first of all, i think it’d take him a while to confess to you, but only because it’d take him forever to comprehend that he has feelings for you. I mean, he’s never felt like this towards anyone before, not that he had the chance to anyway.

what made it obvious though, was how fidgety he was, him stumbling over his words, and of course, him not being able to even hold eye contact for too long.

if he did try to hold eye contact, he’d just be even more of a flustered mess.

when it comes to dating, he’s definitely on the more clingier side.

he just loves to be around you, honestly, you don’t even have to say a single word and he’d still be happy.

however, it might become just a bit overwhelming with how much he’d hover over you 24/7.

all you have to do is tell him, and he won’t hesitate to give you space.

he’ll just be a bit sad…and maybe try to guilt trip you with puppy eyes and a frown so that you’ll let him in your personal bubble again.

but he means no harm, he swears! he just has to make sure you still love him, and not hate his guts.

getting into arguments with silver would be pretty rare, most of the time it would just be playful bantering, in fact, he tends to completely avoid it out of fear of upsetting you.

if you do get into an argument however, with him being at fault, he’d just sit there with his ears flat against his head with a frown, avoiding eye contacts and looking straight at the ground.

that usually leads to you feeling bad and comforting him at the end of the day.

you could never stay mad at him for too long, especially with the way he’d try to make it up to you with flowers, candy, just anything he knows that you’d love.

even if the argument was forever ago, it’d still linger in his mind.

silver tends to get insecure at times about the relationship. he can sometimes doubt that he’s enough for you.

he just needs a bit of reassurance from time to time. after that, everything would be water under the bridge!

he loves you so much, so please don’t leave him.

So I recently felt the urge to check if Eggman in Sonic X was the only human of Mobius, and as to why and how and when the hell did he leave Earth for Mobius to become a tyrannical maniac and stumbled upon this deep and detailed explanation on the wikis-

WHAT DO YOU MEAN UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES

Anyway. I obviously felt the need to skim through Gerald's and Maria's pages to check for any mention of Eggman, but no. Since Maria and Eggman are stated as cousins, it means that Gerald had AT LEAST a wife and two children who are never mentionned nor explained (I remember a line like "she was my grandfather's granddaughter" and not "she was my sister", I hope if Eggman had a hidden murdered big sister, he would at least MENTION it in the ARK.. arc).

(Yes, they could be clones or life experiences of sorts. Or adopted- maybe, in Maria's case. But then what would be the point of me coming up with this whole headcanon, hm?)

Now about numbers. Eggman's age in the wikis is 59. Maria's is 12 when the ARK was, hm, shut down. If we stand by the "it's been 50 years" nice rounded timelapse between the ARK's downfall and Sonic & Co.'s present, Eggman would have been 9yo when G.U.N. raided the ARK.

Now I don't think the guy was running around on Earth freely for an unknown amount of time after- all of Gerald's family was killed- everybody on the ARK was murdered and somehow went to Mobius one day.

Also since Gerald worked on Chaos energy and Chaos Emeralds, which are NATIVE to Mobius' dimension (in the show at least if I remember, idk about the games), it means there was already knowledge of Mobius' dimension in Gerald's time. Since Gerald was already damn old I mean, of a certain age when the ARK was raided, I'll round up the knowledge of Mobius' dimension to 50 years. So by Sonic & Co.'s present, it would have been a century since the discovery of their dimension by Gerald. Anyway, I digress.

What I'm coming up to, is that Eggman could have been born on the ARK just like Maria (yes the wiki states born on Earth but it also states UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES and Eggman doesn't seem very fond or nostalgic of life on Earth ergo he didn't grow up on it so stfu-). The whole Robotnik family could have been living on the ARK, maybe a bit apart from Gerald and Maria because of her illness/Gerald's researches on the top secret Project Shadow to cure her, yes even Maria's own PARENTS and Gerald's wife in this case (if anime's curse of dead parents hasn't reclaimed them all already).

What I mean is that Eggman could have been on the ARK when it was raided by G.U.N. and fled to Mobius' dimension to avoid genocide being murdered. Since G.U.N. shot 12yo Maria, I wouldn't put it past them to shoot 9yo Eggman.

So, what happened? The Robotnik family is on the ARK when G.U.N. raids it and tries to escape to Mobius through a portal, but only manages to get 9yo Eggman through it before the parents and grandmother are killed. The portal is either destroyed by dying Robotnik family members to protect Eggman, or by the G.U.N. agents themselves. Since escape to Mobius isn't possible anymore, Gerald, Maria and Shadow run through the ARK to escape pods towards Earth and the show's events unfold undisturbed from there.

Since Eggman doesn't recognise Shadow 50 years later and doesn't seem to really know the details of Project Shadow, I guess the Robotnik family didn't open the portal with the help of Shadow and his Chaos Control.

(Maybe they were late, dodging G.U.N. agents everywhere, maybe they got to the portal just after it was destroyed, only to find the corpses of the other Robotnik family members, of Maria's parents and uncles and aunts and grandmother and couldn't dwell on the loss because the place was full of G.U.N. agents with fuming barrels who came running after them, yes the agents we see in the show-)

I guess Eggman either forgot it all because of trauma or really wasn't very close to his grandfather and Maria. Or he would have been, but didn't know about Project Shadow because it was top secret or because he was too young (but Maria knew because the project was to save her life). Also maybe his family didn't tragically die trying to escape to Mobius, maybe he just warped himself in another dimension by accident while tinkering in his parents' lab or something, and the Robotnik family just died offscreen but that's less emotional.

Anyway, it's been 15 years since I bingewatched that show with high attention, so maybe I missed a thing or two. Also the fact Eggman never calls Maria his cousin?? I watched it in french maybe it's not the same in other dubs but it's just strange.

Does anynone know an actual explanation? Like, in the "canon" of Sonic X, because I've gathered that it's not the same in the games, I think? Or if this headcanon has already been explained somewhere else, I would love to read a better parsed explanation.