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[maxilsmaster]

i am not normal about these characters: miles “tails” prower

i am about as normal about tails as i am about sonic, i.e. not normal at all. therefore. woe! tails headcanons be upon ye

autism. obviously. it mostly manifests through curiosity, hyperfixations/special interests, sensory sensitivity, being hyperverbal, strong emotions, and high empathy. however, some of those are boosted by childhood trauma and general anxiety. he’s also dyslexic.

tails’ big special interests are engineering, planes, science in general, and believe it or not, boats. more on that later. (the plane thing is sonic’s fault lol)

tails reacts strongly to most stimuli, especially sound and touch, but those two are mostly due to the events on west side island. he’ll only let a few specific people touch him (amy and knuckles are the two main ones), and exclusively sonic is permitted to touch his tails.

unlike sonic, tails is hyperverbal. he talks to himself constantly, and doesn’t really like when everything is silent. if you let him ramble, you will be his friend. if sonic isn’t in the mood to talk, tails often will for him.

also unlike sonic, tails is a very high empathy person. people, critters, even objects. he has a habit of personifying pretty much everything. if something breaks, he’ll be almost inconsolable. he takes very good care of things and people.

my boy has no sleep schedule. he also has a semi-canon mint addiction. he definitely also drinks a fuckton of caffeine.

tails likes to throw sodium/potassium/sodium-potassium alloy in water. (sonic likes to watch lmao)

tails’ fur grows thicker for the winter, and then he sheds in the spring. he hates shedding season because he is itchy and everything gets covered in his fur. once shedding is done he’s fine, though.

he has chronic lower back pain due to how his spine is from the twin tails. usually it’s manageable, but he does have a wheelchair for the really bad days.

there is exactly one big thing sonic and tails disagree on. HYDROCITY. i’m sure a bunch of y’all have seen the one idw comic but for those who haven’t. sonic says hydro city and tails says hydrossity. they are the only two people in-universe who care.

tails used a boat to get to cocoa island. he also used a boat to come back to west side when he realized complete isolation was bad for his mental health. initially, he immediately regretted this, but then he met sonic and you know how it goes from there.

i. do not actually have any particular lgbtq+ headcanons about tails. mainly bc i can’t decide lol

tails bought a mint company when he was 6. he doesn’t really remember how it happened (read: please don’t ask idk either) but he owns a mint company now. he pays everyone generously, and he’s actually a really good boss all around. sonic has no idea tails owns a mint company. tails intends to keep it that way.

thank you for reading lol

[maxilsmaster]

i am not normal about these characters: sonic the hedgehog

i have so many headcanons about this blue motherfucker. it’s not even funny. therefore, i’m making it everyone else’s problem

most of these will be stated like facts, but they are all headcanons.

let’s get two of the big ones out of the way. autism and adhd. he has them. his autism presents primarily through lack of understanding social cues, low empathy, touch aversion/sensitivity and special interests. his adhd presents itself through hyperactivity, impulsiveness, disorganization, poor working memory and lack of an attention span.

because of his low empathy, he has to make a conscious effort to react appropriately in a given situation. he still cares about people, he just can’t express it through empathy. this has caused disconnect between himself and other people before. his lack of empathy is somewhat compensated for by his strong sense of justice.

sonic does not like touch. not only does it remind him that he has a physical form (mood), but in most cases, it just feels uncomfortable. he especially dislikes it when touch restricts his movement. he’s also very texture sensitive, which is part of his aversion to water. because of all this (and his need to move around a lot), he’s actually also claustrophobic.

he has special interests in geography and mechanical stuff. a headcanon i copied from a random person is that he has a perfect sense of direction. he also enjoys tinkering with things because he is Doing and he likes to be Doing at all times.

hyperactivity is self explanatory. same with impulsiveness. he’s tried to work on the latter, since he doesn’t enjoy that trait about him, but his body moves quicker than his brain, in multiple senses. his inattentive nature is primarily caused by his hyperactivity.

one more thing related to his autism is him having been nonverbal when he was younger. he started speaking a bit after meeting tails, whom i believe to have been the catalyst. sometimes, primarily when experiencing strong emotion, sonic still goes into verbal shutdown. he uses a sign language (i default to american sign language but it could be any) to communicate when this happens, as well as whenever it’s just himself and tails.

in my heart, sonic is a repulsed aroace trans man. you can never take this from me.

sonic also hates winter. snow is cold, it slows him down, he can’t run on ice, when snow melts it makes his legs wet, and all in all, he just really doesn’t enjoy it. he does have seasonal affective disorder. the exceptions to his winter hatred are snowboarding and christmas.

sonic is almost as good of a pilot as tails. the tornado was canonically his plane first, after all. he doesn’t fly as often, but he’s still fully capable. fixing up the tornado was actually the origin of his interest in mechanical stuff.

sonic’s favorite band is crush 40.

sonic cannot public speak to save his life. he can public sign, he can public appear, he can even public juggle, but public speaking (speaking being the operative word here) is not something he can do.

thank you for coming to my ted talk