#eggman the sonamy shipper

[lazorbeanz]

omg I forgot about this 🥹

Does this mean he has shipped them from the beginning?! AKJSNSJDND

Also can we not forget that in sonic boom he:

- tried to pry in on sonic’s business with Amy (in the cowbot ep)

- called Amy sonic’s “whiny little girlfriend”

- has supposedly pretended to be sonic in the past, leaving cubot to be Amy lol (the ep when sonic and eggman swapped bodies)

- has interrupted their dates

And in IDW issue #60

I guess you can see here that Eggman knows targeting Amy would get Sonic completely distracted, leaving the opponent to easily attack him

May have strayed from my point but if you’re delulu as I am you’d understand lol

Finished reading the Imposter Syndrome mini series and I just couldn’t miss this-

OFC EGGMAN HAS THE SONIC AND AMY MODELS NEXT TO EACH OTHER-

[sevenrenny]

I might as well ask you this because I enjoy your writing and way of expressing your opinions. Why do you personally ship Sonamy? What got you into Sonamy? What’s your favorite moment between the two? I know this is a very common question, but I hope you don’t mind me asking. 😅

Oh, this ought to be fun XD I don't mind at all. Send all the asks you like, I like to talk about my interests. I tend to ramble, so excuse my long texts. Gonna insert a break line so I don't torture my followers (that sentence makes it sound like I'm running a cult.)

Why do you personally ship Sonamy? What got you into Sonamy?

These two are connected, so it's fair to answer them both in one go. I'm very new to the fandom, unlike most of the people I've met who've been here for as long as they can remember. I originally had no interest in the franchise. Yeah, I played some games and watched the anime a few years back and had some cheap plastic toys from fast-food kiddie meals, but the franchise never stuck with me back then.

I got reintroduced through Sonic Prime around last year, which led to me reading the IDW comics, which is where I started getting into SonAmy. I really liked Amy in particular; surprising, seeing as she hadn't been my favorite character as a child. I liked Tails and Silver more back then, but the comic solidified Amy as my number one. In every fandom I've been in (HTTYD, MHA) I almost always gravitate toward characters who embody love, and that's the core of Amy.

Sonic was harder for me to decipher at first, seeing as he's more of a person who shows his emotions through action rather than words (in some iterations, at least.) But seeing him be more receptive in the comics and treating her better in more recent media portrayals piqued my interest because this wasn't how I remembered these two from when I was a kid. Seeing the progression from how their dynamic started to how it became made me feel proud of them.

And I'm one of those who likes to hypothesize that their affection used to be more one-sided but became mutual over time. Things change. Feelings change. People change. And I love that.

What’s your favorite moment between the two?

This. I think this is when I started seeing the ship as something I'd like. I've inserted the second panel as well because, while I know the first one is a no-brainer for some SonAmy shippers, I don't see many of them bringing up the follow-up panel.

Before this scene, Sonic kept rejecting Amy's proposal to go back to the Resistance with her (he had his reasons, as he saw investigating the circumstances of Eggman's absence and the waves of Badniks as a higher priority. Get to the snake's head to find the root of the problem.) He was in a hurry to get going. It wasn't until Amy told him she loved him for who he was and that she didn't want to change him that he stopped, got a little flustered, and proposed she come with him instead.

And she declined. She, too, had priorities.

Before this moment, it was possible he didn't see having both Amy and his stubborn way of doing things his way possible, but after, it might've finally clicked in his head that, Oh wait, I can have both? He's asked Amy to come along with him for other adventures afterward.

Also, can I just say how much I appreciate Sonic (who has a history of being touch averse) being more welcoming to her affection? Cause I do.

Okay, switching to Frontiers:

This scene is mostly quiet (I like nonverbal communication in general) and I found it too adorable to not mention. It's just for a few seconds, but the way Sonic does a little giddy skip when she waves him over, and the the fact that he just smiled so innocently the whole time he made his way over is just pure sweetness.

This short little misunderstanding/confrontation. This one's just plain fun for me. Sonic's impatience and inability to articulate his reasoning leads to him sounding like he's abandoning the Koco Amy really wants to help. She's putting the Koco before herself when Sonic's just worried about her. As soon as the misunderstanding is cleared up, Amy calms down, seeing it from his point of view now. It's a subtle little exchange, but knowing how these two used to not be great at communication in past games, and seeing them now deescalate a little misunderstanding this calmly brings me joy.

With each Koco the characters help, there's a certain theme associated between the Koco and Sonic's friends. The inventor Koco and Tails, trying to be of use to others; the soldier Kocos and Knuckles, both who had their people wiped out. For Amy, the Koco (the only Koco who goes by they/them, so that's what I'll be using for them here) is trying to reunite with their lover who had gone into battle. Throughout the game, Amy in her ghostly form can't touch anyone, and she expresses symptoms of dissociation, of feeling 'detached', that she's flying in a dream, but she wishes to just land.

Remember, Amy is a physically affectionate person, but she can't do much of anything, let alone feel anyone, in this situation. She has to leave it to her love, Sonic, to go into battles. She knows all too well how the Koco was feeling, being separated from their lover. When Amy and Sonic watch the Koco reunite with their partner for the last time, it hits Amy hard, and Sonic knows how affected she is by this. He gives her some time to grieve because he knows her well enough to understand this hit her hard. He tells her, "They're together now." And that's all that matters. And I love that scene. It's so mild compared to what others in the community might bring up, but I'm a sucker for the quieter moments like this.

I have to stop myself now before this turns into a novel lol

[bat-fan-sa]

SonAmy: Talk of Canon & Canon Expectations in Fandom

I understand that not everyone likes or supports SonAmy. I understand that there are plenty of annoying, obsessive shippers out there who turn people away from the ship entirely. I get why so many antis are sick of seeing SonAmy, especially with there being more of a focus on the ship in recent years, both in the fandom and in the franchise itself.

And as a SonAmy shipper, I’m fine with that because what others think won’t change my own enjoyment of the pairing. Toxic shippers and toxic antis won’t make me stop from shipping the two together regardless.

