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Icon is my OC, I ship Sonadow, Knuxouge, and Blazamy, but reblog a lot of other art. Main is @thngrn20. AO3: eeddgg/daybreakthehedgie. We hate Ken Penders here, he deserves it. 

[demilypyro]

Thinking about the design decisions that led to Amy Rose being a bruiser character.

The first appearance of Amy's hammer was in Sonic the Fighters, a fighting game. This was her first playable appearance, and her first time fighting. And there you can see the first decision. She was likely given the hammer because the designers thought it would be unfair to make the girl character fight barehanded against the largely male cast. So she was given a weapon: an appropriately cartoony hammer. This remained her main method of self defense in Sonic Adventure.

Note how in these earlier depictions, the hammer looks more like a toy than an actual weapon. It's not meant to actually be threatening, it's just something to put her on equal grounds with the other characters, since the perception at the time was that a girl character wouldn't be able to fight as well as the male characters.

As we move into more modern and less cartoony depictions of the Sonic universe however, the piko hammer got redesigned. They didn't change its size at all, but maybe someone on staff thought the toy look was too silly, because they made it look more metallic and heavy as the years went on.

But this does change things. Because taken with its new look and realistic weight... that is a freakishly big hammer, and utilizing it the way Amy does would require incredible strength. So, in the modern day, her mastery of the hammer is treated more as a sign of her inherent power, rather than a bandaid for a power differential like a smaller weapon would be. While often still referred to as a "speed" type character, she's regularly depicted as a character whose physical strength rivals Knuckles or even Shadow. As we move later in the franchise, character descriptions regularly call her "powerful."

It's interesting how this shift happened, when really nothing about Amy's depicted abilities has changed. What changed is how realistically the Sonic universe is depicted, as it moved away from slapstick comedy. In that new context, the girl with the big hammer suddenly becomes a lot more intimidating.

[zerorock41]

I personally think that Amy getting the hammer wasn't because of sexism, moreso for comedy and childishness.

The Piko hammer is a real Japanese toy for children, the word "Piko" is the onomatopoeia for the squeaky noise the toy makes. This also falls in line with a fairly standard gag of girls in manga just manifesting hammers to induce slapstick on stupid boy characters, like with harisen fans.

Modern Amy turning a children's toy into an actual weapon is pretty dang awesome.

[jovialsongdefendor]

Talking more about the idw sonic comics

idw comics are getting more popular over the years, months, days. and I mean, great for the creators. but lets be clear that popularity doesnt mean exactly that something is canon. like a responded to someone in the last post (And i dont know WHY I CANT SEE MY REPLYS WHY TUMBRL), the divine comedic of dante can be used like a example. or even the other writes of the bibles itself. the divine comedic is basically a selfinsert where dante explain how hell is divided in seven circles if I remember correctly, and how the sinners suffer in each circle depending on how they acted in life. But even if they have the best representation of hell of the bible and used in many medias, is NOT canon to the bible itself

Dante’s Masterpiece ‘La Divina Commedia’ is Actually Fanfiction | by Kalea Martin | Life is Lit. | Medium

(so yeah your self insert can be popular so yay)

because if it was part of the canon of the bible, why dante hasnt been mentioned in the bible? or describe hell when in the bible there isnt a really a description of the hell itself? each country had a different representation of the religion, of heaven and hell. Each country had different views of the religion or even how god itself it seen or believe.

coming back to sonic, if idw sonic were canon, then how blaze is able to travel to dimensions withouth having all the 14 esmeralds to do it? why sonic acts so different in the comics and in the games? why the resistence is back when it was disbanded in the end of forces? sonic had his own differents universes: sonic x, sonic boom, sonic archie, sonic idw, sonic fleetway, etc. and all of them are inspired by the sonic of the games, like dante did with the bibble. if idw are canon, then the same logic can be applied to sonic x, sonic boom, sonic archie when they were confirmed to be non canon. I guess chris come back to make everyone hate him again lol. and the comment thatr sayed where is the panel where sonic gaslight shadow in using his trauma against him:

Pretty contradictory when eggman had done worst things than shadow but ANYWAY-

[tremendousdreamercat]

Genuinely: why do you care so much about this. Do you put this much thought and effort into things that could be applied to the real world?

