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Something I've been interested in for the past while is Amy's placement in Team Sonic. It feels like only recently she got promoted to being one of the series' primary characters despite her being an important cast member for awhile.
Obviously with a change like this, it seemed like Amy would get tacked onto the trio as an extra, but it does seem like she is treated as a regular member of the team and always has been now.
But what's really interesting is Amy's 'placement' in the team. Like, Tails is the second most important member of the group while Knuckles has been more aloof and been third. But Amy being introduced here has thrown that all out of whack.
For a bit, Amy was basically replacing Knuckles as the third team member. In both IDW and Frontiers, Amy is tagging along where you'd expect Knuckles to.
But now we've been getting media with all four members and it's been getting weirder!
On the title screen for Superstars, Amy and Knuckles are flanking Sonic while Tails is placed in the back! That's not right, he's Sonic's #2!
And now we get this logo where Knuckles is in the back and Amy is #2!
It's obvious with all the focus she's been getting and how she's presented both in media and in marketing, she's an important character again. Her reintroduction to the main cast seems to also be letting SEGA play around with the 'importance' dynamics of the team. What was once an obvious hierarchy seems a lot more equal now.
... Anyway, I made a video essay with a bunch more Amy Thoughts if you're interested at all :p
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#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#amy rose#miles tails prower#tails the fox#knuckles the echidna#mini essay#sth#Youtube
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The History of Amy Rose
I've been working on this video essay for about two weeks and I'm so happy I've made it. It's nowhere near perfect, but I put so much time and energy into it that I'm so proud of myself for finishing and releasing it.
Contains:
- The History of Amy's Mainline Incarnation
- Why Amy is an Amazing Character
- Music
- Simpsons References
- Goofs about Archie Sonic
- And More!
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#amy rose#archie sonic#sonic idw#sonic origins plus#sonic origins#sonic superstars#video#video essay#Youtube
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How the Archie Cast Lives On in IDW Sonic (Mini Essay)
Archie Sonic happened and we all just have to live with it.
While the series ran for nearly 300 mainline issues, this was only because it spun out of Sonic's earliest days. Long before he had a more concrete world and cast.
I go into it more here, but Archie Sonic's cast of Freedom Fighters has had their identities and purposes lost as the canonical cast expanded and the roles of these Freedom Fighters were overlapped by more interesting characters. Despite the reboot giving the chance to reinvent the Archie cast, these problems still largely remained.
However, that isn't to say that there wasn't some good to be gleaned from these characters. And the team behind the IDW Sonic series has recognized this by using these bits and pieces to invent new characters from the ground up and show the true potential of these characters if they were invented in the modern day.
This is how some of the Archie cast lives on and is improved through the IDW cast.
Whisper the Wolf
Whisper has been hurt. She is obviously traumatized and deals with the mental wounds inflicted on her by Eggman everyday. She lost the people closest to her and is terrified of the people she has now grown close to.
This is much in the same way that Bunnie Rabbot was half-roboticized by Eggman. Some of her most memorable stories in the original Archie run have her dealing with her roboticization. Her fear that it will fully take it over, that it will kill her and possibly harm her friends.
Both of these characters use part of the trauma inflicted on them to fight. Bunnie with her mechanical parts while Whisper uses a modified Wispon with aid of her former team's wisps.
However, these characters aren't the same. Whisper is so much her own character that these bits of inspiration easily slip through the cracks.
Bunnie is a joyous character, despite everything. Hell, she survives the reboot with her marriage intact because the joy it brings her is so intrigal to her character. Whisper, though, is still sore. She usually works alone, lashes out when her trauma is triggered, and nearly actually murders Eggman.
As a bonus, Whisper's wisp weaponry seems to be taking a few notes from Eclipse the Darkling. Eclipse raised dark, corrupted wisps and used them to fight much in the same way Whisper now fosters her former team's wisps. This could be the rare time in an action series a character is a light reflection of an established one instead of the other way around.
Surge the Tenrac
This is absolutely the most blatent of the bunch with its inspiration, but the parallels can be a bit harder to nail down.
Sure, S(co)urge is a green-furred rival to Sonic who is dead-set to best him and essentially take his role in the world, but is that really where the similarities end?
Scourge is just Evil Sonic. Same moves, same speed, etc. Before he turned green, he was literally just called Evil Sonic.
Surge is more complicated. She and Kitsunami don't know their past. They feel abandoned by the world. They've been cybernetically enhanced and have the undying desire to best Sonic instilled in them.
But between them, there is still that lust for power. Scourge's motivation may be fairly Joker-esc while Surge literally cannot stop herself, but both still want to essentially end their respective worlds.
