#implied sonic 3 spoiler

[thedarkrebeldesires]

I'm looking back at some screenshots of the predictions we made about the fate of Stobotnik, before the movies release.

And I sort of find it funny how most if the one I've stored is about "I swear if Stone dies, If Stone sacrifice himself, Robotnik if you HURT Stone..."

And the final result is actually a full 180 the other way.

...yeah🙂🥲

[riddleboxez]

SEGAAAAAA LET STONE GO APESHIT AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSS

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[razberrypuck]

robotnik: there's something about me that makes me undesirable to all genders

me:

[killersanz]

(sonic 3 spoilers............)

sonic 3 was so unnecessarily romantic to me because wdym you sat next to your rival on the moon and reminisced about the stars together.

wdym you shared your eldritch cosmic god energy to save the people you love and the earth whilst connecting your bonds in sync. hello

[warnersibss]

HOLD ON!

[kerorokai]

they're so in love

he appreciates him so much...

doing tech stuff together ❤️❤️❤️

CAUGHT!

true love

they're perfectly happy <33333333

[killuabutgayer]

my final offering for year of shadow🤲💛❤️🖤

[moonrabbit250]

"You lost your star too?"

[red-hot-moon]

Sonic 3 spoilers below:

Listen. If they're gonna bring Robotnik back from the dead again and again they'd better just show him growing old with Stone by his side.

[inkbats-writing]

Angsty thoughts but imagine if you will shadow finding Stone after returning to earth. Seeing the once so happy and lively man lost unsure broken in a way that shadow felt feels since Maria's death. And he worries. He worries because he doesn't see vengeance burning under that grief. He doesn't see a desire for revenge or rage at the world for taking who the former agent loved.

He just sees exhaustion. A soul deep exhaustion that shadow worries if he leaves now...if he leaves this man alone it will consume him until nothing is left but a hollow shell. So he decides to stay close. Stay nearby and be there for him in his time of grief in a way he wishes someone was for him when it happened.

And Stone tries to push him away. Tries everything and anything to make shadow leave him alone. But shadow still sees that exhaustion still sees how little Stone does if shadow doesn't push and prod still doesn't like the look the man sometimes gets in his eyes when the nights are dark and the remains of the explosion still glow in the nightsky. So he stays. He stays despite it all determined to be there for him.

And they grieve together. They grieve the ones they loved taken from them and it hurts and burns and its bitter but together...together it stings a little less.

[thedarkrebeldesires]

Fellas, after the events of Sonic 3, do we think Shadow visits Stone?

I enjoyed their small interactions in the movie and hope it would be expanded (like in an epilogue comic or something)

I headcanon Shadow is doing a whole Lone Ranger thing since the ending of Sonic 3, trying to figure out what he can do since he's awake.

But occasionally he visits Stone to talk to him, make and eat guac together, judging modern earth shows and just...chill together. Perhaps mourn and trauma dump together. Like, Stone would share his experience from working with Robotnik (and his 'secret' admiration/crush for the man) and Shadow shares his of Maria.

Stone listening to Shadows stories then makes him feel like he's able to learn more about what Robotnik's lost family and his lost cousin. "Would they have gotten along with each other? Would the doctor have turned out different if he was raised alongside his cousin?" kind of thoughts.

[catiecat1320]

If these two don’t get together by the end of this I will burn the house down.

[ghostpaynes]

Seeing the talk around the deleted scene has me thinking

What if Stone got zapped out of the mech before the fall?

Since if I remember right he was moved anyways so Ivo could take control of what Stone was doing before he passed out.

Like idk if I'm remembering that right and obviously it wasn't explicitly shown

[anonymousqualities]

Wondering if shadow stood in front of Maria & Gerald to shield them from the blast but Maria jumped in front of shadow at the last second?

Also wondering why shadow didnt just chaos control them out of there, but maybe he didnt learn how to teleport others with him yet. They did enough testing to determine he was still considered a child for his species.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Okay, so a friend and I went back over a portion in the Season 3 trailer last night.

Because both of us (on separate days), after having watched the trailer a few times, essentially had the question: Is that green shatterspace portal actually Boscage Maze?

When I myself watched it I felt...idk...like the shade of green was different. And then my friend mentioned (after another look at it) that the color was more muted.

And then...we let our brains run.

Mind you, before the trailer or any summaries of the season came out, my friend and I were talking over discord. We'd decided that based on the evidence (Sonic's natural eminence of prism energy, whatever makes him special compared to Shadow, the fact he shattered the prism, etc) Sonic could theoretically have a deeper connection to the paradox prism due to the energy inside him. Then, they threw a what if in the air.