But what I do take issue with are those antis who still persist with the idea that SonAmy has no canon basis to it and that Sonic doesn’t have any romantic feelings towards Amy. Going further by using the whole, “It’ll never be official/canon, so stop shipping it.”

The thing with that is, I’m fully aware that Sega is never going to make SonAmy “official.” By official, I mean, Sonic and Amy are never going to openly confess to one another (on screen) and start dating. Sonic and Amy are never going to be a canon couple or get married.

Because the Sonic franchise does not progress that way. It’s known for sticking to the status quo when it comes to character relationships, and one of the biggest selling points for Amy and Sonic’s dynamic is that Amy openly loves Sonic and pursues him, and Sonic is too shy to openly admit his feelings for Amy, focusing more on freedom and stopping Eggman.

Sonic is a franchise that doesn’t focus too heavily on romance, but there has been romance present in the games, shows, and other spinoff series. And unlike what many have claimed, Sonic has been shown to return Amy’s feelings, he just isn’t as open about them as she is towards her own feelings.

Example 1: Sonic X (produced by TMS Entertainment, but was in partnership and oversaw by Sega & the Sonic Team)

Was full of moments that were heavily coded as romantic, from Amy giving the seashell bracelet as a gift and Sonic later on wearing it and saving her from drowning to the scene where they fall into the hay and just relax together in that moment, Sonic even letting her blow some stray hay out of his ear.

This specific scene also come to mind because it is heavily, heavily romantic coded. From the lighting to the positioning, to Sonic being the one who gifts Amy a white rose (which is typically used at weddings) after Amy has a heartfelt confession and asks him to just tell her he loves her.

Example 2: Sonic Unleashed

When Sonic is turned into a werehog and Amy spots him and comes rushing over, he immediately becomes insecure about the way he looks and runs away. He doesn’t want Amy to see him in such a state and fears scaring her away.

But the real indicator of any romantic feelings shown in the game is the fact the player is given the option to accept Amy’s date proposal or not.

If Sonic doesn’t have any feelings towards her, then why would that even be an option in the first place? If Sega never intended for Sonic to ever return Amy’s feelings, then he wouldn’t agree to a date, nor would the player be given the option.

Example 3: “Sonic is too shy to confess.”

Says right there on the tin. Sega was asked and they answered with this. And if this is supposedly fake, wouldn’t have Sega caught wind of this and cleared things up as to prevent any misunderstanding?

I could also go into other examples, such as the recent IDW comics (not Archie) or Sonic Boom, but I’ve already made my point and this is already getting quite long (sorry).

While, yes, there’s never been a concrete moment where Sonic proclaimed, “I love Amy Rose!” in the games or spinoffs, there’s plenty examples of subtle moments indicating that Sonic has some feelings towards Amy. Sega has had many romantic moments shared between the two where Sonic didn’t run away or reject Amy’s advances, sometimes openly reciprocating or initiating them (albeit not as eccentric as Amy does in comparison).

So, the argument about whether SonAmy is “canon” or “official” has always been a pointless one to me because there’s already evidence that the two have some level of romantic feelings towards each other. Sega has made it rather clear that SonAmy is a thing.

But they’ve also made it clear that they have zero plans to ever have the two officially date or marry in the games or spinoffs.

This does not mean that SonAmy isn’t canon; it just means that the franchise isn’t going to risk making any major decisions that will change the already pre-established status quo. So, in a way, yes, SonAmy is not “official” in the most canon-sense of the word.

But none of that even matters when it comes to shipping, because shipping has never been about whether or not characters end up dating or married in canon. People ship crack and uncanon pairings all the time, sometimes with characters who’ve never even met or interacted before. Even if SonAmy didn’t have any canon basis to it, people would still be shipping them because canon has nothing to do with shipping.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, antis claiming that SonAmy isn’t canon based solely on them not officially dating or being married, while also ignoring the evidence that proves they share mutual feelings towards one another, has always felt like an inconsequential point to me.

It’s just an outdated way to look at shipping.

[lingwe3nie]

I’m a sonadow shipper not because I hate Sonamy but because early Sonamy dynamics remind me of when I was in a BPD episode.

“Why is early games Amy so obsessed with Sonic?”

ITS HARD TO TAKE YOUR DAILY 40 MG OF PROZAC WHEN EVERY PHARMACY GETS BLOWN UP ALL THE TIME BY EGGMAN.

Anyways Sonic frontiers Sonamy? Totally get it, Amy is medicated now

[prowerprojects]

Mind if I drop two? Both for Tails.

🫂 (Any friendship barring Sonic)

🧸(Can be before meeting Sonic, or after but both still figuring out their boundaries pre-Adventure)

Of course I don't mind! Thank you! Ask game

🫂

Oh, I have a few.

First thing that comes to mind, I don't think Tails and Cream are especially close friends at the moment, they have more of a "friend of a friend" type of relationship, however, I could definitely see them reconnecting and becoming really close when they're older. It's hard to find someone else who can relate to their childhood experiences in a similar way and it would do both of them a lot of good when trying to reflect on them.

After Sonic, I think Amy is Tails's closest friend (even if it's not necessary mutual. Amy is a very social person). He also tends to get a bit protective over her, even if he obviously knows that she can take care of herself (this one is probably mutual though). And it's not just physical safety, they both get really mad when the other gets overlooked. I really like how in some games (like Adventure and Battle) they live pretty close to each other, so I imagine they help each other with domestic issues. They probably go shopping together. Imagine the core four fighting Eggman and Amy and Tails keep talking about upcoming sales djcjxxjmd. I also like to imagine that when they were little Amy had taught a lot if basic necessary stuff that she had learned from her parents to Tails, you know, how to sew on a button, how to cook simple meals, how to use a broom, etc. (On another note, Tails is probably the biggest Sonamy shipper out there, but a lot of it maybe comes from being worried that she would stop hanging out with him if she ever got over Sonic. This is not rational and he tries not to think about it, but it still gnaws at him a bit)

I also like to imagine Tails being friends with Big. Tails just comes down to his place to hang out most of the time, Big doesn't really mind. Big doesn't know anything about Tails being an engineer or whatever, he just sees a kid living by himself so he tries to be a cool older cousin-type and does his best to keep an eye on Tails.

