Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had
Allow me to introduce you to this small headcanon of mine. So bear with me:
A. To have a reason to go through the whole route of Mountaintops of the Giants -> the Frenzied Flame Chamber, Vyke needed to actually see the wall of thorns. And I doubt that Morgott just decided to take a day off for some reason. (Remember that no one at Roundtable doesn't know about thorns)
B. While Morgott is alive in-game, the entrance to the Frenzied Flame is sealed by him. Which means it was open when Vyke came there (he wouldn't be able to enter otherwise). So Morgott sealed it and put an illusion of his brother there after "the incident" i.e. he had to witness and realize the danger of the Frenzied Flame
So I propose this headcanon that Morgott knew Vyke and maybe helped (or at least didn't oppose) Vyke on his way to the throne.
Once again this is not a theory, just a headcanon to make sad old man even sadder
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hello everyone it's my birthday which means we all have to bite
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I don't think I've ever felt more alienated from the Sonic community than I do right now, and that's saying something considering I barely considered myself a part of the community to begin with.
Every time I express my feelings about the state of the franchise I feel like I'm shouting into a vacuum. I feel like I can't express criticism of anything without it being returned by deflection, ad hominem, or outright lies.
I know that 2022 is (allegedly) "the year of Sonic" and all, but honestly, I've never felt more concern and dread for the future of the franchise than I do now. The responsibility for the entire canon, lore and history of the series (save for the movies and maybe Prime) is now being concentrated in the hands of a select few people who have a more questionable grasp of the source material than they think they do and that scares me. They've already started mucking about with canon in ways that make no goddamn sense, as can be gleaned from parts of Frontiers and from Ian Flynn's podcasts.
I was never really that much into the IDW comics but from what I can tell their creative decisions have honestly been getting harder and harder to defend lately (though Scrapnik Island at least seems decent).
From what little I've seen of it, Prime looks like an absolute dumpster fire and I have absolutely zero confidence in it being any good.
I won't touch Origins with a 50-foot pole because it's honestly the most cynical release in this franchise's history.
I don't know jack shit about Sonic Speed Simulator as I don't play Roblox because I'm not 8 years old.
I wish I would give Frontiers a higher rating than I'm giving for it right now but I just can't get over how stubbornly Sonic Team refuses to learn from past mistakes. For as much as this game purported to be a fresh start, we still have forced 2D sections, we still have classic zones shoehorned into the game, and the physics range from "fine, fix it yourself" to "literally worse than Forces how do you fuck this up so badly". Honestly, all the little (and not-so-little) flaws built up to a point where I have no desire to pick up the game again at this moment.
Honestly, the best thing to come out this year was the second movie, and even that disappointed me somewhat. As fun as it was, there were some scenes that genuinely made me cringe (fucking pivonka) and Tails' friendship with Sonic was incredibly forced.
Maybe I feel this way because it's my mind's natural reaction to being told over and over again that things are going great and my complaints are invalid and that I should just consume product. But months from now, I guarantee people are going to turn on Frontiers just as they did on Colors. I can already low-key see it happening on Twitter right now, and the game hasn't even been out for a month.
Sonic will always have a place in my heart and I know I can never truly leave this franchise behind once and for all. Something will always come along that will drag me back in. I was out of it for a few years in the early 2010s until Sonic Boom (of all things) rekindled my interest. Maybe now's the time to step back for a while because I really don't see the point of sticking around a series that is continually making me fucking miserable when it's bringing joy to so many others.
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