[jovialsongdefendor]

I woulnt need to explain all of this if only the sonic fandom (not all of them) spread so many lies or can be easily manipulated into believing things that shows in the internet. No, everything you see in the internet is not the absoletly true. Kids are so easily manipulated in the internet, specially with the sonic fandom where there is so many kids (and they need to have supervised access to the internet in other part). we are here to normalize believing into lies and let other be manipulated easily through wrongs informations spreading like a wild fire? I am not here into that.

[daybreakthesideblog]

Sega said everything is canon, post over.

[jovialsongdefendor]

are you sure? because what it is in text (videogames) contradict itself with many things of sonic universe. even if sega is the maxime authority, the text is the final product. and if that product doesnt follow a clear continuity that have good narrative, then is not canon to the main timeline.

[daybreakthesideblog]

Any series with time travel has a risk of developing a paradox.

As the events of Sonic 06 were retconned at the end of the game, we can conclude that they didn’t happen. Because Sonic got sent to Crisis City in Generations, we can conclude that the events of 06 did happen to create Crisis City.

Because 06 both did and didn’t happen, we have a paradox. Using this paradox, we can make any true statement from formal logic. Our given set is the set of all things that are confirmed to have happened and are confirmed to have not happened in canon. From this, one can apply a logical rule known as the Principle of Explosion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion) to prove that any other statement concerning Sonic canon is true.

Thus, everything is canon, because even the main series timeline is logically inconsistent.

Principle of explosion - Wikipedia

[jovialsongdefendor]

Talking more about the idw sonic comics

idw comics are getting more popular over the years, months, days. and I mean, great for the creators. but lets be clear that popularity doesnt mean exactly that something is canon. like a responded to someone in the last post (And i dont know WHY I CANT SEE MY REPLYS WHY TUMBRL), the divine comedic of dante can be used like a example. or even the other writes of the bibles itself. the divine comedic is basically a selfinsert where dante explain how hell is divided in seven circles if I remember correctly, and how the sinners suffer in each circle depending on how they acted in life. But even if they have the best representation of hell of the bible and used in many medias, is NOT canon to the bible itself

Dante’s Masterpiece ‘La Divina Commedia’ is Actually Fanfiction | by Kalea Martin | Life is Lit. | Medium

(so yeah your self insert can be popular so yay)

because if it was part of the canon of the bible, why dante hasnt been mentioned in the bible? or describe hell when in the bible there isnt a really a description of the hell itself? each country had a different representation of the religion, of heaven and hell. Each country had different views of the religion or even how god itself it seen or believe.

coming back to sonic, if idw sonic were canon, then how blaze is able to travel to dimensions withouth having all the 14 esmeralds to do it? why sonic acts so different in the comics and in the games? why the resistence is back when it was disbanded in the end of forces? sonic had his own differents universes: sonic x, sonic boom, sonic archie, sonic idw, sonic fleetway, etc. and all of them are inspired by the sonic of the games, like dante did with the bibble. if idw are canon, then the same logic can be applied to sonic x, sonic boom, sonic archie when they were confirmed to be non canon. I guess chris come back to make everyone hate him again lol. and the comment thatr sayed where is the panel where sonic gaslight shadow in using his trauma against him:

Pretty contradictory when eggman had done worst things than shadow but ANYWAY-

[tremendousdreamercat]

Genuinely: why do you care so much about this. Do you put this much thought and effort into things that could be applied to the real world?

[jovialsongdefendor]

I woulnt need to explain all of this if only the sonic fandom (not all of them) spread so many lies or can be easily manipulated into believing things that shows in the internet. No, everything you see in the internet is not the absoletly true. Kids are so easily manipulated in the internet, specially with the sonic fandom where there is so many kids (and they need to have supervised access to the internet in other part). we are here to normalize believing into lies and let other be manipulated easily through wrongs informations spreading like a wild fire? I am not here into that.

[daybreakthesideblog]

Sega said everything is canon, post over.

[forgottensonicfacts]

According to Herman, an old acquaintance of Shadow from GUN, the in-universe time gap between Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is "years"

[loveletterworm]

Follow up fact! This is a writing mistake, and cannot possibly be true!

While there were of course preestablished ages for the characters at the time Sonic '06 was released, one might argue '06 specifically was operating on different ones. However, by comparing the manual of Sonic Heroes (which takes place before Shadow 2005) to the internal writer's document for Sonic '06, it can be seen that the character ages were considered almost exactly the same. (The one discrepancy in these manuals appears to be that Rouge's age in the Heroes manual is said to be 17, when in the '06 document she was said to be 18.)