🧸

I've been making up a lot of headcanons about Tails's family lately, but here's one: when he met Sonic andnstarted traveling with him, he actually run away from home. He used to live with his uncle and his family back then, and it wasn't really great for him (I actually headcanon that those foxes from the Origins cutscene are his cousins). So he didn't think twice about leaving them. (They just assumed he died during Eggman's invasion). Sonic had no idea that Tails had living relatives until years later.

I actually might have posted about this before, so here's another one:

For Sonic and Tails's early days. There was a lot of awkwardness at first, I think. Neither of them had a close friend before, and they had to figure out how to frienship on the go. Sonic is a very free person, who always did whatever he wanted to do, and Taills was so starstruck that he was willing to drop everything if Sonic had asked him to. Not great! Luckily Sonic isn't some kind of jerk who would have taken advantage of that. (Luckily they worked it out somehow and by Adventure Tails was already the one dragging Sonic around and nagging at him for not staying on track, haha.)

But those things, combined with Tails's smarts and whatnot led to Sonic kind of overlooking the fact that Tails was really young at the time. (I do think he tends to "coddle" him more nowadays, comparatively) And maybe there was a bit of denial, too. Sonic wanted them to just be two friends hanging out, he didn't want to be responsible for a child's safety. But of course he knew subconsciously that he'd have to take on a bit of responsibility over Tails, since even disregarding the age, Tails still wasn't as strong or fast as him and he was his fan which gave Sonic some authority (bleh!) over him.

It was a very complicated matter for Sonic to figure out, but a necessary one, without it he wouldn't be out there giving speeches about the superpower of teamwork nowadays.

Whoops this one kind of shifted to Sonic's pov a bit. I do think their early days were more of a period of growth for Sonic, though Tails did become more comfortable around Sonic and wasn't scared that Sonic would just abandon him somewhere like his mom anymore (She had a good reason for leaving him with her brother and she was gonna come back for him but. She died)

Back in the early days Tails used to love hearing stories about Sonic's previous adventures and constantly begged him to tell more. At some point Sonic just started making things up because he run out of stories and Tails wouldn't believe him, haha. He didn't know about that until he was reading a book and realized that he already knew that story. But Sonic putting on his storytelling voice always reminds Tails of when he was little.

[eway]

Ok I'm in a Sonic mood right now. So I'm gonna tell ya'll my thoughts on each of the Sonic shows in the order they came out. However, I haven't seen two of them, and will tell you why. Now let's begin!

The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog

This show is hilarious. And honestly, the way it depicts Sonic and Tails' brotherly bond is not only heartwarming, it's held up in the games. And modern, goofy Eggman reminds me a lot of Dr. Robotnik from this show. So honestly, it's characterization of characters holds up pretty well. It's funny, charming, and at times surprisingly heartwarming. 8/10

Sonic The Hedgehog Saturday Morning Cartoon

I'ma be honest, I haven't seen this show, and I never will. Thank Toxic fans. Sonally shippers getting mad at Sonamy shippers like me. People telling you that all the other shows are inferior and you NEED to watch SatAM or your not a real Sonic Fan, etc. The fanbase is keeping me away, and I know I will not be able to enjoy it because of this. Toxic Fandom/10

Sonic Underground

This show... so back in the day, my parents bought DVDs of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3, and Super Mario World. On each of these, there were previews for other DiC cartoons. On all three were ads for Sonic Underground. And me and bro wanted that, so we rented some DVDs. And I LOVED it. First of all, yeah I know people think Tails was replaced by Sonia and Manic, but being honest, Sonic's dynamic with those two, while still a sibling dynamic, is not the same as his dynamic with Tails. And Tails could have been written in with the sibs adopting him as a younger brother. Sonia and Manic are also fun characters and I really like them. And even haters of this show have to admit the theme song is good, or at least the singer is having fun. I also like that, unlike the other 90s shows which were nature vs. Technology type things, Underground had this and some magic and Super natural elements. Honestly, concepts like this show up in the games, with ancient being sealed away like Chaos, Iblis, Dark Gaia etc. And of course the Storybook Series itself has stuff like this I have been working on a Sonic Underground Season 2 which would loosely adapt modern Sonic Stories and bring in characters from those games. I know the show is far from perfect, but this is my thoughts, not an objective review, which is why it's a 9/10 score. This is NOT objective!

Sonic X

I watched the show in Japanese with subs and I gotta say...why do people hate Chris? He's a kid, a fanboy, and I find his interactions with the cast adorable. The music in the show is also amazing, though I hear it's different in the dub. Also there are Sonamy moments which YEEEEESSSS. I also love how the show managed to pretty faithfully adapt the plots of some of the games. The Meterex Saga was something of a departure, but I still enjoyed it. 9/10

Sonic Boom

I was born in the 2000s. So I was in middle school when this show came out. And I was a Sonic fan. I had played Colors and I think I had gotten Secret Rings pretty recently, though I may have only had Colors. When I watched the first episode, I loved it. And then hated the rest of the show. Because the first episode has a pretty different tone from the rest of the show. I got over this as I got older and started rewatching the show, catching jokes that flew over my head. And while some episodes are like "why are you friends again?" Some, and most in season 2, show these guys are pretty good friends. The Shadow episodes are highlights for me. 7/10

Sonic Prime

I haven't seen this show because I don't have Netflix. I want to see it tho. Netflix is expensive/10

[mahoutoons]

i really do not get all the hatred sonamy fans get in the sonic fandom.

"but they're so toxic!!"

so are all other ship fandoms. i've had experience with toxic shippers of other ships. but you won’t see me generalizing the ship's fandom over them. every ship has its fair share of toxic fans. so why is it that only sonamy fans get all the heat for being toxic? i'm not denying that there are bad eggs in our fandom but i don't think its fair yo act like we're a special breed of toxic. i've seen fans of other ships with r*pe on amy yet people don't use them to generalize the whole ship's fandom.

