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Age: 18

I deactivated my old blog furrylovergril496 and I don’t know how to work on internet archives but I still try to learn how to use the Wayback Machine 😉😜.

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Answer me this: what does imposing those traits onto these characters accomplish from a GAMEPLAY PERSPECTIVE? How would these attributes come into play when it comes to PLAYING as these VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS in a LEVEL of the INTERACTIVE MEDIUM of VIDEO GAMES?

You can tell that question does not occur to them. It doesn't compute for them that these are VIDEO GAME characters, and the first and most important thing to ask is how they function as an avatar for the interactive gameplay elements. Sonic rolls into a ball, like hedgehogs do. This is an animal trait that is factored into his gameplay, in the form of curling up to spindash or jump into enemies to defeat them.

THAT is the context in which rl animal traits are considered when the developers create these characters. But it doesn't occur in the minds of these fan artists for even a second. Because to them, Sonic isn't a video game. The concept of the franchise in their mind is completely divorced from the source material. They do not contextualize this franchise or these characters as a video game.

I never see fanart of Rouge using echolocation to try and detect treasure. That'd be an interesting way to portray how her treasure hunting radar in SA2 works - Knuckles is implied to just have a keen sixth sense due to his connection with the Master Emerald, but Rouge could just be using those big ass bat ears of hers to do subsonic screeching that is imperceptible to anyone else but allows her to track down her quarry.

Naw, just give her an ugly bat face. It's not like we need to give any consideration into how this character functions for the player when they're playing as her, right? It's not like these are video game characters.

It's just another way people unconsciously demonstrate how they feel about the Sonic franchise without even realizing they're doing it. And it's why I really am incapable of deriving any mirth from fanart like this. When I see fanart of Sonic or Shadow or whoever circling someone as a ship piece, I just get annoyed. Why the fuck would the hedgehogs of Sonic do that when it would not factor into what it's like to PLAY AS THEM whatsoever? If the "animal trait" you're trying to impose on the character would not have a GAMEPLAY MECHANIC associated with it, then it's fucking stupid and I'm going to be annoyed by it.

desirable tells me you just see yourself as the overseer of this franchise and video games in general and that you’re not normal about girls 👧🏾

Guys. That’s what crossovers are. Especially one as ambitious as this. Of COURSE it’s gonna be rushed, there’s only like five issues planned. Of COURSE it’s gonna be fanservicey, people aren’t reading it for a masterclass in storytelling, they’re reading it to see sonic and flash race.

i rly liked opal’s design but all the fellas were saying she was shit mostly bc a ) she doesnt look much like a jelly b) she doesnt look muych like a pirate whatever that means and c) shes called opal even though she doesnt have much opally about her so i 

- made her more colourful

- tried to make her tendrils a more active part of her visual mass instead of a weird alien perm, also made her arms more visually similar to her tendrtils

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