#sonic's friends are fast

[lore-of-mobius]

Sonic's Friends Are Supposed To Be Fast

So something many people were confused by in Sonic the Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Movie is why Knuckles and Tails were decently fast in the Movie. So the reason is the characters in the Sonic cast are all supposed to be decently fast.

This is something Sonic Team has even done where they refer to Sonic and his friends as Fast Friends. And if we begrudgingly take into account Sonic Speed Simulator, Sonic's friends can all be classified by Orbot as "speed creature"s.

So the way I see it is Sonic is the fastest as we see with the fastest thing alive title. With Metal Sonic and Shadow rivaling his speed as they are able to match his speed. Everyone else is fast themselves they aren't as fast as Sonic. In addition characters with the speed classification such as Amy and Espio would end up being faster than most just not as fast as Sonic.

This would be like how in Mario games everyone can jump pretty high, but Mario is the one who can jump the highest making him famous for it and even giving him the nickname Jumpman. While the only person who can rival his jumping but being able to jump a bit higher is Luigi.

[demi-pixellated]

Continuing to distract myself at work with background watches of Sonic games.

[evelynlisian]

Shadow and Maria 🩵🖤 I think it’s been enough time to draw things from the movie, and this moment is one of my favorites. I love the way the movie depicts how they forged their friendship, and Alyla Browne is the best Maria there could be. I hope you like it, I love this movie so much, I’ve already seen it 3 times in the theater (and that’s not many xD)

[yellowvixen]

[e-vay]

This is just 1 of the MILLIONS of reasons I love Sonic the Hedgehog! The second you like Sonic, WHAM! You now have friends all over the world, no matter where you go! If you know me in real life, I am painfully shy, to the point it’s embarrassing. But here I went to the Sonic Speed Cafe by myself in a city I don’t live in, and struck up a conversation with 3 people I’ve never met before and had the best time! In fact, I think I talked more in 1 hour than I’ve talked in a whole week haha! I always have the most wonderful, positive experiences with people in the Sonic community 😁💙🦔 Shoutout to @all-stargamer99, Daniel and Troy for the lovely conversations!

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

:(

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

I don’t have any other way to describe my read on their dynamic other than Geode is in a gay relationship and Cole is in a QPR that is all

[molinaskies]

Silver the Hedgehog: Refugee of a Future Lost to Time

I don’t find myself thinking about Silver a lot, and that’s a bit of a crime honestly. But when I do, I’m struck by how in the weeds I become about his existence. Silver the Hedgehog starts as a young boy with psychokinesis* born into a world on fire. He wants to fix it but doesn’t know how.

*worth mentioning here that while Lore™️ consistently refers to Silver’s power as psychokinesis (the ability to control minds and conjure specific actions from people), his powers in practice are actually much more aligned with the definition of telekinesis (the ability to control objects and manipulate their movement in space).

He despairs with Blaze over the life they live and the nerve-ending cycle of it all, then meets a mouthless hedgehog who claims to have all the answers. In his desperation, Silver clings to the sliver of hope he provides… and this is something I think we often find ourselves forgetting.

Silver never had the power to travel through time—at least, not independently. Mephiles did. Later on, the game establishes that two people can open a time portal through the power of our favourite plot device, the Chaos Emeralds, via Chaos Control.

Through Contrivance’s Paradise, Silver (and company) were just… able to time travel because that’s what the plot needed, but Silver, as an individual, never had the embedded power to travel through time.

I’m still endlessly annoyed that this anniversary game didn’t shoehorn an excuse to bring back the time stones from Sonic CD, but alas.

Silver was barely a figment in the canon imagination after Sonic 06. His appearances in Rivals are just excuses to reintroduce him into the series (because, remember, Sonic 06 removes itself from the timeline by the end of its story), and his appearances there don’t mention his time travelling at all. He appears (for kinda no explainable reason) in Generations, but then… nothing! Absolutely nothing… for FIVE YEARS.

And yet, in 2025’s mainline canon, Silver is just the Time Traveler™️. Since Sonic 06 never happened, the nature of Silver’s time travel beyond Sonic 06 has always been vague, at best. 