Essentially "I don't think they'll do it, but what if Sonic is the missing piece to the paradox prism. So they won't be able to complete the prism and do anything with it without risking killing Sonic"

To which I said "That would be so cool! And given that I've never believed Sonic's going to have to actually make a big choice between his old friends or his new friends existing—or at least that he'd never actually make that choice and would find a secret third choice—I think a Sonic's wellbeing versus everything he cares about makes sense. That has the potential to hurt the other characters, because if need be, Sonic would do it"

Needless to say we watched the trailer the first time and I was like "No way he was right. Like, it was a good thought, but none of us thought for sure that they'd do it"

Now, with that in mind. As I said, my friend and I decided to let our brains run after feeling that there was a difference between the green shatterspace in the trailer and the one for boscage maze. We couldn't shake the idea that the colors are different, nor the idea that the shape of the portal openings are different. And we've both seen people talking here about how it could be the last shatterspace open or something (boscage maze that is), but to me...that doesn't make sense. Without special context, it doesn't make sense why it would have to be Boscage Maze of all worlds that would be the last to collapse, or why taking Sonic to Boscage Maze of all shatterspaces could be enough to save him. Plus there are other voices talking in that scene. There are other people who would need to get to Boscage if it was truly the last, and if it's just to get Sonic to the closest shatterspace, the characters would have to be fighting in the in between space (between the shatterspaces). And my friend too, from looking at it, thinks that the green shatterspace in the trailer seems like it's farther out at the edges of the place between.

So, we rushed to the episodes to get a clear shot of the Boscage portal, and then a clear shot of the one in the trailer.

Now, turns out we were right about the color difference.

But it's the shape too.

If you've been looking in the main tag, I probably don't need to tell any of you that each portal (the part you enter to enter a shatterspace) is shaped like its prism shard. The first image is a shot of the Boscage Maze portal my friend screenshotted. The portal opening resembles the shape of the green shard, and the green is more vibrant than the more muted green in the trailer.

The shatterspace in the trailer is just...a completely different shape, both in portal opening and the crystals around it. If you need another angle of the Boscage Portal to compare to the crystals surrounding the portal in the trailer, here's another shot.

So, different green color. Different opening shape that would correspond to a prism we haven't seen before.

Let's return to the "Sonic contains the missing piece of the paradox prism and is essentially a living prism shard" theory, and let us also employ the idea that after the prism shattered and each shard landed in one of our alternate green hills, the shards gave off an outburst in energy that allowed the blue shard to fill the shatterspace with water, the green with dense forest, or the purple with mountains of crystal.

Now you're probably saying "But tumblr user hadesknockedupintheunderworld, what about the red shard? We saw a flashback. The red shard didn't just start growing buildings when it landed in what would become New Yolk"

And to that I'd say...you're right! We know based upon the Chaos Council's flashback that they used the prism shard as their energy source (whether they received it when conquering or after the fact), and that they themselves built New Yolk city without using the prism shard (after all, they only knew it as an energy source)

So, I say to you back. What if upon landing in a shatterspace, the shards were initially unstable. So they either caused a major change/addition to the world they landed in, or it's energy was properly harnessed and contained. That wouldn't be so far fetched, right? Because we know that Nine adapted the power core the council built to properly contain and channel the energy of the red shard to create his shatterdrive.

Now, the idea that the shards, while having shared powers, also have specific element based powers is not a new idea to this fandom. So let's run with this idea too, for funsies. If the blue shard corresponds more to weather (creating storms, lightning, flooding) and the green shard causes plants to grow (as examples), what, then, would Sonic be?

I'd say speed. Why? Well, besides the fact that that's Sonic's thing, let's backtrack to episode 1.

As of episodes 1 and 2, we know Sonic's body produces the same energy as the red shard. Before Nine crafted tech to attach to Sonic's clothes, the energy was not properly distributing to his body. Sonic would run and not be able to stop, he couldn't control his speed, and sometimes, he'd even start running without actually wanting or trying to run. In short, he could not control how fast he was going, how soon he could stop, or even when he would just start running. Even his shoes, which can canonically handle his usual speeds, had started to smoke after a while.

Couldn't you perhaps extrapolate from this that...Sonic became unstable upon entering New Yolk, his speed going haywire, and it was Nine's tech that properly contained and channeled Sonic's (he living shard's) prism energy?

And if Sonic is essentially a living prism shard...

Let's go back to the shatterspace from the trailer again.

A shard shape we've never seen before.

My friend and I got to this point and we thought:

"What if this is Sonic's shatterspace?"

As in, if each prism shard corresponds to a shatterspace, what if this is a secret 6th one that corresponds to Sonic?

Earlier I said that the ideas people brought up (without in season context) for how or why Shadow would speed to take Sonic to Boscage Maze wouldn't make sense. BUT

If there's a shatterspace out there affected by/created by Sonic's prism energy, it may not be a stretch for the writers (and our main characters) to conclude that getting Sonic there could keep him from disappearing.

Just...food for thought.

[sonknuxadow]

so glad im not the only one whos absolutely devastated that sonic didnt get a costume in the halloween special . literally the saddest thing ever i wanted to see my favorite little beast in an outfit