Barry x Gadget is beautiful because they ARE the two sides of the “self-insert” coin. Literally Gadget is the embodiment of “LOOK AT MY SUPER COOL OC, THEY’RE SONIC’S BEST FRIEND AND SAVED THE WORLD” and Barry is the embodiment of “look at my silly little OC, they’re stupid and diseased and have failed at life”
Gadget would normally be the cringe Gary Stu sona whose creator disowned him and replaced them with Barry as they grew up. Except instead, they coexist, AND THEN THEY KISSED. (AND THEY WERE BOTH NONBINARY.)
This post contains textual TMOSTH spoilers! so if you haven't played for whatever reason... don't look!
This is still a crazy theory that mostly feels like a headcanon or whatever the fuck matpat does and calls "theories." But, hey, it still deserves to be updated!
After all, y'all seemed to like the crazy theory in its raw poorly-written state! :D
the final argument is still... not the best, and feels even MORE headcanony than everything else... but i think it's neat!
here's my hypothesis again, for those joining in late, and because that's how theorizing works:
Barry the quokka, our avatar, is a chaos user.
Now, I know what you're thinking...
"There's no proof of that bestie, bro's onto nothing 💀🔥🔥!"
well, normally I'd say:
"It's just my own silly headcanon without any support ^_^ just for fun!"
EXCEPT, there may be some evidence, in the behavior of the THINK minigames.
So what if these minigames are more real that what we're led to believe, I mean Barry is clearly not carrying his DreamGear with them, as no character ever brings it up.
my theory here is that Barry has a weakened/dormant ESP ability. Let's go through my evidence, shall we?
(and some extra stuff i noticed after writing the original post, and that other users brought up)
Evidence No.1 — The nature of the interrogation sections.
Every Interrogation section unfolds as follows:
We have Barry collect the clues (although Tails gives his own insight, Barry is always the one to notice them.)
Tails mentions that he and Barry have formed a case/hypothesis, or Tails goes directly to make an accusation or argument.
(Barry themselves progressively wonders why they are added onto the accusation with Tails)
We have to select the exact correct clue/object from Barry's inventory to support Tails' argument.
We then go through the THINK minigame so that Barry can order their thoughts.
Tails explains his argument with Barry's proof flawlessly, although Barry often lags behind during this part.
"But this isn't proof of anything--"
SILENCE! TO THE DUNGEON WITH THIS FOOL!
I believe that these "game features" can be explained in-universe through some sort of telepathy.
"But, what is it there to explain? All of that seems normal to me?"
then, my good friend, you may need to re-read!
(especially the italicized and bolded bits)
Barry is always the one to find clues and stuff—but we will go over this later. So, remember it.
And even though Barry is not often fully aware of what Tails is thinking, he always adds them to the accusation, it's always "we," and never "I."
(correct me if I'm wrong here but I don't think Tails ever excludes us once we have gathered enough clues)
And while yes, Tails is really friendly and Barry is basically playing to be the detective's assistant, maybe its because Tails notices something we don't
The game doesn't actually show Barry telling their thoughts to Tails, yet both Tails and them manage to form a flawless argument from some object or trash that was lying around.
SURE, MANY TIMES THEY HAVE DIALOGUE DURING THE INTERROGATION, RIGHT AFTER A MINIGAME, BUT NOT ALWAYS
He comments on them first to give the player insight on what we should be looking for, but Barry never really tells Tails directly what they're thinking on.
And their dialogues often evolves from a small argument being immediately supported by Tails with a stronger argument.
And look, Tails is a smart kid, we know this. But intelligence is tied to specifics. One cannot be intelligent on basically everything.
But even if, for the sake of the argument, Tails were to be smart at everything... he's still a kid. He's going to be prone to making mistakes, many times before him being a kid has overcome his high intelligence.
terrible example but, look at Forces.
But somehow Tails always has something to say during an interrogation, and almost always includes Barry even if the quokka is not adding much to the conversation.
Now, going back to "all of this can be explained with telepathy": What if Barry has been giving information to Tails with this unknown power.
And Tails, being always surrounded by chaos users, doesn't point it out because, well, he's simply used to odd shenanigans when it comes to chaos powers.
