#if ppl ask about me she/her'ing metal sonic

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

tbh i think if sage and metal sonic actually had a relationship it’d be extremely complicated. like most portrayals go with either them being relatively wholesome sisters or metal being super jealous and disliking sage, and while both of them are really cool and I love them (the first expands on the thematic similarities between them and the ark siblings which i fucking love and the second lets my girl be fucked up and try and murder more young children and she should be allowed that for enrichment) i don’t think it’d be really easily definable as either bc both sage and metal have their own mental issues that both make it extremely hard for them to have healthy relationships of any kind but also leaves them reliant on others for a validation they can’t get for themselves. metal has the world's most severe inferiority complex going on and has always been the golden child of her “siblings”, and while that's something that hurts and traumatised her (sonic heroes happened entirely bc she cracked under the pressure) she also has literally nothing else to attach her self worth to bc her life is one big sisyphean nightmare. so she’d obviously be extremely jealous and resentful of sage for “stealing” her father's favouritism. meanwhile, sage is not good with understanding emotions, is extremely blunt, and is extremely protective of her father, which meshes terribly with an emotionally unstable, jealous, and violent killer robot who already has a grudge against her for her existence alone. but both of them are Also extremely isolated and lonely, awkward children- metal's a teenage deviantart kid who desperately yearns to be someone loved and happy more than anything and sage is a young kid extremely new to the world and desperate for a familial connection- with very few other people to turn to. they just don’t have anyone else to form a connection with, and that’s something they long for (even if metal doesn’t realise it herself). i don’t think they’d have a healthy sibling dynamic- i don’t think they can have a healthy dynamic with anyone without some fucking therapy tbh- but i do think they’d very quickly have an extremely unhealthy dependency thing going on together. they’re far too fucked up to have anything that isn’t nightmare toxic cycles of abuse shit and they’re also both extremely lonely children with no one else who can understand them even slightly.