With that in mind, here are a few possible explanations for why Herman would ever say this:

Herman is being hyperbolic, and using "years" to refer to a much shorter timeframe

Considering Rouge is said to be one year older in 06's internal documents than she was in the Heroes manual, enough time may have passed for Rouge specifically to have a birthday, but her birthday is earlier (or later?) in the year than any other character, so everyone else's age remains the same. Herman would still have to be being hyperbolic here since that could only amount to a timespan of months rather than multiple years.

The infamous misprint of the Sonic Heroes manual that said Sonic was 8 years old was actually the intended one, and all the manuals that said he's 15 are actually the wrong ones, so seven years have passed.

It is a minor mistake on the part of the writer or translator of this particular random NPC dialogue

All of the Sonic characters are stuck in a time loop and Herman is the only free one.

[boozehund-blog]

ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

[wolfprud3-deactivated20170620]

FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic

[k1mmy-esc]

Going to the raid vs leaving with ur new alien hybrid bf

[welcome-to-green-hills]

MYSTERY THE SYNOPSIS LEAKED FOR SONIC THE HEDGEHOG THREE

https://x.com/s0nicmovie3news/status/1792593638704165332?s=46&t=EppnYjaW9wCXXhr8RM8ILA

Description of Work: “Heroes Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles must face a mysterious new adversary, Shadow the Hedgehog, as Dr. Robotnik reemerges after his defeat with a new plan. From director Jeff Fowler, and starring Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter.”

Oh wow, even the synopsis is tight-lipped😂 Ah, it’s okay! I promise you that this is a good thing. When the copyright came out for Sonic 2 (2022), the entire story was laid out in its description. It almost left us little room the create fan theories and stuff. Here, we can let imagination run wild!

Copyright Catalog

[discosmackdown]

Based on that one chat screenshot

[rabbithaver]

hi. do you want to save the future?

[libelelle]

[mini-wrants]

When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

[mini-wrants]

I know I’ll never be missing an election in my life again (barring some kind of major medical event).

I just wish it weren’t so damn frustrating, feeling like you’re screaming into the void constantly, fighting against apathy.

CMS just announced that the government will start taking high-cost drugs that were developed with taxpayer dollars and start pulling patents to force competition and low cost generics. That’s fucking momentous.

I saw 1 news article on it. I wouldn’t have known it happened if I didn’t read the news every day. This should have caused the kind of celebration that erupted when companies started announcing $35 insulin caps. Why didn’t it?

Low cost hearing aids, lower and $0 student loans, concrete investments in green architecture…there was an announcement like 2 days ago to replace all leaded pipes out of US cities over the next 10 years, which will be an absolute boon in jobs for construction workers and can make our homes safer for kids. I’m sure I’ll see a headline in a year, “Biden’s lead pipe program causes drivers traffic headaches.”

[mini-wrants]

Republicans want 20 foot concrete barriers topped with barbed wire across the entire southern border, and Democrats want amnesty and ease to citizenship for just about anyone who crosses, and it really seems like until a compromise is made somewhere in there, Republicans will continue to turn out in massive numbers to elections because God told them to, and Democrats will continue to stay home because the last president didn’t accomplish 100% of their goals and voting for an imperfect president is a personal and ethical failing.

Now take that mentality and spread it over every single social and economic issue.

[lennat2]

I remember how utterly scared and angry we were sone years ago when Trump was trying to bankrupt the USPS. People were talking about it left right and sideways, asking people to buy from the USPS gift shop, start a stamp collection, anything. Then, Biden got elected and put a huge stop to that by getting rid of the unfair laws that only the USPS had to abide by. Overnight, the USPS was saved, and how did everyone react?

They didn't. It was hardly mentioned. Not a blip.

Same exact thing when it came to net neutrality!! It was DEVASTATING when it was killed. People died in wildfires because Internet providers throttled data of firefighters. Xfinity actually stole identities in order to make it happen.

About a month ago, BAM, it was restored because Biden appointed a Democratic leader to the FFC. Did anyone talk about it? Nope. I saw ONE post.