Though the part of "Barry always finds the clues" feels less of telepathy and more of something else, but the theory isn't over!
After all, my hypothesis was that Barry had an ESP ability power, but I never specified which one. So let's continue.
Evidence No.2 — Barry is somehow aware of what they should be looking for, always.
Barry is the one to always inherently notice something relevant, even if Tails is the one to point out its importance, this is shown through the game outlining with green certain objects.
While Barry probably doesn't see this outline that helps the player, they probably do notice the objects over other things—but hey, maybe they do see it, but they... think it's normal.
something like that is probably something they've never questioned before.
They are the one to also find which specific clues or people can aid to Tails' argument, this is especially noticeable on the final interrogation, where Barry has their time to shine.
this specific section, originally, was part of evidence No.1, but I think it deserved to be pointed out individually.
something, something, some sort of clairvoyance or greater awareness acting here.
But that is not all, Barry is also somehow aware of "Chaos Control," and while it could be argued that they SHOULD be aware of it, because this technique has been used to save the world several times.
What they shouldn't be fully aware of, probably, is what the technique is specifically called, for all the public knew, chaos control was just another power of Shadow and Sonic.
But given that in-universe this surprises everyone, let's assume that Barry shouldn't know of it in general. And yet they still know of it.
And talking about supernatural awareness...
That time in which Barry pointed out Espio talked on italics? Sure, its treated as a joke but... what if it wasn't entirely one?
Evidence No.3 — Barry's physical actions during THINK minigames.
there's at least one (and two debatable one) occasions on which Barry performs a seemingly physical action during a THINK minigame.
First, when barry has to distract Knuckles so that Tails can fix the machine.
Knuckles seems to be going in for the kill, and prevent Tails and Barry from seeing the score of the arcade machine, Tails tells Barry to distract Knuckles while he fixes the machine.
But then we get a THINK minigame, instead of ... anything else, which is odd, Barry should be actively preventing knuckles from advancing, not thinking.
This implies barry was doing something while thinking, and while they could've tried to hold knuckles or something, we know by previous dialogue that Barry both is weak physically and that Knux wouldn't hesistate to hurt them!
The second time, which is highly debatable, is when Sonic is breaking the doors to advance.
Sonic mentions how he's gonna need a few hits to break through the doors, but instead of just seeing a small cinematic (like the one we're shown after the minigame)
We go through another THINK minigame, and after it, Sonic breaks the door with a single spin dash, it's odd that we see this.
Not much from a gameplay perspective, sure, but still overall strange in several levels, But personally, I choose to believe Barry is somehow unconsciously giving power to Sonic!
whether it is an ESP ability or just poeer of friendship is up to debate though...
The third time is during the boss fight against the Mirage Express itself.
Not only we do not get to really see how sonic and his friends are fighting the train, but what we do see... doesn't add up, especially so with the THINK minigame we have to play.
We see the flicky which should probably be inside the train, yet we see Amy hitting the train from the outside, and the minigame itself puts us in Sonic's place outside the train?
But like the previous point, what if this was explained thanks to Barry and what they could be doing. The last fight is a THINK minigame because Barry was helping.
Do you think after being inspired by Sonic himself, Barry would just stay there cowering?
Especially seeing, seemingly, everyone fighting along? Such a strong bond between the different friends of Sonic, from Vector to Tails.
He, without probably realizing, could've helped with some power, giving Sonic the information needed to hit the train.
Or perhaps even using some psychokinesis to attack too, we really don't see what's happening, and technically we only see Amy somehow delivering a hit to a train actively moving.
So anything goes, I suppose
this point is the weakest of the whole theory, but I think it still holds some weight, especially since no one seems to point anything up.
But I like to think that Barry did something, and based on previous time's they've done odd stuff... well, I just connected two dots.
Conclusion: Barry is a psychic chaos user, and they probably don't know.
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My first fanfic of Barry x Gadget! A long illustrated one-shot! My artworks for it can be found HERE.
"Gadget doesn't really believe in "Love At First Sight", but he can't help noticing that the shop worker he saw in the window he passed by is very cute.