Jewel the Beetle and Lanolin the Sheep
It may be a bit odd to put these characters together, but there is a good reason for it. Why? Because we need to talk about Sally Acorn.
Sally has always been a strange character that never really worked. While the Freedom Fighters did need a leader, she usually just became someone keeping Sonic on a leash while also being his love interest despite the two never seeing eye-to-eye.
The problem is, she never really evolved from that. As the franchise grew, a powerless leader-type grew more and more worthless. So she mainly fell into the role of bringing drama to the plot. Will Sally die during the Endgame arc? Can Sally rebel against her own father now that he has returned? Is she a good enough leader? Is it Wednesday and she has to break up with Sonic again?
Even worse is the identity crisis of Sally's character. A question asked and never really answered is if she belongs in the field or leading the free world. An attempt at stirring drama from this is still being raged about by Sally's fans and mocked by just about everyone else. Even the IDW comics made an intrinsic promise to not go anywhere near the character drama Sally lived in.
(For the record, this entire issue is basically a long conversation between Sonic and Amy about the same dilemma that caused The Slap™)
The reboot tries to solve this by having her simply be the commander of the flying airship the Freedom Fighters worked from, but it still led to her being mostly pointless. At best, Sally was inoffensive and boring while at worst she caused drama that is still being debated to this day.
So when it came time for IDW to replace her, many thought Amy would fall into this role. She was head of the Restoration and naturally fit into the role.
However, Amy may love the world, but she's no leader. Like Sonic, she values freedom. Enter Jewel the Beetle.
Jewel ran a jewelry store and then got promoted to basically running the free world. She has no combat abilities but isn't supposed to be in combat situations to begin with. Jewel is an improvement on Sally's confidence issues and her role as a more political leader. She organizes the Restoration and the defense groups much in the way Sally was the political face of the Freedom Fighters when dealing with the Acorn Kingdom.
Lanolin, meanwhile, is a newcomer and very much an improvement on Sally in the field. Instead of being powerless or a basic melee-brawler like in the reboot, Lanolin focuses on defense and more specialized situations thanks to her Magenta (Music Note) Wisp. While she also exhibits some confidence issues, she is given more focus on the flaws that Archie left mostly ignored.
While she's only just been introduced, the IDW team acknowledging these faults is already giving her far more potential than Sally ever reached in nearly 300 comics.
Even better, both of these characters have actual motivations and histories. While Sally's motivation is mostly just a vague 'I was the princess so I guess I'm a leader now', Jewel just genuinely wants to help in a way she can while Lanolin was inspired by Sonic to help others and eventually found herself as a combatant.
Archie Sonic was mired with a long history that only allowed one chance for change: the reboot. However, too much change and the fans would be mad. Too little, it would feel like a wasted opportunity. Unfortunately Archie Sonic took the route of doing too little. However, the IDW team took the removal of the Archie cast as a chance to do more with them and they succeeded.
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#idw sonic#sonic idw#archie sonic#whisper the wolf#surge the tenrec#jewel the beetle#lanolin the sheep#bunnie rabbot#scourge the hedgehog#sally acorn#super excited to see where lanolin goes as a character tbh#also this went longer than i expected#next real essay is probably gonna be about jungian theory in p4#essays
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On today's Aubergine & Momoko, the two head to the park and Momoko has a minor panic attack.
#aubergine and momoko#chestfield#short story#short fiction#fiction#flash fiction#original story#slice of life
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New Essay! We Need to Reexamine Queer Manga
Adapted from a bookclub presentation, this essay analyzes the different genres of queer manga, asks the question of why Yaoi is so sexualized, and if there's anything that can be done to improve the medium.
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Auto Shop (Any Given Afternoon #04)
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Today's research report
I love doing research because sometimes when you're trying to figure out the specific name of a room in a church, you get this instead.
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I love doing research because sometimes when you're trying to figure out the specific name of a room in a church, you get this instead.
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Posted this on the wrong account. Oops!
Rally (Any Given Afternoon 03)
Today we introduce the last of the main trio, Anna Liu, as she tries to become more accepting.
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Percy and Ribbon go on an adventure to find a restroom and maybe figure out what gender means you're a dog.
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A quick short about friendship and mental health that I wrote a while back but am finally uploading to the site.
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There is nothing that takes the teeth out of existential dread and despair like experiencing unprompted and unexpected camaraderie with strangers
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Wess and Aurora skip the bill.
A quick short featuring two old favorite characters of mine.
#original fiction#original story#short story#short fiction#fiction#writing#chestfield#any given afternoon
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The Mystery Club in... "Digging Up the Past"
This story isn't meant to stand on its own. It's really just to get the idea for the story out of my head until I come back to it later. Enjoy!