"they think their ship is canon!!"

in the 2000s-2010s, maybe we did have a lot of fans who thoight that way. but nowadays whenever sonamy fans claim its canon, its always done in a joking way. its what fans lf literally every other ship do. i've seen people jokingly say "x ship is canon" because character a looked at character b funny. but no one ever attacks them for it. so why is it that only we get attacked when a lot of the time we aren't even serious?? we KNOW our ship will never actually be canon. we KNOW sega has no intention of changing their dynamic as of now. we're just having fun with the moments we're given. especially in recent media. why do y'all froth at the mouth over that. don't like it? just ignore and block.

and to be honest? as sonamy is now, it can be considered semi canon. like, give me a platonic explanation of the "amy, i should've made up my mind sooner" line in frontiers. IF sega decides to make them a couple, their dynamic still won't change. it'll still be very subtle except they're actually a couple now and you won't even notice it. and even then no one's stopping you from liking other ships. and if they are, well the block button exists for a reason.

"but the fanfics-"

i have my beef with old sonamy fanfics. but i have a feeling the people who made them were young kids and teenagers. i'll bet a lot of them have grown up now and have better things to do in life. now i hardly see any sonamy fanfic that villainizes sally or makes sonic an asshole for the sake of angst. the more extreme shippers from the 2000s-early 2010s should not be used to judge shippers today.

imagine if i used the sonadow shippers i encountered in 2014 deviantart, who were mostly allocishet girls who shipped them because they fetishized gay men, made both of them extremely ooc (anyone remember the terms seme and uke?), and of course hated amy for getting in the way of their ship, to judge the sonadow shippers of today who are now mostly mellow and enjoy their ship in peace, it wouldn't be fair now would it?

"the age gap is problematic!!"

most of the ages in sonic make no sense! there's a line in sonic forces where infinite claims sonic has defeated eggman for decades, and sonic's only supposed to be 15. granted using sonic forces may not be the best example but it shows how little sega cares about the ages. and now they've even been renoved from sonic channel. AND even ian flynn himself has said not to worry about pairings like sonamy and knuxouge because there's nothing wrong with them.

and i KNOW people are gonna take this to mean "so shipping things like s0nt@ils is okay now??" no, because tails is still coded as a little kid. sonic and most of the cast are coded as teenagers.

there's people who ship tails and fiona, and that's an actual toxic ship with an actual problematic age gap. but they don't get half the heat that sonamy shippers get.

"sonamy is a ship for the cishets"

really now? i guess my lgbt cars has expired guys. maybe that's a good thing because i was born and raised in a country where its illegal to be lgbt and my parents are kinda religious. and even the country where i'm originally from is pretty homophobic despite gay marriage being decriminalized. who knew all it took to solve those problems was to ship sonamy?? thanks guys.

do you see how stupid that logic is? a fucking ship doesn't determine your sexuality. i don't want to kiss women any less because i ship sonamy.

[flingmetothemoon]

Can we talk about Sonic X TailAmy for a moment?

Disclaimer: if you disagree with me, that's fine. If you prefer Sonamy over Tailamy, go right ahead. But remember this is my opinion based on observations and research. I would appreciate it if Sonamy shippers don't try to convince me why Sonamy is such a beautiful well-written canon ship and why I'm bad for not shipping it. You wouldn't like it if I did that to you would you? Then don't do that to me ok?

So I was rewatching Sonic X for refreshment of what's happening and the context behind it and noticed something interesting in the Chaos arc I never really thought about.

Amy gets captured and becomes prisoner to Eggman just right after Tails received a massive head and arm injury from a plane crash that could easily worsen if he keeps pushing himself. Think about it, Tails could've chosen to stay at home and heal and let Sonic do all the work saving Amy by himself, especially considering Sonic is a more well-known hero than he is, his X Tornado is damaged and the Station Square City is in chaos at this time. But instead, he got into the X Tornado again, got into a dangerous battle with Eggman and LITERALLY PUSHED THROUGH ANOTHER CRASH to help Sonic save Amy all while Amy was emoing over Sonic as usual! Tails was willing to pretty much risk his life for Amy's sake! He risked his life for her so much that Sonic had to assign him to simply fly Amy back home to safety while he finishes dealing with Eggman!

How is this different from those "SonAmy moments" where Sonic saves Amy from danger himself? Because Sonic is a well-known hero with a habit of risking his life to save his friends, so saving Amy makes it not really that special since he helps his other friends in a similar manner. So if Amy is in trouble and Sonic has to help her, we know this is predictable for him for his role. Tails on the other hand is not a regular hero like Sonic and is usually shyer and more unsure of himself while Sonic likes to show himself off. And note that piloting machines is dangerous for someone his age even for a skilled pilot like him. Yet despite all this, Tails was still willing to push through a life-and-death situation to make sure his friend is safe while injured that even Sonic and Chuck worried about him forcing himself.

Another thing it is different from those "SonAmy moments" is that actions spoke louder than visual effects and feels. They weren't trying to make it romantic and they didn't feel the need to give Amy emotional issues to show she cares for Tails, yet that moment showed that Tails does love Amy enough to put her life above his own even though he is not Amy's romantic pursuit. With Sonamy, Amy was somehow felt the need to be either given obnoxious weepy melodrama or turned into a violent psycho and makes Sonic look like a jerk for not fitting into her ideal mold of how she views him and then they think they can make up for it by putting them in a pretty setting with cheesy romantic 80s anime style music in the background and Sonamy fanatics somehow eat it up, which I find unhealthy and unromantic at the end of the day.

But no, Tails can have Cosmo instead even though she's gonna have to die soon to save the universe. Whether or not their personalities and goals are compatible or the fact that they're in the middle of a space war with Cosmo's dad who's literally trying to destroy the universe doesn't matter. Let's make an episode where Vector takes advantage of Tails' feelings and tries to force them into a relationship they're not ready for simply because he was bored. Then make Tails and Cosmo accidentally fall into Amy's trap for Sonic and fall madly in love and then shortly afterwards, make Tails have to kill her for the sake of the universe and leave him emotionally unstable by the end of the show. Yeah, totally #Truelove and #RelationshipGoals! Why do Anime creators particularly seem to think that being emotionally unstable over crushes is healthy for relationships? Because a country's culture made by imperfect humans says so? When Cosmo's death tragically impacted Tails, who decided to spend time with him and cheer him up? Was it his number 1 BFF Sonic? Nope, it was Cream AND Amy. It's sad when you realize that Tails and Amy make each other more calmer and happier than their own respective crushes do...

