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its not that he WANTS to abandon sonic in this time of need, of course not. but at this point in the prologue, tails is around 28 years old - sonic is almost 40. now that robotnik is expected to live the rest of his life in prison, the whole hero stuff just isnt really a thing anymore. tails has to consider what he ought to do instead, and this teaching position feels like tremendous honor and maybe even a dream job of his, one hed put on the backburner while running with the heros of mobius

sonic on the other hand still has some maturing to do...and tails cant be the one to fix that yknow. hes gotta do that work himself.

the whole point of this being a sonic forces au specifically is to adequately address what the game's plot tried and failed to really get across...i.e. the theme of war and its consequences. the biggest problem i have with the game is that its tone is so confused...it has really interesting implications of a dark undertone but never really gets to explore it beyond "its a war the end". its utter nonsense tbh. eggman gets to basically take over the majority of the planet in an all out W A R ... involving CIVILIANS becoming combatants ... and when he loses its just like. fine. let him go, whatever. LIKE... infinites implied death doesnt absolve eggman of anything hes the mf who gave infinite the phantom ruby in the first place IT MAKES NO SENSEEEE !!!!!!!!!! why does no one CARE what was the POINT

in this AU the war is taken as seriously as it should have been taken in the game, and explores what its done to the world in the aftermath. as such, things like tails' blind faith in sonic is something that will be put to the test, as sonic is set up to be one of the only people who seemingly STILL wants to give eggman another chance at freedom (and pays a steep price for his blunders)

【Sonic Forces】 25 YEARS LATER | Prologue pt. 2

hey look i colored the thing from my other blog. now i oughta actually flesh out the first part of the prologue concerning the robotnik debate! its gonna be kinda complex, hence my procrastination lol

random progress pics under cut :)