___
A one-shot in which Gadget meets Barry and battles with an awkward crush as he assists them on a delivery. Takes place a while after both of their respective games! (Has illustrations)"
Escort Mission: Cute stranger from the local market needs to deliver produce to the next town over. Not the shortest trip, but possibly not long enough...
I really like Barry and Gadget. They're fun to draw. 💕
This post contains textual TMOSTH spoilers! so if you haven't played for whatever reason... don't look!
This is still a crazy theory that mostly feels like a headcanon or whatever the fuck matpat does and calls "theories." But, hey, it still deserves to be updated!
After all, y'all seemed to like the crazy theory in its raw poorly-written state! :D
the final argument is still... not the best, and feels even MORE headcanony than everything else... but i think it's neat!
here's my hypothesis again, for those joining in late, and because that's how theorizing works:
Barry the quokka, our avatar, is a chaos user.
Now, I know what you're thinking...
"There's no proof of that bestie, bro's onto nothing 💀🔥🔥!"
well, normally I'd say:
"It's just my own silly headcanon without any support ^_^ just for fun!"
EXCEPT, there may be some evidence, in the behavior of the THINK minigames.
So what if these minigames are more real that what we're led to believe, I mean Barry is clearly not carrying his DreamGear with them, as no character ever brings it up.
my theory here is that Barry has a weakened/dormant ESP ability. Let's go through my evidence, shall we?
(and some extra stuff i noticed after writing the original post, and that other users brought up)
Evidence No.1 — The nature of the interrogation sections.
Every Interrogation section unfolds as follows:
We have Barry collect the clues (although Tails gives his own insight, Barry is always the one to notice them.)
Tails mentions that he and Barry have formed a case/hypothesis, or Tails goes directly to make an accusation or argument.
(Barry themselves progressively wonders why they are added onto the accusation with Tails)
We have to select the exact correct clue/object from Barry's inventory to support Tails' argument.
We then go through the THINK minigame so that Barry can order their thoughts.
Tails explains his argument with Barry's proof flawlessly, although Barry often lags behind during this part.
"But this isn't proof of anything--"
SILENCE! TO THE DUNGEON WITH THIS FOOL!
I believe that these "game features" can be explained in-universe through some sort of telepathy.
"But, what is it there to explain? All of that seems normal to me?"
then, my good friend, you may need to re-read!
(especially the italicized and bolded bits)
Barry is always the one to find clues and stuff—but we will go over this later. So, remember it.
And even though Barry is not often fully aware of what Tails is thinking, he always adds them to the accusation, it's always "we," and never "I."
(correct me if I'm wrong here but I don't think Tails ever excludes us once we have gathered enough clues)
And while yes, Tails is really friendly and Barry is basically playing to be the detective's assistant, maybe its because Tails notices something we don't
The game doesn't actually show Barry telling their thoughts to Tails, yet both Tails and them manage to form a flawless argument from some object or trash that was lying around.
SURE, MANY TIMES THEY HAVE DIALOGUE DURING THE INTERROGATION, RIGHT AFTER A MINIGAME, BUT NOT ALWAYS
He comments on them first to give the player insight on what we should be looking for, but Barry never really tells Tails directly what they're thinking on.
And their dialogues often evolves from a small argument being immediately supported by Tails with a stronger argument.
And look, Tails is a smart kid, we know this. But intelligence is tied to specifics. One cannot be intelligent on basically everything.
But even if, for the sake of the argument, Tails were to be smart at everything... he's still a kid. He's going to be prone to making mistakes, many times before him being a kid has overcome his high intelligence.
terrible example but, look at Forces.
But somehow Tails always has something to say during an interrogation, and almost always includes Barry even if the quokka is not adding much to the conversation.
Now, going back to "all of this can be explained with telepathy": What if Barry has been giving information to Tails with this unknown power.
And Tails, being always surrounded by chaos users, doesn't point it out because, well, he's simply used to odd shenanigans when it comes to chaos powers.
Though the part of "Barry always finds the clues" feels less of telepathy and more of something else, but the theory isn't over!
After all, my hypothesis was that Barry had an ESP ability power, but I never specified which one. So let's continue.
Evidence No.2 — Barry is somehow aware of what they should be looking for, always.
