#but like. she also was fighting off zombots for some period of time while getting 0% more infected; creatively using chairs & stools

[lemurballing]

tangle is so fun because she is a juxtaposition of something collected and contained with something loose and free and in motion

she’s a rough brawler but she has a stance and a style. she’s impulsive and thrillseeking, but she wraps her arms in sports tape to protect them, a precaution. she longs for adventure and action but she will always need to come to rest at home with friends. she’s bouncy and restless, but she’s an intent listener and considerate. she’s got months of off-and-on experience fighting badniks, but is still so new to real Adventure.

and while there’s plenty of traits sonic and tangle share, you can’t reduce her to ‘girl sonic’ without neglecting something of her own characterization. she fundamentally wants something different out of life than sonic does, because she doesn’t need to be anchorless; she isn’t a backpacker, sleeping somewhere new every night. she’s more like a goose, or a frigate bird; flying free for ages and ages, knowing she wants to go somewhere, until time comes to call her back to her origin.

[cirrocumulation]

screams i was reading the sonic idw comics and the zombot virus is such a HORRIFYING concept hello but now im imagining 🤔 what my ocs would do in that scenario and god

leer and lore can fly which notably makes avoiding most of the infection easy; i wanna say charge’s energy generation might also be a way to ‘burn off’ the infection a la how sonic runs his off? i super wonder how the zombot virus would react with someone like haunt who’s Literally an undead vampire dude and who’s ‘organic matter’ wouldnt necessarily be an ‘alive’ cell to infect.. eggman mentioned the processed wood of a flower pot wasnt infected when he doused a flower in the virus, so honestly? i feel like it’d be smth like that?

god. blue would be kinda fucked. which is super fucked up. shes a whole ass kid who doenst deserve this but - even w/ her magic-mirror-illusion bullshit, that’s not much in regards to combating the zombots. she’d probably be able to distract some, lure them away from bystands--but she’d definitely rush into it w/o thinking enough, or let herself get cornered.. god. god. god. charge would try to rush in and save her and she’d already be infected and panic and shove him away and infect him too and then probably get so overwhelmed by bots . oof. oof! while charge has no choice but to retreat while burning off what he can.

i want to say leer would fall trying to protect lore.. both of them have their really intense illusion powers themselves, but theyre very heavily based on preying on target’s mental capacity, and zombots dont really Have that--theyd effectively be Powerless 😰 however, leer is good at keeping a level head, and lore is very attentive to their surroundings--if leer had to, he’d sacrifice himself for lore, and vice versa, but maybe it wouldnt come to that, esp given that they can keep above most masses of zombots, since only so many can fly..

oof though. maybe haunt wouldnt get infected, but might be a carrier? oof. outbreaks happen in a couple safe havens where no one finds an initial zombot and no one can figure out why.. but haunt is good at nothing if not hiding away in his house once someone puts it together! so! he’d quickly make to seclude himself to not infect anyone else, at the cost of an able-bodied ally capable of fighting back hordes. he might resurface at a climatic a big battle, careful to not come into contact w/ anyone and only focus on fighting- but even then, since we dont know the cure yet, would the cure even work on him, since the virus itself didnt really work to begin with? if the cure eventually eradicates the zombot cells, tho, then--sure

even if charge could burn off the virus for a little bit, tho, hes notably such a tired dude- so easily exhausted bc his powers are untrained and unchecked. sonic’s only lasted so long bc he keeps going and keeps running- and can only afford tiny naps in between before he risks the virus getting the better of him, so--charge would probably..easily fall eventually and that mcSucks! but - i also feel like a zombot wouldn’t be able to comprehend how to use his energy powers any better than he can, so a zombot charge would either... not use them at all, or outright tire himself out and be a useless heap most of the day, lmfao. i can see him sacrificing himself in one last-ditch attempt to buy everyone escaping some time..

olivia, being Also a generator, but a more Controlled one, would be able to more effeciently use her energy to stave off the infection from taking over--that being said, she would probably get infected; she’d outlast charge easily, however, and probably ... maybe even sonic, at this rate? especially since sonic’s exhaustion is largely due to him throwing himself into battle and exacerbating his infection over and over again; olivia would not risk herself like that, so she’d have a slower rate of infection to deal with over the same period of time

sergé would be Too bleeding heart, and probably fall really quickly; too self-righteous and short-sighted for his own good :’V he kinda a dick tho so he can get humbled, thats ok