#knucklesposting

captain knuckles.

MADDIE CALLS KNUCKLES HER SON IM FUCKIFNFNNFNFNFNFNFNFNNFNFNFN

SONIC NARRATING IN THE FIRST FEW SECONDS OF THE 1ST EPISODE EXPLAINING HOW AND WHY KNUCKLES WERE TRAINING AMD PUNCHING UP BOULDERS IN THE MORNING IS SO CUTE AUUUUGH

and then you see that on this particular punch, his knuckles really shine with energy.

meanwhile, when his punches aren't doing much, they don't shine. all he does is as much as the friction his shoes can provide. he's half-assing most of his punches.

he did use more energy for whatever reason this time, but note that in this occasion it's weakly red. it was orange when he was smashing an asteroid.

which would mean that the visible portion of the energy emitted from his punch has a color scale that resembles color of stars per temperatures. his energy powered punch doesn't effect objects in a way of pushing in one direction with pressure, but rather would be effectively exploding and releasing energy waves.

now look at his facial expression right after radiation has gone. he's proud with himself, getting the estimation of the power he would have to exert to smash this asteroid correct.

try counting the number of hits team sonic has taken from shadow before going down for good.

tails took 1 hit and took a while to recover, and then took knuckles' punch and was immobilized.

amy and sticks went down from 1 valid attack. (unexpected fall from height)

sonic took a while to recover from 1 valid hit.

but knuckles took 4 incoming hits but was quick to recover or kept engaging in fight. only on 5th unprepared incoming hit he got completely knocked out. he even correctly predicts and counters some of shadow's warp-punches, proving his quick adapting capabilities! had tails not attempted to pinch shadow, knuckles would have kept standing against until reinforcements come, but because it effectively resulted in knuckles giving tails a critical hit, it distracted knuckles enough to render him defenseless.

knuckles just loves his friends so much, and he was forced to let his guards down out of his genuine concern for tails.