This is it for the post today. This post is also on DeviantART if you wanna check it out there. C:

[mazeppafanart]

Boom Eggman can comfort anyone....prove me I’m wrong TwT

also Sonic is nervous for his first date with Amy ( yeah hello I’m a Sonamy shipper XD )

[sonicfanj]

Would you at least like to see Sally Again?

I'll start by asking that you bear with me, as my answer will be rather long due to it not being a simple yes or no despite the structure of the question. The problem as such is that I approach the subject from several different points of view, and they don't all land on the same answer. A simple both undermines the complexity of my relationship with the subject matter, and I feel does not satisfactorily address why it is not. To begin then I'll break down the "no reasons and then move on to the "yes" reason. Of the "no" reasons, the simplest is just that Sally never entertained me. Back when I was a kid and dropped anything originating out of SEGA of America (SoA) due to thinking my then favorite character, Metal Sonic, was about to appear in SatAM only to get roboticized Uncle Chuck, Sally nor the Freedom Fighters had any pull to make me regret it. In fact, while I remembered the tonally dark art direction and that they used their own character rather than Eggman, I actually forgot about the Freedom Fighters themselves. It wasn't until Generations first trailer came out and I finally got involved with the online fandom that I even heard about them again. But there was no nostalgia on my end as they never appealed to me enough as characters to care. However, vitriol quickly started to paint my perspective. For the next two "no" reasons it must absolutely be noted that I am an Amy fan, she's my second favorite character in the IP after only Sonic (still love Metal though), and exclusively a SonAmy shipper for ships involving Sonic himself. This bias unquestionable paints my perspective, especially learning about the shipping wars on the back end combined with the entitlement of Sally fans to insist that Sally should replace he character made by one of Sonic's creators in the games. As someone who is hugely behind the creative vision of Sonic's creators, this becomes another point of emphasis on my bias. During those early years in the fandom, Sally, the Freedom Fighters, and Archie Sonic on a whole became a personal affront to me and it would take me several years to grow up and actually give them a chance. However, even then, Sally only started to appeal to me when after the SGW and she appeared to have a sisterly relationship with Amy. At this point I was actually growing invested in her character, but as soon as it was time to travel the world they had no further interactions before Archie's end relegating her back to being uninteresting to me. More so than that though, just from he position of being an Amy fan and a SonAmy shipper, I don't want to see Amy's name dragged through the mud again by her own most vile of fans who hate Sally and would feel threatened if she was brought back (yeah, I've experienced being a victim of the nastiness of Amy fans just because I look at Amy differently from other fans), nor by the unpleasant and entitled Sally fans and Sonally shippers who would unquestionably come out of the woodwork to attack Amy , her fans, and insist she isn't needed now that Sonic's real love interest has finally returned. I don't want to see the shipping wars return, and that's enough reason on it's own to not want to see Sally back.

Part 1 of 3

[beevean]

"Problematic crackship?" and "Silliest reason you've been told not to ship a ship."

Problematic crackship: you know it 😬

(this is a real gif that I saved in 2009. Do not let your kids wander on DeviantART, what can I say :V)

Anyway I find it hilarious, that's all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ uhhh something something they've been fighting ever since before Sonic met his closest friends, they're one defined by the other, but most importantly Sonic is a smarmy dick to Eggman and that's always funny

Silliest reason you've been told not to ship a ship: I still can't believe that there are people who unironically call Sonamy pedophilia because of the "age gap". No wonder Sonic Channel decided to take down the ages, some people take them so literally. If you think Sonic would take advantage of Amy, it says more about you than about Sonamy shippers :V

[crusherthedoctor]

2, 5 & 19 for the salty asks please

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?

Sonic and Tails.

Because uh, I know some people ship them… >_> So I guess it counts for a question like this one.

Also, Sonic and Shadow? Don't care for Sonadow in the slightest, but friendly bonding between the two in their own little way is cool with me.

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I used to be merely indifferent to Sonamy, but now I can't stand it due to…

its overexposure in the fandom

being hyped up as the greatest and most logical couple ever just because Sonic is the main male character and Amy is the main female character

Sonic often being treated as less of a character and more of an object, a trophy that Amy deserves to "win"

Sonic often being made OoC in some form or another in order to make it work, even if usually not to the same extent as Sonally

constantly being teased in official material, and said teasing being disproportionate to the lack of genuine chemistry between them (I'm not a diehard Sonaze shipper, but I could buy into Sonic and Blaze through their moment at the end of the original Rush alone than I ever have with Sonic and Amy)

being shoehorned at the expense of more interesting discussions (looking at you, Twitter Takeover questions)

other characters occasionally being warped for its sake (Boom Eggman ships it for some reason?)

…and probably some other reasons that I forget at the moment.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Everything.

If I had to somehow narrow my biggest grievances with the fandom down to one recurring core problem… I think it would be its tendency to take the Might Makes Right philosophy to an extreme, by treating the most popular opinions, fanon, etc as though they're indisputable and canon because of their popularity alone.

[transmascsonicthehedgehog]

thank god this place is so chill at times.

Barely a peep about superstars intro on here meanwhile it's the monster (topic) of the week on twt.

I mean yea it coulda used some work at parts and not having Hesse on board was a bit of a shame but it's still very cool 👍

twt got so bad tho THE Tee Lopes had to make a statement for people to cool it.

Worst "criticism" was that a guy who was making legitimate good points shot himself in the foot by comparing it to Underground's animation like WHAT.

i cannot fucking imagine...

sonictwt is the fucking worst i'm so glad i deleted my account last year, i saw way too much shit with people harassing the voice actors and other team members and it disgusted me to my very core. these are real fucking people.

another good example being a rather infamous sonamy shipper on the platform was saying that the voice actor for eggman ( mike pollock ) should lose his job SIMPLY because he kept saying that the pairing wasn't canon. INSANE. i can't imagine being that selfish.

i hope tee and the rest of his team will be alright, sonic "fans" on twitter are fucking abhorrent. i'm glad that most people on here, in comparison, are very lax and compassionate. i try to show everybody here as much compassion as possible.