The running logic seems to be that Silver, through no intentional act of his own, is sent into the past when something catastrophic needs to be stopped. Silver is a being somehow tied to the fate of the world. Silver has been chosen by Time itself to protect it… which is something I kind of love, to be honest.

If Sonic is just a hedgehog who showed up one day and decided to do good, then Silver is a sort of divine guardian of his travels.

It’s taken canon a bit of time to settle into this interpretation, but the IDW comics have taken pretty much any opportunity they can to establish this fact as fact.

In issue 3 of the Sonic Forces prequel comics, Silver returns from the future to warn Knuckles about the Eggman Empire’s success, which implies that Silver has some sense of control over his time travel.

In mainline IDW 8, Silver returns to the present after winning the war didn’t save his future, under the same pretense that he can just… do that.

However, by the end of the Meal Virus comic arc (IDW 12-29), in a pretty monumental move for his story, Silver’s future is officially saved.

IDW 31

Now, having done the damn thing and guaranteed a Good Future™️, Silver is free to be a kid again… and for his efforts, as I intend to argue, Time rewards him…

…by sending him back to the past where all the bullshit is happening lmao. Hear me out.

In the IDW Sonic 2022 annual, Silver returns to the present, but this time he has no idea why or how*. This is when canon decides to remove the pretense of Silver having active control of his time traveling. It’s largely implied that Silver will be in the present for the foreseeable future (no pun intended).

*I’ve included the proof for this below as it’s more directly relevant to another point I’m making in a moment.

With the inauguration of Fast Friends Forever, the SEGA initiative that champions friendship through a lore-centric focus on Sonic and his friends in and out of the games, Silver’s time travel is explicitly explained as external to his control.

By IDW 58, Silver is roped back into the mainline plot, and it’s made abundantly clear that he no longer has  never had the ability to travel freely through time.

So, Silver’s arc becomes about finding his place and trying to live life without the demand of proactivity—to enjoy the moment while making the most of the life he has.

But… why? Why must he do this? Why take him down this road?

Silver the Hedgehog starts as a young boy with psychokinesis born into a world on fire. That world no longer exists.

Silver the Hedgehog became a young boy with psychokinesis born into a world dominated by the Eggman Empire. That world no longer exists.

Silver the Hedgehog further became a young boy with psychokinesis left behind by a world decimated by metallic disease. That world no longer exists.

With every trip to the past, every day saved, Silver rewrites his own life for the sake of his world—so much so that there’s nothing for him when he returns. His entire world has changed. People he might have known before cease to exist as they once were.

When Silver saved his future, he sacrificed his place within it—because once he saved his future, his future ceased to exist. Instead, a new future curates itself in Silver’s absence because he wasn’t there to be a part of it.

Returning to the IDW 2022 annual:

It seems that Time has sent him back to the place—the time—he belongs… where he has unwittingly planted his roots.

Something which Espio so elegantly points out.

Thanks to his sacrifices, Silver is no longer the Omen of Disaster. He’s Silver the Hedgehog: the psychokinetic. Silver the Hedgehog: the kid.

He is Silver the Hedgehog: Refugee of the Future, and he deserves nothing more but to blossom in the garden of most significance to him, among the flowers he loves so dear.

[woahbewildered]

dumb sketches ft my own oc and sonadow/surgamy (this took too long)

[star-stages]

A doodle of Sonic and Tails sleeping in a burrow, for @skimmingmilk

based on this ask game answer for a wip!!

go read the wip it's so cute! She is so good at visualizing scenes I can always picture them asdhjfdsdfshfsk

(Click for quality on this one)

[emistations]

Chasing after me

[lyricthecat-12]

No one can deny that the Sonic franchise is more alive than ever, because in these last 4 years we have had many new and great and varied projects, so I would like to know what has been your favorite year in this first half of the decade. 🦔💙👀

[spicyseal]

THE OK KO CREATOR MADE AN OFFICIAL SONIC COMIC

[girlsonic]

hiii

[silverequation]

Silver is the opposite of Shadow in that Silver loves the world and its people but struggles with close individual relationships while Shadow has no love for the world or it’s people but is driven by his individual relationships with Maria and Sonic.

[tailschannel]

With the launch of the "Fast Friends Forever" promotion from SEGA of America, check out these renders of Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles.