Despite How Much We Talk About The Aitsu Stuff I Feel Like The Parallels Between Namine And Riku Are

Despite how much we talk about the aitsu stuff I feel like the parallels between Namine and Riku are untapped potential still. Like the way she just appeared in an empty castle only to have her loneliness manipulated by the villain who controlled that castle….like how Riku just appeared in Hollow Bastion alone only to have his loneliness manipulated by the villain who controlled that castle.

And this, frankly, was very much like Riku.

“He’s the one they all miss. It’s…not me.”

Believing someone else to be more special, more beloved. Not always believing in their own connections with others.

I'm sorry, I'm buzzing about Sonic Prime.

I've seen complaints that Sonic's not Sonic. Whilst he's not core game Sonic, there's a lot of similar elements. He's very naive and inexperienced. He feels like a younger Sonic but his heart is in the right place. He is a bit careless and more like JP Classic Sonic towards his friends.

Him hugging Shadow is fine. Whilst not something he'd do under normal circumstances, he will under tense situations: case in point.

Sonic being attached too much with Nine. "Is he too stupid to tell that's not Tails?" I played Secret Rings and Black Knight, some didn't. Sonic is so convinced Tails is Ali Baba and Knuckles is Sinbad. He's in disbelief and tries to snap "Tails" back to reality. Shahra intervenes. In Black Knight he does correct himself over Tails. He's too invested in Shadow and Knuckles to understand their storybook counterpart. He treats them how he treats them normally. He almost runs away from the Lady of the Lake.

Sonic's too emotional. Introverts can show emotion and can get very emotional it's HOW they do it. Sonic consistently shows his rage but not his insecurities or negative emotions. In trusted company, he's overly animated. Sonic's going through a lot of stress and he shows this through body language and quietly talking to himself. He's done this in X.

Where he's OOC is the odd cringe dialogue clearly aimed at kids like fam. Sonic isn't OOC in my eyes. He's a different breed to current Modern Sonic. But even 06 and SA1 shows growth.

I HATE THIS SHOW *SOBS*

little comic i made about me & my experience with being ace. planned to post this during pride but im really slow at drawing & writing lol (plus i had made some traditional sketches of this comic before drawing it out digitally) anyways it's nighttime & im tired so gooooodnight

This was presented with a very whimsical tone and I enjoyed it for that but also. it's such a specific side effect that I can't not analyze it

Like, on principle it makes perfect sense. Give an already fast and energetic character who talks to himself all the time a boost to his abilities, and he becomes twice as chatty to compensate.

But his external monologue has never taken the form of a conversation between two people before, and in a show that's all about having alternate versions of the same character, that's worth taking note of. Especially since this started after he was given energy from the Paradox Prism, the thing that presumably made all of those alternate versions to begin with.

(And even more especially since the show already played around with the idea of there being two Sonics only a few episodes ago with the existence of Chaos Sonic)

So, the other oddity regarding this whole thing is how one side is consistently just. uncharacteristically mean and deadpan towards the other?? I showed one example earlier, but there's two more, and that accounts for almost every instance of Sonic talking to himself in this form

Sonic's never really talked to anyone like this before, not even himself. It almost comes across like an emulation of Shadow more than anything else, which is just. so bizarre?? Especially when Shadow's literally right next to him in the last scene, and thus he has no need to substitute his presence.

In fact, he seems to catch himself and stops doing the self-banter thing entirely as soon as Shadow acknowledges him doing it

And he looks surprised when Shadow speaks, too, like he already forgot that other people can hear him. It really comes off like he's in his own little world, and again, this is a show about multiple worlds, so it's pretty fitting.

I'm not letting Shadow's phrasing off the hook, either - "a Sonic," hm? As if there's more than one?

Even Sonic gets confused about how many of him there are, which has quite the loaded implication for how short of a moment it is; something that could describe everything about this form, honestly.

It all gives me this impression that we're not quite done with this concept of there being multiple Sonics, or at least not done with this form being used in general. There's a lot of potential in what they've already set up for it, and I'd love to see it explored further.

Plus, this one frame of Sonic after he first gets it still gives me the impression that there's something... off about it

And I want to know what that something is

New super form!!!