Barry is the one to always inherently notice something relevant, even if Tails is the one to point out its importance, this is shown through the game outlining with green certain objects.
While Barry probably doesn't see this outline that helps the player, they probably do notice the objects over other things—but hey, maybe they do see it, but they... think it's normal.
something like that is probably something they've never questioned before.
They are the one to also find which specific clues or people can aid to Tails' argument, this is especially noticeable on the final interrogation, where Barry has their time to shine.
this specific section, originally, was part of evidence No.1, but I think it deserved to be pointed out individually.
something, something, some sort of clairvoyance or greater awareness acting here.
But that is not all, Barry is also somehow aware of "Chaos Control," and while it could be argued that they SHOULD be aware of it, because this technique has been used to save the world several times.
What they shouldn't be fully aware of, probably, is what the technique is specifically called, for all the public knew, chaos control was just another power of Shadow and Sonic.
But given that in-universe this surprises everyone, let's assume that Barry shouldn't know of it in general. And yet they still know of it.
And talking about supernatural awareness...
That time in which Barry pointed out Espio talked on italics? Sure, its treated as a joke but... what if it wasn't entirely one?
Evidence No.3 — Barry's physical actions during THINK minigames.
there's at least one (and two debatable one) occasions on which Barry performs a seemingly physical action during a THINK minigame.
First, when barry has to distract Knuckles so that Tails can fix the machine.
Knuckles seems to be going in for the kill, and prevent Tails and Barry from seeing the score of the arcade machine, Tails tells Barry to distract Knuckles while he fixes the machine.
But then we get a THINK minigame, instead of ... anything else, which is odd, Barry should be actively preventing knuckles from advancing, not thinking.
This implies barry was doing something while thinking, and while they could've tried to hold knuckles or something, we know by previous dialogue that Barry both is weak physically and that Knux wouldn't hesistate to hurt them!
The second time, which is highly debatable, is when Sonic is breaking the doors to advance.
Sonic mentions how he's gonna need a few hits to break through the doors, but instead of just seeing a small cinematic (like the one we're shown after the minigame)
We go through another THINK minigame, and after it, Sonic breaks the door with a single spin dash, it's odd that we see this.
Not much from a gameplay perspective, sure, but still overall strange in several levels, But personally, I choose to believe Barry is somehow unconsciously giving power to Sonic!
whether it is an ESP ability or just poeer of friendship is up to debate though...
The third time is during the boss fight against the Mirage Express itself.
Not only we do not get to really see how sonic and his friends are fighting the train, but what we do see... doesn't add up, especially so with the THINK minigame we have to play.
We see the flicky which should probably be inside the train, yet we see Amy hitting the train from the outside, and the minigame itself puts us in Sonic's place outside the train?
But like the previous point, what if this was explained thanks to Barry and what they could be doing. The last fight is a THINK minigame because Barry was helping.
Do you think after being inspired by Sonic himself, Barry would just stay there cowering?
Especially seeing, seemingly, everyone fighting along? Such a strong bond between the different friends of Sonic, from Vector to Tails.
He, without probably realizing, could've helped with some power, giving Sonic the information needed to hit the train.
Or perhaps even using some psychokinesis to attack too, we really don't see what's happening, and technically we only see Amy somehow delivering a hit to a train actively moving.
So anything goes, I suppose
this point is the weakest of the whole theory, but I think it still holds some weight, especially since no one seems to point anything up.
But I like to think that Barry did something, and based on previous time's they've done odd stuff... well, I just connected two dots.
Conclusion: Barry is a psychic chaos user, and they probably don't know.
-what if. The Dazai/ Akutagawa mafia arc follows through the same way- BUT when Dazai leaves..- he takes Akutagawa with him. However, Gin refuses to follow after Dazai. Building an internal conflict for Aku.
The external one is with Atsushi/ Decay of Angels and his interior conflict is his clash with either his sister and misguided blame placed on Dazai, forming the conflict of contradiction within his introspection.
-I'd imagine Dazai takes a different approach to Odasaku's words and takes the boy he had broken to be fixed along with him. In the beggining he would mend the cracks in his subordinate's mind to honor Odasaku... but guilt would then reach him. Once he sees what he had truly done to an innocent child struggling to survive.
