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sage-nebula · 5 days ago

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I am this close 🤏 to taking the word "siblings" away from the Sonic fandom and putting it on a shelf. People here seriously use it as a shorthand for "any characters I don't ship that have a good relationship in canon." It's wild. Y'all are out of control.

Because let me tell you, I've had a (step-)brother for 28 years. And I have never once talked to him like this:

(He's the "prince." It's teasing bordering on flirting. And the other two aren't even borderline.)

This isn't a "they're canon dating" post, it's a "they don't interact like siblings" post. Sisters don't flirt with their brothers unless there's something messed up happening in that family. And Rouge, canonically, flirts with Shadow. Meaning that she definitely doesn't see him as a brother, and likewise, we have no reason to believe that, canonically, Shadow sees her as anything more than a friend.

Here are the confirmed sibling relationships in canon:

Sonic & Tails

Scratch & Grounder

Rough & Tumble

Shadow & Maria as of this month

Sonic & Sonia & Manic in Underground

Sally & Elias(? was that his name?)

Aside from some more obscure pairs in Archie or similar adaptations I may have missed, that's it! Everyone else? Friends. They're just friends. And you can say "I see them as just friends" and sound far less clownish than when you decide literally everyone, including characters who flirt with each other (or at least have one-way flirting like Shadow and Rouge), are "siblings."

Thank you and goodnight.

#in sonic fandom you're either dating or family. there is no in-between. and it's annoying as FUCK #tbqh even though i've used ''ARK siblings'' as shorthand for Shadow & Maria for a long time now #i kind of hate the siblings confirmation bc i feel that their relationship is (or should be) more complicated than that #bc he exists to be a cure for her. and she knows that but also she's 12 and he's a good friend and listener #and makes her feel less alone on the ARK. he gives her hope in ways other than the cure #and he ends up wanting to cure her not just for his purpose but bc he genuinely comes to see her as his first & only friend #before the confirmation i would have said their relationship was BESTIES. esp since like #even if you WANTED to go nuclear fam on it #Shadow would be her UNCLE since Gerald made him & Gerald is Maria's grandpa #but anyway. point is. i don't think people even understand why Sonic & Tails are siblings (it's explicitly stated in canon)#and instead just use it as a ''don't ship this'' gotcha #which yeah the romo ship btwn them is gross but that's not why we say they're siblings #we say it because Sega says it. all the time. Tails's Sonic Channel bio says Sonic sees him as a ''cute little brother''#that doesn't apply to others like Knux & Amy or ffs Rouge & Shadow #like what is this a Folgers commercial? good lord #they're friends. they're just friends. you can even say best friends. just put the word siblings down i beg of you

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