[ansodie]

okay, so as much as I think that Biden was the least shitty of two garbage presidential candidates, and as much as I disagree with some of the things he’s done… …I have to admit that the Biden-Harris administration has done more for the average American’s life than any other I can remember in the last 20-30 years. even with a congress made up of majority spoiled toddlers who would rather kill a man than vote “yes” to save a hundred thousand, they have:

changed the Medicare enrollment periods for elderly and disabled individuals, so that they don’t have to literally enroll in the designated period for enrollment and then STILL WAIT for 2, 3, 4, 5, or even SIX months for their healthcare to start

along the Medicare line, they have added special enrollments for: people who just got released from jail, who lost their low-income healthcare through Medicaid, had a medical emergency or natural disaster that made them miss enrollment, didn’t enroll because they were lied to by their employers, etc

they CAPPED THE COST OF INSULIN to $35/MONTH FOR MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES!!!!! and they are working to get it capped to that for all Americans!!! (but of course, Republicans are fighting it)

Biden pardoned all prior federal offenses for simple possession of marijuana and started the review process to get weed rescheduled federally

provided hundreds of billions nationally in funding for the repair of roads/bridges/highways, expanding high-speed internet access, improving public transportation, adding electric vehicle charging, adding clean energy sources, removing pollution still leaking into communities from industrial manufacturing from DECADES ago, and REMOVAL OF LEAD PIPES not just on state land but on TRIBAL land and TERRITORIES!

cracked down on the (frankly, abusive) overdraft fees from banks - to the point that many banks have removed the fees outright rather than deal with an investigation from the federal government over them - and the last minute surprise fees from hotels/concert venues/etc.

They are working to change Social Security taxation so that those making above $400,000/yr actually have to fucking CONTRIBUTE - because, if you didn’t know, currently Social Security taxes cap out at $160,000. Yes, meaning that those who are MOST ABLE TO AFFORD paying more taxes, and who would contribute MORE in taxes, are paying pennies (if anything).

Also, to increase the minimum SSA benefit from just a cut-and-dry figure that has to be manually increased (and is therefore subject to NOT getting increased), to a scaling percentage of 125% above the poverty line

Also, also, to increase benefits for surviving spouses who abruptly lose 50%+ of their income when a spouse dies, then are shit out of luck for paying for homes/vehicles/etc

Not only that but:

as many people who were vocally against it, they also made covid vaccines widely available and FREE for everyone during the pandemic

provided massive student loan debt relief

ENACTED A MINIMUM 15% CORPORATE TAX on large companies, who otherwise tend to skirt taxes with legally-gray methods

Rejoined the Paris Agreement - literally can’t believe I even have to say that

are providing relief to veterans exposed to burn pits

reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act and added protections for LGBTQ+ individuals and non-women victims, changed it so it now allows tribes to now hold non-native aggressors liable under tribal justice systems, and improved long and short term housing for victims (as well as increased emergency housing access)

I’m not going to say I agree with every action taken under the Biden-Harris admin (lol, looking at you specifically, IRS), but.  These things change people’s lives. Not just a little - they are the difference between literally dying a slow death from lack of medication and living happily.  Between getting heart surgery and NOT getting heart surgery, because you don’t have health insurance, because you just got out of prison for having one (1) molecule of weed stuck to your sleeve during a traffic stop. Election season is already starting, so if you have to remember one thing, remember this:

Adding to this list, the Biden-Harris administration has also:

Changed the Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug program, so that EVERYONE on Medicare who is under 150% of the federal poverty level can qualify for zero monthly premiums, zero deductibles, and capped prescription costs at $4.50 generic/$11.40 name-brand.

Provided $3.5 million in grants to expand internet coverage on and to tribal lands.

And $728 million to provide clean, sustainable drinking water to rural and tribal communities and support water and river conservation in the Colorado river basin.

Provided funding for the expansion of Medicaid, meaning that now 40 states offer a year’s worth of health coverage after birth, so postpartum complications can be, y'know… treated without putting you into massive medical debt.

Demanded an additional year of coverage for children’s healthcare under CHIP, via the CAA of 2023, with a hopeful continuation even further under section 1115.

Invested $265 million across 16 states for natural disaster preparation and recovery, including streambank stabilization, flood prevention and watershed restoration projects.

And honestly, this administration has done so much more that I don’t have time to list - with wide-ranging effects that won’t be fully felt for another few years, but are MONUMENTAL for our country, our healthcare, our environment, our jobs, and our futures.

Please don’t allow shills and bots to convince you that voting doesn’t matter or that your vote is inconsequential.

Please register and vote in 2024.