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

Oh, where to start 😍😍😍

Okay! I am a BIG Sonamy shipper!! I've been a shipper pretty much as soon as I discovered the ship.

As for why? Well, I've babbled about them plenty before in previous posts, but yeah - I LOVE their dynamic, and especially how they've both grown and matured over the years. My first media of seeing them together was Sonic Boom, and the writers there made them pretty much straight up secretly dating. 🤭 The subtle little looks they'd give each other, how protective they were of one another, their failed attempts at trying to hide their feelings from others, taking selfies right before bombing Eggman's base together, it was so cute!! 🤣💗💙

Next was Sonic X. While Amy was more in her obsessive, blatantly obvious stage of loving Sonic, it still seemed genuine to me. One of my favorite moments is the episode where she made the good luck charm bracelet for him, how he was genuinely touched at the effort she took for him, how he dove into the water to save her even though he couldn't swim, how he found the broken bracelet, fixed it, and kept it, and how when she woke up, one of the first things she asked was if he was okay, since she had seen him in the water before she'd blacked out 🥺🥺🥺 AND WHOLE EPISODE MANNN

How concerned she was for his basic needs when he had the electric chip in his ear and couldn't stop running - she kept making concerned comments wondering where he was, begging him to be okay, bemoaning that he must be starving, just in soft simple ways that just 🥺🥺 SHE REALLY LOVES HIM SO MUCHH AND JUST WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF HIMM GAHH

THE WHITE ROSE SCENE 😭😭😭 NEED I SAY MORE???

The implications they were together in season 3 🥺❤️❤️❤️

Then the IDW comics!!! OH MY WORD.

The scene in Issue 2?? Someone else pointed this out where this essentially happened:

Amy: "I love you."

Sonic: "Come with me!"

GAAHAHHHAHA and then how she would still get flustered and nervous when he would act somewhat flirty or ask her to come with him on something, how they both kept checking up on each other throughout the Metal Virus pandemic, and how he's much more receptive to her hugs and affection throughout the comics in general and their relationship is so healthy -- 🥲🥲🥺🥺😭💗💙💗💙

AMY. DOESN'T. WANT. TO. CHANGE. HIM. GREEN FLAAGGGG

Literally she loves everything about exactly the way he is. She would follow him anywhere, and at this point in the canon he would let her 🥺🥺

And he's so supportive of her in return. He's not good at dealing with feelings and isn't necessarily ready for a full blown relationship just yet, even though he does feel the same towards her. She understands this, and she's willing to stay just friends with him until he is ready.

They do go on dates outings a lot together in canon ;))

I could rant all day about them and how much I love them and anyone who's followed me for long enough knows I would

It's just so obvious how much they love and care for each other, to the point that if they WERE to start dating in canon, it wouldn't even look that different from what we're already getting. 🥺💙💗💙💗😭

I LOVE THEMMMM

Fun question for Sonamy Fans!

Why do you personally ship, like, or appreciate Sonamy? What got you into Sonamy? What’s your favorite moment between the two?

I’ll start.

One reason I ship them is because of how subtle they are about their platonic romance. I also think pink and blue looks nice together in general.

A bunch of amazing fan art, comic dubs, and fan animations got me into the ship. But once I started seeing the signs myself in official art, shows, games, etc it was ALL over for me.

I have too many moments I LOVE between the hedgies, but I will say this one moment from IDW had me squealing.

IT’S JUST SO ADORABLE!!! 💖💙 😭

If you’d like to read more here’s my overall thoughts about them as a whole.

Love to see what you have to say!

[l1atena1]

not only tails is in the sonamy nation but eggman too

Yes

Correct

[cutegirlmayra]

Since you said that Eggman probably ships Sonamy, could you do a prompt where eggman sets up a plan to bring Sonic and Amy together? (Preferably Boom eggman since we know that he actually is interested in Sonic's love life) 😏😏

I’m sorry for the lateness!!! I’ve had a lot of things to do in life and I just never found the time!

But I’m sacrificing time to write this cause I’m excited too and care about you! Thanks for the prompt request and here I go!

Prompt:

“Huh… this is a strange anomaly.” Eggman leaned against his control panel, his robots all swarming Sonic as he had his arms spread out, seeming to have just finished explaining himself.

Casually, Eggman put a hand to his hip and shrugged, “So why do you need my help?”

“Because… according to Tails… you know you’re stuff.” Sonic looked away, rubbing his arm as he hunched over, apparently embarrassed to admit it.

He gestured to Eggman, who slowly lit up at the praise and felt the energy rise in him, giddily smiling and waving his fists around like a shipper in the air.

“Oooh, Okay, I’ll do! But first, we have got to do something about those shoes…” he suddenly strut a pose as he stuck a leg out and looked down at Sonic’s feet, Sonic following the gaze, not sure what he meant.

“I mean really..? Bandages and sneakers? Pah. What? You want to make her think you’re ‘hip’ or ‘cool’ or something? Come on! AH!” he swished a hip out to further his point before it cracked, snapping into place before he cried out for Cubot and Orbot, relaxing when it was pushed back into place and bent over.

“Ah, much better… Anyway, as I was saying. You need to be vulnerable and sensitive. Women are primal like that. They can sense your shaky, short, low self-esteem breathes and sweaty armpits from shame and anxiety from humiliation as fast as you can put a puppy in front of them and have them dote all over it. NOW, you’re the puppy!” he suddenly dramatically pointed to Sonic, as he flinched back.

“All these shows these days keep makin’ it look like a you gotta strut your stuff and show some muscle. BAH! Women want to protect YOU. Care for you~” he suddenly started acting out a woman, before dashing down and gripping Sonic’s bandanna and tugging it up. “DIE FOR YOU.”

“Egh!” Sonic’s frown pulled back, a little spooked.

“It’s all rather simple actually.” Eggman dropped him like a hot potato and walked non-nonchalantly to his computers, putting his hands behind his back.

