The Duke of Soleanna was the only real villain of 06
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Kernel - 23 - He/It Sonic sideblog. Please read my pinned post! Main is @kernelbastard, and my art blog is @kernels-art. Die-hard Elise appreciator, and known lore nerd. Canon who?... Legitimately, I don't know if there's a concrete "rewrite scene" or anything, but that's what I tend to stick to. This franchise is held together with red yarn and I love/hate it.
Attempt 2! I had a longer version of this post up a while ago, but I was really emotional when I wrote that, so I’m trying again.
Here’s a warning for anyone who found their way here through a meme or something: I ship Vecpio, and as much as I’d like it to be easier, if three years of internal debate haven’t stopped me, I’m probably not going to drop it anytime soon. My main is @kernelbastard , so if you want, you can block that and make sure I don’t see any of your content in the tags. If you don’t mind, I’d appreciate if this would get boosted so more people see it and can block me as needed before I bump into them some other way.
Explanation under the cut.
To be honest, it’s very important to me. I do not usually consider myself a pro-shipper - that whole scene scares the hell out of me, and I do have rules I follow in most cases - but I have to make an exception for this because of what Espio as a character represents to me, re: family, recovering from trauma, and revenge VS justice.
To spare y’all the pity party, I’m just gonna say that Es feels more like a father to Charmy in my eyes, and that puts him into a mentor-ish role for the rest of the younger cast. Personally, I feel uncomfortable pairing him with characters in that range because, in the past, he's been written as much older; now that the "canon" ages have been removed, for better or worse, it seems like that might start up again.
In the AU timeline I’m working with, he’s in a completely separate generation; he's also partially meant to be a representation of generational trauma, who tries to break the cycle and mostly succeeds but ultimately cannot completely shelter his son the way he wanted to. In my absolute mess of a rewrite, he and Vector are paired together as a complement to Charmy's arc, but Es doesn’t have any interest in Vec that way until a full decade and spare after the 16 and 20 marks. The age gap still exists, and is something they would need to have a serious conversation about, but if there’s anyone Espio can genuinely trust to have his well-being at heart, it’s Vector. Above all else, the single most important theme for them is trust; when all else fails, they will have each other's backs. They will do whatever it takes to keep their family safe.
That's what it means to me. I don’t expect people to agree with me. I am putting this out there because I don’t want to take anyone by surprise. If you made it this far, I appreciate you taking the time to listen, either way.
i got to go to peru on a family trip when I was like 15 and I cannot stress to you enough how important it is that the train to the mystic ruins is not only real (train from Cusco to Machu Picchu) but you can get a big corn on the cob on there.
