#he’s just a grumpy guy who inconveniences anyone that isn’t Stone

[alchemocha]

Stone connecting with Robotnik and being the one person he’s soft with, while he remains awful to everyone else except the difference is it’s a lot smaller scale now. There’s no attempts to end or conquer the world, although on bad days he might threaten it— but he’s just a grumpy petty bitch who’s inconveniencing people at best and possibly ending some corpo goon lives at worst, but all in all, he’s kind of just a weird guy now — not a galactic evil mastermind.

And Stone’s happier than ever. Not because the doctor’s stopped trying to think bigger than life, but because he’s more content, while keeping the eccentric, mildly diabolical charm that he’s always been helplessly endeared to. Even if it means apologizing to customer service workers twice as often when they go out.