#particularly peeved with frontiers now. it got a lot right but it also drops the ball so much

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one more knuckles post but the warrior thing is wild to me when there are characters who would carry that title much better. like silver. i am coming from my biased view of silver of course but to me if you had to assign the role of a warrior to someone he'd be a better fit for it. instead of fixing his home he leaves it to find solutions elsewhere, fixated on a rather senseless killing mission he only gives up on when more convenient methods are pointed out to him, So Down For Murder with little moral issues with it. compare that to knuckles who has always worked to help angel island thrive and keep it peaceful, leaving it only if he must, attacking others only if they come to disturb that peace, perhaps a bit gullible but his heart is in the right place. but no silver has to be a goof-ass cinnamon roll and knuckles has to be assigned war ties because ooh descendant of an violent ancient civilization and he punch hard

small addition: this isn't to say silver should have military/war ties i don't think any sonic character should have those unless they're hand-crafted for the purpose somehow (or are shadow whose whole character is anti-militaristic) it's more that if we must give an existing important character the role of a warrior which they then perform to fulfill in some fashion silver might be the best pick for the cause, though much less from the kind of militaristic point that has been assigned to knuckles in recent memory