-And so the more Akutagawa heals his mental- the further he draws away from Dazai, for he conceptualized at last that no agony he suffered was deserved, nothing degrading Dazai said held any truth to it. So eventually i see this awkward half-half relationship where now Akutagawa is independent of Dazai fully... and where Dazai seeks to reforge a student/ mentor relation, wishing for the gratification of the boy's forgiveness to make him feel better about himself. But Ryunosuke refuses to give him that closure for he genuently and rightfully believes what was done cannot be forgiven, but needs not be avenged, for it would make him no better. And he strived to be better than his previous tormentor.
And there we have Atsushi, who clings to Fyodor more and more, defending the cause of his gentle savior with no resistance.
All the while..Gin grows darker...under Port Mafia boss, Chuuya Nakahara.
For the Fyodor raised Atsushi AU I feel like Fyodor would call Atsushi брат (brat) which means brother in Russian but would sound like Fyodor is insulting Atsushi to others. I believe Atsushi is would know at least a little Russian. This would also cater towards Fyodor making sure he’s that one pillar of comfort for Atsushi in being an older brother figure.
Now for what Atsushi would call Fyodor… I have a few thoughts. Since Atsushi was taken in at a pretty young age I think he would call Fyodor “Fyo” (pronounced Fee) because he gave up calling him by his last name. I also think that Fyodor let Atsushi drop honorifics just to gain his trust. Fyodor wouldn’t care what Atsushi calls him just as long as he’s with him not against him. Or just call Fyodor せんせい (Sensei) because he’s his teacher…idk
(I also was kinda thinking that when they first encountered each other that Atsushi as a kid would call Fyodor うさぎ (Usagi) because of Fyodor’s ушанка (Ushanka) hat. They kind of remind me of rabbit or bunny ears when the ear flaps are down. So as a younger kid he might associate it with a fluffy and sweet animal…after all the trauma he went through…haha 😞)
Anyways, thank you for reading my rant! Hope it’s legible!! Have a great day/night if you see this! :D
From the "Fyo!Atsushi" A.U.:
-by Nix, apparently
What would Fyodor and Atsushi call each other?
-Starting off with Fyodor. I think he'd call Atsushi a number of things- and these things will change based on how their relationship evolves over time. In the beggining when Atsushi had just arrived to his base in Russia- I believe he would adopt just Atsushi's name at first, as it would be a cold unfamiliarity between them. Fyodor would want little to do with Atsushi when it came to anything but his plans, however the issue regarding Beast's outbursts needed to be addressed. That he couldn't avoid.
From there on out he would keep a close eye on Atsushi- and such the name derived itself into a dismissive "Boy". Further into Fyodor's accidental attachment to Atsushi he would begin using Russian to cook up nicknames and diminutives: something along the lines of- тигренок(tigrenok=tiger-cub) / луна (Luna= moon) / крыса (krysa= rat)
Stuff like that maybe- he would expect Atsushi to figure them out and maybe he'd make a game out of it. Calling the boy something new every once in a while and expecting him to figure it out and return back with an answer.
At first Fyodor would do this to give Atsushi something to occupy his time with- but the more exited the boy got- the more he got under Fyodor's icy defenses..
Ultimately maybe he'd settle on "Atsu" as a proper name?
What do you think guys
-Now, Atsushi:
-Here it's fairly more simple- Atsushi would approach with formal titles such as : Fyodor-sama, Dos-sama- perhaps after some development going easier on the honorary titles : "Dos-san" being commonly used imo.
-I think there perhaps will be a time- a time of great weakness and vulnerability between Fyodor and Atsushi, perhaps after a mission gone bad where Nikolai had to portal the weretiger out of death's hands- I think in confidence, alone, while the boy recovers, Fyodor would open up the existence of the diminutive term "Fedya" to his own name in a subtle, encrypted way. And would instruct Atsushi that it is to be used only in confidence and not amongst anyone else. Of course, Atsushi still slaps a "-sama" at the end of it- "Fedya-sama/ Fedya-san." But I think this is made a possibility only after some heavy character development-
Anyway these are all possibilities- what do you think?
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