Thoughts To Live By

thoughts to live by

neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)

GUN BUDDIES!!!! :D

team sonic and team dark end up on the same place for different missions, everyone gets separated and tails and shadow end up together. shadow threatens the bad guys with his handgun and tails gives him the most disappointed 8 yo look he can muster and goes, "really? can that toy even harm a chao??" to which shadow replies, "you got any better ideas fox boy?" and tails just pulls out a really bright yellow n cyan coloured missile launcher twice his size out of nowhere and says, "yea."

Tails and Maria parallels.

I decided to gather up a bunch of stuff tails and maria share in common. why? well, I just think it’s neat considering shadow and tails’s growing bond (maybe shadow could have flashbacks due to it?) and how fucking SIMILAR this fox is to maria.

before we start, I am NOT trying to prove that tails and maria are related in any sort of way. no “tails and maria are siblings”! shtick here whatsoever, aight? just wanted to clarify.

1) Appearance:

now this one’s probably the most obvious when you look at the two.

tails has golden/yellow(ish?) fur with vibrant blue eyes (leaning into cyan)

(mostly gathered 2D official art here so lighting won’t clash with anything!)

as you can see, mostly a blue/white/yellow colour pallet for the fox!

..now who also has a blue/white/yellow colour pallet?

maria robotnik.

tails and maria’s colour pallet, and not to mention looks (notice how they both have doe, innocent eyes?), is SCARILY similar to eachother, to the point where you could probably convince someone who knows little to nothing about sonic that maria was the “human version” of tails.

2) Personality:

now, this one’s probably the most abundant cause holy SHIT

tails (mostly described) is very sweet, selfless, gold-hearted and resourceful, and can be gentle when he needs to. and especially in tmosth, very optimistic and empathetic, aswell compassionate and curious.

…these traits are also very similar to maria’s, especially in the shadow and sa2 game.

comparison:

notice the eerily similar traits?

both are cheerful, optimistic and show kindness and see the good in (most) people, all while maintaining a strong spirit.

3) Mannerisms:

ohh boy do these two have paralleling mannerisms

tails is noticeably very smiley, laughy while pointing and waving a lot!

examples! :

as you can see, his mannerisms and attitude has that optimistic and energetic yet gentle kid-like quality to it.

and maria’s.. is practically the same!

see how she smiles, points and waves a lot? her gestures have that same quality.

they both have that approachable, friendly gestures attitude, additionally, they both maintain very child-like and cheerful mannerisms. kinda “saccharine”, y’know?

So, overall?

these two’s personalities, looks and attitudes are eerily similar, yet it could make sense in a way. tails’s parallels to her could and most probably give shadow MAJOR flashbacks with the fox’s bright positivity, curiousness and general kindness. it’d be interesting to see in action! maybe tails would be the one to get shadow to finally warm up to his friends, and see the good in him after so long? it could genuinely be a concept taken to canon! (paramount, c’mon, give us the parallels and shadow & tails bonding in the 3rd movie im BEGGING)

tails, in the end, is his own person though, and his unique qualities should be appreciated as much as the major ones!

man, it was fun to make this. thanks for reading!

I really would like to read something like this, amazing concept @rosrets!

shadow and maria fall off the ark and escape from gun and become train hobos annnnd post

Speaking of Movie Sonic, if we got Movie Amy how do you imagine her coming about and being like?

I hope she ends up in the new movie. I don't know how they're going to do it, but MY DREAM would be that cheesy cliché where the first time they meet it's during something badass and like she's slow-mo walking in front of an explosion:

And you've got "[I Just] Died In Your Arms" by Cutting Crew playing

That's definitely NOT how they'd do it, but that's what I'd love to see hahaha

I hope that if she does end up in the movie they really capture her courageous and caring side. It'd be easy to just make her a simple damsel in distress but there's so much more to Amy than that so I hope they would go into her character more. But the movies have been doing a good job so if she shows up, I'm sure they'll nail it.