#ayjaytalks

We know that Agent Stone was intended to be a throwaway side character, quite literally just an extension and accessoire to Dr Robotnik for him to express his character with. Agent Stone didn’t matter, he was there to enhance your impression of Dr Robotnik and his personality.

I mean look at this, in the first movie, there are clearly other Agent-like characters following Robotnik everywhere he goes. Not military, Agents. Those are ALL supposed to be Robotnik’s agents.

Even if they are not directly under his command, they are „with him“, his entourage for at least the first half of the movie before they all, including Agent Stone, disappear when Robotnik goes off to do his own thing (destroying that hedgehog).

For all we know in the vacuum of the first movie, Agent Stone and Bot never met before the day this movie takes place and Stone just happens to be assigned to personal bodyguard duty on that particular day. The point is that Agent Stone could have just vanished after the first movie and a good chunk of the general audience for these movies wouldn’t have minded at all.

Robotnik

- shows up everywhere with his pet assistant

- regularly invades his personal and intimate space by PUTTING HIS HAND IN HIS MOUTH and letting him push himself to the wall to berate him with their faces just inches apart

- yells at him how much he LOVES his Latte that the assistant makes (with Latte art depicting them both with little hearts)

- makes a stone resemble the face of his assistant when he gets stranded on another planet in order to have someone to talk to and not feel alone

- comes back from said planet and the first thing he does is refer to himself as daddy in front if his assistant and then drink the Latte with the latte art which the assistant looked at longingly before (which, again, has hearts)

- while he’s out to get high on crystals the assistant plays deviantart dressup and picks out new clothes for him

- he comes back to his assistant handcuffed to a chair and he grabs him by the cheek, rubs it and tells him he smells the electricity in his brain. While someone else is in the room.

- creates a giant robot and makes sure his assistant has a place in it too

- worries about him when he gets knocked out

- presumably gets rescued and nursed back to health by his assistant

- they start living in an underwater crab together

- calls his assistant the only person he can trust

- gets a little distracted by his dead grandpa coming back who turns out just used him and wants to kill himself, him and his assistant (and also the rest of the earth (his assistant tried to warn him in a very desperate plea but he didn’t listen)

- regrets his actions, does everything in his power to prevent his assistant dying the earth from exploding, and sacrifices himself to do so

- livestreams a final message to his assistant to the entire fucking world to see, admitting how much he means to him (they both look like they’re crying)