I refuse to call it X

Silver and Blaze are both so serious, they can't even sit and read or eat without pulling these dramatic glares and side-eyes. Can't even hold a book or a piece of fish without making sure they're asserting their dominance while they do it.

the writing philosohy for sonic in the 2000s can be summed up with "sonic is your boyfriend"

since 2010 sonic stopped being our boyfriend and thats why some of us feel a void in our hearts when it comes to recent sonic stories. Maybe its him or maybe its us.

Silver loves being helpful to others.

Being able to support others makes him happy. It gives him purpose. He's always worried over others. He wants to be there for people.

As Sonic Channel puts it, "He wanted to use this power not for himself, but to help others like this."

Cinematic parallels

Silver just straight up growls at Eggman.

I love the look of confusion on Silver's face when Sonic just stops to sniff himself here. And then Silver goes back to growling at Infinite.

During their first fight, Sonic can be sent through hurtling helpless into space from Silver's psychokinesis. Much later, Silver catches Sonic with his psychokinesis as he falls helplessly from space. They float in the starry sky as friends now, feeling safe together.