#it's the apologist in me just HHHMMMMMM

[mephistowo]

All of this is just hitting the nail on the head. I see Mephiles as the most tragic character. There's no happy resolution, and it was nothing but tragedy after tragedy.

Being loved and giving love in return to both the ruler and citizens of Soleanna, as Solaris. Only for the duke to spit in Solaris' face, just because they refused to give mortals the ability to bend time and history. Mephiles and Iblis are split and experimented on, for god knows how long. Locked away, in whatever void the scepter has, for 10 years. Then after failing in his efforts to erase everything he's trapped in white space.

Yeah he killed Sonic and wanted to destroy reality, but fucking hell what do you expect after psychologically and physically torturing a god for over a decade?? And having it be from those you helped and cared for on top of it all! You really think Mephiles would be willing to collaborate with any mortal again, when he and Iblis are a direct product of that collaboration to begin with!

So uh. Cw for psychological torture (specifically white room torture/sensory deprivation). Sorry chat but I've seen no one acknowledge this

is anyone going to acknowledge the fact that the sonic franchise canonically subjected a character to white room torture for like 20 consecutive years and he kinda just hasn't been let out

Because assuming after Generations all the structures in the White Space returned to their time and are no longer in there, it means Mephiles has been stuck in 100% white sensory deprivation hell since 2006 with only one instance where he actually got any sort of relief from that. And gens was in 2011, which a lot of people forget in Meph's case because of shadow gens releasing this year. So what we saw of him then was meph in 2011, not 2024. And although it probably wasn't as long between all the games, as far as I'm aware we can't tell how long the whole franchise has taken so far, so unless we do have that information all I can say is that Gens probably took place in the original game's release year and he's been in there for nearly 20 years 😭 for a guy who was just trying to fix himself (admittedly, he was going about it in some shitty ways but also like fuck dude do you really expect a tortured, split, half god to be making decisions that align with everyone's morals) that is CRAZY???? LET HIM OUT HELLO HE PROBABLY DOESNT EVEN KNOW HIS OWN NAME ANYMORE

Especially considering the last thing he was told was "there is no future for you. Ever." That was probably rotating in his mind for AGES he probably hasn't forgotten the words but has forgotten all semblance of what they mean. man I knew IDW went into psych horror genre but I didn't realise the GAMES did it 😭😭😭 meph they will never make me hate you

For reference. This is what the Wikipedia page on white room torture says that's relevant to this.

😭meph... Set him free... Sega I beg of you

Alternatively, what the fuck is Infinite doing inside the Phantom Ruby is he going through the same thing

I'm aware that the "stick them in the universe back corner jail" is story code for "keep them out unless we feel like bringing them back" but also Sega you've accidentally back cornered this guy into either needing one HELL of a redemption/recovery storyline or just never appearing again and literally fucking dying in there. Dissolving or some shit. Let him OUT😭