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The box was filled with memories. My first prize ribbon for the Jr. Skate Contest. The fluff newspaper article on us opening the Mystery Club Agency Enterprises Incorporated. The first wood plank that broke when we were building the treehouse. Elle’s watercolors of the area around the treehouse. The voodoo dolls Abby made with that ‘witch’. A bunch of notes from our various cases. Pictures of Abby’s trip to the hospital after she fell out of the treehouse.
Okay; more than half of it had to do with the treehouse, but the treehouse was important and we couldn’t fit that in the time capsule.
That was when it really hit me, actually. When Abby was sealing the thing shut, I realized we weren’t gonna be able to see these memories again until we were adults. Or, unless Abby somehow convinced her parents to move back.
Abby and Elle weren’t phased by it as much as I was; I didn’t let that show, though.
“So where should we bury the dang thing?” Abby asked.
I grabbed the thing out of her hands. “I’m thinking the abandoned house on the hill. Nothing says mystery like a place that’s haunted.”
Elle eeped and cried, “No, no, no! You said that when we were trying to set up an HQ and that’s the same reason we didn’t put it there.” With swiftness only she could manage, she took the box from me and held it away. “How about that nice flower grove we found in the woods? It’ll be a nice place to come back to in a few years.”
I tried to take it back, but Elle’s been surprisingly strong. “The haunted house!” I shouted, straining for it.
“With the flowers!”
We both fought for the box until Abby had enough and put her own hands on it. “Alright, girls. I’d rather not have one of my last memories of us together be you two fighting. I’ll find somewhere to put this while you two kiss and make up.”
I rolled my eyes.
Abby took the box and walked away. I swear she was heading toward the forest, but I could never figure out exactly where she went. Either way, that was the end of that.
Until now.
Six years later and the three of us are back together. Out past midnight, our clothes covered in dirt as we shovel our way down into the earth of the flower grove.
On the one hand, this-- I glance to my companions-- supposed reunion is happening years before I ever thought it would. We’re high school juniors now, not full-fledged adults. On the other is the circumstances of it all and how much we’ve changed.
“Hurry up, Moxie!” Elle shouts at me.
“I am hurrying up!” I argue back. “I just don’t want to get my clothes dirty.”
“How are you worrying about pants right now?”
“I like these pants.”
Elle sighs and turns to the blonde. “Abigail, you’re sure this is the place. Right?”
The third member of our trio nods. “I don’t remember it too well, but it’s not too much deeper. Another foot at most.”
“Another foot at most,” I repeat, mockingly. “Elle, how do we know this isn’t some wild goose chase?”
“Don’t call me that,” Elle says.
“Call you what?”
“Elle! It’s Pastelle.”
“It’s a nickname!”
“We’re not friends. You don’t get to use nicknames.”
The only one of us still digging shouts, “Would you two shut it and get back to work?”
I groan, but do as she says. I’m not happy about any aspect of this, especially since nobody answered my question.
But then, we strike paydirt. Or, rather, I hit wood and my heart stops. I glance toward Elle, whose eyes are wide despite the fact she believed it was here. Maybe some sane part of ehr was still holding out.
The two quickly get to uncovering the box while I seize up in anxious terror.
The box is much larger than our time capsule. It’s wooden and has strange curled lines painted all over it in red and black like disgusting, dripping vines.
We all sit in silence, hesitating to do what we obviously need to do. Even she looks nervous.
Of course, it’s Elle who breaks through the tension.
“Hold your breaths,” she says, grabbing the side of the box and beginning to pull up.
I’ll spare you the details of how exactly Abby looked. I will tell you that I vomited and the only thing that kept me from running away was my legs giving out before I could. Elle just put her hands to her mouth and squeaked out, “Oh my god.”
The third among us just stared down into the box, at Abigail Tops’s corpse.
“Do you believe me now?” The girl asks. “I woke up in this body today. I don’t know how or why. That’s why I need you guys’s help.”
The relief and terror and anger and urge to cry inside me boils over and I shout, “How does this prove anything?”
“Think about it. Pastelle, you understand, right?”
Elle gulps down bile and nods. “Because only two people could know where a corpse that stayed hidden for six years is. The murderer…”
“Which, if I was, I’d have no reason to show this to you.”
“Or the victim.”
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Just realized a few things were reblogged here instead of my fun blog (@nokistar). Oops!!!
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On today's Aubergine & Momoko, Momoko wants Aubergine to get out and about on his day off.
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Surprise! I'm part of an indie review site now and of course the first thing I have there is related to Starry Flowers.
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