I like to think all the main four (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy) are protective over eachother in a way.
They're all protective over Tails of course, the youngest, their little brother. They won't stop him from throwing an explosive at you if you're an asshole but if you do or say something that gets his ears to fold down the slightlest you have exactly 5 seconds to run.
Amy can easily squash her hammer at any creepy guy that comes to her, but why waste her breath when her 3 boys will gladly hunt him down? They all give Amy princess treatment aside from the usual friendly taunting and I will die on this hill.
We all know Sonic has a tendency to run into situations without thinking. Tails, Knuckles and Amy sometimes have to straight up go on babysitter mode in the middle of the battle to make sure their spiky blue friend doesn't run straight into a pit full of spikes or something. Also, add the fact that Sonic has been stated to be "too trusting" sometimes and how his belief that everyone has a little good in them and deserves a second chance can bite him in the butt. Sure, Sonic might have granted you his trust, but that doesn't mean his three less-trusting-more-logical teamates won't look you dead in the eye and warn you and I quote: "break his trust and we'll break your back."
Now as for Knuckles, we know he's the oldest, strongest and most serious of the group, but we all know years of isolation led him to have the naivety of a child. Some folks might think that seeing the red echidna around is the perfect opportunity to use their scamming tricks, but oh, if only there wasn't a speedy hedgehog, an 8yo carrying guns and a girl with a giant hammer hanging around him constantly like some sort of bodyguards. The M.E's guardian going to the surface is a rare occurance, so if you dare to even THINK about ruining this with your con artist stuff, you WILL end up with a broken bone.
"Blurry vision, looking over the dusty clearing. Most of the grass was torn up and gone, leaving exposed dirt and mud everywhere. The ground was also a deeper, darker color in most places, ranging closer to black, like char.
He also notes several blobs lying scattered around on the destroyed land. He worries what those might be, but through the ringing in his ears, a quiet sound angled more above his head towards the trees, had his swaying vision shifting up to see a splotch of yellow lying further away."
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Warning: Blood and Gore (Though, it's not colored)
[How's this hedgehog still alive after this? No one knows. He's just a cockroach hedgehog, is all I can say.]
I know I may dream but I think Sonic should go through a depression/guilt arc, bc you know, he thinks he straight up killed everyone he loves + his whole world while at it. He’s a really neurodivergent kid, he can’t handle something of this magnitude.
Also the second panel happens after their fight, I just wanted to get this finished quick. Anyway yeah they fought and the realization hit Sonic during it and he just froze, and Shadow decked him and probably kicked him to a new shatterspace
AU version where due to that guilt he begins to despise himself, and isolates from everyone, because he feels he’s a liability, and that anyone he comes close to will meet their doom because of him.
EDIT: After reading some theories, I came up w an alt AU version! So if all the shatterspaces are in fact the prime world getting split into pieces, same going for the gang’s personalities and such, the change is that Sonic pushes through and reunites the shards, fixing his home world! But once done so, he disappears from sight, doing the whole isolation bit. The heaviest part of the guilt arc basically gets pushed back to until the prime world’s already fixed.
Of course he deals with a lot of quilt and depression in the meantime, but he learns to bottle up and hide his emotions. Prime!Sonic is very emotional, open and talkative, but in this AU, over the course of the series, he becomes more dubdued- again, hides emotions, talks less (tho not too much less, cuz boy’s gotta mask) and starts keeping to himself more. He’s doing the whole “talking about surface troubling stuff to appear open and honest, while in fact keeping all heavier trauma concealed underneath”. Keeps on a smile, but it begins to hurt.
Because the way they all gently took care of Sonic, when he was weak, has A BIG grip on me. I know they’re from different dimensions, but even if it’s just symbolic: The way the people he protects on daily basis, who said plenty of times he inspires them, didn’t even hesitate to take care of him and save him… I am not normal about this.
The switch between se2 ep1 “avoid the void” where shadow makes sonic eat dirt for 20 minutes and se3 ep1 “grim tidings”where shadow keeps sonic from dying for 20 minutes is so funny and so precious to me
I'm a couple hours late for Wholesome Wednesday but no one's ever going to complain about Sonic and Tails brother content so
Remember that scene in IDW when Belle was hypnotized while she was staying over with Sonic and Tails and she went to hit Tails and then Sonic was immediately --
No one's touching his little bro if he has anything to say about it :))
you know what's really getting me with grim tidings is knowing that, to stabilize the prism, they need sonic's prismatic energy. even if they were able to to rebuild the prism in ghost hill like they had intended to, they would still need to extract that energy from sonic. i doubt there's a way of getting said energy that wouldn't, y'know, risk his life
shadow should know this. it's so obvious that, no matter what, the ending isn't really gonna change for sonic. you'd think that he'd take nine's side in this, stabilizing the shatterspaces is the most logical course of action before trying to figure out how to restore the prime universe
Okay so in the two Sonic movies there's some obvious parallels between the scene where Tom tucks Sonic in and where Sonic tucks Tails in:
They both look up, see their little guy having fallen fast asleep, and tuck them in.
Which is so utterly sweet and adorable.
But I just noticed parallels between Tom and Sonic's relationship and Sonic and Tails's relationship in another set of scenes as well. Namely, the one where their respective kid gets injured.
In the first movie, it's right after the truck chase scene where Robotnik's tank keeps producing smaller ones like an evil Russian nesting doll, the last one being a tiny bomb that sticks to Sonic and ends up blowing up and knocking him unconscious.
In the second one, it's on the snowy mountain where Knuckles and Sonic talk, but then things go south and Sonic tries to pass the compass to Tails, but Robotnik steals it and then knocks out Tails with a couple of rockets.
Just look at the parallels in the interactions and even the setup of these two scenes:
Tom and Sonic immediately call the kid's name
They rush to them and kinda cradle them, super concerned
Similar phrasing as they beg them to wake up
And then immediately they end up crashing into Rachel's life and taking over her house/wedding, where they get to Maddie to take care of their little guy.
I know Sonic's unconscious for the first one so there's no way he's purposely imitating Tom, but I just love to think that they're just so close that he's just picked up Tom's dad instincts and is imitating it without even knowing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Sonic may be adopted but he really is his dad's kid.