“Oh sure… I can help you be the sap story Amy will fawn all over and have her little heart melt in excitement as she slowly takes over your life- BUT! On one condition~” Eggman raised a point finger up, smiling mischieviously down to Sonic, looming over him and moving closer.

Sonic, still on the ground, quickly kicked away before finally getting up, pinned by a chair.

“T…Take over my… life!?” his knees started to slightly shake, as he looked down, eyes wide. “AH! What’s that!?”

“Oh, that’s normal.” Eggman shrugged, “Just your body prepping for a life full of empty dreams and nagging criticism over your job, your joys, the way you slurp your cereal in the morning!” he suddenly shook a fist up towards the ceiling. “CURSE YOU TEENAGE YEARS!!!”

“Wait, you were… with someone?” Sonic raised an eyebrow, confused how that could ever happen.

“I’m old Sonic, not deprived.” Eggman grumbled back at him, before walking towards Cubot who was holding a rolled up paper of a plan and agreement, as he swiped it out of his robotic hands fiercely, and then smiled a salesman’s look to Sonic, opening it up.

“Here’s the agreement that I’ll help set up this little ‘hang out’ session with Amy that she totally thinks is a date, and all you have to do is sign below the dotted line here~”

“A contract? H-hold on a second..” Sonic was suddenly pushed forward by Orbot and Cubot, as he tried to kick back before being placed in front of the table with the paper…

“H..How? How on earth did you already have this made!?” Sonic gestured to it, still a little dumbfounded by that small fact…

“Sonic, as your evil genius and prime adversity in life, I must be prepared at all times to thwart- *HACK-COUGH* I mean- ehem, accommodate my mortal enemy in any and all possibilities of a sudden ‘change’ in lifestyle. After all. if I don’t watch out for you, whose gonna destroy your village for you in the morning?”

“Wow… um.. touching… Eggman. But, I don’t sign anything without my lawyer.” Sonic put the pen down, folding his arms.

“Whose your lawyer?” Eggman raised an eyebrow, surprised by his legal notion.

“Tails.”

“HA! You want your BEST friend knowing about your little… enterprise with the enemy?” he waved his hands up, as if showing how awfully embarrassing that would be.

“W-well…” Sonic looked down, second-guessing himself.

Eggman came in for the kill, moving from being over one shoulder, to the other, as he seemed to be the little devil on his shoulder.

“You would be a laughing stock! The famous Sonic The Hedgehog, stumped on how to set up even a simple date~”

“ALRIGHT! I’ll sign the stupid thing! But this is the last time I make bargains with you!” Sonic started signing his name, snatching the pen up from Orbot’s hand as he hurriedly scribbled his name.

Eggman snickered, rubbing his hands together before swiping the paper from Sonic’s hand which was handing it to him, and then hurriedly pushing him out. “And with that! Lots to plan, too many needless things to organize- oh, and do me a favor and actually shower for a change? Oh! Use Comedy’s Chimp’s deodorant! That stuff never messes around!” he slammed the door after waving him goodbye and then left him to look out at nothing and be utterly confused on what just happened.

He then sniffed under his armpit, seeming to freak out that Amy could smell his fear or something like that, and quickly raced away to do what he was told.

“Doctor, I’m afraid I’m a little confused here…” Orbot admitted, following his pacing body as he chuckled by him and tried to speak up toward him where he could hear his concerns.

“I thought you wanted to foil Sonic, not help him in his love life…”

“Fool! That’s exactly what a love-life will do to him!” Eggman shouted for joy, flinging his arms up and then spinning around to his naive little robot.

“If Sonic DOES end up going on sparsed dates with Amy, she’ll have him dragging his feet with all her silly ‘romantic’ demands that I’ll just sweep in and bomb the whole place down, level the ground a bit-” he suddenly had a daydreamed scenario, poorly animated out with chibi-versions of them, and a little tractor leveling out the town as he laughs like an old video game or black and white cartoon, “and finally be able to construct my Eggmanland theme park!” The little Eggman jumps out of the tractor and throws his hands up in victory, having a theme park behind him of scary looking robot animals as his ‘guests’.

He sighs, before Cubot scratched his head.

“I thought you had that contract on the slim possibility of Sonamy ever actually being plausib-!”

Cubot was silenced by Eggman’s mouth slapping right onto his speaker, and glaring down at him.

“That’s still on the agenda! After all, in his miserable state of being a failed hero, he’ll need someone to comfort him and talk his depressed little, oppressed, heart out too~” he beamed, as if this only helped kill two birds with one stone.

“I still don’t quite see how Sonic and Amy having relations beyond friendship solves anything beneficial to your objectives…”

“Oh, shut up, Orbot. You’re ruining all the evil fun.” Eggman got up and started typing computer coordinates in. “While I’m helping getting those to love-hogs together, you and Cubot will take the kids and go play around ‘unfriendly’ towards the village playground! Hahah! While Sonic’s distracted doing the ridiculous things I put in his mind, I’ll have already built the first part of Eggmanland!”

“Gee, I hope this works. Considering true love seems to trump everything these days.” Cubot shook his head. “Man, I hope we’ve really put that behind us and can just let the new generation fend for itself, you know?”

Orbot shook his head at Cubot’s crazy philosophies.

-Time skip-

“Wow, a boat ride? In the middle of the jungle? Huh… I’m impressed Sonic.” Amy took her purse and placed it down on her lap as she sat down, wearing a nicer outfit but nothing too fancy, as Sonic nervously chuckled, having no idea what was happening, but knowing water was not his strong suit..

Eggman, watching from a robot’s camera, clicked on his military walkie-talkie. “The canaries are in the sub, repeat, canaries are now rubber duckies. Initiate ‘drown with serenity’.”

Suddenly, terrifying robotic fish with huge heads and large teeth, sprung their heads out from under the water.

“AH!” the two got spooked, before the robotic fish spun around, their eyes wide, and started squirting out water, doing a little dance before pushing the boat further down the ravine.

“Ah… oh! How lovely!” Amy giggled cutely, “I mean, I hope this didn’t cost you too much. I’d hate to have you pay for the whole day!”

“…Eh…heheh..” Sonic nervously gripped the boat, not liking that her hand had subtly patted his leg before being withdrawn.