[wwolflesbian-deactivated2024073]

top user tag is lgbtq+ lets fucking go that is so funny

[daybreakthesideblog]

Well, it's coming out in the Autumn/Fall, so it could come out on National Coming Out Day, which would be so fucking funny

[badnik-deactivated20240401-deac]

if you ever draw teen eggman remember he's on his pre-hrt era

[badnik-deactivated20240401-deac]

wow i should get deeper into fleetway lore

[wonderinc-sonic]

Thats just how it is. He went into an Egg to deal with his defeat and get more evil, iirc, and came out looking like the 90s cartoon eggman and probably smelling worse. Unless I'm describing a dream to you, that feels like something I'd dream happened.

[badnik-deactivated20240401-deac]

WOWWWWW THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL?????? It would be funny if they ever did something like that but game Eggman, if you know what I mean :3

[wonderinc-sonic]

Honestly, I say this for everything cool, but if Sonic Boom had been allowed to live and jump its shark, I think I could see this happening, something like

"Faced with another crushing defeat, Eggman comes to the conclusion that it's not them: it's him. He retreats to his Eggy roots to ferment, and the village discovers in his absence that a bored Sonic is a bigger nuisance than he ever was."

And then part 2 "With Sonic in the stocks for his crimes of irritation, an Egg cracks in the volcanic base, and a new Eggman emerges with plans so foul they might just succeed. Can Sonic and friends convince him he was evil enough, just the way he was?"

[badnik-deactivated20240401-deac]

😱😱😱😱😱😱 it could be season 3 if we ever had one...

[siggiedraws]

silver brings history books from the future and sonic likes to pick them apart

[true-blue-sonic]

Haha, now I'm imagining Silver in his future just tearing apart all the history books and incorrect tales, and going to get validation from Sonic on the occasion that the people of the future refuse to change their mind on that what is written down is not what actually occurred. It'd be an uphill battle for sure, but Silver was there for some of those adventures too, darn it!!

[one-half-guy]

Putting these tags to make sure everyone will picture Silver making the point to bring Sonic to the future to prove he's right

[sonicthehedgehog]

We all need a reminder of our uniqueness once in a while, that even includes the ultimate life form.

Comic by: Yuki Aoi

[daybreakthesideblog]

It's canon, Shadow on his own is capable of mach speeds.

[juney-blues]

Clearing up something that no person on this planet has given a shit about since approximately 2012:

G.U.N isn't mistaking Sonic for Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2, they're fucking framing him.

like it's a subtle bit of storytelling, it's not explicit stated as far as i remember. But it's there.

for some reason everyone just takes sonic's word for it when he says this, and then they get really confused because sonic and shadow barely look alike.

But if you think about it for like 5 seconds, sonic is the least qualified person in the story to make this assessment, he doesn't know shit about project S.H.A.D.O.W, he doesn't know who shadow is or anything like that.

the military knows literally of this though, they know EXACTLY what shadow is because they've been keeping him a secret, frozen in their basement for 50 fucking years.

Then suddenly he breaks out and does so many crimes it's insane, and if word got out about this top secret government project they killed an entire space colony full of people to get their hands on, they'd be fucked, they don't want that to happen, so they throw their hands up and go "uhh it's probably this blue fucker who runs fast and does ecoterrorism. it's that guy who did all those crimes and we need to arrest him and kill him probably, please for the love of god don't look up what happened on the ark"

basically sonic's wrong as shit and sometimes in stories characters say things that aren't true because they don't know better

if you'll allow me to be a weirdo who gives far more weight to the narrative element of these children's video games where funny cartoon animals jump around, sometimes you gotta read between the lines

[naxal710]

I like this line of thinking cause it really does explain a lot.

However, I do wanna bring up one thing: Amy also mistakes Shadow for Sonic.

That doesn't totally throw out this theory that GUN is trying to frame Sonic. But it does show that they could have mistaken Shadow for Sonic. Because somebody who obviously knows what sonic looks like mistook shadow for him.

I still like the theory that GUN is framing Sonic. It really seems like something they'd do. This is just something I thought I'd point out.

[venisonghost]

Doesn't Amy also mistake Silver for Sonic later? I feel like both these things could be true, the government could be framing Sonic and Amy might also need fucking glasses and made a mistake in line with government propaganda

[hecho-a-mano]

so was anyone gonna tell me that Sonic Prime just got spn latam translator i love you too cas'd or was i supposed to find that out thru my dear brazilian mutual instead?

Sonic just said "i love you too Shadow", and that word for love is romantic most of the time both in the brazilian portuguese and spanish dubs.

[starrjoy-deactivated20240115]

get white sonic off my dash

[ivo-moved]

compelled by my own reblog