growl, nor to sound so stressed, so uncharacteristically desperate, but he was desperate and he didn’t have the strength the try and fake it. How could he not be anxious? So many incognitos, so many what if, situations running through his mind once and once again without really a sense, adrenaline pumping through his veins…And there he was, losing time arguing with Shadow because he also needed to help his friend, losing his breath and what little strength he had, trapped who knows where.

He was starting to feel real sick.

It was like the dark corners in his peripheral vision were growing more over time and trying to swallow him whole. Take him away in their jagged edges, into the inky black unconsciousness. But sonic couldn’t just give up now, could he?

He just couldn’t now, throw everything away and let himself be swept away into unawareness. Nah. 

He was going to fight it all until the very end.

Right?

“Who-Who’s Tails even?!” Shadow, on the other hand, cried out, feeling more and more overwhelmed and out of control, honestly hating every minute of it, how he was babbling, stammering and tripping over his words like a goof, like a joke, as if he hadn’t been painstakingly correctly taught how to pronounce them. Painstakingly taught how to act. He was reacting like a disgrace to the tittle he carried... 

He knew, he could swear, he knew how to speak! Things just…weren’t so clear right now. He wasn’t misbehaving on purpose, either. Too many things to focus on and his headache was coming back…

It hurt Sonic.a lot. But it just made him more adamand on his quest of getting them both out of this shithole.  

he still ached for soothing the other Hedgehog. 

“He is like-He is my brother. He is and I don’t where he is, nor how, and I know Eggman has something do to with this.  It’s a no-good, you need to believe me.”

Shadow hated, as well, how loudly his heart broke. How visibly he stuttered, and maybe even how he breathed in, how he flinched. Oh sir, didn’t he knew how it felt like asking into deaf ears to be believed…

<< And…He is also missing his family. >>

Goodness, wasn’t he weak?

Earlier that day, or maybe yesterday, he wasn’t sure, Shadow was told to wait here, that Hanna and his team and a squat of scientist were going to come for him, most likely Gerald himself and even Maria! They all were coming… He was promised he was going to go to them, he just needed to wait here and obey. Simple, right?

But…the mister…A hedgehog, like him nonetheless! How unique was that?

Someone who claimed to be a friend…

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

ALSO I'm the "sontails being brotherly makes it better" anon, and I saw your other post and Sonic has been my special interest ever since I was a child so I will answer your question about them ACTUALLY being brothers.

The answer is...complicated. Much like the whole "Sonic is canonically a child!!!" claim, it is only true in some canons. Sonic canon is very versatile. Pretty much every game, comic, and show has its own canon, therefore its own way or portraying age and relationships with other characters. (this is why I HATE the whole "they're all kids!!" argument when Sonic literally gets married and has kids in a story of the Archie comics lol. Like you cannot tell me Sonic from Sonic Underground and Sonic from Sonic Boom aren't in completely different age ranges.)

Notably, Sonic and Tails's relationship is USUALLY just best friends. Many people get the "sibling" vibe simply because of how close they are, but they are strictly just best buddies. Now, in SOME canon they DO view each other as brothers. Namely the 90s cartoons such as The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog, in which Sonic explicitly calls Tails his "little bro" and Tails views Sonic as his family (literally saying once in episode 116 of the show to Sonic, "A family is just people who care about each other more than anyone else [...] You're it. You're my mom, you're my dad, and you're my picket fence!") This may ALSO be true in Sonic SATam iirc but I have not watched it in a long time, I'm planning to rewatch it.

Anyways, so the answer is SOMETIMES they are brothers in that they call each other that/view each other in that way, but usually they're bffs who don't use any sort of family labels. Of course there's no harm in wanting to see Sonic and Tails as siblings, but it irks me when people say it's a fact all across the board in every canon (especially when it's just used to bully sontails shippers)

SORRY FOR THE LONG ASK KBFJERH

ANON I AM KISSING YOU ON THE CHEEK FOR THIS, I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE INFODUMP TO ME 🧡💖🧡💖🧡💖🧡💖🧡

this is rly interesting!! thank u for sharing!! :0

[greenyvertekins]

Can we all agree that Sontails is dangerously close to pedophilia and is basically incest though?

If fans portray the relationship as sexual then yes, it is pedophilic. I don’t like SonTails whatsoever but as they aren’t blood related, it isn’t incestuous.

Still unsettles me deeply given the age difference and the relationship they’re portrayed as having in canon. That being strictly brotherly. SonTails is a very squick pairing to me.