He looked away, as if worried what Eggman was up too.

“The Little Mermaid took action! REPEAT, we have physical contact! That woman is a SHARK.” Eggman, pulling his eyes from the tube he was looking through like in a submarine, then used binoculars to look to see Cubot and Orbot getting into position.

Sonic turned on his ear speaker, turning his head so Amy wouldn’t hear as she admired the beautiful scenery of the jungle, and watched the water-work performance.

“Eggman, you there?”

Eggman, without lowering the binoculars, turned on his ‘blue-tooth’ looking ear-piece.

“The Love Doctor’s in. How may I assist you further?”

“Heh, nice try. But this isn’t going anywhere!”

“I assure you, Mr. Hedgehog and Bane of my existence…” he moved his eyes lightly to peek at a map that showed the dangers ahead… rapids, evil and primitive wild-life, and lastly… the grand finale…

The map showed a huge waterfall that scaled off the page unto a little flip-book, which Eggman skillfully turned to show the crashing of a poorly doodled Amy and Sonic, as he smirked with a slight snicker to himself, having drawn a heart by their drowned expressions with their tongues out, eyes drawn as ‘x’s, and floating dead bodies.

“Should be a wonderfully romantic ride.. ever saw Titanic?”

“No..?”

“Good. Great. It’s miserable.” He put his eyes back to the binoculars and then turned to the other camera.

“So, here’s what you do. Be yourself. Just… act…. natural!”

Sonic looked to Amy, nervous.

“…SPEAK DARN YOU! Lighten her up with conversation!”

Sonic’s quills spiked at the noise his ear-piece made, before he adjusted himself and pushed his quills down, pulling at the tie that replaced his usual adventures bandanna.

“Ehem, so..? Do you uhh…” he looked away, holding his hands out. “Like…. water?”

Eggman face-palmed, causing a slap sound effect.

“Umm… well, I kinda do. Yeah. It’s okay.” she shrugged, leaning down and putting her hand in.

When she did, she started talking about how the water feels good when it’s hot outside,… but one of the performing robots saw it, it’s eyes fixating and turning around to it, turning red as he slightly chomped, getting closer and closer…

“BAD DOG! No! You can eat them when they’re falling!”

The fish whimpered away and it’s eyes turned back to blue.

“Ugh,… Imbecile.” he shook his head, before dragging his face down slowly with his hand,… “But still… they’ll be falling alright… hehehe… in more ways then one… HOHOHHOHO!!!”

“…You realize this thing’s still on, right?”

“Opps.” Eggman’s mustache drooped, before he flung to his walkie talkie, “ALL UNITS! ATTACCCKKK!!!”

“Amy, we’ve bee duped!” Sonic got up, as the robotic fishies jumped out fo the water, flying at them.

“JUMP!” Sonic caught Amy as she cried out in shock, and jumped from rock to rock, avoiding the rapids and angry birds and wild-life, before being pushed back by the chomping robotic fishes to the waterfall.

“Shoot!” Sonic looked behind him, seeing the moss making the ground on the rock he was on slippery, as he tried to keep his balance, moving back and forth in his attempts.

“Sssoonic!” Amy cried out, holding him as she used her hammer to knock some of the robotic fishes away. “I change my mind! I HATE the water!”

“You do?” Sonic looked over to her, elated! “So do I!”

He suddenly threw her up, curling down to spin dash and hit two robots in unison, before jumping back and catching her again.

However, the impact of all that movement and Amy’s force made a foot stand up from a slip, and without the extra balance…

“W…Wha… WOOOAHH!!”

“AHHH!!!”

The two started falling for the bottom with the sharp, pointy, dangerous rocks-Oh my!

Sticks, Knuckles, and Tails were trying to defend the village, as Tails knocked a robot out with his wrench.

“Where’s Sonic?”

Sticks dived into a robot, ripping it to shreds before pulling out her boomerang and hitting a straggler. “I thought he was with you!”

“I thought they were on a date!” Knuckles shouted out, as the two shook their heads.

Sticks responded, eyelids lowered, “Yeah right”

Tails pffted, “Like that would ever-…Ah! Sonic! I told him about how I wooed Zooey with Eggman’s help! You don’t think..?”

“PFFT. You asked EGGMAN for love advice?” Sticks mocked, putting her hands on her hips.

“PFFFTTTTT, you asked for love advice..? Wait.” Knuckles looked confused.

Suddenly, Sonic and Amy jumped into the frame! Amy back to her usual attire along with Sonic, as the two started taking out robots left and right.

“Ah, now this is a date!” Amy cheered, smashing a few robots.

“I couldn’t agree more!” Sonic took a few out, before getsuring to Amy, “Besides, this is where you shine the most! And that’s… minusing the glitter-gloss…” he motioned to his lips.

“Ah! Hey! For your information, my lips haven’t been chapped in weeks.” Amy over-dramatically swished her hand out from her wrist, making her point and then going to Orbot and Cubot.

“You two surrender?” the power couple stood side by side, looking pretty epic for a moment as the camera angle gave them a moment of glory.

The two bonked into each other, before flailing around and escaping. “AHH!! Don’t destroy us!”

Eggman was banging his head on the map, having watched as Amy and Sonic saved each other, and then took pictures on his Robotic Fishes’s camera, snap-shoting their cute selfies before running off to save their friends.

“DOCTOR! Are you there!? We were toasted!” Cubot shouted out, still running for his life. “I told you true love never dies!”

Eggman suddenly moved his head up slightly,…

As a cute blush on his cheeks and little chibi tears were in his eyes, he stated, “I know.. isn’t it diabolical?” he sniffed.

He watched the screen where the two high-fived, laughing as he sniffed, wiping the tear.

“He has no idea…” he swooned, melting at the sight of his OTP. “Haaa… how horrible TERRIBLE marriage is gonna be like!” Eggman slammed his fist down, then raised it to the ceiling again.

“CURSE YOU MIDDLE-AGED DELILAHS!!!”

(Bible reference… hope that’s okay..?-sweatdrop- Also, marriage is not terrible. It can be beautiful. Just saying, Eggman’s not a good role model to follow, lol. AU-BOOM)