I haven’t seen a single comic or joke post about after movie 3, Shadow having to go through the horrendous trial of pleasing Tom to date his son Sonic after almost killing him. Im disappointed.
So…been thinking about the love hearts thing again. Specifically, when it comes to the movies and in particular Tom and Maddie.
So far I have been mostly using 🖤 for Maddie and 🤎 for Tom, based on their hair colors. I have had brief thoughts of doing other colors based on other aspects of their appearance, but those don’t seem right to me for a variety of reasons. (Using different colors based on skin tones feels inappropriate. And while Tom’s most commonly seen outfit is his Sheriff uniform, he wears other things frequently and Maddie doesn’t have “that one outfit” she’s associated with…not to mention there’s no tan heart for the Sheriff outfit.)
It’s not like picking colors for the animal characters’ love hearts, because Tom and Maddie are humans and not, you know, technicolor animals. And it’s not like picking love hearts for a human character from the games or Sonic X because the humans in there have a “that one outfit”. (Not to mention that out of the humans in the games, only two that I can think of are both important enough and nice enough for a love heart. 🤍 for Elise, 💙 for Maria. Because of their outfits, yes.)
But I think I might have another idea figured out.
Based on the background colors of their Sonic 2 posters. 💚 for Tom, 💕 for Maddie.
Or…
Based on the backgrounds of their Movie 1 posters. 💜 for Maddie, 🧡 for Tom.
Mobians can understand the language of flickies and critters and other non-anthropomorphic animals. It's been shown in canon multiple times.
Humans, on the other hand, do not know the language of ferals in the slightest.
Now then, watch this.
Taking a two second joke clip from Sonic 2 movie and the multiple interactions between Sonic & any other earth animal, I deduce that the same applies on Mobians in the SCU verse.
(It also explains how Sonic communicates with Ozzie and perfectly manages to convince him to play along with his silly games and everything. And I also believe he understood that turtle)
So the Wachowski brothers can speak to animals and it's both baffling to their parents and helpful when Maddie has a pet or animal come in which is too hurt or uncooperative and whatnot, and it allows the three brothers to involve woodland creatures into their shenanigans and pranks.
April 1st is a nightmare in the Wachowski household. And so is October 31st.